Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speakers
Speaker Profile: Andreas Feige, Managing Director, ISCC System GmbH A
Mar 3rd
Andreas Feige is married and has two kids. He received his degree in mechanical engineering at the RWTH in Aachen and the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and worked ten years in several industry positions.
Before he became partner and vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton he was partner and director of Arthur D. Little and supported clients in implementing their growth and innovation strategies.
Since more than six years Andreas Feige is acting as a partner of the meó consulting team where his work is focused on renewables. He was intensively involved in developing solutions for safeguarding sustainability within biomass and bio fuel supply chains and is experienced in balancing regulative requirements and market aspirations.
His scope of work also includes comparative studies regarding the suitability of bio fuels for different power train options. Further on he was instrumental in various due diligence activities assessing the investment into bio fuel conversion plants.
Currently Andreas Feige is helping to establish the ISCC certification system as a leading standard for sustainable biomass and bio fuels.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
09:30 “Roundtable” Biomass Certification & Implications for Trade
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Ron van Erck, Policy Officer, Regulatory Policy & Promotion of Renewable Energy, DG Energy And Transport (TREN), European Commission
Mar 3rd
Ron van Erck works as policy officer on renewable energy in the European Commission since the beginning of 2009. Currently, he is responsible for elements of the implementation of the sustainability regime for biofuels; the definitions of biodiverse grasslands and recognition of voluntary sustainability schemes. Furthermore, Ron works on the implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive in the Energy Community (Western Balkans) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Before working for the Commission, Ron worked for the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands on the development of a new support scheme for renewable energy and on the negotiations for the new Renewable Energy Directive.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
09:30 “Roundtable” Biomass Certification & Implications for Trade
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Judy Libra, Project Coordinator, German Academy of Science & Engineering
Mar 3rd
Judy Libra worked as a chemical engineer in the petrochemical industry before getting her Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in cooperation with UCLA and the Technical University Berlin. After researching and lecturing in environmental management and wastewater treatment processes at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus as well as the TU Berlin (Habilitation in Environmental Process Engineering), she worked in the Department Water Protection at the German Federal Environmental Agency, before moving to the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) in 2009.
She is currently co-coordinator of the acatech project group Geo-Resource Water, which is developing recommendations for the sustainable management of water resources under the conditions of global change. The interactions between water and land use is the focus of one of its working groups.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
12:50 Environmental Challenges in Biochar Production & Soil/Water Applications
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kolloid-und Grenzflaechenforschung
Mar 3rd
Dr. Maria-Magdalena Titirici was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1977. She graduated in 1999 from the Department of Chemistry of Bucharest University. After, she conducted her PhD study (with Dr. Bo¨rje Sellergren) first at the University of Mainz and after on at the University of Dortmund in the field of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers.
In 2005 she joined Prof. Antonietti’s group as a postdoctoral research at the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Currently Maria-Magdalena Titirici is currently leading the group of ”Functional Carbonaceous and Polymeric Materials” in the same research institute and her scientific interests include sustainable and green chemistry, carbon materials for energy storage and CO2 capture, photo-catalysis, molecular recognition and development of novel stationary phases for chromatography.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
12:25 Hydrothermal Carbonization- Economical Route towards Modern Materials Chemistry
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Martin Junginger, Assistant Professor, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development
Mar 3rd
Martin Junginger is Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University.
Martin has a background in chemistry and environmental science and obtained his PhD in 2005. He is coordinator of the IEA Bioenergy Task 40 on Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade (see www.bioenergytrade.org), and currently works amongst others on charting international trade in biomass and biofuels (with a special focus on wood pellets), and identifying barriers and opportunities for bioenergy trade.
He also has been working on sustainability criteria and certification systems for biomass and biofuels.
Martin has organized several workshops on biomass trade (in the Netherlands and abroad) and is frequently lecturing across the globe.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 2 – Thursday, March 11
13:10 Afternoon Chairman’s Remarks
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Kyoung S. Ro, Research Environmental Engineer, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)- Agricultural Research Service
Mar 3rd
Dr. Kyoung S. Ro is a research environmental engineer for the USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) located at Florence, SC. He has BS in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, respectively.
Before joining the USDA-ARS, Dr. Ro has worked as a faculty for 15 years for the Louisiana State University (LSU) and the City University of New York (CUNY). He is recognized as a national leader in municipal, military, and agricultural waste management. He has published more than 100 technical articles and reports, made numerous invited presentations in the U.S., Asia, and the Europe, participated in many USDOE, USDA, USEPA, and NSF workshops, and organized several international and national research symposia on wastes-to- bioenergy.
He is currently involved in research projects in using biochar made from municipal and agricultural wastes to improve soil fertility and reduce fugitive and greenhouse gas emissions.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
12:00 Biochar – Potential Commodity from Biomass Waste & Current R&D progress (Production & Application)
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Michael Wild, CEO, Ebes AG
Mar 3rd
Michael Wild, economist and engineer by education, is active in renewable energies for practically all of his 20+ years professional career.
