| 8:00 am – 8:10 am |
Welcome
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Tim Portz, Program Manager, BBI International
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| 8:10 am – 8:30 am |
Keynote Address
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Michael McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association
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| 8:30 am – 10:00 am |
Game Changing Pathways: Exploring New Roads to Tomorrow’s Advanced Biofuels
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- Moderator: Michael McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association
- Gregory Pal, Senior Director, Corporate Development, LS9, Inc.
High-Quality, Low Cost Drop-In Fuels & Sustainable Chemicals
- Greg Keenan, Vice President, Business Development, Virent Energy Systems, Inc.
Production of Infrastructure Compatible Liquid Fuels Using the BioForming Process
- Randal Goodfellow, Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations, Envergent Technologies
Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP™): A Proven Pathway to Renewable Liquid Fuel
- Omar Abou-Sayed, Vice President, Corporate Development, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc.
Building a Biorefining Industry using Metathesis |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am |
Refreshment Break
Room 130
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| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Basic Value Proposition: Understanding the Why and How of Selected Advanced Biofuels
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- Moderator: Tim Portz, Program Manager, BBI International
- Michael Slaney, Managing Director, Gevo Development LLC
Advancing the New Era of Renewables
- Gary Luce, Chief Executive Officer, Terrabon LLC
Keeping it Simple is Hard – Technology Only Gives You a Seat at the Table
- Ted Aulich, Process Chemist and Senior Research Manager, Energy & Environmental Research Center
Renewable and Petroleum Diesel Integration and Economics
- Karl Seck, President, Mercurius Biofuels LLC
Catalytic Hydrolysis: A Novel Biomass Conversion Technology |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm |
Lunch
Room 130
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| 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm |
Second Life: Upgrading Existing Industrial Facilities for Advanced Biofuels Production
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- Moderator: Ron Kotrba, Editor, Biodiesel Magazine
- Eric Connor, Sales, TRI ThermoChem Recovery International
Thermochemical Biorefinery Integration Strategies and a Pilot Plant Review and Update
- Richard Aves, Chief Executive Officer, Cetane Energy
Small Scale Hydroprocessing
- Roman Wolff, President, Enhanced Biofuels LLC
Sensible Solutions: Add-ons and Retrofits to Process and Upgrade High Acidity Feedstock
- John Monks, Business Director, DSM BioProducts
Practical Add-on Bio-Conversion Solutions for Improved Ethanol Yield |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm |
Refreshment Break
Room 130
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| 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm |
Drop-In Biofuels: The Importance of Developing Fuels that are Infrastructure Ready
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- Moderator: Tom Foust, Biofuels Research Director, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Seth Snyder, Section Leader, Process Technology Research, Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Drop-In Biofuels: The Importance of Developing Infrastructure-Ready Fuels
- Jeff McDaniel, Director, Business Development, Velocys
Enabling Cellulosic Diesel with Microchannel Technology
- Steve Howell, President, MARC-IV Consulting, Inc.
Biodiesel Status and Activities on Multi-Product Pipelines
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| 4:30 pm |
Seminar Adjourns
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