Graz 2009 Schedule
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BTLTEC 2009 is a showcase of key experts who are already in the field, technology companies, researchers and investors from all over the world, presenting new perspectives on the latest technology advancements, new capabilities and improved BTL economics.
4th BTLtec 2009
September 24 & 25 / Graz, Austria
Day 1 – Thursday, 24 September
08:00 Registration & Morning Coffee
09:00 Chairman’s Introduction & Opening Remarks
09:15 R&D Policies Update on Pyrolysis & Gasification Technologies
Speaker: Martina Ammer, Mag.(FH) Division for Energy and Environmental Technologies, Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
09:30 Overview on Wide Spread Implementation of 2nd Gen Biofuel Demonstration Plants in the World
Speaker: Dina Bacovsky, Senior Researcher, Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH
10:00 Discussion followed by Coffee
10:30 Largest Pyrolysis Oil Producing Plant in Europe using Waste Wood as Feedstock
Speaker: Gerhard Muggen, General Manager, BTG Bioliquids BV
11:00 Using Fast Pyrolysis Technology to Generate Biosyncrude – Progress in the Bioliq Process
Speaker: Prof Dr Eckhard Dinjus, Head, FZK
11:30 Pyrolysis Oil – A Possible Bridge to Large-Scale BTL Diesel Production
Speaker: Dr Manfred Kessler, Senior Specialist Process Chemistry & Biofuels, Norske Skog/Xynergo
12:00 UPM-Kymmene’s BTL Concept Development
• integration, gasification test runs and the status of our commercial plant
Speaker: Pekka Jokela, Manager, Bioenergy/Biofuels, UPM-Kymmene
12:30 Discussion followed by Lunch
14:00 Bio-Syntrolysis – Developing Highly Carbon-Efficient BTL Process Combining High Temperature Steam Electrolysis and Biomass Gasification
• sustainability of recyclable biomass
• can increase of hydrogen improve the yield for biomass conversion ?
Speaker: Grant Hawkes, Research Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory
14:30 Technical, Economic and Environmental Feasibility of Flexible Carbon to Liquid Process
Speaker: Prof Fu Zhao, Asst Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
15:00 Discussion followed by Tea
15:30 Syngas for Second Generation Fuel from Biomass – the Agnion Heatpipe Reformer
• state-of-the-art for the production and conditioning of Syngas from biomass for the synthesis of BTL and other second generation fuels
Speaker: Prof Dr. Ing Jurgen Karl, Founder, Agnion Technologies GmbH
16:00 Microchannel technology for Distributed Fischer-Tropsch
Speaker: Dr David Kilanowski, Senior Research Scientist, Velocys
16:30 Market Perspectives of Biorefinery Products
Speaker: Dr Boyan Kavalov, Directorate-Generale Joint Research Center, European Commission
17:00 Discussion followed by End of Day 1
Day 2 – Friday, 25 September
09:00 Chairman’s Introduction
09:10 Status of BioSNG Production and FT Fuels from Biomass Steam Gasification
Speaker: Dr.-Ing Reinhard Rauch, Project Assistant, Vienna University of Technology
09:40 BTL Fuels in Current & Future Engine Technologies
• economic aspects and potential of reducing energy and greenhouse emissions from all parts of the BtL production process
Speaker: Dr Frank Seyfried, Head of Group Research, Fuels & Oils, Volkswagen
10:15 Discussion followed by Coffee
10:45 Efficient Production of Gasoline and Power Using the Topsoe TIGAS Process and Biomass Gasification
Speaker: Poul Erik Høilund Nielsen, Project Director, Haldor Topsoe
11:15 Syngas Cleaning for Biorefinery Integration/Scale Up Efforts at the Carbon to Liquids Devt Center
Speaker: Steve Piccot, Director Advanced Energy & Transportation Tech, Southern Research Institute
11:45 Exploring Algae as a Potential Feedstock for Liquid Fuels
Speaker: Jeff Muhs, Executive Director, Utah State University Energy Institute
12:15 Final Discussion followed by Closing Lunch
13:30 Close of Conference
Site Visit (Optional – Euro 75/per person)
Biomass CHP Gussing Plant & BioSNG
13:45 Depart for Biomass CHP Gussing Plant & BioSNG
15:00 Arrive Site – Tour for 2 hours
17:00 Leave Site
18:30 Arrive hotel
Biomass CHP Gussing Plant is currently operated on commercial basis for about 7000 hours per year.
Due to the high quality of the produced gas, several research projects are going on, using slip streams of the gas from the biomass CHP. The most important are:
• Demonstration of BioSNG (synthestic natural gas)
• Lab scale Fischer Tropsch synthesis
• High temperature fuel cell
Why Graz ?
Graz is the closest airport situated to the site visit – Biomass CHP Gussing Plant and BTL project. It is only an hour by car Graz is also the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria. Graz’s “Old Town” is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe. In 1999, it was added to the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage Sites. Being situated in a cultural borderland between Central Europe, Italy and the Balkan States, Graz absorbed various influences from the neighbouring regions and thus received its exceptional townscape.
