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Theme: Fueling our Future

Biofuels-2018

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Renowned Speakers

Evgeny Katz
Clarkson University
USA

Roger Ruan
University of Minnesota
USA

Ron Pagel
Illinois State University
USA

Takeshi Sako
Shizuoka University
Japan

Margit Weltschev
Bundesanstalt fÃ¼r Materialforschung und -prÃ¼fung
Germany

Egle Sendzikiene
Aleksandras Stulginskis University
Lithuania

Michael Eggleston
University of Rhode Island
USA

Rafal Strzalka
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Germany

Claudia C Cardoso
Federal Rural University of Pernambuco
Brazil

Ajit Sapre
Reliance Industries Limited
India

Ange Nzihou
IMT Mines Albi
France

Elsa Weiss-Hortala
IMT Mines Albi
France

F. Javier Escudero Sanz
IMT Mines Albi
France

Yasuoki Maeda
Osaka Prefecture University
Japan

Jaspreet Kaur
Panjab University
India

Alex Michine
MetGen
Finland

Dolly Wattal Dhar
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute
India

Bruno Henrique Crespo Porto
BrasÃlia University
Brazil

Armaan Kaur Sandhu
Panjab University
India

Yuan Tian
University of Northern British Columbia
Canada

Andrew Ledlie
Solenis Canada ULC
Canada

Jianbing Li
University of North British Columbia
Canada

Hongsheng Guo
National Research Council Canada
Canada

Samira Lotfi
National research council of Canada
Canada

Guang Zhao
Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology
China

Deepika Awasthi
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
USA

Amarjit Bakshi
Refining Hydrocarbon Technologies LLC
USA

M R Riazi
Kuwait University
Kuwait

Vanessa Elisa Pinheiro
Universidade de SÃ£o Paulo(USP)
Brazil

Anton Holland
NIVA Inc.,
Canada

Jennifier Littlejohns
National Research Council Canada
Canada

Mario Ochoa
Suncor Energy Inc.
Canada

Lianys Ortega Viera
Technological University of Havana â€œJosÃ© Antonio EcheverrÃaâ€
Cuba

Bruce Hillen
Susteen Technologies Canada Ltd.
Canada

Peter Jackman
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
USA

Probir Das
Qatar University
Qatar

Wendy Lamson
Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall
Canada

Kathleen Hefferon
Cornell University
USA

Seema Singh
Sandia National Laboratories
USA

Biofuels-2018

Conference Series LLC Ltd invites each one of all the participants over the globe to attend the 13th International Congress on Biofuels and Bioenergy October 18-20, 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Theme of the Conference is "Biofuels: Fuelling our future” with an objective to empower the appealing research field alongside the need of commercialization by giving a chance to meet the specialists and Business entrepreneurs in the field of Biofuels and Bioenergy.

Conference Name	Place	Dates
Biofuels 2018	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	October 18-20, 2018

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Track -1: Advanced Biofuels

Advanced biofuels are fuels that can be processed from numerous types of biomass. First generation biofuels are processed from the sugars and vegetable oils formed in arable crops, which can be smoothly extracted applying conventional technology. In comparison, advanced biofuels are made from lignocellulose biomass or woody crops, agricultural residues or waste, which makes it tougher to extract the requisite fuel. Advanced biofuel technologies have been devised because first generation biofuels manufacture has major limitations. First generation biofuel processes are convenient but restrained in most cases: there is a limit above which they cannot yield enough biofuel without forbidding food supplies and biodiversity. Many first-generation biofuels rely on subsidies and do not cost competitive with prevailing fossil fuels such as oil, and some of them yield only limited greenhouse gas emissions savings. When considering emissions from production and transport, life-cycle assessment from first-generation biofuels usually approaches those of traditional fossil fuels. Advanced biofuels can aid resolving these complications and can impart a greater proportion of global fuel supply affordable, sustainable and with larger environmental interests.

