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2011 International Biomass Conference & Expo | May 2-5, 2011 | America’s Center | St. Louis, Missouri
Welcome to Dear Attendee,
Denver
Welcome to the 5th annual International Biomass Conference & Expo, an event co-produced by Biomass Power & Thermal and Biorefining Magazine and organized by BBI International. We are pleased to bring the world’s largest biomass event to Denver, a hub of energy research geographically nestled on the border of the agricultural lands of the Great Plains to the east and the vast forest resources of the Rocky Mountains to the West. The region is home to some of this country’s most important research facilities and we are indebted to many of them for their assistance in forming the content we’ve assembled for this year’s event. Our dynamic program features five tracks exploring the production of heat, power, fuels and pellets from a broad range of biomass inputs. In total, we’ve organized 36 panels that will unfold over the next three days and we are confident that the International Biomass Conference & Expo is the industry’s most robust assembly of biomass professionals and presentations available. We are indebted to the esteemed industry professionals who helped us select speakers, organize panels and develop a world-class agenda. With hundreds of speaker abstracts submitted from more than 20 nations, this year’s program reflects the global nature of our industry. More than an educational forum, the International Biomass Conference & Expo is also a premier networking event and the world’s pre-eminent biomass trade show experience. This year’s Expo includes more than 200 exhibitors. Please take time to visit our exhibitors during the numerous Expo networking events over the next three days. For your convenience, the Expo doors will remain open during all breakout panel sessions. I’d like to take a moment to thank the five organizations that agreed to open their doors to our attendees as tour hosts. This year’s agenda features the largest tour offering ever assembled at the International Biomass Conference & Expo and we’d like to recognize Custom Instrumentation Services Corporation, Community Power Corporation, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder County, and the New Belgium Brewery for their hospitality. Finally, I’d like to personally thank our sponsors and supporting organizations for their contributions to both the industry and this event. We certainly couldn’t do this without them. As always, we urge you to help us enrich your conference experience. Feel free to stop by the registration area if you have any questions. We’re eager to assist you. Enjoy the show!
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PROGRAM GUIDE CONTENTS 06 | Conference Tidbits CO-LOCATED
Rocky Mountain Forest Restoration & Bioenergy Summit
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APRIL 16, 2012
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SPEAKER BIOSTIDBITS CONFERENCE
WELCOME
COLORADO CONVENTION CENTER
Welcome to the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo in beautiful Denver, Colorado. We have provided valuable information to assist you in your information needs during the event. Please visit our Denver Welcome desk located in Lobby A at the 14th Street main entrance of the Denver Convention Center, for any questions about Denver. Conference professionals are also available on the 2nd level past Lobby A for any additional questions about the conference. A complete map of all conference and expo locations can be found on pages 4 & 5 of this program guide. Thank you for your support of the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo. Enjoy Denver!
The official conference and expo location for the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo is the Colorado Convention Center. All activities related to the event, except for the Wednesday evening event at Coors Field and industry tours, will take place at the Colorado Convention Center.
Colorado Convention Center 700 14th St Denver, Colorado, USA 80202 Tel: +1-303-228-8000
Web: http://denverconvention.com
CONFERENCE HOTELS
The Grand Hyatt Denver Downtown and the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotels are the official hotels of the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo. Hotel address and contact information is as follows:
Grand Hyatt Denver 1750 Welton Street Denver, Colorado, USA 80202 Tel: +1-303-295-1234 Fax: +1-303-626-2543
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel 1550 Court Place Denver, Colorado, USA 80202 Tel: +1-800-325-3535 Fax: +1-303-603-4009
Web: http://granddenver.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels
Web: http://www.sheratondenverdowntown.com
SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
The 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo speaker presentations will be made available online to all officially registered attendees. Shortly after the conclusion of the event you will receive an email and link to the on-line presentation website. Access to the website will require the email address and password provided to you on your original registration confirmation.
REGISTRATION HOURS
The official registration hours for the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo are as follows:
Sunday, April 15 Monday, April 16 Tuesday, April 17 Wednesday, April 18
2:00 PM – 7:00 PM 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM
The conference registration desk is located in the “A” Lobby of the Colorado Convention Center.
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CONFERENCE TIDBITS EXHIBIT HOURS
The official expo hours for the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo are as follows:
Monday, April 16 Tuesday, April 17 Wednesday, April 18
5:00 AM – 7:00 PM 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM
The expo hall is located in the “Exhibit Hall A” of the Colorado Convention Center.
EXHIBITOR SET-UP AND MOVE-OUT EXHIBIT HALL A
Exhibitors at the 2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo may set-up exhibit booth properties the following day and hours: Monday, April 16
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Exhibitor move-out hours are as follows: Wednesday, April 18
3:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Entry into the exhibit hall will require an official conference exhibitor name badge or you will be denied entry into the exhibit hall. You may obtain your badge credentials at the registration desk located in Lobby A. During non-expo hours you are encouraged to attend the educational sessions to network with colleagues and discover new information about the thriving biomass industry. The expo concludes at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, April 18. Move-out will begin at 3:30 pm until 6:30 pm. Please be courteous of all the exhibiting companies and refrain from breaking down before 3:30 pm. If you are contracting a shipping carrier for your booth properties separate from Valley Expo & Displays shipping service, your carriers must arrive at America’s Center at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, April 18 to pick up your shipments. Thank you very much!
WEDNESDAY EVENING
Join us on Wednesday evening to watch the Colorado Rockies take on the San Diego Padres at beautiful Coors Field. Located in the heart of downtown Denver, Coors Field has become the favorite ballpark of fans across baseball. Relax, network and dine with other conference attendees as they catch the game from the luxury of the suite level. First pitch is at 6:40 pm and dinner will be provided. Seating is limited. Coors Field is walking distance from the Sheraton and the Grand Hyatt. Please take the 16th Street Mall Shuttle Bus down (West) to Blake Street. At Blake you will head North and walk 3-4 blocks to 20th and Blake Street. Transportation is not provided. The baseball park will be right in front of you. You may take a taxi as well. We look forward to seeing you at the park!
BIOMASS INDUSTRY TOURS
BBI International is pleased to offer two separate tours of bioenergy facilities at this year’s International Biomass Conference & Expo. The tours offer a broad spectrum of biomass research, technology development, and operating commercial scale biomass to energy facilities. The tours are held the day before and the day immediately following the main conference respectively, and attendees wishing to join both tours should register for each tour separately. Monday, April 16
Thursday, April 19
Custom Instrumentation Services Corporation (CiSCO) Englewood, CO
Boulder County Biomass District Heating Plant Boulder, CO
Community Power Corporation (CPC) Littleton, CO
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL): National Bioenergy Center Golden, CO
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Boulder County Biomass Forestry Operation Boulder, CO
New Belgium Brewery Fort Collins, CO
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CO-LOCATED
MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado
SUMMIT AGENDA
PROUD SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
MONDAY, APRIL 16 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Summit Registration
Lobby A, 14th Street Entrance
8:30 am - 8:40 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks Kolby Hoagland, Program Manager, BBI International Senator Mark Udall, U.S. Senate, Video Welcome Message Introduction of Keynote Presentation and Keynote Presentation Daniel Jiron, Regional Forester, Rocky Mountain Region, U.S. Forest Service Arthur “Butch” Blazer, Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, USDA Panel Discussion The State of the Forests in the Rocky Mountains Moderator: Lyle Laverty, President, The Laverty Group Joseph Duda, Deputy State Forester, Colorado State Forest Service
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
8:40 am - 9:10 am 9:10 am - 10:40 am
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
Biomass in Colorado
Cal Wettstein, Incident Commander, Rocky Mountain Bark Beetle Incident, USFS Status of the Bark Beetle Epidemic in the Rocky Mountain Region
Daniel Tinker, Forest & Fire Ecologist/Assoc. Professor, Botany & Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming Forest Resilience and Future Western Forests
Kurt Mackes, Senior Research Scientist, Colorado State University Supply and Economic Considerations for Utilizing Forest Biomass
10:40 am - 10:50 am
Networking Break
10:50 am - 12:20 pm
Panel Discussion Building Partnerships through Policy Moderator: John Bennett, Co-Chief Executive Officer, The Aspen Center for Environmental Studies Dan Gibbs, County Commissioner, Summit County (Colorado) Senator Gail Schwartz, Senate District 5, Colorado State Senate
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
Statewide Initiatives
Jay O’Laughlin, Director, Policy Analysis Group & Professor, Forestry/Policy Sciences, University of Idaho Forest Biomass Resources, Bioenergy Markets and Policy Approaches across the Western Region
Richard Stem, Forester/Consultant, Resource Solutions LLC Current and Needed Regional and National Policy
12:20 pm - 1:15 pm
Catered Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:45 pm
Panel Discussion Affected Parties: Discovering Potential Partnerships Moderator: Phil Kastelic, Principal, Colorado Forest and Energy LLC Al White, Director, Colorado Tourism Office, Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
The Integration of Tourism and Reforestation
Don Kennedy, Environmental Scientist, Denver Water Board
From Forests to Faucets: How Denver Water and U.S. Forest Service Partnership Began
R.E. Vann, Director of Renewable Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region Increasing the Pace of Restoration with our Partners
Jill Ozarski, Natural Resources Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Mark Udall
A View from the U.S. Senate: Diverse Constituents, Declining Budgets, and Finding a Way Forward
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Networking Break
3:00 pm - 4:30 am
Panel Discussion Making the Economics of Forest Restoration Work Moderator: Mike Eckhoff, Ph.D. Candidate, Colorado State University Dean Rostrom, Founding Partner, Evergreen Clean Energy
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
Putting Together the Pieces for a Financially Viable Biomass Power Project
Chad Julian, Lead, Forestry & Fire Division, Boulder County Parks and Open Space Forest Mangement: A Boulder County Perspective
Diana Golis, Manager Power Supply and Contracts, Holy Cross Energy The Electric Utility’s Role in Biomass Projects
Cody Neff, Founder, West Range Reclamation
Ensuring a Consistent Supply of Material: The Role of Long Term Stewardship Contracting
4:30 pm - 4:35 pm
Closing Remarks Kolby Hoagland, Program Manager, BBI International
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
International Biomass Conference & Expo Grand Opening & Welcome Reception Registered attendees to the Rocky Mountain Forest Restoration & RECEPTION Bionergy Summit receive a complimentary pass to the SPONSORED BY Grand Opening & Welcome Reception
Rooms 102 - 106, Street Level
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MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado John Bennett is Co-CEO of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES). He was previously a successful business leader, a four-term mayor of Aspen, Vice President of the Aspen Institute, and President of For The Forest. ACES is dedicated to preserving and restoring biodiversity by building an active community of informed, capable, and motivated environmental stewards. Over the years, ACES has provided programs in ecology and the natural sciences for everyone from school children to community leaders and national decision makers. In addition to its adult naturalist programs, ACES educational programs make some 30,000 contacts with students every school year. Along with educational programs, ACES undertakes ecological restoration projects to enhance the health and biodiversity of forest and riparian areas of the Roaring Fork Valley.
Dan Gibbs is a County Commissioner in Summit County, Colorado. Dan feels blessed to represent the “the heart of Colorado” and is working to make a difference in the community he lives in and loves. Dan has also served in the Colorado State Senate for District 16 which includes Summit, Grand, Gilpin, Clear Creek, and western parts of Jefferson and Boulder counties. Before his service in the State Senate, he served in the Colorado House of Representatives for House District 56 which includes Summit, Eagle and Lake counties. In the State Senate, Dan served as the chair of the Senate Transportation Committee and was a member of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Since 2006, Dan has worked tirelessly to bring a collaborative approach to some of Colorado’s most pressing issues, including the economy, education, transportation and forest health. He is a certified Willdland Firefighter and is affiliated with the ROSS system in which he is on-call to fight wildfires throughout the US. Dan is a graduate of Western State College of Colorado with a B.A. in Sociology.
Arthur “Butch” Blazer serves as USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. In 2003, Governor Bill Richardson appointed Butch as “State Forester” of New Mexico, the first Native American to hold that position. During his tenure as State Forester, Butch was also named as Chair of the KEYNOTE Council of Western State Foresters and Co-Chair for the WestPRESENTATION ern Forestry Leadership Coalition. A member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, Butch has been intimately involved in Tribal issues throughout his life. Prior to his service as State Forester, he served 27 years in the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs as a Range Management Specialist, Natural Resources Manager, and Agency Superintendent. Blazer is the former owner of Blazer Conservation Connections, a natural resources based consulting company that specialized in connecting clients with the resources needed to enhance and protect the environment. He was also a co-founder of the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society, serving on their Board of Directors and as National President.
Diana Golis is Manager Power Supply and Contracts for Holy
Cross Energy in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Diana works with the electric cooperative’s wholesale energy suppliers and local renewable energy providers. She has been with Holy Cross since 2005, and prior to that was a project manager and field engineer on industrial and residential construction projects. Diana has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and a M.B.A. in Operations Management from Regis University. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado.
Joseph Duda is Deputy State Forester with the Colorado State Forest Service. Joe has 36 years professional forestry experience. He joined the Colorado State Forest Service in 2001. Joe’s experience prior to joining the Colorado State Forest Service includes serving as a resource manager for a forest products company. Throughout his career he has actively participated in professional and community organizations. He has held leadership positions with the Society of American Foresters, Colorado Timber Industry Association, Boy Scouts of America, local church boards and has been elected to local pubic positions. Joe has a B.S. in Forestry from Michigan Technological University.
national in the company’s event content planning division. Kolby joined BBI International last September after completing a M.S. of Agriculture and a Master’s Certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His specific interests and expertise focus on energy grass production, multifunctional landscapes, and energy policy. Kolby’s career goal is to facilitate proactive dialogue among stakeholders to advance bioenergy down economically sustainable and environmentally prudent paths by promoting efficiency and environmental stewardship of biomass production systems.
Mike Eckhoff is a Ph.D. Candidate in Forest Science, specializing in Natural Resources History and Policy, in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University. He also works with the Forest Management and the Outreach Divisions in the Colorado State Forest Service. His principal research focus is identifying and linking solutions to public land management problems and the emerging energy crisis. Solutions center on analyzing forest biomass use, both contemporary and historical, with an emphasis on the Rocky Mountain West. His dissertation, “The Politics of Forest Energy in Colorado, 1876-2011,” argues that entrepreneurs promoted using forest biomass from federal lands for energy by linking forest health improvements to energy security over time. Efforts of the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop forest energy projects in Colorado are included.
Daniel Jirón is Regional Forester of the Rocky Mountain Region for the U.S. Forest Service. Daniel was just appointed to this position in March this year. He is responsible for the administration of over 22 million acres in 17 National Forests and seven National Grasslands, as well as cooperative efforts with state and private landowners in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and eastern Wyoming. He has also served as Deputy Regional Forester for the Pacific Southwest Region, as USDA’s Forest Service Representative on the Board of Directors for the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, and as Chair of the Lake Tahoe Regional Executives. Along with a notable line-up of Forest supervisory and director positions across New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, Daniel also served as an aide to United States Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado. Daniel earned a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University in 1986 and a master’s degree from Regis University of Denver in 1997.
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Chad Julian leads the Forestry & Fire Division for Boulder County Parks and Open Space. Chad also co-supervises the county Fire Management Officer position. He oversees forest restoration and research, prescribed and wildland fire management, fuels management, the biomass and heating program and volunteer and education opportunities. The Forestry & Fire Division works closely with municipalities, agencies and researchers throughout the region to ensure that field work follows the most current findings and best management practices for Forestry & Fire Management. Chad has also worked as a Forestry Technician for Boulder County Parks and Open Space which involved managing the prescribed & wildland fire programs and general forestry technician duties such as: data collection, prescription writing and contract administration. Before his employment positions with the County, he was employed with the United States Forest Service on the Medicine Bow–Routt National Forest in Walden, Colorado. Chad holds a B.S. in Hydrology and Watershed Management from the University of Wyoming.
Dr. Kurt Mackes is a Senior Research Scientist for the Colorado State Forest Service and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University. Kurt is currently conducting a variety of research projects and extension work related to forest products and wood utilization in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region. Kurt received both his B. S. and M. S. degrees in Wood Science and Technology from Colorado State University and a Ph. D. in Forestry and Forest Products from Virginia Tech.
Phil Kastelic is Principal of Colorado Forest and Energy LLC (CF&E). Phil founded CF&E to develop community-based bioenergy projects and provide sustainable biomass combined heat and power to facilities in rural communities using forest/agricultural feedstock and waste streams from the local community. In the past two years, CF&E has worked in a wide-range of Colorado communities where sustainable healthy forests, economic development and clean energy are valued. A third generation Coloradoan and Eagle Scout, he has learned that the existing forest products businesses in Colorado highly value stewardship of our forests. Phil earned a B.S. degree from the University of Colorado and a M.B.A. from The George Washington University.
Cody Neff is Founder of West Range Reclamation LLC. Cody and his wife, Stephanie, founded the business in 2001. Over 11 years, West Range Reclamation LLC has completed over 300 contracts and 70,000 acres of forest management and natural resource restoration projects in five western states. They employ over 50 employees and numerous subcontractors. West Range is the contractor for the 10-year Front Range Long Term Stewardship Contract, covering four national forests, as well as several other long-term stewardship contracts and timber sales throughout the Rocky Mountains. West Range is devoted to fully utilizing the resources it removes from its projects and believes that the bioenergy industry is an important partner for sustainable forest restoration.
Don Kennedy is an Environmental Scientist for the Denver Water Board. Don has worked for Denver Water more than 25 years in this role; his job duties are diverse. Currently, Don’s main focus is watershed wildfire protection within Denver Water’s water collection system. Other projects he works on are stream improvement, land reclamation, relicensing of facilities and projects requiring compliance with governmental acts such as National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act to the Endangered Species Act. Prior to working with Denver Water, he worked for a consulting firm, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Park Service. Don has a bachelor’s degree in Forestry and a master’s degree in Biology.
Jay O’Laughlin is Professor of Forestry & Policy Sciences at the University of Idaho. Since 1989, Jay has also been full-time Director of the College of Natural Resources Policy Analysis Group, funded by the Idaho Legislature to provide objective analysis of natural resource issues important to Idaho citizens as suggested by an advisory committee of natural resource leaders. Recent publications feature policy analyses for wildfire, wood bioenergy, and sustainable forest management for wood products and carbon sequestration. Jay also works on these issues for the Western Governors’ Association Forest Health Advisory Committee and for the Idaho Strategic Energy Alliance, chairing the Forestry/Biomass Task Force and writing its report on opportunities and challenges of wood bioenergy. He was elected Fellow of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) in 2000; in 2010 Jay received the SAF’s Award in Forest Science for distinguished research in managerial sciences leading to the advancement of forestry.
Lyle Laverty is Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. Lyle was confirmed by the United States Senate with the direct administrative responsibility for the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lyle has also served as Director of Colorado State Parks, Associate Deputy Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, responsible for the implementation of the National Fire Plan on more than 191,000,000 acres of NFS lands, and as Regional Forester of the Rocky Mountain Region of the U.S. Forest Service, responsible for natural resource stewardship of more than 22 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Today, he is actively seeking market solutions to address the serious forest health issues facing the intermountain west. He is a Registered Professional Forester in California and maintains a Certified Forester registration with the Society of American Foresters.
Jill Ozarski is the Natural Resources Policy Advisor for U.S. Senator Mark Udall from Colorado. Jill serves as the Senator’s primary policy advisor for public lands and natural resource conservation issues, including wilderness and forest health. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts, whose members include 60 not-for-profit land trusts and local government open space programs. She has also worked for The Wilderness Society and The Nature Conservancy. In addition, Jill serves as Chair of the Colorado Natural Areas Council, which advises the State Parks Board, and Vice-Chair of the Colorado Real Estate Commission. For fun, she enjoys exploring public lands and volunteering as a mentor for Team In Training triathletes. She received her Master’s of Public Policy and Master’s of Environmental Management degrees from Duke University in 2001.
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MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado Dean Rostrom is Founding Partner of Evergreen Clean Energy LLC, a developer of renewable energy projects focused on base load energy sources since 2008. Dean is also Founder and Principal of Eagle Valley Clean Energy LLC, the project company developing Colorado’s first commercial scale biomass power plant, located in Gypsum, Colorado. Dean has had nearly 20 years of experience in global financial markets, most recently as Managing Director in the fixed income division of Deutsche Bank, based in London. He previously worked for JPMorgan and Lehman Brothers in the fixed income area in New York, Asia and Europe. He has structured and financed over $10 billion in transactions across a wide variety of assets and structures. Dean practiced corporate and securities law at Morrison & Foerster and White & Case after earning his J.D. from Brigham Young University Law School, a B.A. from the University of Washington and graduate studies at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies (Stanford Center) in Yokohama, Japan.
Senator Mark Udall has represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives since 1999. Mark’s assignments on the Armed Services, Energy and Natural Resources, Intelligence and Aging committees give him a platform to address issues important to Colorado, and he is known for OPENING reaching across party lines to solve problems. His work spans REMARKS issues from creating wilderness areas in our national parks and reducing the risk of wildfire, to promoting Colorado’s aerospace, high-tech, and renewable energy industries and encouraging policies to stimulate innovation and help the private sector create jobs. Mark was born in Tucson, Arizona, but has spent his entire adult life in Colorado, cementing his connection to our Western lands. An avid mountaineer, he moved to Colorado’s Western Slope to work for Outward Bound after graduating from Williams College in 1972. As Outward Bound’s executive director from 1985 to 1995, Mark gained first-hand experience running a business, which informs his work to advocate for business-friendly policies.
Senator Gail Schwartz is serving in her second term in the Colorado State Senate, where she represents the 11 diverse counties of Senate District 5. Gail is chair of the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy committee and serves on the Transportation committee, committee on Legal Services, and Capital Development committee. She has a distinguished record in working to promote energy diversification and create new jobs by encouraging energy conservation, efficiency, and expanding Colorado’s energy portfolio with solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass resources. Before being elected to the state senate, Gail was appointed to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education by Governor Roy Romer in 1995 and she was then elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents from Congressional District 3 in 2000, where she served as a member for four years and the Vice Chair for two.
R. E. Vann is Director of Renewable Resources for the U.S. Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Region. R.E. oversees program management and policy responsibilities to the region’s Forest Management, Forest Health Protection, Wildlife, Fisheries, Threatened & Endangered Species, Rare Plants, Invasive Species, Range Management and Vegetation Ecology programs. He also oversees the region’s Aerial Detection Survey program in monitoring the current mountain pine beetle epidemic. The Rocky Mountain Region consists of 17 national forests and seven national grasslands covering 22 million acres in the states of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado. Previously, R.E. coordinated the ecological restoration directive at the Washington Office. R.E. has 34 years of Forest Service experience as Director, Acting Forest Supervisor, Deputy Forest Supervisor, District Ranger, Timber Management Assistant, Silviculturist, District Planner, Resource Assistant, and Forester. R.E. received his Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management from Auburn University and graduate studies in Remote Sensing from Mississippi State University.
Richard Stem is Forester/Consultant with Resource Solutions LLC. With 28 years of resource management experience in government organizations and a Top Secret Sensitive clearance, Rich is recognized for his ability to develop and lead diverse external and governmental teams and organizations. His experience in program management and conflict resolution covers the industries of engineering, forestry, biology, geology, archeology, construction, finance, administration and logistics. His last assignment with the U.S. Forest Service was as Deputy Administrator for the 22 million acre, 5 State Rocky Mountain Region, consisting of 11 National Forests, 2400 employees and a $350+ million dollar budget. As an independent contractor, Rich has worked directly for the Governor of Wyoming solving issues in resource management and for various energy companies (retainer and project) to secure permits for energy exploration. Rich is the primary consultant to Eagle Valley Clean Energy in locating and building of a 10 MW co-generation facility in Colorado.
Cal Wettstein is the United States Forest Service Incident Commander for the Rocky Mountain Region Bark Beetle Incident Management Organization that covers the Medicine Bow/Routt, Arapaho/Roosevelt, and White River National Forests. Cal has worked for the USFS for 37 years in California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Alaska, Oregon, and Colorado with experience in timber, recreation, lands, fire management, forest planning, and administration. He has served as the IC for 3 years. Cal has a B.S. in Forestry from Rutgers and a M.S. from Northern Arizona University.
Dr. Daniel Tinker is a Forest and Fire Ecologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany and Program in Ecology at the University of Wyoming. Dan’s research and educational interests are in forest and ecosystem ecology, particularly with respect to natural disturbance regimes and their effects on ecological processes, including the effects of post-disturbance spatial heterogeneity in large, forested ecosystems, such as the Greater Yellowstone Area. He and his colleagues have recently completed a three-year project funded by the Joint Fire Science Program investigating the reciprocal interactions between wildfire and bark beetles and how they impact landscape structure and wildfire risk.
Al White is the Director of the Colorado Tourism Office (CTO). Al was the House appointee to the CTO board for the past 10 years. Prior to this position, Al served eight years in the Colorado House of Representatives before he was elected to the Colorado Senate two years ago. During his term in office, White served as an Assistant Majority Leader. After volunteering to serve in the military, he was honorably discharged from the Army and relocated to Colorado where he attended the University of Colorado. He then moved to the mountains of Winter Park, and began his career as entrepreneur in the ski business. Al and his wife spent 25 years as owners and operators of several full service ski shops, a bike shop, and a mountain lodge. As an active member of the business community, he served on several bank boards, and was Vice Chair of the Winter Park Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce.
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SPEAKER BIOSAGENDA CONFERENCE SUNDAY, APRIL 15 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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MONDAY, APRIL 16 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
Conference Registration Open
7:45 am - 4:00 pm
Biomass Facility Tours
8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Exhibitor Move-In
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Expo Grand Opening & Welcome Reception
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17 7:00 am - 7:00 pm
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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Four Seasons Ballroom Pre-function, Level 2
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8:00 am - 10:00 am General Session
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8:00 am - 8:15 am
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WELCOME Tim Portz, Program Director, BBI International
8:15 am - 8:45 am
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Four Seasons Ballroom
Dan Nolan, Chief Executive Officer, Sabot 6
Energy Security as a National Security Challenge: Understanding DOD’s Energy Requirements and Mandates
8:45 am - 10:00 am
GENERAL SESSION PANEL
Director’s Roundtable: Association Priorities for Industry Growth in an Election Year
Four Seasons Ballroom
Moderator: Tim Portz, Program Director, BBI International Gary Melow, State Projects Coordinator, Biomass Power Association Joseph Seymour, Executive Director, Biomass Thermal Energy Council Jennifer Hedrick, Executive Director, Pellet Fuel Institute Michael McAdams, President, Advanced Biofuels Association Joe Jobe, Chief Executive Officer, National Biodiesel Board 10:00 am - 10:30 am Refreshment Break in the Expo
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TRACK 1: PELLETS & DENSIFIED BIOMASS
Using Torrefaction to Accelerate the Deployment of Biomass as an Energy Input
Rooms 108/110/112, Level 2
Moderator: Thane Browning, National Sales Manager, Aumund Corporation Adrian Pirraglia Tunez, Research Assistant, North Carolina State University
Technical and Economic Modeling for the Production of Torrefied Ligno-Cellulosic Biomass for the U.S.
Edward Ryall, Commercial & Marketing Director, Thermya Biocoal Technology Operating Experience
Ezra Bar-Ziv, Professor, Michigan Technological University Biocoal: A Drop-In Fuel in Coal-fired Power Plants TRACK 2 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 2: INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL THERMAL ENERGY
Mastering the Art and Science of Biomass Harvest, Handling and Delivery
Rooms 107/109/111/113, Level 2
Moderator: Daniel Sabin, President, Iowa Northern Railway Company John Saucier, Material Handling Product Manager, ProcessBarron Right-Sized Biomass Receiving, Processing, Storage, and Delivery Systems
Therese Glowacki, Natural Resource Manager, Boulder County Parks and Open Space Beetle Kill to Biomass Heat
Jayant Khambekar, Power Industry Specialist, Jenike & Johanson Inc. Material Handling Challenges for Woody Biomass
Jim Wimberly, President, BioEnergy Systems LLC Establishing Feedstock Supply Chains TRACK 3 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 3: BIOMASS POWER
Driving Risk Out of Biomass Power Projects
Rooms 205/207, Level 2
Moderator: Jon Rager, Principal, Poyry Management Consulting Jordan Solomon, President, Ecostrat Inc. Feedstock Risk Mitigation Strategies
William Strauss, President, FutureMetrics Hedging Wood Price Risk for BioEnergy Projects
Tim Rooney, Project Manager, Antares Group Inc.
Incorporating Uncertainty and Risk in Biomass Resource Analysis
Matthew Markee, President, Recast Energy Right-Sized Biomass-to-Power Facilities
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TUESDAY, APRIL 17 CONTINUED 10:30 am - Noon TRACK 4 SPONSORED BY
Concurrent Tracks
TRACK 4: BIOGAS & LANDFILL GAS
Gas Cleaning and Contaminant Measuring Considerations for Biogas and Landfill Gas
Rooms 102/104/106, Level 2
Moderator: Howard Hohl, Representative Sales Manager, EISENMANN Corporation Steve Milford, Product Business Manager, Endress + Hauser
Proven Ultrasonic Technology gives Continuous and Reliable Determination of Biogas Flow, Temperature
Gokhan Alptekin, Vice President, Technology, TDA Research Novel Biogas and Landfill Gas Purification System
Su Anne Huang, Market Manager, Landfills, FlexEnergy
Integrating Thermal Oxidation and Turbine Technology to Generate Power from Low Btu Biogas
Edgar Argueta, Senior Project Engineer, SCS Engineers / SCS Energy
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TRACK 5: ADVANCED BIOFUELS & BIOBASED CHEMICALS
Algae’s Allure: Determining Best Practices in Algae Cultivation, Harvesting and Conversion Methods
Rooms 201/203, Level 2
Moderator: Luke Geiver, Associate Editor, Biomass Power & Thermal and Pellet Mill Magazine Val Smith, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas Applications of Ecological Principles to Algal Biofuel Production
Bill Charneski, Director, Product Engineering, OriginOil Inc. Strategies for Utilizing Whole Algae Biomass
Anju Dahiya, President & Research Scientist, General Systems Research LLC Algae Biomass Production for Biofuel Integrated with Wastewater Treatment
Jason Quinn, Research Scientist, Colorado State University
Resource and Productivity Evaluation of Microalgae Biofuels in the U.S. Incorporating GIS Spatial Resolution
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1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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Exhibit Hall A, Level 1
TRACK 1: PELLETS & DENSIFIED BIOMASS
Biochar’s Growing Importance as a Valuable Coproduct of Biomass Energy Production
Rooms 108/110/112, Level 2
Moderator: John Bonitz, Farm Outreach & Policy Advocate, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Greg Karr, Program Manager, MRIGlobal Biochar Utilization in an Integrated System for Bioenergy Crop Production and Carbon Sequestration
Paul Wever, President, Chip Energy Chip Energy and Fuels of the Future
Samuel Bamberg, Environmental Consultant & Vice President, S. Lynn Bamberg LLC / The Mines Group Inc. Use of Biochar for Reclamation at a Major Gold Mine
Andrew Harley, Vice President, Soil Science and Reclamation, Biochar Solutions Inc. Biochar: A Nexus for Low Value Woody Biomass and Reclamation in the Intermountain West TRACK 2 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 2: INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL THERMAL ENERGY
Investigating Feedstock Cost Indicators: Supply, Demand, and the Influence of Natural Gas
Rooms 107/109/111/113, Level 2
Moderator: Kate Bechen, Attorney, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Kelly Murphy, President, Boulder Natural Solutions Will Natural Gas Win Over Biomass?
