2010 Conference programme
Tuesday 4th May
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Day 1: Wednesday 5th May
SESSION ONE: EUROPEAN BIOFUEL MARKET TRENDS
8.00 Conference and exhibition registration
9.00 Moderator's opening remarks: Sustainable Energy Europe
Masha Tarle, Sustainable Energy Europe, (Campaign of the European Commission)
9.15 Keynote address: Market overview and growth trends in Europe
H.E. Mr. Jan Dusík, Minister of the Environment for the Czech Republic
9.45 Biofuels across CEE: integration into refineries
- Biofuels production within Central and Eastern Europe
- Technical issues surrounding the logistics, receipt, storage and blending of biofuels
- Government mandates
- Measuring emission reductions
- Moving towards advanced biofuels
Ivan Soucek, CEO, Ceska Rafinerska
10.15 Tea/Coffee break in Exhibition Hall
10.45 The challenges of incorporating biofuels into the aviation industry
- Latest developments and R&D progress
- Technical challenges
- What the future holds
Xavier Montagne, Deputy scientific director, French Institute of Petroleum (IFP)
11.10 Harmonisation of EU-27 biofuel greenhouse gas performance calculations
- Complying with the Renewable Energy directive and the Fuel quality directive
- Creating complete transparency in GHG calculations for each biofuel production pathway
- Helping producers calculate actual GHG values
John Neeft, Coordinator biofuels programme, NL Agency (Government programme)
11.35 Development of measurements and standards for biofuels
- Existing (certified) reference materials and calibration materials for the analysis of bioethanol and FAME
- Use of reference materials to improve the quality of fuels and comparability of fuel properties worldwide
- Characterising biodiesel and ethanol fuel properties
- The need for validation of standards and measurement methods for biofuel and fossil fuel blends and new generation biofuels
Annarita Baldan, VSL, chair of EU project BIOREMA (REference MAterials for BIOfuel specifications)
12.00 Risk management: understanding swaps to manage price and counterparty risk
- The relationship between physical and financial biodiesel and ethanol markets
- Ethanol & biodiesel fundamentals, risk management and hedging instruments
- Benefits of central clearing and how to apply to OTC market
Lisa Kallal, Manager, Commodities & Alternative Investments EMEA, CME Group
12.25 Case study: Biodiesel production in the Czech Republic
- Product capacities and future demand
- Developing the B30 and B100 market
- Overview of local legislation and a look to the future
Miroslav Bažata, Head of biofuel sales, Agropodnik
12.50 Latest updates on European ethanol policy
- Fuel Quality directive
- Meeting the Renewable Energy Directive
- A closer look at last year’s production levels
- Feedstock choices across Europe
Rob Vierhout, Secretary General, European Ethanol Fuel Association (eBIO)
1.15 Networking lunch in exhibition hall
SESSION TWO: FUTURE FEEDSTOCK OPTIONS & TECHNOLOGY
Biodiesel stream
2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
William Thurmond, Emerging Markets Online
2.30 Building a sustainable algae business model
2.55 Working with used cooking oil
- Challenges of working in Bosnia
- Potential opportunities in eastern Europe
- Biodiesel: feedstocks, production and distribution
Boro Vukadinovic, Founder, System Ecologica
3.20 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall
3.50 Second generation biodiesel refineries in action today
- Second generation continuous flow technology
- Meeting international standards using a robust adaptive production and purification process
