7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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7:30 am - 1:30 pm |
Expo Open
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8:30 am - 10:00 am |
Concurrent Tracks
Track 1: Production and Operations
Deploying Best-in-Class Analytical Methods to Optimize Fermentation, Control Infection and Increase Overall Ethanol Production
Read Description
Ethanol producers know that the financial success of their operation correlates tightly to their ability to maximize yield one fermentation at a time. Maximizing yield requires close observation and analysis of each fermentation so that should conditions begin to stray from optimal, producers can intervene and mitigate disruptions before they can impact yield. The challenge for ethanol producers has always been the quality of information they can gather and the speed by which it can be obtained. The presentations in this panel highlight the leading approaches that allow lab personnel to gain a better understanding of the upsets facing their fermentation in a more-timely fashion, enabling them to take meaningful corrective action and preserve yield.
- Dan Biggerstaff, Technical Director, Enertech Solutions Inc.
Evaluation of a New HPLC Column for Quality Control Analysis in Fermentation Process Control
- Jonathon Speed, Product & Applications Manager, Keit Spectrometers
Taking Analysis Out of the Lab and Into the Plant
- Allen Ziegler, CEO, Archangel Inc.
Introducing the Revolutionary, New, GenesisgeneTM, Onsite DNA Microbiological Technology that Allow Biofuel Facilities to Determine Both Total and Specific Bacteria in Less Than One Hour
- Matt Hawkins, Applications Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
Use of a Molecular Technique to Determine the Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria within an Industrial Mash Sample
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Track 1: Production and Operations
The Technologies Available to Producers Today Looking to Manufacture Higher Value Fuel and Chemical Products
Read Description
The impulse to diversify primary and coproduct streams was strong before a prolonged trade war with China tamped down global ethanol demand. Now, as producers face unprecedented uncertainty in demand for their traditional product offering, producers are hungry for an opportunity to access alternative markets, shoring up plant balance sheets with new revenue streams. The presentations in this panel showcase the technologies currently available to producers hoping to break out of the ethanol/DDGS box and redirect a portion of their output to new industrial chemical and feed markets.
- Chris Robbins, Field Technical Manager – Process Technologies Group, U.S. Water, a Kurita company
Ten Years of Progress in Process Deposit Control
- Keith Jakel, Sales & Marketing Lead, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
Ethanol the Coproduct: How Diversifying Products Reduces Reliance on Ethanol and Sets the Stage for Efficiencies
- Chuck Gallop, Operations Development Manager, ICM Inc.
Selecting ICM Technologies to Meet Your Plant-Specific Goals and Operating Strategies
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Track 3: Coproducts and Product Diversification
The Technologies Available to Ethanol Producers Looking to Broaden Their Coproduct Portfolio and Derive Increased Revenues from It
Read Description
Ethanol producers and technology providers alike know there remains unrealized value within plant coproduct streams. Presenters in this panel bring that notion into sharp focus, sharing the leading pathways available to producers eager to innovate within their coproduct offering. Rather than settle for business as usual coproduct strategy, these presentations will get producers thinking about producing more specialized feed products that could garner higher prices from feed markets typically closed to traditional DDGS volumes.
- Jennifer Aurandt-Pilgrim, Director of Technology, Marquis Energy LLC
Ethanol Plant Integration of Increased Oil Recovery, Energy Savings and Coproduct Diversification
- Jaclyn DeMartini, Scientist, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
Maximizing Value from Corn Coproducts
- Daniel Hayes, CEO, Celignis Biomass Analysis Laboratory
Analytical Methods for Enhancing Revenue Potential from DDGS
- Douglas Tiffany, Research Fellow, University of Minnesota
Using Solid State Fermentation of DDGS to Enhance Critical Amino Acids
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Biodiesel Production Technology Summit
Alternative Approaches & New Tech Integration
Read Description
Solvent technologies, energy optimization and process integration are the focuses of this panel, which lies at the nexus of new technologies and improving existing process designs. Be sure not to miss this fast-moving, jampacked session, which will leave producers with plenty of considerations for taking their biodiesel manufacturing to the next level.
- Josef Doerfler, President, ZT Doerfler
Solvent Process Technology: Unique and Advanced Technology for Improvement of Existing Biodiesel Plants or Ethanol Plants Interested in Integration
- Ryan Davis, Principal Member Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
The Lactate and Fusel Alcohol Platform: Biofuels Production, and Biochemical Upgrading to Superior Performance Biodiesel
- András Kovács, Director, QS Biodiesel Ltd.
Refuse Fats to Biodiesel Via Co-Sol Apolar Solvent Technology
- Chris Getty, President, AE Resources Inc.
