Biofuels and biorefinery

Location: Rica Nidelven Hotel. Room: Trondhjemssalen 2

11.00 – 11.40 (keynote): Steven Burke (Biofuels Center of North Carolina, USA). Gaining fuels and changing places: The imperatives and issues of biofuels development
11.40 – 12.00: Heinz A. Preisig (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Thinking towards synergistic green refineries
12.00 – 12.20: Michael Martin (Linköping University, Sweden). Industrial symbiosis in the biofuel industry: Assessing the environmental performance
12.20 – 12.40: Stephen Kelley (North Carolina State University, USA). Technical-environmental-economic analysis of a steam explosion-solvent extraction biorefinery
12.40 – 13.00: Discussion

14.30 – 14.50: Tanja Barth (University of Bergen, Norway). Thermochemical lignin valorisation in a wood based biorefinery
14.50 – 15.10: Michael Stöcker (SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Norway). Catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass potential of porous Materials
15.10 – 15.30: Heidi Nygård (Norwegian University of Life Sciences). Thermal history of wood particles in molten salt pyrolysis
15.30 – 15.50: Daniel Forchheim (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany). A kinetic study on intermediate species and their role in the degradation and hydrodeoxygenation of lignin in the lignin-to-liquid process
15.50 – 16.10: Edd Blekkan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Biomass to liquid fuels: The gasification route
16.10 – 16.30: Kristian Melin (Aalto University, Finland). Optimization of biorefining routes to biofuels

08.30 – 08.50: Jens Ejbye Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark). Key biorefinery research at Risø DTU
08.50 – 09.10: Ryan Bright (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Climate impact of bioenergy: Inclusion of carbon cycle and albedo dynamics in life cycle impact assessment
09.10 – 09.30: Jason Luk (University of Toronto, Canada). Life cycle assessment and costing of bioenergy applications for personal transportation
09.30 – 09.50: Sylvain Leduc (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria). CHP or biofuel production in Europe?
09.50 – 10.10: Sha Sha (Aalto University, Finland). Sustainability optimization of biofuel routes

10.30 – 10.50: Størker Moe (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel and biorefinery applications – A renaissance for the concentrated acid hydrolysis?
10.50 – 11.10: Tore Gulbrandsen (Paper and Fibre Research Institute, Norway). Hot water extraction of hemicellulose from spruce and bagasse by use of microwave heating
11.10 – 11.30: Carolina Bellido (University of Valladolid, Spain) Enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation of steam-exploded and ozonized wheat straw for ethanol production by Pichis stipitis
11.30 – 11.50: Michael Hummel (Aalto University, Finland). Ionic liquids as powerful tool to exploit renewable biomass
11.50 – 12.10: Johan Alftrén (Technical University of Denmark). Re-use of magnetically immobilized beta-glucosidase for hydrolysis of pretreated spruce

Please note that minor changes to the program might occur.