| Day 1 [ Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010 ] |
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08:00
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Registration and Coffee
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09:00
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Welcome and Speed Networking
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09:10
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Chairman’s Remarks
Mr. John R. Benemann, CEO
MicroBio Engineering, Inc.
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Practical Experiences in Algae Production / Value Proposition in Carbon Capture
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09:15
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Succeeding in the Algae Business – Moving Away from ‘Or’ to ‘And’
- Moving from 'or' to 'and': No longer raceway 'or' photobioreactor, should be raceway 'AND' photobioreactor, also algae for fuel 'and' feed 'and'... - What business model to adopt?
- What markets to serve?
- Project implementation challenges
- Infrastructures required
- Building partnership and alliances
- Outlook of the algae sector and end-use markets
A4F Algae for Future
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09:45
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Growing Algae from Stack Gas Emissions at a Cement Plant
- Case study of St Marys Cement and Pond Biofuels
Martin Vroegh, Environment Manager
St Marys Cement Inc. Head Office - Votorantim Cimentos
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Steven Martin, Founder - Advisor
Pond Technologies Inc.
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10:15
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Discussion followed by Networking Break
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10:55
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Technological Development of Algal Carbon Capture and Storage
Tony St Clair, Agribusiness & Government Relations Director
MBD Energy Limited
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11:25
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Commercial Production of Microalgae in Korea and its Alternative Markets & Applications
Mi-Kyung Kim, Chief Development Officer/CEO
EcoPhycoTech Ltd
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11:55
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Discussion
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12:10
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Networking Lunch
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13:30
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Chairman’s Remarks
Matthew Caspari, CEO
Shorewood Consulting Group, Inc
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Value Proposition in Waste Water Treatment
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13:35
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Wastewater Treatment with Biofuels Production in High Rate Algal Ponds (HRAPs)
- Benefits of wastewater treatment with HRAPs including efficient nutrient removal and natural disinfection
- Enhancing the performance of HRAP by flue gas CO2 addition
- Production of colonial algae simply harvested gravity settling
- Conversion of algal biomass for biofuels (biocrude, biodiesel, biogas) and use as local community niche distributed energy sources
Rupert Craggs, Principal Scientist and Manager - Aquatic Pollution Group
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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14:05
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Large-scale Algae Biofuels Production with Municipal and Agricultural Wastewaters
- Algae Biofuels Production: limitations of water, carbon and nutrients
- Using wastewaters to supply algal biofuels production processes
- Economics of large-scale algal biofuels production using wastewaters
- Global potential for algal biofuels production using wastewaters.
Mr. John R. Benemann, CEO
MicroBio Engineering, Inc.
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Algae Technology Development in Asia Pacific
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14:35
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Algae Research in Singapore - Systems Biology of Lipid Metabolism in Algae
- Combined transcriptome and lipidome analysis of Chlamydomonas
- MicroRNA-mediated gene expression knockdowns as a probe of algal lipid metabolism
- De novo transcriptome sequencing of diverse algal species
Neil Clarke, Deputy Director
Genome Institute of Singapore, ASTAR
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15:05
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Discussion followed by Networking Break
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15:45
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China: Genetic Foundations of Robust Oil Production in Microalgae – New Generation Genomics Technologies for Algal Feedstock Development
- Current status and challenges of oilgae feedstock research and development
- Phylo-Genomics approach to investigate and engineer the genomic diversity, function and evolution of microalgal oil production using Nannochloropsis as a model
Dongmei Wang, Team Leader Algae Energy, Solexa Platform
QIBEBT - Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
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16:15
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Will Ocean be the Blue Ocean for Future Fuels? – Development in Korea
- Why we should use ocean (not land) for our future biofuel production
- Possibilities and challenges in microalgal cultures in ocean
- Cost analysis between the cultures in the ocean and on the land
- Introduction of Korean National Project on Marine Bioenergy Program
Prof. Dr. Choul-Gyun Lee, Professor, Department of Biotechnology/Director, Marine Bioenergy (MBE) Research Center
INHA University
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16:45
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Development of Algal Biofuel Production in Australia
- The need for biodiesel in Australia and the role that algae plays.
- The myriad choices for the Australian algal fuel producer:
- Algal species - GMO/wild/selectively bred; Growth in ponds or photo-bioreactors; salt-water, fresh-water or waste-water as the medium; Natural or artificial light;
- Energetics and greenhouse gas emissions of algal biofuel production
Tom Beer, Leader, Transport Technologies & Sustainable Fuels, Energy Transformed Flagship
Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
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17:15
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Discussion followed by End of Day 1
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17:30
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Cocktail Reception for Speakers and Delegates at the Poolside Terrace
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| Day 2 [ Wednesday, 20 Oct 2010 ] |
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09:00
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Chairman’s Remarks
Tony St Clair, Agribusiness & Government Relations Director
MBD Energy Limited
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Development of Algae-Based Bioenergy
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09:05
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Commercial Viability of Large Scale Algal Biofuel Production & Technological Challenges
Matthew Caspari, CEO
Shorewood Consulting Group, Inc
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09:35
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Carbon Finance Support for Bio-Diesel Production from Algae
Rahul Kar, Director, Carbon and Sustainability Advisory
KPMG Services Pte Ltd
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10:05
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Discussion followed by Networking Break
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10:40
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The Big Algae Build-Out: Why should CO2 Generators Participate and How?
Paul Reep, Senior Technical Advisor
OriginOil Inc
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11:10
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Development of Bioethanol Production Technology from Red Macroalgae
Myung Kyo Shin, CEO/Vice-President
Biolsystems Co., Ltd.
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11:40
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Enhanced Biofuel Production from Microalgae by adding CO2 to Stimulate Lipid Biosynthesis (Biodiesel) and by Hydrothermal Processing (Syngas)
- Research aims to improve the efficiency and reduce the production costs of biodiesel and of bio-synthetic natural gas from microalgae biomass by:
- Demonstrating the technical and economical feasibility of an innovative process for syngas production by hydrothermal processing of microalgae
- Adding CO2 and optimizing the cultivation conditions to enhance oil production by selected microalgae
Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel, Permanent Sr Scientist, Lab. for Environmental Biotechnology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne
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12:10
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Final discussion
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12:25
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Networking Lunch
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13:45
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End of Conference
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