| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast
Hall AB |
| 7:30 am - 1:30 pm | Expo Open
Hall AB |
| 8:30 am - 10:00 am |  Track 1: Pellets & Densified Biomass
Room 203
Surveying the Promise of Bio-coal as a Drop-In Replacement for Baseload Power Assets
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Katie Fletcher, Associate Editor, Pellet Mill Magazine - Sylvain Bertrand, CEO, Airex Energy
Commercial Scale Biocoal Plant with CarbonFX Technology - Jordan Klinger, Research Associate, EB Clean Energy Ltd. – Boardman
Energy Requirements for Size Reduction of Biocoal - Bob Heimann, Principal Engineer, Enginuity Worldwide LLC
Introduction to Frictional Carbonization (FC): A Method to Upgrade Biomass to Biocoal in a Continuous, Low-Energy Input Process - Roger Ford, CEO, Patriot BioEnergy LLC
The Use of Hemp as a Phytoremediation Material for Post-Mining Reclamation and as Feedstock for Bio-Coal and Bio-Energy Processing  Track 2: Biomass Power & Thermal
Room 207
Boilers 1: Technological Approaches for Handling the Challenges Inherent in Biomass Feedstock Streams
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Anna Simet, Managing Editor, Biomass Magazine - Chris Smyrniotis, Vice President FUEL CHEM®, Fuel Tech Inc.
Corrosion, Slag and Fouling Challenges for Boilers Burning Biomass Fuel - Arunachalam Sivakumar, Biomass Energy Technologist, Sigeda Global, India
Twin Boiler System Promoting Biomass Power Generation and Utilizing Biomass Fuels of High Alkali Content - Daniel Szarf, Business Development - American Market, Julio Berkes SA, Uruguay
Berkes Torsional Chamber - Nils Peter Astrupgaard, Sales Manager, Burmeister & Wain Energy
Proven Power/CHP Systems Based on Sustainable High Alkali Agrofuels like Straw  Track 3: Biogas & Landfill Gas
Room 208
It’s in the Way that You Use It: Conversion Approaches that Add Value to Produced Biogas in a Cost Effective Manner
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Joseph Curro, Principal Engineer, CDM Smith - Steven Cox, President, GkW Energy Inc.
Simplifying Biogas-Fueled Power Generation - Eric Wilgenbusch, Sales Engineer, Unison Solutions Inc.
Converting Biogas into Energy and Vehicle Fuel - Jin-Yun Wang, Manager, Fuel Processing & Catalysts, FuelCell Energy Inc.
Biogas and Biomass to Electricity at High Efficiency with Direct FuelCell  Track 4: Advanced Biofuels & Biobased Chemicals
Room 209
Biological Pathways to Advanced Biofuels and Novel Approaches to the Better Utilization and Monetization of Resultant CoProducts
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Matt Abele, Clean Transportation Specialist, NC Clean Energy Technology Center, North Carolina State University - Martin Mitchell, Global Business Development Manager, Clariant
Cellulosic Ethanol: Application and Commercialization in Biofuels and Biochemicals - Dennis McGrew, Chief Business Officer, Deinove, France
A Novel Host Strain to Produce Biofuels and Bio-Based Chemicals - Ali Manesh, President, American Science & Technology
Pre-Commercialization Scale Biorefinery | 
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| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Refreshment Break in the Expo
Hall AB |  |
| 10:30 am - Noon | Track 1: Pellets & Densified Biomass
Room 203
Technologies Available to Control Emissions as Biomass Power and Pellet Production Facilities
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Katie Fletcher, Associate Editor, Pellet Mill Magazine - Holger Streetz, International Operations Manager, Bathan AG, Germany
Efficiency Improvements through Streamlining Maintenance Processes - Pedro Araújo, CEO, Advanced Cyclone Systems, Portugal
Hurricane Cyclones to Reduce Emissions of Dryer Cyclones in Glowood Pellet Plant to Comply with Local Emissions - Jo Ann Pacinelli, Senior Partner & Business Development Manager, North American Operations, Ecospray Technologies S.r.l.
Enhanced NOx Control for Biomass Combustion
Room 207
Boilers 2: Operational Approaches Available to Biomass Power Producers to Maximize their Boiler's Output
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Anna Simet, Managing Editor, Biomass Magazine - Adam Campen, Combustion Engineer, Imerys Aurora
Increasing the Use of Low Cost Biomass in Power Plants with an Effective Fuel Additive - Cameron Weir, Product Engineer, Fluid Bed Boiler Technology, Valmet Inc.