The Multi-Energy Optimization Process
- Marcelo Cantele, USFC/TransferTech
Rational Integration of Conventional and Enzymatic Routes in Large-scale Biodiesel Production
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10:00 am - 10:30 am |
Refreshment Break in the Expo
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10:30 am - Noon |
Concurrent Tracks
Track 1: Production and Operations
Assessing the Control Options Available to Ethanol Producers in Their Never-Ending War Against Bacterial Infection
Read Description
Protecting an ethanol plant from bacterial infection has always required continuous attention from producers. Fortunately, they’ve been supported by nearly continuous innovation around optimized control strategies. This panel will serve as a showcase of the ongoing effort to design, test and deploy effective control measures for commercial-scale ethanol production. Presentations cover a range of topics including the importance of designing solutions specific to the problematic microorganism populations, the use of hops to control infection and focusing cleaning efforts on the areas most conducive to bacterial outbreaks.
- James Steele, Lactic Solutions General Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
Ecology and Control of the Microbiota of Ethanol Biorefineries
- Cam Fowler, Senior Director Technical Service & Marketing, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
Cleaning the Most Common Infection Source in Ethanol Production (Beer Mash Area)
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Track 1: Production and Operations
How Effective Dehydration and Water Treatment Strategies Can Drive Down Operational Expenses, Improve Carbon Intensity Scores and Increase Plant Throughput
Read Description
Effectively managing water usage is a herculean task for plant production teams. It requires massive amounts of energy to heat, move, treat, separate from ethanol, cool and return to the process or discharge. The good news for producers is the economic value for technologies that increase the efficiency of any of these process steps continues to spur incredible innovation. This panel features innovation in water management from dehydration all the way through wastewater treatment providing producers with different pathways to drive down the overall cost of their operation’s water program.
- Manaf Farhan, President & CEO, EMG International LLC
High-Rate Anaerobic Digester Technology for Wastewater Treatment, Cost Reduction, and Renewable Energy Generation at Ethanol and Biofuel Facilities: System Components, Performance Data, and Realized Benefits
- Daniel Jones, Ethanol Industry Leader, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
Improving Facility Production Rates through Simplistic Water Balance Improvement Strategy
- Trond Heggenhougen, Operating Officer and Director, Whitefox Technologies Limited
Ethanol Production Process: A Step-Change in Overall Efficiency by the Use of Membranes
- Kraig Kmiotek, Product Specialist – Process Analytics, Metrohm USA Inc.
From Ethanol to Waste Water: Online Analysis for Process Improvement
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Track 2: Leadership and Financial Management
Building a Results-Oriented Plant Culture that Inspires Your Team, Increases Production and Reduces Costly Employee Turnover
Read Description
While plant leadership teams have no trouble imagining the impact a fully-invested, excited and empowered team could have on their operation, intentionally building such a culture has proven more difficult. This panel promises to push past the leadership clichés and offer producers real strategies they can begin deploying today to inspire their people and align their team with the operational and financial goals established for the plant by its board of directors.
- Bart Nichols, Talent Advisor, K-Coe Isom
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast!
- Esther Homandberg, Manager, Bion Companies
Engaging Skills
- Kala Jenkins, Agriculture Consultant, K-Coe Isom LLP
Leading from WHY
- Gary Weihs, Managing Partner, Kincannon Reed
Developing Executive Presence
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Biodiesel Production Technology Summit
Hydrotreating Technologies & Partnerships
Read Description
Renewable diesel is on the rise, and although many large-scale biorefineries are being established by well-known petroleum companies, there is another side to this growing market. Meet hydrotreating process technology providers and an EPC contractor making flexible, cost-effective, scalable options available, and gain perspective on this exciting market through an historical account.
- Larry Sullivan, Professor, Trident Technical College
Evolution of Biodiesel and Related Technologies: A 20-Year Perspective
- Matthew Clingerman, Director of Technology, Sulzer GTC Technology US
Flexible and Cost-effective Hydrotreating Technology for Renewable Diesel Production
- Michele Rubino, Principal, 3Peaks Consulting
Renewable Diesel Scaled to Your Feedstock
- Adam Belyamani, Chief Operating Officer, Saola Energy LLC
The Road to Higher Profits: How a Renewable Diesel Plant Fits the Concept of a Diversified Biorefinery
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Noon - 1:30 pm |
Lunch in the Expo
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1:30 pm |
Exhibitor Move-Out |
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Concurrent Tracks
Track 1: Production and Operations
Capturing and Bringing Abundant Operational Data to Bear on Your Plant’s Overall Operational Strategy
Read Description
If operational data is captured but never informs future production iterations, was it worth capturing in the first place? This panel will help producers move beyond data collection to informed action. Buoyed by presentations rooted in mining data to optimize process efficiency the panel will also make room for presentations that focus on ensuring the data plant teams gather is accurate and reliable as well as the growing potential of artificial intelligence in ethanol production. Panelists will make the case that the plants achieving the highest yields tomorrow will be those who make a commitment to data-based operational decision making today.
