MESSAGE FROM KEY COURSE LEADER
 
Dear Delegate,
 
The recent increase on oil prices is putting stress on economies around the World.  World energy demand, however, will continue to increase, exacerbating this situation.  Alternative energy sources, therefore, are receiving a lot of attention.  Particularly, for transportation, ethanol, derived from biological sources, has become the most popular alternative fuel.
 
Ethanol has been produced since antiquity and its use as transportation fuel dates from the very inception of motorized transportation.  However, conventional ethanol feedstock (i.e., sucrose and starch) have limited availability and compete with food.  Another, much more abundant,  more available and less costly biological material is cellulose and the other biopolymers that often accompany it, hemicellulose and lignin.  The material containing these three biopolymers, known as lignocellulose, can be grown productively all over the World, and along side with food.  Ethanol economies are bound to, eventually, implement cellulosic ethanol to continue to grow.  However, cellulosic ethanol implementation has challenges.
 
This workshop is designed to be a thorough technical introduction to the economic and environmental benefits of cellulosic ethanol, its different production technologies under R&D and their advantages and challenges.  Crop-to-wheel logistics needed for implementing cellulosic ethanol will also be discussed.  Such in-depth introduction will provide valuable insights and will be a starting point for the delegates to fit this growing new field to their own needs and hopefully continue to pursue and interact with others towards its implementation.
 
I look forward to interacting and networking with you in this workshop.
 
Regards,
Cesar Granda
 
 
COURSE LEADER ~ Cesar B. Granda, Ph.D.
 
Dr. Cesar Granda obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering and his Ph.D. in the same discipline from Texas A&M University.  He has been working in the biotechnology and waste utilization area for many years now.
 
Dr. Granda has been involved with biomass conversion to chemicals and fuels since 1997 conducting research in almost all unit operations of the process.  He has experience in the sugar industry as well.  Many technical publications and patents in these areas have resulted. 
 
In his research, he has been involved in preservation of sugarcane juice for processing into sugar and ethanol, the development of an efficient sugarcane juice extraction system to handle high-fiber cane varieties, pretreatment of sorghum and sugarcane fiber to increase their biological digestibility, enzymatic degradation of sugarcane fibers into simple sugars for the production of ethanol, mixed-acid fermentation of lignocellulosic residues, energy-efficient dewatering of fermentation broths, conversion of organic-acid salts into chemicals such as ketones (e.g., acetone), and acids (i.e., acetic acid) and conversion of organic acids and salts into alcohols (e.g., isopropanol and ethanol).
 
 
Who Should Attend
• Supply/Operations Executives/Analysts of Oil & Gas Majors
• Oil Trader’s Assistants for Quality control and Blending
• Business, Planning & New Managers of Ethanol and Biodiesel Producers
• Ethanol Investors,Traders & Financiers & Risk Managers
• Sales and Marketing Executives of Food/Agriculture and Industrial Biotechnology Corporations
• Sales and Marketing Executives of Additives and Enzymes Companies
• Commercial Managers of Shipping,Terminal, Logistics & Tanker Operations
• Middle/New Executives in Biofuels Technology and R&D
• Feedstock and Biomass Suppliers of Sugarcane, Corn/Maize,Sorghum etc
• Managers & Technical Executives incharge of Biofuels STARTUPs
 
How You Will Benefit
You will attain a comprehensive grounding in Cellulosic Ethanol Production & Ethanol Blends including
• Cellulosic Ethanol Manufacture, Economics, Technical Aspects
• State of Cellulosic Ethanol Technologies Worldwide.
• Parameters influencing the Economics and Efficiency of Cellulosic ethanol Production from Diverse Crop
• Transportation / Storage of Ethanol & Blending into the Gasoline Pool
 
 
Testimonials from previous workshop
VP - SE Asia, Poyry Forest Industry
“Good base knowledge and good contacts. Cellulosic processes were of most value”
 
GM-Trading, Idemitsu Intl (Asia)
“I could construct many partial info I knew before about ethanol and make some points clear”
 
Manager, New Bis Devt, ADM Far East Ltd
“Most valuable in terms of understanding status of the technologies & Cellulosic for ethanol production”
 
Principal Process Engineer, Foster Wheeler Eastern Pte Ltd
“Excellent exposure to new technologies in the fuel market”
 
Sales Manager, P.T. Sarchem Inter Mitra
“Good understanding on details of alcohol production and the improvement of methods”
 
 
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