Rice n’ Grits: Quantifying Environmental Benefits of Bioenergy Crops through Complete Carbon and Nitrogen Accounting

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Program:
Exploratory Topics
Award:
$2,950,000
Location:
Park City, Utah
Status:
ACTIVE
Project Term:
06/12/2020 - 03/11/2024

Technology Description:

Arva will establish validation sites where dedicated energy crops (corn-soy or sorghum) and crop residues (straw/stover) are used to produce domestic, sustainable, carbon-negative biofuels (i.e., ethanol, biodiesel, or biogas). Arva will measure carbon and nitrogen fluxes using state-of-the-art high-frequency commercial-scale monitoring towers to assess carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane emissions at sub-second resolution yearlong. All deployed farm equipment is highly instrumented, and will measure fuel, electricity, and fertilizer use, in addition to crop yield and management practices. This data will allow Arva’s artificial intelligence platform to construct a generative model for biofuel yield and life cycle emissions.

Contact

ARPA-E Program Director:
Dr. Kirk Liu
Project Contact:
Dr. Michael R. Schuppenhauer
Press and General Inquiries Email:
ARPA-E-Comms@hq.doe.gov
Project Contact Email:
michael@silverhillpartners.com

Partners

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Release Date:
01/09/2020