International Seminar

International Seminar

The 9th International Seminar on Gasification was held October 19 and 20, 2016. The seminar covered R&D and industrial activities relating to different aspects of thermal gasification of biomass and waste, biofuels and power-to-gas applications.

Programme with presentations

Day 1: 19th of October

10.00-11.00

Registration and coffee

11.00-11.15

Opening of the seminar

11.15-12.00

Key-note 1
Kyriakos Maniatis, European Commission
The post-2020 EC policies on decarbonising transport and their impact on biofuels via gasification

12.00-13.00

LUNCH

 

Session 1: Biomass gasification to biofuels and industrial applications

13.00-13.30

Bernd Zimmerlin
Status of the bioliq®-process at KIT

13.30-14.00

Malin Hedenskog, Göteborg Energi
An update on the GoBiGas project: Experiences from the initial operation

14.00-14.30

Thijs de Vries, Gasunie
Gasification Projects in the Netherlands: The Alkmaar SNG Project

14.30-15.00

Björn Gillberg, Värmlandsmetanol
A gasification project temporarily on hold

15.00-15.30

Coffee

15.30-16.00

Reinhard Rauch
Liquid transportation fuels by biomass steam gasification

16.00-16.30

Rolf Ljunggren, Cortus
WoodRoll® ultraclean syngas to make a bioenergetic difference

16.30-17.00

Carl-Erik Grip, Luleå Technical University
BioDRI - Gasified biomass for greener steel

 

 

19.00

Conference dinner
Clarion Hotel & Congress Malmö Live

 

 

 

 Day 2: 20th of October

9.15-10.00

Key-note 2
Vann Bush, GTI
Update on US/North American gasification status and policies and GTI activities

 

Session 2: Biomass gasification for CHP

10.00-10.30

Niclas Davidsson, MEVA Energy
Distributed CHP with cyclone gasification of biomass

10.30-11.00

Coffee

11.00-11.30

Karoline Alvånger, Energikontor Sydost
Small scale CHP from bioenergy – experience from Sweden’s first micro gasifier at Emå dairy

11.30-12.00

Tage Meltofte, Skive Fjernverme
Skive biomass CHP plant: operations experience from the last 5 years and future plans for using the syngas

12.00-13.00

LUNCH

 

Session 3: Waste gasification for biofuels and CHP

13.00-13.30

Michel Chornet, Enerkem
Biofuels and renewable chemicals from waste materials: the case of Enerkem and the City of Edmonton

13.30-14.00

Vesa Helanti, Valmet
High efficiency electricity production from SRF/ REF through gasification

14.00-14.30

Ilkka Hannula, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Doubling the output of synthetic biofuels. Exploiting synergies between biomass and other RE sources

14.30-15.00

Coffee

15.00-16.15

Panel discussion

 

Moderator: Martin Ragnar, Energiforsk

16.15-16.30

Concluding remarks and closing of the conference