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Putting Together a Viable Business Case for Biofuels
Production
The Why, What and How of Biofuels Production
Focus on Biodiesel: markets, mis-conceptions,
financing, quality
Focus on Ethanol: maximising efficiencies,
biogas, risk management, technology
Current confirmed stream participants:
- Derek Mathews, Silversands Ethanol
- Daniel Liwimbi, Ethanol Company Limited
Exploring Alternatives
Current confirmed stream participants:
- Joseph Ofosu-Aikins, Jatropha Africa
- Irene Finnegan, Bioservices
- Ana Lerner, ProBEC Mozambique
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Stream 1:
Critically evaluating the current status of
the biofuels industry in Africa, and putting
this in the wider global context
Current confirmed stream participants:
- Neville Murray, Biodiesel Centre · Erhard
Seiler, Southern African Biofuels Association
- Adriaan Wynne, SA Canegrowers Association
- Serigne Amar, Nortech Senegal
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Stream 3:
Funding and Economics
Current confirmed stream participants:
- Carlo Bakker, World Mobile Plants
- Anton Louis Olivier, NuPlanet Clean Energy
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Stream 2: Legislative Update Current
confirmed stream participants:
- Andrew Makenete, South African Biofuels
Association
- Tyson Bruno Chisambo, Biofuels Association
of Zambia
- Ana Lerner, ProBEC Mozambique
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Stream 4:
Project Round-up
- Siyanda Biodiesel project
- Principle Energy’s project in Mozambique
- Replacing petrol with Cane Ethanol in Malawi
- Omnia’s investment in Zambia’s jatropha
project
- Bio-Diesel in Wireless Networks
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Stream 5: International Case Studies
- SEKAB in Tanzania and Mozambique: Hans Keuken,
HE Blends
- Brazil’s involvement and investment in African
biofuels
- Gushan Energies: producing and commercialising
biodiesel in China
- Enhanced Biofuels & Technologies
- India: Production of non edible feed stock
from Jatropha and Micro algae and aviation
biofuels
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Cutting-Edge Biofuels Technologies: adapting
international technology to African conditions; using
water created from ethanol production for irrigation,
best processes and technologies in cellulosic ethanol
How to adapt international technology appropriately
to be used in local African conditions
Moving Toward 2nd Generation Biofuels:
how to get there, perspectives for 2G technologies
in Europe
Current confirmed stream participants:
- Annie Sugrue, Director, EcoCity Trust Partners
for Euro-African Green Energy PANGEA Workshop
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