William Perritt, Senior Editor, Wood Biomass Market Report Wood Biomass Feedstock Market Review
Amanda Mott, Energy Projects Specialist, Wisconsin State Energy Office Wisconsin’s Bioenergy Feedstock Assessment
Don McCabe, Vice President, Ontario Federation of Agriculture Innovative Biomass Value Chain for Ontario TRACK 3 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 3: BIOMASS POWER
Understanding and Complying with Increasingly Stringent Emissions Regulations
Rooms 205/207, Level 2
Moderator: Sarah Gray, Senior Environmental Scientist, Custom Instrumentation Services Michael Readey, Managing Director, AeriNOx Inc. Reducing Emissions from Biomass-Fueled Engines and Boiler Systems
David Minott, Senior Consultant, ERM Environmental Resources Management The New Biomass Boiler Rules: Can EPA Get It Right?
Craig Thiry, Director, Business Development, The Avogadro Group LLC
Compliance of New Plants with PM2.5 and MACT Emission Limits: The Risks of Emission Testing
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SPEAKER BIOSAGENDA CONFERENCE TUESDAY, APRIL 17 CONTINUED 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm TRACK 4 SPONSORED BY
Concurrent Tracks
TRACK 4: BIOGAS & LANDFILL GAS
Biogas Today: Energy Capture from Waste in Practice
Rooms 102/104/106, Level 2
Moderator: Bjorn Hartzell, Chief Executive Officer, Scandia CleanTech USA Prab Sethi, Senior Project Manager, California Energy Commission Demonstrating Application of Waste to Useful Energy
Jim Alkire, Project Officer, U.S. DOE Fuel Cell Technologies Program
Waste-to-Energy Projects Integrating Biogas and Fuel Cells being Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
Joseph Curro, Principal Engineer, CDM Smith Citrus Processing Plant gets Juiced on Landfill Gas
Randall Lack, Chief Marketing Officer, Element Markets LLC Unlocking the Value of Biogas TRACK 5 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 5: ADVANCED BIOFUELS & BIOBASED CHEMICALS
Rooms 201/203, Level 2
Unique Thermal Pretreatment Steps to Biofuel Intermediates to Realize the Energy Potential in Challenging Biomass Streams Moderator: Lew Christopher, Director/Professor, Bioprocessing R&D Center, South Dakota School of Mines Nathaniel Anderson, Research Forester,USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station A Comparison of Two Thermochemical Conversion Technologies used to Process Forest Biomass
John Hurley, Senior Research Advisor, University of North Dakota- EERC Performance of a Mobile Indirect Biomass Liquefaction System
Susan Stagg-Williams, Associate Professor, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Kansas Wastewater Fed Algae: Hydrothermal Liquefaction to Bio-crude
Bryan Yeh, Assistant Vice President, Biofuels, SAIC
Processing Biomass with Subcritical Water and Upgrading into Value-Added Products
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Refreshment Break in the Expo
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Concurrent Tracks
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TRACK 1: PELLETS & DENSIFIED BIOMASS
Opening and Growing Overseas Pellet Markets Sustainably
Exhibit Hall A, Level 1
Rooms 108/110/112, Level 2
Moderator: Greg Chafee, Chair, Sustainability Practice, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Nicole Forsberg, Graduate Student, Lund University, IIIEE What Must You Do to Sell Biomass to Europe?
Bengt-Erik Lofgren, Chief Executive Officer, ÄFAB Älvdalens Fastbränsle Key Issues for Pellet Market Development in Sweden
Max Holdo, Manager, Business Development & Sustainability, Enviva Biomass Biomass Sustainability: A Value Proposition
Martha Butwin, Senior International Trade Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce, Denver U.S. Export Assistance Center Resources for U.S. Pellet Exporters TRACK 2 SPONSORED BY
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Recognizing and Making Real the Promises of Biomass Derived Thermal Energy
Rooms 107/109/111/113, Level 2
Moderator: Renee Loesche, IGEN Biofuels Coordinator/Instructor, Biofuels & Ethanol Production Career, Southeastern Illinois College Gary Radloff, Director, Midwest Energy Policy, Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative Coupling Biomass Quality and Quantity to Create a Statewide Energy Plan
Rob Clark, Leader, Forest Management Group, USDA Forest Service Thermal Biomass $aves Maine’s Rural Communities: Jobs and Costs
Jay O’Laughlin, Director, Policy Analysis Group & Professor, Forestry/Policy Sciences, University of Idaho Towards a Cohesive Federal Policy on Wood Bionenergy
Marcus Kauffman, Biomass Resource Specialist, Oregon Department of Forestry Heating Cascadia: Oregon’s Experience in Biomass Thermal TRACK 3 Level 2 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 3: BIOMASS POWER Cultivating Electricity: Growing the Fuels that Feed Our Power Plants Moderator: Gareth Mayhead, Academic Coordinator, Forest Products, University of California - Berkeley Phillip Jennings, President, REPREVE Renewables Commercial Scale Giant Miscanthus: European Export and Future Domestic Use
Carl Kukkonen, Chief Executive Officer, VIASPACE
Integrated Energy Crop Plantation and Biomass Power Plant
Steve Holmes, Chief Executive Officer, Vyridian Group LLC
Maximizing Biomass Crop Production using Super Select™ Varieties of Paulownia and Mega Mass Methodology™
Al Costa, Director, Alkol
Power Generation from Sugarcane Bagasse
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TRACK 4: BIOGAS & LANDFILL GAS
Maximizing Biogas Opportunities by Leveraging State-of-the-Art Technology and Heat Recovery Options
Rooms 102/104/106, Level 2
Moderator: Valentino Tiangco, Biomass Program Lead/Senior Project Manager, Sacrament Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Mauricio Lopez, Gas Sales Development Mgr - Americas, Caterpillar Americas Service Co. Inc. Equipment Selection Considerations for Biogas and Landfill Gas Generator Sets
Richard Poulin, Senior Principal, Stantec Consulting Services Inc. Landfill Gas-to-Energy Combined Cycle
Douglas Tholo, Vice President, Howard R. Green Company Integrated Gas-to-Energy Project
Kate Sanford, Director, Corporate Communications, JSH International Energy Innovation: Boosting Biogas Production with an Organic Bio-Stimulant TRACK 5 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 5: ADVANCED BIOFUELS & BIOBASED CHEMICALS Rooms 201/203, Level 2
Emergent Conversion Approaches that Accommodate Flexible Inputs and Outputs
Moderator: George Boyajian,Vice President, Business Development, Primus Green Energy Tom Lyons, BioTork LLC Chief Scientific Officer, Economically Viable Ethanol Production from Hemicellulose
Dirk Andreas, Vice President, Business Development, Enerkem Inc. Creating Value from Waste using a Proprietary Technology Platform
Ming Qiao, R&D Group Leader, Feedstock Process, Virent Inc.
Catalytic Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Conventional Liquid Fuels and Chemicals
Lisa Dyson, Chief Executive Officer, Kiverdi Inc. Bio-based Chemicals from Waste derived Syngas
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Networking Reception in the Expo
Exhibit Hall A, Level 1
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7:00 am - 3:30 pm
Expo Open
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Continental Breakfast in the Expo
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Four Seasons Ballroom
8:00 am - 8:15 am
Four Seasons Ballroom
OPENING REMARKS Tim Portz, Program Director, BBI International
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EXCELLENCE IN BIOENERGY AWARD PRESENTATION GROUNDBREAKER OF THE YEAR AWARD PRESENTATION GENERAL SESSION PANEL
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Groundbreakers Roundtable: Examining Projects that Survived the Development Gauntlet and Broke Ground in 2011 Moderator: Tim Portz, Program Director, BBI International Joshua Levine, Vice President of Project Development, Energy Management Inc. / American Renewables John Keppler, Chairman and CEO, Enviva Mike Scott, CEO and President, Nexterra Mike Levin, Vice President, Government Affairs, FlexEnergy Inc.
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TRACK 1: PELLETS & DENSIFIED BIOMASS
Measured Project Development Considerations for Emerging Pellet Producers
Rooms 108/110/112, Level 2
Moderator: Fred Gould, Business Development Manager, Christianson & Associates PLLP Karen Reschly, Attorney, Morris, Manning & Martin LLP Legal Issues Surrounding the Pellet and Densified Biomass Industry
Patricia Kurgan, President, Astro Logistics Inc.
Importance of a Transportation Strategy within the Biomass Supply Chain
Pete Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, Forest2Market
Using a Scorecard to Identify Optimal Sites for Commercial-Scale Export Pellet Plants
Brian Kittler, Project Director, Pinchot Institute for Conservation Mobilizing Sustainable Supply Chains
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SPEAKER BIOSAGENDA CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY APRIL 18 CONTINUED 10:30 am - Noon TRACK 2 SPONSORED BY
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TRACK 2: INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL THERMAL ENERGY
Towards Sustainable Thermal Feedstocks from Expected and Unexpected Sources
Rooms 107/109/111/113, Level 2
Moderator: Kolby Hoagland, Program Manager, BBI International Sara Walling, Bioenergy Policy Advisor, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection Sustainable Planting and Harvesting Guidelines for Nonforest Biomass
Nadine Block, Senior Director, Government Outreach, Sustainable Forestry Initiative Third Party Sustainable Forestry Certification
Philip Rutter, CEO & Chief Scientist, Badgersett Research Corporation An Alternative Biomass Fuels Paradigm: Food and Biomass Simultaneously
William Partanen, Manager, Business Development & Applications Engineering, Ameristar Biofuels LLC How Waste Organic Grease can Solve your Process Energy Needs TRACK 3 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 3: BIOMASS POWER
Reviewing Biomass Power Case and Feasibility Studies for Lessons Learned
Rooms 205/207, Level 2
Moderator: John Bonitz, Farm Outreach & Policy Advocate, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Charles Grecco, Executive Vice President, Cate Street Capital The Berlin, New Hampshire Project
William Johnson, Owner, Biomass Consulting Services Lessons Learned: Biomass Co-Firing
Kendric Wait, Principal, Eagle Valley Clean Energy Eagle Valley CHP Plant
Mark Yancey, Vice President, NEAtech LLC/Vice President, BBI Consulting Services Kentucky Biomass Power Case Study TRACK 4 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 4: BIOGAS & LANDFILL GAS
Market Acceleration and the Argument for More Biogas Derived Energy
Rooms 102/104/106, Level 2
Moderator: Richard Weiner, Chair, International Law Department, & Vice President, Fredrikson & Byron P.A. Beau Griffey, Director, Account Management, U.S. Energy Services Inc. New Markets for Biogas Commercialization
Tara D’Andrea, Manager, Business Development, DTE Biomass Energy The Changing Value Proposition of Landfill Gas / Biogas: Back to Basics?
Peter Taglia, Bioenergy Projects Specialist, Wisconsin State Energy Office (SEO) Accelerating Biogas Energy in Wisconsin with New Markets and Approaches
Kyle Goehring, Business Development Manager, MT-Energie USA Inc. Biogas: An Underutilized Resource TRACK 5 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 5: ADVANCED BIOFUELS & BIOBASED CHEMICALS
Accelerating Feedstock Development and Research to Increase Biofuel Production
Rooms 201/203, Level 2
Moderator: Michael Mundschau, Senior Scientist, TDA Research Inc. Bijay Tamang, Bioenergy Project Leader, ArborGen Inc.
Science Looks to Unlock Potential in the Undomesticated Tree through Precise Genetic Breeding
Janice Ryan-Bohac, President, Carolina Advanced Renewable Energy (CAREnrgy)
The Energy Tuber: A Very High Yielding, Sustainably Produced, Easily Processed Feedstock for Advanced Biofuels
Christine Buhl, Graduate Student, Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Genetic Modification of Cellulosic Biofuel Crops: Implications for Plant Defense
Scott Gibson, President, Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Alliance
Sweet Sorghum: The Flexibility of an Annual Renewable Feedstock for Bioenergy and Biobased Products
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch in the Expo 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Networking in the Expo
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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November 27-29, 2012 Houston, Texas
TRACK 1: PELLETS & DENSIFIED BIOMASS
Combining Pretreatment and Densification Strategies to Fully Realize the Energy Potential of Biomass
Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Exhibit Hall A, Level 1
Rooms 108/110/112, Level 2
Moderator: Elliott Levine, Biopower Technology Development Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan, Professor, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University Characteristics of Pretreated and Densified Biomass
Theodora Retsina, Chief Executive Officer, American Process Inc. Green Pellets and the Coproduction of Cellulosic Ethanol with Pellets
S. Kent Hoekman, Research Professor, Desert Research Institute Hydrochar as a Renewable Biofuel
Richard Boardman, Manager, Advance Process & Decision Systems, Idaho National Laboratory How Pre-treatment has a Significant Influence on the Performance and Economics of Bioenergy
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WEDNESDAY APRIL 18 CONTINUED 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm TRACK 2 SPONSORED BY
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TRACK 2: INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL THERMAL ENERGY
Strategies for Avoiding Financing and Risk Pitfalls in Biomass to Energy Projects
Rooms 107/109/111/113, Level 2
Moderator: Tim Portz, Program Director, BBI International Robert Welch, Manager, Business Development, CEM, Ameresco Inc.
Institutional Facilities Adopting Biomass Combined Heat and Power Utilizing 3rd Party Financing and Operations
Jeff Coombe, Bienergy Project Manager, Tetra Tech Inc.
Woody Biomass Feedstock Quality Impacts on Conversion Technology and Project Financial Viability
Timothy Baye, Professor, Business Development BioEconomy & BioEnergy State Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Extension Value Capture and De-risking through Public/Private Biomass Projects
Gregg Mast, Vice President, BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota Building the Position for Bioenergy through International Partnership TRACK 3 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 3: BIOMASS POWER
The Innovative Forefront of Biomass Energy Generation via Gasification
Rooms 205/207, Level 2
Moderator: Gary Bennett, Business Development Portfolio Manager, Electronic Systems, Mission Systems & Sensors, Lockheed Martin Kim Magrini, Principal Scientist, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratories Impact of Biomass Feedstock Pretreatment on Syngas Composition Robert Cox, National Sales Manager, PHG Energy Power Generation from Biomass Gasifiers
Jon Orr, Capital Sales Manager, Gasification, ICM Inc.
Biomass Gasification and Advanced Pollution Control: One Approach
Robb Walt, President, Community Power Corporation Making Small Modular Biopower Big Enough to Count TRACK 4 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 4: BIOGAS & LANDFILL GAS
Rooms 102/104/106, Level 2
Innovation in Digester Design and Utilization Moderator: Tony Hartmann, Chief Executive Officer, Great Lakes Ag Energy John McDowell, Regional Sales Manager, EISENMANN Corporation Sustainability in an Urban Environment through Anaerobic Digestion
Paige Griffin, Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University
Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Wastes: The Impact of Process Conditions on Hydrolysis Efficiency and Methane Generation
Greg Karr, Program Manager, MRIGlobal
Utilization of Liquid Effluent from an Anaerobic Digester (DLE) as a Nutrient Source for Algae Growth
James Rosenblum, Doctoral Candidate Environmental Health Science, The Ohio State University
Relationship of Seasonal Fluctuation and Loading Rates on Levels of Fecal Indicator Organisms during Small-Scale Anaerobic Digestion of Biosolids TRACK 5 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 5: ADVANCED BIOFUELS & BIOBASED CHEMICALS
Cultivation to Conversion: Designing Biomass Crops and Cropping Systems for Maximum Energy Production
Rooms 201/203, Level 2
Moderator: John Pierce, Attorney, DLA Piper Jeff Roskam, Chief Executive Officer, Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy $4.8 Million in Biomass Feedstock Supply Innovations
Chris Roach, Project Development Manager, Ceres Inc. / Blade Energy Crops
Creating an Acceptable Supply of Biomass Feedstock to Satisfy Project Financing Requirements
Justin Sluiter, Biomass Composition Chemist, National Renewable Energy Laboratories Chemical Analysis of Biomass for Biofuels
Calvin Pearson, Research Agronomist, Colorado State University Developing Low-Input, High-Biomass, Perennial Cropping Systems
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Refreshment Break in the Expo
3:30 pm
Exhibitor Move-Out
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Concurrent Tracks
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SEPTEMBER 27-27, 2012 | DENVER, COLORADO
Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Exhibit Hall A, Level 1
TRACK 1: PELLETS & DENSIFIED BIOMASS
Rooms 108/110/112, Level 2
Safe and Innovative Biomass Densification Approaches Moderator: Mark Mathis, Chief Executive Officer, Confluence Energy Walter Lampp, North American Area Manager, FMW Industrieanlagenbau GmbH Furnish Homogenization for Bio-Energy Applications
James Knight, Chief Executive Officer, Pelletco LLC Agricultural Composite Biomass
Bob Korn,Director, Sales & Marketing, Fike Corporation Combustible Dust Hazards in Densified Biofuel Production
JosĂŠ Pedrajas, Business Development Manager, PRODESA
Wood Pellets Production Associated to Biomass CHP Plants based on ORC Technology
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SPEAKER BIOSAGENDA CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY APRIL 18 CONTINUED 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm TRACK 2 SPONSORED BY
Concurrent Tracks
TRACK 2: INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL THERMAL ENERGY
Rooms 107/109/111/113, Level 2
Pathways for Bringing More Woody Biomass into Thermal Energy Production Moderator: Jon Baker, Operations & Wood Procurement Manager, Cousineau Forest Products Michael Oswald, President, Precision Energy Services Inc. The Importance of Designing the Biomass Energy Plant to the Fuel Source
Phil Hirsch,Chief Executive Officer, E.A.R.T.H. Corporation Building the Next Generation Biomass Plant in Europe
David Boulard, President, Ensyn Technologies Inc.
Ensyn’s RFO: Proven, Market-ready Renewable Heating Oil with Multiple Applications TRACK 3 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 3: BIOMASS POWER
Technological Solutions to the Challenges of Producing Biomass Power and Heat at Scale
Rooms 205/207, Level 2
Moderator: Eric Bober, Director, Nexant Inc. Ilaria Peretti, Biomass Sales Area Manager for PWPS Regions, Turboden srl.
Maximizing Energy Utilization from Biomass Residues with Organic Rankine Cycle Technology for CHP
Stephen Reidell, Project Manager Biomass Systems, Eagle Innovations LLC Heat Management Coatings Optimizing Biomass Facilities
Markku Roppo, Chief Process Engineer, Metso
Renewable Energy Production with CO2 Neutral Biomass Fuels
Bradley Ginger, Engineering Product Manager, Renewable Technologies, EISENMANN Corporation Biomass to Steam: The Environmental Challenge TRACK 4 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 4: BIOGAS & LANDFILL GAS
Policies, Deal Structures and Technology Pairings that Facilitate Rapid Biogas Deployment
Rooms 102/104/106, Level 2
Moderator: Tim Portz, Program Director, BBI International John Pierce, Attorney, DLA Piper
Successfully Structuring and Financing Wastewater Methane Projects
Gary Radloff, Director, Midwest Energy Policy, Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative The Biogas Opportunity: Lessons from Germany
Jordan Hemaidan, Lead, Energy and Sustainability Industry Group, & Partner, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Combined Heat and Power Opportunities for Biogas: Regulatory Constraints and Possible Solutions
Stuart Russell, Vice President, Services Operations, Aether dbs
Enhancing Biogas Project Economics Utilizing Blending and Storage Technologies TRACK 5 SPONSORED BY
TRACK 5: ADVANCED BIOFUELS & BIOBASED CHEMICALS
Money, Regulatory Approval and Pathways: Getting Off the Ground and Onto the Market
Rooms 201/203, Level 2
Moderator: Adam Kobos, Partner, Benefits, Tax and Wealth Management Group, Stoel Rives LLP Jeff Passmore, President, Passmore Group Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals: Unlocking the Necessary Capital for Commercialization
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Director of Advisory Services, Commodities and Energy, Thomson Reuters Framework for Evaluating Investment Risks for Advanced Biofuel Facilities
Cole Gustafson, Chair, Agribusiness & Applied Economics, North Dakota State University What does it take to obtain a New EPA Biofuel Pathway?
Kristi Moriarty, Senior Analyst Center for Transportation Technologies and Systems, National Renewable Energy Laboratories Steps to Introducing New Fuels
5:00 pm
Sessions Conclude
7:00 pm
WEDNESDAY EVENING EVENT
Food, Beverage & Baseball at Coors Field
20th and Blake Street - Take16th Street Mall Shuttle Bus west to Blake Street; walk 3 blocks to Coors Field
THURSDAY APRIL 19 7:45 am - 5:30 pm
Biomass Facility Tours
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South Shuttle Drop-off, between 14th Street between California and Welton Buses start loading at 7:45 am; depart at 8:00 am
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POSTER SESSION
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Poster # 1 Andrew Myers, Pittsburg State University Reduced Starting Materials Costs from the Development of Co-Product Streams in the Corn Industry 2 Andrew Myers, Pittsburg State University Characteristics And Potential Products From Algae Oils 3 Bruce Pratt, Eastern Kentucky University Environmental Impact Assessment for Bioenergy Crop Production in Central Kentucky 4 Caixia Chen, East China University of Science and Technology CFD Modeling of MSW Combustion and SNCR in a Commercial Incinerator 5 Chunjiang Yu, Zhejiang University A Novel Non-Wood Biomass Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion Technology 6 Gal Hochman, Rutgers University The indirect byproduct effect of biofuels 7 Guillermo Velarde, Department of Forest Biomaterials Supply Chain Improvements through Biomass Pre-processing Activities 8 Jason Quinn, Colorado State University Resource and Productivity Evaluation of Microalgae Biofuels Incorporating GIS Spatial Resolution 9 Jim Barbour, University of Minnesota- Morris Air Emissions Profile of a Small Community CHP Using Corn Cobs 10 Joseph Knoll, University of Georgia-Tifton Campus Harvest Management of Coastal Bermudagrass for Cellulosic Ethanol Production 11 Joseph Curro, CDM Smith Case Study – Landfill Gas Used as a Fuel to Dry and Pelletize Biosolids 12 Lew Christopher, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Exploitation of Thermophilic Enzymes for Biodiesel Production 13 Lew Christopher, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Utilization of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Waste in Hydrogen Production 14 Lew Christopher, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activities of Lichen Species 15 Lew Christopher, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Biomass Conversion to Fermentable Sugars with a Thermophilic Microbial Consortium 16 Lew Christopher, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Prairie Cordgrass to Fermentable Sugars 17 Lew Christopher, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Enhanced Xylanase Production from Corn Stover Using Statistical Methods 18 Marie-Odile Fortier, University of Kansas Urban vs. Rural Implementation of Algae Production for Biofuels in Kansas 19 Prakash Kumar, Air Hydroponic Technology, Ltd. A New Type of Photbioreactor, Process and Approach to Grow, Harvest and Dry Microalgae Biomass With Very Low Investment and Process Costs 20 Ram Sharma, International Potato Center Existing landraces of Jatropha curcas in Nepal and their Bio-diesel content 21 Renee Loesche, Southeastern Illinois College Nationally Standardized Biofuels Training Program 22 Tim Hughes, Kentucky Department for Energy Development & Independence Filling Your Bus with the Right People 23 Tyler Mark, Morehead State University A Comparison of Pricing Strategies for Cellulosic Ethanol Processors: A Simulation Approach 24 Takashi Kurihara, Shimizu Corporation CHALLENGE TO NEXT GENERATION ENERGY TECHNOLOGY INTO URBAN BUILBINGS/DISTRICT USING GASIFICATION 25 Jae-Won Lee, Chonnam National University Evaluation of torrefaction condition of mixed softwood for wood pellets with high energy density by response surface methodology 26 Chee Kai Tan, Southwest Research Institute Sustainable Biofuels Production via Catalyzed Supercritical Methanol Process 27 Ananda Nanjundaswamy, Auburn University ‘All-in-One’ bioprocessing strategy for cellulosic ethanol production- A laboratory model study 28 John Robinson, Drying Technology, Inc. “Inside-the-Dryer” Moisture Sensing & Control System for Biomass Pelletizing & Torrefaction 29 Cliff Moss, Process Barron Industries Materials Handling Aspects of Converting a Coal Boiler to a Biomass Boiler 30 Patrick Travis, Outotec Energy Products Innovations in Fluidized Bed Technology: Improving Efficiency with Inbed Heat Transfer and Staged Gasification 31 Bing Hu, University of Minnesota Enhanced mixotrophic growth of microalgae using swine manure with acidogenic fermentation for simultaneous biofuel production and nutrient removal 32 Henry Abougor, Tennessee Technological University Deep Eutectic Solvent: A novel medium for pretreatment and hydrolysis of Biomass 33 John Field, Colorado State University Gasifier cookstoves: advancing technology in the largest global biomass sector 34 Esteban Hincapie, Colorado State University Design of a Continuous Flow, Ultrasonic Algae Dewatering System: Ultrasonic Property Measurements and Finite Element 35 Robert Brooks, QS Biodiesel BUILD or RETROFIT? Possible means to make your biodiesel unit efficient and profitable!
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SPEAKER BIOS Jim Alkire is a Project Officer in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Program, working out of DOE’s Golden Field Office in Golden, Colorado. Jim has spent the past 11 years soliciting and managing projects for the Fuel Cell Technologies Program in the areas of hydrogen storage, hydrogen production and delivery, and codes and standards. His current focus is managing technology validation and market transformation projects for emerging hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. Jim worked as a process systems engineer for Kellogg Brown & Root in Houston for three years before moving into the public sector at DOE’s Golden Field Office in 2000. Jim graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1997 with a B.S. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering.
Samuel Bamberg is Environmental Consultant & Vice President at S. Lynn Bamberg LLC and The Mines Group Inc. Sam is a biologist and ecologist with 30 years experience in environmental services related to resource development. He formed a firm that designs and manages environmental and risk assessment studies for resource developments, mining projects and waste systems: permitting, reclamation and construction management for development and mining projects. Sam has conducted studies and permitting for all types of resource utilization and developments for industrial, commercial, and residential sites. He has specialized in biological resource evaluation and reclamation in extreme environments in the U.S. and abroad, and has designed and implemented soils and water management for revegetation. Sam has published more than 30 technical papers on ecology and ecosystem analysis and has written, edited, and contributed to environmental statements, permit applications, and risk assessments. Sam has degrees in Biology, Ecology, and Geology from Universities of Tennessee, Colorado, and California.
Dr. Gökhan Alptekin is the Vice President of Technology at TDA Research Inc. Gökhan is the inventor of the SulfaTrapTM adsorption technologies used to clean the natural gas, biogas, ethanol and other hydrocarbon streams used in many of the commercial PEM, Molten Carbonate and SOFC power systems. He has research expertise in catalysis, gas clean-up, separation processes, H2 production and reformer design. He is leading several multi-million dollar R&D projects for developing for various gas clean-up and purification technologies and environmental catalysts. Gökhan received his Ph.D. from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado. He also received a M.B.A. from University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dr. Ezra Bar-Ziv is Professor at Michigan Technological University. Ezra joined Michigan Tech in 2011 and established the biomass torrefaction and applications program there. He was Professor at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in 1998 and founded the Laboratory for Clean Combustion, where he carried out an extensive industrial research on coal combustion and thermal processes of various wastes. Ezra established the E.B. Clean Energy to develop biomass torrefaction technology for the power industry. Early in his career, he joined the Nuclear Research Center (NRCN) in Israel, where he held professional and administrative positions, and authored technical reports on energy and materials. Ezra obtained his B.Sc. degree in Physics and Chemistry from the Hebrew University and Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1975.
Dr. Nate Anderson is a Research Forester with the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, in Missoula, Montana. His research is focused on quantifying the costs and benefits of forest products, including biomass. Ongoing projects include harvested wood products carbon accounting, an assessment of biomass utilization on the Uncompahgre Plateau in Colorado, the integration of advanced pyrolysis and gasification technologies into forest products supply chains, and financial and economic analysis of new systems for harvesting woody biomass. Nate has a Ph.D. in Forest Resources Management from the State University of New York, an M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland, and a B.S. in Biology from Bates College.
Timothy Baye is a Professor of Business Development and BioEnergy Specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Tim’s research and educational programs serve renewable energy executives, professionals and policy leaders. He has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Lafayette BioAg LLC, a renewable energy technology and project development firm. Tim has over 28 years business development experience in industrial renewable energy projects, primarily biomass and biogas. He holds a senior position with ReCon Associates, a management consulting and professional development firm. ReCon’s clients include: North American and international renewable energy, agri-business and manufacturing companies, the Open Society Institute, U.S.DOE, U.S. AID and World Bank.
Dirk Andreas is Senior Vice President of Business Development, North America for Enerkem. Dirk brings over 20 years of experience in development, construction, operations and maintenance of energy plants, as well as M&A/Greenfield development experience. He was also Managing Director and Midwest Regional Vice President of Business Development for Iberdorla Renewables Inc., the largest owner-operator of wind powered generation in the world. Dirk helped start-up companies mature, first as an engineer managing the preliminary activities of power plants in Canada, the U.S. and Latin America for Indeck Energy Services Inc., and later as a developer for NRG Energy Inc., where he purchased almost all the West Coast portfolio of power plants. Dirk also worked on fluidized boiler applications for utility power plants for Electric Power Research Institute. Dirk is a Registered Professional Engineer, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Kate Bechen is an Attorney with Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Kate is a member of the firm’s Transactional Practice Group where she focuses on corporate finance, health law and general business matters. She regularly assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, public and private placement of securities, ongoing reporting requirements under the Securities, Exchange Act of 1934 and general corporate law matters. Her health law practice includes transactional work, regulatory compliance, medical staff issues and patient confidentiality. She is also an active member of the firm’s Energy & Sustainability Industry Group. Kate received her J.D., with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law, a M.H.A. from the University of Iowa Department of Health Management and Policy, and a B. A. in Political Science, Psychology, and International Business from the University of Iowa.
Jon Baker is the Operations and Wood Procurement Manager at Cousineau Forest Products, a wood brokerage and procurement firm located in Henniker, NH. Cousineau handles approximately 650,000 tons annually of wood fiber used by the pulp and paper, wood pellet, biomass and mulch industries and is considered to be one of the largest wood procurement firms in New England. Jon has worked in the forest industry for 17 years and has a wide range of responsibilities in the company which include setting up feedstock procurement programs for public schools, colleges and private businesses that wish to transition from fossil fuels to biomass. He has worked for clients in Florida, Alabama and California setting up feedstock supply chains or conducting feasibility studies. In 2000, Jon set up a program to rail pulp chips from New England to an export terminal in Virginia which serviced the Asian market.
Gary Bennett is the Business Development Portfolio Manager for biomass and waste to energy opportunities for Lockheed Martin. Gary works with internal and external teams to offer technical reviews, evaluate project feasibility and risk assessment while focusing on value proposition. He has 15 years’ experience working in power generation and complex construction projects. He was founder and a managing partner of a civil and environmental engineering firm, director of engineering for a national steel manufacture and business development manager for a national EPC building utility scale renewable energy projects. Gary’s specialties include a thorough understanding of project development cycles, professional design process, and project finance with a focus on deal closure and client satisfaction. He has co-developed multiple patents and has published several articles. Gary holds a B.S in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University and a Master’s of Business Administration from Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Nadine Block is the Senior Director of Government Outreach at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). SFI is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that operates a North American forest certification standard and promotes responsible forest management and a sustainable fiber supply chain. Nadine is responsible for SFI federal and state policy activities related to green building, climate change, energy, and combating illegal logging. Prior to joining SFI at the start of 2010, she held positions as Director of Forest Policy at the American Forest & Paper Association and Program Manager at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation. Nadine has 18 years of experience in natural resource policy focusing on public and private forest management, climate change, renewable energy, and international forest policy. Nadine holds a Master of Forestry degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Williams College.
