The development of clean fuels is of vital importance to human and environmental health and global prosperity, more than almost any single issue facing mankind today. Currently fuels make up around two-thirds of the energy market (488 EJ in 2005, Energy Information Administration, USA) with electricity accounting for the remaining one-third. Despite the importance of fuels, most CO2 free energy production systems under development (e.g. clean-coal technology, nuclear, photovoltaic, wind and hydroelectric) are designed to drive electricity generation.
This meeting will focus on fundamental biology and technology approaches to develop feasible and productive solar to storable biofuel processes. Economical and sociological aspects of renewable energy production will also be regarded.
International and national experts are invited to give an overview on the state of the art research regarding plant biomass production and conversion of biomass to gaseous fuels of the second generation.
The topics include:
General bioenergy aspects
The future of energy supply: Challenges and opportunities
Bioenergy and urban development
Global market potential of bioenergy for industries
Bioenergy in mars and moon exploration programs
“Well to Wheel” assessment of bioenergy types
Biomass for bioenergy
Energy crops: Growth, harvesting, and cultivation
Alternative biomass for bioenergy production
Algae for biofuels
Design of new photobioreactors for biomass and bioenergy production
Sun light to storable fuels
Biomethane
Bacteria communities in biogas plants
High throughput sequencing of biogas bacteria cultures
Metabolic studies of biomass to biomethane
Optimization of crop plants for biogasification
Cellulose and lignin
Technical optimization of biogas plants
The global biogas market and future perspectives
Biohydrogen
Hydrogen batteries
BtL SunFuel
Deadlines
- Registration: OPEN until 25.7.2008 (Registration is not completed before the fee has been transferred. Until 11.6.2008 accomodation can be guaranteed in one of the hotels mentioned above)
- Poster abstract Submission: until 1.8.2008
- Note: The symposium will start on the 12.8.2008 at 12.00 o´clock and will end on the 14.8.2008 at around 14.00 o´clock
Invited speakers
- Thomas Amon - Institut für Landtechnik, Vienna/Austria "Biogas production: potentials for optimisation along the whole production chain"
- Nicola Armaroli - ISOF - CNR, Bologna/Italy "Energy for the 21st century: data, challenges and perspectives"
- Görge Deerberg - Fraunhofer Institut UMSICHT, Oberhausen/Germany "Coupled production in biorefineries - combined use of biomass as a source of energy, fuels and materials"
- Charles Dismukes - Princeton University/USA "Aquatic phototrophs: efficient alternatives to land-based crops for biofuels and biohydrogen"
- Ben Hankamer - Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane/Australia "Economic feasibility studies on 2nd generation micro algal biofuel systems"
- Klaas J. Hellingwerf - University of Amsterdam/The Netherlands "The photanol approach. Light-driven CO2 reduction by a photofermentative chimera"
- Joachim Heberle - Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University/Germany "Biomimetic H2-production"
- Jens Bo Holm Nielsen - Aalborg University/Denmark "Sustainable terrestrial biomass resources - fruitful competition food-feeds-fuels: fast bioenergy recovery utilizing photosynthesis C-sources and fermentation biorefinery technologies"
- Gerrit Holz - Biogas Nord AG, Bielefeld/Germany "Biogas – optimized energy with future"
- Michael Klocke - Leibniz Institut für Agrartechnik, Potsdam/Germany "Diversity and abundance of methanogenic archaea in biogas reactors"
- Ingo Kröpke - Stadtwerke Bielefeld/Germany "Biogas as a completion of the energy portfolio of a public utility"
- Olaf Kruse - Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University/Germany "Microalgae as a source for biological H2 production"
- Reinhard Madlener - RWTH Aachen/Germany "Socio-economic aspects of bioenergy use: Research needs and insights"
- Richard Meilan - Purdue University, West Lafayette/USA "Manipulating lignin biosynthesis to maximize ethanol production from Populus feedstocks"
- Karsten Niehaus - Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University/Germany "Metabolomic characterisation of the biogas fermentation process"
- Matthew Posewitz - National Renewable Energy Laboratories, Colorado/USA
- Clemens Posten - TH Karlsruhe/Germany "Closed photo-bioreactors as tools for biofuel production"
- Andreas Schlüter - Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University/Germany "The metagenome of a biogas-producing microbial community"
- Klaus Slenzka - OHB Technology AG, Bremen/Germany "Biosolar energy and space exploration - a challenge"
- Dieter Stelling - Deutsche Saatveredelung AG, Lippstadt/Germany "Grasses and forage legumes - reasonable biomass sources for production of bioenergy"
- Axel Voss - Syngenta, Landskrona/Sweden "Sugar beet for biogas - a preferred feedstock of Syngenta's x-crop Biofuel strategy"
- Falk Warnecke - DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek/USA "Metagenomic and functional analysis of the hindgut bacteria of higher termites"
- Werner Weindorf - Ludwig-Bölkow-Systemtechnik GmbH, Ottobrunn/Germany "Overview and well-to-wheel analysis of biomass derived transportation fuels"
- Bodo Wolf - CHOREN Industries GmbH, Freiberg/Germany "Der Kohlenstoffkreisprozess - Regelgröße des Klimawandels"
- Zhihua Zhou - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences/China
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