Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA): A new vista for green fuels, chemicals, and environmentally preferred products (EPPs)
NIFA-USDA, (2011-2016), $39,600,000. Visit NARA website here.
Publications
- A framework for quantitatively assessing the repurpose potential of existing industrial facilities as a biorefinery
- A comparison of methodologies for estimating delivered forest residue volume and cost to a wood-based biorefinery
- Isolation and Characterization of Cellulose Micro/Nanofibrils from Douglas Fir
- The U.S. cellulosic biofuels industry: Expert views on commercialization drivers and barriers
- Biorefinery site selection using a stepwise biogeophysical and social analysis approach
- Unique low-molecular-weight lignin with high purity extracted from wood by deep eutectic solvents (DES): A source of lignin for valorization
- Refinement of an Energy Literacy Rubric for Artifact Assessment and Application to the Imagine Tomorrow High School Energy Competition
- From the Forest to the Classroom: Energy Literacy as a Co-Product of Biofuels Research
- Evaluation of physical structural features on influencing enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency of micronized wood
- Multistep process to produce fermentable sugars and lignosulfonates from softwood enzymolysis residues
- Modeling the production of sugar and byproducts from acid bisulfite pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis of Douglas-fir
- Effects of Hot Water Extraction Pretreatment on Physicochemical Changes of Douglas fir
- Peracetic acid depolymerization of biorefinery lignin for production of selective monomeric phenolic compounds
- Drivers and barriers to the adoption and diffusion of Sustainable Jet Fuel (SJF) in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
- Mechanochemical oleation of lignin through ball milling and properties of its blends with PLA
- Assessing the specific energy consumption and physical properties of comminuted Douglas-fir chips for bioconversion
- U.S. biofuels industry: A critical review of opportunities and challenges
- Green Epoxy Resin System Based on Lignin and Tung Oil and Its Application in Epoxy Asphalt
- Effect of hot-pressing temperature on the subsequent enzymatic saccharification and fermentation performance of SPORL pretreated forest biomass
- Integrating Biogeophysical and Social Assets Into Biomass-to-Biofuels Supply Chain Siting Decisions
- Partial depolymerization of enzymolysis lignin via mild hydrogenolysis over Raney Nickel
- Use of eugenol and rosin as feedstocks for biobased epoxy resins and study of curing and performance properties
- Use of polycarboxylic acid derived from partially depolymerized lignin as a curing agent for epoxy application