Dr. George Boyajian is Vice President, Business Development, with Primus Green Energy. George has 18 years of experience bringing innovative products and services to market. Working with technology and startup companies, he has raised over $50 million for early stage technology ventures. Prior to Primus Green Energy, as Co-founder and CEO of Living Independently Group Inc., he developed, marketed, sold and delivered QuietCare, a patented home health security system for seniors, which was acquired by GE Healthcare. George was Managing Director of Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures, a startup focused on commercializing Columbia University’s digital technologies and content and CEO of Phytoworks Inc., a biotech firm. George holds a doctorate in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago. He received a bachelor’s degree in Geology and Environmental Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Richard Boardman is Manager of the Advance Process & Decision Systems department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). His technical responsibilities include the development and use of dynamic computational tools and testing facilities to support the evaluation of hybrid energy systems using fossil, renewable, and nuclear energy. He supports the INL Biomass Program with the development of a uniform-format biomass feedstock for gasification, pyrolysis and combustion. Richard is the lead for the U.S. DOE Office of Biomass Programs Biopower Initiative. His specific interests reside in biomass densification and torrefaction to produce a more reliable and more fungible feedstock. Richard worked for Exxon Production Research and Geneva Steel before joining the Idaho National Laboratory in 1990. Richard received a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in combustion research and engineering.
Thane Browning is the National Sales Manager at Aumund Corporation, a conveying equipment manufacturer with North American operations in Kennesaw, Georgia. During his 10 years with Aumund, Thane has introduced group products including the mobile ship loaders for pellet and chip operations. He is experienced in refractory, pyro-processing, air pollution control, pneumatic and mechanical conveying equipment application and operation. Thane earned a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics from Parks College of St. Louis University while starting his career at Alpha Cement Company.
Eric Bober is Director at Nexant Inc. and a key member of the bio-renewables practice in Nexant’s Energy&Chemicals Consulting business. Nexant is a premier provider of energy and chemical advisory services, delivering a deep understanding of the technologies, markets, and strategies. Eric works with clients to create value-added products from lignocellulosic feedstocks, including wood, grasses, canes, stovers, and wastes. He manages engagements globally, including technology evaluations, market assessments, due diligence, and business plan development. Eric joined Nexant in 2009 after 20 years in the forest products industry. His experience includes 10+ years as a consultant, developing and implementing creative solutions to complex client problems, and 10+ years with a paper & packaging manufacturer in marketing strategy, product management, and operations management roles. He is a Director of the Forest Bioproducts Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Eric has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, and a M.B.A., Wharton School of Business.
Christine Buhl is a Graduate Student in the Lindroth Chemical Ecology Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Christine is currently investigating possible effects of genetically modified biofuel feedstock on plant-insect interactions. Prior to starting graduate work in 2008, Christine worked as an entomologist on public health, ecology and conservation projects. Christine earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Entomology from Oregon State University in 2003.
John Bonitz is Farm Outreach & Policy Advocate for Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE). John joined SACE in April of 2007 to focus on farm outreach and agricultural-energy policy advocacy. He promotes renewable energy from farms and forests across the Southeast region, emphasizing economic development and responsible policies. With SACE, John has helped organize the Biomass-South 2008 conference, helped develop a consensus definition of biomass, and built grassroots support for important federal and state legislation on clean energy. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), John analyzed cost-effective renewable energy technologies. In 2006 he led a stakeholder input process concerning agricultural finance, on behalf of Self-Help Credit Union and the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA), a farmer-advocacy organization. John built an award winning recycling program at his alma mater, UNC Greensboro. His work in solid waste management and pollution prevention was followed by graduate studies in climate policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.
Martha Butwin is a Senior International Trade Specialist in the Denver U.S. Export Assistance Center, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Commercial Service. Martha has served as a Trade Specialist for 20 years, having previous assignments in Michigan and West Virginia, as well as short-term overseas assignments in Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, and Slovakia. Martha works primarily with Colorado and Wyoming energy, mining and general equipment manufacturers and service providers to help them expand their exports. Before joining the Commercial Service, Martha was an Antidumping Compliance Analyst for the U.S. Department of Commerce, as well as a mechanical engineer at General Dynamics. Martha served as the International Trade Administration’s inaugural Energy Team Leader, and remains an active member of ITA’s Energy Team. Martha earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of International Management degree from the University of Denver.
David Boulard is President of Ensyn Technologies Inc. and Executive VP of Ensyn Corporation. David has over 15 years with Ensyn and has held a number of senior executive positions. Ensyn Technologies oversees technology development and RTP operations of the parent company. He is also responsible for management of the Company’s Malaysian and Indonesian initiatives. During the period David was CFO of the Company he was also responsible for certain key operational aspects of the business, including management of the food chemicals business and RTP project development support services. Prior to joining Ensyn, David held a senior management position with BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecom company where he focused on corporate structuring, international tax and financing. Prior to BCE Inc., David was a Principal with the International firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers with a specialty of international transactions and cross-border issues. David was the Chairman of the Canadian Federal Government’s Technology Roadmap on Bio-Products.
Greg Chafee is Chair of the Energy Infrastructure & Finance and Clean Technology Practices at Morris, Manning & Martin, a national full service business law firm. Greg counsels on domestic and international energy project development and finance including biomass, solar, wind, natural gas, cogeneration and independent power production. He advises on clean tech innovation and investment, as well as sustainability programs, policies and initiatives and matters related to energy efficiency and the utilization of advanced technologies. Greg has worked extensively with project developers, investors, utilities, financial institutions, federal, state and local government authorities and public policymakers. He has experience negotiating and drafting power purchase and sales agreements, grid interconnection contracts, engineering, procurement and construction contracts and complex financing arrangements for biomass and other power generation projects. Greg formerly served as Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of DS Waters of America and Danone Waters of North America and Associate General Counsel of Georgia-Pacific Corporation.
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SPEAKER BIOS Bill Charneski is Director of Product Engineering for OriginOil Inc.As a highly experienced C-level executive engineer and manager, Bill is responsible for OriginOil’s product design, manufacturing, QA/QC and integration with client-specified upstream and downstream processes and systems. Prior to joining the company, he served as CEO of two startup firms, with a demonstrated track record of creating sustained sales growth through the introduction of new products and process innovation within the companies he managed. Earlier in his career as a chemical process engineer, plant supervisor and regional sales manager for Dow Chemical, Bill gained extensive experience with process development and industrial equipment design and manufacturing, as well as a range of cross-functional knowledge and skills regarding marketing, sales, finance, operations, project management, team building, and quality control systems in an industrial environment. Bill holds an M.B.A. from Central Michigan University, as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
Robert Cox is the National Sales Manager for PHG Energy LLC., a supplier of biomass gasification systems for process heat and power applications. Robert’s experience spans the last 16 years working for the leading companies in the fields of thermal combustion systems for air pollution control and most recently in the areas of biomass gasification systems as a means to reduce fossil fuel use and carbon footprints. He manages and implements the technical and commercial sales process for alternative energy systems associated with biomass gasification for a wide range of industries and applications. His past experience in air pollution control systems includes project management, project engineering, applications engineering and capital equipment sales in industries including wood products, pharmaceutical and chemical processing. Robert has evaluated and implemented the design and integration of biomass gasification systems for use with thermal combustion systems for environmental control applications. Robert holds a B.S. in Resource Ecology from the University of Michigan-Flint.
Dr. Lew Christopher is Director of the Center for Bioprocessing Research and Development, leading a team of 120 researchers from nine departments at two universities in South Dakota – South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and South Dakota State University. Lew’s research mission is to add value to the national bioeconomy by applying an integrated biorefinery approach in the development of renewable technologies. He is the author of 10 patents and patent disclosures, and over 300 peer-reviewed papers, books, book chapters, technical reports, conference proceedings, presentations and invited lectures to Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Lew holds a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology and has more than 20 years of industrial and academic experience in the field of bioprocessing of lignocellulosic biomass.
Joseph Curro is a Principal Engineer, Senior Solid Waste Engineer and the Landfill Gas Discipline Leader with CDM Smith in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Joseph has more than 35 years experience in solid waste projects, concentrating on waste combustion, landfill gas and field operations. He has served as the lead design engineer for landfill gas extraction, compression, flaring, beneficial use and transmission systems. Joseph has written and presented a number of papers at various national and regional conferences.
Rob Clark is Forest Management Group Leader for the U.S. Forest Service – Northeastern Area. Rob oversees delivery of grant funding and forestry and biomass technical assistance programs throughout New England and New York. He began his federal career in 1977 and has served on National Forests in Michigan, New York, and Vermont. Rob has a strong background in forest management and encourages efficient and effective use of woody biomass to generate economic opportunities. He is currently the project manager for an $11.4 million Recovery Act grant to the Maine Forest Service. That grant is converting 22 public buildings to wood heat. He completed post-graduate work in silviculture at Purdue, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Syracuse University, and West Virginia University. He is a Certified Forester® by the Society of American Foresters. Rob is a native of Michigan and holds a B.S. in Forestry from Michigan State University.
Dr. Anju Dahiya is President of General Systems Research LLC, a R&D business dedicated to algae biofuel and related software development. Anju is also Biofuels Instructor at the University of Vermont. Currently she leads several algae-biofuel research projects funded through the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA (EPSCoR), and NSF (EPSCoR) related to development of a robust system of algae-oil production that could be integrated with dairy farm and industrial wastewater treatment. Anju’s algae-biofuel works have been captured by VPT (PBS) TV channel (Emerging Science); Burlington Free Press; and the long standing TV program “Across the Fence” (forthcoming). In 2010 she successfully co-organized the “Algae for Energy in Northeast Conference” at University of Vermont to stimulate the research at regional levels, invited speakers from DOE, national and regional universities, government and private sectors, that attracted a large number of participants from academic, government and private sectors including energy related farms.
Jeffrey Coombe is Bioenergy Project Manager for Tetra Tech Inc. in Denver. Jeff has been in the bioenergy and biofuels industry for eight years. He has served as project lead on over 30 industrial project investigations, evaluating the viability of biomass-based gasification combined heat and power (CHP), algae-based biofuels and bio-chemicals, biobutanol, biodiesel, anaerobic digestion, and traditional and cellulosic bioethanol technologies. Jeff was voted onto the steering committee of the Colorado Governor’s Biofuels Coalition in 2007 and is part owner of the local Denver Biodiesel Co-op. He owned and operated an independent biofuel consulting firm prior to joining Tetra Tech. Jeff has a B.S. in Environmental Science from University of Oregon and a M.S. in Global Energy Management from University of Colorado.
Tara D’Andrea is Manager, Business Development, for DTE Biomass Energy. Tara develops projects for DTE, focusing on optimizing energy, renewable, and carbon markets and tax and government incentives and manages many aspects of business strategy. Her current focus is on identifying opportunities to create value from landfill gas projects in the low cost energy market, development of power generation projects, and pipeline quality projects selling renewable or “green” gas. In her previous roles at DTE, Tara managed corporate development activities focusing on project valuation, transaction management, financial structuring, financial analysis, and corporate approval processes. Prior to joining DTE, she held positions in sales management, corporate development, financial planning and reporting, treasury, and financial analysis in the financial services and automotive industry. Tara earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and later earned a M.B.A. at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Al Costa is Chief Executive Officer of Alkol, a world leader consulting on ethanol solutions and sugarcane technology with operations in U.S. and Spain. The company consults for large companies and institutions which want to use biofuels to obtain energy and environmental benefits. Al has written extensively and has been a keynote speaker about the ethanol industry in several venues in Lisbon, Berlin, USA, Abu Dhabi, and others. He is an advocate on the use of sustainable ethanol to attain fuel independence. Also, Al is the author of a book in which he studies the Brazilian ethanol model and how it can help Spain (where he lives and is a citizen) to also attain its fuel independence. He was mentioned in Time Magazine and MSNBC. Al holds a B.A. in Biology from Saint Leo University and a master’s in Computer Engineering from University of South Florida.
Dr. Lisa Dyson is Chief Executive Officer of Kiverdi. Kiverdi is a breakthrough firm upgrading waste carbon into oil using a lowcost, proprietary bioprocess that enables the production of drop-in and custom oil-derived chemicals from waste carbon at a fraction of the cost of chemical catalysts. Lisa co-founded Kiverdi in 2008 and has experience in a number of industries, including transportation, energy, packaging, telecommunications, travel, and chemicals. Lisa was also a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Her technical background began with a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT and has included research in bioengineering, energy and physics at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Princeton University, UC San Francisco, MIT, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Lisa was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, where she received an M.S. degree, and has degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Brandeis University.
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Nicole Forsberg is a Master’s Student in Environmental Science at the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden. At the IIIEE, research is conducted by professionals from all over the world. Nicole is a Swedish-American citizen, with her mother from Denver, Colorado. During five years of Environmental Science studies in Sweden, she has learned about biomass from all different angles and has chosen to write her thesis about biomass, since it is an expanding and interesting area with large potential to grow, at present, and in the future. Also Nicole regardsthe IIIEE as a perfect place to get in touch with cutting edge findings across the industry and witness research and from industry leaders in the field from all over the world. Her goal for this conference is to present the Swedish experience with biomass and give an overview of the European pellet market.
Kyle Goehring is the Business Development Manager at MT-Energie USA. Kyle was sought to lead the business development efforts in 2010 after MTE strategically chose to increase their presence and efforts in the burgeoning U.S. biogas market. MT-Energie is an industry leader in biogas with over 500 biogas plants successfully realized worldwide. MT-Biomethan, a division of MT-Energie, possesses upgrading technology capable of exceeding 99% methane. Kyle is responsible from initial communication with customers through the laboratory testing and preliminary engineering phases to contract negotiations and, ultimately, project completion. He also works with industry interest groups and developing new markets. Kyle has worked in the biogas industry since 2007 and previously led the sales and marketing efforts for a California company developing biogas projects in the agricultural sector for pipeline injection. Kyle earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Davis.
Luke Geiver is an Associate Editor with BBI International’s Biomass Power & Thermal magazine and Pellet Mill Magazine. As part of both magazine teams, he’s strived to cover the most relevant, useful and pressing issues in the area of biomass utilization. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from South Dakota State University and a master’s degree in English from the University of North Dakota.
Fred Gould is the Business Development Manager for the Technology Services Group at Christianson & Associates. Fred was instrumental in developing the technology service group and bringing Intellego (commodity processing software) to market. He has over 10 years of experience delivering software solutions to the renewable energy market. The technology services group, under Fred’s direction, was influential in bringing XML standard document exchange to market in the agricultural space. Today, AgXML is the standard electronic document exchange used by renewable energy markets in the U.S. Prior to joining Christianson & Associates, he was the controller for several manufacturing companies. Fred received his Bachelor of Science degrees in Accounting and Finance from Minnesota State University, Moorhead. He has held a CPA Certificate (currently inactive) since in 1994.
Scott Gibson serves as President of the International Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Association(SSEA) and holds a position in Geographic Marketing for Valagro S.p.A. The SSEA is a global organization whose purpose is to promote and develop the use of sweet sorghum, a renewable and sustainable resource, for processing into ethanol and other bio-derivatives. Scott has over 30 years’ experience in the business of agriculture with current responsibilities in North America, Europe, and South America. He has maintained a farming operation in Missouri since 1983 where he has developed production practices and products derived from sweet sorghum. He is the author of two books, registered two patents, and has given presentations in 28 countries. Scott has worked in many capacities beginning as technical development in the field, marketing manager, strategic development and management after graduating with a master’s degree from Southern Illinois University.
Sarah Gray is Senior Environmental Scientist with Custom Instrumentation Services. Sarah has been with CiSCO since 1987 and has been active in the environmental field for over 30 years. She has conducted extensive work with power generation facilities performing air quality assessments and impact analysis, source testing and certification of CEMS throughout the U.S. Sarah keeps CiSCO updated on air-pollution regulations, permitting requirements and is the liaison with third-party certification teams and governing agencies. She is also responsible for writing Quality Assurance Manuals for CEMS and preparing 40 CFR 75 Monitoring Plans. Sarah earned a B.S. in Environmental Science from Western Michigan University.
Bradley Ginger is Engineering Product Manager for Renewable Technologies at EISENMANN Corporation. Bradley has over 20 years experience in the engineering, design, and management of custom environmental and process systems for the chemical and fuel ethanol industries. He specializes in process and energy optimization, and has worked with customers on five continents. He is a published author and inventor. Bradley holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and is a former National Merit scholar.
Charles Grecco is the Executive Vice President of Cate Street Capital Inc. Charles is responsible for leading the team in developing new business and project development opportunities in the energy and specialty infrastructure arena. During his career, he has developed or acquired and then financed and managed project finance transactions in several industries. Charles also supports the development, structuring, financing (both debt and equity), project management and capital market execution activities associated with biomass, energy and other sustainable industries. Prior to Cate Street Capital, Charles held various executive positions with a wide range of financial service companies, ranging from specialty entrepreneurial investment banking firms to two Fortunate 500 companies, where he developed and successfully managed multi-billion dollar portfolios. As for biomass, Charles has had the unique opportunity to manage the development, financing and implementation of two utility scale biomass facilities in the United States. Charles holds a M. B.A. and a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter designation.
Therese Glowacki is the Manager of the Resource Management Division of Boulder County Parks and Open Space, a position she has held for 12 years. This Division includes foresters, plant ecologists, wildlife biologists, weed specialists, rangers, and outreach staff. Therese’s accomplishments include the implementation of the biomass central heating plant for the Open Space and Transportation Complex for Boulder County, which used wood chips from County forestry projects. She is involved in restoring riparian areas and native grasslands and supervises management of 30,000 acres of forest. Prior to working for Boulder County, Therese served as the Associate Peace Corps Director for Madagascar and as the Environmental Specialist for Peace Corps’s Washington, D.C. headquarters were she worked on environmental issues in over 20 countries. She also spent three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer working on village based forestry in Senegal, West Africa.
Beau Griffey is Director of Commercial Services for U.S. Energy. Beau heads a team of Account Managers responsible for all phases of client management. Additionally, he is a leader in the sustainability efforts for the company, working with clients on issues of energy management, biomass and biogas optimization services, energy conservation, compliance, and carbon disclosure programs. Prior to U.S. Energy, Beau was a District Manager for Lincoln Industrial, a manufacturer of lubrication and industrial pumping equipment, where he managed accounts for a five-state region. Prior to Lincoln Industrial, Beau worked for Wells Manufacturing as a Sales Engineer and for Mid-States Financial Services as a Marketing Representative. Beau holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Political Science from Central Missouri State and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance, from Rockhurst University. Beau is also a certified Energy Procurement Professional.
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SPEAKER BIOS Paige Griffin is a Graduate Research Assistant at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Paige has been researching the anaerobic digestion (AD) of a variety of substrates for the past three years. Specifically, she works to optimize the hydrolysis stage of the AD process to increase overall efficiency. Prior to attending CSU for a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, Paige earned a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN.
Jennifer Hedrick is the Executive Director of the Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI). Located in Arlington, Virginia, USA, PFI is a trade association comprised of pellet fuel manufacturers, industry suppliers, and associate members whose mission is to promote energy independence through the efficient use of clean, renewable, densified biomass fuel. Jennifer has been with PFI since 2008, serving first as the Association Manager before being appointed Executive Director in September 2011. Prior to coming to PFI Jennifer spent several years at Georgetown University Law Center where she worked for a public policy initiative focusing on workplace flexibility. Jennifer is a member of ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership and serves on its Greater Washington Committee. She received a B.S. from Bridgewater College and an M.A. from Virginia Tech.
Dr. Cole Gustafson is currently a Professor and Biofuels Economist in the Department of Agribusiness, North Dakota State University. Cole is co-director of NDSU’s Bioenergy and Product Innovation Center (BioEPIC). As a researcher, he has authored more than 40 peer reviewed journal articles and has obtained over $1.5 million of grant funding. Two of his present projects are developing biomass co-firing and energy beet to biofuel industries in North Dakota. Cole grew up on a crop livestock farm near Minneapolis, Minnesota and received his Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois. His M.S. degree in Agricultural Economics is from the University of Minnesota.
Jordan Hemaidan is the Leader of the Energy and Sustainability Industry Group and Partner at Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Jordan practices extensively in energy law. He has provided representation in siting and certification cases for large power generation facilities, electric transmission lines, natural gas distribution projects, and private energy facilities. Jordan is also active in the renewable energy space, providing representation transactional and regulatory aspects of wind energy development and more recently on carbon trading issues. He is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. Jordan holds a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Wisconsin.
Dr. Andrew Harley is Vice President of Soil Science and Reclamation for Biochar Solutions Inc. Andrew has over 20 years experience in soil science and geochemistry related research and project implementation at agricultural, industrial, and resource facilities. He focuses on developing innovative solutions to pressing land and water problems such that these solutions increase ecosystem services at the landscape scale. In his current role with Biochar Solutions, Andrew is using biochar to increase the value of woody biomass being removed from U.S. Forest Service land by using it is an effective reclamation tool. Current work includes characterizing the effectiveness of engineered biochar for improved water properties in high-altitude and semi-arid reclamation, as well as for ecosystem restoration projects. Additional research and application is also being undertaken to evaluate these engineered biochars for metal sequestration, either directly through sorption or indirectly through pH change. Andrew is based in Evergreen, CO.
Phil Hirsch is Chief Executive Officer of Enhanced Agricultural & Renewable Technology Holdings (E.A.R.T.H.) Corp., an engineering and cleantech solutions company. E.A.R.T.H.’s proprietary Bio-fuel Refining Process® converts agricultural feedstocks into solid biofuel for use as a replacement for or to blend with coal, to produce a solid, transportable, cost effective, clean, renewable fuel, preserving existing jobs and infrastructure, converting these plants to co-fire with biomass. Phil has been president of several public and privately-held companies and formerly a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Phil received his master’s degree in Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and received his Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tony Hartmann is Chief Executive Officer of Great Lakes Energy. Tony co-founded Great Lakes Ag Energy (then Great Lakes BioFuels) in 2005, to produce, buy/sell, and broker renewable, liquid transportation fuels. Since 2006 the company has been primarily focused on R & D related to feedstock development, biomass deconstruction, and pretreatment. The company’s latest work includes organosolv pulping, distributed processing, and a strategic partnership with Cellulose Sciences International for the development of Nanoporous Cellulose technology. Tony has worked in the field of bioenergy since 2003 when he was the seventh hire (Manager of Business Development) for Virent Energy Systems, now a $200M (catalytic) biofuels company with investment from Honda, Cargill, and Shell Oil. Tony is past president of the Wisconsin Biofuels Association and Green Diesel Wisconsin Foundation. Tony is a graduate of the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Kolby Hoagland serves as a Program Manager for BBI International in the company’s event content planning division. Kolby joined BBI International last September after completing a M.S. of Agriculture and a Master’s Certificate in Energy Analysis and Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His specific interests and expertise focus on energy grass production, multifunctional landscapes, and energy policy. Kolby’s career goal is to facilitate proactive dialogue among stakeholders to advance bioenergy down economically sustainable and environmentally prudent paths by promoting efficiency and environmental stewardship of biomass production systems.
Bjorn Hartzell is Chief Executive Officer of Scandia CleanTech USA. Bjorn was born, raised and schooled in Sweden. He has lived in Germany, India and Africa before settling in U.S. After retiring from the airline industry, Bjorn became a real estate broker and developer, and later realized that U.S. needed Swedish green technology, particularly in biomass and biogas. Bjorn believes there is an abundance of biomass and biogas here that needs to be developed in order to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.
Dr. S. Kent Hoekman is a Research Professor within the Division of Atmospheric Sciences at the Desert Research Institute (DRI). DRI is a statewide division of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) that pursues basic and applied environmental research on local, national, and international scales. Kent’s professional interests include development of renewable and sustainable energy systems; environmental impacts of energy production, distribution, and use; conversion of biomass to biofuels; and impacts of advanced-technology fuels and vehicles on emissions, air quality, and energy utilization. He is also interested in the interface between politics and environmental science, particularly in the areas of energy policy, renewable fuels, greenhouse gases, and climate change. Prior to joining DRI in 2001, Kent spent over 20 years at Chevron, where his work focused on production, composition, regulations, and environmental impacts of transportation fuels. Kent holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Iowa State University.
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Howard Hohl is Representative Sales Manager with EISENMANN Corporation, in Crystal Lake, Illinois. Howard has over 30 years of experience specializing in process combustion systems and abatement equipment including boilers, thermal oxidizers, regenerative thermal oxidizers, and vapor combustors for industrial applications in the chemical industry, pulp and paper, ethanol/biofuels, wood products, steel, and wasteto-energy. Howard has a B.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.B.A. from the University of Akron.
Phillip Jennings is the Chief Operating Officer of REPREVE™ Renewables, headquartered in Soperton, Georgia. REPREVE Renewables has the exclusive license to commercialize Freedom™ Giant Miscanthus, a bioenergy crop from which electricity and fuel can be produced effectively and efficiently. The rapid growth, low inputs and high biomass yield of Miscanthus make it one of the ideal choices for an energy crop. Phillip has applied his vast experience in commercial growing to the propagation and harvesting of Freedom Giant Miscanthus. Freedom is a very profitable crop for farmers and an ideal biomass feedstock. The species has been named “Freedom” for its early promise as a biomass crop that might free the American energy landscape from its foreign dependence.
Max Holdo is Manager of Business Development & Sustainability at Enviva Biomass. Max is responsible for the technical and quantitative analysis of customer contracts and project pipelines, optimization of shipments to customers, as well as supply chain greenhouse gas emissions calculations to ensure Enviva not only meets customer and regulatory requirements but also minimizes its overall carbon footprint. Max brings a background of strong financial and analytical experience to Enviva, previously working in commercial banking, project finance consulting and futures trading in both the United States and Argentina, his home country. Max earned his M.B.A. at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in Economics.
Joe Jobe is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Biodiesel Board (NBB). The NBB is the national trade association representing the biodiesel industry as the coordinating body for biodiesel research and development in the US. Its members include feedstock producers and processors, soybean commodity boards, biodiesel suppliers, and fuel marketers and distributors. Joe has been with the NBB since 1997, and has served as CEO since January 1999. Joe’s duties included serving as the principle investigator for the $2.2 million biodiesel health effects testing program. Joe became interested in agricultural, environmental, and energy issues growing up on a farm in central Missouri. Prior to working for the NBB, Joe was a fraud investigator for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Prior to that he worked as a certified public accountant.
Stephen Holmes is Senior Partner at the Vyridian Group. Steve founded the Vyridian Group in 2004 to service the global carbon markets as a project developer. To perform its project developer role, Vyridian Group is an alliance of experienced professionals, technology providers and influentials from multiple disciplines including science, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media communications and investment banking. Steve is a hydrogeologist with a broad range of experience in renewable energy, biofuels, biomass, water resources, ecosystem restoration, development feasibility, manufacturing, sustainability initiatives, media production and regulatory affairs. He founded a professional environmental engineering company in 1988 which successfully went public in 1992 and expanded into solid waste management, landfill construction and operation. Later Steve started a manufacturing and contracting company which used proprietary in-situ technology to convert single wall storage tanks into double walled, continuously monitored pollution prevention systems for the U.S. military and major oil companies.
William Johnson is Manager of Biofuels Development at Alliant Energy Corporation. Bill is responsible for biofuel supply for the company’s baseload power plants. Prior to his current position, he was Manager of Agricultural Customer Services for 15 years, responsible for stray voltage, commodity and non-commodity sales, electrical wiring programs, rural safety, demand side management and anaerobic digester renewable energy programs for Alliant Energy’s farm customers. Bill is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with degrees in Animal Science and Reproductive Physiology-Endocrinology. He is published in several peer reviewed scientific journals.
Su Anne Huang is Market Manager for Landfills at FlexEnergy Inc. Su Anne leads the development of business opportunities and marketing specific to the biogas market, in which FlexEnergy’s gas turbines generate clean energy from methane with near-zero emissions. Prior to FlexEnergy, Su Anne was involved in sustainability planning and renewable energy projects, including producing strategic operational plans to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions across a university campus. Su Anne is a Singaporean native, and earned her bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Studies and Psychology from New York University.
Greg Karr is a Program Manager in the Energy and Life Sciences Division at MRIGlobal. Greg’s primary focus is in renewable energy platforms from agricultural wastes, biomass and algae. Additionally, he manages MRIGlobal’s 160-acre Renewable Energy Research Farm located 60 miles south of Kansas City. Greg also oversees the operation of a pilot scale anaerobic digester system, nutrient recovery, and utilization from the digester’s effluent. He is also responsible for energy crop production (such as switchgrass and miscanthus) and oversees the algae production and feasibility studies in the state of Missouri. Greg joined MRIGlobal three years ago after 10 years with AgRenew Inc. The Manhattan, Kansas-based AgRenew focused on the research and development of biobased products utilizing agricultural materials. Mr. Karr is the co-inventor of three issued patents and two pending patents. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and M.S. in Grain Science, both from Kansas State University.
Dr. John Hurley is a Senior Research Advisor at the University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center where he has worked for 28 years. John specializes in working with industry and government organizations to develop and test new technologies to increase the productivity and efficiency of systems used in energy-intensive processes. He specializes in materials-related issues, fuel properties and conversion fundamentals, high-temperature ceramic and alloy joining and corrosion, and bringing technologies from the laboratory to demonstration. John received his B.S. in Physics from the University of North Dakota and a Ph.D. from the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Penn State, with a specialty in Fuel Science.
Marcus Kauffman is as the Biomass Resource Specialist for the Oregon Department of Forestry. Marcus provides project development assistance, strategy development, and biomass supply information to public and private interests across the state. He also serves on the Oregon Forest Biomass Working Group. Marcus has developed numerous publicprivate partnerships to improve natural resource and sustainable economic development opportunities. His work has addressed renewable energy, biomass utilization, ecosystem restoration, sustainable forestry, and community fire protection planning. His approach to rural development seeks integrated solutions for the local economy and the natural environment. Prior to joining the Oregon Department of Forestry, Marcus owned an independent consultancy, East Fork Consulting that focused on developing collaborative solutions to advance the green economy. The consultancy provided information and analysis to advance renewable energy solutions, in particular woody and agricultural biomass energy and collaborative forest management.
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SPEAKER BIOS John Keppler is Chairman and CEO of Enviva LP. John is a co-founder of the company and leads Enviva’s corporate operations and key strategic initiatives. He brings extensive M&A and business development experience and a keen knowledge of the renewable energy sector. Under John’s leadership Enviva has grown from a start-up into a company whose portfolio of operating plants in the biomass energy supply chain represent more than 300,000 metric tons of combined capacity with an additional 1,000,000 tons of production in various stages of permitting, construction and development. John sits on the Board of Directors of the Virginia Alternative and Renewable Energy Association and serves as Treasurer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a M.B.A. from The Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at The University of Virginia.
Bob Korn is the Director of Sales & Marketing with the Industrial Protection Group for Fike Corporation. Bob has presented to numerous professional, industry and trade association groups on the subject of combustible dust hazards, U.S. regulatory changes and dust explosion mitigation solutions including: National Fire Marshals Conference, State of Colorado Safety Congress, State of Georgia Safety Congress, NFPA International Conference, ISPE National and Regional Conferences, IAOM National and Regional Conferences, PRB Coal Users Group. Bob has spent the last 10 years with Fike Corporation, the global leader in industrial explosion protection solutions. Bob received Bachelor of Science degrees in Business and Engineering from the University of Nebraska.
