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Sneak Preview … 2009 Biofuels Conference Agenda

Intensive Pre-Conference Focus Day:

Premium 2-day Conference

Moving Beyond Current Industry Constraints to Create a Common Platform

Practical Post-Conference Day: Moving beyond 1st generation
     
Monday, 30 March Tuesday, 31 March & Wednesday, 1 April Thursday, 2 April

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

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

Stream 3:
Funding and Economics

Current confirmed stream participants:

  • Carlo Bakker, World Mobile Plants
  • Anton Louis Olivier, NuPlanet Clean Energy

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

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
 

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

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