Bioenergy:
Challenges and Opportunities
6-9 April 2008, Guimarães :: Portugal

 
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The conference will host various plenary and keynote lectures on state of the art developments in Bioenergy.


Plenary Lectures

• Gatze Lettinga, Wageningen University, LeAF foundation.
Anaerobic digestion as a tool towards more sustainability

• Birgitte Ahring, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
The dilemma between Bioethanol and Food

• Guido Reinhardt, IFEU - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
How sustainable are biofuels for transportation?

• Willy Verstraete, LabMET, Ghent University, Belgium.
Anaerobic digestion in the biorefinery market economy

• Jouni Hämäläinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Bioenergy Resources


Keynote Lectures

• Kevin B. Hicks, USDA - United States Department of Agriculture - Wyndmoor, USA.
Biofuel Feedstock Options and Conversion Platforms for Today and Tomorrow

• Nils-Olof Nylund, TEC TransEnergy Consulting Ltd, Espoo, Finland.
European and international perspectives of using alternative motors for biofuels

• Burkhard Schade, European Commission-Joint Research Centre (JRC), Sevilla, Spain.
Policy and Scenarios for the promotion of 2nd generation biofuels

• Etienne Poitrat, ADEME Département Bioressources, Paris, France.
Transport biofuels and raw materials available

• Josef Rathbauer, BLT - Biomass | Logistics Technology, Wieselburg, Austria.
Selected Physical properties of different FAME

• Irini Angelidaki, DTU - Denmark Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Biorefinery for sustainable renewable energy production

• Ioannis Alexiou, Scientists International, London, UK.
The role of bioenergy to create sustainable industrial environmental management

• Sergey Kalyuzhnyi, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
Energy potential of anaerobic digestion of wastes produced in Russia via biogas and microbial fuel cell technologies

• Michael Kottner, Biogas Centre of Excellence, Kirchberg, Germany.
The biogas “boom” in Germany

• Luis Ortíz Torres, Universidad de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.
Biomass fuels for heating

• Mário Costa, IST, Lisbon, Portugal.
Biomass combustion and co-firing

• Christian Rakos, ProPellets, Austria.
Development of renewable heating markets

• Sebastian Kilburg, C.A.R.M.E.N. EV, Germany.
Small Scale Biomass CHP – An Overview

 
 

The complete list will be updated shortly.

 
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