- Sourcing sustainable feedstock Challenges of working in Turkey
David Zeidman, VP of business development, Biofuel Turnkey Plants
4.15 Hydrogen-treated biodiesel: a better alternative?
- Properties and performance
- Comparison with biodiesel and diesel
Duckhan Kim, Principal researcher, SK Energy
4.35 New biofuel production pathways
- Direct liquefaction
- Gasification-FT synthesis
- Synergies between biofuels and petroleum refining
Michel Bloch, Senior business development manager, Axens
Bioethanol stream
2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
2.30 Ethanol production from waste materials - a commercial example today
- Technical issues relating to profitability
- Emission savings
- How to achieve quick production start-up
Antti Pasanen, Managing Director, St1 Biofuels
2.55 Bioethanol from spent liquors of pulp production
- The sulphite pulping process
- Second generation ethanol as a by-product
- Yields and qualities
- From mill to biorefinery
Fritz Struber, Head of technology, M-real Hallein AG
3.20 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall
3.50 Brazilian sugarcane ethanol - a sustainable alternative
- Update on production and use of sugarcane in Brazil
- Sustainability of production and proof of compliance: the industry's approach to certification
- Evaluating the challenges to overcome within the EU to facilitate market expansion
Emmanuel Desplechin, Chief representative in the EU, UNICA (Brazilian sugarcane association)
4.15 Maximising the economic viability of biobutanol
- Reducing the cost of production
- Examining the use of thermophilic bacteria
- Retrofitting technology into ethanol facilities and creating biorefineries
- Processing waste and by-products
Sean Sutcliffe, CEO, Green Biologics
4.35 Producing ethanol and biobutanol from lignocellulosic biomass
- New biobutanol/ethanol fermentation process
- Advantages of yeast over other technology
- Biobutanol as an advanced biofuel
- Importance of C5 technology
- Outlook for second generation ethanol/biobutanol in Europe
Gunter Festel, CEO, Butalco
Bioenergy stream
2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
Ruzena Svedelius, BTF-Biological TransFormation of Renewable Organic Material, Sweden
2.30 Biogas in the EU - Current situation and future outlook
- Review of biogas in the EU
- Market trends and future outlook
- EU policy and regulation
Jan Stambasky, Executive board member, European Biogas Association
2.55 Characterisation of bio oil produced from wet organic waste
- Production of bio oil from wet organic waste by catalytic conversion
- Use of biooil as a substitute for fossil fuels in oil burners (demonstration)
Sune D. Nygaard, Danish Technological Institute
3.20 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall
3.50 Biological desulphurisation of biogas
- Reusing waste water
- The need for reducing the H2S content in biogas
- Biological scrubbing process
Cristian Toscano, Sales engineer, Biogasclean
4.15 Upgrading biogas for transportation
Tomas Vorisek, SEVEn Energy
4.35 Developments in the bio-ether market
- Trends in production
- Imports, exports and latest research results
- Producing bio-ethers from wheat, sugarbeet and cellulosic biomass
- Largescale biogas production
Ann Marivoet, Industrial Policy Programme, European Fuel Oxygenates Association
5.00 Close of day 1: Drinks reception in exhibition hall
Day 2: Thursday 6th May
SESSION THREE: EUROPEAN BIOFUELS MARKET OUTLOOK
9.00 Moderator's opening remarks: Kingsman
Claudiu Covrig, Biofuels research analyst, Kingsman
9.15 Latest regulations and innovations needed to reach 2020 biofuel targets
Marc Gillmann, Bioenergy director, Total
9.45 Execution of targets for Biofuels versus quality of fuel
Robert Gmyrek, Director, Biofuels Department, PKN Orlen
10.15 Tea/Coffee break in Exhibition Hall
10.45 Supply and demand balances by country
- Analysis for biodiesel and bioethanol
- 2010 production and demand estimates
- Role of the legal framework and impacts on biofuels consumption
- Longterm outlook to 2020
Christophe Cogny, Tallage
11.10 Latest biofuels developments in Spain
- Developments in policy and their impact on the market
- Updates on Spanish biofuels industry
- Round up of biofuel projects across Spain
- Promoting second generation fuels
Carlos Alberto Fernández López, Head of biofuels department, IDAE (Ministry of Industry, tourism and trade, Spain)
11.35 Biofuels: the impact on oil prices around the globe
- Crude oil supply and demand levels
- Biofuel production levels across Europe
- Biofuels role in energy security
