Posters
Biojet Conversion
- Mechanical pretreatment to produce cellulosic sugars on a pilot scale
- Insight into effect of mechanical milling on cellulose accessible surface area
- Stagewise mechanical pretreatment for cost-effective clean cellulosic sugar production
- Effects of different milling processes on properties of douglas-fir forest residuals
- Co-production of sugars lignosulphonate cellulose and cellulose nano-crystals from ball-milled wood
- Kinetic modeling of sugar hydrolysis and degradation in SPORL pretreatment
- Tracking extractives through biofuel production and assessing effects on saccharification
- Effects of hot water extraction pre-process on downstream sulfite pretreatments to overcome recalcitrance
- Fermentative conversion of hydrolyzed douglas fir biomass into isobutanol (1)
- Fermentative conversion of hydrolyzed douglas fir biomass into isobutanol (2)
- Ball milling – effective pretreatment leading to clean cellulosic sugar conversion
- Effect of initial mixing on enzymatic hydrolysis of ball milled wood
- Evaluating the use of ball-milling on douglas fir particles
- Fermentative conversion of hydrolyzed douglas fir biomass into isobutanol
- From wood to wing – opportunities to build an advanced biofuels industry in the PNW utilizing its timber-based assets
- Multi-scale visualization and characterization of wood cell wall deconstruction during mechanical milling
- Size effect on mild bisulfite pretreatment performance on douglas fir
Co-product development
- Development of porosity in activated carbon materials prepared from biorefinery lignin
- Application development of lignin: thermosets and polymer blends
- Comparative life cycle analysis of GHG Emissions for bio-PET bottles
- Nanacellulose reinforcement for bio-based phenolic thermo-responsive resins
- NARA EPP co-product market opportunity – lignin-based activated carbon
- Partially depolymerized enzymolysis lignin – preparation, characterization and application
- Testing residual lignin as a binder for wood pellets
Feedstock development and logistics
- Improving large trailer access for biomass recovery in steep terrain
- Implications of processing green vs dry residues for aviation fuel
- Assessing spatial distribution and availability of forest biomass by harvesting system
- Finite element analysis to predict changes of in-forest stored biomass moisture content
- Seasonal changes in live branch moisture content of three forest species
- Sugar production from recycled wood wastes via enzymatic hydrolysis
- NARA long-term soil productivity project 2015 update
- Biomass supply estimates for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes based on harvest planning and management goals
- Characterization of waste wood materials for the production of biofuels
- Development of physical properties and correlation of feed and product sizes and energy consumption
- Forest fertilization to increase biofuel feedstock and soil C sequestration in coastal PNW forests
- Improving efficiencies in forest biomass transportation
- Logging utilization – decision support tools for land managers
- Moisture management model for optimal forest biomass delivery in PNW
- Tribal-Federal Partnerships and the Cost to Reduce Fuel
Environmental sustainability
- Extrative inhibition of cellulases in saccharification
- Response of deep soil carbon pools to forest management treatments
- Carbon and N in deep soil profiles of coastal PNW douglas-fir plantations
- Soil nutrition effects of nitrogen fertilization and thinning treatments on subsurface C and N
- Sustainability of coastal PNW douglas-fir forests for biofuel feedstocks
- Life cycle analysis of logistics in forest residual removal for potential bioenergy production
- Comparative life cycle assessment of NARA biojet fuel
- Developing an impact assessment of local air quality as a result of biomass burns
- NARA supply chain emissions impacts on air quality
- Impacts of biomass removal on flow and sediment transport in forested streams
- Comparative life cycle assessment of the biomass logistics model – MC2P region
- Co-product implications on the environmental preference of bio-jet fuel
- Developing an impact assessment of local air quality as a result of biomass burns
- Douglas-fir stump decomposition – modeling carbon residence times
- Effects of vegetation control and harvest intensity on deep soil C and N
- Effects of geoclimatic factors on soil nutrients and site productivity of douglas fir
