Conference Day Two: Thursday, 11th September 2008

9:00 Chairman’s welcome & opening address

Prof. Norbert Metz
Engineering Firm Emitrade-Herrsching, Germany Formerly Manager Energy and Environment
BMW AG, Germany

Optimising the powertrain for biofuels

9:15 Long-term outlook on biodiesel

• Current biodiesel fuels up to 30%
• Higher percentage blends and scope for optimisation
• Next generation and alternative fuels

Jonathan Hartland
Sustainable Mobility Powertrain Research
Jaguar and Landrover, UK

10:00 Optimising powertrain technology for ethanol flex-fuel engines – A supplier experience

• The idea of flex-fuel vehicles: Using alcohol in different percentages in a gasoline engine
• Improving powertrain flex-fuel technology
• Adapting injection systems
• Powertrain performances with biofuels
• CO2 and emission issues

Jean Philippe Nedjar
Director Research & Development
Magneti Marelli France S.A.S., France

11:15 Gasoline/ethanol/methanol tri-fuel vehicle as a means to expediting a synthetic alcohol economy

• Properties of alcohols as fuels
• High performance vehicle running on ethanol
• Gasoline/ethanol/methanol tri-fuel vehicle
• Production and use cycle for synthetic methanol

Dr. Richard Pearson
Technical Specialist and CAE Analyst
Lotus Engineering, UK

Evaluating different biofuels with regards to engine performance

12:00 Ethanol – The worldwide most successful biofuel

• Key drivers for success
• Ethanol market
• Quality
• Further developments

Dr. Boris Hinz
Head of Sales
CropEnergies AG, Germany

14:15 The end user experience of renewable diesel in practice

• The Helsinki metropolitan area test program
• User feedbacks
• Local emissions results
• Sustainability of renewable diesel

Harri Turpeinen
Vice President, Corporate Stakeholder Relations
Neste Oil Corporation, Finland

The potential of biomethane

15:30 Biomethane as an automotive fuel

• Biomethane as an alternative fuel
• Requirements on the composition of biomethane
• Necessary infrastructure
• Light house project in Austria

Dr. Peter Seidinger
Head of NGV / CNG, OM V Gas International GmbH
Austria

16:15 Biogas Max: From biowaste to biomethane used as a fuel – A working alternative

• The European Biogas Max project: From waste to clean fuel
• The project in Lille: Production of biomethane from raw biogas generated by the digestion of household biowaste
• Sweden: The biogas highway – How Stockholm and Göteborg will increase the biomethane security of supply
• Switzerland: Berne – The creation of a label for the distribution of biomethane

Pierre Hirtzberger
Head of the R&D Department, Urban Waste Division, Urban Community of Lille
France

17:00 Closing remarks from the Chairman and end of the Conference

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