Air Quality and Health Impacts of an Aviation Biofuel Supply Chain

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Air Quality and Health Impacts of an Aviation Biofuel Supply Chain Using Forest Residue in the Northwestern United States Vikram Ravi, Allan H. Gao, Natalie B. Martinkus, Michael P. Wolcott, and Brian K. Lamb Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04860 • Publication Date (Web): 05 Mar 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on March 12, 2018

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Air Quality and Health Impacts of an Aviation Biofuel Supply Chain Using Forest Residue

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in the Northwestern United States

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Vikram Ravi§*, Allan H. Gao‡, Natalie B. Martinkus†, Michael P. Wolcott†, Brian K. Lamb§

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§ Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

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Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163, United States

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† Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman,

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Washington 99163, United States

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‡ Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman,

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Washington 99163, United States

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*Corresponding author – Vikram Ravi, email- [email protected]

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Abstract

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Forest residue is a major potential feedstock for second generation biofuel, however little

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knowledge exists about environmental impacts of development and production of biofuel from

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such a feedstock. Using a high-resolution regional air quality model, we estimate the air quality

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impacts of a forest residue based aviation biofuel supply chain scenario in the Pacific

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Northwestern United States. Using two potential supply chain regions, we find that biomass and

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biofuel hauling activities will add