- Import/export trade levels and the wider global impact
Julio Arboleda Larrea, Petroleum analyst, Petroleum Studies Department, OPEC (tbc)
12.00 The struggle for biofuels in Norway
- Overcoming the obstacles of introducing ethanol and biodiesel blends
- Local regulations and government targets: the need for long term incentives and rewards
- Statoil’s biofuel experiences in Scandinavia, the Baltics, Russia and Poland
- Long term market outlook
Dag Roger Rinde, Managing director, Statoil Energy & Retail Norway
12.25 Investment opportunities for biofuels
Future Capital Partners
12.50 Sustainability case study
- Results from supply chain audit for major biodiesel producer
- Measuring GHG savings
Adrian Mason, business development manager, Inspectorate
1.15 Networking lunch in exhibition hall
SESSION FOUR:
Storage and handling stream
2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
2.30 Biofuels storage & blending challenges
- Mixing fossil fuels with biocomponents Pilot projects - pipeline transportation
- Legislation framework in the Czech Republic
- Biofuels impact on the international oil sector
Jaroslav Pešek, Head of quality and strategic reserves department, Čepro
3.00 Corrosion protection
- Protection against contamination
- Moisture removal
- Suitable coatings and linings
Marie Schmidt, Solvay Solexis
3.30 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall
4.00 Measuring contamination in liquid fuels
- Microbial contamination and its impact
- Current microbial test methods
- A new approach to analysing contamination
Gerrit Kadijk, Biofuels and sustainable transport consultant, TNO Science and Industry
4.30 Accurate biofuel blending
- Challenges of storing biodiesel onsite
Phil Armstrong, Additives and blending specialist, Honeywell Enraf
Project and risk management stream
2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
2.30 Plant planning, design and construction challenges
- Round up of major biodiesel and ethanol plants in construction
- A look at the technology chosen and why
- Overcoming design and construction obstacles
- Case study: An in-depth look at biodiesel plants being constructed in Slovakia
Julius Forsthoffer, Association of Manufacturers of Alcohol in Slovakia Roman Kharchenko, Amarant, Ukraine
Tomas Cvengros, Chemoprojekt
3.00 Getting bioenergy projects to financial close - the lending engineer's perspective
- Risk mitigation challenges for project developers
- Key factors for a bankable bioenergy project
- Strategies to maximise the chances of getting projects to financial close
- Project agreements, technology choice contracting strategies, location and logistics
Duncan Barker, Senior principal engineer, Renewable Generation - Bioenergy and Low Carbon Processes, Mott McDonald
3.30 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall
4.00 Hedging in the biofuels market
- Hedging vehicles in the European market
- Planning and modelling of hedging strategies
- Measuring of hedging effectiveness
- Interconnectedness of the biofuels and the commodities markets
Martin Ziegelbäck, Hedging.eu
4.30 Commodity trading and risk management
- Import/export levels across Europe
- Trade outlook for 2010
- Industry trends
Václav Wagner, CEO, Amasis Investments
Biomass stream
2.15 Moderator's opening remarks
2.30 Case study: largest pyrolysis-oil producing plant in Europe
- Why treat biomass?
- Upgrading pyrolysis oil to transportation fuel
- Pyrolysis as a starting point for biorefineries
- Fundamentals of pyrolysis technology
Gerhard Muggen, General manager BTG Bioliquids BV
3.00 Role of biomass in the European National Renewable Energy Action Plans
- International, national and regional policies
- The benefit of infrastructure subsidies and R&D grants
- Production and consumption levels across Europe
E. Emrah Hatunoglu, Planning expert, State Planning Organisation, Turkish Government
3.30 Tea/coffee break in exhibition hall
4.00 Development of the UK's largest dedicated biomass power plant
- Route map to successful project completion
- Unexpected issues during construction
- Overcoming planning challenges
John Cherrie, Business development director MottMacdonald
4.30 Producing bioenergy from biomass
- Advantages of genetically improved biomass crops
- Producing both bioethanol and biodiesel
- Working with feedstocks from jatropha to cellulosic plants
Ashok Hansraj, Global Green
5.00 Close of conference
* Please note the conference programme is subject to change. All information was correct at time of printing.
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