Browsing Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Mid-Cascade to Pacific Corridor: Conceptual Design
(2015)This report provides site analyses, opportunities and constraints, and conceptual designs for solids and liquids depots and an integrated biorefinery. -
Mid-Cascade to Pacific Corridor: Supplemental
(2015)This document provides supplemental material related to the Mid-Cascade to Pacific Corridor analysis that describes hazard mitigation strategies. -
Mid-Cascade to Pacific Corridor: Historical
(2015)This document provides a historical summary of the Pacific Northwest timber industry. -
High titer and yield ethanol production from undetoxified whole slurry of Douglas-fir forest residue using pH-profiling in SPORL
(Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2015)Forest residue is one of the most cost-effective feedstock for biofuel production. It has relatively high bulk density and can be harvested year round, advantageous for reducing transportation cost and eliminating onsite ... -
Rational design of polymer-based absorbents: application to the fermentation inhibitor furfural
(Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2015)Reducing the amount of water-soluble fermentation inhibitors like furfural is critical for downstream bio-processing steps to biofuels. A theoretical approach for tailoring absorption polymers to reduce these pretreatment ... -
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. -
Global Sustainability: An Authentic Context for Energy Education
(2015-01)Reimagining energy education involves moving beyond the basics of energy use, conservation, and efficiency toward a more robust exploration of energy. This exploration should address energy access and equity, the impacts ... -
Beyond Conservation: Reimagining the Purpose of Energy Education
(2015-01)While efforts to frame energy literacy as a matter of resource conservation are needed and certainly easy to be found on the “front line” of energy education materials, this cannot be the full extent of content or action ... -
Creating a research to classroom pipeline: closing the gap between science research and educators
(2015-01)As scientific research evolves information in (K-12) curriculum can quickly become outdated. New research can greatly change the way we teach about science topics and the content we want students to understand. Educators, ... -
Teacher Professional Development for Energy Literacy: A Comparison of Two Approaches
(2015-01)In this program and practices feature, we describe two different models of teacher professional development designed to help teachers build their own energy literacy while gaining tools to bring energy literacy to their ... -
From the forest to the classroom: Energy literacy as a co-product of biofuels research
(2015-01)The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) is a biofuel research project that includes a holistic educational approach to energy literacy. NARA research is focused on woody biomass as a feedstock for biofuels and ... -
Refinement of an Energy Literacy Rubric for Artifact Assessment and Application to the Imagine Tomorrow High School Energy Competition
(2015-01)National efforts in energy education aim to increase energy literacy and a diverse set of tools is needed to assess the effectiveness of different educational endeavors. As an alternative to the standard testing-based ... -
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 ... -
Environmental assessment of mild bisulfite pretreatment of forest residues into fermentable sugars for biofuel production
(Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2016)Sugar production via pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic feedstock, in this case softwood harvest residues, is a critical step in the biochemical conversion pathway towards drop-in biofuels. Mild bisulfite ... -
Pacific Northwest Wood-Based Biofuels: Site Selection & Design
(2016)This document presents Pacific Northwest supply chain estimates, case studies of specific sites within the PNW region, and conceptual master plans for consideration by stakeholders and communities as they search for ways ... -
Olympic Peninsula: Site Analysis Report
(2016)This report provides supply chain estimates and case studies for the Herman Brothers operation in Port Angeles, WA, and the Port Townsend Paper Corporation in Port Townsend, WA. -
Olympic Peninsula Liquids Depot and Lignin-Based Co-products Study: Preliminary Scoping
(2016)This document provides the scope of work anticipated for the Olympic Peninsula case study.