BC and Korea run workshop on biomass opportunities
March 11, 2012
By
Scott Jamieson
March 11, 2012, Vancouver, BC - A host of organizations, including the Wood Pellet Association of Canada, BC Bioenergy Network, and UBC, are working together to host the BC-Korea Bioenergy Collaboration Workshop, to be held in Vancouver March 19 and 20.
The workshop takes place at UBC Robson Square and UBC Point Grey Campus, and registration is available through Bernice Banguis; Bernice.banguis@gov.bc.ca or 604-660-5913. Program details below.
Monday March 19th – Setting the
Stage – Robson Square
Opening Session – Chair Michael Weedon, BC
Bioenergy Network
8:30-8:40 Opening remarks and introduction
8:40-8:55 Welcome address from the
Honourable Pat Bell, Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, and Innovation (invited)
8:55-9:10 His
Excellency, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Joohong Nam (invited)
Policy Drivers
9:10-9:25 BC Policy
Environments – Senior BC Government Representative
9:25-9:40 Federal Policy Environment – Natural
Resources Canada, Bob Jones or Ed Hogan (invited)
9:40-10:00 Korean Policy
Environment for Renewable Fuels- Tae-Jun Choi, Deputy Director,
New & Renewable Promotion Team, Ministry
of Knowledge and Economy
10:00-10:20 Break
World Class University- Research
Capabilities
10:20-10:50 UBC Address – Brent
Sauder , Director, Strategic Partnerships, Research and Partnerships
Office, UBC Sustainability Initiative
10:50-11:15 Korean Research Institute – Dr. Jun
Kyung Kim, VP Korea Institute of Science and Technology
11:15-12:00 BC
and Canadian Research Capabilities :
Dr. David Wilkinson – UBC, Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC),
Dr. Jack Saddler, UBC, on behalf of Dr. Franco Berruti –NSERC
Strategic Canadian Bio-Carbon Research and Application Network
Dr. Terry Howe, Ballard Power (joint Industry/ UBC
research project)
Luncheon
12:00- 1:30 NSERC Representative – to be confirmed
Industry Demand and Supply
1:30
-2:00 Korean Coal Utilities – KEPCO representative, to be confirmed
2:00-
2:30 Solid Fuels Today –
Industry Initiatives (Wood Pellet Association of Canada):
Gordon Murray – Executive Director ,Wood
Pellet Association of Canada
2:30-3:00 Panel Discussion:
Hoon-Tae
Jung, Chief Branch Office Manager
Peter
Seo, Manager, LGI
Seung-Hwan Kim (Team Leader), Sung-Hyun Keum
(Director), SK Forest
Jun-Ho Lee,
Manager (Samsung C&T), to be confirmed
Rob Tarcon, Premium Pellets
Vaughn Bassett, Pinnacle
Pellets
3:00-3:15 Break
Industry Developments
3:15-3:30 Solid Fuels
For Tomorrow ,Overview of Torrefaction – Ira Wolff, NORAM (invited)
3:30-4:20 Torrefaction
Developments Today (Developers Panel)
4:20 Concluding
Remarks – BCBN
Networking Reception
4:45-6:00 BC Showcase
Tuesday March 20th
– Workshop: UBC Point Grey Campus, Wayne and William White Engineering
Design Centre – 2345 East Mall
8:30 – 9:00 BC Fibre: quantity, quality, and sustainability
for bioenergy – Tony Sauder, FPInnovations
9:00 – 9:30 Anatomy of a wood pellet plant – Dr. Shahab
Sokhansanj, UBC
9:30 – 10:00
Fundamentals of Torrefaction : the
state of technology and solutions – Dr. Tony
Bi,
UBC
10:00 –
10:30 Refreshment break
10:30 -11:00 Logistics
of dense torrefied biomass: storage, transport, handling – Staffan Melin, UBC,
WPAC
11:00 –
11:30 Wood pellets as a commodity
feedstock for liquid fuel production – Dr. Jack Saddler,
UBC
11:30
-12:00 Joint
Korea Canada R&D collaboration opportunities – Dr. Kangil Choe,
Association
of Korean-Canadian Scientists and Engineers
12:00 -1:30 Lunch – UBC, CERC and Research in
renewable energy – Dr. David Wilkinson, CERC
Tour
1:30 – 4:30 Visit to UBC /CERC (Biomass and
Bioenergy Research Group), UBC Forest Science (Fuel
Biotechnology),
Gasification CHP (Nexterra)
Concurrent Breakouts Day 2:
Business to Business Meetings: Chemical and Biological Engineering Building
– 2360 East Mall, Room 204 (across the street from the Wayne and William White
Engineering Design Centre, beside the CERC building)
Canada-Korea
Research MOU Working Group breakouts — Room 222
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