Session 1A: Feedstock Supply and Logistics

1:00 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks—Symposium Chair

1:15 p.m.

Opening Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair

1:25 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-01. Agricultural Residue Availability in the United States, (MS Word 29 KB) Zia Haq, Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC, and James Easterly, Easterly Consulting, Fairfax, VA

1:50 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-02. New Technology for Reed Canary Grass Production, (MS Word 30 KB) Arvo Leinonen, Samuli Rinne, and Tuulikki Lindh, Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Jyväskylä, Finland

2:15 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-03. Corn Stover Fractions Related to Bioenergy: Chemical Composition and Structure, (MS Word 33 KB) Danny E. Akin, W. Herbert Morrison III, Franklin E. Barton, II, David S. Himmelsbach, R.B. Russell Agricultural Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Athens, GA, and Kevin B. Hicks, Eastern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Wyndmoor, PA

2:40 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-04. The BTL2 Process of Biomass Utilisation: Entrained Flow Gasification of Pyrolysed Biomass Slurries, (MS Word 30 KB) Klaus Raffelt, Edmund Henrich, Andrea Koegel, Ralph Stahl, Joachim Steinhardt and Friedhelm Weirich, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Technische Chemie (ITC-CPV), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

3:05 p.m.

Break

3:35 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-05. Ethanol Production from Wet-Oxidized Wheat Straw by Different Recombinant Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Strains, (MS Word 30 KB) Gianni Panagiotou and Lisbeth Olsson, Center for Microbial Biotechnology, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

4:00 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-06. Under What Conditions is Ethanol from Corn Stover Economically Viable?, (MS Word 33 KB) Burton C. English and R. Jamey Menard, Agri-Industry Modeling and Analysis Group, Department of Agricultural Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Daniel De La Torre Ugarte, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, Department of Agricultural Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and Marie E. Walsh, Department of Agricultural Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

4:25 p.m.

Oral Presentation 1A-07. Modeling Cellulosic Ethanol Production and Distribution in the United States, (MS Word 30 KB) William R. Morrow III, Michael Griffin, and Scott Mathews, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

4:50 p.m.

Closing Remarks—Chair/Co-Chair