Brussels, 19 - 21 November 2007

Day One, 19th November 2007

08.30

Registration, Coffee and Refreshments

Promoting Biogas Development - Commercial Case Studies

• Currently, most anaerobic digestion facilities are used primarily for manure
  management, but recent advances have made it possible to use anaerobic
  digestion to generate methane-rich biogas from agricultural and food industry
  waste
• This biogas can be purified into pipeline-quality, renewable natural gas that is
  reliable enough to produce a baseload energy 24/7 at market-competitive prices
• Waste-to-energy facilities have enjoyed a great deal of success in Europe in the
  past 15 years, and after their recent introduction into the Midwestern United
  States now possess significant productive potential in California and Texas

Clay Walton, Chief Technology Officer, Environmental Power Corp, USA

From Waste to Watts
Speaker to be confirmed

PANEL: Biogas: Farming for the Future - Creating New Income
Sources for Agri Producers

• Expanding enterprise to future energy production
• Opportunities and risks for farmers
• Maximising yields and bi-products
• Potential role of AD in agriculture
• Liquid manure management, financial considerations, manure surplus,
  transport and storage

Panellists:
Andrew Needham, Managing Director, Biogen UK, UK
Roel Slotman, Export Manager, EnviTec, Germany
Bruno Mattheeuws, Policy & Communications, Biogas-E
Arjo Heinsola, Engineer, Education and Research Program in Renewable
Energy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Networking Refreshment Break

Case Study: GoBiGas - Large Scale Gasification of Biomass for
Biogas Production
Ingemar Gunnarson, Project Manager, Goteborg Energi, Sweden

Maximising the Potential of Landfill Gas

• The potential for LFG expansion in Europe
• Ways of maximising value

Case Study: The World's First Commercial Landfill Gas-to-LNG
Project

• Supply chain, production resources, technology, emissions benefits
• Market drivers
• Bowerman

Kirt Montague, Chief Executive Officer, Prometheus Energy , USA

Networking Lunch Break

Case Study: Asia
Dr Stephen P Etheridge, CTO, AsiaBiogas

Case Study: Colombia
Phillip Conil, Biotec, Belgium

Case Study: Utilisation of Agricultural Biogas in Brazil: Knowhow
and Technology Transfer from Switzerland
Hans-Christian Angele, Partner, Ernst Basler + Partner, Switzerland

PANEL: Biogas Market Expansion - What are the Growth
Opportunities for Biogas?

• How can usage be increased?
• Market conditions, costs and economics
• Market synergies between natural gas and biogas

Panellists:
Kevin Best, Chief Executive Officer, RealEnergy, USA
Owe Jonsson, Business Development, E.ON Gas, Sweden
Daniel Hoelder, Director, Renewable Energies, Dalkia Energie Service, Germany

Networking Refreshment Break

European Energy Strategy and Policy Framework for Biogas

• Impact of national policies

Tico Cohen, Business Developer, Ecofys International

Successful Financing Strategies and Investment Trends in Biogas

• Biogas Investments as a Profitable Business

Each speaker will give a short presentation followed by panel discussion:
Speakers:
Emma Tinker, Director, HgCapital, UK
Ash Sharma, TGF Facility Manager, Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, Finland
Justin Guest, Investment Adviser, EEA Fund Management, UK

Close of Day One

Networking Cocktail Reception

Day Two, 20th November 2007

Coffee and Refreshments

Chairman's Introduction

Planning, Constructing and Operating Plants – Market Potential’s

• Engineering, construction, start-up phase and operation
• Start - up costs and operating costs

Each speaker will give a short presentation followed by panel discussion:

Dr Balthasar Schramm, Chairman of the Board, Nawaro BioEnergie, Germany

Dr. Jörg Heinen, Senior Manager New Technologies, RWE Energy AG

Biogas Developments - Resource Availability

Biogas Feedstocks - Energy Crop Production vs Biowaste

• Sources of energy crops and biowaste
• Sustainable production of energy crops
• Energy crop digestion with or without manure
• Co-digestion of manure with energy crops and food waste

Michael Koettner, Chief Executive Officer, Internationales Biogas und Bioenergie Kompetenzzentrum, Germany

Biogas Development – Resource Availability

• Biogas market potential in Europe from available waste streams and energy crops.
• Life cycle assessment of biogas for CHP and biomethane as transport fuel.
• Thermophilic process as the leading AD technology for manure and energy crops

Jørgen Ballermann, Executive Director, Xergi, Denmark

Networking Refreshment Break

Waste to Energy Opportunities

Case Study: Turning Waste to Energy - Biogas and Slurry
Separation Plant

• Improving the production of biogas from slurry, organic waste and agricultural
  crops
• Simple separation and the possibilities for harmonious fertilization of agricultural crops and the new possibilities for controlling production input of fertilizers and minimizing environmental influence. Data from the farm at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
• Presentation of data from the Biogas and Slurry Separation Plant at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. Data will include input of organic matter and consequences for biogas production

