2014 Northwest Wood-Based Biofuels + Co-Products Conference (NWBCC) Proceedings
A Look At The Big Picture
The goal of this conference is to bring together the national and regional communities of researchers, business leaders, government agencies, and economic development personnel to share research _ ndings, ideas, and strategies for the sustainable development of a wood-based biofuels and co-products industry in the Pacific Northwest.
Presentations
Modeling the Biomass Supply Chain
Darius M. Adams
Pretreatment as the starting point for producing aviation biofuels with focus on the Advanced Wet Explosion (AWEx) process
Birgitte K. Ahring
Optimization of Mild Bisulfite Pretreatment on Pacific Northwest Softwood
Dwight Anderson
Conversion of Hydrolyzed Douglas fir Biomass into Isobutanol and Biojet
Grant Balzer
Hybrid Poplar as a Green Energy resource in the Pacific Northwest
Varaprasad Bandaru
Biomass: Neither Automatically Good nor Automatically Bad – It all Depends
Barbara Bramble
Northwest Wood-Based Biofuels & Co-Products Conference
Robert Buchan
Climate-Related Risks for Western Forests
Michael Case
An Efficient, Renewable and Biobased Economy
Chris Cassidy
Effect of different bioass pretreatments and processing parameters on the properties and performance of NARA lignin-derived activated carbons
Ian Dallmeyer
Renewable Fuels and the Environmental Community
Bob Dingethal
Emerging Technologiews to Improve Preparation of Woody Biomass for Pretreatment and Conversion
Jim Dooley
The Importance of Aviation Biofuels: An Airline’s Perspective
Dean DuVall
Analyzing Changes in Lignin Chemistry Due to Biofuel Production Processes
Carter Fox
Environmental assessments of woody biomass feedstock for bio-jet fuel production
Indroneil Ganguly
Poplar Tree Improvement for Biomass Production in the PNW.
Carlos Gantz
Optimization of Mild Bisulfite Pretreatment on Pacific Northwest Softwood
Johnway Gao
Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Materials for the Production of Bio-fuels, Bio-chemicals and Bio-char
Manuel Garcia-Perez
The Bali Project
Jerry Gargulak
Feasibility of a biojet fuel supply chain in Canada
Fred Ghatala
A Renewable Green Fuel Source: Woody Biomass
Peter Goldmark
Overview of characterizing approaches to collecting forest residues
Han-Sup Han
Modeling Poplar Growth as a Short Rotation Woody Crop for Biofuels in the Pacific Northwest
Quinn Hart
Forest Biomass Harvest 2010
Bill Hermann
Liquefaction Technologies for Producing Biocrude for Jet, Diesel and Gasoline
John Holladay
Integrating Reasearch and Education: Education at the Speed of Research
R. Justin Hougham, Ph.D.
Integrating Biomass Energy Campus: Creating value from woody biomass in Northwest Oregon
Lynn Jungwirth
Low Cost, Bio-Renewable Carbon Fibers from Lignin/PLA Blends and Graft Copolymers
Micheal R. Kessler
Aviation Biofuel: Recent breakthroughs and long term prospects
Micheal Lakeman
Identifying Suitable Sites for Wood-based Biofuels Facilities in Western Oregon and Washington
Tammi Laninga
CPPL and Economics of Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion
Ali Manesh, Ph.D., P.E.
Economic Impacts of Forest Residue Feedstocks Preparation for Biofuels
Gevan Marrs
Montana Economic Development Tools: Bringing Biofuel/Biomass Development to Montana
Tracy McIntyre
Tailoring a Sustainable Biomass Supply Chain for Your Facility
Paul R. McKenzie C.F.
Social Acceptability of Biomass and Biofuels
Jillian Moroney
Climate-related risks for western forests
Philip Mote
What effect will Energy have in the Future on the Swedish Forestry?
Peter Nystrom
Beetlejuice: Researching Sustainable Biofuels from Beetle-Kill Wood in the Rockies
Keith Paustian
Market Outlook for Forest-Based Bioproducts – A Canadian Perspective
Ian de la Roche
Renewable Acid-hydrolysis Condensation Hydrotreating
Karl Seck
The Importance of Sustainable Aviation Fuels, An Airline’s Perspective?
Carol Sim
US Forestry Presentation
Paul Spencer
Wood Based Lignin Co Products An overview
Thomas Spink
Biomass Harvest Solutions
Bruce Summers
Pretreatment of Forest Slash using Wet Oxidation
Philip Teller
Ash Reduction Strategies to Provide On-Spec Feedstocks for Biofuel Conversion Processes
David Thompson
Biomass Supply Agreement From a Purchaser’s Perspective
Kevin Tuers
Biomass Collection and Processing: A Southern US Perspective
Rene van der Merwe
Wood to Wing Envisioning an Aviation Biofuels Industry from Forest Residuals
Michael Wolcott
Biomass Feedstock Least Cost Formulation
Christopher T. Wright
Modeling economic, social and enviromental issues surrounding woody biomass
Timothy M. Young, PhD
Poplar Plantation Management for Biomass Production in the Pacific Northwest
Jose Zerpa
Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB)
Kevin W. Zobrist
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