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Now Accepting Presentation Ideas!

Presentation ideas will be accepted for the 2018 International Biomass Conference & Expo through December 1, 2017. Presentation ideas may be submitted in one of four tracks:

Track 1: Pellets & Densified Biomass
Track 2: Biomass Power & Thermal
Track 3: Biogas & Waste-to-Energy
Track 4: Advanced Biofuels & Biobased Chemicals

Each presentation idea will be reviewed by a steering committee of qualified industry professionals by December 11, 2017. Speaker presentation acceptance and rejection e-mails will be delivered by December 20, 2017, and the preliminary agenda (all technical breakout sessions) will be posted online the week of December 25, 2017.

Speakers receive a 53% discount on Full-Conference Registration
  View Guideline Specifications Here

We are actively seeking abstracts and presentation ideas in the following subject areas:

Track 1: Pellets & Densified Biomass Dust Management/Fire & Explosion Risk Abatement Pellet Storage Solutions Inbound Material Handling Strategies and Best Practices Plant Design Considerations The Business Case for Non-Pellet Densification Approaches Torrefaction/Enhanced Pellet Production Prolonging Pellet Press Wear Part Life Quality Assurance Programs & Best Practices Feedstock Tracking/Sustainability Requirements Pelletizing Non-Woody Biomass Feedstocks Emissions Control from Drying Lines and Pelletizing Lines Safe Pellet Storage, Handling and Shipping

Track 2: Biomass Power & Thermal Technical Considerations of Biomass Co-firing Maximizing Boiler Performance Small Scale Combined Heat and Power District Biomass Heating Case Studies for Biomass Thermal Deployments Upgraded Biomass as a Coal Replacement Driving State Policy to Create Increased Opportunity for Biomass Heat and Power Clean Power Plan: What it Could Mean for Biomass Gasification Making the Most of Planned Outages Strategic Operation & Maintenance Programs

Track 3: Biogas & Landfill Gas Generating Cellulosic RINs at Biogas Facilities Co-Digestion Approaches Mechanical Approaches to Increased Biogas Production Chemical and Biological Approaches to Increased Biogas Production Digester Case Studies Gas Clean-Up Strategies Digester Deployment at Existing Bioenergy Facilities Biogas at Wastewater Treatment Facilities Digester Design Principles Strategic Operation & Maintenance Programs Deploying Digesters to Manage Brewery and Food Waste Streams Biogas as a Vehicle Fuel Financing a Biogas Project Monetizing Digestate

Track 4: Advanced Biofuels & Biochemicals Project Updates Engineering Workable Supply Chains Agricultural Residue Collection, Aggregation and Storage Storage Strategies: Preserving Feedstock Viability Pretreatment Approaches and Strategies Pyrolysis Non-traditional feedstocks Algal cultivation, harvest and conversion Biological Conversion Strategies Thermochemical Conversion Strategies

Have additional questions? Please send inquiries to:

Tim Portz, Vice President, Content & Executive Editor
BBI International
tportz@bbiinternational.com

Specifications for Speaker Presentation Ideas

Specificity: This is crucial for technology or process related abstracts. Make sure your presentation idea promises to convey, in specific terms, how a technology, system or process will improve production, reduce costs, and/or increase value. The abstract should promise to compare a new approach to an old way of doing things, or highlight process/production improvements or technological breakthroughs.

Relevance: The presentation idea should indicate that the presentation will highlight something that will make significant near-term impacts in its given area to a majority of the affected facilities/crops/processes/projects in the region.

Detail: While abstracts do not include schematics, photos, graphics, spreadsheets or pro formas, the abstract should indicate that the speaker will illustrate the effect of the technology/process/business approach by incorporating such visual tools into the presentation.

Understandability: If there are very complex processes or scientific/economic ideas being presented, the abstract should indicate that measures will be taken to make the information understandable (within reason) to a diverse spectrum of conference attendees. 

Word Count: While there is technically no limitations on the length of your abstract, we ask that it be 200 to 400 words in length.

Have additional questions? Please send inquiries to:

Tim Portz, Vice President, Content & Executive Editor
BBI International
tportz@bbiinternational.com