Conference Schedule
3rd Algae World Asia, SINGAPORE
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Day 1 – 19 Oct 2010, Tuesday
08:00 Registration and Coffee
09:00 Welcome and Speed Networking
09:10 Chairman’s Remarks
Practical Experiences in Algae Production
09:15 Succeeding in the Algae Business
- What business model to adopt?
- What markets to serve?
- Project implementation challenges
- Infrastructures required
- Building partnership and alliances
- Outlook of the algae sector and end-use markets
09:45 Commercial Production of Chlorella in Closed-System and its Application in Nutraceuticals and Feeds
Speaker: Dr. Woel-Kyu Ha, Director, Health Food R&D Center, Daesang Corporation
Value Proposition in Carbon Capture
10:15 Growing Algae from Stack Gas Emissions at a Cement Plant
- Case study of Pond Biofuels and St Marys Cement
Speaker: Martin Vroegh, Environment Manager, St Marys Cement Inc.
10:45 Discussion followed by Networking Break
11:20 Challenges of a Power Company in the New Climate Order
Speaker: Dr. Krishna Gupta, Managing Director, West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd
11:50 Technological Development of Algal Carbon Capture and Storage
Speaker: Tony St Clair, Agribusiness Manager, MBD Energy Limited
12:20 Discussion followed by Networking Lunch
13:45 Chairman’s Remarks
Value Proposition in Waste Water Treatment
13:50 Wastewater Treatment with Biofuels Production in High Rate Algal Ponds (HRAPs)
- Benefits of wastewater treatment with HRAPs including efficient nutrient removal and natural disinfection
- Enhancing the performance of HRAP by flue gas CO2 addition
- Production of colonial algae simply harvested gravity settling
- Conversion of algal biomass for biofuels (biocrude, biodiesel, biogas) and use as local community niche distributed energy sources
Speaker: Dr. Rupert Craggs, Principal Scientist and Manager – Aquatic Pollution Group, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
14:20 Large-scale Algae Biofuels Production with Municipal and Agricultural Wastewaters
- Algae Biofuels Production: limitations of water, carbon and nutrients
- Using wastewaters to supply algal biofuels production processes
- Economics of large-scale algal biofuels production using wastewaters
- Global potential for algal biofuels production using wastewaters.
Speaker: Dr. John R. Benemann, CEO, MicroBio Engineering, Inc.
Algae Technology Development in Asia Pacific
14:50 Algae Research in Singapore – Systems Biology of Lipid Metabolism in Algae
- Combined transcriptome and lipidome analysis of Chlamydomonas
- MicroRNA-mediated gene expression knockdowns as a probe of algal lipid metabolism
- De novo transcriptome sequencing of diverse algal species
Speaker: Dr. Neil Clarke, Deputy Director, Genome Institute of Singapore
15:20 Discussion followed by Networking Break
15:55 China: Genetic Foundations of Robust Oil Production in Microalgae – New Generation Genomics Technologies for Algal Feedstock Development
- Current status and challenges of oilgae feedstock research and development
- Phylo-Genomics approach to investigate and engineer the genomic diversity, function and evolution of microalgal oil production using Nannochloropsis as a model
Prof. Dr. Jian XU, Group Leader of Functional Genomics Group, Director of Bioenergy Genome Center, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT)
16:25 Will Ocean be the Blue Ocean for Future Fuels? – Development in Korea
- Why we should use ocean (not land) for our future biofuel production
- Possibilities and challenges in microalgal cultures in ocean
- Cost analysis between the cultures in the ocean and on the land
- Introduction of Korean National Project on Marine Bioenergy Program
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Choul-Gyun Lee, Professor, Department of Biological, INHA University
16:50 Development of Algal Biofuel Production in Australia
- The need for biodiesel in Australia and the role that algae plays.
- The myriad choices for the Australian algal fuel producer:
- Algal species – GMO/wild/selectively bred; Growth in ponds or photo-bioreactors; salt-water, fresh-water or waste-water as the medium; Natural or artificial light;
- Energetics and greenhouse gas emissions of algal biofuel production
Speaker: Dr. Tom Beer, Leader, Transport Technologies & Sustainable Fuels, Energy Transformed Flagship, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
17:20 Discussion followed by End of Day 1
17:30 Cocktail Reception for Speakers and Delegates
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Day 2 – 20 Oct 2010, Wednesday
09:00 Chairman’s Remarks
Development of Algae-Based Bioenergy
09:05 Commercial Viability of Large Scale Algal Biofuel Production & Technological Challenges
Speaker: Matt Caspari, Managing Director, Aurora Algae Pty Ltd.
09:35 Challenges of Up-scaling Algae Biofuel Production
10:05 The Big Algae Build-Out: Why should CO2 Generators Participate and How?
Speaker: Paul Reep, Senior Technical Advisor, OriginOil, Inc
10:35 Discussion followed by Networking Break
11:15 Development of Bioethanol Production Technology from Red Macroalgae
Speaker: Dr. M. K. Shin, CEO/Vice-President, Biolsystems Co., Ltd.
11:45 Enhanced Biofuel Production from Microalgae by adding CO2 to Stimulate Lipid Biosynthesis (Biodiesel) and by Hydrothermal Processing (Syngas)
- Research aims to improve the efficiency and reduce the production costs of biodiesel and of bio-synthetic natural gas from microalgae biomass by:
- Demonstrating the technical and economical feasibility of an innovative process for syngas production by hydrothermal processing of microalgae
- Adding CO2 and optimizing the cultivation conditions to enhance oil production by selected microalgae
Speaker: Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguébel, Permanent Sr Scientist, Lab. for Environmental Biotechnology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Lausanne
12:15 Carbon Finance Support for Bio-Diesel Production from Algae
Speaker: Rahul Kar, Director, Carbon and Sustainability Advisory, KPMG Corporate Finance
12:45 Final Discussion followed by Networking Lunch
14:00 End of Conference