· Development of bioenergy technology

· Second generation biofuels

· Advanced biofuels from pyrolysis oil

· Thermochemical Routes

· Microbial pathways for advanced biofuels product

· Synthesis of advanced biofuels

· Lignocellulosic Biomass

Track – 2: Algae Biofuels

Algae fuel or algal biofuel is a substitute for liquid fossil fuels that utilizes algae as its source of energy-rich oils. Also, algae fuels are a substitute for commonly known biofuel sources, such as corn and sugarcane. Various companies and government agencies are sponsoring efforts to reduce capital and operating costs and make algae fuel production commercially feasible. Like fossil fuel, algae fuel releases CO2 when burnt, but unlike fossil fuel, algae fuel and other biofuels only release CO2 recently withdrawn from the atmosphere via photosynthesis as the algae or plant grew. The energy crisis and the world food crisis have sparked interest in algaculture (farming algae) for making biodiesel and other biofuels utilizing land unbefitting for agriculture. Among algal fuels' attractive characteristics are that they can be cultivated with negligible impact on freshwater resources, can be generated using saline and wastewater, have a high flash point, and are biodegradable and comparatively harmless to the environment if spilled. Algae cost more per unit mass than other advanced biofuel crops due to high capital and operating costs but are declared to generate between 10 and 100 times more fuel per unit area.

· Culturing Algae

· Harvesting and oil extraction system

· Cyanobacterial biofuels production

· Commercialization of algae biofuels

· Wastewater based algae biofuels production

· Algal biosequestration

· Advances in algal biofuel production

· Biofuels from microalgae and Microbes

Track -3 : Aviation biofuel

Aviation biofuel is a biofuel utilized for aircraft. It is reckoned by some to be the paramount means by which the aviation industry can diminish its carbon footprint. After a multi-year technical analysis from aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and oil companies, biofuels were advocated for commercial use in July 2011. Since then, some airlines have evaluated with using of biofuels on commercial flights. The limelight of the industry has now curved to advanced sustainable biofuels (second generation sustainable aviation fuels) that do not compete with food supplies nor are major consumers of prime agricultural land or fresh water.

· Applications of aviation biofuels

· Jet biofuel

· Commercialization of aviation biofuels

· Green replacement fuels in flights

· Synthesis of aviation biofuel via Fischer-Tropsch process

· Risk analysis of aviation fuels

· Developing of new sources for aviation biofuels

· Cost reduction policies

Track – 4: Bioalcohols and Bioethanol

Biologically synthesized alcohols, most frequently ethanol, and rarely propanol and butanol, are formed by the reaction of microorganisms and enzymes through the fermentation of sugars or starches, or cellulose. Biobutanol (also called biogasoline) is often asserted to provide a direct stand-in for gasoline because it can be used precisely in a gasoline engine. Ethanol fuel is the most widely used biofuel worldwide. Alcohol fuels are formed by fermentation of sugars derived from wheat, sugar beets, corn, molasses, sugar cane and any sugar or starch from which alcoholic liquors such as whiskey, can be produced (such as potato and fruit waste, etc.). The ethanol manufacturing methods applied are enzyme digestion (to release sugars from stored starches), distillation, fermentation of the sugars and drying. Ethanol can be used in petrol engines as a substitute for gasoline; it can be blended with gasoline to any concentration. Current car petrol engines can operate on mixes of up to 15% bioethanol along with petroleum/gasoline. Ethanol has lesser energy density than that of gasoline; this implies that it takes more fuel to generate the same amount of work. An asset of ethanol is its higher octane rating than ethanol-free gasoline accessible at roadside gas stations, which permits the rise of an engine's compression ratio for increased thermal efficiency. In high-altitude locations, some states direct a mix of gasoline and ethanol as a winter oxidizer to lower atmospheric pollution emissions.

· Production of Bioethanol

· Bioalcohols from algae

· Generations of bioalcohols & scope of advancement

· Generations of bioethanol & scope of advancement

· Bioalcohols as automobile fuel

· Bioethanol utilization

· Scale up to industrial level

· Cost models for Bioethanol Production

· Delivering Biomass Substrates for Bioethanol Production

· Bioethanol Economics

· Sustainable Development and Bioethanol Production

· Bioethanol market forces in 2007

Track- 5: Biodiesel

Biodiesel indicates an animal fat-based or vegetable oil diesel fuel comprising of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters. Biodiesel is customarily made by chemically reacting lipids (e.g., soybean oil, vegetable oil, animal fat (tallow)) with an alcohol generating fatty acid esters. Biodiesel is suggested to be utilized in standard diesel engines and is thus well-defined from the vegetable and waste oils used to operate fuel converted diesel engines. Biodiesel can be used singly, or blended with petrodiesel in any proportions. Biodiesel blends can also be utilized as heating oil.