Dr. Jayant Khambekar is Power Industry Specialist at Jenike & Johanson Inc. in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. Jenike & Johanson is a specialized engineering firm that focuses on providing reliable bulk solids flow. Jayant is involved in consulting to solve flow problems as well as to design new solids storage and feeding systems. He has done research in the area of powder consolidation, vibratory conveying of bulk solids and Discrete Element Modeling (DEM). Jayant obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dr. Carl Kukkonen is Chief Executive Officer of VIASPACE, a renewable energy company with operations in the U.S. and China. VIASPACE grows Giant King Grass, a high yield energy crop as fuel for direct combustion in electricity generating power plants, for bio methane production using anaerobic digestion, and as a feedstock for cellulosic biofuels, biochemicals and bio plastics. VIASPACE is based in California and has a 110 hectare Giant King Grass nursery in Guangdong province, China. Previously, Carl directed a research center at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior, he was at Ford Motor Company, where he was Ford’s expert on hydrogen as an alternative automotive fuel. Carl earned a B.S. in Physics from the University of California, Davis and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Purdue University.
Brian Kittler is Project Director at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation. Brian focuses on the Institute’s work on bioenergy, community-based natural resource management, and payment for ecosystem services. He is currently analyzing European sustainability criteria for wood pellets and the extent to which these criteria might impact wood pellet producers in the U.S. and the landowners that supply them. From 2008 – 2010 Brian helped lead a broad-based multi-sector policy dialogue for the Pinchot Institute and Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment that involved over 280 stakeholders across North America focused on identifying policy solutions for sustainable bioenergy. He has also worked with the state of Maryland to develop voluntary biomass harvesting guidelines and with the state of Massachusetts to analyze proposed sustainability requirements for bioenergy facilities and forest biomass harvests. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Policy from Colby College and a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Policy from the Johns Hopkins University.
Patricia Kurgan is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Astro Logistics Inc., a Denver, CO, transportation logistics firm, which specializes in the individual and unique requirements of its customers. Patricia has 30 years of experience in the transportation sector and has worked with a wide range of international customers and industries. Astro Logistics considers the environmental impact of any strategic decision in order to help enterprises improve business operations and reduce supply chain costs. The result is bottom-line benefits and long-term competitive advantages. Patricia’s interest in the renewable energy sector began when she was selected as a participant for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Energy Executive Leadership Program and completed its course of study in 2008. Patricia earned her B.A. from Duke University and her M.B.A. from University of ColoradoDenver. Patricia presently serves on the Leadership Council for the Colorado branch of NFIB (National Federation of Independent Businesses).
James Knight is President of Pelletco LLC. Prior to co-founding Pelletco, James was the Chief Executive Officer of Knight Celotex. He was Managing Partner of SCA Consulting before its sale in 2001 to Mercer Consulting. Prior to joining SCA, he was a leader of the Value Management practice at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Before BCG, he was with Apple Computer where his responsibilities included Apple’s relationship with its largest corporate customers. James has extensive business strategy experience and is the author of Value Based Management published by McGraw-Hill in 1998. He has also written numerous articles on the application of shareholder value to business strategy and management decisions. James holds a M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth and a B.S. in Finance from Boston University.
Randall Lack is Chief Marketing Officer for Element Markets LLC. Randall has been a successful entrepreneur within the environmental commodity and alternative energy industries for over a decade. In 2005, he co-founded Element Markets LLC, the leading developer and supplier of environmental commodities in North America. Randall has guided Element Markets in building one of the industry’s largest biomethane portfolios including landfill gas and anaerobic digestion projects. He also has extensive experience in structuring environmental commodity transactions including biogas, emissions, renewable energy credits, and greenhouse gases. Randall is an acclaimed speaker and media resource in the areas of Biogas, Renewable Energy Credits, Greenhouse Gas Trading, Regional Emission Markets, and pending emissions legislation and currently serves on the Board of the Renewable Natural Gas Coalition. Randall received his BBA in Business, magna cum laude, from the University of Houston.
Adam Kobos is a Partner in the Tax section of the Benefits, Tax and Wealth Management Group at Stoel Rives LLP. Adam’s practice encompasses a wide variety of federal and state tax issues, including: taxable and tax-free corporate mergers and acquisitions; transactions involving partnerships, S corporations, limited liability companies and other passthrough entities; tax aspects of compensation arrangements, including stock options, restricted stock, and bonus plans; debt and equity offerings and other financial transactions; tax controversy matters; and state and local tax aspects of transactions. Adam regularly represents clients who develop or invest in renewable energy projects, including wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric and other renewable energy generation facilities and biofuel production facilities. His renewable energy practice focuses on federal, state and local tax incentives and transaction structures that enable both developers and investors to maximize the value of those incentives. Adam holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, A.M. from Harvard University and A.B. from Amherst College.
Walter Lampp is the North American Area Manager for FMW Industrieanlagenbau GmbH. Since 1987, Walter has traveled extensively contributing to the conceptualization, design, and implementation of wood yard material handling systems for the international pulp and paper and engineered wood products industries. Since 1998, Walter has been associated with FMW and is responsible for the coordination of their activities in North America, while contributing to FMW activities in South America, Australia, and Asia.
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Roger Leimbach is the Manager of Marketing and Applications for Metso Automation in North America. Roger has been in the power business for over 40 years in many different capacities. His specialty is the development of control strategies for power boilers. He advocates coordinated control for even smaller boilers and turbines. Roger has worked on the Direct Energy Balance (D-E-B) coordinated control which is employed on over 1000 units around the world. His work has led him around the world where he has spoken on the subject of calculating energy input for solid fuel boilers.
Bengt- Erik Löfgren is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ÄFAB in Sweden. With offices in Minnesota and California and together with Minnesota State and University of Minnesota, ÄFABusa is a promoter of the International Renewable Energy Technical Institute (IRETI) in Mankato, Minnesota. Bengt-Erik is one of the most well known experts in small-scale bioenergy in Sweden and has been working together with the bioenergy industry for more than 30 years. His involvement ranges from making new EN-standards of pellet burners to distributing governmental grants. ÄFAB was one of the first listed on U.S. Ambassador Michael M. Woods’ list “The One Big Thing,” a list of the most interesting companies for the U.S. to cooperate within the Cleantech branch. Thanks to Ambassador Wood, ÄFAB today can help European bioenergy companies enter the American market. Bengt-Erik is also involved in other companies such as Green Energy, Ecoera AB and Bioagro Energy. He is also with PellSam and Scandinavian Cleantech Export Association (SCEA).
Mike Levin is Vice President, Government Affairs for FlexEnergy. Mike is responsible for FlexEnergy’s public outreach to key policymakers, including government agencies, representatives, and staffers. He most recently served as an attorney at Bryan Cave LLP, focusing his practice on government affairs, renewable energy, and environmental law. Prior to joining Bryan Cave, Mike was Vice President of a clean technology startup company. Mike is a co-founder and officer of CleanTech OC, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of existing clean tech companies and providing opportunities for future clean tech investments in the Orange County region. Throughout the last decade, Mike has worked on a variety of local, state and national political campaigns. He completed a Coro Foundation fellowship in Public Affairs and is a graduate of Duke Law School and Stanford University and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.
Mauricio Lopez is Gas Sales Development Manager – Americas for Caterpillar Americas Service Co. Inc. Mauricio has 19 years of commercial experience in the engine and generator set industry. During the last 10 years, he has worked for Caterpillar and has relocated for assignments in Central America, Brazil and the U.S. Mauricio has been involved in multiple projects in distributed generation, co-generation and renewable energy generation from biogas and landfill gas. Mauricio holds a M.B.A., M.S. in General Engineering and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a Mechanical Engineer degree from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia.
Elliott Levine has served as Technology Manager within the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Biomass Program since 2009. Elliott is presently providing strategic direction for an upcoming Biomass Power program. At DOE, he has held a range of positions focused on the development, commercialization, and deployment of applied energy technologies for several energy-intensive industries including glass, mining and forest products. His efforts have led to the commercialization and market entry of several energy-saving technologies with significant energy and environmental-saving impacts. Elliott previously directed Argonne National Laboratory’s state-funded Technology Commercialization Center, where he assisted startup and earlystage companies with the skillful use of Argonne’s technical resources and also performed technical and environmental analyses of new energy systems. Elliott also worked for Carolina Power & Light (now named Progress Energy) as an air quality analyst handling licensing, siting, and environmental issues.
Dr. Thomas Lyons is Chief Science Officer of BioTork LLC, joining the company in 2008. Prior to BioTork and the Evolugate Group, Thomas was a professor of biochemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida. Currently, he also serves as a Research Fellow at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution and maintains a courtesy appointment in the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Florida. He is the author of over 20 peer reviewed publications, reviews and book chapters on topics ranging from inorganic chemistry to experimental evolution. Thomas’ training includes a B.A. in Chemistry from Middlebury College, a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Genetics at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Josh Levine is Vice President of Project Development for Energy Management Inc. / American Renewables. Josh has nearly 15 years of experience in energy project development, environmental permitting, economic analysis, and project finance. His responsibilities include managing all facets of project development from initial site selection and contract negotiation through environmental permitting and the development of a fuel procurement strategy. For the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center, Josh served as the Project Manager during the development phase of the project. He is also involved in new business development for EMI / American Renewables, including partnership development as well as evaluation of project feasibility. Josh received his B.S. in Economics from Connecticut College, his M.B.A. from the Yale University - School of Management, and his M.E.M. in Policy, Economics and Law from the Yale University - School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Dr. Kim Magrini is a Principal Scientist in the National Bioenergy Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories. Kim currently manages NREL’s Catalysis and Thermochemical Sciences Group, which focuses on the development of catalytic approaches to biofuels production from syngas; vapor phase upgrading of biomass pyrolysis products to hydrocarbon fuels; the rapid analysis of biomass and soils using pyrolysis molecular beam mass spectrometry; and understanding the complex chemistry of reacting biomass under thermochemical processing conditions. She has more than 20 years of research and management experience in academic, industrial and national laboratory environments and has over 52 peer- reviewed publications, 1 patent, and 75 presentations at national and international meetings. Her research areas include catalyst development for thermochemical fuels and chemicals production; catalytic biomass gasification and pyrolysis, developing novel gas and liquid analytical techniques using pyrolysis mass spectrometry (py-MBMS) coupled with multivariate statistics; and bio oil and lipid chemical analysis using 2D GCTOFS.
Renée Loesche is IGEN Biofuels Coordinator/Instructor in the Biofuels & Ethanol Production Career program at Southeastern Illinois College. Renée specializes in industry training for management, operations and maintenance functions . She has developed and delivered the Biofuels Program for Southeastern Illinois College with emphasis on ethanol, biodiesel, and biofuels plant processes. This complements her career in workforce development through Illinois Power Co., Publication Services Inc., SIU-C, American Oil Chemists’ Society, and Business and Workforce Development programs in Illinois and Missouri. She has developed training within the disciplines of power generation, publishing, the insurance industry, and higher education. Renée’s academic career includes receiving an A.A.S. in Nuclear Power Generation from Richland Community College-Decatur, B.S. in Industrial Technology from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, and M.S. from Illinois State University-Normal. She earned her Ethanol Process Systems certificate from the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center (NCERC) at SIU-Edwardsville.
Matthew Markee is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Recast Energy. Based in Richmond, Virginia, Recast Energy is a biomass-to-energy plant operator and also develops projects across the United States, the Caribbean, and Central America. Development efforts focus on practical solutions for industrial consumers of steam and power as well as standalone power opportunities. Current operations include facilities in Mississippi, Kentucky, and the Dominican Republic. Recast Energy has been in the biomass space since 2004. Matthew holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
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SPEAKER BIOS Gregg Mast is Vice President , Agriculture & Biomass Business Cluster, with the BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, an industry-led, action-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The Alliance is dedicated to the advancement of bioscience-related industries to create jobs for the citizens of Minnesota. Gregg is responsible for convening and leading diverse stakeholder groups to develop long-term strategic direction for Minnesota in the areas of renewable energy, renewable materials and clean technology. He is also the Founder of Earthtech Energy, an agricultural biomass company specializing in formulation and densification strategies for crop residues and other dedicated energy crops for the production of thermal energy. Gregg received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and a M.B.A. from the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas.
John McDowell is a Sales Engineer for EISENMANN Corporation, a global supplier of clean air and energy systems with U.S. operations based in Crystal Lake, Illinois. With prior experience in process engineering working for an ethanol company, John is currently focused on introducing EISENMANN’s global technologies to U.S. markets with special emphasis on Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Mark Mathis is Chief Executive Officer of Confluence Energy. Mark has served as CEO since 2007 and the majority shareholder since its inception. He has lived in Colorado for 25+ years. Mark has started several successful businesses including an advertising and marketing business, a furniture manufacturing business, and a retail stove, furniture and design business. Mark has a proven successful history of creating startup businesses. Mark’s schooling was at University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Gary Melow is the State Projects Coordinator for the Biomass Power Association (BPA), the nation’s leading advocate for the grid-connected biomass power industry, representing 80 biomass plants in 20 states. Gary is also Director of Michigan Biomass, which similarly represents that state’s biomass power industry. He has worked in biomass power for 12 years in human resources, communications and government affairs. At BPA he directs outreach and membership initiatives, and in Michigan he works closely with forest resource stakeholders, holding positions on various advisory boards. Gary is a graduate of Central Michigan University and worked in print media, publishing and corporate communications before entering the biomass power industry.
Gareth Mayhead is Academic Coordinator, Forest Products, at the University of California, Berkeley. Gareth specializes in woody biomass utilization technology and marketing. He has 15 years of wide ranging experience in the global forest products and energy sector including research and development, economic development and community forestry. In his position, funded by the U.S. Forest Service, he conducts outreach and technical assistance activities to businesses and communities to help them develop markets for woody biomass. Gareth assists California businesses to secure grant funding for biomass projects and has held over 30 workshops in the state since 2007. He also works on the development and review of grant programs for the U.S. Forest Service. Gareth is a Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and Treasurer/Secretary for the Forest Products Society Pacific Southwest Section. He has a master’s in Forest Industries Technology from the University of Wales Bangor, UK. His first degree was in Land Management.
Steve Milford is Product Business Manager at Endress + Hauser. Steve has worked in Marketing Sales for Endress + Hauser AG of Switzerland since 2006, but relocated with his family to North Carolina in September 2011 to work for the rapidly expanding E + H operation in the U.S. He has been involved in flow measurement since 1983, developing a global specialism in ultrasonic flow measurement technology. Steve serves on both ISO and British Standards Committees for velocity & mass methods of flow measurement and has contributed to several ISO and BSI standards over the past 13 years. He has authored and co-authored numerous white papers and published several technical articles on flow measurement.
Michael McAdams is President of the Advanced Biofuels Association. Michael manages the leading voice in Washington D.C. for the advanced biofuels industry. Representing the top companies from around the world, he leads the ABFA as it engages the federal government at all levels to secure a level playing field for its member companies. Under his leadership, the ABFA has grown to become an active partner with leaders in Washington as they work to transform our nation’s energy policy with long-term and renewable solutions that will create jobs and strengthen our energy security. Michael has testified before Congress and the executive agencies. He was recently a guest participant at the invitation-only ResourcePoint 2010 - VantagePoint Cleantech Summit in Sundance, Utah, as well as at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School’s Energy Conference 2010. In 2008, Michael was also asked to serve as an energy and climate facilitator for the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City.
David Minott is National Practice Leader for Biomass Energy and Waste-to-Energy at Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a leading, global environmental consulting firm. Dave’s specialty is air quality consulting, and for 28 years now, his professional focus has been on supporting the development of biomass energy and waste-to-energy projects in the U.S. and abroad. Dave’s environmental consulting expertise encompasses facility siting, fuel studies, air quality permitting, EIS preparation, sustainability studies, and stakeholder engagement. Dave has been actively engaged in assessing the implications of EPA’s proposed, new boiler rules for biomass project developers, paper mills, and other clients.
Don McCabe is a Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and President of the Soil Conservation Council of Canada. He is also Vice Chair of the Bio-Industrial Innovation Centre (BIC) which is a national entity located at Sarnia, Ontario. The BIC examines ways to commercialize new research ideas where possible by supplying pilot research facilities or possible funding including green agricultural feedstock projects founded on sustainable economics and supply logistics possibilities. Don is a no-till corn, soybean and wheat farmer from Inwood, Ontario. He believes farmers have to have appropriate policy to operate their businesses, while providing society with food, fuel, fiber, energy, and environmental goods and services such as improved water quality, bio-energy sources, carbon sequestration and wildlife habitat. Don has studied doctorate-level soil genesis and classification at the University of Guelph in Ontario, after completing a Chemistry degree at the University of Western Ontario.
Kristi Moriarty is Senior Analyst at the Center for Transportation Technologies and Systems at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories. Kristi’s responsibilities center around analyzing the use of alternative fuels, advanced vehicles, and other petroleum-reduction strategies in the transportation sector. She also works on projects funded by the Biomass Program in the Technology Evaluation & Integration and Clean Cities areas. Kristi has had extensive experience in the renewable energy industry conducting analyses and technical reviews. Her technical knowledge includes biomass energy and biofuels. She has worked as a technical consultant, research analyst, and IT contractor and has also served as manager of technical studies at an international firm in Colorado. Kristi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Virginia Tech, a graduate diploma in Biomass Energy from the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain, and a Master of Science degree in renewable energy systems technology from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
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Amanda Mott is Energy Projects Specialist with the Wisconsin State Energy Office. Amanda works in energy finance which invests in Wisconsin by promoting energy related economic development and jobs, increasing energy efficiency, and developing renewable and alternative energy sources. She administers several federally funded grants: (1) converting fossil fueled boilers to utilize wood resources, (2) increasing the use of agriculture and cheese production feedstocks for energy applications, and (3) completing a Statewide Bioenergy Feedstock Assessment; conducting legal analysis/policy development; and assisting Wisconsin citizens and businesses with energy project development. Before joining SEO, Amanda worked as an Environmental Associate Attorney with DeWitt Ross & Stevens. While in school she worked as a research associate for the VLS Institute for Energy and Environment, a law clerk for U.S. EPA and U.S. DOJ, and a government relations intern working on energy legislation in Montpelier, Vermont. Amanda received her J.D. (2008) and M.S.E.L. (2005) from Vermont Law School.
Jay O’Laughlin is Professor of Forestry & Policy Sciences at the University of Idaho. Since 1989, Jay has also been full-time Director of the College of Natural Resources Policy Analysis Group, funded by the Idaho Legislature to provide objective analysis of natural resource issues important to Idaho citizens as suggested by an advisory committee of natural resource leaders. Recent publications feature policy analyses for wildfire, wood bioenergy, and sustainable forest management for wood products and carbon sequestration. Jay also works on these issues for the Western Governors’ Association Forest Health Advisory Committee and for the Idaho Strategic Energy Alliance, chairing the Forestry/Biomass Task Force and writing its report on opportunities and challenges of wood bioenergy. He was elected Fellow of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) in 2000; in 2010 Jay received the SAF’s Award in Forest Science for distinguished research in managerial sciences leading to the advancement of forestry.
Dr. Michael Mundschau is a Senior Scientist at TDA Research Inc., Golden, Colorado. A native of Wisconsin, Michael worked at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin on fundamentals of catalysis, adsorption and surface science. He has spent the last 14 years in Colorado, working primarily on DOE-sponsored research. A current project is to develop homogeneous catalysts for conversion of biomass-derived synthesis gas into fuel ethanol. The new catalysts have greater selectivity towards ethanol relative to conventional heterogeneous catalysts and might allow production of fuel ethanol from many sources of gasified biomass and biochar. Michael has also worked to develop inorganic sorbents for removal of impurities and catalyst deactivators from synthesis gas and is currently working on production of activated carbons for removal of metal impurities from liquid solutions using acid-catalyzed decomposition of starch and other carbohydrates to fabricate porous, high-surface area biochar.
Jon Orr is Capital Sales Manager for Gasification Technologies at ICM in Colwich, Kansas. Prior to joining ICM, Jon has worked in business and technology development in thermal technologies applied in the coal processing, waste-to-energy, wastewater, mining, plastics, chemicals, and other industrial markets. In the first part of his career, he worked in chemical production in various process/project engineering, R&D, operations and technical management roles. Jon earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a M.B.A. from the University of Houston, Clear Lake.
Kelly Murphy is President of Boulder Natural Solutions in Boulder, Colorado. Bringing together key players to create new and sustained value is the essence of Kelly’s success. One notable example was evident in his role as a co-founder of a startup energy company in 1999, which garnered equity funding during 2002 and 2003, and which was then in turn acquired in 2008. Kelly was also honored to be a peer reviewer for an extensive Department of Energy renewable energy report in October of 2010, and it was at that time that he began to grasp the impact of unconventional gas production. Kelly also acts as an adviser / collaborator to a UK startup company, Perlemax, who had a recent technical paper on algal biomass highlighted in a Scientific American article and podcast: “Microflotation performance for algal separation.”
Michael Oswald is President of Precision Energy Services Inc. (PES). Michael founded PES in 1993. His background includes over 35 years experience in the biomass energy system business. Michael’s expertise includes design, production, construction, maintenance, and operation of biomass boilers, burners, heat cells and associated fuel to stack equipment. His company, PES, provides technical support, consulting, procurement, construction and operation and maintenance services to the solid fuel, steam and power plant industry. Plants were fired on biomass, industrial fuels and coal. Plant size ranges are from small industrial plants to utility size plants. Michael was previously employed by a major fluidized bed company and served as a Vice President of the company beginning in 1979. His experience there includes the development of fluid bed combustion, gasification technology as well as years of technical design, operations and project development. Michael is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Montana State University.
Dr. K. Muthukumarappan is Professor of Food and Bioprocess Engineering in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at South Dakota State University. Muthu joined the faculty in 1997 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to tenured Professor in 2006. His research interests are in the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into ethanol and food process engineering. Muthu earned his B.S. in Mathematics from University of Madras, Chennai, India, a B.E (Ag) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, a M.E. from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
William Partanen is Manager, Business Development and Applications Engineering, at Ameristar Biofuels LLC. William is focused on developing new applications for waste organic grease (used vegetable oil) as a substitute for conventional fossil fuels. He works closely with utilities, cement plants and the manufacturing sector finding ways to displace conventional fossil fuel including coal with green fuel. William has over 35 years of experience in a broad range of energy projects using both conventional and renewable sources of fuel. Projects have included utility system retrofits, gasification, landfill gas, biomass power generation, combined heat and power (CHP), trash to energy, wood products, pulp and paper. This work has included not only owning his own consulting firm for over 15 years but leadership positions in startup companies as well as project management, consulting and business development activities for Fortune 500 companies. William is a licensed Professonal Engineer in Maine.
Dan Nolan is Chief Executive Officer of Sabot 6. After a distinguished 26 years career in the Army, Dan chose to combine his knowledge of leadership and his skills in systems analysis to attack America’s next big challenge: energy security. Dan’s work in energy security has been featured in Thomas Friedman’s 2008 book Hot, Flat and Crowded and Amanda Little’s Power Trip as well as the documentary Carbon Nation. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION He is the principal author of the DOD Energy Blog, a commentary on DOD’s efforts to attain energy security through energy efficiency, smart distribution and alternative/renewable energy. Dan also writes a blog on leadership and decision making for a rapidly changing world, called Commanding View. Dan culminated his military career with U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, where he served as a principal advisor to the Commander in Chief, Central Command. Dan has spent time in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq and Washington D.C. and understands the complexity of these varied environments. While in Washington, D.C.,
Jeff Passmore is President of Passmore Group Inc. Jeff has worked in renewable energy for more than 30 years, both as a consultant and as Executive Vice President of Iogen Corporation. In 2010, he launched the Passmore Group, focused to bridge the gap between public policy and market reality, and to provide clients with the necessary policy and communications tools to lead to rapid commercialization of innovative energy and environmental technologies. Jeff recently served on the CleanTech Advisory Board of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. He is past Chair of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, past Chair of the Canadian Wind Energy Association, past Chair of the Solar Energy Society of Canada, past Vice Chair of the Independent Power Producers’ Society of Ontario, and past President of the Ottawa Chapter of the International Association for Energy Economics. Most recently, he founded the New Economy Alliance, an industry group focussed on advancing the field of biomass for fuels and chemicals.
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SPEAKER BIOS Dr. Calvin Pearson is Professor of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University and Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Calvin has worked nearly 28 years at the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Western Colorado Research Center at Fruita, Colorado. His research program focuses on sustainable crop production and soil management systems on furrow-irrigated cropland in the arid west with traditional agronomic crops and alternative crops. Calvin is a member of the newly formed “Western Colorado Carbon Neutral Bioenergy Consortium.” He has authored or co-authored numerous publications, ranging from refereed journal articles and technical papers to poplar magazine articles. He invented a forage plot harvester, a conservation tillage grain drill, and a three-point hitch weighing hopper. He served on the Editorial Board of Agronomy Journal for 16 years serving as associate editor, technical editor, and editor. Calvin received a degree from Ricks College, a B.S. from Brigham Young Univ., a M.S. from Oklahoma State Univ., and a Ph.D. from Oregon State University.
Tim Portz is Program Director for BBI International. In this role, Tim is responsible for the agenda development process including organizing the call for abstracts, forming review committees, working with the review committees to rate all received abstracts and finally establishing the program agenda. He also works closely with the editorial teams at BBI International to understand the most pressing industry issues and stories for inclusion into the conference agendas. Prior to beginning his career in renewable energy with BBI International Tim worked both as an educator and selling professional. Tim holds a BFA from the University of Iowa.
José Ignacio Pedrajas is Business Development Manager and Co-Owner of PRODESA. José founded the company in 1997 with the challenge of becoming a global partner in the engineering, manufacturing and supply of wood pellet plants with or without biomass fueled CHP plants associated to the pellets production by means of belt dryers using the waste energy available. He developed the company’s expansion in Russia, South America and Asia and has lately led the establishment of PRODESA North America in Atlanta. José has developed his entire professional career in drying and pelleting projects. Prior to his involvement in PRODESA he participated in some of the first wood pellet plants in Europe in the early 90s. José earned his degree in Engineering from the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
Richard Poulin is Senior Principal, Power Practice, in Stantec Consulting Services Inc. in Scarborough, Maine. Stantec’s Power Practice specializes in renewable generation most notably wind, solar, biomass and landfill gas to energy; simple and combined cycle natural gas generation facilities; air quality control system design and transmission and distribution. Rick has over 30 years experience in the power generation industry including extensive activities in marketing and business development, contract negotiation and management, capital equipment procurement and logistics, and outage scheduling and planning. In this duration, he has worked for three major U.S. utilties, engineering firms and a major EPC contractor. Rick earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maine.
Ilaria Peretti is Sales Manager for Biomass Application in PWPS Regions for Turboden, a Pratt & Whitney Power Systems (PWPS) company. Prior to taking this role last June, Alaria was the Sales Manager for Turboden’s UK and Ireland locations since 2007. Turboden is the global leader in ORC plants for biomass applications. It is active in the U.S. and Canada through its parent company PWPS of United Technologies Corporation, based in Connecticut. Prior to Turboden, Ilaria was Energy Manager at the Italian E.S.C.O. Ilaria received a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and Master in Thermo-Mechanics Engineering from Università Politecnica delle Marche at Ancona, Italy. And after a period of further development of her thesis work at the University’s laboratories, she was awarded a two- year grant for proficiency studies at the University of Ulster in Jordanstown/Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Dr. Ming Qiao is R&D Group Leader at Virent Inc. Ming has over 10 years experience in bioresource and engineering, covering biomass characterization, pretreatment, deconstruction, purification, fermentation, and catalytic conversion. Ming is leading Virent’s research, development, and commercialization of biomass feedstock processes, including design and scale-up of biomass conversion process, evaluation of biomass (pre)treatment technologies, and support to Virent’s TEA, LCA, and business development. He is the inventor on 10 patents and patent applications worldwide and is the author of over 20 technical publications. Ming received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University and his Ph.D. in Bioresource and Engineering from University of Washington.
William Perritt is a Senior Editor for RISI, serving as Executive Editor for RISI’s “Wood Biomass Market Report” and News Editor for “International Woodfiber Report.” He has covered pulpwood market news with IWR since its first issue in 1995, and launched WBMR in 2008. William’s efforts include regular contact with industry sources to construct real-world North American monthly market reviews in the pulpwood and wood biomass realms, analyzing price trends and market drivers for those raw materials. He is on the Forest Resources Association’s Board of Directors and is a member of the West Virginia Forestry Association. William is a graduate of Emory & Henry College with a degree in Print Journalism.
Jason Quinn is a Research Scientist , Mechanical Engineering, at Colorado State University. Jason is working on microalgae-to-biofuel evaluation and optimization through experimentally validated modeling. His research areas include lifecycle assessment, GIS resource evaluation, systems engineering, economic modeling, and design optimization. Jason is currently working on research projects focused on microalgae growth modeling and experimentation for model validation, emissions from microalgae cultivation, growth sensitivity to temperature, and economic evaluation of large scale microalgae to biofuels. Jason received a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State with his research focused on microalgae biofuels, a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he worked on a high temperature plasma science research program focused on fusion energy and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.
John Pierce is a Partner at DLA Piper in the Corporate and Finance group based in Seattle. John focuses on the development and finance of projects involving wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy, as well as those involving alternative fuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, algal biomass, and advanced-generation biofuels. John’s practice encompasses project sponsors and investors and is international in scope, with extensive dealings in South Asia, Southeast Asia, China, India, Africa and the Middle East. His clients include venturebacked companies in the renewable energy industry, traditional renewable energy project companies and lenders. He also has broad international experience in infrastructure development and financing, including projects involving ports and industrial zones, joint ventures in aviation, and the financing of oil and gas projects. John received his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1993 and a B.S. in Economics from San Francisco State University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Dr. Rakesh Radhakrishnan recently joined Thomson Reuters as a Director of Advisory Services, Energy and Commodities. Rakeshwas previously an Associate Director in Navigant Consulting’s Energy Practice. He has helped develop clean energy strategies for several states and part of these efforts have focused on enhancing the biomass power and biofuels industry in states with the highest potential for deploying these alternatives. He has also evaluated investment opportunities for private sector clients in biomass power projects and advanced biofuel companies. Rakesh spent several years at United Technologies Research Center where he managed clean energy projects through collaborations between industry, national laboratories and academia in the field of renewable energy. His core expertise is in R&D of novel chemical processes for the production of of fuels including hydrogen, methane, ethanol, diesel etc. from synthesis gas. Rakesh holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a M.B.A. from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Gary Radloff is the Interim Director and Midwest Energy Policy Analysis Director with the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative (WBI) at the University of Wisconsin. The WBI seeks to cultivate bioenergy expertise among UWMadison, UW-System and Wisconsin stakeholders to anchor the innovative research being conducted. The WBI helps the talent across Wisconsin create, commercialize and promote bio-based solutions. Gary is former Director of Policy and Strategic Communications at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). In 2009, he moderated the National Academy of Science Workshop in Madison, “Expanding Biofuel Production: Sustainability and the Transition to Advance Biofuels.” Gary has helped coordinate policy for the Governor’s Consortium on the Biobased Industry and the Working Lands Initiative. He is the former staff liaison to the North Central Bioeconomy Consortium, a 12-state partnership of Agriculture departments, University Extension offices and Agriculture Research Stations. He also served on the Steering Committee for the Midwest Agriculture Energy Network.
