Engineering Conferences International announces the second conference in its series on Bioenergy - II: Fuels and Chemicals from Renewable Resources.

The conference will address the state-of-the-art challenges of the bioenergy generation and biomass conversion into fuel products and chemicals and their technical, scientific, social and economical barriers. It will evaluate the current progress that has been made in bioenergy and biomass conversion research and development, identify industrial successes and best practices, and discuss the most promising future directions. In addition, it will assess the means to overcome the current constrains for its commercial production. Environmentally sound biobased fuels (ethanol, butanol, methane, biodiesel, biohydrogen, biopower, etc.) and products (biochar, biooils, chemicals, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals) can make important contributions to the world socio-economic sustainability and its energy security, rural economic development, and environmental quality. The development of additional renewable energy resources from agriculture and agroforestry wastes will all contribute greatly to the faster implementation of biorefineries.

The conference will focus on a comprehensive view of the impact of the recent advancement and development on the production of bioenergy from biomass via biological, thermal and chemical conversions. The topics of interest will consist of the following: bioethanol production and technological development, anaerobic and aerobic processes for biogas generation, biohydrogen, biobutanol, microbial fuel cells, biomass thermal conversion (gasification, pyrolysis, biopower), biochar, syngas conversion, biodiesel and biorefinery integration. Related environmental, political, social, or economical issues will also be included.

The technical program and the plenary lectures will be selected to reflect the main themes:

Theme I: Theme II: Theme III: Theme IV: Theme V: Theme VI:

Bioethanol and Biobutanol Biodiesel Biomass Thermal Conversion, Biochar, Biooils, Biogas, and Syngas Conversion Biogas, Biohydrogen and Microbial Fuel Cells Chemicals from Biomass and Biorefinery Integration Related environmental issues, policies, socio-economic considerations (including energy balance involved in the production of bioenergy)

Attendees will represent both fundamental and applied science of the following areas: bio/chemical engineering, agricultural engineering, bioprocess engineering, food chemistry, biology, bio/chemistry, environmental science, physics, engineering and economics.

Oral and Poster Presentations and Manuscripts Publication
The oral presentations will consist of both plenary lectures (45-60 min) and presentations (15 min). To enhance the discussion among participants, each oral presentation will also include a poster presentation to be held in the evening of the day of the oral presentation. Additional free-forum posters will also be presented. All presentations (plenary lectures, oral presentations, and posters) will be refereed and selected on the basis of extended abstracts (max. 500 words). There will also be round table discussions / workshops and other technical activities that will enhance and enrich the technical program.

Each presentation will be accompanied by a 8-page manuscript which will be published online in the ECI Symposium Series (http://services.bepress.com/eci/). The authors will also be strongly encouraged to submit full manuscripts for full review to the International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (http://www.bepress.com/ijcre/) which will publish a special issue on the subject.

For further technical information, please contact: Ana Beatriz Henriques, doctorate student and conference secretary, Washington University, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, E-mail: abh1@cec.wustl.edu Phone: 1-314-935-6076 and Muthanna Al-Dahhan, Professor and Co-Director, Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory (CREL), Washington University, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, E-mail: Muthanna@wustl.edu Phone: 1-314-935-7187.