Workshop
Working Groups
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
Session A – Biomass Working Groups
Moderator: Charles Kinoshita, University of
Hawaii
- 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 (Sub groups met together and prepared a combined report.)
- 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
- 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
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
Session D - Cross-Cutting Working Groups
Moderator: Phil Rasmussen Western SARE
- 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
For more information, please contact
Ellie Larsen
Sun Grant Western Regional Center
541-737-9353
sungrant@oregonstate.edu