Dr. Theodora Retsina is the Chief Executive Officer of American Process. In 1995, Theodora founded American Process in 1995, with a focus on value enhancement of the forest products industries through process integration and biorefinery technology applications. American Process also provides engineering EPCM and process integration consulting services. This unique blend of experience enables the company to develop technically and financially viable biorefineries. They are currently constructing one of the first commercial cellulosic biorefineries in Michigan, the Alpena Biorefinery, which will be operational in 2012. Her career began at Parsons & Whittemore, where she held positions as project engineer, project manager and process manager in various international construction projects. Theodora is the author of several patents and patent pending applications in the biorefinery field. She is a past chair of the TAPPI biorefinery committee. Theodora received a B.SC. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London and is a licensed professional engineer in the U.S.
Jonathan Rager is a Principal in Pöyry Management Consulting (USA) Inc. Jonathan is based in their Atlanta office where he leads the North American technical strategy and bioenergy practices. He has 20 years of experience in the forest and forest products area including positions within manufacturing, management consulting and financial services firms. Prior to re-joining Pöyry in 2010, he worked as a Senior Vice President in corporate lending at GE Capital, providing senior debt and project financing to forest investors and forest products clients during his tenure. Jonathan also has extensive experience from positions earlier in his career with other leading companies in the North America forest industry (International Paper, Smurfit and Kimberly-Clark).
Chris Roach is a Project Development Manager for Ceres Inc., a leading energy crop company based in Thousand Oaks, California. Chris’ primary role at Ceres is to help next-generation biofuel, biochemical and biopower companies develop sustainable biomass supply chains. Prior to joining Ceres, he worked for The Boeing Company, where he developed renewable energy projects, and for Abengoa Bioenergy, where he was a project development manager for biofuel production facilities, including their first cellulosic ethanol project. Chris has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri and earned his M.B.A. from The Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Michael Readey is Managing Director of AeriNOx Inc., an environmental engineering business providing emission control systems to the stationary power generation and gas compression markets. Before AeriNOx, Michael spent 13 years working for one of the world’s largest diesel engine and earthmoving machine manufacturers. During this time he held several leadership positions as Tier 4 Engineering Manager, Emissions Retrofit Product Director, and Manager of Advanced Materials R&D. He also spent time working in a national laboratory, academia, and the materials industry. Throughout his career he has contributed over 40 scientific publications, edited two books, and has given over 200 technical presentations around the world in the area of diesel and natural gas engine emissions, aftertreatment emissions control systems and materials technology. Michael received his B.S. and M.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Case Western Reserve University.
Tim Rooney is Project Manager at Antares Group Inc. Tim is a forester with 12 years expertise in renewable energy resource assessment with an emphasis on biomass energy, biofuels and chemicals. His experience with biomass resource assessment includes evaluation of urban waste, forestry residues, wood products residues, agricultural residues and biomass crop systems. Tim has expertise developing regional economic supply estimates supported by the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He has conducted over 20 resource analysis projects for public and private clients in the past five years. Tim has a Master of Science in Forestry from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY and a bachelor’s in Biology from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY.
Stephen Reidell is Project Manager Biomass Systems with Eagle Innovations LLC. Stephen has for a number of years focused on system and process optimization of various pieces of equipment and designs. Recently he’s started to look at the adaptation of new lighter materials into existing machinery and turbine designs, incorporating advanced materials and design concept, for the development of models to improve methods of reducing weight and friction in energy conversion equipment and components, to improve overall energy production efficiency. Stephen joined Eagle Innovations to incorporate his design concepts with their heat reflective coating and protective coatings. Production partner, Creative Material Technologies LTD, has over 200 different formulations for different substrates and environmental attacks. Focus will be drawn to heat reflective materials in conjunction with composite light weight structural materials, increasing energy production outputs in current and future biomass fuel derived energy capture procedures and platforms.
Markku Roppo is Chief Process Engineer at Metso Power in Finland. Markku has been working with fluidized bed boilers in product development, project execution and product sales since 1996. Markku worked as an expatriate in the United States with Metso Power Charlotte, NC from 2006-2011. During his stay he was involved in many U.S. renewable energy development projects, like Nacogdoches, Gainesville and We Energies. Markku earned his master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the Tampere University of Technology (1996).
Karen Reschly is an Associate at the law firm Morris, Manning & Martin LP, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Although trained as a tax attorney, Karen has been practicing in the area of timberland law since the start of her legal career. She has substantial experience structuring cross-border timberland investments and advising clients with regard to ancillary supply agreements, as well as in the formation of timberland investment funds. Recently, Karen’s practice has become more focused on the various aspects of wood-based biomass projects, including negotiating cross-border pellet supply agreements and biomass supply agreements. Karen earned her J.D. from the Florida State College of Law and her LLM in Taxation from the University of Florida College of Law.
James Rosenblum is a Doctoral Candidate at The Ohio State University, Environmental Health Sciences department. James investigates anaerobic digestion and its ability to capitalize on the benefits of biosolids. Specifically his research is focused on optimizing biogas production while minimizing the pathogenic load. The goal of this research is to assist current practices for small-scale and full scale systems, to further develop the growth of anaerobic digester technology. Furthermore, James’ research also considers innovative biochemical indicators as a surrogate for biosolids pathogen levels to ensure rapid and proper classification prior to land application. James earned his bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, in Biochemistry and his Master’s in Public Health from The Ohio State University, Environmental Health Sciences department.
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SPEAKER BIOS Jeff Roskam is the Chief Executive Officer of the Wichita based Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy(KABB), an industrial led Center of Innovation established by funding from the Kansas Bioscience Authority. KABB’s mission is to identify problems and implement solutions in the area of biomass technology and commercialization. Jeff is a senior level business executive with over 25 years of experience leading commercial edge ventures in biofuels, CO2 utilization and mitigation, drinking water and finance. He provided seed capital and was the Co-founder and CEO of Wichita-based CAP CO2, LLC, a carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery development firm. He was also President and Co-founder of Wichita-based United Bio Energy (UBE) before the company merged into US BioEnergy, where he served as Senior Vice President. Prior to starting UBE, Jeff was the Senior Vice President and minority owner of ICM Inc. He has also held the position of Engineering Project Manager for Broin and Associates (now POET).
Daniel Sabin is Owner and President of the Iowa Northern Railway Company based in Cedar Rapids. Dan bought the struggling line in 1994. Since his purchase of the line, the railroad has invested over $1.3 million per year in bringing up the line to a state of good repair. Additionally, Dan has managed the partnership and location of two ethanol plants on the line, as well as other various industries and economic development initiatives. In October 2006, the Iowa Northern and the Keiwiet Group Companies broke ground on Manly Terminal LLC, a joint venture, first-of-its-kind ethanol and biofuels storage and trading facility in Manly, Iowa. Dan was also Co-Founder, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Iron Road Railways based in Alexandria, Virginia which owned and operated the former Bangor and Aroostook System. He also has experience as Co-Founder and President of his own transportation consulting firm. Dan is a graduate of Grandview College and Southwest Oklahoma State University, degrees in Economics and Business.
Stuart Russell is Vice President of Service Operations at Aether DBS. Stuart has over 30 years of experience including planning, designing and constructing municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, power, solid waste and environmental remediation systems. He is the author of a book on environmental systems planning, contributing author of two other books, and author of numerous technical papers. Stuart has designed biogas compression and treatment systems for landfill gas and digester gas facilities. He has also designed biogas blending equipment, and is the holder of a patent (pending) on biogas blending designs. His designs have included systems for landfill gas to energy systems; anaerobic digestion systems at food processors, wastewater treatment plants and animal waste facilities. He has also designed systems for gas compression and conditioning of landfill gas. Stuart has a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, from Purdue University.
Kate Sanford is the Director of Corporate Communications for JSH international. Kate has been thoroughly involved in the market research and business development for JSH since its inception. These efforts have given her the opportunity to support the advancement of the bioenergy industry by educating policymakers, renewable energy advocates, and industry professionals of biogas basics, market opportunity, and new technologies that can maximize production operations. Kate’s research and outreach efforts have had a particular emphasis on biogas production in the U.S. wastewater treatment industry. Kate is actively involved in a variety of industry organizations such as the American Biogas Council, EPA CHP Partnership, California Association of Sanitation Agencies, California Water Environment Association, NJ Water Environment Association, among others. Kate is proud to be a University of Colorado – Boulder alum where she received her degree in Business and Marketing.
Philip Rutter is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Scientist at Badgersett Research Corporation. Philip is trained as an evolutionary ecologist, before the field existed as such. He has used his education in systems interactions analysis to create multiple environment- oriented enterprises. He was Founding President of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), now a vibrant non-profit with a long string of scientific and organizational successes. TACF will plant the first million genetically blight resistant American Chestnuts in the next 10 years, restoring a lost keystone forest tree - and its accompanying industries- entirely through private enterprise. Philip’s company, Badgersett Research Corporation, has adapted the natural evolutionary process known as the “hybrid swarm” to create a new class of complex hybrid plants, “neohybrids”; incorporating genes and adaptations from 3 - 5 species. For over 30 years, they have been working to create a perennial agriculture based on woody plants. Hundreds of growers around North America are starting to grow his crops.
John Saucier is a Product Manager at Process Equipment/Barron Industries. John’s experience includes working at Southern Company Services studying the existing generation portfolio and evaluating the feasibility of a variety of types of new power generation including: biomass, coal, nuclear, natural gas, and hydro. Currently in his role as Product Manager for Process Equipment John designs fuel and ash handling systems for new biomass power plants and for retrofitting existing coal fired plants to burn anywhere from 10% to 100% biomass. John has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alabama.
Edward Ryall is Commercial and Marketing Directorfor Thermya. Edward has over 10 years experience developing renewable energy and biofuel projects in the UK, France, Italy and South East Asia. Edward also has six years experience working in management consultancy as well as experience of founding and managing a successful exit from a technology startup company in Milan. He ran his own renewable energy consultancy in France before joining Thermya in January 2011. Edward is a Chartered Engineer, has a Diploma in Corporate Governance from the Institute of Directors, and is a Sainsbury Management Fellow.
Mike Scott is President and CEO of Nexterra. Prior to taking this role, Mike was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Nexterra. He has had a distinguished 20-year career as a senior executive, investment banker and lawyer. He began his career as a corporate and securities lawyer with McCarthy Tetrault. In 1998, Mike joined Raymond James Canada (formerly Goepel McDermid), one of Canada’s leading independent investment banks. In his eight years there, he held a number of senior roles including Vice President - Corporate Development, Senior Managing Director - BC Investment Banking, and Executive Vice President - Head of Capital Markets. Mike is a Chartered Business Valuator and a member of the Law Society of British Columbia.
Dr. Janice Ryan-Bohac is a plant breeder and geneticist and is currently the President of CAREnergy (Carolina Advanced Renewable Energy) of South Carolina. Janice is one of the leading authorities in breeding sweetpotatoes for resistance to pests and for new uses such as processing for fuel ethanol and new food products. She has released over a dozen sweetpotato varieties with multiple resistance to 14 insect pests, diseases, and root knot nematodes and has developed several genotypes with high dry matter and high yields suitable for new uses such as chips, French fries and fuel ethanol. Currently she is developing the Energy Tuber (e-TuberTM) a very high yielding type of sweetpotato for fuel ethanol. She is conducting studies of this crop in rotation with other biomass crops like sweet sorghum and pearl millet. The ultimate objective is to develop a multifeedstock fuel ethanol plant powered by biomass residue, such as the bagasse from sweet sorghum, millet, and locally available sources such as chicken manure.
Prab Sethi is a Senior Project Manager at the California Energy Commission for over 20 years. Prab has managed research, development, demonstration and multi-million dollar funding of bioenergy, Photovoltaic (PV), Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), advanced energy projects, including development and demonstration of the Kalina combined cycle demonstration power plant, and other renewable energy projects under Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program. He has led establishment and management of California Renewable Energy Centers for wind, geothermal, biomass and solar renewable technologies at the University of California, Davis and San Diego. He has also managed Strategic Value Analysis for application of regional resources and appropriate technologies to meet California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard requirements. Previously, Prab worked in supervisory and project management positions with Bechtel Corporation in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Phoenix, and with Sargent & Lundy Engineers in Chicago. Prab has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin, Madison and a M.B.A. Honors degree from University of Chicago.
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Joseph Seymour is Executive Director of the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC). Joseph has been coordinating the policy and regulatory activities of BTEC since 2010. He’s been responsible for regulatory responses to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on various issues, including biomass boiler emissions limits and non-hazardous solid waste definitions; congressional hearings through structured statements, including the Energy Title of the 2012 Farm Bill and comprehensive tax reform; and mobilization of industry stakeholders regarding biomass thermal incentives. Joseph has led the development of BTEC’s comprehensive outreach series, including webinars, legislative and topical factsheets, and podcast interviews. He has addressed audiences on the urgency recognizing thermal energy and was primary author of “Why Tricycles Need Thermal Energy,” National Hardwood Lumber Association and “Telling the Story of Biomass Thermal” and “Playtime is Over: Why September Means Biomass Advocacy or the Consequences of Inaction,” both in Biomass Power and Thermal. Joe holds a degree in Political Science and Psychology at Hope College, Holland, Michigan.
Val Smith is Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. Val’s research program focuses on the relationships between resource supplies and the structure and function of biological systems. His primary area of expertise is in the area of algal ecology, and he has worked for more than three decades on relationships between nutrient loading and algal biomass production in lakes, estuaries, and coastal zone waters worldwide. Val has extensive experience in the quantitative analysis of aquatic ecosystems and has strong interests in the mechanisms that generate and maintain aquatic production and diversity. In addition, he is interested in the mechanisms that regulate algal uptake and storage of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. Val is actively involved in the University of Kansas Feedstock to Tailpipe Initiative, which seeks to produce renewable biofuels from algae produced in wastewater-fed, outdoor bioreactors. Val is a member of the National Academy of Sciences-sponsored NRC Committee on the Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels.
Justin Sluiter is a Biomass Composition Specialist in the Biofuels Program at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Justin has 16 years experience working in the position. He is an author on the majority of NREL’s Laboratory Analytical Procedures (LAPs), which are worldwide recognized standards for summative compositional analysis of biomass and biomass derived products. His in-depth knowledge of the LAPs and biomass chemistry make him the ideal choice for training new analysts. He has performed numerous compositional analysis training classes for external partners, from academia to industry. As a senior member of the team, Justin is also responsible for team data review, and ensures only the highest quality data is delivered to customers. Justin enjoys working on LAP method optimization for new feedstocks and diverse instrumentation.
Jordan Solomon is President of Ecostrat and General Biofuel, and has run the company for over 20 years. Jordan’s responsibilities include corporate strategy, overseeing biomass sourcing, fuel procurement and commercializing new biofuel projects. He has an extensive knowledge of biomass availability around North America and understands what it takes to procure and deliver long-term reliable biomass supply. Jordan’s expertise includes biomass project modeling, implementation and logistics for biofuel export. For over 12 years, Jordan has overseen the creation and development of the Biofuel Supply Network®, the largest biofuel supply database in North America. He has gained unique insights into and overview of the wood fiber supply situation in North America. In 2009 he developed the formula behind The Biomass Credit Wrap® and subsequently negotiated underwriting with investment grade credit and over $20 billion in revenues. Jordan holds a B.A. Honors (Eng. Phil.) from University of Western Ontario and a master’s in Environmental Studies with a thesis on Corporate Environmental Strategy from York University.
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SPEAKER BIOS Susan Stagg-Williams is an Associate Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas. Susan is the leader of the “Feedstock to Tailpipe©” multidisciplinary research team which looks at sustainable feedstocks for the production of next generation liquid fuels. The team is currently focused on producing biocrude from wastewater fed algae. Susan is also the cooriginator and director of the KU Biodiesel Initiative which has been producing biodiesel from used cooking oil for campus applications since 2007. Her research interests are in catalyst design, reaction engineering, and relating feedstock to fuel properties and performance. She currently has projects involving the production, characterization, and utilization of biodiesel, glycerin reforming, and liquefaction of algae to biocrude. Susan received her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
Craig Thiry is Director of Business Development for The Avogadro Group LLC. As such, Craig performs analysis of upcoming regulations, and works with various industry associations to assist stakeholders with the impacts of new regulatory and source testing requirements. Craig has been involved with stationary source testing for nearly 30 years. He has been involved with the performance and management of thousands of stationary source tests at various locations across the United States. Much of his testing experience has been in California with very low-concentration emissions. So he is used to being at the leading edge of the emissions testing and control technology perspectives. Craig studied Engineering at University of Colorado, Boulder and Industry and Technology at Northern Illinois University. He received his master’s in downhill skiing and white water rafting.
Pete Stewart serves as President and CEO of Forest2Market. Pete has 20 years of experience in the forest products industry and is an expert in the wood fiber supply chain. He directed the development of Forest2Market’s proprietary databases, which contain transaction-level data from actual timber sales in major markets in the U.S. Because he continues to oversee these databases, Pete’s analyses of emerging trends and cutting-edge practices in the forest products industry are grounded in true market conditions. Pete’s areas of expertise include: emerging markets, including biofuels, biopower and carbon credits; wood supply and demand drivers; the benchmarking, indexing and pricing of wood raw materials; and standards and codification methodologies to bring out efficiencies in fragmented and volatile markets. Pete holds a B.S. in Forestry from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Forest Economics from the University of Georgia.
Doug Tholo is Vice President of HR Green. Doug leads the company’s Methane-To-Energy initiative and EPC contracting delivery. He has worked as a consulting engineer and contractor for over 30 years. His project experience has included: engineering, construction management, and project management for industrial and public sector clients from planning, through design, construction project close-out, and acceptance by owner. He is a member of: Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP; Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA); American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) as a Board Member, Past President; and National Director, American Public Works Association (APWA); Central States Water Environment Federation (WEF). Doug has a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dr. William Strauss is the Founder and President of FutureMetrics. FutureMetrics is the leading U.S. consultant in the economics of the production and use of biomass fuels. William is also a Founder and a Director of Maine Energy Systems. Maine Energy Systems’ (MESys) primary mission is to support a transition to the use of renewable wood pellet fuel for the heating of homes and businesses. He is also the founder of FutureEnergy Partners which has developed a wood price hedging product. William is the Chief Economist for the Biomass Thermal Energy Council (Washington, DC) and is the Chief Economist for the Maine Pellet Fuels Association. He served as the Chief Economist on the Maine Governor’s Wood-to-Energy Task force in 2008-2009. He has a M.B.A. (specializing in Finance) and a Ph.D. (Economics and Earth Systems Science) both from the University of New Hampshire.
Dr. Valentino Tiangco is Biomass Program Lead and Senior Project Manager at SMUD’s, Advanced Renewable and Distributed Technologies Program. Val leads, plans, and coordinates biomass activities that include research, development, demonstration, deployment and commercial applications of biomass for power and co-production of value-added products. He has broad experience in engineering and program and project management and as an energy specialist, designer, test engineer, visiting professor and researcher. Working 18 years with the California Energy Commission (CEC) , Val was Program Manager of the Advanced Generation Program and Senior Technical Lead, PIER Renewables Program. The CEC has awarded Val multiple awards, one in 2008 for “Outstanding Performance in the Area of Human Compassion and Commitment to His Colleagues.” The U.S. DOE awarded him for exceptional contributions in bioenergy projects that demonstrate efficient use of biomass energy resources and technologies. Val holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in Engineering, with specialization in Energy Conversion Systems (biomass gasification) from the University of California at Davis.
Peter Taglia is Bioenergy Projects Specialist at the Wisconsin State Energy Office (SEO). Peter’s current projects include biogas outreach and development on behalf of SEO, environmental consulting for a local community group near a contaminated ammunition facility, and energy analyses for University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a professional geologist and consultant in numerous aspects of climate change mitigation with an emphasis on electrical generation, carbon sequestration and biofuel analysis. He has done extensive work with Wisconsin’s Task Force on Global Warming, the Midwestern Governors Association and the Wisconsin Legislative Council. Peter began his career conducting contaminant investigations, remediation, and environmental permitting at energy facilities and currently performs research, analysis and education for clients in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Earlier, Peter worked for Clean Wisconsin, an environmental organization, and RMT, an environmental engineering firm. Peter holds a B.A. in Environmental Geology from the University of Montana and a M.S. in Hydrogeology from the University of WisconsinMadison.
Adrian Pirraglia Tunez is a Research Assistant at North Carolina State University. Adrian immigrated from Caracas, Venezuela to the United States in 2007 to pursue a master’s degree in Integrated Manufacturing Systems and Engineering at North Carolina State University. At that point he joined a research team in the department of Forest Biomaterials, developing projects in Industrial Ecology, Green Manufacturing, and solid Biofuels. He is currently in the process of completing his Ph.D. in Forest Biomaterials, with a focus in supply chain analysis, feasibility, and biomass characterization. His current projects include the analysis of torrefaction and pelletization as a profitable pretreatment for biomass in U.S. facilities, supply chain and logistics for Bioenergy production, as well as the implementation of Lean Manufacturing techniques in the primary wood industry. Adrian graduated as an Industrial Engineer at the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, and worked for two years as a Consultant for Human Resources management, in the area of processes monitoring and systems improvements.
Bijay Tamang is a Bioenergy Project Leader at ArborGen Inc. ArborGen is the leading developer of biotechnology tree seedling products and one of the largest providers of conventional and technology enhanced seedlings. ArborGen sells approximately 250 million seedlings every year. Bijay is responsible for developing short rotation woody crop systems for ArborGen product lines and an assessment of products for bioenergy qualities to support bioenergy business development. He came to ArborGen from the University of Florida in 2010. He spent seven years at the university as a postdoctoral associate and graduate research assistant working on short-rotation woody crops (including eucalypts, Corymbia spp. and cottonwood). He has M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida’s School of Forest Resources and Conservation, and B.S. degree in Biology from Tribhuvan University (Nepal).
Kendric Wait is Principal for Eagle Valley Clean Energy. Kendric is responsible for development activities for biomass and geothermal power projects throughout the Intermountain West. He is the lead developer responsible for the Eagle Valley Clean Energy 11.5 MW biomass power facility being constructed in Gypsum Colorado with long term power sales to Holy Cross Energy. He is also the lead project developer for a combined DOE/DOD and privately funded geothermal drilling exploration and power plant development project spanning nearly 100,000 acres across New Mexico and Texas on Fort Bliss. After leaving an engineering career to pursue business development and private capital investment consulting, his last four years have been centered on developing timber utilization strategies with a focus around clean energy biomass project development along with geothermal exploration and development. Kendric has a B.S. from the University of Utah, post graduate studies in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, NASA Space Shuttle program lead engineer, private industry engineering and industrial project management and development.
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Sara Walling is Bioenergy Policy Advisor for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). Largely, Sara’s main objective is to work with DATCP divisions to increase inclusion of bioenergy projects and concepts in areas such as dairy expansions, farm diversification and food processing waste management, while networking and engaging with other state agencies, private businesses, and interest groups to find solutions to the hurdles surrounding bioenergy production in Wisconsin. She is the Wisconsin appointee to the Midwest Governor’s Association Advanced Biofuels Group. Sara is also a member of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) Advisory Committee working to provide climate change adaptation strategies to Wisconsin’s agriculture industry. Sara is also the lead staff for the Wisconsin Bioenergy Council. Sara has a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of Minnesota and a master’s in Land Resource and Environmental Management from Montana State University, Bozeman.
Richard Weiner is Chair of the International Law Department at Fredrikson & Byron P.A., as well as Vice President. Richard a biofuels lawyer and he assists clients with biofuels projects in the United States and overseas. He has assisted companies with biofuels projects in over 15 countries. His practice focuses specifically on contract matters, joint ventures, partnerships, strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and dispute resolution in the biofuels industry. Richard has practiced energy law for more than 16 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Law Degree from the University of Virginia.
Robb Walt is a Co-Founder of Community Power Corporation (CPC). CPC is focused on the development and supply of biomass-fueled, modular bioenergy systems. Over the past 40 years, Robb has served with the U.S. government, Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the World Bank to design, implement and manage industrial development and renewable energy technology application projects in over 15 countries, including Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, India, China, Bangladesh, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Micronesia. Community Power Corporation is a leader in the development and supply of fully automated, environmentally friendly, small modular bioenergy systems for combined heat, power, cooling and liquid fuels (syndiesel) applications. CPC works with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, universities and private organizations to develop and deploy its line of BioMax® modular biopower systems.
Robert Welch is Manager, Business Development, of Ameresco Inc., in Golden, Colorado. Robert has responsibility for development and growth of Ameresco Energy Services which are focused on renewable generation and energy efficiency projects. With a track record of successful renewable energy projects over the last 25 years, Robert brings the experience of how to bring successful projects on line. Currently he’s working to bring distributed generation to data centers and federal facilities. His career efforts have contributed to over 20GW of generation and 250 energy efficiency projects across the U.S. This includes over 1,000 solar PV, solar thermal, biomass combined heat and power (CHP), and nuclear installations. Robert’s direct project experience includes TVA, Duke Energy, Siemens, and KEMA.
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SPEAKER BIOS Paul Wever is President of Chip Energy Inc. and Paul Wever Construction Equipment Company Inc. (PWCE). Paul co-founded Chip Energy in 2008 and helped develop the up-draft micro-gasification technology that produces biochar and thermal energy. The company processes solid biofuels suitable for distributed heat and/or power applications using major crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and waste streams. Chip Energy is focused on landfill diversion of biomass materials for co-combustion with coal to make electricity and being converted to thermal energy for heat and biochar. Paul Wever Construction Equipment Company Inc. specializes in customized products and earth engaging tools for the tracked and wheeled off-highway equipment industry including Caterpillar, Deere and Komatsu. PWCE delivers specially designed full-scale top-quality attachment options or modifications. PWCE has the creative vision and engineering expertise to complete any construction equipment modification quickly, efficiently, and at less cost.
Jim Wimberly is Founder and President of BioEnergy Systems LLC, a consulting firm and project development company that is actively engaged in all aspects of bioenergy enterprises, from feedstocks to conversion technologies to commercial deployment. Jim is a specialist in biomass energy, agricultural development, economic and financial analyses, resource management and conservation, and project management. He has both technical and business training and over 35 years’ experience in the southern U.S. and worldwide (including Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the Pacific).
Mark Yancey is Vice President of NEAtech LLC and Vice President of BBI Consulting Services. NEAtech is a technology-based engineering and consulting firm specializing in biofuels, biomass, and bioenergy projects worldwide. BBI Consulting Services is the recently announced joint venture with BBI International. Mark has 35 years of experience in the design and development of renewable energy projects including ethanol, butanol, biodiesel, biomass power, and waste-to-energy projects. Under Mark’s leadership NEAtech and BBI Consulting Services provide engineering and technology assessments, feasibility studies, business and marketing plans, policy analysis, and project development services for bioenergy and biofuels projects worldwide.
Bryan Yeh is an Assistant Vice President for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Bryan leads the biofuel initiative and has responsibility for business development and technical leadership for SAIC’s biofuel projects. Bryan also served as Chief Scientist for SAIC’s Algae to JP-8 project and is the program manager for other projects with government and commercial clients. Bryan also has program management responsibility for food safety and food defense programs within SAIC. He has over 26 years of experience managing profit and loss (P&L), business development, major capital projects, research and development and plant operations in the biofuel, nutraceutical, water treatment, oilseed and corn milling industries. Prior to SAIC, Bryan was an Assistant Vice President at General Electric, President and CEO of Thermodyne Corporation, and held senior level positions at Cargill. Bryan has a degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota and is a registered professional engineer in the State of California.
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Abengoa 16401 Swingley Ridge Rd, Suite 700 Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 USA Phone: 314-275-1100 Fax: 314-275-2408 www.abener.com
Bühler Inc. PO Box 9497 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 USA Phone: 763-847-9900 Fax: 763-847-9911 www.buhlergroup.com
Abengoa provides integrated and innovative solutions in engineering, procurement and construction services in a manner that contributes to sustainable development. Abengoa, the parent company, is an international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable and efficient development in the energy and environmental sectors, generating electricity from the sun, producing biofuels, desalinating sea water and recycling industrial waste.
Buhler is a global technology partner for the food, chemical engineering, die casting, and biomass industries. Buhler enables total process control by providing a complete design package and key equipment for drying, grinding, pelleting, cooling, bagging and loading.
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AGRA Industries, Inc. 1211 West Water Street Merrill, Wisconsin 54452 USA Phone: 715-536-9587 Fax: 715-536-9584 www.agraind.com
CPM 2975 Airline Circle Waterloo, Iowa 50703 USA Phone: 319-232-8444 Fax: 319-236-0486 www.cpm.net
AGRA builds second-generation biorefinery technologies achieving the highest possible product yields and revenues per unit weight of feedstock processed minimizing capital, operating cost, greenhouse gases, and the requirement for water.
California Pellet Mill has been leading the way in pelleting since 1931. Roskamp Champion provides heavy- duty, proven hammermills and size reduction equipment. Whether you’re looking for a one stop supplier of top-of-line equipment or a complete turn-key Biomass Pellet plant, CPM is your solution.
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Applied Chemical Technology, Inc. 4350 Helton Drive Florence, Alabama 35630 USA Phone: 256-760-9600 Fax: 256-760-9638 www.appliedchemical.com
Dresser-Rand/Guascor Power 143 Mallard Street, Suite F St Rose, Louisiana 70087 USA Phone: 504-461-3801 Fax: 504-461-3806 www.guascorpower.com/eng/index.php
Applied Chemical Technology is an engineering company specializing in process and product development for the chemical, fertilizer, food and pharmaceutical industries. We work with our clients from concept to commercialization. Our services include lab and pilot plant operations, engineering, design and fabrication of complete process plants, skid-mounted plants and equipment.
Founded in 1966, Guascor is one of the few companies able to give solutions to the ever changing and challenging world of renewable energies. Having over 40 years of experience in manufacturing reciprocating engines and supplying energy systems, Guascor’s focus is “Energy solutions for a sustainable world”.
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Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) 20 South Van Buren Avenue Barberton, Ohio 44203 USA Phone: 800-BABCOCK (222-2625) Fax: 330-860-1868 www.babcock.com B&W is a leading international provider of advanced clean energy technology solutions. B&W and its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Vølund have demonstrated experience with a range of biomass and waste fuels and technologies for electric utilities and process industries. Technologies include bubbling fluidizedbed, circulating fluidized-bed, stoker-fired, and process recovery boilers. For additional information please email info@babcock.com
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Firefly North America, Inc. 7753 Overlook Drive Scottsdale, Arizona 85255 USA Phone: 847-846-0559 www.firefly.se Firefly is the world’s leading supplier of fire prevention systems. We create tailor-make systems with the industries latest technology in order to protect your process from costly fires, dust explosions, and increase productivity outputs by eliminating false positives due to, among other things, ambient light. We offer the most reliable fire prevention solutions in the world.
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Garick 13600 Broadway Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44125 USA Phone: 216-581-0100 Fax: 216-581-4712 www.garick.com
KEITH Mfg. Co. 401 NW Adler Street Madras, Oregon 97741 USA Phone: 541-475-3802/800-547-6161 Fax: 541-475-2169 www.keithwalkingfloor.com
Garick LLC is a North American distributor, processor and recycler of sustainable natural resource products. Garick has expertise in diverting food, yard and forest products residuals and creating higher value products, including biomass for fuel. Garick has a proven track record in composting, anaerobic digestion, biomass projects, and renewable energy.
KEITH® WALKING FLOOR® systems are used in self unloading trailers and integrated into bulk handling systems as receiving, storage and metering bins. Systems handle difficult bulk materials like hog fuel whole tires and garbage at very competitive costs and require minimal maintenance, compared to conventional belt, chain and screw systems.