Working as consultant in Austria he was involved in building energy advisory services in the mid 1980s and conducted consultancy in Energy Saving, Renewable Energies for Building and Heating sectors and from the late 80s started to implement biomass based district heating systems in rural communities in Austria.
With the fall of the iron curtain he started consulting decision makers in Hungary and Czechoslovakia which lead to his nomination as director of the EU Commissions Energy Centre in Slovakia from 93 to 99. Business to business projects in the energy sector, many of those in the renewable field. In parallel consulting World Bank and IFC to their Energy projects in this geographical area.
Gaining the experience that Biomass projects fail almost never for technical or financial reasons but mostly on the insufficient security of biomass supply he started as early as 1997 to build first simple “information turntables” for biomass trading which lead in 1999 to the establishment of ABEX, the first web based trading platform for Biomasses.
Seeing still insufficient move on the biomass market he lead ABEX and its successor EBES AG into regional/interregional large scale trading of biomasses implementing the first transcontinental supply schemes from Asia to Europe.
Today he is developing EBES step by step into an integrated bioenergy supply company.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
11:35 Torrefaction – Accelerated Carbonised Biomass, the Optimal CO2 Neutral Substitute for Coal
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Gerhard Muggen, General Manager, BTG Bioliquids BV ( Biomass Technology Group BV )
Mar 3rd
Gerhard Muggen is Managing Director and shareholder of BTG Bioliquids BV (BTG-BTL). As managing director he is responsible for the strategy of BTG-BTL and the world wide marketing and sales.
Gerhard has been working for Stork Thermeq for 8 years as sales manager and the last four years as Vice President Marketing and Sales.
Before that he worked for Wartsila Diesel and Holec in the Netherlands.
In the last job he was responsible for the international marketing and sales department and directly involved in the marketing and sales in China, India and Russia. Gerhard was also responsible for organizing and initiating new developments and marketing new technologies.
Besides his activities for BTG-BTL Gerhard gives lectures about export, business development and innovation and is Gerhard president of the Fenedex Export Manager Award in the Netherlands.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
11:05 Pre-Treatment Biomass Using Pyrolysis Technologies
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Dr. Jinke van Dam, Senior Researcher, Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development
Mar 3rd
Since 2009, Jinke has been appointed as senior researcher at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development and Innovation of Utrecht University. She finished her PhD thesis last year on the topic ‘sustainability of bioenergy chains: the result is in the details’. Key research areas include certification, impact assessment and bioenergy feasibility studies on the potential, economics and sustainability performance. Before working as a Senior Researcher, Jinke worked e.g. as Programme Manager in Vietnam on sustainable forest management and as Interim Executive Secretary for the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS).
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
09:30 “Roundtable” Biomass Certification & Implications for Trade
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
Speaker Profile: Albert de Haan, CEO, Carbon Rooster Advisory Services BV.
Mar 3rd
Albert de Haan began his career as a trader in banknotes and bullion at ABN bank in 1974, 1975 – 1980 forward trader at ABN Rotterdam.
1980 – 1985 forward trader at Slavenburg s bank became head of dealingroom in 1983 after name was changed into Credit Lyonnais Bank Nederland.
1985 – 2004 deputy head dealing room Mees & Hope Rotterdam.
In 1992 appointed European Head FX and short term intrest rates at Mees & Hope. After merger to MeesPierson Global Head Sales and Marketing Global Financial Markets MeesPierson since 1994. Fortis Head of business development Global Financial markets responsible for starting Energy trading desk in Amsterdam in 2000. 2001 member Advisory Board FinEdge BV Rotterdam. Currency overlay models initiated for Fortis Asset management with Shell Pension Fund and Global Markets Brussels.(Robert Meyer)Since 2003 responsible for Fortis Carbon Banking Venture.
September 2004 – August 2008 co – founder of European Climate Exchange and Commercial Director of ECX.ECX and its parent Chicago Climate Exchange were bought by LSE AIM listed Climate Exchange Ltd in September 2006.(code CLE)In August 2007 I started Carbon Rooster and Carbon Rooster Advisory Services to offer advisory services in the range of carbon project and via Carbon Rooster invested in several sustainable energy projects.
August 2008 – present started to work full time for Carbon Rooster after leaving ECX . Incidently have joint projects with Climate Exchange PLC (www.climateexchange.com) who also owns IFEX ECX and CCX.
Recently Albert has advised:
- Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs re auctions.
- United Group (www.united-itrust.com) on energy projects in Eastern Europe.
- Hong Kong stock exchange re CER futures contract. Click here for the pdf
- Several private companies for PPA – ERPA – project funding.
- Chaired ETS-auction workshop organised by IFIEC Europe in Brussels. Oct 09 – Unesco MAB advisory contract was signed in September 09 – part-time consultancy on forestry and other eco diversity projects. CRAS aims to improve economics of Unesco MAB projects.
Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
09:05 Carbon Markets and Impact on Biomass Power Generation
BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.
