Please join us for an introductory webinar on the newly formed National Laboratory Gasification Consortium (NLGC).

The NLGC, led by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and including researchers from NETL, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was created to address the key challenges associated with gasification of alternative and blended feedstocks (coal, municipal solid waste, residual biomass) to produce syngas for chemicals, fuels, or hydrogen. The NLGC advances prior work by the FCIC and other BETO-funded programs. The overall goal of the NLGC is to enable economic utilization of a broader spectrum of alternative and blended feedstocks to ensure fuel resiliency in gasification systems. The NLGC will

• Engage industry to collaboratively tackle gasification feedstock challenges by leveraging the national labs’ premier capabilities

• Expand the gasification feedstock base to include waste resources and mixtures of these with coal and biomass to produce syngas for energy, chemicals, fuels, and/or hydrogen

• Provide data, information and tools to expand alternative and blended feedstock utilization in the gasification industry

The webinar will first provide an overview of the NLGC and highlight planned work in four key areas:

• Feedstock Supply-Chain Modeling & Analysis • Feedstock Preprocessing,

• Feedstock Variability Sensing for Gasifier Control

• Fundamental Co-gasification Kinetics and AI/ML Kinetic Estimation Tool or Developing AI-driven Kinetic Database for Co-gasification

After this overview, we will engage attendees to collect feedback on the planned work to ensure the NLGC is focused on the critical needs of the gasification community