Steiner et al: A Feedstock Readiness Level Tool to Complement the Aviation Industry Fuel Readiness Level Tool | 2012

The Feedstock Readiness Level tool as developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) consists in assigning a candidate feedstock to readiness level from 1 through 10 as an indication of the level of maturity towards commercialisation. This type of framework helps to describe the steps needed to bring a candidate feedstock to the market. The FSRL level also communicates the state of development of a feedstock concurrent with its readiness for use with a conversion process. There are four components to the FSRL (production, market, policy, and linkage to conversion process), each with one to four tollgate descriptions per readiness level.

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