· Biodiesel as automobile fuel

· Biodiesel to hydrogen-cell power

· Biodiesel production on industry level and scale up

· Biodiesel feedstocks

· Crops for biodiesel production

· Efficiency and economic arguments

· Impact of biodiesel on pollutant emissions and public

· Cost effective techniques for biodiesel production

Track – 6: Bioenergy

Bioenergy is renewable energy made accessible from materials acquired from biological origin.Biomass is any organic matter which has deposited sunlight in the form of chemical energy. As a fuel it may comprise wood, straw, wood waste, sugarcane, manure, and many other by-products from different agricultural processes. In its most exclusive sense it is a synonym to biofuel, which is fuel obtained from biological sources. In its wider sense it includes biomass, the biological matter utilized as a biofuel, as well as the social, scientific, economic and technical fields related with utilizing biological sources for energy. This is a common misbelief, as bioenergy is the energy cultivated from the biomass, as the biomass is the fuel and the bioenergy is the energy stored in the fuel.

· Bioenergy crop-Panicum virgatum

· Bioenergy cropping systems

· Bioenergy crops and algae

· Biocatalysts’ and bioenergy

· Quantitative assessment of bioenergy

· Bioenergy feedstock

· Stump harvesting for bioenergy

· Bioenergy Conversion

· Development of bioenergy technology

· Life cycle assessment of bioenergy system

Track – 7: Biogas

Biogas commonly refers to a mixture of various gases formed by the disintegration of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. Biogas can be manufactured from raw matters such as agricultural waste, municipal waste, manure, plant material, green waste, and sewage or food waste. Biogas is a renewable energy source and in diverse cases exerts a limited carbon footprint. Biogas can be manufactured by fermentation of biodegradable materials or anaerobic digestion with anaerobic organisms, which disintegrates material inside an isolated system. Biogas is basically methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) and may have small traces of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), siloxanes and moisture. The gases methane, carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen can be combusted or oxidized with oxygen. This energy yield allows biogas to be benefitted as a fuel; it can be utilized for any heating purpose, such as cooking. It can also be practiced in a gas engine to transform the energy in the gas to electricity and heat.

· Biogas from agricultural waste

· Biogas from algae

· New & possible substrates for biogas production

· Biogas technologies

· Anaerobic packed-bed biogas reactors

· Biogas production

Track – 8: Biohydrogen

Biohydrogen is described as hydrogen produced biologically, most often by algae, bacteria and archaea. Biohydrogen is a potential biofuel attainable from both cultivation and from waste organic materials. Recently, there is a huge demand for hydrogen. There is no record of the production volume and use of hydrogen world-wide; however utilization of hydrogen was predicted to have reached 900 billion cubic meters in 2011. Refineries are large-volume producers and consumers of hydrogen. Today 96% of all hydrogen is extracted from fossil fuels, with 48% from natural gas, 30% from hydrocarbons, and 18% from coal and about 4% by electrolysis. Oil-sands processing, gas-to-liquids and coal gasification projects that are existing, require a vast amount of hydrogen and is presumed to raise the requirement notably within the next few years. Environmental regulations administered in most countries, increase the hydrogen demand at refineries for gas-line and diesel desulfurization. A significant future aspect of hydrogen could be as a replacement for fossil fuels, once the oil deposits are exhausted. This application is however dependent on the advancement of storage techniques to enable proper storage, distribution and combustion of hydrogen. If the cost of hydrogen generation, distribution, and end-user technologies decreases, hydrogen as a fuel could be penetrating the market in 2020. Industrial fermentation of hydrogen, or whole-cell catalysis, requires a finite amount of energy, since fission of water is accomplished with whole cell catalysis, to reduce the activation energy. This permits hydrogen to be manufactured from any organic matter that can be copied through whole cell catalysis as this process does not rely on the energy of substrate.

