Problem | Challenge |
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Scale-up to industrial scale | Requires significant capital investment Requires strong financial incentive Investors find too low return on investment |
Future situation unclear | Laws and regulations not clear |
Construction and design | Delays in erection of plant Testing of equipment |
Biomass availability | All-year round supply of suitable materials Possibility to run on more than one material |
Logistics and supply | Storage and transportation must be reliable |
Data for process design | Transfer of smaller-scale data to industrial scale |
Maturity of a process | Handling at high pressures and feeding, e.g. for 2G plants of ethanol causes production stop |