Browsing Cumulative and Final Reports by Issue Date
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Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 1st Cumulative Report, August 2011-March 2013
(2013-03)This report covers activities by the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) from August 2011-March 2013, covering its organizational structure, key partnerships, and strategic goals. The report includes updates on ... -
Clean Sugar and Lignin Pretreatment Technology
(Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 2014)In this report, researchers evaluate the use of wood milling as a pretreatment step for sugar hydrolysate production from Douglas-fir forest residuals. -
Feedstock Analysis for Poplar Plantations within the Western Montana Corridor
(Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 2014)This report was conducted by GreenWood Resources and examines the opportunity for poplar biomass plantations to supplement the supply of biomass originating as logging and thinning residues from coniferous stands in western ... -
Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 2nd Cumulative Report, April 2013-March 2014
(2014-03)This report covers activities by the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) from April 2013-March 2014, covering its organizational structure, key partnerships, and strategic goals. The report includes updates on ... -
Screen and Identify Suitable Plant feedstocks for Large Scale Pretreatments to Produce High Yield Sugar and High Quality Lignin
(2015)This report describes the amount of biomass recalcitrance variation among different Douglas-fir families. -
Feedstock Sourcing: NARA Years 1-3
(Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 2015)This report was completed by Weyerhaeuser staff and evaluates the cost and quality of softwood forest residual feedstock in the Pacific Northwest used to produce bio-jet fuel and co-products. -
Mild Bisulfite Pretreatment of Forest Residuals
(Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 2015)In this report, researchers evaluated the effect of wood chip size, chemical loads, reaction time and temperature on simple sugar yield from the Mild Bisulfite pretreatment procedure. -
Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, 3rd Cumulative Report, April 2014-March 2015
(2015-03)This report covers activities by the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) from April 2014-March 2015, covering its organizational structure, key partnerships, and strategic goals. The report includes updates on ... -
Sustainable Feedstock Production
(2016)This report provides improved allometric biomass equations for intensively managed stands and nutrient analyses of the biomass components included in these equations. This work will enable a more accurate estimation of ... -
Production of Jet Fuel using Biochemcat
(2016)This report describes efforts to adapt the BioChemCat technology to convert lignocellulosic biomass into volatile fatty acids. -
Process Design and Economics for Biochemical Conversion of Softwood Lignocellulosic Biomass to Isoparaffinic Kerosene and Lignin Co-products
(2016)This techno-economic analysis has been prepared for a greenfield integrated biorefinery to produce renewable jet fuel and co-products from softwood forest harvest residuals. -
Biorefinery Value Chain Outputs
(2016)This study characterizes the structure of the US biofuels industry and US bio-based chemicals industry while also examining the cellulosic biofuel biorefineries regarding commercialization factors. -
Effects of Varying Forest Floor and Slash Retention on Soil Nutrient and Carbon Pools in a Regenerating Douglas-fir Tree Farm: NARA-Soils
(2016)This report provides soil temperature, moisture, and respiration data for two years after biomass harvesting, OM removal, and compaction treatments that bracketed the range of reality likely present in a biomass harvesting ... -
Biomass Modeling and Assessment
(2016)This report describes two models: the NARA Biomass model (NBM) and the Land Use and Resource model. -
Production of Lignocellulosic Isobutanol by Fermentation and Conversion to Biojet
(2016)This report describes the fermentation and process technology developed by Gevo and used to convert forest residuals into biojet fuel. -
Refinery-to-Wing Stakeholder Assessment
(2016)This report measures and ranks perceived drivers and barriers to an economically viable sustainable jet fuel industry in the PNW region through personal interviews with key aviation fuel supply chain stakeholders and ... -
Long-Term Soil Productivity
(2016)This report describes the initial work to develop the NARA Long-Term Soil Productivity site located on Springfield, OR. -
SPORL Pretreatment of Douglas-fir Forest Residue for Precommercial Scale Productions of Sugar/ Biofuel
(2016)This report describes the development of pretreatment conditions used to develop 1,000 gallons of biojet fuel derived from forest residuals. -
Formulations for Coproduct Lignin-Based Plastics
(2016)This report describes the creation of polymeric blends containing lignosulfonates derived from NARA lignin and provides a techno-economic assessment for their use as an alternative source of engineering plastics. -
Preparation of Pretreated Biomass
(2016)This report describes the development of the wet-explosion pretreatment technology on Douglas-fir forest residuals.