· Algal biohydrogen

· Bacterial biohydrogen

· Fermentative biohydrogen production

· High-yield biohydrogen production

· Enhancing biohydrogen production

· Biohydrogen purification

· Production of Hydrogen by Photosynthetic organisms

· Emergency of the hydrogen economy

Track – 9: Biomass

Biomass is organic matter extracted from living, or recently living organisms. Biomass can be utilized as a source of energy and it most often directs to plants or plant-based matter which are not used for food or feed, and are precisely called lignocellulosic biomass. As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly via combustion to produce heat, or secondarily after transforming it to numerous forms of biofuel. Conversion of biomass to biofuel can be attained by various methods which are mainly categorized into: thermal, chemical, and biochemical methods. Biomass is a renewable source of fuel to yield energy since waste residues will always prevail – in forms of scrap wood, mill residuals and forest resources and properly directed forests will always have additional trees, and we will invariably have crops and the unconsumed biological matter from those crops.

· Conversion technologies

· Sustainable feedstock development

· Biomass and electricity

· Industrial waste biomass

· Recent developments in sustainable biomass

· Perennial biomass feedstock’s

· Integrated biomass technologies

Track – 10: Biomass feed stocks for renewable energy generation

Biomass is the organic matter derived from plants which is generated through photosynthesis. In particular it can be referred to solar energy stored in the chemical bonds of the organic material. In addition to many benefits common to renewable energy, biomass is attractive because it is current renewable source of liquid transportation of biofuel. The Bioenergy Conference and Biofuel Conferences will optimize and enhance existing systems. However, biomass could play in responding to the nation's energy demands assuming, the economic and advances in conversion technologies will make biomass fuels and products more economically viable? The renewable energy policies in the European Union have already led to a significant progress, energy mix should further change till 2020.

· Biomass Resources for Bioenergy

· Agriculture residues

· Forestry materials

· Energy crops

Track – 11: Biomass Technologies

Several technologies for converting bioenergy are commercial today while others are being piloted or in research and development. There are four types of conversion technologies currently available, each appropriate for specific biomass types and resulting in specific energy products such as Thermal Conversion, Thermochemical conversion, Biochemical conversion, Chemical conversion. The Biomass Technologies include Liquid Biofuels from Biomass and Cellulosic Ethanol from Biomass.

· Latest conversion Technologies in Biomass

· Liquid Biofuels from Biomass

· Trending Research from Biomass

· Cellulosic Ethanol from Biomass

Track – 12: Biorefineries

A biorefinery is a center that melds biomass conversion processes and equipment to manufacture fuels, power, heat, and chemicals from biomass. The biorefinery concept is parallel to today's petroleum refinery, which makes various fuels and products from petroleum. Biorefining is the sustainable conversion of biomass into a spectrum of bio-based products and bioenergy. By producing various products, a biorefinery takes advantage of the various parts in biomass and their intermediates therefore maximizing the value acquired from the biomass feedstock. A biorefinery could, for instance, manufacture one or several low-volume, but high-value, chemical or nutraceutical products and a low-value, but high-volume liquid transportation fuel such as biodiesel. At the same time generating electricity and process heat, by combined heat and power (CHP) technology, for its own use and perhaps adequate for sale of electricity to the local utility. The high-value products boost profitability, the high-volume fuel helps meet energy needs, and the power production aids to lower energy costs and minimize greenhouse gas emissions from conventional power plant facilities. Although some facilities prevail that can be called bio-refineries, the bio-refinery has yet to be fully accomplished. Future biorefineries may play a vital role in yielding chemicals and materials that are traditionally extracted from petroleum.

· Types of biorefineries

· Biorefining systems

· Biorefining scheme from algal and bacterial protein sources

· Integrated biorefinery

· Lignocellulosic material in biorefinery

· Valorization of Biorefinery

· Biowaste biorefinery

· Bio oil production

· Chemical conversion in biorefinery

· Risk management issues

· Principles of biorefineries

Track – 13: Food vs Fuels Debate

Food versus fuel is the plight regarding the risk of distracting farmland or crops for biofuels production to the drawback of the food supply. The biofuel and food price debate concerns wide-ranging views, and is an abiding, controversial one in the literature. There is a conflict about the sense of the issue, what is creating it, and what can or should be rendered to remedy the situation. This intricacy and uncertainty is due to the wide number of concussion and criticism loops that can positively or negatively affect the price system. Furthermore, the relative strengths of these positive and negative impacts change in the short and long terms, and implicate delayed effects. The academic side of the debate is also obscured by the applicability of different economic models and competing forms of statistical analysis.

