| Tuesday, July 20, 2010 |
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration Open |
| WORKSHOP WELCOMES |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Introduction - Chris Zygarlicke, Deputy Associate Director for Research, EERC
Welcome - Gerald Groenewold, Director, Energy & Environmental Research Center, Grand Forks, ND
Dr. Gerald Groenewold, Director of the EERC, leads a multidisciplinary science and engineering
research team of over 345 people focused on energy and environmental technologies. The EERC has had
nearly 1100 clients from 51 countries and all 50 states, including many Fortune 500 companies, and
its current research portfolio is $236.9 million. With its long tradition of fossil fuel-related research
and development, the EERC has broadened its scope to include a wide array of strategic energy and environmental
issues and houses eleven Centers of Excellence, including the Centers for Renewable Energy and Biomass Utilization.
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Welcome Video – The Honorable Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
Senator Byron Dorgan is a senior member of the Appropriations, Commerce, and Energy Committees.
He also serves as Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and the Democratic Policy
Committee and the Senate’s Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security. Senator
Dorgan is a strong advocate of energy policy that will move our country aggressively toward
the use of renewable energy and domestic energy sources and away from our dangerous reliance
on foreign oil. As Chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, he has
worked to fund development of renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and biofuels.
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| SESSION: TRENDS AND OPPORTUNITIES IN UTILIZING BIOMASS |
| EERC Session Chair: Chris Zygarlicke, Deputy Associate Director for Research, EERC |
| 8:45 a.m. |
Trends and Opportunities in Renewable Power and Biomass, Chris Zygarlicke, Deputy Associate Director for Research, EERC, Grand Forks, ND |
| 8:55 a.m. |
Renewable and Petroleum Diesel Integration and Economics, Ted Aulich, Senior Research Manager, EERC, Grand Forks, ND |
| 9:15 a.m. |
Challenges to Large-Scale Renewable Energy and Biorefineries, Mark Warner, Vice President – Process Industries, Harris Group Inc., Seattle, WA |
| 9:40 a.m. |
Catalytic Approaches for Biofuels Within the Energy Frontier Research Center at Argonne
National Laboratory, Christopher Marshall, Director, Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical
Transformations (IACT), Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory,
Argonne, IL |
| 10:05 a.m. |
Biofuels and the Future of Corn-Based Ethanol, Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President,
American Coalition for Ethanol, Sioux Falls, SD |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break – Exhibit Hall Open |
| 11:00 a.m. |
The State of Biomass Utilization for Power in Manitoba, Dennis St. George, Senior Biosystems
Engineer, Manitoba Hydro, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| 11:25 a.m. |
Will They Love You Because You Are Green? The Role of Public Affairs Management for Biomass Projects, Brad Moore, Senior
Consultant, Barr Engineering Company, Minneapolis, MN; and Mike Zipko, Account Manager, Goff & Howard, St. Paul, MN |
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| 11:50 a.m. |
Keynote – The Honorable John Hoeven, Governor of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND
Governor John Hoeven is building North Dakota’s future by focusing on six pillars of growth:
education, economic development, agriculture, energy, technology, and quality of life. He
continues to promote EmpowerND, the state’s first multiresource energy policy, which he initiated
in 2002 as part of North Dakota’s comprehensive economic development strategic plan. EmpowerND has
deployed a wide range of incentives for each energy sector, both renewable and traditional, as
well as a conservation component. Through EmpowerND, Governor Hoeven has worked to advance energy
resources like lignite coal, oil, and gas, while at the same time promoting renewable resources,
such as wind, ethanol, and biodiesel.
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| 12:20 p.m. |
Lunch – Exhibit Hall Open |
| SESSION: BIOMASS FEEDSTOCKS |
| EERC Session Chair: Bruce Folkedahl, Senior Research Manager, EERC |
| 1:40 p.m. |
Panel Discussion – Algae as a Feedstock
Panel Moderator: David Haberman, President, IF LLC, Delray Beach, FL
– Why Exxon Is Wrong about Algae, David Haberman, President, IF LLC, Delray Beach, FL
– Implementing an Algae Project in Hawaii, Tom Allnutt, Senior Vice President of Research and
Development, Phycal LLC, Highland Heights, OH
– Opportunities in Development of Higher-Value Products in Biomass, Janice Paslawski, Technology
Development Engineer, POS Pilot Plant Corp., Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Impacts of Metals from Flue Gas on Algae Growth and Its Distribution in the System, Katerine
Napan, Ph.D. Candidate,
Utah State University, Logan, UT |
| 3:00 p.m. |
BREAK – Exhibit Hall Open |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Center for BioEnergy Research and Development (CBERD), An NSF Industry University Cooperative
Research Center, Duane Abata, Executive Director, Center for BioEnergy Research and Development,
South Dakota School for Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| 3:55 p.m. |
Building Feedstock Prices: The Foundation for Cellulosic Biomass Market Success,
Stephen Dinehart, Project Director, Biomass Commodity Exchange, and Principal, Heartland
Business Consultants, Middleton, WI |
| 4:20 p.m. |
Water Requirements of Driving: Case Study of Ethanol from Corn Grain and Crop Residue, Gouri Mishra,
Graduate Student, with S. Yeh, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA |
| 4:45 p.m. |
Energy Beets to Biofuel, Cole Gustafson, Codirector, BioEnergy and Product Innovation Center, and Professor,
Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND |
| 5:10 p.m. |
Biomass Densification Beyond Residential Pellets, Robert White, President, Robert White Industries, Inc., Plymouth, MN
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| 5:35 p.m. |
Video Message – The Honorable Kent Conrad, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C.
