The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance is producing 1,000 gallons of iso-paraffinic kerosene to be bended and used in a demonstration flight anticipated in Spring 2016. This event, when completed, will represent the first commercial flight using alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals.
The development and use of alternative jet fuel made from …more
NARA’s third Cumulative Report is now available online. The report describes research efforts and activities conducted during April 2014 to March 2015.
View the NARA Cumulative Report: April 2013-March 2014 here.
Cumulative Report content
The report is segmented into sections that relate to NARA’s five goals: Sustainable Biojet, …more
Forest residuals (tree limbs, branches, small trees and unusable trunk bits) come in all different sizes. Before they can …more
SEATTLE – Washington state’s hometown airline is teaming up with the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) to advance the production and use of alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the tree limbs and branches that remain after a forest harvest.
As the airline partner for NARA, Alaska Airlines …more
Up to 75% of wood is made of simple sugars. For the NARA project, these simple sugars are the molecules used to make biojet fuel. Even though simple sugars are abundant in wood, making them available for …more
Building a biorefinery to convert wood residues into chemical products like biojet fuel is expensive. The projected capital investment exceeds $850 million. An alternative, and potentially less costly approach, …more
NARA researcher Xiao Zhang received a $500,000 five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award from the National Science Foundation to develop ways to convert lignin into long chained hydrocarbons that could be used for fuel. For more information, read the article posted in the WSU news.
Xiao’s team contributed greatly to NARA’s efforts to determine the variability …more
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Gevo Inc. is a NARA affiliate organization. With NARA, they are developing a yeast biocatalyst that makes isobutanol from simple sugars derived from wood residuals. In addition, they work with NARA’s techno-economic team to determine the costs involved with producing isobutanol and the conversion of isobutanol to biojet.
Biofuels Digest just published a brief review that describes Gevo’s technologies and their recent advances and challenges.
Read Gevo: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 …more
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory have developed a online program (WATER) designed to provide analysis on water demand for use in developing biofuels from multiple feedstocks including forest wood biofuels.
WATER adopts a water footprint methodology and contains extensive climate, land use, water resource, and process water data.
Free access is available here.