Workshop
Presentations
Sun Grant Western Regional and U.S. Department
of Energy
present the Western Regional Biomass Feedstock Workshop
“Creating Volume in a Mixed-Feedstock Region”
Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center – Lloyd Center,
Portland, OR
August 27 – 29, 2007
Working Group Notes
Monday, August 27th
Opening
Moderator: Thayne Dutson, Sun Grant Western
Regional Center
- Welcome to Oregon – Dave Van’t Hof, Sustainability Advisor to Oregon Governor Kulongoski
- WGA Transportation Fuels for the Future Initiative – Alex Schroeder, Western Governor’s Association
- Desired Workshop Outcomes – Jan Auyong, Western Regional Center
Setting the Stage: Regional Biomass Issues
Moderator: H. Michael Harrington, WAAESD
- Uniform Format Feedstock Supply System Design for Lignocellulosic Biomass – Richard Hess, Idaho National Lab
- Oregon Grass Straw: A Short Story – Steve Van Mouwerik, Anderson Hay & Grain Co.
- Distributed Technologies: Opportunities for Re-designing Agriculture – Jeff Steiner, USDA/ARS
- Hybrid poplar as a future feedstock for the biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest– Jeff Nuss, Greenwood Resources
Finding Biomass for Biofuels and Bioproducts
Moderator: Jan Auyong, Western Regional Center
- Sun Grant Initiative and Land Grant Partnerships – Terry Nipp, Sun Grant Association
- Growing a Robust Biofuels Economy - John Ferrell, U.S. DOE
- Workshop Elements – Jan Auyong, Western Regional Center
- Directions to and objective for technical working groups – Anthony Turhollow, U.S. DOE
Tuesday, August 28th
Regional Biomass Development and Availability
Moderator: Charles Kinoshita, University of
Hawaii
- Expanded Biomass Resource Assessment & Supply Analysis – Richard Nelson, Kansas State University
- Strategic Development of Bioenergy in the Western States – Peter Tittmann, University of California, Davis
- State-based Biomass Inventories, Assessments & Roadmaps: Pacific Region – Dave Sjoding, Pacific Regional Biomass Energy Partnership
- Regional availability of straw as biomass feedstock – Gary Banowetz, USDA/ARS
- Developing new regional agricultural crops – Hal Collins, USDA/ARS
Session A – Biomass Working Groups
- Ag Feedstocks
- Dedicated crops – Steve Petrie, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, OSU
- Key Points in Biomass Crop Research – Russ Karow, Dept. of Crop and Soil Science, OSU
- Highlights from the Agricultural Feedstocks Working Group - Russ Karow, OSU Crop and Soil Science
- Agricultural Residues – Gary Banowetz, USDA/ARS (see above "Regional availability of straw as biomass feedstock")
- Woody Feedstocks
- Dedicated crops – Mike Cloughesy, Oregon Forest Resources Institute
- Small diameter, thinning, orchard trimmings, residues, fuel loads, invasives – Scott Leavengood, Wood Innovation Center, OSU
- Urban wastewood, industrial wastewood. – Mark Kendall, Oregon Department of Energy
- Woody Biomas Working Group – Scott Leavengood
- Other Feedstocks
- Food Processing Wastestreams – Yanyun Zhao, Food Innovation Center, OSU
- Animal Production and Industrial Wastestreams – Mike Gamroth, Dept. of Animal Sciences, OSU
- Algae and Microbial Feedstocks – Anthony Turhollow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Technology Drivers in the West
Moderator: Dennis Stiles, Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
- Biorefining Choices - Fuels and Chemicals from our Renewable Forest Resource – Dave Panco, Weyerhaeuser
- Challenges of scale with distributed, low density feedstocks – Gary Banowetz, USDA/ARS
- Renewable Energy Technologies – Brad Zinger, Venture Capital Fund
- Innovation and reality: challenges for success – Gareth Mayhead, University of California, Berkeley
- A Snapshot of Selected Emerging Technologies for Bio-derived Fuels and Energy – Landis Kannberg, Microproducts Breakthrough Institute
Session B – Production & Aggregation Technology
- Consolidated Agricultural Working Groups
- Consolidated Woody Working Groups
- Consolidated Other Feedstocks Working Groups
Session C – Conversion Technology Working
Groups
Coordinator: John Bolte, Dept. of Biological
and Ecological Engineering, OSU
- Biochemical Working Group – Christine Kelly, Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, OSU
- Thermochemical – Dennis Stiles, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Other Technologies – John Bolte, Biological and Ecological Engineering, OSU
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Managing Volume in a Mixed Feedstock, Specialty
Crop Region: Issues Affecting Sustainability
Moderator: Phil Rasmussen Western SARE
- Simply Sustainable – Phil Rasmussen, WSARE
- Policy Design for Biofuel Markets: An Economic Perspective – Jon Yoder, Washington State University
- Role of State: Hawaii Fuels Through Farming – Priscilla Thompson, Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism
Session D - Cross-Cutting Working Groups
- Environmental sustainability – Catherine Clark and Yao Yin, OSU
- Economics/Policy – Jon Yoder and Phillip Wandschneider, School of Economic Sciences, WSU
- Business Models for Biofuels/Bioproduct Implementation – Dennis Stiles, Pacific Northwest National Lab
- Communications & Education – Peg Herring, Extension and Experiment Station Communications, OSU
Afternoon Sessions
- Making the case for pursuing the higher value bioproduct – Steve Petrie, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, OSU
- Focus and expected outcomes for presentations/briefs – Jan Auyong, Western Regional Center
Working Groups prepare consolidated concepts
Where do we go from here?
- John Ferrell, U.S. DOE
- Thayne Dutson, Western Regional Center
- Phil Rasmussen, Western SARE
- Richard Nelson, Western Governor’s Association
For more information, please contact
Ellie Larsen
Sun Grant Western Regional Center
541-737-9353
sungrant@oregonstate.edu