Bioenergy

The symposium on bioenergy is an international forum for engineers, scientist, researchers, policy advisors, industry and other stakeholders from around the world for exchanging up to date research results, research breakthroughs, discussing common research interests, and exploring potential scientific cooperation. The mission of this symposium is to bring together the entire bioenergy technology system with the goal of accelerating the flow of technologies from the research phase to the viable market phase.

Confirmed keynotes

J. A. Kozinski
" Symbiosis Between Bioenergy and Hydrogen Economy. "

Ajay K. Ray
" Dye Sensitized Visible Light Photocatalysis for Hydrogen Production. "

Jay Keasling
" Danckwerts lecture. "

Scope

This symposium is dedicated to addressing current-day market issues as well as providing an opportunity for industry experts to present selected themes on gaseous, liquid and solid bioenergy.

The proposed topics are :

  • Biomass resources ( forest, crops, algaes, organic residues) and pre-processing
  • Liquid biofuels
  • Pyrolysis bio-oil and bio-char
  • Biorefining
  • Value added chemicals from biomass
  • Anaerobic digestion
  • Waste to Energy
  • Combustion; co firing; retrofitting;
  • Carbon Markets and environmental issues (life cycle analysis, CO2)
  • Biogas and Biohydrogen
  • Community and municipal energy
  • Novel Biocatalysts

Publication

This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings. However, we encourage the submission of the full articles by e-mail to :

Dr. A.K. Dalai
Bioenery symposium organiser
ajay.dalai@usask.ca

Organizers

Professor A.K. Dalai
Professor and Canada Research Chair
in Bio-Energy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing
Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
57 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5A9
Tel: (306) 966-4771
Fax: (306) 966-4777
ajay.dalai@usask.ca

Amarjeet Bassi, Ph.D, P.Eng
Professor
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 5B9
Tel: 519-661-2111 exts. 88324/88219
Fax: 519-661-3498
abassi@uwo.ca

Professor G D. Yadav, F.N.A.
Dean, Research, Consultancy & Resource Mobilisation
Darbari Seth Professor & Head, Department of Chemical Engineering
University Institute of Chemical Technology (UICT),
University of Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
Matunga, MUMBAI-400019, INDIA
gdyadav@yahoo.com
Telefax:(++91-22)-2410-2121, Fax::(++91-22)-2414-5614