The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) will provide a Wood-to Biofuel webinar series that presents recent findings relating to the use of post harvest forest residuals (material left in slash piles) to produce alternative biofuels for jet aircraft and other co-products.
Five webinars are set for the month of October to celebrate National Bioenergy Day on October 21st. Additional seminars will be scheduled and posted within the following months.
Participants may register and learn more at https://nararenewables.org/features/webinar-series
“The webinars come during the final year of the NARA project and provide the most recent findings relating to the economic, social and environmental sustainability of using post harvest forest residuals in the Pacific Northwest to partially substitute for fossil fuels”, says Vikram Yadama, NARA Outreach team leader and webinar organizer.
Led by Washington State University and funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) is helping to develop a sustainable industry in the Pacific Northwest that uses wood residuals to make bio-jet fuel and valuable co-products. The alliance includes public universities, government agencies, private industry and interested stakeholders.
The webinar series begins October 13th, 2015. Webinars offered are:
Estimating forest residue for biomass production
Kevin Boston, Associate Professor, Oregon State University
October 13, Tuesday, 1PM (PDT) and 4 pm (EDT)
Decision support for forest harvest residue collection
John Sessions, University Distinguished Professor and Rene Zamora-Cristales, Post Doctorate, Oregon State University
October 14, Wednesday, 2pm (PDT) and 5pm (EDT)
Characterization of forest residuals for bio-jet fuel production
Gevan Marrs, Feedstock Sourcing, NARA
October 19, Monday, 9am (PDT) and 12pm (EDT)
‘Woods-to-Wake’ life cycle assessment of residual woody biomass based jet-fuel
Indroneil Ganguly, Assistant Professor, Research, University of Washington
October 21, Wednesday, 11:30am (PDT) and 2:30pm (EDT)
Long-term soil productivity and sustainability of forest harvest residue harvesting
Jeff Hatten, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University; Scott Holub, Silviculture research Scientist, Weyerhaeuser NR Company
October 30, Friday, 10:00am (PDT) and 1:00pm (EDT)
These webinars follow an earlier announcement that Alaska Airlines will use NARA produced cellulosic-based bio-jet (IPK), made from Northwest forest residuals, for a demonstration flight in Spring 2016.
There is no charge to attend, and the webinars are open to everyone.
Register and learn more about the webinar series
Learn more about the NARA project