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Educator conference scheduled on teaching bioenergy literacy: July 29th, Seattle WA.

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NARA member Facing the Future will host an educator conference on July 29th in Seattle WA.

Over the course of the day, participants will define energy literacy, consider the social, economic, and environmental impacts of different energy sources, learn about the development of aviation biofuels in the Pacific Northwest, and hear from experts in this field.

Participants will gain hands-on experience with several lessons …more

Alaska Airlines, WSU partner to advance use of aviation biofuels

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3 June 2015
Contacts
Ralph Cavalieri, NARA executive director, 509-335-4854
Michael Wolcott, NARA co-director, 509-335-6392
Bobbie Egan, Alaska Airlines media relations, 206-392-5134
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 intends …more

Alaska Airlines, WSU partner to advance use of aviation biofuels

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Image courtesy of Alaska Airlines
Image courtesy of Alaska Airlines

 

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

NARA offers searchable repository for bioenergy information

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Front webpage athttp://woodtobiofuel.org/
Front webpage athttp://woodtobiofuel.org/

Quality, un-biased information that addresses the use of forest residuals to produce chemical products like biofuels is abundant, the challenge is finding it. To make this information readily available to individuals and communities, NARA has produced a knowledge base repository that links to hundreds of reports, peer reviewed articles and websites.

View the NARA Knowledge Base here.

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Students offer sugar depot designs for an existing pulp mill

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Kate Shrosbree, a landscape architecture student at the University of Idaho, describes wastewater treatment designs.
Kate Shrosbree, a landscape architecture student at the University of Idaho, describes wastewater treatment designs.

Turning slash piles into valuable commercial products is an economic challenge; two significant economic hurdles are the cost to process and transport forest residuals and the capital costs needed to build new facilities or …more

Students design facility to convert forest residuals into liquid sugar, present findings April 29th

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22 April, 2015

Contacts:
Karl Olsen, WSU IDX, kolsen@wsu.edu, 509-335-0373
Tammi Laninga, UI IDX, Laninga@uidaho.edu, 208-885-7117
Charles Burke, WSU NARA, ccburke@nararenewables.org, 509-335-3018

PULLMAN, Wash. – Students at Washington State University have developed facility site designs for a potential liquid depot in the Pacific Northwest. Liquid depots are intended to process forest residuals (wood from slash piles) into a liquid sugar. The liquid sugar can be used to produce multiple chemical products including biofuels. The group will present …more

Webinar on liquid depot design April 29th

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The IDX team at Washington State University has been tasked with evaluating the NARA 4-state region (Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho) to determine optimal locations for infrastructure to support the NARA biofuel supply chain (conversion of forest residuals to bio-jet fuel and co-products). Previously the IDX team identified ideal locations for sites to develop an economical supply chain in the 4 State region.   The current work is developing a sample site design for a liquid depot for processing forest residuals …more

NARA member receives approval for bio-jet fuel

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12 April, 2015

PULLMAN, Wash. – The Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) congratulates our fuels partner, Gevo, Inc. for ASTM International’s inclusion of Gevo’s alcohol to jet (ATJ) synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) into ASTM D7566 (Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons). This inclusion makes Gevo’s ATJ-SPK eligible to be used as a blending component, up to 30%, in standard Jet A-1 fuel used by commercial airlines in the United States and in many other countries around the …more

NARA Life Cycle Assessment webinar available

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Overall scope for LCA of woody biomass to bio-jet fuel. Image taken from 2014-15 webinar 5 at:https://teachingadventurelearningatmoss.wordpress.com/media-archive/
Overall scope for LCA of woody biomass to bio-jet fuel. Image taken from 2014-15 webinar 5 at:https://teachingadventurelearningatmoss.wordpress.com/media-archive/

The NARA Education team provides webinars to high school teachers and their students to help them prepare for the Imagine Tomorrow competition. Many of these webinars are given by …more