- Environmental assessment of wet oxidation and mild bisulfite pretreatments for converting forest slash residues to sugar
- Evaluation of environmental impacts of harvest residue based bio-energy
- Methods for examining deep soil mineralogy, C sequestration, nutrient cycling and hydraulic redistribution
- Microbial population as a function of woody biomass removal treatments
- NARA LTSP Project 2014 Update
- Prescribed fire impacts on PM and air quality benefits from biomass harvesting in PNW
- Response of flow and sediment dynamics in mountain streams to biomass removal
Social sustainability
- Regional stakeholder perceptions of biofuels preliminary results
- Community asset and attribute modeling
- Aviation and alternative fuels – the law and policy of first, second and third generation biofuels
- Refinery-to-wing stakeholders assessment approach
- Refining community asset and attribute modeling
- Tribal communities care about effluents – tracking extractives, inhibitors and reaction products
Economic sustainability
- NARA integrated biorefinery report
- Economic environmental and social analysis of a pulp mill
- Expert elicitation on integrated production of 2nd gen biofuels biochemicals
- NARA logging utilization
- Oregons forest products industry and timber harvest 2013
- Redefining renewable biomass a policy change with cascading benefits
- Aspen plus process modeling of NARA biorefinery departments
- Evolving structure of the U.S. biorefinery industry
- Market opportunities and challenges facing the economically viable production of renewable chemicals
Education and outreach
- What different teaching techniques are used to teach carbon cycle to 5th through 8th graders
- Wood to wing site selection methods for biofuel supply chain
- Wood to wing sustainable site design for biofuel supply chain
- Communicating with stakeholders addressing concerns worries and knowledge gaps
- Global sustainability an authenic context for energy education
- Education at the speed of research overview of NARA approach to bioenergy literacy
- Bioenergy literacy assessment tool creation
- Teacher professional development an energy literacy supply chain
- Increasing middle school students energy literacy
- NARA SURE summer undergraduate research experience
- Artifact based energy literacy assessment utilizing rubric scoring
- Education at the speed of research – overview of the NARA approach to bioenergy literacy
- Fueling our future – exploring sustainable energy use
- NARA education – tribal partnership projects
- NARA SURE summer undergraduate research experience
- Teacher Professional Development-An Energy Literacy Supply Chain
- The energy literacy feedstock
Summer undergraduate research experience (SURE)
- Preliminary Investigation of Waste Cooking Oil-Based Bio-asphalt and Reinforcement with Lignin-Based Epoxy | Alexa Antalan, Ran Li, Junna Xin, Jinwen Zhang
- Reprocessable Thermosetting Epoxy Derived from Bio-Based Lignin Feedstock | Lucas Brown, Cheng Hao, Tuan Liu, Junna Xin, Jinwen Zhang
- E. coli H7 entrapment through Calcium, Potassium, Sodium, and Phosphorous-enriched biochar-sand columns | Jesus Chavez, Elyas Alnamnakani, Waled Suliman, Manuel Diego, Nehal Abu-Lail
- Using Simple Lessons to Teach Elementary Students About Energy Literacy, the Environment and Energy with a Wood Residual Biofuel Focus | Jace Hogg, Karla Eitel
- Exploring Informal Learning Practices: Engaging K-5 Students In Learning About Woody Biomass As An Energy Source | Zakiya Jones, Karla Eitel
- Energy Literacy for Kids: The Role of Biofuels | Trent Montsma, Karla Eitel
- Pelletized Biochar Production and Characterization from Biobased Waste Textiles | Rosemary Nicholson, Anamaria Paiva Pinheiro Pires, Karl Englund, Manuel Garcia-Perez
2016
- Comminution of Unmerchantable Forest Residuals to Determine Power and Energy Consumption as a Function of Moisture Content and Size Reduction Range| John Barth, Kelley Welsch, Vincent McIntyre, Jinwu Wang, Michael Wolcott
- Development of Epoxy Coating Technology on Lignosulfonate Hydrogel | Muhui Chen, Hui Xu, Junna Xin , Jinwen Zhang
- The Value of Slash Trees and Snags in Forest Ecosystems | Jessica Curry, Karla Eitel
- Characterization of Molecular Structure and Interlinkage Network for Seven Representative Biorefinery Lignin | William Daniels, Ruoshui Ma, Xiao Zhang
- Regional equations for streams in forested watersheds in the Pacific Northwest | Allie Davis, Kaleb Madsen, John Petrie
