Session 2: Today's Biorefineries

8:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair

8:10 a.m.

Oral Presentation 2-01. Tomorrow's Biomass Refineries, (MS Word 33 KB) Lee R. Lynd, Mark Laser, Haiming Jin, Kemantha Jayawardhana, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Eric D. Larson, Fuat Celik, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and Bruce E. Dale, Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan State University, Lansing MI

8:40 a.m.

Oral Presentation 2-02. Technical and Economic Considerations of Biorefineries, (MS Word 29 KB) Bill Dean, Tim Dodge, Fernando Valle, and Gopal Chotani, Genencor International, Palo Alto, CA

9:10 a.m.

Oral Presentation 2-03. The Development of an Integrated Biorefinery Concept for Production of Fuels and Chemicals Derived from Lignocellulosic Biomass, (MS Word 28 KB) Birgitte K. Ahring, Marie J. Mikkelsen, Slawek Dabrowski, Tania I. Georgieva, and Frank D. Haagensen, BioCentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

9:40 a.m.

Break

10:10 a.m.

Oral Presentation 2-04. Existing Biorefinery Operations that Can Benefit from Fractal Based Process Intensification, (MS Word 28 KB) Vadim Kochergin and Mike Kearney, Amalgamated Research Inc., Twin Falls, ID

10:40 a.m.

Oral Presentation 2-05. High-Cetane Diesel Fuels from Biomass, (MS Word 29 KB) Edwin S. Olson, Ramesh K. Sharma, and Ted R. Aulich, Energy & Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakoa, Grand Forks, ND

11:10 a.m.

Oral Presentation 2-06. The Importance of Utility Systems in Today's and Tomorrow's Biorefineries, (MS Word 29 KB) Tim Eggeman and Dan Verser, ZeaChem Inc., Lakewood, CO

11:40 a.m.

Closing Remarks—Session Chair/Co-Chair