- Ben Fuchs, Global Applications Leader, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
Maximize Your Now, Predict Your Future
- Don Mack, Industry Manager, Siemens Industry Inc.
Digitalization Use Cases
- Andrew Hawkins, Director of Laboratory Services, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
Regain Control of Your Lab Instruments: How to Use Control Charts
- Hank Brittain, Director of Optimization & Advanced Control, OpX Control Inc.
48% Average Variability Reduction at 36 Ethanol Plants: Where do you Stack Up; or Are you Missing Out?
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Track 1: Production and Operations
Minding the Tight Correlation Between Plant Cleanliness, Plant Efficiency and Ethanol Yield
Read Description
Curbing bacterial contamination events may be the most obvious motivation behind robust plant cleaning programs, but it certainly isn’t the only one. Biofilms and mineral deposit impede cooling capacity, slow beer feed rates and significantly reduce the expected lifespan of expensive components. Not surprisingly then, effective plant cleaning has become an art and this panel features providers who continue to push toward more cost-effective cleaning approaches and protocol. Ethanol producers can expect to hear about the enhancements and refinements ready to be deployed into their cleaning programs packed with data about the efficacy of these novel approaches and the demonstrated financial impact of their recent deployments.
- Dennis Bayrock, R&D Director, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
Effective CIP at Fuel Ethanol Plants: Understanding the Operating Dynamics and Chemistries of Caustic Management in the Dilute Caustic Tank
- Andrew Ledlie, Marketing Manager, Solenis LLC
Novel Cooling Water Treatment Strategy Increases Ethanol Production while Reducing Operating Costs and Carbon Intensity
- Monty McCoy, Director of Technology, Process Technologies, U.S. Water, a Kurita company
Enhancing Ethanol Quality to Produce High Value Chemical Raw Materials
- Chris Nagel, Staff Scientist, Ecolab Inc.
Product Development for Fuel Ethanol Total Plant Cleaning
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Track 2: Leadership and Financial Management
Position-Specific Training Approaches to Increase Employee Effectiveness Across Your Operation
Read Description
The presentations in this panel assert that targeted, job-specific training can simultaneously increase the value that staff add to a plant while also creating a more meaningful and valuable work experience for the employees. Presentations range from the ways training can fill very specific skill gaps all the way to the importance of lab personnel understanding how their daily tasks inform and impact the production efforts of the whole plant. Together, these presentations will make it clear that best-in-class training simultaneously benefits both the plant and its employees.
- Rick Cowman, President, Welding Training Solutions Inc.
Dealing with the Skills Gap in the Pool of Prospective Employees
- Shelly Siemonsma, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
Increasing Value as Bio-Refinery Lab Personnel
- Neal Jakel, Vice President, Strategy & Technology, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
The Benefits of, and How to Manage for an Engineer at Your Facility
- Jim Carrel, Reliability Coach, Reliability Management Strategies
Developing Your Competency-Based Learning Model for Uptime and Reliability |
Track 3: Coproducts and Product Diversification
Rebooting the Industry’s Vision on the Opportunities for Coproducts within Global Food and Feed Markets
Read Description
As the ethanol industry scaled, having a relatively limited market for its feed coproduct didn’t do much to limit industry growth. DDGS volumes found their way to into ruminant rations, and producers were satisfied with the revenue streams the beef and dairy markets offered. Now that the industry has reached maturity the need to diversify and capture even more value from coproduct streams is paramount. The presentations in this panel will underscore the importance of developing new feed products for different markets, getting them tested and validated and jump-starting their regular inclusion in feeding regimens in swine, poultry and fish markets.
- Pete Moss, President, Cereal Process Technologies LLC
Dry Fractionation: Implementing a New Vision and New Technology for a New Decade
- Mallorie Wilken, Technical Consultant, ICM Inc.
Advancing the Feed Industry through Education, Classification and Market Development
- Michael Franko, Vice President, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
Feeding Trials: How Data Advances Protein Profits
- Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
Relieve World Hunger with Corn Protein from Midwest
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Biodiesel Production Technology Summit
Biodiesel & Renewable Diesel Pretreatment Systems
Read Description
Some of the biggest names in biodiesel process design are leveraging their decades of experience to not only improve biodiesel pretreatment technologies as the industry increasingly relies on lower-cost, lower-quality feedstock, but also to provide much-needed pretreatment services to the fast-growing renewable diesel sector. Learn the latest developments in pretreatment from well-established players and an emerging startup.