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Garrison Minerals, LLC 2054 Broadway Denver, CO 80205 Phone: 720-389-7609 Fax: 720-889-9470 www.garrisonminerals.com
Lockheed Martin 300 M Street SE, Suite 600 Washington DC 20003 USA Phone: 202-863-3145 www.lockheedmartin.com
Garrison Minerals is a premier Magnesium Hydroxide provider. With distribution locations throughout the US and Worldwide we can easily supply your needs. We specialize in dry powder, but have an extended network throughout the USA for providing a liquid solution. Custom blends are available to meet customer’s specifications. orld.
Lockheed Martin offers solutions for biomass, biofuel and waste to energy applications that utilize non-food biomass feedstock and waste. Leveraging our engineering and product management expertise, we help our customers to produce responsible and secure power, fuel, and heat through technologies such as conventional boilers, mobile waste to energy systems, and advanced thermo-chemical gasification.
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Hurst Boiler & Welding Company, Inc. 21971 Highway 319N, 100 Boiler Maker Lane, PO Box 530 Coolidge, Georgia 31738 USA Phone: 229-346-3545 Fax: 229-346-3874 www.hurstboiler.com
Matrix Service Company 5100 East Skelly Drive, Suite 700 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135 USA Phone: 918-838-8822 Fax: 918-838-8810 www.matrixservice.com
Hurst is a custom manufacturer of engineered packaged boilers & integrated boiler systems, renewable fuel fired gasification/combustion/heat recovery systems, biomass boiler systems, CHP/co-generation systems, boiler controls, parts & boiler room accessories. Firetube, water-tube & feedwater equipment for all heating & process applications. Low NOx modular boilers & burners available.
Matrix Service provides Engineering, Fabrication, Construction, Repair and Maintenance services to Energy and Industrial Markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. We have the expertise and proven capabilities to provide construction services necessary to meet the power industry’s increasing need for alternative energy, power generation, transmission, and delivery.
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IMERYS 100 Mansell Court East, Suite 300 Roswell, Georgia 30076 USA Phone: 770-645-3698 Fax: 770-645-3460 www.imerys-ceramics.com
Metso 3430 Toringdon Way, Suite 201 Charlotte, North Carolina 28277 USA Phone: 704-414-3580 Fax: 704-541-1367 www.metso.com
IMERYS, a global leader in adding value to minerals, is the world’s leading producer of industrial minerals uniquely engineered for the Power and Energy industries. Particularly valuable is our newest product, Aurora™, a deposit and corrosion inhibitor.
One-Stop Shopping - full scope solutions for biomass processing from Metso. Metso is one of the world’s leading suppliers of bioenergy solutions, and we deliver full-scope solutions for biomass combustion. Our solutions include the reception and handling of fuels, the boiler plant, flue gas cleaning and power plant automation.
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Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP 1600 Atlanta Financial Center, 3343 Peachtree Road NE Atlanta, Georgia 30326 USA Phone: 404-233-7000 Fax: 404-365-9532 www.mmmlaw.com
Rollcast Energy, Inc 301 South Tryon Street, Suite 1590 Charolotte, North Carolina 28282 USA Phone: 704-625-3476 Fax: 704-371-3233 www.rollcastenergy.com
Morris, Manning & Martin is a full-service national law firm committed to maximizing clients’ results. Our Energy Infrastructure & Finance, Clean Technology and Timber Practices have deep experience and strong capabilities in every aspect of developing biomass and other renewable energy projects efficiently and effectively, from start to successful completion.
Rollcast Energy develops, owns and operates bioenergy projects using local feedstocks including waste wood and other biomass. We seek to provide lowcost, environmentally benign energy solutions that contribute to the efforts of our nation to reduce dependence on imported energy and ensure the sustainability of local economies.
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REPREVE Renewables 6311 Georgia Highway 86 Soperton, Georgia 30457 USA Phone: 888-447-6938 www.FreedomGiantMiscanthus.com
S. Howes, Inc. 25 Howard Street Silver Creek, New York 14136 USA Phone: 716-934-2611 Fax: 716-934-2081 www.showes.com
REPREVE Renewables is a commercial supplier and grower of giant miscanthus. Our variety, Freedom(TM) Giant Miscanthus, is superior in vigor and yield, with yields of up to 25 tons per acre. We strive to break barriers to planting viable biofuel feedstocks. By offering a high-yielding, low maintenance energy crop, we feel that growers can both make a profit and contribute to America’s foreign fuel independence.
S. Howes, Inc. is a leader in the design and fabrication of custom-built bulk handling equipment. Founded in 1856, the company produces screw conveyors, batch and continuous mixers, pressure leaf filters, size reduction and classifying equipment for the chemical, food, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. Test lab facilities are available for conducting process experiments to validate equipment performance.
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Retsch Inc. 74 Walker Lane Newtown, Pennsylvania 19142 USA Phone: 866-473-8724 Fax: 267-757-0358 www.retsch-us.com
Siemens Industry, Inc. 1201 Sumneytown Pike Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477 USA Phone: 215-646-7400 Fax: 215-283-2801 www.usa.siemens.com
Retsch is the world leader in solid material sample preparation equipment for quality control and research and development laboratories. Our expertise and devotion to providing the highest quality products for accurate and reproducible sampling methods is unsurpassed. Our selection of mills, sieve shakers, and sample dividers offer the industry standards for sample preparation.
Siemens reduces costs by delivering proven and integrated production solutions for your automation, instrumentation, analytical, electrical, power generation and water technology requirements in biomass. Siemens has demonstrated success as more than 50% of US biofuels plants have been automated and more than 33% of US electricity is provided with Siemens solutions.
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RISI 4 Alfred Circle Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 USA Phone: 781-734-8959 Fax: 781-271-0337 www.risi.com
Stoel Rives LLP 900 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2600 Portland, Oregon 97204 USA Phone: 800-88-STOEL Fax: 503-220-2480 www.stoel.com/renewableenergy
RISI is the leading information provider for the global forest products industry. We work with clients in the wood biomass, wood products, and timber industries to help them make better business decisions. RISI wood biomass services include custom consulting and traditional subscription services.
Stoel Rives attorneys are actively engaged in the continued growth of the biomass industry. We have the knowledge and experience in feedstock procurement, finance, taxation, corporate structuring, technology, construction, real estate, land use, water, environmental and regulatory law, and other energy regulations to help clients achieve their business objectives. www.stoel.com
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Victaulic 4901 Kesslersville Road Easton, Pennsylvania 18040 USA Phone: 610-559-3300 Fax: www.victaulic.com
Western Pneumatics, Inc. PO Box 21340 Eugene, Oregon 97402 USA Phone: 541-461-2600 Fax: 541-461-2606 www.westernp.com
Since pioneering grooved end technology for mechanical pipe joining in 1925, Victaulic has been providing customers the world over with innovative, reliable piping systems solutions for a wide array of applications and markets. Victaulic solutions compress schedules, reduce risk, improve productivity and facilitate system maintenance and expansion.
Western Pneumatics has been in business for nearly 30 years specializing in materials handling systems for the wood products industry. Expertise includes engineering, manufacturing and on-site construction/install. Western Pneumatics is currently engaged in large and small biomass projects nationwide. Our custom fabrication and engineering support our growing construction/install capability on any type of fiber related project. From complete plant design, budgeting, manufacture of machinery and installation, Western Pneumatics is capable.
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Biomass Power & Thermal 308 2nd Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 www.biomassmagazine.com
American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) PO Box 33518 Washington, DC 20033-3518 USA Phone: 202-393-0001 Fax: 202-393-0606 www.acore.org
Biomass Power & Thermal is a trade journal serving organizations that use and/or produce power, fuels and chemicals from biomass. These biomass utilization industries are positioned to replace nearly every product made from fossil fuels. The publication covers biomass utilization technologies, combustion, CHP, AD, gasification, biorefining, dedicated energy crops and more.
ACORE is dedicated to bringing renewable energy into the mainstream of the US economy and lifestyle through information and communications programs. ACORE provides a common platform for the wide range of interests in the renewable energy community including renewable energy industries, associations, utilities, end users, professional service firms, financial institutions and government agencies. ACORE serves as a forum through which these parties work together on common interests. Membership information is available at: www.acore.org.
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Biorefining Magazine 308 2nd Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 www.biorefiningmagazine.com
Bioenergy Deployment Consortium 623 Bear Claw Way Middleton, Wisconsin 53562 USA Phone: 630-858-4897 biorefinerydc.org
Biorefining Magazine provides in-depth coverage of advanced biomass refining technology scale-up, project finance, policy and markets with a core focus on the industrial, refining and agribusiness alliances defining a transformative global industry. The publication is tailored for industry professionals engaged in producing, developing and deploying advanced biofuels and biobased chemicals.
BDC’s strategy is to keep our members abreast of the latest pertinent technology and government policy, while educating members of the energy industry, its nationwide partners, government officials, and interested members of the general public about the potential for the nation of producing bio-chemicals, biofuels and bio-power, improving energy efficiency and energy sustainability while reducing GHG emissions.
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Algal Biomass Organization Minneapolis, Minnesota USA Phone: 763-458 -0068 www.algalbiomass.org
Biomass Coordinating Council 1600 K Street NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20006 USA Phone: 202-507-4632 Fax: 202-393-0606 www.acore.org/committees/biomass_council
The Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and advocate for the development of commercially-viable transportation and power generation fuels as well as other non-energy applications for algae biomass. Its membership is comprised of companies, individuals and organizations across the value chain. More information about ABO, including its leadership, membership, costs, benefits and members and their affiliations, is available at the website: www.algalbiomass.org.
The Biomass Coordinating Council (BCC) is formed under the auspices of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. BCC is working to accelerate the adoption of renewable biofuels, biopower, and biobased products into mainstream American society through work in policy initiatives, convening, and communications.
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American Boiler Manufacturers Association 8221 Old Courthouse Road, Suite 202 Vienna, Virginia 22182 USA Phone: 703-356-7172 www.abma.com
Biomass Energy Resource Center PO Box 1611 Montpelier, Vermont 05601-1611 USA Phone: 802-223-7770 Fax: 802-223-7772 www.biomasscenter.org
The American Boiler Manufacturers Association is the national nonprofit trade association of commercial, institutional, industrial, heat recovery and electricity-generating boiler and combustion equipment manufacturing companies (> 400,000 Btuh heat input). ABMA’s diverse community of focused interest and problem-solving brings the highly fuel-flexible and energy-efficient technical and production expertise of an entire industry to bear on a range of energy and environmental policy issues.
Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC) is an independent, national nonprofit that assists communities, universities, government, businesses, utilities, schools, and others in making the most of local energy resources. BERC’s mission is to achieve a healthier environment, strengthen local economies, and increase energy security by developing sustainable community-scale biomass energy systems.
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Biomass Power Association 100 Middle Street, PO Box 9729 Portland, Maine 04104-5029 USA Phone: 207-228-7376 Fax: 207-774-1127 www.biomasspowerassociation.org
Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels (C2B2) 1111 Engineering Drive, 523 UCB Boulder, Colorado 80309 USA Phone: 303-492-7736 Fax: 303-492-7479 www.C2B2web.org
The Biomass Power Association is the only organization working nationally to expand and advance the use of clean, renewable biomass energy throughout the United States. We represent 80 biomass-fueled power plants in 16 states ― including owners and operators, suppliers, plant developers and financial institutions. We advocate on their behalf at both the state and federal levels.
The Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2) is a cooperative research and education center devoted to the conversion of biomass to fuels and other products. This forum provides industry sponsors with collaborative opportunities to engage with one another, as well as with researchers from CU, CSU, Mines and NREL.
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Biomass Thermal Energy Council 1211 Connecticut Avenue NW , Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 USA Phone: 202-596-3974 Fax: 202-223-5537 www.biomassthermal.org
Colorado Forest Products Program 1000 Rim Drive, Fort Lewis College Campus Durango, Colorado 81301-3908 USA Phone: 970-247-5250 Fax: 970-247-5252 http://csfs.colostate.edu/cowood/cfp.html
The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) is a non-profit association dedicated to advancing the use of biomass for heat and other thermal energy applications. BTEC members share the view that biomass thermal energy is a renewable, responsible, clean and energy-efficient pathway to meeting America’s energy needs.
The Colorado Forest Products™(CFP) program is a trademarked business membership and wood products consumer education program that enhances the production, marketing and sales of wood products harvested from forest management activities on Colorado’s public and private forestlands. The program is a companion campaign to the Colorado Proud program.
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California Biomass Energy Alliance 1015 K Street Suite 200 Sacramento, California 95814 USA Phone: 916-441-0702 Fax: 916-441-3549 www.calbiomass.org
Colorado Renewable Energy Society 3245 Eliot Street Denver, Colorado 80211 USA Phone: 303-806-5317 Fax: 303-232-1915 www.cres-energy.org
The California Biomass Energy Alliance is the oldest and largest biomass trade association in the nation, advocating for policies and programs that support the growing biomass industry. CBEA educates policymakers and stakeholders about the significant economic and environmental benefits the reliable biomass power industry provides the State.
Founded in 1996, CRES is a nonprofit membership organization of individuals, businesses, government and nonprofits working to insure a sustainable energy future by promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency in Colorado.
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Canadian Renewable Fuels Association 350 Sparks Street, Suite 605 Ottawa, Ontario K1R 7S8 Canada Phone: 613-594-5528 Fax: 613-594-3076 www.greenfuels.org
Colorado State Forest Service 5060 Campus Delivery Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-5060 USA Phone: 970-491-6303 Fax: 970-491-7736 http://csfs.colostate.edu
Founded in 1984, the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) works to promote and advance the use of renewable fuels for transportation – to protect our environment by reducing harmful emissions and to grow our economy by creating the good, green-energy jobs of the future.
The mission of the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is to achieve stewardship of Colorado’s diverse forest environments for the benefit of present and future generations. The CSFS’s Wood Utilization and Marketing Program furthers the CSFS mission by facilitating the retention, expansion, and recruitment of forest and wood product businesses to positively impact Colorado’s forest conditions, and forest and wood product economies.
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Colorado-Wyoming Society of American Foresters www.safcowy.org
European Biomass Association Rue d’Arlon, 64,1040 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32 2 400 10 29 www.aebiom.org
The Society of American Foresters advances the science, education, technology, and practice of forestry; enhances competency of its members; establishes professional excellence; and uses the knowledge, skills, and conservation ethic of the profession to ensure the health and use of forest ecosystems and resources to benefit society.
The European Biomass Association (AEBIOM) is a nonprofit Brussels based international organization active at EU level since 1990. The main mission of AEBIOM is to develop the market for sustainable bioenergy, and ensure favorable business conditions for its members. AEBIOM holds a strong position in bioenergy sector (bio-heat, electricity and biofuels) and brings together 30 national bioenergy associations and 80 companies from all over Europe.
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Construction Materials Recycling Association PO Box 122 Eola, Illinois 60519 USA Phone: 630-585-7530 www.cdrecycling.org
Governor’s Energy Office 1580 Logan Street Denver, Colorado 80203 USA Phone: 303-866-2262 Fax: 303-866-2930 www.colorado.gov/energy
The CMRA is a non-profit organization that promotes the recycling of construction and demolition materials. C&D wood is an excellent fuel product because it is kiln dried, providing a higher Btu value than virgin wood. Our C&D recyclers can make the biomass wood fuel product to the specifications needed by the power generation industry.
The Governor’s Energy Office mission statement is to promote sustainable economic development in Colorado through advancing the State’s energy market and industry to create jobs, increase energy security, lower long-term consumer costs, and protect our environment.
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Cooling Technology Institute PO Box 73383 Houston, Texas 77373 USA Phone: 281-583-4087 Fax: 281-537-1721 www.cti.org
Intermountain Forest Association 2218 Jackson Blvd., #10 Rapid City, South Dakota 57702 USA Phone: 605-341-0875 Fax: 605-341-8651 www.intforest.org
Since 1950, the Cooling Technology Institute has been a non-profit governing association dedicated to advocate and promote the use of environmentally responsible Evaporative Heat Transfer Systems (EHTS), cooling towers, and cooling technology for the benefit of the public by encouraging: Education, Research, Standards Development and Verification, Government Relations, and Technical Information Exchange.
The Intermountain Forest Association (IFA) develops and implements solutionoriented policies intended to provide a positive climate for forest management as well as a sustainable supply of timber from public and private forestlands. IFA also serves as an information source for media, the public and other interested parties on a wide variety of forestry and natural resource issues.
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Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition 5600 Greenwood Plz Blvd # 100 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 USA Phone: 303-847-0271 Fax: 303-377-1102 www.lungcolorado.org/cleancities/htm
International Biochar Initiative 640 Brook Run Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 USA Phone: 802-257-5359 Fax: www.biochar-international.org
Denver Metro Clean Cities Coalition, funded by the Department of Energy and administered at the American Lung Association in Colorado, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary as the second-oldest coalition in the country. The mission of the Clean Cities program is to reduce our dependence on foreign petroleum and overall oil consumption. This will advance our nation’s energy, economic and environmental security. In 2008 alone, stakeholders in the Denver Metro area displaced 3.3 million gallons of petroleum.
The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) is a nonprofit organization working to develop standards for sustainable biochar systems. IBI helps coordinate global biochar research and development and promotes supportive policy and regulatory environments at the international and national levels to help foster investments in and commercialzation of this nascent industry.
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Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy (KABB) 125 N. Market, Suite 1735 Wichita, Kansas 67202 USA Phone: 316-201-3200 Fax: 316-201-3229 www.kansasbioenergy.com
New York Biomass Energy Alliance 159 Dwight Park Circle, Suite 104 Syracuse, New York 13209 USA Phone: 315-453-3823, 607-316-3437 Fax: 315-453-3827 www.newyorkbiomass.org
The Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy (KABB) is a non-profit, industry-led and directed Center of Innovation focused on identifying opportunities and barriers in the area of bioenergy. Through KABB’s main areas of focus, it is working to develop innovative solutions to bioenergy supply-chain challenges; create world-class research-and-development capabilities; and further the commercialization of cost-effective, efficient, and quality biomass resources.
The Alliance is a coalition of individuals, businesses, and organizations working to enhance understanding of using sustainably produced and harvested biomass as a source of renewable energy in NYS and the region. The Alliance works to strengthen cooperation and communication within the family of enterprises and organizations committed to biomass energy solutions.
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National Biodiesel Board 605 Clark Ave Jefferson City, Missouri 65110 USA Phone: 800-841-5849 www.biodiesel.org
Pellet Fuels Institute 1901 North Moore Street, Suite 600 Arlington, Virginia 22209 USA Phone: 703-552-6778 Fax: 703-552-0548 www.pelletheat.org
The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) is the national trade association representing the biodiesel industry in the United States. Biodiesel is a domestic, renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from natural oils like soybean oil, and which meets the specifications of ASTM D 6751. Biodiesel is an “Advanced Biofuel” as defined by the U.S. EPA.
The Pellet Fuels Institute (PFI) is a North American trade association promoting energy independence through the efficient use of clean, renewable, densified biomass fuel. PFI is comprised of 140 member companies, including fuel manufacturers, equipment suppliers and associate members from the U.S., Canada, and abroad.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Phone: 303-384-7693 Fax: 303-384-6877 www.nrel.gov/biomass/
Railway Tie Association 115 Commerce Drive, Suite C Fayetteville, Georgia 30214 USA Phone: 770-460-5553 Fax: 770-460-5573 www.rta.org
Through biomass research, NREL is developing technologies to convert biomass―plant matter such as trees, grasses, agricultural residue, algae, and other biological material―to fuels. These biofuels will reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil, improve our air quality, and support rural economies.
The RTA mission is to provide the forum and direction for the continual improvement in the life-cycle of the engineered wood crosstie system.
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National Sorghum Producers 4201 North Interstate 27 Lubbock, Texas 79403 USA Phone: 800-658-9808 Fax: 806-749-9002 www.sorghumgrowers.com
Renewable Fuels Association 425 Third Street, SW, Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20024 USA Phone: 202-239-3835 Fax: 202-289-7519 www.ethanolrfa.org
NSP serves as the voice of the sorghum industry by representing sorghum producers in legislative and regulatory arenas and by supporting growers through education and outreach.
As the national trade association for the U.S. fuel ethanol industry, the Renewable Fuels Association has been the “Voice of the Ethanol Industry” since 1981. RFA promotes policies, regulations, research and development initiatives, and market development that will lead to the increased production and consumption of ethanol fuel.
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SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION Rocky Mountain Farmers Union 7900 E Union Ave Suite 200 Denver, Colorado 80237 USA Phone: 303-752-5800 Fax: 303-752-5810 www.rmfu.org
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION Sustainable Bioenergy Development Center 105 Glover, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 USA Phone: 970-491-2151 Fax: 970-491-2151 bioenergy.colostate.edu
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union is a progressive, grassroots organization dedicated to achieving profitability for farmers and ranchers, promoting stewardship of land and water resources, delivering safe, healthy food to consumers and strengthening rural communities through education, legislation and cooperation. Under the umbrella of the organization is the RMFU Education and Charitable Foundation which is a 501C(3). The foundation works on cooperative development, youth education, as well as renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The SBDC will enhance America’s bioenergy industrial capabilities producing transportation fuels and chemical feedstocks through large-scale economically and environmentally sustainable processes. SBDC supports Colorado State University researchers through seed grants, student and postdoctoral fellowships, and travel grants enhancing CSU’s abilities in collaborative efforts committed to development of alternative energy sources.
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
Sawatch Energy Resource Center, LLC PO Box 931 Leadville, Colorado 80461 USA Phone: 719-486-3488 Fax: www.sawatchenergy.net
U.S. Biochar Initiative 127 Reeders Alley Helena, Montana 59601 USA Phone: 406-495-0738 www.biochar-us.org
SERC advances creative renewable energy solutions in a collaborative partnership with MicroChem Technologies and Forest Energy. MicroChem’s process utilizes pellets to co-produce activated carbon and clean gaseous fuel that can be used to provide heat and power. Forest Energy has developed a modular pellet system to take advantage of transient feedstock sources.
Biochar’s remarkable properties address some of our nation’s most pressing energy, environmental, and climate challenges. The U.S. Biochar Initiative mission is to promote and support carbon-negative sustainable production and use of biochar. We work at the intersection of science, policy, technology and practical implementation to build the future from the ground up – with biochar! Visit us at www.biochar-us.org.
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SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
South Carolina Biomass Council Building 773-A, Savannah River Site Aiken, South Carolina 29808 USA www.scbiomass.org
USDA Woody Biomass Utilization 1400 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20250-0003 USA Phone: 202-205-1787 Fax: 202-205-1045 www.forestsandrangelands.gov
The SC Biomass Council serves as a resource for the general public and decision-makers about the environmental and economic benefits of biomass energy. Through solid policy development, South Carolina can be energy independent and generate a reliable, affordable, and green source of power cleanly and efficiently.
The Interagency Woody Biomass Utilization Group (WBUG) is a coordinated and collaborative effort which create and strengthen effective and diverse partnerships that are critical to the successful implementation of our strategy; create markets to capture opportunities from changing supply and demand markets to help meet forest management goals; use all authorities to provide a long-term reliable and predictable supply of woody biomass from public and private lands; and use the best science and technology for effective utilization of woody biomass.
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Southern States Energy Board 6325 Amherst Court Norcross, Georgia 30092 USA Phone: 770-242-7712 Fax: 770-242-9956 www.sseb.org
US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region 740 Simms Street Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Phone: 303-275-5350 www.fs.usda.gov/r2
The Southern States Energy Board is an interstate compact, comprised of governors and state legislators from sixteen southern states, Puerto Rico and the U.S.
As part of the National Forest System, the Rocky Mountain Region enjoys a proud heritage in the Forest Service. Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest and Colorado’s White River National Forest are among the first National Forests Congress proclaimed, carved from the original Forest Reserves. These and other Forests and Grasslands continue to hold in trust America’s resources- timber, wildlife, water, range, recreation - to ensure their availability today and tomorrow.
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SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
USEPA AgSTAR Program 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW (MC: 6207J) Washington, DC 20460 USA Phone: 202-343-9468 www.epa.gov/agstar
Waste-to-Fuels Conference & Trade Show PO Box 38070 Tallahassee, Florida 32315 USA Phone: 800-441-7949 www.waste-to-fuels.org
AgSTAR is a voluntary program jointly sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Energy that encourages the use of biogas recovery technologies at confined animal feeding operations. For additional information, please visit our website at www.epa.gov/agstar.
The 5th Annual Waste-to-Fuels Conference & Trade Show will be conducted at the Mystic Marriott Hotel & Spa, in Mystic, Connecticut, USA, from September 16-18, 2012. The Conference provides a forum for informing the public and private sectors of the economic and environmental significance of converting waste materials to alternative fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol as well as renewable electric energy.
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SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION
U.S. Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) Phone: 804-771-9540 www.theusipa.org
Western Colorado Carbon Neutral Bioenergy Consortium (WCCNBC) Nancy Genova - CMC, 3695 Airport Road Rifle, Colorado 81650 USA Phone: 970-625-6944 Fax: 970-625-0649 www.wccnbc.org
The U.S. Industrial Pellet Association (“USIPA�) was formed in February of 2011 to establish industry wide positions on a host of issues including policy, safety and the overall growth of the industrial grade wood pellet market.
The Western Colorado Carbon Neutral Bioenergy Consortium is a trans-disciplinary, applied science, research consortium that seeks to collect both qualitative and quantitative data related to land transition, agronomic analysis of high-biomass producing perennial crops, field analysis of carbon sequestration potential, laboratory and pilot-scale analysis of the conversion of biomass to biofuels and economic analysis of the feasibility of western Colorado growers to produce and market carbon neutral biofuels.
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MEDIA PARTNERS MEDIA PARTNER
MEDIA PARTNER
Algae Technology & Business 308 2nd Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 biorefiningmagazine.com/algae-technology-business
Marketwire 15455 Dallas Parkway, Suite 1275 Addison, Texas 75001 USA Phone: 832-928-5382 Fax: 214-560-1080 www.marketwire.com
Algae Technology & Business, a biannual supplement to Biorefining Magazine, covers the emergent global industry of algae cultivation and processing―strain selection, growth and harvest, dewatering, extraction, conversion and commercial scale-up―for third-generation biofuels, biobased chemicals and other algal products.
Marketwire, a dominant global distributor of company news releases and other communications, maximizes the power of its clients’ communications by leveraging the latest in search engine optimization, multimedia, social media, monitoring and new technologies. Sysomos, a Marketwire company, provides unparalleled business intelligence for social media through advanced monitoring and analytics. Talk to us at www.marketwire.com, @marketwire, and www.blog.marketwire.com.
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MEDIA PARTNER
Biodiesel Magazine 308 2nd Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 www.biodieselmagazine.com
Pellet Mill Magazine 308 2nd Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 biomassmagazine.com/pellet-mill-magazine
Biodiesel Magazine is recognized as biodiesel’s premier trade journal. It is distributed to all biodiesel production facilities and future production facilities. Our niche―and your company’s edge―is getting your message to decision-makers inside existing facilities and in front of future biodiesel plants before purchasing decisions are made.
Pellet Mill Magazine delivers discerning, data driven content―features, technical contributions and expert commentary―to professionals in the densified biomass fuel industry. As a biannual supplement to Biomass Power & Thermal, Pellet Mill Magazine covers a broad range of issues affecting producers and distributers of pellets, from production technology, plant management and international sales to pellet standards, policy and environmental regulation.
MEDIA PARTNER Ethanol Producer Magazine 308 2nd Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 www.ethanolproducer.com Ethanol Producer Magazine is recognized as ethanol’s premier trade journal. It is distributed to all ethanol production facilities and future production facilities. Our niche―and your company’s edge―is getting your message to decision-makers inside existing facilities and in front of future ethanol plants before purchasing decisions are made.
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EXPO MAP SPEAKER BIOS HEAVY EQUIPMENT EXHIBIT 1030 1000
EXIT
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POSTER SESSION 30’x20’
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FOOD & BEVERAGE
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131
230
128
129
228
126
127
226
FOOD & BEVERAGE
229
20’x20’
FOOD & BEVERAGE
331
430
431
530
531
630
329
428
429
528
529
628
327
426
427
526
527
626
631
730
EXIT
731
830
831
930
931
729
828
829
928
929
727
826
827
926
927
BUSINESS CENTER/ CONCIERGE 124
125
224
225
324
325
424
425
524
525
624
725
824
825
924
925
122
123
222
223
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323
422
423
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622
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822
823
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923
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121
220
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321
420
421
520
521
620
721
820
821
920
921
719
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918
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621 20’x10’
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119
218
219
319
418
419
518
519
618
619
20’x10’
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FOOD & BEVERAGE
FOOD & BEVERAGE
915 10’x20’
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112
113
110
111
210
108
109
208
213
312
313
413
512
513
20’x10’
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712
713 711
311
410
411
510
511
610
611
710
309
408
409
508
509
608
609
708
507
606
607
706
605
704
603
702
INTERNET LOUNGE 106
107
206
307
406
407
506
104
105
204
305
404
405
504
102
103
202
303
402
403
203
203
813
912
913
20’x10’
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810
RELAXATION STATION
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910
911
809
908
909
807
906
907
805
904
905
703
802
803
902
903
701
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801
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201
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EXHIBITOR LIST Exhibitor
Booth #
Exhibitor
Booth #
Exhibitor
Booth #
3LOG Systems, Inc.
801
Biomass Thermal Energy Council
109
Enerquip, LLC
100
A&B Process Systems
610
BioVantage Resources, Inc.
524
EPI (now Outotec Energy Products)
104
ABBOTT Energy Systems
613
Bliss Industries, LLC
320
ERM - Environmental Resources Management 125
Abengoa
218
Brad Penn Lubricants
111
Evergreen Engineering, Inc.
920
Abresist Kalenborn Corporation
810
BRUKS Rockwood, Inc.
703
Exponent Failure Analysis
124
Ace Glass
225
Brunette Industries Ltd
925
Fagen, Inc.
605
ADI Systems Inc
721
Buettner GmbH
521
Firefly North America, Inc.
620
Adolfson & Peterson Construction
411
B端hler Inc.
213
FlexEnergy Inc
928
Advanced Recycling Equipment, Inc. & Challenger Energy Systems, Inc.
829
Bureau Veritas Certification NA
105
Flottweg Separation Technology, Inc.
407
Christianson & Associates, PLLP
221
Fusion Tanks & Silos
422
AeriNOx Inc
813
City of Benson MN
427
Garick
301
AGRA Industries, Inc.
413
Clean Energy Renewable Fuels
927
GE Energy Air Filtration
930
Altech Environment U.S.A.
603
CleanAir Engineering
922
GEA Barr-Rosin
611
Amandus Kahl USA Corp.
628
ClearSpan Fabric Structures
820
GEA Westfalia Separator
609
AMEC
402
Cogent Industrial Technologies Ltd.
410
General Kinematics Corporation
429
AMECO SA
400
Colorado Lining International
409
GENESIS III
106
Ameristar
204
Consolidated Terminals and Logistics Company 405
GreCon, Inc.
729
ANDRITZ Inc.
201
Continental Technologies, LLC
910
Green Tech America, Inc.
708
Andy J. Egan Co.
123
Cooling Technology Institute
923
Greenberry Industrial
931
ANKOM Technology
102
Cooling Tower Depot, Inc.
900
Hallco Industries, Inc.
704
Apache Stainless Equipment Corporation
224
Cousineau Forest Products
528
Hauser Division of Microbac Laboratories, Inc. 921
Applied Chemical Technology
713
CPM
501
Heyl & Patterson Inc.
511
Arizona Instrument LLC
421
CST Storage
818
Hoerbiger
710
ASI Industrial
711
Custom Instrumentation Services Corp - CiSCO
122
112
ATEC Steel Fabrication and Construction, Inc. 512
DeJaye Technologies LLC
223
Hunt, Guillot, & Associates Project Managers & Engineers
Atlas Systems LLC
905
Detroit Stoker Company
128
Hurst Boiler & Welding Company, Inc.
