IEA Bioenergy Conference 2018

07 Nov 2018

Location: USA, San Francisco

Conference Publications

The IEA Bioenergy Conference 2018 was held on the first day of the three-day “ABLC Global 2018”, which took place in San Francisco on the 7-9 November 2018 and was attended by almost 600 participants. The “ABLC Global 2018” was a collaboration involving IEA Bioenergy, USDOE BETO and The Digest. It included 180+ speakers and 17 distinct workshops, forums, and summits covering: Clean Fuels & Energy, Renewable Chemicals and Biomaterials, Feedstocks & Supply Chain Development, The New Nutrition, Advanced Agriculture, International Partnerships, Policy & Finance and many more.

The IEA Bioenergy Conference 2018 day was closed with a GLOBAL ACTIONS FORUM.

GLOBAL ACTIONS FORUM

Panel discussion, moderated by Paul Bennett (Scion) with the following participants: Jim Spaeth (IEA Bioenergy), Paolo Frankl (IEA), Michela Morese (GBEP), Gerard Ostheimer (Below50) and Jeffrey Skeer (IRENA)

Panel discussion Summary: click ClosingSession_IEABioenergyDay-ABLC_final

The presentations given at the IEA Bioenergy Conference 2018 on the 7th November 2018 are available below.

THE GLOBAL BIOECONOMY FORUM

Introduction to IEA Bioenergy – SpaethInteraction of bioenergy with the energy system, with increasing renewables– Heinonen

Bioenergy: the overlooked giant of renewables – Frankl

The pivotal role of bioenergy in addressing climate change – Cowie

SUSTAINABILITY FORUM

Moderator: Martin Junginger

Methods and tools to assess the sustainability of bioenergy
– Berndes

Approaches to creating trust in sustainability of bioenergy through effective governance
– Stupak

Positions, perception and vision of stakeholder groups on bioenergy: Key results
– Fritsche

COMBUSTION AND BIOMASS PRETREATMENT FORUM

Moderator: Morten Tony Hansen

Pretreatment of biomass residues
for thermal conversion
– Koppejan

Aerosols from biomass combustion
– Nussbaumer

Real life emissions and more representative type testing
procedures for woodstoves
– Hartmann

Future role of thermal biomass
plants in renewable energy
systems
– Hansen

BIOGAS FORUM

Moderator: Åsa Forsum

The Dutch experience of greening the gas grid
– Dumont

IEA Bioenergy Task 37 Energy
from Biogas: innovation in
biogas systems
– Murphy

Industrial application of anaerobic digestion
– Bochmann

Biogas energy development in California
– Zhang

BIOMASS PRODUCTION AND MOBILISATION FORUM

Moderator: Kees Kwant

(How) Will biomass produced sustainably from agriculture for material and energy use increase
– Dimitriou

Forest residue biomass mobilisation
– Brown, M.

Mobilising biomass to realise a
global bioeconomy
– Ostheimer

TERVIVA – Sikka

ADVANCED THERMAL TREATMENT

Moderator: Berend Vreugdenhil

Biomass and waste gasification: status and recent developments
– Whitty

Torrefaction of biomass: status and market requirements
– Wild

Thermochemical processes for feedstock recycling of waste
– Stapf

The role of waste-to-energy in a circular economy
– Johansson

ADVANCED BIOFUELS SUMMIT

Moderator: Alex MacLeod

Velocys – Stratmann

Advanced biofuels development: USA situation and IEA Bioenergy Task 39 progress
– McMillan

Production of drop-in biofuels and their potential to decarbonise long distance transport
– Saddler

Potential for cost reduction for advanced biofuels
– Brown, A.

BIOMASS SUPPLY CHAINS AND MARKET DEPLOYMENT FORUM

Moderator: Daniela Thrän

Past, present and future of global bioenergy trade
– Junginger

Beyond heat & power: future
markets for long term viable wood
pellet supply chains
– Fritsche

Cascading of wood: policy overview – Olsson

Mercurius Biorefining – Balsev

Global wood pellet markets – key regions, developments and governance
– Hennig

ADVANCED THERMAL TREATMENT FORUM

Moderator: Paul Bennett

IEA Bioenergy Task 34: analytical round robin 2018 preliminary results
– Zacher

Development of fast pyrolysis in
The Netherlands
– van de Beld

ENSYN – Graham

Residual biomass to gasoline; operations of the bioliq pilot plant
– Zimmerlin

BIOREFINING & BIOCHEMICAL CONVERSION SUMMIT

Moderator: René van Ree

Biorefineries assessment in a
future bioeconomy
– Lindorfer

Bioeconomy survey in EU
member states and beyond
– Motola/de Bari

Biobased chemicals: current
status and potential
– de Jong

Sweetwater Energy – Chesonis

Enzymatic solutions for industrial biorefineries
– Michine