Maximizing Unit Performance and Response on Biomass Fired Boilers - James Seagraves, Senior Sales Engineer, Eastern Instruments
Accurate Flow Measurement and Combustion Optimization
Room 208
Exploring the Increasing Role Anaerobic Digestion is Playing in Global Wastewater Treatment Assets
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Tim Portz, Executive Editor, Biomass Magazine- Corey Rossen, Marketing & Project Development, quasar energy group
There is a Solution to Algal Blooms: How Agriculture and Wastewater Can Solve the Problem Together - Gus Simmons, Director of Bioenergy, Cavanaugh & Associates, P.A.
Money to Burn? How to Capitalize on BioCNG at Your Wastewater Plant - Ed Weinberg, President, ESSRE Consulting Inc.
Beneficial Use of Nutrients for Increased Valorization of Anaerobic Digesters and Digestate
Room 209
Investigating Thermochemical Conversion Pathways and Gauging their Efficacy as a Means to Produce Biofuels and Bio-chemicals
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Ron Kotrba, Editor, Biodiesel Magazine - Ada Nielsen, Advisor to Renuvix, The PeregrineMaven Group
A Sweet BIO-Technology Platform for Solving Some Industrial Challenges - Jack Ferrell, Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Standardization of Chemical Characterization Techniques for Pyrolysis Bio-oil - Abolhasan Hashemisohi, Ph.D. Candidate, North Carolina A&T State University
Process Modelling of the Production of Fischer-Tropsch Biofuels via Biomass Gasification with Biomass/Natural Gas Hybrid Feedstock |
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| Noon - 1:30 pm | Lunch in the Expo
Hall AB |  |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Track 1: Pellets & Densified Biomass
Room 203
The Growing Role that Briquetting Technologies are Playing in Biomass Densification
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Katie Fletcher, Associate Editor, Pellet Mill Magazine - Jaya Shanka Tumuluru, Research Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory
Briquetting Characteristics of Woody, Herbaceous and Mixed Feedstocks - Tony Schamel, President, Resource Harvesters LLC
Enhanced Briquette Production and Sustainability Program through a New Process for Waste Pulp Feedstocks - S. Kent Hoekman, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
Life Cycle Analysis of Co-Formed Coal/Hydrochar Briquettes Produced by a Twin-Screw Extrusion Process
Room 207
The Near Term Opportunity for Biomass as a Low-Carbon Coal Supplement or Replacement
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Elliott Levine, Biopower Technology Development Manager, U.S. Department of Energy - David Nicholls, Forest Products Technologist, U.S. Forest Service
Co-firing Wood Residues with Coal in Interior Alaska on Grate Fired Systems - Richard Boardman, Manager, Advanced Process & Decision Systems, Idaho National Laboratory
Perspective on Biopower in the U.S. Department of Energy's Quadrennial Technology Review - John Pierce, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
The Potential for Conversion of Coal-Fired Power Plants to Biomass in the Northwest
Room 208
Bioenergy Market Snapshot 1: Current and Future Opportunities for Bioenergy Deployments in the United States
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Tim Portz, Executive Editor, Biomass Magazine - Debra Kantner, Internal Research Program Manager, Environmental Research & Education Foundation
State of Practice for Anaerobic Digestion of Municipal Solid Waste Organics in the U.S. - Robin Spinks, Economic Development Consultant, North Carolina’s Southeast Partnership
NC Southeast Biorenewable & Biotechnology Asset Inventory - Jordan Godwin, Biofuels Analyst, Platts
Cellulosic Ethanol in 2016: Make or Break? - Brett Hogarth, Head of Business Development, ECOSTRAT
Using Wood2Energy.org’s Revitalized GIS Platform to Assess Local, Regional and National Woody Biomass Demand Trends
Room 209
Examining Promising Research in Algal Cultivation and Conversion into Advanced Biofuels and Biochemicals
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Ron Kotrba, Editor, Biodiesel Magazine - Sean FitzPatrick, Principal, AvAer Partners
Algae Demonstration Update: Mass Cultivation for Profitable GHG Mitigation - Chih-Ting Kuo, Ph.D. Candidate, Ag/Biological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
Integrating Adsorbents into Fixed-Film Algal Wastewater Treatment System to Improve Water Quality and Biocrude Oil Productivity - Mohammad Abdel-Hamid, Professor Algae & Water Quality-Applied Phycology, University of Mansoura, Egypt
Microalgae as Promising Feedstock of Jet Fuel and Biodiesel: Case Studies - Shuangning Xiu, Research Scientist, NC A&T State University
Green Biorefinery of Giant Miscanthus for Microalgal Culture and Bioethanol Production |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Refreshment Break |
| 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Track 1: Pellets & Densified Biomass
Room 203
Upgraded Biomass: How Torrefaction and Biochar Production can add Real Value to a Multitude of Biomass Streams
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Katie Fletcher, Associate Editor, Pellet Mill Magazine - JoungDu Shin, Principal Scientist, National Academy of Agricultural Science, South Korea
Profit Analysis of Soil Carbon Sequestration in Corn Cultivation Field Cooperated with Bio-char and Compost - Jürgen Pörschmann, Ph.D., Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
Hydrothermal Carbonization of Waste Biomasses to Produce Biochar and Valuable Chemicals - Ezra Bar-Ziv, Professor, Michigan Technological University
Highlighting Safety Risks during Torrefaction of Biomass - Christian Restifo, Proposal Engineer, Heyl & Patterson Inc.