313
Aumund Corporation
626
Dieffenbacher, Inc.
831
ICM, Inc
203
Babcock & Wilcox Company
601
Dome Technology
819
Imerys
419
Bandit Industries, Inc.
902
DOMTEC International
904
Inergy Plus Technologies, Inc.
919
Barr/Genivar, Inc.
220
Dresser-Rand/Guascor Power
719
International Process Plants-IPP
706
Basic Machinery Company, Inc.
118
Drying Technology, Inc
828
Intertek
809
BBI Consulting Services
331
D端rr Systems, Inc.
103
Jackson Lumber Harvester Company
608
Beltomatic/Biogreen
510
EbnerVyncke
228
Jacobs Corporation
321
Bioenergy Insight
107
Ecostrat Inc. and General Biofuel Inc.
430
Jansen Combustion and Boiler Technologies, Inc. 803
Biomass Briquette Systems, LLC
508
EISENMANN Corporation
302
Jeffrey Rader Corporation
113
Biomass Power & Thermal
229
Elliott
325
JWC Environmental
206
Biomass Products & Technology
824
Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) 303
KABB
130
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EXHIBITOR LIST Exhibitor
Booth #
Exhibitor
Booth #
KEITH Mfg Co
621
ProcessBarron
805
TS Manufacturing Co.
807
Kice Industries, Inc.
323
Processbio.com
202
Twin Ports Testing Inc.
129
Komptech USA Inc.
701
PRODESA North America
830
URECON Pre-Insulated Pipe
425
Konecranes America
208
Protectoseal Company, The
210
US Department of Energy, Biomass Program 526
KSB, Inc.
120
QS Biodiesel Ltd.
924
US Water Services
Laidig Systems, Inc.
522
Rapat Corporation
322
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region 126
Larson Engineering, Inc.
1034
Rawlings Waste Wood Recovery Systems
800
UTS BioEnergy
531
LM Machinery and Equipment LLC
712
Rayeman Elements Inc.
908
VAN DYK Recycling Solutions
907
Lockheed Martin
918
REHAU Inc.
529
Vaughan Company, Inc.
727
LOTUS Mixers Inc.
702
REPREVE Renewables
513
Vecoplan Midwest
822
Maas Companies
811
Resource Recycling System
110
Vecoplan, LLC
200
Matrix Service Company
519
Retsch Inc.
418
Vermeer Corporation
420
McGill AirClean LLC
403
RISI
518
VibraFloor
906
M-E-C Company
423
Roeslein & Associates, Inc.
530
Victaulic
507
MEGTEC
731
Rotochopper, Inc.
1033
Vilter Manufacturing LLC
222
Merrick & Company
607
Rovanco Piping Systems
509
Warren & Baerg Manufacturing, Inc.
226
Metso
219
RUD Chain
311
Weis Environmental, LLC
622
Miron Construction Co., Inc.
305
S. Howes, Inc.
915
West Salem Machinery
725
MoistTech
426
Scantech International
101
Western Ag Enterprises, Inc.
309
MonitorTech Corporation
929
Scheuch Inc.
408
Western Pneumatics, Inc.
619
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP
631
Schutte-Buffalo Hammermill, LLC
121
Willow Biomass Energy Group
527
Muyang Biomass Engineering Company
404
Scott Equipment Company
108
Wolf Material Handling Systems
624
NAES Corporation
723
Screw Conveyor Corporation
503
903
North American Industrial Services
431
SHW Storage & Handling Solutions GmbH 821
Wood Bioenergy Magazine/ Hagon-Brown Publishers, Inc.
North Carolina’s Northeast Commission
329
Siemens
319
Zachry
504
North Carolina’s Southeast
230
Smith & Loveless Inc.
307
Nucor Building Systems
802
Stinger Inc .
424
Ovivo|GWE
730
Stoel Rives LLP
520
Pacific PowerStock LLC
901
Supertrak/Anderson
827
Pellet Fuels Institute
127
TDA Research, Inc.
826
PHG Energy
327
The Crom Corporation
131
Pratt & Whitney Power Systems
428
Thomas & Muller Systems LTD
406
Precision Energy Services
324
Timber Products Inspection/Biomass Energy Lab 825
Process And Storage Solutions
913
Trace Environmental Systems Inc
823
Process Sensors Corporation
525
Tri-Mer Corp.
523
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Booth #
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EXHIBITING COMPANIES 3LOG Systems, Inc. Booth # 801
ADI Systems Inc Booth # 721
Amandus Kahl USA Corp. Booth # 628
A&B Process Systems Booth # 610
Adolfson & Peterson Construction Booth # 411
AMEC Booth # 402
ABBOTT Energy Systems Booth # 613
Advanced Recycling Equipment, Inc. & Challenger Energy Systems, Inc. Booth # 829
AMECO SA Booth # 400
Abengoa Booth # 218
AeriNOx Inc Booth # 813
Ameristar Booth # 204
Abresist Kalenborn Corporation Booth # 810
AGRA Industries, Inc. Booth # 413
ANDRITZ Inc. Booth # 201
Ace Glass Booth # 225
Altech Environment U.S.A. Booth # 603
Andy J. Egan Co. Booth # 123
208-2633 Viking Way Richmond, British Columbia V6V 3B6 Canada Phone: 604-249-2120 Fax: 604-271-5507 www.3log.com • Biomass Software • Procurement/Settlement • Weighscale Management • Lab Testing
201 South Wisconsin Avenue Stratford, Wisconsin 54484 USA Phone: 715-687-4332 Fax: 715-687-3225 www.abprocess.com • Biogas • Consulting • Process Equipment & Services • Process Technology
1068 Trout Run Road Saint Marys, Pennsylvania 15857 USA Phone: 814-781-6355 Fax: 814-781-7334 www.abbottenergysystems.com • Boilers - Biomass Boilers • Boilers - Service & Repair • Boilers - Direct-Fired • Material Handling & Storage
16401 Swingley Ridge Rd Suite 700 Chesterfield, Missouri 63017 USA Phone: 314-275-1100 Fax: 314-275-2408 www.abener.com • Engineering • Construction • Power Generation • BioProducts
PO Box 38 Urbana, Indiana 46990 USA Phone: 260-774-3327 Fax: 260-774-3832 www.abresist.com • Piping • Material Handling • Linings • Abrasion Resistant
1430 N West Boulevard Vineland, New Jersey 08360 USA Phone: 800-223-4524 Fax: 800-543-6752 www.aceglass.com • Process Equipment • Lab Glassware • Reactors • Lab Equipment
866-746-8385
370 Wilsey Road Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 6E9 Canada Phone: 506-452-7307 Fax: 506-452-7308 www.adisystemsinc.com • Environment • Biogas - Recovery/Utilization • Wastewater Treatment • Waste-to-Energy
380 Winkler Drive, Suite 400 Alpharetta, Georgia 30004 USA Phone: 770-521-1021 Fax: 770-521-1022 www.akahl.us • Pelleting • Engineering • Process Equipment &Services • Process Technology
6701 West 23rd St Minneapolis, Minnesota 55426 USA Phone: 972-387-1700 Fax: 704-970-260 www.a-p.com • Construction • EPC Contractors • Process Technology
850 Washington Road St Marys, Pennsylvania 15857 USA Phone: 800-611-6599 Fax: 814-834-3483 www.advancedrecyclingequip.com • Biomass Boilers • Power Generation • Wood Waste Reduction (Grinders) • Material Handling & Storage
PO Box 19767 Boulder, Colorado 80308 USA Phone: 720-746-9381 Fax: 720-596-4297 www.aerinox-inc.com • Environment • Emission Control • Emissions Reduction • Regulations & Compliance
1211 West Water Street Merrill, Wisconsin 54452 USA Phone: 715-536-9584 Fax: 715-536-9587 www.agraind.com • Construction • Engineering • Consulting • Material Handling & Storage
2623 Kaneville Court Geneva, Illinois 60134 USA Phone: 630-262-4400 Fax: 630-262-6220 www.altechusa.com • Environment • Emissions Monitoring Systems • Process Equipment & Supplies
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800 Marquette Ave Suite 1200 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 USA Phone: 612-332-8326 Fax: 612-332-2423 www.amec.com • Engineering • Construction • Consulting • Environment
1191 Chess Dr. Suite F Foster City, California 94404 USA Phone: 617-818-3332 Fax: 626-628-1970 www.ameco-fr.com • Material Handling & Storage • Stackers • Reclaimers • Shiploaders
3400 Bath Pike, Suite 305 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18017 USA Phone: 484-485-2749 Fax: 484-893-2746 www.ameristarbiofuels.com • Bioproducts • Biofuel • Environment • Used Cooking Oil
1115 Northmeadow Parkway Roswell, Georgia 30076 USA Phone: 770-640-2500 Fax: 770-640-9456 www.andritz.com • Boilers • Pelletizing • Size Reduction • Process Equipment & Services
2001 Waldorf NW Grand Rapids, Michigan 49544 USA Phone: 616-791-9952 Fax: 616-791-1037 www.andyegan.com • Process Equipment & Services • Utilities • Construction • Fabrication
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SPEAKER BIOS EXHIBITING COMPANIES ANKOM Technology Booth # 102
2052 O’Neil Road Macedon, New York 14502 USA Phone: 315-986-8090 Fax: 315-986-8091 www.ankom.com • Laboratory • Process Equipment & Services • Research & Development • Agricultural Products & Services
Atlas Systems LLC Booth # 905
6416 E Main Avenue Spokane Valley, Washington 99212 USA Phone: 509-535-7775 Fax: 509-535-7813 www.atlassystems.net • Material Handling & Storage
BBI Consulting Services Booth # 331
308 Second Avenue N., Suite 304 Grand Forks ND 58203 USA Phone: 866-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 www.bbiinternational.com • Biomass Consulting • Bioenergy Consulting • Engineering Consulting • Biofuels Consulting
Apache Stainless Equipment Corporation Booth # 224
Aumund Corporation Booth # 626
Beltomatic/Biogreen Booth # 510
Applied Chemical Technology Booth # 713
Babcock & Wilcox Company Booth # 601
Bioenergy Insight Booth # 107
Arizona Instrument LLC Booth # 421
Bandit Industries, Inc. Booth # 902
Biomass Briquette Systems, LLC Booth # 508
ASI Industrial Booth # 711
Barr/Genivar, Inc. Booth # 220
Biomass Power & Thermal Booth # 229
ATEC Steel Fabrication and Construction, Inc Booth # 512
Basic Machinery Company, Inc. Booth # 118
Biomass Products & Technology Booth # 824
200 Industrial Drive Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 53916 USA Phone: 920-356-7337 Fax: 920-887-0206 www.apachestainless.com • Distillation Columns with Trays • Stainless & High Alloy ASME Tanks • Evaporators Shell & Tube • Stainless & High Alloy Tanks
4350 Helton Drive Florence, Alabama 35630 USA Phone: 256-760-9600 Fax: 256-760-9638 www.appliedchemical.com • Process Equipment & Services • Pilot Plant Services • Engineering • Research & Development
3375 N Delaware Street Chandler, Arizona 85225 USA Phone: 602-470-1414 Fax: 602-281-1745 www.azic.com • Laboratory • Process Equipment & Services • Process Technology • Research & Development
1300 Minnesota Avenue Billings, Montana 59101 USA Phone: 406-245-6231 Fax: 406-245-6236 www.asi-industrial.com • Construction • Power Generation • Material Handling & Storage • Process Equipment & Services
1000 West 5th Street Baxter Springs, Kansas 66713 USA Phone: 877-457-5352 Fax: 620-856-5197 www.atecsteel.com • API 650-620 Tanks & API 653 Repair • Shop Fabricated Tanks • ASME Pressure Vessels • Specialty Steel Fabrication
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1825 Barrett Lake Boulevard, Suite 520 Kennesaw, Georgia 30144 USA Phone: 770-590-3801 Fax: 770-953-4844 www.aumund.com • Wood Product Handling • Large Stacker & Reclaimers • Truck & Rail Receiving Units • Bulk Truck, Rail, & Ship Loading
20 South Van Buren Avenue Barberton, Ohio 44203 USA Phone: 800-BABCOCK (222-2625) Fax: 330-860-1868 www.babcock.com • Boilers • Construction • Power Generation • Emissions Control / Environmental
6750 Millbrook Road Remus, Michigan 49340 USA Phone: 800-952-0178 Fax: 989-561-2273 www.banditchippers.com • Bioproducts • Process Equipment • Wood
332 West Superior Street, Suite 600 Duluth, Minnesota 55802 USA Phone: 218-529-8200 Fax: 218-529-8202 www.barr.com/biomass • Engineering • Consulting • Biomass Boilers • Power Generation
1220 Harold Andrews Road Siler City, North Carolina 27344 USA Phone: 919-663-2244 Fax: 919-663-2172 www.basicmachinery.com • Automatic Reclaiming • Fuel Storage & Handling • Material Processing & Handling • Turnkey Systems Design & Supply
7930 North 700 E Tippecanoe, Indiana 46570 USA Phone: 574-353-7855 Fax: 574-353-8152 www.beltomatic.com • Process Equipment & Services • Dryers • Pryolysis • Gasification
Marshall House, 124 Middleton Road Morden, Surrey SM4 6RW United Kingdom Phone: 011 44 20 8687 4126 Fax: 011 44 20 8687 4130 www.bioenergy-news.com • Media
PO Box 1835 Chico, California 95927 USA Phone: 530-893-2444 Fax: 530-893-2244 www.biomassbriquettesystems.com • Briquetting • Biomass Boilers • Size Reduction • Process Equipment & Services
308 Second Avenue N, Suite 304 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58203 USA Phone: 701-746-8385 Fax: 701-746-5367 www.biomassmagazine.com • Media - Publications • Conferences & Trade Shows
801 Bluff Street Dubuque, Iowa 52001 USA Phone: 800-977-0474 Fax: 563-588-3848 www.GoBiomass.com • Media • Marketing
2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo | April 16-19, 2012 | Colorado Convention Center | Denver, Colorado
Biomass Thermal Energy Council Booth # 109
Bliss Industries, LLC Booth # 320
BRUKS Rockwood, Inc. Booth # 703
BioVantage Resources, Inc Booth # 524
Brad Penn Lubricants Booth # 111
Brunette Industries Ltd Booth # 925
1211 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 USA Phone: 202-596-3974 Fax: 202-223-5537 www.biomassthermal.org • Associations/Organizations • Government/Regulation • Education • Marketing
700 Corporate Circle, Suite H Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Phone: 303-470-8000 Fax: 800-714-6030 www.biovantageresources.com • Water Treatment • Process Technology • Algae • Research & Development
PO Box 910 Ponca City, Oklahoma 74602 USA Phone: 580-765-7787 Fax: 580-762-0111 www.bliss-industries.com • Size Reduction • Corn Cobs & Stover • Corn • Ethanol
77 North Kendall Avenue Bradford, Pennsylvania 16701 USA Phone: 814-368-1340 Fax: 814-368-1219 www.amref.com • Biogas • Power Generation • Lubricants
5975 Shiloh Road Suite 109 Alpharetta, Georgia 30005 USA Phone: 770-849-0100 Fax: 770-495-7195 www.BRUKS.com • Material Handling & Storage • Process Equipment & Services • Stacker Reclaimers • Truck Dumpers
330 Edworthy Way New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 5G5 Canada Phone: 604-522-3977 Fax: 604-522-6806 www.brunetteindustries.com • Process Equipment & Services • Size Reduction • Wood • Wood Processing Residues
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SPEAKER BIOS EXHIBITING COMPANIES Buettner GmbH Booth # 521
CleanAir Engineering Booth # 922
Cooling Technology Institute Booth # 923
Bühler Inc. Booth # 213
ClearSpan Fabric Structures Booth # 820
Cooling Tower Depot, Inc. Booth # 900
Bureau Veritas Certification NA Booth # 105
Cogent Industrial Technologies Ltd. Booth # 410
Cousineau Forest Products Booth # 528
Christianson & Associates, PLLP Booth # 221
Colorado Lining International Booth # 409
CPM Booth # 501
City of Benson MN Booth # 427
Consolidated Terminals and Logistics Company Booth # 405
CST Storage Booth # 818
Continental Technologies, LLC Booth # 910
Custom Instrumentation Services Corp - CiSCO Booth # 122
3500 High Hamptons Drive Charlotte, North Carolina 28210 USA Phone: 704-522-0234 Fax: 704-522-1804 www.buettner-dryer.com • Rotary Drum Dryers • Belt Dryers • Indirect Heated Dryers • Burners, Furnaces
PO Box 9497 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55440 USA Phone: 763-847-9900 Fax: 763-847-9911 www.buhlergroup.com • Pelleting Equipment • Process Equipment & Supplies • Material Handling & Storage • Process Technology
310 Benmar Drive, Suite 100 Houston, Texas 77060 USA Phone: 800-937-9311 Fax: 281-310-3101 www.us.bureauveritas.com/bvc • Biomass Sustainability Verification • Certification & Verification Services • Biofuel Sustainability Verification • Training
302 SW 5th Street Willmar, Minnesota 56201 USA Phone: 320-235-593 Fax: 320-235-5962 www.christiansoncpa.com • Finance - Accounting • Consulting - Business Plans • Finance - Software - Accounting
1410 Kansas Avenue Benson, Minnesota 56215 USA Phone: 320-843-4775 Fax: 320-843-4151 www.bensonmn.org • Government • Land • Power Generation • Utilities
Clean Energy Renewable Fuels Booth # 927
3020 Old Ranch Parkway, Suite 400 Seal Beach, California 90740 USA Phone: 562-493-2804 Fax: 562-430-8594 www.cleanenergyfuels.com • Biomethane for Transportation • Biomethane • Transportation Fuel • Fuel
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500 West Wood Street Palatine, Illinois 60067 USA Phone: 847-991-3300 Fax: 847-934-8260 www.cleanair.com • Air Pollution Monitoring • Bolier Performance Testing/Optimization Environmental • Consulting • Air Instrumentaion Rental/Sales
1395 John Fitch Road South Windsor, Connecticut 06074 USA Phone: 866-643-1010 Fax: 860-760-0210 www.clearspan.com • Composting • Construction • Matierial Handling & Storage • Water Treatment
Suite 180-13091 Vanier Place Richmond, British Columbia V6V 2J1 Canada Phone: 604-207-8880 Fax: 604-207-8878 www.cogentind.com • Power, Automation and IT Systems Integration • Real-Time Operations Management System • Process Control and Optimization • Engineering
1062 Singing Hills Road Parker, Colorado 80138 USA Phone: 303-841-2022 Fax: 303-841-5780 www.coloradolining.com • Agricultural Product & Services • Process Equipment & Services • Construction • Environmental
5130 Port Road Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130 USA Phone: 812-283-9500 Fax: 812-218-0519 www.ctlconline.com • Transportation • Feedstock - Agricultural Residues • Material Handling & Storage
4635 Nautilus Court South Boulder, Colorado 80301 USA Phone: 303-530-0263 Fax: 303-530-0264 www.contechfab.com • Engineering (FEED - Detailed Design) • Biofuels, Chemical Processes • Procurement & Construction • Pilot Plants, Demonstration Plants
PO Box 73383 Houston, Texas 77373 USA Phone: 713-643-0691 Fax: 713-643-0310 www.cti.org • Standards & Guidelines for Cooling Towers & Air Cooled Condensers • Education
651 Corporate Circle, Suite 206 Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Phone: 720-746-1234 Fax: 720-746-1110 www.coolingtowerdepot.com • Cooling Tower Repairs & Upgrades • Cooling Tower Component Parts • New Site Erected Cooling Towers • Cooling Tower Inspection Services
1310 Old Concord Road Henniker, New Hampshire 03242 USA Phone: 603-428-7155 Fax: 603-428-7839 www.cousineaus.com • Feedstock • Procurement • Wood
2975 Airline Circle Waterloo, Iowa 50703 USA Phone: 319-232-8444 Fax: 319-236-0486 www.cpm.net • Pelleting • Control Systems • Size Reduction
345 Harvestore Drive DeKalb, Illinois 60115 USA Phone: 815-756-1551 Fax: 815-756-1659 www.cst-storage.com • Material Handling & Storage • Process Equipment & Services • Digesters • Tanks
7841 South Wheeling Court Englewood, Colorado 80112 USA Phone: 303-790-1000 Fax: 303-790-7292` www.ciscocems.com • CEMS-Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems • DAHS-Data Acquisition & Handling Software • Emissions Monitoring Hardware & Software • Training, Startup & Guaranteed Certification Services
2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo | April 16-19, 2012 | Colorado Convention Center | Denver, Colorado
DeJaye Technologies LLC Booth # 223
1627 East Madison Des Moines, Iowa 50313 USA Phone: 515-210-8300 www.5gas.com • Methane/CO2 Analyzer Recorder
Drying Technology, Inc Booth # 828
Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Booth # 303
PO Box 1635 Silsbee, Texas 77656 USA Phone: 409-385-6422 Fax: 409-385-6537 www.moisturecontrols.com • Moisture Controls • Process Equipment & Services • Moisture Sensor • Controls, Moisture
15 North 23rd Street, Stop 9018 Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202-9018 USA Phone: 701-777-5000 Fax: 701-777-5181 www.undeerc.org • Research & Development • Consulting • Engineering • Laboratory
Detroit Stoker Company Booth # 128
Dürr Systems, Inc. Booth # 103
Enerquip, LLC Booth # 100
Dieffenbacher, Inc. Booth # 831
EbnerVyncke Booth # 228
EPI (now Outotec Energy Products) Booth # 104
Dome Technology Booth # 819
Ecostrat Inc. and General Biofuel Inc. Booth # 430
ERM - Environmental Resources Management Booth # 125
1510 East First Street Monroe, Michigan 48161 USA Phone: 734-241-9500 Fax: 734-241-7126 www.detroitstoker.com • Combustion Equipment • Process Equipment & Services
3100 Cumberland Blvd. Suite 1470 Atlanta, Georgia 30339 USA Phone: 770-226-6394 Fax: 770-226-6397 www.dieffenbacher.com • Process Equipment & Services • Pelletizing • Size Reduction • Engineering
3007 East 49th N Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 USA Phone: 208-529-0833 Fax: 208-529-0854 www.dometech.com • Construction • Material Handling & Storage • Engineering
40600 Plymouth Road Plymouth, Michigan 48170 USA Phone: 734-459-6800 Fax: 734-459-5837 www.durr-cleantechnology.com • Environment • Engineering • Heat Recovery Systems • Air Pollution Control Systems
611 North Road Medford, Wisconsin 54451 USA Phone: 715-748-5888 Fax: 715-748-6484 www.enerquip.com • Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers • Process Equipment & Services • Reboilers • Reactors
224 Quadral Drive Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 USA Phone: 330-335-1778 Fax: 330-335-1605 www.ebnervyncke.com, www.vyncke.com • Boiler • Steam • Cogeneration • CHP
3568 West Industrial Loop Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho 83815 USA Phone: 208-765-1611 Fax: 208-765-0503 www.energyproducts.com • Boilers • Biomass Boilers • Power Generation • Agriculture Residue
60 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 404 Toronto, Ontario M4T 1NS Canada Phone: 416-968-8884 Fax: 416-968-8886 www.ecostrat.com • Woodfuel Supply • Supply Risk Mitigation • Supply Assessments
One Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 USA Phone: 617-646-7802 Fax: 617-267-6447 www.erm.com • Full-Service Environmental Permitting & EIS • Consulting-Biomass Energy, Biofuels, Waste-to-Energy • Environment
DOMTEC International Booth # 904
EISENMANN Corporation Booth # 302
Evergreen Engineering, Inc. Booth # 920
Dresser-Rand/Guascor Power Booth # 719
Elliott Booth # 325
Exponent Failure Analysis Booth # 124
4355 N Haroldsen Dr Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 USA Phone: 208-522-5520 Fax: 208-522-5344 www.domtec.com • Construction • Material Handling & Storage
143 Mallard Street, Suite F St Rose, Louisiana 70087 USA Phone: 504-461-3801 Fax: 504-461-3806 www.guascorpower.com/eng/index.php • Power Generation • Biogas To Power • Engines • Syngas/Biomass Gas To Power
866-746-8385
150 East Dartmoor Drive Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014 USA Phone: 815-455-4100 Fax: 815-455-1018 www.eisenmann.com/usa • Equipment & Services - Thermal Oxidizers • Engineering Biomass Energy • Power Generation - Biomass • Equipment & Services-Air Pollution/Odor Control
901 North Fourth Street Jeannette, Pennsylvania 15644 USA Phone: 724-600-8444 Fax: 724-600-8442 www.elliott-turbo.com • Steam Turbine • Power Generation • Turbine Generator • Waste Heat Recovery
service@bbiinternational.com
1740 Willow Creek Circle Eugene, Oregon 97402 USA Phone: 541-484-4771 Fax: 541-484-6759 www.evergreenengineering.com • Engineering • Consulting • Power Generation • Material Handling & Storage
4580 Weaver Parkway, Suite 100 Warrenville, Illinois 60555 USA Phone: 630-658-7500 Fax: 630-658-7599 www.exponent.com • Combustibe Dust Testing & Evaluation • Process Hazard Analysis • Accident Investigation • Industrial Combustion Process Safety
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SPEAKER BIOS EXHIBITING COMPANIES Fagen, Inc. Booth # 605
GE Energy Air Filtration Booth # 930
Green Tech America, Inc. Booth # 708
Firefly North America, Inc. Booth # 620
GEA Barr-Rosin Booth # 611
Greenberry Internatonal Booth # 708
FlexEnergy Inc Booth # 928
GEA Westfalia Separator Booth # 609
Hallco Industries, Inc. Booth # 704
Flottweg Separation Technology, Inc. Booth # 407
General Kinematics Corporation Booth # 429
Hauser Division of Microbac Laboratories, Inc. Booth # 921
501 West Highway 212 Granite Falls, Minnesota 56241 USA Phone: 320-564-3324 Fax: 320-564-3278 www.fageninc.com • Design-Build • Biomass Power Plants • Construction • Biofuel Production Plants
4 Reliance Lane Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069 USA Phone: 847-846-0559 www.firefly.se • Safety & Maintenance
7753 Overlook Drive Scottsdale, Arizona 85255 USA Phone: 949-616-3300 Fax: 949-616-3399 www.flexenergy.com • Clean • Renewable • Continuous • Low-Emissions
10700 Toebben Drive Independence, Kentucky 41051 USA Phone: 859-448-2300 Fax: 859-448-2333 www.flottweg.com • Equipment & Services - Centrifuges • Equipment & Services-Separation Equipment • Equipment & Services-Centrifuge Repair • Equipment & Services - Decanters
8800 E. 63rd Street Kansas City, Missouri 64133 USA Phone: 816-313-4382 www.ge-energy.com/filtration • Environment • Dust Collection Systems • Fabric Filters
92 Prevost Boisbriand, Quebec J7G 2S2 Canada Phone: 450-437-5252 Fax: 450-437-6740 www.barr-rosin.com • Process Equipment & Services • Drying Equipment
100 Fairway Court Northvale, New Jersey 7647 USA Phone: 201-767-3900 Fax: 201-767-3901 www.wsus.com • Process Equipment & Services • Water Treatment • Process Technology • Ethanol
5050 Rickert Road Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014 USA Phone: 815-455-3222 Fax: 815-455-2285 www.generalkinematics.com • Vibratory Equipment • Material Handling & Storage • Process Equipment & Services
3495 Kent Avenue, Suite P100 West Lafayette, Indiana 47906 USA Phone: 765-588-3834 Fax: 765-807-3168 www.greentechamerica.com • Ethanol • Research & Development • Corn Cobs & Stover • Chemicals
Two Centerpointe Drive, Suite 580 Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035 USA Phone: 503-639-8562 Fax: 765-807-3168 www.greenberry.com • Construction • Safety & Maintenance • Material Handling • Boilers
PO Box 505 Tillamook, Oregon 97141 USA Phone: 503-842-8746/800-542-5526 Fax: 503-842-4866 www.hallcoind.com • Material Handling & Storage • Transportation
4750 Nautilus Court South, Unit A Boulder, Colorado 80301 USA Phone: 720-406-4800 Fax: 303-581--195 www.hauserlab.com • Laboratory • Research & Development • Feedstock Analysis • Fuel Testing
Fusion Tanks & Silos Booth # 422
GENESIS III Booth # 106
Heyl & Patterson Inc. Booth # 511
Garick Booth # 301
GreCon, Inc. Booth # 729
Hoerbiger Booth # 710
Eye Suffolk, IP23 7HS United Kingdom Phone: 011 44 1379 870723 Fax: 011 44 1379 870530 www.permastore.com • Biogas • Material Handling & Storage • Agricultural Products & Services • Water Treatment
13600 Broadway Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44125 USA Phone: 216-581-0100 Fax: 216-581-4712 www.garick.com • Composting • Feedstock - Urban Wood • Consulting • Feedstock - Wood
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5575 Lyndon Road Prophetstown, Illinois 61277 USA Phone: 815-537-7900 Fax: 815-537-7905 www.g3hammers.com • Process Equipment & Services • Size Reduction • Pelletizing • Wood Proccesing
15875 SW 74th Avenue Tigard, Oregon 97224 USA Phone: 503-641-7731 Fax: 503-641-7508 www.grecon-us.com • Spark Extinguishing Systems • Moisture Measurement
PO Box 36 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15230 USA Phone: 412-788-9810 Fax: 412-788-9822 www.heylpatterson.com • Drying • Process Technology • Process Equipment & Services • Material Handling & Storage
3350 Gateway Drive Pompano Beach, Florida 33069 USA Phone: 954-974-5700 Fax: 954-974-0964 www.hoerbiger.com • Safety & Maintenance • Process Technology • Engineering
2012 International Biomass Conference & Expo | April 16-19, 2012 | Colorado Convention Center | Denver, Colorado
Hunt, Guillot, & Associates Project Managers & Engineers Booth # 112
Intertek Booth # 809
KABB Booth # 130
Hurst Boiler & Welding Company, Inc. Booth # 313
Jackson Lumber Harvester Company Booth # 608
KEITH Mfg Co Booth # 621
ICM, Inc. Booth # 203
Jacobs Corporation Booth # 321
Kice Industries, Inc. Booth # 323
Imerys Booth # 419
Jansen Combustion and Boiler Technologies, Inc. Booth # 803
Komptech USA Inc. Booth # 701
Inergy Plus Technologies, Inc. Booth # 919
Jeffrey Rader Corporation Booth # 113
Konecranes America Booth # 208
International Process Plants-IPP Booth # 706
JWC Environmental Booth # 206
KSB, Inc. Booth # 120
801 Travis Street, Suite 1500 Houston, Texas 77002 USA Phone: 713-407-3500 Fax: www.intertek.com • Analysis/Sampling • Consulting • Laboratory Testing
603 Reynolds Drive Ruston, Louisiana 71270 USA Phone: 318-255-6825 Fax: 318-255-8591 www.hga-llc.com • Engineering • Material Handling & Storage • Consulting • Biomass Power
100 Boiler Maker Lane, PO Box 530 Coolidge, Georgia 31738 USA Phone: 229-346-3545 Fax: 229-346-3874 www.hurstboiler.com • Boilers • Biomass Boilers • Engineering • Heat Recovery Systems
