Facilities & Laboratories
Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory (BSEL)
PNNL's biomass program is housed in the recently constructed Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory (BSEL) on the campus of the Washington State University Tri-Cities. BSEL is facilitating a close scientific and engineering collaboration between PNNL and Washington State University. BSEL includes high-pressure catalytic reactor rooms for hydrogenation and other chemical processing; bioprocessing laboratories for developing and engineering fungal fermentations supporting wet chemical laboratories for synthesis and preparation of catalysts and feedstocks; and the Combinatorial Catalysis Research Laboratory, which houses our state-of-the-art, rapid-throughput catalyst discovery instrumentation. BSEL also has a 2,500-square-foot high-bay facility for integration and scale-up of the various processing steps in biofuels and bioproducts manufacture.
Visit the website at: http://rcf.pnl.gov/bsel.stm