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EPIC Fuels Supports Alaska Airlines in First-Ever Forrest-Powered Flight

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11/16/16 Epic Fuels

First of its kind renewable biofuel made from residual wood used by Alaska Airlines

IRVING, TX–(Marketwired – November 16, 2016) – EPIC Fuels provided expertise in fuel blending as well as technical and logistical support to Alaska Airlines’ first commercial flight using the world’s first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests. The alternative jet fuel was produced through the efforts …more

Junyong Zhu received honors

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Dr. JY Zhu
Dr. JY Zhu

NARA member Junyong (J.Y.) Zhu recently received the “Andrew Chase Award” and was elected as an “ALChE fellow” at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) Forest Bioproducts Division meeting in San Francisco, CA.

Here is the statement read out in recognition of Dr. JY Zhu:

“Dr. Junyong (J.Y.) Zhu is a scientific team leader from the USDA …more

Forest Concepts processes feedstock for first forest powered aviation feedstock

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11/16/16 EIN Network

Forest Concepts is proud to be among NARA cooperators and helped develop technologies and equipment to produce bio-jet fuel from forest residuals.

AUBURN, WA, UNITED STATES, November 14, 2016 /EINPresswire.com/ — Forest Concepts is proud to be among industry cooperators that helped develop technologies and equipment to produce bio-jet fuel from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests. The company is particularly honored to have processed …more

Logging Leftovers fule Alaska Airlines’ test flight

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11/16/16 Mother Nature Network

In the five years since Dutch carrier KLM first shuttled 171 passengers from Amsterdam to Paris in a Boeing 737 fueled by used cooking oil, an impressive number of passenger-carrying commercial aircraft across the world have taken flight with an emissions-decreasing assist from alternative jet fuel derived from algae, plant byproducts, agricultural waste oils and other forms of organic matter.

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The plane powered by waste wood

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11/15/16 BBC

This week an Alaska Airlines plane flew from Seattle to Washington. Nothing extraordinary there. Except for the fuel. This was the first commercial flight made using fuel from residual waste from wood. It’s the result of a five-year project developed by the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance. Newsday heard from one of the scientists involved in the project – Professor Michael Wolcott of Washington State University.

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ICM: Flight powered by biofuel made from forest residuals

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11/15/16 Biomass magazine

ICM Inc. is proud to have contributed to the successful production of renewable biojet fuel from woody biomass used on a commercial Alaska Airlines flight Nov. 14 as part of the USDA-sponsored Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance project. Renewable biojet fuel represents another product that is reducing the carbon footprint of transportation fuels in the United States and around the world.

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Vilsack greets first wood-to-jet fuel commercial flight

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11/15/16 Feedstuffs

On Monday, Alaska Airlines landed the first commercial flight powered in part by a new renewable fuel made of wood waste salvaged from private lands in Washington, Oregon and Montana.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack greeted the passengers for flight AS-4 arriving from Seattle, Wash., at Washington Reagan National Airport to highlight this breakthrough in bioenergy that supports jobs and rural economies by developing a sustainable bio-products industry in the Pacific Northwest utilizing wood harvest left-overs that would otherwise go …more

Forest fuel: Alaska Airlines completes first wood-powered commercial flight

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11/15/16 RT

Alaska Airlines used a renewable jet fuel with a 20-percent blend of forest residuals, such as tree branches, to power a flight from Seattle to Washington, DC,, marking the first commercial flight to do so.

The tree branches and limbs used to make the alternative-fuel blend were collected after “the harvesting of managed forests” in the Pacific Northwest, according to Alaska Airlines. The jet …more

USDA, partners celebrate first woo-to-biojet commercial flight

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11/15/16 American Journal of Trasportation

USDA and a Washington State University-led alliance support sustainable jobs in Pacific Northwest

WASHINGTON – Alaska Airlines today landed the first commercial flight powered in part by a new renewable fuel made of wood waste salvaged from private lands in Washington, Oregon and Montana. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack greeted the passengers for flight AS-4 arriving from Seattle at Washington Reagan National Airport to highlight this breakthrough in bioenergy that supports jobs and rural …more

First biofuel-powered flight takes off

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11/15/16 US Daily Review

Washington state-based Alaska Airlines today made history flying the first commercial flight using the world’s first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests. The alternative jet fuel was produced through the efforts of the Washington State University-led Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA).

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