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Agenda
IBC 09

international biorefinery conference

Monday, October 5th

  • 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Reception in the Champlain Room

Join us in welcoming our international colleagues with a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres. This will be an ideal time to get acquainted, network with old friends and make new ones.

 

Note for NYS Engineers - Tuesday is eligible for 6 contact hours and Wednesday is eligible for 5 contact hours. Certain Keynote sessions and the Forest Biorefinery track (session C) will be reviewed for PDHs - see agenda notes in the program.

PLEASE sign in for these sessions in the meeting rooms to receive your certificate in the mail after the event.


Tuesday, October 6th

Time
Room

Conference Session

7:30 a.m.

Lobby

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Displays will be open.

8:00

Grand Ballroom

Welcome and Opening Remarks in Grand Ballroom

Matthew J. Driscoll, Mayor of the City of Syracuse

Dr. Cornelius Murphy, President, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

8:30

Grand Ballroom

The Sustainable Biofuels Consensus in Grand Ballroom - PDH Eligible

Dr. Sergio C. Trindade, International consultant on energy, environment and technology-based business and Science and Technology Director of International Fuel Technology, Inc. and co-laureate of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

9:25

Grand Ballroom

Recent Development of Biorefinery in China in Grand Ballroom - PDH Eligible

Dr. Tianwei Tan, Dean of College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical and Technology

10:20

Break

View dislays in the Grand Ballroom Foyer

Concurrent Sessions

Lignin Sessions in Champlain Room

Judy Jamefeld, Session Chair

Xinshu Zhuang, Co-chair

Chemical Processing I Sessions in Adams Basin

J.Y. Zhu, Session Chair

Lu Lin, Co-Chair

Forest Biorefinery III Sessions in Superior Room - - PDH Eligible

G. Ronald Brown, session Chair

Virginie Chambost, Co-chair

10:30

1A: Value-added Engineered New Biomaterials from the Coproducts and Byproductsof Biofuel Industries: Opportunities and Challenges

M. Misra, School of Engineering and Department of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph

1B: Fractional Isolation, Structural Characterization, and Chemical Modification of Hemicelluloses from Lignocellulosic Materials

Run-Cang Sun, Institute of Biomass Chemistry and Technology, Beijing Forestry University

 

1C: Forest Biorefinery

Paul Stuart and Virginie Chambost, NSERC Environmental Design Engineering Chair in Process Integration, Department of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique

11:00

2A: Utilization opportunities for biorefinery lignins

Jairo H. Lora, Alfred Abächerli, Pierre Bono and Stéphane Lepifre, Granit Recherche Développement SA, Lausanne

2B: Fractionation of Major Wood Polymers by Carboxymethylation

Shang-Nien Chien, Mitsuru Aoyagi, Thomas Amidon and Yuan-Zong Lai, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, Empire State Paper Research Institute, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

2C: The Impact of Hot-water Extraction and Wood Fuel Pellets

T.E. Amidon and Joel Howard, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

11:25

3A: Lignin in the hot-water extract of sugar maple –isolation, characterization and potential use

Mangesh J. Goundalkar, Biljana Bujanovic, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

3B:  Production of High Concentration Fermentable Sugars by Fed-batch Enzymatic Hydrolysis

Maohua Yang, Wangliang Li, Qiang Li, Binbin Liu, Jianmin Xing, National Key laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

3C: MCDM methodology for the selection of FBR products and product families

Matty Janssen, Virginie Chambost, Paul R. Stuart

Department of Chemical Engineering

École polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

11:50

4A: Structural Features and Applications of Lignophenols – A Novel Lignin Polymer

Hao Ren and Yuan-Zhong Lai, Thomas E. Amidon, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York, Mie University, Japan

4B: Low-cost fermentation grade glucose from corn-based biorefineries

Dr. Stephan Freyer, Dr. Matthias Boy and Dr. Burkhard Ernst, Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering Biotechnology, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany

4C:Forest Biorefineries: Feedstock Issues

Joel Howard and T.E. Amidon

Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering

SUNY ESF

12:15 p.m.

Harbor Ballroom

Lunch

Biorefineries and Development of Emerging Economies - Conflict or Confluence?

