Preliminary Agenda
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Sep. 15(Wed.)
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Sep. 16 (Thur.)
(Registration opens all day)
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Sep. 17 (Fri.)
(Registration opens all day)
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Sep. 18(Sat.)
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Morning
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Registration
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Plenary lectures
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Plenary lectures
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Expo Tour
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Noon
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Registration
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Lunch & poster show
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Lunch & poster show
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Afternoon
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Registration
Half-day Tours in Suzhou (Option)
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Session I (Room I)
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Session I (Room I)
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Session II (Room2)
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Session III (Room2)
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Evening
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Reception Buffet
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Symposium Banquet
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5th World Bioenergy Symposium (Draft 0901)
Suzhou, China
15 – 17September 2010
Wednesday, 15September
15:00 – 20:00 On-site Registration Check-in
18:00 – 20:00 Welcome Reception
Enjoy an evening with colleagues and friends. This is an excellent opportunity to build relationships with peers in the biofuels industry from around the world.
Thursday, 16 September
08:00 - 18:00 On-site Registration Check-in
Morning, GENERAL SESSION
08:30 - 08:40 Opening Remarks
Dehua Liu, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
08:40 - 09:10 U.S. Biofuels Policy: Opportunities, Challenges & Strategies
Commissioner Gene Hugoson, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
09:10- 09:40 Biofuels Development Strategy and Vision of Biofuels Potential and Policy in China
Qun Liu, Division Director, National Energy Administration
09:40 - 10:00 Coffee break and poster show
10:00- 12:00 Biofuels Around the World
Moderator: Kurt Markham, Director, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Brazil –Ambassador André Amado, Undersecretary General for Energy and High Technology of the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil
- Charles A. Tang, Chairman of the Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce & Industry
US - Richard A. Simmons, Energy & Biofuels Officer, Office of International Energy & Commodities Policy, Bureau of Economics, Energy & Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State
EU – Per Carstedt, Chairman, EcoEnergy Africa Ltd
South East Asia - Xunpeng (Roc) SHI, LLM (Dundee) MERE, Ph.D. (ANU), Associate Researcher, ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia), Indonesia
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster show
Afternoon, CONCURRENT SESSION
Room 1
14:00 - 17:30 Food Supply Security and biofuels
Speaker 1: Ping Gou, Managing Director, Yunnan Shenyu New Energy Co., Ltd., China
Topic: Development and Utilization of Jatropha for bioenergy Industry
Speaker 2: Greg Schwarz, Secretary Corn Growers Assoc., US.
Topic: Food & Bioenergy in US
Speaker 3: Hui Liu, Professor, School of Environmental studies, China University of Geosciences
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Brake and poster show
16:00 - 17:30 Commercialization /semi-commercialization of bioenergy
Speaker 1: Wes Bolsen, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Government Affairs, Coskata, Inc., USA
Topic: Feedstock Flexibility: The Leading Path Toward a Sustainable Fuel Ethanol Industry
Speaker 2: Hartmut Brüschke and Günter Tusel, GFT MembraneSystems GmbH, Germany
Topic: Membrane Systems reducing the Cost of Bioalcohol Production considerably
Speaker 3: Mark Gaalswyk, CEO, Easy Energy Systems, Inc. USA
Topic: Factory Built - Modular Waste to Energy Production Systems
Room 2
14:00 - 15:30 Fuel ethanol technology
Speaker 1: Ian Heyi, Chemtex (China) Engineering Co. Ltd
Topic: Second Generation Bio-ethanol: M&G’s Innovative technology
Speaker 2: Prof. Guoce Yu, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University
Topic: Compositional and structural features of rice straw pretreated by hot-compressed water in relation to enzymatic hydrolysis
Speaker 3: Dr. Michael Zviely, Vice President, Research & Development, HCL CLEANTECH Ltd., Israel
Topic: Separation Technologies as Tools for Converting Biomass to Low Cost Fermentable Sugars, High Quality Lignin and Tall Oils
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Brake and poster show
16:00 - 17:30 Fuel ethanol technology (Continue)
Speaker 1: Dr. Xu Fang, Professor, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology and National Glycoengineering Research Center, Shandong University.
Topic: Develop and Demonstrate Economical Sugar-Ethanol Platform Technology with On-Site Enzyme Production
Speaker 2: Dr. Zhengrong Gu, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department
Topic: Application of bio-char based functional carbon materials in lignocellulosic ethanol preparation, South Dakota State University,USA
Speaker 3: Dr. Mian Li, Senior Applications Scientist, Genencor, A Danisco Division
Topic：Accellerase® Enzymes: Lignocellulosic Biomass-to-Ethanol Conversion Technologies
Room 3
14:00 - 15:30 Biodiesel Technology
Speaker 1: Hans Christian Holm, Global Marketing Manager at Novozymes A/S
Topic:Recent development enable enzymatic production of fatty acid ethanol esters – all renewable biodiesel
Speaker 2: Dr. Zexue Du, Professor, vice director of the Foundation Research Department of Research Institute of Petroleum Processing of Sinopec.
