Austrian Biodiesel Institute (ABI) is an international competence center for liquid biofuels founded in 1995. We are an experienced team of presently 23 independent experts from 6 countries on 4 continents. We provide professional support for biodiesel projects, including:

• feasibility studies and business plans
• due diligence and second opinion studies
• partner searches
• industry surveys
• development of fuel standards & quality management programs
• biodiesel research & development, dissemination and demonstration

ABI has lead or participated in several biodiesel projects within European Union programs for Research, Development, Dissemination & Demonstration, most recently the “Innovative Biodiesel” project.

Speaker Profile
After a career with multinational companies like Eli Lilly (USA) and Sandoz (Switzerland) as Director of R & D, marketing and strategic planning as well as sales, Mr. Karbitz made his first experience with Biodiesel when he was appointed General Manager of the world’s first industrial scale Biodiesel production plant in early 1990 in Austria, then already the leading country in research and development of the renewable transport fuel Biodiesel.

He founded the Austrian Biofuels Institute in 1995 as a world-wide active centre of competence with today 25 expert members, which is involved world-wide in a number of projects such as Biodiesel standardisation, feasibility studies for and implementation of commercial Biodiesel plants, due diligence studies for banks, Biodiesel process technology comparison and other studies for the International Energy Agency, several Biodiesel-projects in the R&DDD-programmes for the European Commission, for the International Energy Agency -Bioenergy, the IFC, IAEA and UNIDO.

JatrophaWorld 2008 Hamburg Speaker
Day 2 – Tuesday, October 21
09:05 INNOVATIVE BIODIESEL

Overview of Presentation

• The worldwide expansion of biodiesel markets requires sustainable supply of feedstock in volume, with optimum suitability and reasonable prices.
• Non-food oilseeds are not in competition with food oilseeds for acreage and can be grown on marginal soils in semi-arid climatic zones at low cost.
• Jatropha functions as the ‘flagship’ for a group of promising non-food oilseed plants with high potential for improved performance.
• Targeted breeding of Jatropha and many other non-food oilseed plants is needed to establish an improved fatty acid profile at reasonable high yields and proven production guidelines in order to produce highly suitable oils for the high quality biodiesel.

JATROPHAWORLD 2008 is a showcase of all the latest trends and shifts occurring in the Jatropha value chain, bringing together on a single platform, the best expertise to discuss and analyze the present and future dynamics of Jatropha from a technological and socio-economic angle. To find more about JatrophaWorld in Hamburg from October 20 to 21, 2008, please visit http://www.futureenergyevents.com/jatropha/.