Torrefaction to Activation: Production Techniques and Market Opportunities
Room 207
Tracing the Efforts to Drive Biomass Gasification towards Economic Feasibility and Greater Marketplace Deployment
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Anna Simet, Managing Editor, Biomass Magazine - Christopher Koczaja, VP Engineering & Implementation, PHG Energy
Waste Disposal through Gasification - Abolhasan Hashemisohi, Ph.D. Candidate, North Carolina A&T State University
Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulation of Hydrodynamic of Fluidized Bed Gasifier
Room 208
Demonstrating the Potential for Biogas Feedstocks to Produce Renewable Hydrogen for Fuel Cell Vehicles
Read Panel Description
Moderators: Pete Devlin, Market Transformation Manager, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy; Greg Moreland, FCTO Contract Support, CSRA Inc. - Pete Devlin, Market Transformation Manager, Fuel Cell Technologies Office, U.S. Department of Energy
DOE Overview of Transportation Fuel Cell Technologies and Renewable Hydrogen from Biogas - David Edwards, Sr. International Expert & Director of Technology Partnerships, Air Liquide
Renewable Hydrogen from Biogas: The Perspective from a Major Industrial Gas Producer - Pere Margalef, Director Advanced Technology Business Development, FuelCell Energy
Tri-Generation of Wastewater Biogas into Renewable Hydrogen, Power and Thermal Energy Using Carbonate Fuel Cell Technology - Tony Lindsay, Director of Research & Development Advanced Energy Systems, Gas Technology Institute
Demonstrating the Potential of Landfill Biogas and Wastewater Biogas as Feedstocks for Renewable Hydrogen
Room 202
Bioenergy Market Snapshot 2: Current and Future Opportunities for Bioenergy Deployments Worldwide
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Tim Portz, Executive Editor, Biomass Magazine - Peet Steyn, Managing Director, Botala Energy Solutions, South Africa
Juice Factory Pulp Co-Digestion in South Africa - Timothy Baye, Professor, Business Development & Bioenergy Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Extension
Biorefinery Development in Emerging Markets - Nguyen Dang Anh Thi, Consultant, Vietnam
Biomass Power & Thermal: Business Opportunities and Challenges in Vietnam
Room 209
Identifying Inventory Levels and Conversion Metrics of Well Established and Emerging Feedstocks to Speed the Development of Bioenergy Projects
Read Panel Description
Moderator: Ron Kotrba, Editor, Biodiesel Magazine - Vanessa S. Gordon, Research Geneticist, USDA ARS
Breeding Energy Cane Cultivars as a Biomass Feedstock for Coal Replacement - Janice Ryan-Bohac, President & Plant Breeder, Carolina Advanced Renewable Energy (CAREnrgy)
The Production of Full-Replacement Drop-in Fuels through Chemical Processing and Establishment of Supply Chain of New ABF Feedstocks - Stan Parton, Manager, Bioenergy/Biochemical Practice, Forest2Market
Siting a New Project: Evaluation Criteria and Methodology - Nana Abayie Boakye-Boaten, Ph.D. Candidate, North Carolina A & T State University
Significant Uses of Miscanthus Press Juice within a Green Biorefinery Platform |
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