· Biofuels impact on food security

· Non-food crops for biofuels production

· Agricultural modernization and its impact on society

· Food, fuel and freeways

Track – 14: Production of Biofuels

Currently used liquid biofuels, which include ethanol produced from crops containing sugar and starch and biodiesel from oilseeds, are referred to as first-generation biofuels. These fuels only use a portion of the energy potentially available in the biomass. Various techniques are currently being developed to produce biofuels. However, it is uncertain when such technologies will enter production on a significant commercial scale. The production of Biofuels can be done from Biomass, Biodiesel from Biomass, and Biochemical from Biomass and Biogas from Biomass

· Production of Biofuels from Biomass

· Production of Biodiesel from Biomass

· Production of Biochemicals from Biomass

· Production of Biogas from Biomass

Track – 15: Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. This includes sunlight, geothermal heat, wind energy, tides, water, and various forms of biomass. This energy cannot be exhausted and is constantly renewed. Biomass, is a renewable organic matter, and can include biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, and alcohol fuels.

· Solar Energy

· Wind Energy

· Energy efficiency

· Energy-from-waste

· Renewable chemicals

Biofuels have been continuously investigated as a plausible option wellspring of fuel and serve a key focus for the future vitality showcase that can assume an imperative part in saving vitality security. As the main direct substitute for non-renewable energy sources, biofuels keep on growing in significance, notwithstanding a critical stoppage in speculation. Worldwide exchange stays dynamic, with dynamic development from the real sending out nations.Be that as it may, current creation innovations will soon come up against the points of confinement of asset accessibility, bringing up essential issues in regards to the capacity to meet fuse focuses for 2021, particularly in Europe and the USA. The commitment of various biofuels to diminishing non-renewable energy source utilization differs generally when the Bioenergy utilized as a contribution to their generation is additionally considered. The Bioenergy adjust of a biofuel relies upon components, for example, feedstock attributes, creation area, rural practices and the wellspring of vitality utilized for the transformation procedure.In 2010, overall biofuel generation achieved 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up 17% from 2009, and biofuels gave 2.7% of the world's powers for street transport. Europe was the main biodiesel showcase in 2009 with a generation offer of 49.8%, trailed by the Americas with a creation offer of 32.8% and the Asia Pacific with an offer of 4.4%. The European offer in biodiesel generation has been declining since 2001, while the offer of the Americas and the Asia Pacific expanded. The US is the second biggest maker of biodiesel on the planet, creating 17.7% of the world's biodiesel in 2009. The biodiesel showcase in the US is required to achieve 2,822 million liters in 2010 and 6,453 million liters in 2020. In any case, of all the sustainable wellsprings of vitality, biomass is one of a kind in that it is viably put away sunlight based vitality. It is additionally the main inexhaustible wellspring of carbon and can be handled into helpful strong, fluid, and vaporous powers.

The biomass showcase endured amid the monetary downturn even with low coal costs, strategic obstructions and supply issues. The year 2010 saw greater development in the segment as coal costs are rising by and by making co-terminating coal plants with biomass more alluring. CIS nations like Russia, Australia, and South Africa have entered as noteworthy providers for the Production of Biomass, which if Europe is relied upon to be the biggest sustainable flight fuel showcase over the not so distant because of colossal interest being developed and great condition directions. The developing utilization of biofuels over the globe is one of the key components impelling development avionics fuel showcase. Nations are acquainting commands and approaches with energize the utilization of biofuels in the avionics business to manage the issue of ozone harming substance outflows (GHG). The U.S. military and business planes utilize a mix of Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and ordinary fuel at critical degree. FT mixed fuel was the main market in 2013 attributable to developing interest for safeguard planes. Hydrotreated fly fuel is likewise anticipated that would witness critical development over the conjecture time frame. On the premise of use, sustainable flight fuel advertise has been fragmented into business and protection. Business application fragment is relied upon to be the biggest market over the estimate time frame inferable from touchy traditional aeronautics fuel costs. The expansion in the quantity of air ship in the current years and proceeded with development in the quantity of air travelers in the district are relied upon to add to the development in the avionics fuel showcase in the Americas amid the gauge time frame.

We welcome you, on behalf of the Organizing Committee, each one of all the participants over the globe to attend the 13th International Congress on Biofuels and Bioenergy October 18-20, 2018 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Theme of the Conference is "Biofuels: Fuelling our future” with an objective to empower the appealing research field alongside the need of commercialization by giving a chance to meet the specialists and Business entrepreneurs in the field of Biofuels and Bioenergy.

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