Suzanne Hunt, Biofuels Project Manager, World Watch Institute

1:40

Grand Ballroom

Biofuels: Unlocking the Potential

Jennifer Holmgren, Director of Renewable Energy and Chemicals, UOP LLC

Concurrent Sessions

Cellulose Conversion Sessions in Champlain Room

Jairo H. Lora, Session Chair

Jianan Zhang, Co-Chair

Pretreatment I Sessions- Adams Basin

Run-Can Sun, Session Chair

M. Mishra, Co-Chair

Fermentation I Sessions- Superior Room

Virginie Chambost, Session Chair
Guoce Yu, Co-chair

2:40

5A: Clean Conversion to fermentable glucose from wheat straw

Yong Sun, Lu Lin, Shijie Liu, State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology,

College of Medicine and Life Science, Nanjing University of Technology, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

5B: Key Technical Barriers in Biochemical Conversion of Forest Biomass

J.Y. Zhu, X.J. Pan, Gleisner, W.Y. Zhu, U.S. Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI, USA; 2 Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin

5C: Evolution of a xylose transporter from Zymomonas mobilis

Chuan Ren, Jingqing Zhang, Tingjian Chen, Zhanglin Lin, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University

3:10

6A: High solid loading enzymatic hydrolysis of cassava-ethanol manufactory waste residues

Xingxing Ma, Xu Zhang*, Tianwei Tan (Beijing Key Lab of Bioprocess, College of Life Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China)

6B: An investigation of rice straw hydrolysis with hot liquid water

Zhuang Xin-shu, Yuan Zhen-hong, Xu Jing- liang, Zhu Shunni, Qi Wei, Wu Chuang-zhi, Ma Longlong, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Key Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Gas Hydrate

6C: Study on the radiation
degradation effect of
lignocelluloses with 60Co γ-rays
pretreatment
(134)
Wang, Ke-qin *1,2, Xiong, Xing-yao2, and Chen, Jing-ping1 (1. Hunan Institute of Atomic Energy
Application in Agriculture, Changsha, Hunan 410125; 2.
Hunan Agriculture university,
Changsha, Hunan 410128, China)

3:35

7A: Characterization of Medium Density
Fiberboard (MDF) from Hot-Water
Extracted Hardwood


Sachin Bhaladhare1, Yang Cao1, Fang Chen1, Oisik Das1, Robert Lee Jonson1, Shi- Shen Liaw1, Bo Liu1, Isabela Reiniati1, Amir Sahaf1, Elena Ten1, Richard Utzman Henry1, Zhouhong Wang1, Shauai Zhou1,

Graduate Students

Vikram Yadama1, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering,1 Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Thomas E. Amidon2, Professor and Director of the Empire State paper Research Institute and the Biorefinery Research Institute, 2State University of New York, Syracuse, NY

7B: Out of the Box Carbon Feedstocks for
the Forest Biorefinery

José Meléndez and Paul R. Stuart, NSERC Environmental Design Engineering Chair in Process Integration, Department of Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique

7C: Cloning and Characterization of a Xylanase, KRICT PX1 from the
Strain Paenibacillus sp. HPL-001

In Taek Hwang, Hee Kyung Lim, Ha Young Song, Soo Jin Cho, Jong-San Chang, and No-Joong Park, Biorefinery Research Center, Green Chemistry Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology

4:00 8A: Ethylene Production from Bioethanol by Dehydration with a Novel Fe2O3/SO42- Solid Superacid Zeolite Catalyst

Yang Xie, Keke Cheng, Jianan Zhang, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University

8B: Effect of Hot-Water Extraction on Alkaline Pulping of Bagasse

Yichao Lei, Shijie Liu, Jiang Li, Mingjie Chen, Chuanyang Li and Pawei Jian, State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou

8C: Bioethanol Fermentation by
Robust Recombinant E. coli FBHW Using Hot-water Wood Extract Hydrolyzate as Substrate

Tingjun Liu1, 2, Lu Lin1, Zhijie Sun2, Ruofei Hu1, 2, Thomas E. Amidon2 and Shijie Liu1, 2*

1 State Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510641, P. R. China;

2 Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

4:25

Break

Visit displays in the Grand Ballroom Foyer.

