First Commercial Flight Using Biojet fuel Made from Wood
News Releases
Forest Powered biofuel flight heads to Washington D.C.
11/14/2016 WSU News
USDA, Partners Celebrate First Wood-to-Jet-Fuel Commercial Flight
11/14/2016 USDA News Release
Alaska Airlines to Fly today on Gevo’s Cellulosic Renewable Alcohol to Jet Fuel
11/14/2016 Gevo News Release
Forest-Powered Flight heads to Washington D.C.
11/14/2016 Alaska Airlines News Release
Selected News Stories
Interview with Ralph Cavalieri, NARA Project Director, on RFD-TV Market Day Report
RFD-TV 11/23/2016
Alaska Airlines to fly on Gevo’s cellulosic renewable alcohol-to jet fuel
11/14/16 Biofuels International
Biofuels from logging scraps powers Alaska Airlines jet on cross-country flight
11/14/16 The Seattle Times
Tree limbs power Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 in biofuel first commercial flight
11/14/16 Puget Sound Journal
Alaska Airlines tests fuel partly made from trees: How sustainable a solution?
11/15/16 Christian Science Monitor
Forest fuel: Alaska Airlines completes first wood-powered commercial flight
11/15/16 RT
ICM: Flight powered by biofuel made from residual wood
11/15/16 Biomass Magazine
The plane powered by waste wood
11/16/16 BBC
Logging leftovers fuel Alaska Airlines’ test flight
11/16/16 Mother Nature News
Forest Concepts processes feedstock for first forest-powered commercial aviation flight
11/16/16 EIN News
EPIC Fuels Supports Alaska Airlines in First-Ever Forest Powered Flight
11/16/16 Market Wired
World’s First Commercial Flight Using Forest Residual Biofuel is Completed
11/18/16 Architectural Digest
Could Wood Scraps Fuel Planes?
11/23/16 Smithsonian.com
Contributors
| Organization | Contribution | website | Location |
Feedstock preparation | |||
 | forest residuals from their timberlands in western Montana as feedstcok | http://www.csktribes.org/ | Polson, MT |
 | forest residuals from their timberlands in western Oregon as feedstock | http://investor.weyerhaeuser.com/news-room | Seattle, WA |
 | forest residuals from their timberlands in western Washington as feedstock | http://www.muckleshoot.nsn.us/ | Auburn, WA |
 | fiber residuals from their cellulose production as feedstock | http://www.cosmospecialtyfibers.com/ | Cosmopolis, WA |
| John Jump Trucking Inc. | feedstock grinding and transport | johnjumptrucking.com | Kalispell, MT |
 | feedstock collection logistics | https://www.hancockrecreationnw.com/ | Orting, WA |
 | feedstock grinding, sorting and mixing | http://laneforest.com/ | Eugene, OR |
 | feedstock grinding, preparation for Andritz Trial | www.forestconcepts.com | Auburn, WA |
Pretreatment | |||
 | use of demonstration facility and expertise for pretreatment | http://www.zeachem.com/ | Boardman, OR |
 | trial of continuous pretretreatment prior to Zeachem | www.andritz.com | Springfield, OH |
Enzyme hydrolysis and fermentation | |||
 | use of production facility and expertise for hydrolysis and fermentation of the pretreated feedstock | http://www.icmbiofuels.com/ | St Joseph, MO |
 | fermentation and isobutanol separation technology and expertise | http://www.gevo.com/ | Englewood, CO |
 | production of Gevo proprietary yeast | www.wisbio.com | Milwaukee, WI |
 | provided saccharification enzymes | http://www.novozymes.com/us | |
 | dehydration of isobutanol | http://www.whitefox.com/ | Alberta, Calgary |
Conversion of isobutanol to iso-parafinnic kerosene (IPK) | |||
 | use of production facility and expertise to convert isobutanol to iso-paraffinic kerosene (IPK) | http://www.southhamptonr.com/ | Silsbee, TX |
| technology and expertise to convert isobutanol to iso-parafinnic kerosene (IPK) | http://www.gevo.com/ | Englewood, CO |
Bio-jet fuel blending and demonstration flight | |||
 | conducted a demonstration flight | https://www.alaskaair.com/ | Seattle, WA |
Project funding | |||
 | project funding and guidance | https://nifa.usda.gov/ | Washington, DC |