Bioenergy Australia, an information and networking alliance of 83 government and private sector organisations with an interest in the development of sustainable energy and products from biomass, is holding its 13th annual conference on November 26-28 at the Sebel Albert Park, Melbourne. Source: Timberbiz
A post-conference technical tour to bioenergy facilities is planned to supplement the conference.
The conference tour on November 28 is to visit an inner city anaerobic digester, a 9MW power station fuelled on biogas, a high rate algal pilot plant, a 200kW microturbine at a waste water treatment plant, and a large fluidised bed combustor at a paper mill.
The conference program will have more than 100 presentations, covering policies and programs, bioenergy projects and project development case studies, and will cover biomass feedstocks and supply aspects, biomass heat and power, pyrolysis, gasification, liquid biofuels, algae for biofuels, carbon sequestration via biochar, biogas, energy from waste, plus overarching aspects such as greenhouse gas emissions of bioenergy systems and sustainability issues.
Professor Michael Borowitzka of the Algae Research Centre, Murdoch University is co-convening BEAM-RIRDC algae sessions in the conference program and will provide one of the keynote presentations.
The program will also include an extended ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into Bioenergy and its Role in a Low Carbon Future, with well-known bioenergy identity Professor Ralph Sims from New Zealand taking on the role of ‘Commissioner’. Sims will also provide the conference dinner address.
The conference will include poster sessions and a trade exhibition. It brings together biomass feedstock producers and suppliers, waste management organisations, project developers, energy companies, equipment suppliers, investors, Government agencies, research and research funding bodies to address factors crucial to the development of bioenergy in Australia.
