Market perspectives for biofuels and their alternatives: Experiences and forcasts of leading OEMS
10:40 Highlight: Volkswagen's assessment on biofuels
- Volkswagen’s powertrain and fuel strategy
- Status of second generation biofuel
- Future fuel outlook
Dr. Frank Seyfried
Head of Research, Fuel Cell and Fuels
Volkswagen AG, Germany
11:20 Refreshment break
11:50 Highlight: Biofuels and natural gas – An OEM approach
for passenger cars in India
- Market challenges for biofuels and natural gas implementation
- Specific biofuels requirements
- Emerging natural gas
- Future natural gas vehicles - Powertrain concepts
Srinivasan Lakshmanan
Technical Chief – ERC, Engineering Research Centre
Tata Motors Ltd, India
12:30 Bringing biofuels into commercial transport applications
- Scania's analysis on possible alternative fuels: Benefits, possibilities and challenges
- Physics and applications of physics for the variations in energy transformation of different alternative fuels
- Combustion principles for alternative fuels
- Implication of applying the various fuels in engine base structure
- Alternative fuels physical properties influence on engine system as whole
Jonas Holmborn
Head of Advanced Combustion
Scania AB, Sweden
13:10 Network luncheon
How to enable large scale production? 2nd generation biofuels and their alternatives
14:50 Perspectives of advanced biofuel supply pathways
- Conventional and new biomass feedstocks
- Conversion processes
- Political targets and sustainability criteria
- Comparing evaluation of biofuels
- Outlook on future solutions
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Peters
Head of Fuel Processing
Forschungszentrum Jülich, GmbH Germany
15:30 Implementing bio-methanol into automotive use
- Bio-methanol reduces CO2 emissions drastically
- Needed infrastructure of large scale production of methanol
- Bio-methanol suitable for today’s engine technology
Eelco Dekker
Chief Marketing Officer
BioMCN, The Netherlands
16:10 Beyond hydrogen: Ethanol for fuel cells
- Why bioethanol is the ideal fuel for fuel cells
- Application of bioethanol in different fuel cell concepts
- Reforming of bioethanol to hydrogen and direct ethanol fuel cells
- Availability and supply of bioethanol for fuel cells
- Different use of bioethanol fuel cells
Dr. Jörg Bernard
Director Food & Non-Food Technology
Südzucker AG, Germany
16:50 Refreshment break
Looking ahead: 3rd generation biofuels
17:20 Outlook 3rd generation biofuels
- Potential of microalgae
- Energy demand within the production process
- E.ON targets in our project
- Biomass for biogas & fuel?
- Challenges for partners
Thomas Brauer
Municipal Management
E.ON Hanse AG, Germany
17:50 Low-cost photobioreactor technology: Promise, progress,
and challenges
- Facialiation of algae by closed photobioreactors (PBRs)
- Cost challenges and oportunites for large scale biofuel production
- Next generation of low-cost, high-productivity photo bioreactors
- Key design details and performance summary
- Costs of downstream processing: Harvesting, dewatering, oil extraction, and co-product processing
Dr. Bryan Willson
Chief Scientific Officer
Solix Biofuels Ltd and Director, Engines & Energy Conversion Laboratory, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, USA
18:30 End of conference day one
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