Topic: The Progress of R&D for Biodiesel Technology in SINOPEC
Speaker 3: Kurt Krueger – President, Soybean Assoc. US
Topic: US Biodiesel Developments
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break and poster show
16:00 - 16:30 Prof. Susumu Kajiwara, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JAPAN
Topic: Molecular genetical approches for the construction of biofuel-high-producing yeasts
16:30 - 17:00 Prof. Bryan Jenkins, University of California at Davis, USA
Topic: Developments in bioenergy conversion and system optimization
17:00 - 17:30 Prof. Zongbao Kent ZHAO, the Head of the Biomass Conversion Technology Group of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), CAS
Topic: Biodiesel-oriented microbial lipid research: Recent progress
18:30 Symposium Banquet and performance – Sponsored by Minnesota Corn Growers Association
Suz Garden （苏园中餐厅）
Enjoy another excellent opportunity to network with conference delegates and speakers.
Friday, 17 September
08:00 - 12:00 On-site Registration Check-in
Morning, GENERAL SESSION
08:30 - 09:00 Plenary speech
Maggie Feng, Regional Marketing Manager, Novozymes
Topic: Global Outlook of Cellulosic Ethanol
09:00 - 09:30 Plenary speech
09:30 - 10:00 Plenary speech
Roger Yeo, Advisory Committee Member at International Enterprise Singapore (Export Development Programme)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break and poster show
10:30 - 11:00 Plenary speech
Dr. Zhang Min, Senior Scientist II, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Center, Golden CO USA
Topic: Advances in Development of Fermentation Organisms for Lignocellulosic Biomass Conversion to Ethanol
11:00 - 11:30 Plenary speech
11:30 - 11:45 China-Brasil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation
Ilan E. Cuperstein, COPPE Representative in Tsinghua, China-Brasil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation, UFRJ, Brazil
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch and Poster show
Afternoon, CONCURRENT SESSION
Room 1
14:00 - 15:30 The cooperative opportunities for biomass utilization among China, Africa and Brazil
Moderator:
Per Carstedt, Chairman, EcoEnergy Africa Ltd
Speaker 1: Per Carstedt, Chairman, EcoEnergy Africa Ltd
Topic: Experiences learned from five years of developing the largest platform for AgroEnergy and BioFuels projects in Africa
Speaker 2: Ambassador André Amado, Undersecretary General for Energy and High Technology of the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil
Speaker 3: China-Africa Development Fund
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Brake and poster show
16:00 - 17:30 The cooperative opportunities for biomass utilization among China, Africa and Brazil (Continue)
Speaker 4: Dr. Don Mitchell, agricultural economist, former senior economist at the World Bank
Topic: The impact of biofuels on commodity prices and the potential for developing countries to produce biofuels for export and domestic use
Speaker 5: ZTE Energy Company Limited (invited)
Speaker 6: Prof. Judi Wangalwa Wakhungu, Ph.D., Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Topic: An African perspective on large scale BioEnergy development in Africa
Room 2
14:00 - 14:30 Günter Tusel and Hartmut Brüschke, GFT MembraneSystems GmbH, Germany
Topic: Innovative Separation System are resulting into Biorefineries with reduced CO2-emissions, reduced energy inputs and a wastewaterfree and economic production of Bioproducts
14:30 - 15:00 Automobile provider’s attitude
Dr. Candace S Wheeler, Technical Fellow, Global Energy Systems Intelligence Center (GESIC), General Motors
Topic: Driving Towards Sustainable Mobility: The Future of Biofuels
15:00 - 15:30 Dr. Rong YAN, Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering (IESE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Topic: Chemical Looping Combustion of Bio-Syngas from Biomass Waste Gasification for Power Generation
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee brake and poster show
16:00 - 16:30 Dr. Haitao Zuo, Executive Director and Chief Techology Officer of Beijing Friend New Energy Co. Ltd
Topic: Grasses for Sustainable Bioenergy Production in Northern China
16:30 - 17:00 Dr. Zongming Zheng, National Engineering Lab for Biomass Power Generation Equipment, North China Electric Power University
Topic: Consequence of 3-Hydroxypropionaldehyde Accumulation in 1, 3-Propanediol Production with Klebsiella pneumonia
17:00 - 17:30 TBD
Room 3
14:00 – 15:30 Life-Cycle Analysis and Sustainability of Biofuel Production
Moderator: Dr. Michael Wang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Speaker 1: Dr. Michael Wang, Argonne National Laboratory.
Topic: Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission Impacts of First and Second Generation biofuels
Speaker 2: Prof. Bryan Jenkins, University of California at Davis, USA
Topic: Sustainability considerations for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Speaker 3: Dr. Xunmin Ou, Tsinghua University
Topic: Life Cycle Analysis of Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Six Biofuel Pathways in China
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee brake and poster show
16:00 – 17:30 Life-Cycle Analysis and Sustainability of Biofuel Production (Continued)
Moderator: Dr. Michael Wang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Speaker 4: Mr. Hongde Yu, Zhejiang University
Topic: Simulation and Optimization for Inbound Logistics of Biomass Power Plants
Speaker 5: Robert J. Earley, Program Manager, Low Carbon Transportation Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET), China
Topic: To develop China Low Carbon Fuel Standards and Policies
Speaker 6: TBD