- Jim Willits, VP Sales & Marketing, Desmet Ballestra North America
Processing Technologies for Pretreatment of HVO/HEFA Feedstocks
- Bill Morphew, Global Commercial Director - Liquids Segment, Crown Americas
Maximizing Contaminant Removal from Waste Feedstocks
- Christine Riedl, Technical Sales Manager, BDI-BioEnergy International
Pretreating Waste-based Feedstock for Nearly 25 Years
- Tara Mancini, President, LetzBiofuels
Up to 100 Percent FFA Pretreatment System for Biodiesel
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Refreshment Break
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Concurrent Tracks
Track 1: Production and Operations
Back to the Basics: Why Profitability Ultimately Hinges on a Plant’s Ability to Maximize Starch Conversion Via Efficient Fermentation
Read Description
This back-to-the-basics panel will take an in-depth look at the critical importance of bringing high quality starch into a plant and making as much available for fermentation as possible. The panel will begin by looking closely at inbound grain quality and how that reverberates through the entire production cycle. The conversation then pivots to strategies for maximizing starch availability for fermentation via improved solubilization before concluding the discussion with a presentation on a new approach of predicting ethanol yield, fermentor by fermentor.
- Stephanie Gleason, Senior Manager Technical Service, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
Impact of Feedstock and Feedstock Quality on Ethanol Production
- Chris Ashworth, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
Starch, Fermentation Costs, & Yield
- Elizabeth Waguespack, Scientist, Novozymes
Better Insights for Production Improvements: Measuring What Really Matters for Profitability
- Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
Quantifying Ethanol Yield on a Per-Fermentor Basis in Commercial Ethanol Plants
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Track 2: Leadership and Financial Management
Management Strategies Aimed at Efficiently Aligning Team Member Skills with Operational Needs
Read Description
To fully capture the potential of each plant employee, management teams must do their part to ensure they are both competent and empowered; having one without the other diminishes the potential value of each team member. This panel will ask plant management teams to consider not only how they deliver timely and regular skills training, but also if their operation cultivates a workplace culture that rewards employees willing and able to raise their performance and do their part to drive toward ambitious plant goals.
- Bart Nichols, Talent Advisor, K-Coe Isom
Put Me In, Coach!
- Wade Rummel, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
Consistent Operation by Use of Training and Procedures
- Ron Faciane, Director, GP Strategies Corporation
Building a Competent Workforce that Achieves Business Success
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Track 3: Coproducts and Product Diversification
Available Biological and Technological Pathways to Increased Corn Oil, Protein and Fiber Capture
Read Description
The rise and proliferation of corn oil capture from plant distillers’ grains streams changed forever coproduct strategies for ethanol plant teams. What was once viewed a singular feed product for a limited market is now viewed as an amalgam of individual components that would likely carry more value if they could be isolated and captured. The presentations in this panel focus on the technologies available to producers to better isolate and capture greater quantities of corn oil and protein while also showcasing a biological pathway to increased ethanol volumes via cellulose liberated from corn kernel fiber.
- Kevin Moore, VP of Advanced Separation Group, Trucent
Distillers Corn Oil Extraction: Dosage Control and Optimization through Use of an Integrated Chemical Feed Dosage System
- Bob Fesser, Industry Sales Manager, Hydro-Thermal Corporation
Using DSI to Enhance Coproduct Yields
- David Gogerty, Product Application Scientist, Novozymes
Unlocking Benefits with Enhanced Fiber Conversion
- Adam Belyamani, Chief Operating Officer, Saola Energy LLC
The Road to Higher Profits: How a Renewable Diesel Plant Fits the Concept of a Diversified Biorefinery
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Biodiesel Production Technology Summit
Posttreatment & Coproduct Upscaling
Read Description
Steps taken—or not taken—at the backend of a biodiesel plant can have profound implications on quality, marketability and value of fuel and coproducts. Whether it’s distillation of biodiesel and glycerin, upgrading the highly versatile glycerin molecule to new chemicals, or simply gaining a better understanding of the detrimental effects incomplete processing can have on fuel quality, this final panel will strike a delicate balance between technical considerations and practical solutions.
- Jay M. Railey, PE, President, Technology Development Corporation & Recovery Technologies Corporation
Post-Distillation of Biodiesel: Lab Data and Industrial Practice
- Dave Bradley, Chief Scientific Officer, DBNRG LLC
High Vacuum Distillation of Glycerol and Biodiesel: Using Science to Make Better Biodiesel
- Frankie Mathis, President, Smisson-Mathis Energy LLC
Brown Grease to Biodiesel Production and Novel Distillation for Sulfur Removal
- Rahul Khandelwal, Technology Manager, Sulzer GTC Technology US
GT-ProG: Glycerin to Propylene Glycol
- Richard Heiden, Chief Science & Technology Officer, R.W. Heiden Associates
Unexpected Formation of Saturated Monoglycerides, Glycerol and Steryl Glucoside Deposits in Biodiesel Fuels
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