Ethanol Production Workshop
2 November 2010 |
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| 8:45 | Introduction Dennis Sprague Principal Consultant Alcohol Industry Consulting, LLC, USA Christoph Berg Managing Director F.O. Licht, Germany |
| 9:00 | Maximising Fermentation Alcohol |
| 9:45 | Enzymology – Enzymes in Starch-Based Ethanol Plants
Ulrich Madsen |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Maximising Yields – Yeast Propagation and Sanitation
Chris Richards |
| 11:45 | Maximising Distillation and Dehydration Efficiency (Including Notes from Dr. John Murtagh Regarding Very High-Quality Neutral Spirits)
Phil Madson |
| 1:00 | Lunch |
| 2:30 | Maximising Cane Sugar Fermentation Efficiencies
Henrique Amorim |
| 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 4:00 | Overview of Cellulosic Technologies Frederic D’Aoust. Senior Research Scientist American Yeast, USA |
| 4:45 | Enzymology – Enzymes in Cellulose Conversion
Bjarne Adamsen |
| 5:30 | Closing Discussions |
| 5:45 | World Ethanol 2010 Conference Pre-Registration |
| 6:30 | Welcome Cocktail Reception |
Ethanol Risk Management Seminar
Covering risk management strategies and financial instruments available to proactively manage the risk in the ethanol marketsTuesday 2 November 2010 |
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| Seminar Leader:Tom Scott President and Chief Operating Officer Informa Economics Inc. |
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| 8.15 | Registration & Welcome Coffee |
| 9.00 | Philosophy and Approach to Price Risk Management
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| Questions | |
| 10.30 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 | Managing Risk with Derivative Instruments
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| Questions | |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 1.45 | Over the Counter Instruments
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| Questions | |
| 3.15 | Refreshments |
| 3.45 | Managing Ethanol Margins
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| 5.00 | Questions and Closing Comments |
| 5.40 | End of Seminar |
Day 1
| Wednesday 3rd November 2010 | ||
| 08:00 | Registration and Welcome Coffee | |
| 09:00 | Welcome Address Speed Networking Session | |
| 09:10 | Opening Remarks from the Chair | |
| DEFINING AND ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE ETHANOL TO ENSURE OPTIMUM GHG SAVINGS | ||
| 09:20 | Outlook for World Production and Trade
• Factors that influence world production growth • The 2010/11 world ethanol balance • How policy decisions will shape the market in the long term Christoph Berg |
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| 09:50 | Implementing the Requirements of the Renewable Energy Directive
• Overview of the results of the national action plans – How do Member States expect to meet a minimum of 10% renewables in transport by 2020? • Implementing the sustainability regime for biofuels: national systems and voluntary schemes Ron van Erck |
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| 10:20 | Making the Transportation Sector Sustainable – The Role of Alternative Fuels
Margo Oge |
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| 10:50 | Questions | |
| 11.05 | Refreshments | |
| EXAMINING THE ROLE OF BIOFUELS IN THE OVERALL STRATEGY OF OIL COMPANIES | ||
| 11:35 | Biofuels: A Sustainable, Low Carbon Alternative Today
• Biofuels as a realistic commercial solution to reduce CO2 in transport fuels • Building capacity in today’s transport biofuels • Developing CO2 and sustainability standards for biofuels • Leading the development of advanced biofuels Luis Scoffone |
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| 12:05 | BP Biofuels: A Strategy Overview
• Overview of BP’s biofuels strategy and plans • An update of BP biofuels activities and investments to date • BP’s view of challenges and opportunities James Primrose |
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| 12:35 | The Role of Biofuels in The Strategy of an Oil Refiner
• Biofuels policy and its trends in Eastern Europe • Activities and investments in the EU • Biofuels outlook – risks and advantages Robert Gmyrek |
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| 13.05 | Questions | |
| 13:20 | Lunch | |
| BOOSTING ETHANOL CONSUMPTION IN MAJOR MARKETS AND ADDRESSING SUSTAINABILITY DEMANDS | ||
| 15.00 | Opening Remarks from the Chair | |
| 15:05 | Fuel Ethanol Business in Europe – Meeting the RED Challenge
• Growth projections for supply and demand of ethanol in Europe • ILUC and the implications for the ethanol industry • Will Europe achieve self-sufficiency in fuel ethanol? Rob Vierhout |
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| 15:25 | Environmental Regulation and the Role of Ethanol
• Improving ethanol’s carbon footprint through new technology • Environmental regulation must be equitable, counting carbon emissions for all fuel sources completely and comparably • Achieving environmental goals – regulations that would eliminate current solutions, such as ethanol, undermine the goal of reducing climate changing emissions and setback progress for years to come Bob Dinneen |
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| 15:45 | Achieving the Huge Economic and Commercial Opportunities Brazilian Ethanol Has to Offer
• Drivers for sugarcane ethanol growth • Recent developments in the industry • Perspectives on the international market Emmanuel Desplechin |
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| 16:05 | Questions | |
| 16.20 | Refreshments | |
| 16:50 | CASE STUDY Approaching High Efficiency Using Bioethanol Fuels • Examining what the future holds regarding automobile fuels • Insight into the current trends for next generation automobiles • Optimising efficiency in internal combustion engine (ICE) using bioethanol Masashi Ishii |
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| 17:10 | KEYNOTE INTERVIEW A Chance to Hear a Leader in the Ethanol Industry In Conversation with Christoph Berg Lutz Guderjahn |
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| 17:30 | Closing Remarks from the Chair | |
| 17:40 | Drinks Party | |
Day 2
| Thursday 4th November 2010 | |
| 08:00 | Welcome Coffee |
| Traders’ Den Stream: The Traders Den will examine the specific challenges and opportunities faced by anyone involved in trading, buying, selling and brokering. Hear analysis on sustainability, industry standards, price formation and factors such as managing currency exchange and freight prices. |
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| Trade and Certification in Sustainable Biofuels | |
| 09:10 | Opening Remarks from the Chair |
| 09:20 | Meeting Demand for Sustainable Biofuels: An End-User Perspective
• Anticipating customer sustainability requirements • Identifying low-risk sources of ethanol • Implementing sustainable supply chains in practice Andrew Owen, Chief Executive |
| 9:40 | Trade in Sustainable Ethanol: A Producers’ Perspective
• Sustainability legislation – USA, Europe and Japan • Meeting the requirements – operational and commercial aspects • Challenges in implementing the legislation – producers’ and consumers’ standpoint Pedro Paranhos, Ethanol Commercial Manager |
| 10:00 | Will There be a Separate Market for Sustainable Biofuels?
