Early Bird Registration Ends Nov. 10th
Bio-Fiber Energy, Fuels and Products Symposium (Nov. 17, 2008) and General, Panel Sessions in ‘Forest to Finished Products’(F2FP) Conference and Expo (Nov. 18 & 19, 2008) at UGA Center for Continuing Education, Athens, Georgia.
The Symposium will be held at the UGA Center for Continuing Education 8:30-5:00 P.M., Monday, Nov. 17 and these subjects will be continued in Nov. 18, 19 F2FP Conference and Expo.
The Symposium and Conference/Expo will provide the latest technology, technique and economics info. on biomass growth, harvesting, processing, engineering/plant construction and R&D Producers, suppliers, agencies, regulators, finance, harvesters and landowners will merge to show successful projects and developments in the areas of pellet manufacture; bio-fuels; domestic and international markets; growing product mix; new power plant design; power plant design; power plant conversion; coal-bio-fiber blending;algae technology; new equipment manufacture; Euro examples and U.S. ‘window of opportunity.’
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Topics
- Bio-fuels are reducing need for foreign oil based products and new bio-fiber power, fuel and products
- Bio-fuels are reducing need for foreign oil
- Bio-fiber initiatives
- A U.S. $1.5 billion market by 2012-RISI
- Europe needs U.S. South Pellets
- Developing Methods of Bio-Mass thermal engineering and power generation
- Second generation engineering/plant construction for pellets, power, products.
- Cellulosic bio fuel eliminates competition between food and fuel
- Bio-fuel crossover vehicles of future
- Pellets for poultry industry
- Biomass harvesting and integrated technologies in Nordic pulp and paper companies
- South-wide Biomass Road Map
- Forbes lists top 5 biomass feedstock states, including Georgia
- Transport can make or break you
- Transitioning to a bio-based sustainable future.
- Balancing raw material supply for traditional forest based products and new bio-fiber power, fuel and products
Speakers
Nathan McClure, GFC | Daniel Cassidy - USDA CSREES | Ben Jackson, UGA Forestry | Bill Pennington, Process Unlimited | Ken Muehlenfeld, FP Dev . Auburn | Randy Queen, G. Motors | Dale Threadgill, UGA Agr. Engr. | Ron Barmore, Range Fuels | Gene Zebley, Hurst Boilers | Steve Taylor, Auburn University | Devon Dartnell, GFC | Greg Alles, Bliss | Jill Stuckey | Hon. David Garman, Former Under Secretary of Energy | Ross Harding, Herty Foundation | Greg Heck, Southern Company | Barbara Wells, Arborgen | Joseph James | D.K. Knight, Hatton-Brown | John Carpenter, CAT | Jim Ewing, Ga. Division Dr. Global Commerce | Bob Rice, Bio-Fuels Technologies | Ben Thorpe, Flambeau River Bio Refinery LLC | East Coast Ethanol | Tco Altenative Fuels | Dean Alford, Allied Energy LLC | Dixie Pellets | Green Circle