Concurrent Sessions

Biodiesel I Sessions in Champlain Room

Bin Liang, Session Chair
Haojie Feng, Co-chair

Pretreatment II Sessions in Adams Basin

Yonghao Ni, Session Chair
Jie Chang, Co-chair

Fermentation II Sessions in Superior Room

Lu Lin, Session Chair
Chuan Ren, Co-chair

4:35

9A: Application of Solid Catalysts to the Transesterification of Vegetable Oil to Produce Biodiesel

Bin Liang, Shuli Yan, Houfang Lu, Guangxin Wang, Ying Yang, Lihan Jiang, Yuxiu Wu, College Dean of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University

9B: Variation of enzyme adsorption and surface morphology of Liriodendron tulipifera by dilute acid pretreatment

Byeong-Cheol Min, Bon-Wook Koo, Nahyun Park, Hoon Kim, In-Gyu Choi, Dept. of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University

9C: Key Technologies and
industrial demonstration of Fuel
Ethanol Production from Straw by
Enzymatic Hydrolysis and
Fermentation

Chen Hongzhang, Qiu Weihua,
State Key Laboratory of
Biochemical Engineering, Institute
of Process Engineering, Chinese
Academy of Sciences

5:05

10A: Influence of preparation procedure on the structure and performance of Ca-La metal oxide catalysts for oil transesterification

Shuli Yan, Siddharth Mohan, Manhoe Kim, Steven O. Salley, John Wilson, K. Y. Simon Ng, Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Wayne State University

10B: Bioethanol Production in an Integrated Forest Biorefinery – Technology Identification Under Uncertainty

Eemeli Hytönen and Paul R. Stuart, NSERC Environmental Design Engineering Chair, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique

10C: Expression of the Trichoderma reesei b-xylosidase gene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Guoce Yu, Shinichi Yano, Hiroyuki Inoue, Akinori Matsushika, Xu Fang, Shigeki Sawayama

Biomass Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University

5:30

11A: Strength properties of kraft pulp produced from hot-water extracted wood chips within the biorefinery

Asif Hasan and Biljana Bujanovic

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forest

11B: Effect of Aqueous Ammonia Soaking to Chemical Compositional Changes and Enzymatic Saccharification of Hybrid Poplar

Soo-Jeong Shin and Jong-Moon Park, Chungbuk National University

11C: Effect of Nitrogen on Ethanol Production from Concentrated Sweet Sorghum Juice

Jianliang Yu, Jing Zhong, Xu Zhang, Tianwei Tan, Beijing Key Lab of Bioprocess, College of Biology Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China
5:55

12A: Chemical and Physical
Characterisation of Reactively Extracted
Rapeseeds: Effect of Particle Size (300-
500µm and 1000-1400µm)

Yilong Ren, Adam Harvey, Rabitah Zakaria, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

12B: Lignin Distribution in Cell Walls of Salix gordejecii

Dr. Feng Xu, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

12C: 3-hydroxypropionic acid
production by mixed culture of
Candida rugosa and
Propionibacterium acidipropionici

FAN Wei-wei*, YUAN Qi-peng, City Key Laboratory of Biologic Process, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

6:20 pm

6:40 pm

Evening Banquet in Grand Ballroom

Bridging from Biorefinery Technology to A Commercial Business Success, Panel Co-Chairs:  Paul Stuart & Tom Amidon

  • Biorefineries Commercialization Issues & Requirements  – An Overview, Jacquelyn McNutt
  • The Role of Biorefinery Partnership Strategies:  North American Perspective, Virginie Chambost
  • The Role of Biorefinery Partnership Strategies:  Chinese Perspective, Tianwei Tan
  • Bridging From Technology to Commercial Reality, Ben Thorp
  • Open Forum Discussion With Attendees and Panelists, Hosted By Co-Chairs, Directed to 4 Panel Speakers
8:30 pm
  • Closing Comments & Key Observations, Co-Chairs

 

Wednesday, October 7th

Time

Room

Conference Session and Room

7:30 a.m.

Lobby

Check-in and Continental Breakfast

Displays will be open.

8:00

Grand Ballroom

Biorefinery Technology Development Pathways in Forest Products Industry

Dr. G. Ronald Brown, Executive Director of Agenda 2020 Technology Alliance, American Forest & Paper Association

8:55

Grand Ballroom

Lignocellulosic Biomass Refineries: the Reality of Limited Feedstock Availability and the Challenge of Low Cost Production of "Upgradable" Homogeneous Intermediates

Esteban Chornet, Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biotechnology Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke

9:50

Break

Visit displays in the Grand Ballroom Foyer.

