Experts Address Bioenergy Challenges

The 2008 International Bioenergy & Bioproducts Conference will be looking at the emerging alternative energy arena, with the forest products industry—and pulp and paper mills specifically—poised to take the lead with a significant cellulosic biomass processing infrastructure already in place and biofuel production capacity within a relatively short reach.

This two-day, highly focused conference explores both thermochemical and biochemical pathways available to chemical and mechanical pulp mills that can lead to fully integrated biorefinery capacity in the very near future.

The intensive programme for this year's IBBC event explores not only the latest biorefinery technologies, but also developing markets and the legal-legislative-investment sides of the bioenergy/bioproducts equation.

The programme features 14 sessions that take attendees through an in-depth analysis of where the industry currently is on the biorefinery front to where it will be in the next five years and beyond.

A critical issue underlying all sessions is the immediate need to attract investment community involvement on an on-going basis.

The 2008 Conference includes several sessions that examine biorefinery approaches already in commercial operation, with from-the-field updates by those already doing it.

Systems technologies being reported in these sessions cover pyrolysis, gasification/gas-to-liquid, acid hydrolysis, enzymatic, and other fermentation-based approaches. Petroleum industry viewpoints and perspectives are also included to balance and round-out this year's programme.

Among the speakers will be W. Densmore Hunter, chief technology officer of Catchlight Energy LLC, a Chevron / Weyerhaeuser joint venture, Dr. Joe Powell, research adviser and chief scientist, chemical engineering for Shell Global Solutions and Dr. Masood Akhtar, president of Clean Tech Partners (CTP).

The conference will take place August 27-29, 2008 in Portland, Oregon, at the Doubletree Hotel & Executive Conference Center.

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