October
25, 26, & 27, 2005
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
ESPRA Registration Form and Brochure
ESPRA Registration includes: Materials, Access to sessions, Continental Breakfast and Lunch on Wednesday and Thursday. It also includes a Reception followed by dinner at Justin's Grill Restaurant (Dinner Choice Form) on Wednesday. Please return the Dinner Choice form so your choices can be provided to the restaurant.
No Webcast will be provided.
Preliminary Agenda: Wyndham Syracuse Hotels and Resorts
| Day | Time | Activity | Room(s) |
| Tuesday Oct. 25 |
6:00 - 9:00 pm | Board of Directors Meeting | Basin Room |
| Wednesday Oct. 26 |
8:00 - 8:30 am | On-site registration and Continental Breakfast | Registration Table, Lobby |
| 8:30-10 am | BioRefinery Comparison of commercial Pulping on Hot Water Extracted sugar Maple Chips Kinetics of Extraction of Components from Wood-Modeling Issues Extraction of Hemicellulose Form Wood prior to Pulping Biodiesel from Crude Tall Oil |
Basin Room | |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Break | Basin Room | |
| 10:30-12:00 pm | Pulping and Bleaching A project update on the reactivity of lignin-carbohydrate complex An Update on DP Bleaching Chemistry An Update on Bleached Hardwood Pulps by the Soda/AQ and MAQ Processes |
Basin Room | |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch | Basin or Regatta Room | |
| 1:00 - 2:30 pm | Paper Making and Paper Physics The effect of different fillers on the permeability of pulp fiber mats at different consistencies |
Basin Room | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm | Break | Basin Room | |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Paper Making and Paper Physics Formation and precipitation of Nanoparticle complexes from aqueous solutions Molybdates and Cationic Surfactants Environmental Retention of Coefficients with Effluent Recycle in Automatic Laboratory Sheet Forming |
Basin Room | |
| 6:30 - 9:00 pm | Justin's Grill Restaurant | 6400 Yorktown Circle, East Syracuse, NY (phone: 437-1461)*Transportation can be arranged at the front desk. | |
| Thursday Oct. 27 |
8:00-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast | Refreshments |
| 9:00-10:00 am | Invited Speakers W. Garno, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Fibrous Materials for Geotechnical Applications, Prof. Shobha K. Bhatia, Civil and Env. Eng. Syracuse University |
Basin Room | |
| 10:00- 10:30 | Break | Basin Room | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Invited Speakers SMI Print Initiative: A Technical Understanding of Paper Industry Customers from Supplier's Perspective, Richard Ain, SMI-Minerals Technologies, Inc. A new technology for cleaning white-water and other filtration applications in the paper mill, Frank Miller, Jannanco LLC, Rochester, NY |
Basin Room | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch | Basin or Regatta Room PM | |
| 1:00 - 2:30 pm | Conference concludes | Basin Room |
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Wyndham Syracuse Hotels and Resorts, 6301 Route 298, East Syracuse, NY 13057 with a cut-off date of 10/1/05. Phone: 315-432-0200 and mention ESPRA for a room rate of $109. Check in time is at 3:00 pm and check out time is 12:00 pm.