• Evaluating individual fuel ethanol markets • Where is the potential supply of sustainable product going to come from? • How will this influence the non sustainable ethanol market? Hubert de Biolley, Director |
| 10:20 | Questions |
| 10:35 | Refreshments |
| 11.05 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Providing Certification and Traceability to Enable Trade in Sustainable Ethanol
• Implementing the rules for sustainable ethanol in trading • Verifying and proving the sustainability of ethanol • Meeting the requirements of RED and standardising the industry • Examining the main sustainability criteria – GHG emissions, land use change, water use and social standards • Biofuels sustainability in perspective: what makes sense and what does not make sense Andre Meloni Nassar, Managing Director Martina Fleckenstein Guido Seedler, Consultant for Environment and Agricultural Markets David Glenister, Sustainability Expert, SGS, Switzerland |
| 12:05 | Questions |
| 12.20 | Lunch |
| Price Formation and Wider Market Influences | |
| 13.50 | Introductory Remarks from the Chair |
| 14:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION Price Formation – Pricing Analysis, Encouraging Liquidity, Effective Clearing of Trades and Market Transparency
• The importance of price benchmarks in stimulating liquidity • Bringing transparency to the ethanol market • Understanding how pricing methodologies can impact trade in nascent markets • The role of derivatives in market development • The role of exchanges in developing price transparency and risk management • Contracts as effective hedging and pricing instruments Ivan Wedekin Jorge Montepeque Aaron Gill Mat Stone |
| 15:00 | Questions |
| 15.15 | Refreshments |
| 15:45 | Examining the Price Outlook for Crude Oil
• Assessing both supply-demand dynamics and wider financial market influences • Examining the market in the longer term, given regulatory and environmental pressures • Price prospects in the short and longer term Helen Henton |
| 16.15 | Ethanol Marine Distribution – Weathering the Global Economic Storm
• Ethanol Tradelanes – growing ever more diverse • Freight market impact on ethanol • 3 year outlook from a supply chain point of view Eric Koehne |
| 16:45 | The Impact of Exchange Rates on Ethanol Trade: Are Volatile Currency Markets to Stay?
