Producing and Importing/Exporting Bioethanol

• Business case options for producing Bioethanol in SE Asia
• Demands for Import of Bioethanol
• Exporting opportunities

Graham Stowell, Managing Director, Bronzeoak Group Limited, UK

Panel: Government Policies and Programmes with regard to Biofuels and Investment Oppourtunities
Dr. R. Mandal, Advisor, Planning Commission, Government of India
Praphon Wongtarua, Senior Expert, Department of Alternative Energy Develoment and Efficiency, Thailand
Plus other invited panellists

Launching a National Ethanol Program  
Jose Maria T. Zabaleta, Executive Director, Philippine Sugar Millers Association (a member of the Philippine Fuel Ethanol Alliance)

Reforming Ethanol (Bioethanol) to Hydrogen
Dr Benny Reichman, Director Fuel Processing, Energy Conversion Devices, Inc, USA

11.15

12.00

• The development of new by-products from existing industries resulting in alternative fuel
• Case study producing methanol as a by-product of energy production and developing new environmentally safe and cost efficient products
• Case study producing a fuel and bioproducts from biomass
• Transitioning traditional industries into modern sustainable by reinventing systems

Michael Larivee, General Manager, US Operations, Yasheng Group

Flexible Biorefinery for Generating Value-Added Products from Agricultural Residues

• PureVision biomass fractionation technology
• Uniqueness of technology
• Nature of the three fractions produced
• Flexible biorefinery: sugar platform or pulp & paper platform
• Technical data from continuous process development unit
• Corn stover
• Wheat straw
• Applications of the three fractions
• Xylose-rich fraction: fermentation to ethanol or xylitol
• Lignin-rich fraction: partial replacement of phenol in phenol-formaldehyde resins or catalytic depolymerization to high-octane gasoline additive
• Cellulose-rich fraction: enzymatic/acid hydrolysis to glucose syrup, fermentation to ethanol, blending with wood pulp, or further refinement into specialty celluloses
• Scale-up and deployment of sugar platform biorefinery

Dr. Kiran Kadam, Director of Process Development, PureVision

Question & Answers Session

15.45 

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