Fuels and Chemicals Products: Biofuels/Bioproducts Economics & Commercialization Sponsored by Abengoa Bioenergy New Technology

Wednesday, May 1, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Ballroom II, Ballroom Level
Convener:
Kevin Gray - Chemtex International, Wilmington, NC
Co-Convener:
Rubens Maciel Filho - School of Chemical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas,
• Scale up evaluation and demonstration of biorefining processes for the production of biofuels and/or bio-based chemicals. • Techno-economic assessment of bio-based product manufacturing and integrated biorefinery operations. • Commercialization of biofuels and bio-based chemicals.


8:00 AM
Biorefinery models: setting the stage for growth in the forestry industry
James D. Stephen, Kirby Calvert, M. Jean Blair, Peter Milley and Warren E. Mabee, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
8:25 AM
Integrated process, financial, and risk modeling of cellulosic ethanol from woody and non-woody feedstocks via dilute acid pretreatment
Trevor Treasure, Ronalds Gonzalez, Hasan Jameel, Richard B. Phillips, Sunkyu Park and Steve Kelley, Department of Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
8:50 AM
Techno-economic analysis of hydrocarbon biofuels from poplar biomass
Jordan T. Crawford, Rick Gustafson, Renata Bura, Erik Budsberg and Wei Shan Chin, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
9:15 AM
Break
9:45 AM
Towards commercialization of biofuels made from cellulosic feedstocks: engineering xylose utilization and isoprenoid production in S. cerevisiae
Jared W. Wenger1, Poonam Saija1, Jeremiah Kim2, Paul V. Attfield3, Philip Bell4 and Gale Wichmann1, (1)Biology, Amyris, Inc., Emeryville, CA, (2)Pilot Plant, Amyris, Emeryville, CA, (3)Microbiogen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, (4)Microbiogen Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Australia
10:10 AM
10:35 AM
11:00 AM
Inbicon transforms tomorrow’s power plants into flexible biorefineries
Kit K. Mogensen, Martin D. Jeppesen, Carl Henrik Eriksen, Laila Thirup, Hanne R. Sørensen, Niels Poulsen and Jan Larsen, New Bio Solutions, R&D, Dong Energy A/S, Fredericia, Denmark
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