310 North First Street Colwich, Kansas 67030 USA Phone: 877-456-8588 Fax: 316-796-0570 www.icminc.com • Process Technology • Gasifier • Torrefaction • Biogas & Biofuels
100 Mansell Court East, Suite 300 Roswell, Georgia 30076 USA Phone: 770-645-3705 Fax: 770-645-3460 www.Imerys.com • Fuel Pretreatment • Direct Fired • Biomass Boilers
5939 IH-10 East San Antonio, Texas 78220 USA Phone: 210-666-7785 Fax: www.inergyplustechnologies.com • All Feedstock Processing • Eliminate Landfills • MSW to Power • MSW to Fuel
17A Marlen Drive Hamilton, New Jersey 08691 USA Phone: 609-586-8004 Fax: 609-586-0002 www.ippe.com • Process Equipment - Used • Power Generation • Complete Process Plants - Used • Water Treatment
866-746-8385
830 North State Road 37 Mondovi, Wisconsin 54755 USA Phone: 715-926-3816 Fax: 715-926-4545 www.jacksonlbrharvester.com • Timber • Biomass Burners • Bioproducts
1000 Industrial Avenue Harlan, Iowa 51537 - 0727 USA Phone: 800-831-2005 Fax: 712-755-7600 www.jacobscorp.com • Pelletizing • Size Reduction • Process Equipment & Services • Process Technology
12025 115th Avenue NE, Suite 250 Kirkland, Washington 98034-6943 USA Phone: 425-825-0500 Fax: 425-825-1131 www.jansenboiler.com • Biomass Boiler Upgrades • Boiler Fuel Conversion to Biomass • Biomass Combustion Systems • Energy-from-Waste (MSW, RDF, TDF)
398 Willis Road Woodruff, South Carolina 29388 USA Phone: 800-615-9296 Fax: 864-476-7523 www.jeffreyrader.com Material Handling & Storage • Size Reduction • Process Equipment & Services • Feedstock Preparation & Handling
290 Paularino Avenue Costa Mesa, California 92626 USA Phone: 714-428-4619 www.jwce.com • Water Treatment • Size Reduction • Shredder • Grinder
service@bbiinternational.com
125 North Market Street, Suite 1735 Wichita, Kansas 67202 USA Phone: 316-201-3200 Fax: 316-201-3229 www.kansasbioenergy.com • Research & Development • Feedstock • Consulting • Chemicals
401 NW Adler Street Madras, Oregon 97741 USA Phone: 541-475-3802 Fax: 541-475-2169 www.keithwalkingfloor.com • Material Handling & Storage • Fuel & Fiber Storage • Composting • Process Buffer Bins
5500 Millheights Wichita, Kansas 67219 USA Phone: 316-744-7151 Fax: 316-744-7355 www.kice.com • Pneumatic Conveying Systems • Dust Control Systems • Automation & Controls • Aspiration/Density Classification
10855 Doverstreet, Suite 1000 Westminster, Colorado 80021 USA Phone: 720-890-9090 Fax: 720-890-5907 www.komptechusa.com • Composting • Screening • Shredding • Separation
7300 Chippewa Boulevard Houston, Texas 77086 USA Phone: 281-445-2225 Fax: 281-445-9355 www.konecranesamericas.com • Bucket Cranes • Material Handling & Storage • Overhead Cranes • Overhead Lifting Equipment
4415 Sarellen Road Richmond, Virginia 23231 USA Phone: 804-222-1818 Fax: 804-226-6961 www.ksbusa.com • Power Generation • Boilers • Biogas • Water Treatment
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SPEAKER BIOS EXHIBITING COMPANIES Laidig Systems, Inc. Booth # 522
Matrix Service Company Booth # 519
Miron Construction Co., Inc. Booth # 305
Larson Engineering, Inc. Booth # 1034
McGill AirClean LLC Booth # 403
MoistTech Booth # 426
M-E-C Company Booth # 423
MonitorTech Corporation Booth # 929
MEGTEC Booth # 731
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Booth # 631
Merrick & Company Booth # 607
Muyang Biomass Engineering Company Booth # 404
Metso Booth # 219
NAES Corporation Booth # 723
14535 Dragoon Trail Mishawaka, Indiana 46544 USA Phone: 574-256-0204 Fax: 574-256-5575 www.laidig.com • Bulk Storage & Reclaim Systems • Material Handling & Storage
5950 Live Oak Parkway, Suite 300 Norcross, Georgia 30093 USA Phone: 770-279-6010 http://larsonengr.com • Engineering
LM Machinery and Equipment LLC Booth # 712 4700 Ellsworth Avenue Unit 10 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2809 USA Phone: 412-608-8528 www.lm-machinery.net • Equipment Manufacturer • Engineering • Consultants
Lockheed Martin Booth # 918
199 Borton Landing Road Moorestown, New Jersey 08057 USA Phone: 856-722-3482 Fax: 856-273-5744 www.lockheedmartin.com
LOTUS Mixers Inc. Booth # 702
PO Box 704 Nokomis, Florida 34274 USA Phone: 941-966-1885 Fax: 941-966-6439 www.lotusmixers.com • Equipment & Services - Agitation Equipment • Equipment & Services - Fermenters • Equipment & Services - Mixers • Equipment & Services - Pressure Vessels
Maas Companies Booth # 811
PO Box 7127 Rochester, Minnesota 55903 USA Phone: 507-285-1444 Fax: 507-285-0034 www.maascompanies.com • Marketing • Consulting • Auction
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5100 East Skelly Drive, Suite 700 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135 USA Phone: 918-838-8822 Fax: 918-838-8810 www.matrixservice.com • Construction • Project Management • EPC Capabilities
1777 Refugee Road Columbus, Ohio 43207-2119 USA Phone: 614-829-1200 Fax: 614-445-8759 www.mcgillairclean.com • Environment • Boiler MACT • Air Pollution Control • Emissions Compliance
PO Box 330, 1400 West Main Street Neodesha, Kansas 66757 USA Phone: 620-325-2673 Fax: 620-325-2678 www.m-e-c.com • Process Equipment & Services • Process Technology • Biomass Drying
830 Prosper Road DePere, Wisconsin 54115 USA Phone: 920-339-2787 Fax: 920-339-2793 www.megtec.com • Process Technology • Process Equipment & Services • Power Generation • Thermal Oxidation
2450 South Peoria Street Aurora, Colorado 80014 USA Phone: 303-751-0741 Fax: 303-751-7967 www.merrick.com • Consulting • Process Technology • Engineering • Water Resource Management
3430 Toringdon Way Suite 201 Charlotte, North Carolina 28277 USA Phone: 704-414-3580 Fax: 704-541-1367 www.metsopower.com • Boilers • Biomass Boilers • Power Generation • Service & Repair
1471 McMahon Drive Neenah, Wisconsin 54956 USA Phone: 920-969-7000 Fax: 920-969-7393 www.miron-construction.com • Construction • Project Development • Pre-Construction Services
5140 Commerce Ave Moorpark, California 93021 USA Phone: 805-378-1160 Fax: 805-378-1163 www.MoistTech.com • Moisture Sensors • Process Equipment & Services • Laboratory
661 North James Road Columbus, Ohio 43219 USA Phone: 614-231-0500 Fax: 614-231-0555 www.monitortechgrp.com • Scrubber Control Monitors • RATA & CGA Audits • Preparing EPA Emissions Reports • Replacing Out Dated CEMS
1600 Atlanta Financial Center, 3343 Peachtree Road NE Atlanta, Georgia 30326 USA Phone: 404-233-7000 Fax: 404-365-9532 www.mmmlaw.com • Legal Services • Bioproducts • Timber • Pelletizing
No. 1, Muyang Road Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225127 China Phone: 0086-514-85828990 Fax: 0086-514-85828991 www.muyang.com • Biofuel • Wood Pellet Mill • Agriculture Pelleting • Biomass
1180 NW Maple Street, Suite 200 Issaquah, Washington 98027 USA Phone: 425-961-4700 Fax: 425-961-4646 www.naes.com • Consulting-Plant Optimization • Operations & Maintenance (O&M) • Power Generation - Biomass • Equipment & Services - Maintenance Services
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North American Industrial Services Booth # 431
Pellet Fuels Institute Booth # 127
ProcessBarron Booth # 805
North Carolina’s Northeast Commission Booth # 329
PHG Energy Booth # 327
Processbio.com Booth # 202
North Carolina’s Southeast Booth # 230
Pratt & Whitney Power Systems Booth # 428
PRODESA North America Booth # 830
Nucor Building Systems Booth # 802
Precision Energy Services Booth # 324
Protectoseal Company, The Booth # 210
Ovivo|GWE Booth # 730
Process And Storage Solutions Booth # 913
QS Biodiesel Limited Booth # 924
Pacific PowerStock LLC Booth # 901
Process Sensors Corporation Booth # 525
Rapat Corporation Booth # 322
1240 Saratoga Road Ballston Spa, New York 12020 USA Phone: 518-885-1820 Fax: 518-885-7638 www.naisinc.com • Cleaning • Explosive Cleaning • Maintenance
119 West Water Street Edenton, North Carolina 27932 USA Phone: 252-482-4333 Fax: 252-482-3366 www.ncnortheast.com • Agricultural Products & Services • Government • Feedstock • Biofuels
707 West Broad Street Elizabethtown, North Carolina 28337 USA Phone: 910-862-8511 Fax: 910-862-1482 www.ncse.org • Marketing • Feedstock • Consulting • Economic Development
106 Autumn Road Greer, South Carolina 29650 USA Phone: 864-414-7909 Fax: 864-848-7225 www.nucorbuildingsystems.com • Construction • Material Handling & Storage
2404 Rutland Drive Austin, Texas 78758 USA Phone: 512-697-1930 Fax: 512-697-1931 www.ovivogwe.com • Biogas • Water Treatment • Environment • Power Generation
822 Highway 395 #506 Hermiston, Oregon 97838 USA Phone: 503-209-2402 www.pacificpowerstock.com • Agriculture Products & Services • Materials • Feedstock • Pelletizing
866-746-8385
1901 North Moore Street, Suite 600 Arlington, Virginia 22209 USA Phone: 703-522-6778 Fax: 703-522-0548 www.pelletheat.org • Pellet Fuels • Densified Biomass • Biomass • Associations
1245 Bridgestone Boulevard LaVergne, Tennessee 37086 USA Phone: 615-251-8638 www.phgenergy.com • Waste To Energy • Energy Conversion Technologies • Industrial Gasification • Alternative Fuel Production
400 Main Street M/S 191-13 East Hartford, Connecticut 6108 USA Phone: 860-565-3051 Fax: 860-755-6276 www.pw.utc.com • Power Generation-CHP • Feedstock-Wood • CHP • Feedstock-Timber Residues
PO Box 1004 Hayden Lake, Idaho 83835 USA Phone: 208-772-4457 Fax: 208-762-1113 www.pes-world.com • Consulting • Biomass Boilers • Heat Recovery Steam • Timber Residues
PO Box 7266 Appleton, Wisconsin 54912 USA Phone: 920-832-1341 Fax: 920-832-1342 www.processandstorage.com • Consulting • Engineering • Material Handling & Services • Pelletizing
113 Cedar Street Milford, Massachusetts 01757 USA Phone: 508-473-0091 Fax: 508-473-9901 www.processsensors.com • Process Equipment & Services • Laboratory • Process Technology • Research& Development
service@bbiinternational.com
2770 Welborn Street Pelham, Alabama 35124 USA Phone: 205-663-5330 Fax: 205-663-6037 www.processbarron.com • Material Handling & Storage • Mechanical Draft Fans • Mechanical Dust Collectors • Dampers, Expansion Joints
20 Fiskerhusvej Naestved, DK-4700 Denmark Phone: 45 55 74 00 00 Fax: 45 55 74 00 10 www.processbio.com • Material Handling & Storage • Biomass Pre-Processing • Biomass Cleaning (Metal - Stone, etc.) • Classification of Biomass & Payment Calculations
5975 Shiloh Road, Suite 109 Alpharetta, Georgia 30005 USA Phone: 478-501-2111 Fax: 770-495-7195 www.prodesa.net • Pelletizing, Wood, CHP • Process Technology • Process Equipment & Services • Material Handling & Storage
225 West Foster Avenue Bensenville, Illinois 60106 USA Phone: 630-595-0800 Fax: 630-595-8059 www.protectoseal.com • Equipment & Services - Air Pollution • Equipment & Services - Tank Equipment • Equipment & Services - Safety
Szigetvári u. 1 Budapest, Hungary 1083 Phone: 36302114101 Fax: 3612195161 www.qsbiodiesel.com • Biodiesel • Process Technology • Research & Development • Capacity & Efficiency Improvement
919 O’Donnell Street Hawley, Minnesota 56549 USA Phone: 218-483-3344 Fax: 218-483-3535 www.rapat.com • Material Handling & Storage • Biomass Conveyors • Belt Conveyors • Chain Conveyors
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SPEAKER BIOS EXHIBITING COMPANIES Rawlings Waste Wood Recovery Systems Booth # 800
RISI Booth # 518
Scantech International Booth # 101
Rayeman Elements Inc. Booth # 908
Roeslein & Associates, Inc. Booth # 530
Scheuch Inc. Booth # 408
REHAU Inc Booth # 529
Rotochopper, Inc. Booth # 1033
Schutte-Buffalo Hammermill, LLC Booth # 121
REPREVE Renewables Booth # 513
Rovanco Piping Systems Booth # 509
Scott Equipment Company Booth # 108
Resource Recycling Systems & SEH Booth # 110
RUD Chain Booth # 311
Screw Conveyor Corporation Booth # 503
Retsch Inc. Booth # 418
S. Howes, Inc. Booth # 915
SHW Storage & Handling Solutions GmbH Booth # 821
PO Box 4485 Missoula, Montana 59806 USA Phone: 406-728-6182 Fax: 406-728-7957 www.wastewoodhogs.com • Size Reduction • Engineering • Process Equipment & Services • Construction
730 Tiffany Court Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 USA Phone: 301-455-9655 • Equipment & Services - Corn Oil Recovery
1501 Edwards Ferry Road Leesburg, Virginia 20176 USA Phone: 800-297-6371 Fax: 800-298-8914 www.na.rehau.com • Construction • Renewable Energy • Energy Transfer • Sustainable Building Technology
PO Box 680 Soperton, Georgia 30457 USA Phone: 888-447-6938 Fax: 912-529-5929 www.RepreveRenewables.com • Feedstock - Miscanthus • Ag Products & Services - Energy Crop Consulting
416 Longshore Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 USA Phone: 734-996-1361 Fax: 734-996-5595 www.recycle.com AND www.sehinc.com • Consulting
74 Walker Lane Newtown, Pennsylvania 19142 USA Phone: 866-473-8724 Fax: 267-757-0358 www.retsch-us.com • Research & Development • Laboratory • Process Technology • Agricultural Products & Services
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4 Alfred Circle Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 USA Phone: 781-734-8965 Fax: 781-271-0337 www.risi.com • Associations/Organizations
9200 Watson Road, Suite 200 St. Louis, Missouri 63126 USA Phone: 314-729-0055 Fax: 314-729-0070 www.roeslein.com • Construction • Engineering
217 West Street Saint Martin, Minnesota 56376 USA Phone: 320-548-3586 Fax: 320-548-3372 www.rotochopper.com • Recycling Equipment Manufacturer Biomass Equipment • Manufacturer • Wood Processing Residues • Agriculture Residues
20535 SE Frontage Rd Joliet, Illinois 60431 USA Phone: 815-741-6700 Fax: 815-741-4229 www.rovanco.com • Biogas • Process Equipment • Pre-Insulated Pipe • Containment Pipe
PO Box 367 Hiawatha, Iowa 52233 USA Phone: 319-573-2442 Fax: 877-512-7209 www.cratos.us.com • Conveying • Material Handling • Ash Handling • Chain
25 Howard Street Silver Creek, New York 14136 USA Phone: 716-934-2611 Fax: 716-934-2081 www.showes.com • Process Equipment • Size Reduction • Material Handling & Storage • Lab Equipment
Unit 14, 2994 Logan Road Underwood, Queensland 4119 Australia Phone: 61 7 3710 8403 scantech.com.au • Process Technology • Realtime Material Monitoring
2351 Huron Street London, Ontario N5V 0A8 Canada Phone: 519-951-7700 Fax: 519-951-7711 www.scheuch.ca • Environment • Energy Recovery • Flue Gas Cleaning • Air Pollution Controls
61 Depot Street Buffalo, New York 14206 USA Phone: 716-855-1555 Fax: 716-855-3417 www.hammermills.com • Size Reduction • Process Equipment
605 4th Avenue NW New Prague, Minnesota 56071 USA Phone: 952-758-2591 Fax: 952-758-4377 www.scottequipment.com • Equipment & Services - Conveyors, Drag • Equipment & Services - Mixers • Equipment & Services - Dryers, Flash • Equipment & Services - Size Reduction, Shredders
7000 Hoffman Street Hammond, Indiana 46373 USA Phone: 219-931-1450 www.screwcovneyor.com • Material Handling • Screw Conveyors • Bucket Elevators • Drag Conveyors
Wasseralfinger Strasse 60-66 Huettlingen, 73460 Germany Phone: 0049 7361 5280 100 Fax: 0049 7361 5280 199 www.shw-shs.de/index.php?sprache=en • Material Handling & Storage • Waste Fuel Handling • Silo Reclaimers • Closed Belt Conveyor
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Siemens Booth # 319
The Crom Corporation Booth # 131
Twin Ports Testing Inc. Booth # 129
Smith & Loveless Inc. Booth # 307
Thomas & Muller Systems LTD Booth # 406
URECON Pre-Insulated Pipe Booth # 425
Stinger Inc Booth # 424
Timber Products Inspection/ Biomass Energy Lab Booth # 825
US Department of Energy, Biomass Program Booth # 526
Stoel Rives LLP Booth # 520
Trace Environmental Systems Inc Booth # 823
US Water Services Booth # 911
Supertrak/Anderson Booth # 827
Tri-Mer Corp. Booth # 523
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region Booth # 126
1201 Sumenytown Pike Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477 USA Phone: 800-333-7421 Fax: 678-297-8667 www.siemens.com • Process Equipment & Services • Engineering • Water Treatment • Power Generation
14040 Santa Fe Trail Drive Lenexa, Kansas 66215 USA Phone: 913-888-5201 Fax: 913-888-2173 www.smithandloveless.com • Water Treatment • Wastewater Pumping Systems • Wastewater Treatment/Reuse • Membrane BioReactors
8905 Industrial Drive Haven, Kansas 67543 USA Phone: 620-465-2683 Fax: 620-465-2684 www.stingerltd.com • Bale Handling Equipment • Agriculture Biomass Equipment • Biomass Harvesting • Baled Biomass Storage
900 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2600 Portland, Oregon 97204 USA Phone: 503-224-3380 Fax: 503-220-2480 www.lawofrenewableenergy.com • Legal Services
26855 Airport Road Punta Gorda, Florida 33982 USA Phone: 941-505-7800 Fax: 941-505-2308 supertrak.com • Material Handling & Storage • Timber Residues • Wood • Wood Processing Residues
TDA Research, Inc Booth # 826
12345 W 52nd Avenue Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033 USA Phone: 303-422-7819 www.tda.com • Biogas Purification & Upgrading • Siloxane Removal • Desulfurization Sorbents & Systems • Liquid Fuel: Ethanol, Jet Fuel, Diesel
866-746-8385
250 SW 36th Terrace Gainesville, Florida 32607 USA Phone: 352-372-3436 Fax: 352-372-6209 www.cromcorp.com • Construction • Utilities • Process Equipment • Water Treatment
80 Gravel Pike, PO Box 25 Red Hill, Pennsylvania 18076 USA Phone: 215-541-1961 Fax: 215-541-1966 www.thomasandmuller.com • Custom Bulk Materials Handling Equipment • Material Handling & Storage • Engineering • Consulting
1641 Sigman Road Conyers, Georgia 30012 USA Phone: 770-922-8000 www.tpinspection.com • Laboratory • Chemicals • Bioproducts
7 Park Lake Road Sparta, New Jersey 07871 USA Phone: 973-383-3550 Fax: www.traceenv.com • Environment • Biomass Boilers • Emission Monitoring Systems • CEMs
1400 Monroe Street Owosso, Michigan 48867 USA Phone: 989-723-7838 www.tri-mer.com • Pollution Control • Environment
TS Manufacturing Co. Booth # 807
2 Fleetwood Road Lindsay, Ontario K9V 6H4 Canada Phone: 705-324-3762 Fax: 705-324-6482 www.tsman.com • Material Handling • Power Generation • Pelletizing • Engineering
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1301 North 3rd Street Superior, Wisconsin 54880 USA Phone: 715-392-7114 Fax: 715-392-7163 www.twinportstesting.com • Laboratory • Consulting • Research & Development
115 George Street, Suite 625 Oakville, Ontario L6J 0A2 Canada Phone: 905-257-3797 Fax: 647-727-4414 www.urecon.com • Piping Systems • Hydronic Heating • Insulated Pipe
1000 Independence Avenue, SW, EE-2E Washington, DC 20585 USA Phone: 800-337-4636 www.biofuels.energy.gov • Government • Research & Development
12270 43rd Street NE St. Michael, Minnesota 55376 USA Phone: 866-663-7632 Fax: 763-553-0613 www.uswaterservices.com • Chemicals - Water Treatment • Engineering • Chemicals - Fuel Cleaning Additives • Consulting
740 Simms Street Golden, Colorado 80401 USA Phone: 303-275-5350 Fax: 303-275-5754 www.fs.usda.gov/main/r2/home • Government • Forest Restoration • Feedstock-Timber • Stewardship Contracts
UTS BioEnergy Booth # 531
5780 Fleet Street, Suite 310 Carlsbad, California 92008 USA Phone: 760-436-8870 Fax: 760-454-2887 www.utsbioenergy.com • Power Generation • Power Purchase Agreements • Biogas
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SPEAKER BIOS EXHIBITING COMPANIES VAN DYK Recycling Solutions Booth # 907
Victaulic Booth # 507
Western Pneumatics, Inc. Booth # 619
Vaughan Company, Inc. Booth # 727
Vilter Manufacturing LLC Booth # 222
Willow Biomass Energy Group Booth # 527
Vecoplan Midwest Booth # 822
Warren & Baerg Manufacturing, Inc. Booth # 226
Wolf Material Handling Systems Booth # 624
Vecoplan, LLC Booth # 200
Weis Environmental, LLC Booth # 622
Wood Bioenergy Magazine/ Hagon-Brown Publishers, Inc. Booth # 903
78 Halloween Boulevard Stamford, Connecticut 06902 USA Phone: 203-967-1100 Fax: 203-967-1199 www.vandykbaler.com • Municipal Solid Waste • Process Technology • Process Equipment • Services & Engineering
364 Monte Elma Road Elma, Washington 98563 USA Phone: 360-249-4042 Fax: 360-249-6155 www.chopperpumps.com • Biogas • Bioproducts • Process Equipment & Services • Process Technology
PO Box 86 Floyds Knobs, Indiana 47124 USA Phone: 812-923-4992 Fax: 812-923-4994 www. vecoplanmidwest.com • Pelletizing • Briquetting • Size Reduction • Material Handling
PO Box 7224 High Point, North Carolina 27264 USA Phone: 336-861-6070 Fax: 336-861-4329 www.VecoplanLLC.com • Size Reduction • Material Handling & Storage • Process Equipment & Services • Process Technology
4901 Kesslersville Road Easton, Pennsylvania 18040-6714 USA Phone: 610-559-3300 www.victaulic.com • Equipment & Services - Valves • Construction - Mechanical • Equipment & Services - Productivity Enhancements • Engineering - Design/Build
5555 South Packard Avenue Cudahy, Wisconsin 53110 USA Phone: 414-744-0111 Fax: 414-744-3483 www.vilter.com • Landfill Bio Gas • Waste Water Treatment Plant Bio Gas • Boil Bio Gas • Turbine Feed Gas
39950 Road 108 Dinuba, California 93618 USA Phone: 559-591-6790 Fax: 559-591-5728 www.warrenbaerg.com • Process Equipment & Services • Pelletizing • Size Reduction • Material Handling & Storage
4445 Malone Road Memphis, Tennessee 38118 USA Phone: 901-531-6085 Fax: 901-794-9934 www.weis-environmental.com • Dust Pollution Control Systems • Dry & Wet Electrostatic Precipitators
Vermeer Corporation Booth # 420
West Salem Machinery Booth # 725
VibraFloor Booth # 906
Western Ag Enterprises, Inc. Booth # 309
1710 Vermeer Road East Pella, Iowa 50219 USA Phone: 641-628-3141 Fax: 641-621-8040 www.vermeer.com • Biomass Harvesting • Biomass Processing Equipment
Za Les Pièces Bourgeoises Givry, F - 71640 GIVRY France Phone: 0044(0)7711001819 www.silexport.com • Reclaim • Pellet Storage • Bulk Material Handling • Woodchip Storage
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665 Murlark Avenue NW Salem, Oregon 97304 USA Phone: 503-364-2213 Fax: 503-364-1398 www.westsalem.com • Feedstock - Fiber Prep & Processing • Size Reduction & Screening • Biomass & Biofuel Processing • Pelletizing
PO Box 21340 Eugene, Oregon 97402 USA Phone: 541-461-2600 Fax: 541-461-2606 www.westernp.com • Construction • Material Handling & Storage • Engineering • Process Equipment & Services
101 -1006 Fort Street Vancouver, British Columbia V8V 3K4 Canada Phone: 250-381-1404 Fax: www.bionera.com • Feedstock • Crop • Willow • Project Management
17834 Industrial Circle, Suite 1 Elk River, Minnesota 55330 USA Phone: 763-576-9070 Fax: 763-576-9040 www.wolfmhs.com • Material Handling & Storage • Municipal Solid Waste • Wood Processing Residues • Timber Residues
PO Box 2268 Montgomery, Alabama 36102 USA Phone: 334-834-1170 Fax: 334-834-4525 www.hattonbrownpublishers.com • Trade Magazine • Industry News/New Products • Conference/Trade Show/Meetings • Publisher
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527 Logwood Avenue San Antonio, Texas 78221 USA Phone: 210-588-5000 www.zhi.com • Construction • Engineering • Biomass to Power Generation • Biomass Conversion
8121 West Harrison Tolleson, Arizona 85353 USA Phone: 800-347-8274 Fax: 623-907-4100 www.westernag.com, www.westernliner.com • Biomass Storage • Algae Canal Liners • Pond Liners
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A special thanks to our 2012 Exhibitors. 3LOG Systems, Inc. A&B Process Systems ABBOTT Energy Systems Abengoa Bioenergy Abresist Kalenborn Corporation Ace Glass ADI Systems Inc. Adolfson & Peterson Construction Advanced Recycling Equipment, Inc. & Challenger Energy Systems, Inc. AeriNOx Inc. AGRA Industries, Inc. Altech Environment U.S.A. Amandus Kahl USA Corp. AMEC AMECO SA Ameristar ANDRITZ Inc. Andy J. Egan Co. ANKOM Technology Apache Stainless Equipment Corporation Applied Chemical Technology Arizona Instrument LLC ASI Industrial ATEC Steel Fabrication and Construction, Inc. Atlas Systems LLC Aumund Corporation Babcock & Wilcox Company Bandit Industries, Inc. Barr/Genivar, Inc. Basic Machinery Company, Inc. BBI Consulting Services Beltomatic/Biogreen Bioenergy Insight Biomass Briquette Systems, LLC Biomass Power & Thermal Biomass Products & Technology Biomass Thermal Energy Council BioVantage Resources, Inc. Bliss Industries, LLC Brad Penn Lubricants BRUKS Rockwood, Inc. Brunette Industries Ltd. Buettner GmbH Bühler Inc. Bureau Veritas Certification NA Christianson & Associates, PLLP City of Benson MN Clean Energy Renewable Fuels CleanAir Engineering ClearSpan Fabric Structures Cogent Industrial Technologies Ltd.
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Colorado Lining International Consolidated Terminals and Logistics Company Continental Technologies, LLC Cooling Technology Institute Cooling Tower Depot, Inc. Cousineau Forest Products CPM CST Storage Custom Instrumentation Services Corp - CiSCO DeJaye Technologies LLC Detroit Stoker Company Dieffenbacher, Inc. Dome Technology DOMTEC International Dresser-Rand/Guascor Power Drying Technology, Inc. Dürr Systems, Inc. EbnerVyncke Ecostrat Inc. and General Biofuel Inc. EISENMANN Corporation Elliott
Intertek Jackson Lumber Harvester Company Jacobs Corporation Jansen Combustion and Boiler Technologies, Inc.
Jeffrey Rader Corporation JWC Environmental KABB KEITH Mfg Co Kice Industries, Inc. Komptech USA Inc. Konecranes America KSB, Inc. Laidig Systems, Inc. Larson Engineering, Inc. LM Machinery and Equipment LLC Lockheed Martin LOTUS Mixers Inc. Maas Companies Matrix Service Company McGill AirClean LLC M-E-C Company Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) MEGTEC Enerquip, LLC Merrick & Company EPI (now Outotec Energy Products) Metso ERM - Environmental Resources Management Miron Construction Co., Inc. Evergreen Engineering, Inc. MoistTech Exponent Failure Analysis MonitorTech Corporation Fagen, Inc. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP Firefly North America, Inc. Muyang Biomass Engineering Company FlexEnergy Inc NAES Corporation Flottweg Separation Technology, Inc. North American Industrial Services Fusion Tanks & Silos North Carolina's Northeast Commission Garick North Carolina's Southeast GE Energy Air Filtration Nucor Building Systems GEA Barr-Rosin Ovivo|GWE GEA Westfalia Separator Pacific PowerStock LLC General Kinematics Corporation Pellet Fuels Institute GENESIS III PHG Energy GreCon, Inc. Pratt & Whitney Power Systems Green Tech America, Inc. Precision Energy Services Greenberry Industrial Process And Storage Solutions Hallco Industries, Inc. Process Sensors Corporation Hauser Division of Microbac Laboratories, Inc. ProcessBarron Heyl & Patterson Inc. Processbio.com Hoerbiger PRODESA North America Hunt, Guillot, & Associates - Project Managers & Protectoseal Company, The Engineers QS Biodiesel Ltd. Hurst Boiler & Welding Company, Inc. Rapat Corporation ICM, Inc Rawlings Waste Wood Recovery Systems Imerys Rayeman Elements Inc. Inergy Plus Technologies, Inc. REHAU Inc International Process Plants-IPP REPREVE Renewables
Retsch Inc. Resource Recycling System RISI Roeslein & Associates, Inc. Rotochopper, Inc. Rovanco Piping Systems RUD Chain S. Howes, Inc. Scantech International Scheuch Inc. Schutte-Buffalo Hammermill, LLC Scott Equipment Company Screw Conveyor Corporation SHW Storage & Handling Solutions GmbH Siemens Smith & Loveless Inc. Stinger Inc. Stoel Rives LLP Supertrak/Anderson TDA Research, Inc The Crom Corporation Thomas & Muller Systems LTD Timber Products Inspection/Biomass Energy Lab
Trace Environmental Systems Inc Tri-Mer Corp. TS Manufacturing Co. Twin Ports Testing Inc. URECON Pre-Insulated Pipe US Department of Energy, Biomass Program US Water Services USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region UTS BioEnergy VAN DYKE Recycling Solutions Vaughan Company, Inc. Vecoplan Midwest Vecoplan, LLC Vermeer Corporation VibraFloor Victaulic Vilter Manufacturing LLC Warren & Baerg Manufacturing, Inc. Weis Environmental, LLC West Salem Machinery Western Ag Enterprises, Inc. Western Pneumatics, Inc. Willow Biomass Energy Group Wolf Material Handling Systems Wood Bioenergy Magazine/Hagon-Brown Publishers, Inc.
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