Production of 1,000 gallons of certified biojet fuel through biochemical conversion of softwood forest residuals

Robert Wooley; Junyong Zhu; Roland L. Gleisner; Andrew Hawkins; Paul Starkey; Johnway Gao; Tom Spink; Joe Ley; Mike Wolcott; Gevan Marrs; John Sessions

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Production of 1,000 gallons of certified biojet fuel through biochemical conversion of softwood forest residuals

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Authors:

Robert Wooley, Junyong Zhu, Roland L. Gleisner, Andrew Hawkins, Paul Starkey, Johnway Gao, Tom Spink, Joe Ley, Mike Wolcott, Gevan Marrs, John Sessions

Year:

2020

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Forest Products Laboratory

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-278. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 109 p.

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Abstract

produced utilizing feedstocks of softwood forest slash from a mill in Washington State, USA. These feedstocks were collected and processed by the team of Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance (NARA) using technologies developed by NARA partners. This investigation found these feedstocks to be economically sustainable.

Keywords

Enzymatic saccharification and fermentation, iso-butanol, iso-paraffinic kerosene

Citation

Wooley, Robert; Zhu, J.Y.; Gleisner, Roland; Hawkins, Andrew; Starkey, Paul; Gao, Johnway; Spink, Tom; Ley, Joe; Wolcott, Mike; Marrs, Gevan; Sessions, John. 2020. Production of 1,000 gallons of certified biojet fuel through biochemical conversion of softwood forest residuals. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-278. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 109 p.