• USD, EUR and major currencies – recent lessons in a historical context • Emerging Market currency risk for ethanol market participants • Where do these volatile markets go from here? Eddie Tofpik |
| 17:15 | Questions |
| 17:30 |
Closing Remarks from the Chair |
| Non-Fuel Markets Stream: Securing Supplies of Beverage and Industrial Ethanol | |
| 8:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 9:10 | Introductory Remarks from the Chair Dennis Sprague Principal Consultant Alcohol Industry Consulting, LLC, USA |
| 9.20 | Examining Demand for Ethanol in Industrial Applications
• Industrial ethanol applications in the detergents and cosmetics industry • Industrial ethanol trends • Key factors and expectations in building relationships between industrial ethanol suppliers and customers to achieve long term success Rafael Rodriguez |
| 9:50 | Assessing the Impact Fuel Ethanol is Having on the Availability of Industrial and Beverage Alcohol
• Supplying high quality ethanol: understanding the demands of ethanol buyers • Identifying key opportunities in supplying Industrial and beverage ethanol alcohol • Examining new developments in the industrial and beverage sector Vimal Kulshrestha |
| 10.20 | Quality Ethanol Outlook for the USA
• USA demand for industrial and beverage ethyl alcohol • USA supply of quality alcohol • Meeting the requirements for quality alcohol supply Rick Miller |
| 10.40 | Questions |
| 10:55 | Refreshments |
| Feedstock Stream: Price Outlook and Supply and Demand Trends | |
| 11.25 | Availability and Price of Molasses
• Managing Increased Price Volatility • Changing Supply & Demand Patterns • Molasses Availability: Beet vs. Cane James Ramsden |
| 11.55 | Outlook for World Sugar Production and Trade
• Global production prospects for 2010/11 • India: back to exports? • Consumption trends throughout the crisis Stefan Uhlenbrock |
| 12.25 | Corn: The Near Term Outlook and Long Term Prospects as a Feedstock
• Global supply demand dynamics • Near term price outlook • Ability of corn to supply future ethanol demand Tom Scott, President and Chief Operating Officer |
| 12.55 | Questions |
| 13.10 | Lunch |
| Emerging Markets Stream: Global Development Opportunities for Ethanol | |
| 14:40 | Ethanol in Emerging Economies: Role of Technology and Its Impact on Project Economics
• Establishing viability through application of innovative technologies within a given framework • Creating value through technology intervention in markets where financial incentives are not clearly defined • Establishing project economics through integration of services and technologies Shashank Inamdar, CEO & MD |
| 15.10 | Assessing the Potential for Growth in Indian Ethanol
• Managing the Indian sugar cycle to ensure consistency and reliability of ethanol supply • Ethanol as a sustainable feedstock for fuel • Meeting the ethanol blend mandates Vinay Joshi, General Manager – Corporate Planning |
| 15:40 | Peru: Becoming a Global Competitor in Fuel Ethanol
• Examining the export potential and production projections for Peruvian ethanol • Managing a challenging financial structure • Developing an integrated ethanol project, from irrigation to planting, cane processing and juice fermentation and distillation Nabil Katabi, Manager, Project Development |
| 16.10 | Questions |
| 16.25 | Closing Remarks from the Chair |
| 16:50 | Hosted Champagne Roundtables
This interactive session led by keynote speakers will allow you to address and hear about specific key issues affecting you in more detail and with more opportunity for discussion and questions. To book your place on one of the roundtables, please email conferences@agra-net.com. Places are limited and are on a first come first served basis. Meeting demand for sustainable biofuels Andrew Owen, Greenergy, UK The role of technology in improving the sustainability of starch-based ethanol production Greg LeFebvre, Genencor, USA How to successfully commercialise cellulosic ethanol Alan Rae, KL ENERGY Corporation, USA Meeting the new European Commission criteria on sustainable biofuels David Glenister, SGS, Switzerland Setting the Ethanol Price Speaker to be confirmed |
Day 3
| Friday 5th November 2010 | |
| 8:00 | Welcome coffee |
| 9:10 | Introductory Remarks from the Chair Dennis Sprague Principal Consultant Alcohol Industry Consulting, LLC, USA |
| 9:20 | Financing Next Generation Ethanol Projects |
| 9:50 | What Will the Future Look Like for Biofuels? • Will there be a clear technology pathway? • Achieving next generation biofuels production on a commercial scale • Assessing how biotechnology is transforming biofuel production Ian O’Gara European Biofuels Lead Accenture, UK |
| 10:20 | Securing Feedstock Sources for Cellulosic Ethanol – The Potential of Dedicated Energy Crops • Strategies to deliver a perpetual, high quality and sustainable feedstock • Meeting the feedstock demands for large scale commercial production • Price determinants for cellulosic feedstocks • The potential for value chain integration and improvement Spencer Swayze Senior Manager of Business Development Ceres Inc., USA |
| 10:50 | Questions |
| 11:05 | Refreshments |
| 11:35 | PANEL DISCUSSION Overcoming the Barriers to Commercialisation of Cellulosic Ethanol • Are the targets in current legislation enough to make things happen now? • Examining the potential of vertical integration to overcome bottlenecks in the supply chain • How to successfully commercialise cellulosic ethanol Jan Lindstedt, Senior Project Manager SEKAB E-Technology AB, SwedenAlan Rae Director of Corporate Finance & Global Business Development KL ENERGY Corporation, USA Bjarne Adamsen Vice President, Biodevelopment GENENCOR – A Danisco Division, Germany Poul Ruben Andersen |
| 12:35 | Cellulosic Ethanol Commercialisation – What’s Taking So Long? • Lessons learned – first experiences with next generation ethanol • Challenges for cellulosic ethanol technologies Jeff Passmore Executive Vice President, Public Affairs Iogen Corporation, Canada |
| 13:05 | Exploring the Prospects for Ethanol Generation 1.5 • Overview of advances in technology • Using non-food grains and fibre to produce ethanol • Opportunities for value added agriculture Phil Madson President, KATZEN International, Inc., USA |
| 13:35 | Opportunities for Biomass Refineries • Achieving the optimal use of biomass • Experiences from the past year – what’s next? • More than ethanol – the markets for lignin pellets and C5 molasses Christian Morgen Sr. Manager, Business Development & Marketing Inbicon A/S (subsidiary of DONG Energy A/S), DenmarkAxel Grönn Project Manager Siemens AG, Germany |
| 14:05 | Questions |
| 14:20 | Closing Remarks from the Chair |
| 14.30 | End of Conference |
| 14.30 | Lunch |