Concurrent Sessions

Synergetic Biodiesel II Sessions in Champlain Room

Bin Liang, Session Chair
Shuguang Deng, Co-chair

Byproducts I Sessions in Adams Basin

M. Mishra, Session Chair
Byeong-Cheol Min, Co-chair

Forest Biorefinery III Sessions in Superior Room - PDH Eligible

Joel Howard, Session Chair

10:05

13A: Biodiesel production from algae by supercritical methanol and
liquefaction methods

Prafulla Patil, Shuguang Deng, Peter Lammers, Isaac Rhodes and Nirmala
Khandan, Chemical Engineering
Department a; Chemistry and
Biochemistry Department b; Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department, New Mexico State
University

13B: The mode of cycle economy utilization in stalk—the technique system of clean production by the co-production of pulp and organic fertilizer

Zhang Xiao-Yong, Mo Hai-Tao, Xiao Chuan-xu,  Li Zuo-Hu, State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

13C: Wood Extract Processing via Hydrolysis and NF-Membrane

S. Liu, T.E. Amidon, C.D. Wood, R. Hu, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

10:35

14A: A Systematic Test of Manufacturing Property-improved Biodiesel Coupled with Butanol Extractive Fermentation

Zhongping Shi, Xin Ma, Haojie Feng, and Shumin Zhang, Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University

14B: Removal of Hemicellulose from Mixed Hardwood Chips in the Pre- hydrolysis Kraft Dissolving Pulp Production Process

Haiming Li, Abrar Saeed, Yonghao Ni, and Adriaan van Heiningen, Limerick Pulp and Paper Centre, University of
New Brunswick

14C: Conversion of Wood Extract Hydrolysate to Butanol, Ethanol and PHA

S. Liu, Z. Sun, T. Liu, A. Shupe, L. Fitzgerald, T.E. Amidon, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

11:00

15A: Evaluation of Three Sorghum Varieties as Biorefinery Feedstock

Luís C. Duarte1, Talita Silva-Fernandes1, Nuno Pinheiro2, Armindo Costa2, Benvindo Maçãs2, Florbela Carvalheiro1, Francisco M. Gírio1

1Unidade de Bioenergia, LNEG - Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22, 1649-038 Lisboa, Portugal 2INRB - Estação Nacional de Melhoramento de Plantas, Apartado 67350-951 Elvas, Portugal

15B: Experimental study and simulation on dimethyl ether production from biomass gasification

Jie Chang, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology

15C: Economics of SUNY-ESF Biorefinery

T.E. Amidon and C.D. Wood, Department of Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

11:25

16A: The Research of Producing Fuel Ethanol from Biomass

Zhao, Caiyun, Guan, Dongming, and Wang, Yijing, China University of Mining and technology, Beijing, Chinese Institute of Food and Fermentation Industry

16B: Improving enzymatic
saccharification of hybrid poplar by
electron beam irradiation

Soo-Jeong Shin, Chungbuk National University

16C: Biorefinery implementation for production increase and fossil fuel replacement: Case study at a semi-chemical pulp mill

Hakim Ghezzaz, Luc Pelletier and Paul Stuart, ESERC Environmental Design Engineering Chair

École polytechnique  de Montréal; Norampac division of Cascades Canada Inc
11:50

17A: Screening of High Yield Bacterium of the Jerusalem Artichoke’s Ethanol Fermentation

Guan Dongming, Luo Fang, Guo
Hongmei, Zhu Xianfeng, School of
Chemical and Environment
Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, College of Life Science, Henan University


17B: Construction of an engineered
E.coli for succinate and
polyhydroxybutyrate co-production


Zhen Kang, Cuijuan Gao, Huimin Liu, Qian Wang, Qingsheng Qi, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, 2 National Glycoengineering Research
Center, Life Science School, Shandong University

17C: Studying the consequence of
different system choices in LCA for ethanol production

Mahasta Ranjbar, Réjean Samson, Paul R. Stuart, École Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

12:15 p.m.

Harbor Ballroom

Lunch Getting Biochemicals Out to Marketplace

Dr. Jacquelyn-Danielle McNutt, Executive Director, Center for Paper Business and Industry Studies

1:30

Closing Address in Harbor Ballroom

Dr. Thomas Amidon, Chair, International Biorefinery Conference 2009

2:00 Visit ESF Biorefinery Pilot
4:00 Program End

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