- Biofuel Concept Learning Assessment of Middle School and Elementary School Youth through the Value of a Tree Lesson Plan | McKayla Drozd, Peter Schumann, R. Justin Hougham, and Marc Nutter
- Types of Energy with Biofuels Applications | Abigail Flowers, Karla Eitel
- Lesson Plan Design: Life Cycle Assessment of NARA Jet Biofuel | Sarah Knue, Karla Eitel
- Energy Literacy and Sustainability Topics in a High School Problem-Solving Competition | Sarah Pate, Quinn Langfitt, Trace Sendele, Liv Haselbach
- DES for the Extraction of Lignin from Biomass | Thomas Potolicchio, Senthil Subramaniam, Xiao Zhang
- Educating Youth on the Carbon Cycle within Biofuel Production | Shalonda Robinson, Karla Eitel
- Water-based Acrylic Polymer Incorporating Cellulose Nanocrystal for Coating of Food Packaging Films | Guadalupe Salazara, Lanxing Dub, Jinwu Wang, Michael Wolcott
- Application Development for Kraft Lignin and Waste Cooking Oil-Based Epoxy Asphalt | Emily Sun, Ran Li, Junna Xin, Jinwen Zhang
2015
- Comminution of Unmerchantable Forest Residuals to Determine Power and Energy Consumption as a Function of Moisture Content and Size Reduction Range | John Barth, Kelly Welsch, Vincent Mcintyre, Dr. Jinwu Wang, and Dr. Michael Wolcott
- Characterization and Modification of Asphalt With Epoxy Resins Synthesized From Pyrolysis Oil, a Derivative of Lignocellulosic Biomass | Kyle Thompson, Junna Xin, Jinwen Zhang
- Characterization of Biorefinery Lignins and Comparison of Reactivity for Value-added Chemical Production | Oshauna Morgan, Ruoshui Ma, Mand Guo and Xiao Zhang
- Making the Chemistry of the NARA Project Visible | Adriana Guzman, Karla Eitel
- Activated Carbon by Chemical Activation of Lignin with Potassium Hydroxide | Shakema Haynes, Ian Dallmeyer
- Modifying Lignin and its Model Compounds to Enhance Oxidative Ring Cleavage to Dicarboxylic Acids | Kasey Markland, Ruoshui Ma, Mond Guo, Carlos Hiroaki Kuwabara, Xiao Zhang
- Educating Youth on Air Pollution Caused by Transportation | Jennifer Murphy, Karla Eitel
- Forest Ecology and Biofuel Production Potential for Tribally-Managed Forests in the Northern Rockies | Emily Schwartz, Karla Eitel
- Synthesis of Lignosulf on ate Hydrogels cross-linked with PEGDGE | Maika Bui, Xiaoxu Teng, Junna Xin, Jinwen Zhang
- Preventing Nitrogen Depletion in Forests Undergoing Forest Residual Removal | Aleksandr Kirpach, Rob Harrison, Jason James, Austin Himes, Kim Littke
- Screening of Value-Added Market Opportunities for Lignin | Mark Wohlpart, Dr. Paul M. Smith, Steve Cline, Dr. Wenping Shi
- Biofuel Transportation and CO2 Emission Adventure Race | Sarah Wilkins, Karla Eitel
- Air Quality Impact of the NARA Aviation Biofuel Refinery | Bailey Tebou , Vikram Ravi and Brian K. Lamb
2014
- Ball Milling: Effective pretreatment leading to a clean biomass to cellulosic sugar conversion | Eileen Wu
- Mechanistic kinetics study of biomass derived inhibitory compounds on cellulase hydrolysis of biomass substrate | Cassandra Sanders
- Potential technological pathways for the production of alternative jet fuel | Preenaa Venugopal
- Spatial distribution of grain sizes in sampling heterogeneous stream beds | Eric Sorensen
- Testing lignin as as additive to wooden pellets | Rodney Seals
2013
- Determining the effect of densification of pretreated harvested forest residue on enzymatic monosaccharide production | Andrea Laguna
- Isolation of high purity lignin from bio-jet biorefinery hydrolysis residue | Steve Cline
- Nanocellulose reinforcement for bio-based thermo-responsive resins | Calvin Silas
- Not all Douglas Fir trees are created equally for conversion to biofuels | Karissa Garcia
- Partical depolymerization of lignin using hydrogenolysis over raney nickel | Daniel Leong
- Physical methods for break down of cellulose crystallinity | Kane Norton
- Preparation and characterization of porous carbon adsorbent materials from lignocellulosic residuals | Chanel Casayuran
- Surface characterization of lignocellulosic biomass for understanding the enzymatic hydrolysis | Jing-Li
2012
- Analysis of bioproducts from ultra-low cost biomass processing | Lucy Cheadle
- Assessing moisture content in biomass piles | Maggie Buffum
- Assessing risks of arson in biomass piles | Brady Do
- Biobased curing agent for epoxy | Ellen Simonsen
- Diluted acid and peroxide pretreatments of Douglas Fir | Pedro Guajardo Jr.
- Evaluation at nano-scale of hot water extracted Ponderosa Pine chips | Anthony Lathrop
- NARA biofuels production emissions | Madeline Fuchs
- Scale up of an ultra-low cost in forest thermal processing of biomass | Burdette Birdinground