Gunnar Held Mikkelsen and Uffe Jorgensen, The Faculty of Agricultural
Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Anaerobic Digestion of Source-Segregated Household Food Waste -
Potential and Business Opportunities
Michael Chesshire, Founder and Director, Greenfinch, UK

Overcoming the Barriers to Waste to Energy Production

• The difficulties of obtaining the correct feedstock for AD operation in England
• Barriers to foodwaste collection in the UK
• Possible solutions involving commercial & industrial wastestreams and private
  sector investment

Dave Brooks, Brooks Environmental, UK

Q&A Session

Networking Lunch

Biogas Upgrading and Utilisation

Commercial Production of Biogas for CHP/Cogeneration

• Cost-effective CHP production
• Utilising wastes as an important source for heating

Each speaker will give a short presentation followed by panel discussion:
Kevin Best, Chief Executive Officer, Real Energy, USA
Holger Schmitz, Member of the Board, Biogas Nord, Germany

Case Study: Biogas Opportunities for Onsite Cogeneration
Richard Bennett, Chief Executive Officer, PZERO, UK

KEY CASE STUDY: Biogas Upgrading for Integration into Gas Grid

• Building Europe's largest biogas plant - feeding gas into the natural gas grid

Ludwig Dinkloh, Head of International Business, Schmack Biogas, Germany
Fritz Wolf, Managing Director, E.ON Ruhrgas / Bioerdgas GmbH

Integrating Biogas into the National Grid
Thomas Peyer, Business Development Mananger, Erdgas Ostschweiz,
Switzerland

Biogas Upgrading and Utilisation for Use as a Transportation Fuel

• Biomethane potential
• Fiscal treatment of biogas and biomethane
• Biofuel supply certificates
• Outlook for vehicles fuelled by natural gas and biomethane

Peter Boisen, Chairman, ENGVA (The European Natural Gas Vehicle Association)

Networking Refreshment Break

Advancements in Production Technologies

Advancements in Production Technologies - PSA Technology

• Innovative rotary valve PSA technology for reducing capital and operating costs of upgrading biogas to pipeline- and CNG-quality
• Case studies - PSA's upgrading anaerobic digester gas and landfill gas to pipeline quality

Jonathan Wilkinson, President and CEO, Questair, Canada

Innovative Digester Technologies - Case Study: Anaerobic Digestion Potential of Urban Organic Waste

• Lessons learnt

Speaker to be confirmed

Case Study: Optimising Full-Scale Biogas Production

• Technical barriers to optimize full-scale biogas production
• Process optimization approaches
• Potential to increase biogas output using improved process control
• Case Studies: Norrköping, Sweden - stillage from a bioethanol plant is being used as a substrate to produce biogas as well as experiences from a waste water treatment plant in Lund, Sweden

Kristofer Cook, Managing Director, BioProcess Control Sweden, Sweden

Case Study: Optimisation of AD for Biogas Production
Jurgen Thiele, Environmental Biotechnologist, Waste Solutions Ltd, New Zealand

Looking to the Future - Opportunities for Bio-SNG

• Differences and similarities between biogas and the thermochemically produced SNG
• Status of the necessary gasification, gas cleaning and gas upgrading technology
• Ecological potential of substituting fossil based natural gas with SNG

Robin Zwart, Unit Biomass, Coal and Environmental Research, ECN
(Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands), The Netherlands

Chairman's Introduction and Overview
Peter Boisen, Chairman, ENGVA

Case Study: Upgrading Biogas Plants with New Technology to
Produce LBG (Liquified Biogas)

• Biogas treatment with cryo
• Meeting future requirements of high energy costs and low environmental impact
• Landfill gas upgraded to vehicle gas quality

Hans Kattstrom, Chief Executive Officer, Scandinavian GtS, Sweden

Case Study: Landfill Methane Vehicle Fuel Project

• Why vehicle fuel?
• Landfilling technology / gas collection upgrading and usage
• Experience and future developments

Bjoern Halldorsson, Chief Executive Officer, Metan Ltd, Iceland

The Potential of Biogas within Biofuel based Biorefineries

• Potential
• Austrian strategies to develop markets

Thomas Amon, The Austrian Biogas Association

Networking Refreshment Break

Biofuels for Transport Case Studies

• Upgrading biogas into a transport fuel
• Is biogas economically viable as the future transport fuel?
• Fuel quality and supply issues
• Dual fuel creating a new market

Bernt Svensen, Project Manager, Biogas Vast, Sweden

Using Biogas as a Component in Production of Liquid Transport Fuels

• Integrating biogas into the liquid fuels production as component

Panu Pasanen, Managing Director, Bionova Engineering, Finland

Biogas Capable Vehicles and Infrastructure

• Biomethane refuelling, distribution and infrastructure issues

Peter Unden, Chief Executive Officer, Swedish Biogas International, Sweden

Q&A Session

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