Senator Kent Conrad is Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and an expert on the budget process
who has earned a national reputation as a deficit hawk for his efforts to impose discipline on the
federal budget and safeguard Social Security and Medicare. A longtime member of the Agriculture
Committee, he serves on the Subcommittee on Energy, Science, and Technology and has introduced
comprehensive energy legislation that would make the United States more energy-independent. A
senior member of the Finance Committee, Senator Conrad serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on
Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-Term Growth and serves on the Subcommittee on Energy,
Natural Resources, and Infrastructure.
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| 5:40 p.m. |
EXHIBIT SOCIAL |
with Dinner-Type Appetizers and Cash Bar |
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| Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration Open/Continental Breakfast in Exhibit Hall |
| SESSION: BIOFUELS |
| EERC Session Chair: Chad Wocken, Senior Research Manager, EERC |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Development of a Commercial-Scale Cellulosic Biorefinery in North Dakota, Sandra Broekema,
Manager of Business Development, Great River Energy, Maple Grove, MN |
| 8:55 a.m. |
Pyrolysis Oil: Heat, Electricity, Green Transportation Fuel, and Chemicals Too, Randal Goodfellow, Senior Vice
President, Corporate Relations, Ensyn Technologies Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 9:20 a.m. |
Cellulose to Ethanol: Unique Legal Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities as the Ethanol
Industry Moves to Cellulosic Ethanol, Joe Thompson, Partner, Stoel Rives LLP, Minneapolis, MN |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Wood Biomass Potential in the United States, Bill Berguson, Forestry Program Director, Natural Resources Research
Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Break – Exhibit Hall Open |
| 10:40 a.m. |
An Overview of Biomass-to-Liquid Biofuels Activities in the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy Division, Jonathan Male, Office of Biomass Programs, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department
of Energy, Washington, DC |
| 11:05 a.m. |
Status of the Commercial-Scale Biorefinery in Hugoton, Kansas: Twists and Advances,
Robert Wooley, Director, Process Engineering, Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies, Lakewood, CO |
| 11:30 a.m. |
POET Biomass – Making Cellulosic Ethanol a Reality, Adam Wirt, Technology Development
Specialist, POET, Lennox, SD |
| 11:55 p.m. |
LUNCH – Exhibit Hall Open |
| SESSION: BIOMASS FOR CHEMICALS, HEAT, AND POWER |
| EERC Session Chair: Josh Strege, Research Engineer, EERC |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Biomass Gasification Tar Cracking Technology Development, Dave Dayton, Director – Chemistry
and Program Manager – Biomass with A. Kataria, W. Yellin, B. Turk, and R. Gupta, Center for
Energy Technology, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 1:25 p.m. |
Torrefaction: Economic Conditions to Make It Profitable, Douglas Tiffany, Assistant Extension Professor, University
of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN |
| 1:50 p.m. |
Catalytic Hydrolysis, An Efficient Route to Biofuels and Green Chemicals, Karl Seck,
President, Mercurius Biofuels LLC, Ferndale, WA |
| 2:15 p.m. |
The Production of Biogas Using Glycerin and Cow Manure, Sergio Peres, Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Pernambuco (UPE) and Director of
POLICOM – Fuels and Energy Laboratory, with M. de Los Angeles Palha, V. Amorim, and A. Silva,
Microbiology Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department; and A. Schuler, Industrial Chromatography
Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil |
| 2:40 p.m. |
BREAK – Exhibit Hall Open |
| 3:10 p.m. |
Mulch to Megawatts – Reference Specifications for a 25-MW Biomass-Fired Power Plant,
Bill McLean, Vice President, Cook Engineering Company, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; with W.
Mullinix and B. Browers, Barr Engineering, Minneapolis, MN |
| 3:35 p.m. |
Evaluation of Two-Stage Downdraft Gasifier/Internal Combustion Engine Set, Electo Eduardo
Silva Lora, Professor, and Coordinator, with R. Andrade, Excellence Group in Thermal Power and
Distributed Generation – NEST, Mechanical Engineering Institute, Federal University of Itajubá,
Itajubá, Brazil; R. Jaen, Energy Efficiency Research Center – CEEFE, Universidad de Oriente,
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; and J. Marinez, Environmental Research Group, Instituto de Energía,
Materiales y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
Presented by Sergio Peres, Professor and Director of POLICOM – Fuels and Energy Laboratory, Federal University of Penambuco, Recife, Brazil |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Integrated Gas Turbine–Gasifier Pilot-Scale Power Plant, Phil Hutton, Research Manager, EERC, Grand Forks, ND |
| 4:25 p.m. |
Adjourn – Tours of EERC Available |
Tour will take approximately 1 hour; transportation is available. |
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