Wellsboro, Pennsylvania — Woodland Biomass Innovations has completed the second of a four-stage process to convert low-grade wood products to fuel. Luca Pandolfi, founder and CEO of Woodland BIO, said a third party engineering firm validated the design of the system to convert wood biomass into fuel that is chemically identical to gasoline and that the plan is economically viable. “We’ve been busy. We hit some big milestones here so it’s exciting to have five years of work coming to fruition,” Pandolfi said. Completed in collaboration with TRC Companies, the study confirms the viability of converting 1,000 tons per day of regional wood residues into 42,000 gallons per day of 87-octane road-spec drop-in gasoline.