Biomass Asia Workshop[malaysia/asia/japan]

Biomass Asia Workshop Program

Day2 21November 2007

Room

Room 1
Palm Oil Energy Complex Model

Chair:
Chen Sau Soon (SIRIM,Malaysia)
Tomoaki Minowa (AIST, Japan)

Room 2
Utilisation of Agriculture and Wood Wastes

Chair :
Guangwen Xu (CAS, China)
Takahiro Yoshida (FFPRI, Japan)
0900-0920

Palm Oil Industry in Malaysia

Dato' Dr. Choo Yuen May,
Deputy Director-General, Malaysian Palm Oil Board

Brazil: Brazilian Present and
Future Ethanol Production
- Biomass Ethanol Potential

Elba P.S.Bon
Associate Professor in Biochemistry,
Chemistry Institute,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Cambodia: Biomass in Cambodia

Lieng Vuthy
Deputy Director, Department of
Energy Techique, Ministry of
Industry, Mines and Energy

China: High Efficient Conversion
of Cellulosic Process Residue into
Middle-Caloric Gas

Guangwen Xu
Professor, Institute of Process Engineering, CAS

Indonesia: Agricultural and Wood
Waste Potentials and Utilization
in Indonesia

Unggul Priyanto
Director, Energy Resources Development Technology Center, BPPT

Japan: Biomass Refinery Systems -Case Studt at Miyako Island, Japan-

Yoshiyuki Shinogi
Head, Laboratory of Farmland
Engineering, Department of Land and Water Resources, National Institute for Rural Engineering, NARO

0920-0940

Electricity Generation from Palm Oil Mills in Indonesia

(extended abstract)

Soni Solistia Wirawan
Head of Institute for Engineering
and Technology System Design
(Engineering Center), BPPT,
Indonesia

0940-1000

Palm Oil Energy Complex and
CDM

Yoshihito Shirai
Professor, Graduate School of Life
Science and Systems Engineering,
Kyushu Institute of Technology,
Japan

1000-1020

Potential of Oil Palm Trunk as a
Source for Ethanol Production

Ryohei Tanaka
FFPRI, Japan

co-authored by Yutaka Mori (JIRCAS)
Mohd Nor Mohd Yusoff (FRIM)
Othman Sulaiman (USM)
Shu Yoshida (Sojitz Machinery
Corporation)

 

 

1020-1040 Coffee Break
1040-1100

Biomass Plastics from Palm Oil Mill Effluent in Malaysia

Mohamad Ali Hassan
Dean, Faculty of Biotechnology
and Biomolecular Sciences,
University Putra Malaysia(UPM),
Malaysia

Laos: Brief Report of Biomass in
LAO PDR

Bouathep Malaykham
Chief of Electric Power Management
Division, Department of Electricity,
Ministry of Energy and Mines

Myanmar: Anhydrous Ethanol
Production

Su Su Hlaing
Lecturer of Department of Chemical
Engineering, Mandalay
Technological University

Philippines:Outlook of Biomass
Industry in the Philippines

Ruby B. De Guzman
Supervising Science Research
Specialist Alternative Fuels and
Energy Technology Division,
Department of Energy

Thailand:Zero Waste
Agriculture for Jatropha
Plantation

Siriluck Nivitchanyong
Assistant Director, MTEC,
Alternative Energy Program Host,
NSTDA

Vietnam:Utilization of
Agricultural and Wood Wastes in
Vietnam

Tran Dinh Man
Deputy Director, Institute of
Biotechnology, VAST

Discussion
Moderator's Summary
Moderator: Yukihiko Matsumura

(Hiroshima University, Japan)

1100-1120

Co-firing of Biomass with Coal for
Power Generation

Suthum Patumsawad
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Mongkut’s
Institute of Technology North
Bangkok (KMITNB), Thailand

1120-1140

Benchmarking of Biodiesel Fuel
Standards for Vehicles in East
Asia

Shinichi Goto
Director, Research Center for New
Biomass Technology Research
Center, AIST, Japan

1140-1200

Production of Second-Generation
Biofuels from Palm Wastes

Shinichi Yano
Senior Research Scientist,
Biomass Technology Research
Center, AIST, Japan

1200-1220

Discussion

   
1220-1330 Lunch / Poster Session
For Sustainable Biomass Utilization
Chair: Yoshihito Shirai (Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
1330-1355
Asia Biomass Community
Issei Sawa
Senior Manager, Liquid Biofuel, New Energy Business Unit, Mitsubishi Corporation, Japan
1355-1420
Financing for Biomass and Renewable Energy Projects
Mohd Nordin Che Omar
Manager of High Technology, representing Chairman of Bank Pembangunan Malaysia
1420-1445
Evaluation of Environmental Impacts of Biomass Utilisation by LCA
Masayuki Sagisaka
Deputy Director, Life Cycle Assessment Research Center, AIST, Japan
1445-1510
Improving Drought and Salt Stress Tolerance in Plants by Gene Transfer
Yasunari Fujita
Senior researcher, Biological Resources Division, JIRCAS, Japan
1530-1600 Coffee Break
Way Forward Session
-Panel Discussion-
Moderator: Shinya Yokoyama (Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
1600-1730
Moderator's Summary : Energy Situation in Asian Region

<Panelists>
Haibin Li, China
Wahono Sumaryono, Indonesia
Kinya Sakanishi, Japan
Mohamad Ali Hassan, Malaysia
Peesamai Jenvanitpanjakul, Thailand
Tran Dinh Man, Vietnam

for the 5th Biomass-Asia Workshop

Closing Remarks
1730-1740
Masakazu Yamazaki
Vice President, AIST, Japan
1740-1750
Chen Sau Soon
Senior General Manager, Environment & Bioprocess Technology Centre
SIRIM, Malaysia
2000-2130 Workshop Dinner hosted by AIST