Bioproducts: Green your world

Poplar trees can be made into biochemicals used in many everyday products including many plastics and textiles.

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Growing Future Energy

New poplar seedlings bred for bioenergy are grown for one year in greenhouses.

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Bioenergy Brings Diverse Students Together

Students with diverse backgrounds and interests are part of the new bioenergy minor at OSU.

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Showcasing Feedstock Research

The AHB Extension Team leads field tours at the demonstration sites to showcase the growing and production of hardwoods for transportation biofuels.

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Bioenergy and Biodiversity Together

Poplar plantations support biodiversity and provide habitat for wildlife.

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About AHB

AHB is carrying out research and development to support a system for growing and converting hardwoods, such as hybrid poplars, into liquid biofuels.

Five Project Topics

Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB) is broken down into five main areas of focus: feedstocks, conversion, sustainability, education, and extension.

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AHB Project Overview
This video provides a general overview of the Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB) project focusing on how a consortium of six universities and two industry partners are working together to establish a sustainable biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest.

Harvesting Poplar to Fuel Green Energy
Patricia Townsend, WSU Extension patricia.townsend@wsu.edu Fall is harvest season and kicks off AHB’s first harvest of hybrid poplar for bioenergy. The Jefferson, Oregon and Hayden, Idaho demonstration sites were both harvested at the end of September and early October respectively. The trees grew rapidly at both sites and were ready for the first harvest after […]

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