International Congress «BioGas — 2008»

Preliminary Program

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Day one, 26 of November 2008, Wednesday

8:00 — 9:30 Welcome coffee

9:30 — 11:00 Legislation and Biofuels Markets: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

Biofuels and Bioenergy in Russia and abroad
Alex Ablaev, Russian Biofuels Association

Bioeconomy as the base of sustainable development of Russian regions
Raif VASILOV, President, Russian Biotechnologist Society

Russian Bioenergy Potential
Sergey VARFOLOMEEV, Director of Institute of Biochemical Physics, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Science, Professor of Moscow University, Ph.D.
Sergey KALYGNY, Head of expert's team, Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO)

Russian State Bioenergy Policy
Fatikh SIBAGATULLIN, State Dume Deputy

Biogas industry in Europe and in Scandinavia
Tatiana STERN, Associate Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Biogas technology and Equipment in Russia
Eugene PANTSKHAVA, Center EcoRos, Moscow, Russia

Concept of the Russian State Bill: «Bioenergy Development in Russia»
Anatoly ARTUSHIN, corresponding member of Russian Agricultural Academy of Science

11:00 — 11:30 Coffee-break

11:30 — 13:00 Legislation and Biofuels Markets: Session two 

Legislative Initiatives regarding obligatory inclusion of fuel Bioadditives in fuel
Sergey YARUNIN, adviser to General director, Corporation Biotechnologies

Legislative Support of Biofuels Production in Russia
Mikhail ERMOLOVICH, Adviser to Russian Duma Deputy

Case study: Implementing a project for the development of the Russian biobased energy sector
Hans JANSEN, Senior project manager, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Switzerland

Development of Bioenergy industry in Russia
Vladimir BASKOV, head of the Bioenergy Development Center, Ministry of Agriculture of Russia

State Policy in Biofuel and Renewable Energy in Russia
Mikhail DAVIDOV, leading expert of the department of ecology and renewable energy, Ministry of Energy, Russia

Current state and problems of production of diesel fuel with biological additives
Vladimir KAPUSTIN, General Director VNIPINeft (Russian Institute of Oil)

Bioenergy in Ukraine: when it will appeared?
Vitaly DAVIY, Director, Fuel Alternative, Ukraine

13:00 — 14:30 Lunch

14:30 — 16:00 Biogas Production at agricultural enterprises: Energy Optimization

Biomethane as a component of climate preserving energy mix of the future
Prof. Dr. Manfred RINGPFEIL, Dr.-Ing. Matthias GERHARDT, BIOPRACT GmbH, Berlin

Spent Grain utilization at Bioethanol Plants. Biogas equipment for potable alcohol, brewing and bioethanol plants
Roman KIRKYANOV, President «Zorg Eurasia» company

Modern technologies of processing of agricultural waste: from farm and field. Biogas from manure and plant residues
Peter KUCHERUK, Biomass, Kiev, Ukraine

16:00 — 16:30 Coffee-break

16:30 — 18:00 Financing of biogas projects by utilizing of «carbon credits»

Carbon Finance for Biogas
Torsten Merkel, CEO, Pure Energy Intelligence

Additional profitability of investment projects using Kyoto protocol: selling of the emissions reductions
Svetlana KOPYLOVA, Ilya KHANUKO, Tricorona Climate Change Management, Sweden

Utilizing of land field gas in Russia using Kiyoto mechanism — attractiveness and risks for investor
Alexander KLIMANOV, C6 Capital

Introduction to IFC Cleaner Production Program in Russia
Kristina Turilova, Team Leader, Russia Cleaner Production Program, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

18:00 Cocktail


Day two, 27 of November 2008, Thursday

8:30 — 9:30 Welcome coffee

9:30 — 11:00 Liquid fuel from non-food raw materials: pyrolysis, gasification, biogas

Biomass as the base for Energy Security and Potential of Regions Developments
Leo TRUSOV, General Director of Association of Cooperation in Advanced Technologies «Aspect»; PhD, Professor, Board Member of Scientific Advisory of Russian Fund of Technology Development

Manufacture of synthetic oil from biogas and biomass
V. MORDKOVICH, Head of laboratory of new materials of The Center of Researches and Developments

Ultratermoliz of wood biomass with production of commodity products
Vladimir PIALKIN, PhD professor, Saint-Petersburg Forest-Technical Academy
Diesel fuel from a wood waste, microtonnage technology for Russia
Viktor MOROZOV, director «TriVIM Ltd» (Sarov).

Pyrolysis in process, related to biofuels production
Sergey BRODSKI, Managing Director, Splainex Ecosystems LTD, Netherlands

11:00 — 11:30 Coffee-break

11:30 — 13:00 World Biogas Industry. The key moments of development in biogas industry — a current state

Creation of continental biogas power on the basis of biogas provinces of regions
Vladimir NIKITIN, Head of The Tver Center of Power Efficiency, Konstantin ILYIN, The Head of administration of Kalyazin region, Tver
Case Study: Biogas from agricultures wastes in pig farms
Peter Thulin, Marketing Director, biogas company PURAC, Sweden

13:00 — 14:30 Lunch

14:30 — 16:00 Development of projects of landfill biogas. Biogas as fuel for cogeneration installations

Biogas in Ukraine: biogas from domestic waste materials
Juri MATVEEV., Petr KUCHERUK, «Biomass», Kiev Ukraine

Development and utilization of biogas from domestic waste.
Alexander BOBYUL, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic Institute

How to profitably produce biogas? What is the best feedstock? How to use biogas: heat, electricity, fuel?
Sergey MOISEEV, General representative in Russia, 2G Energietechnik GmbH

16:00 — 16:30 Coffee-break

16:30 — 18:00 Building and management of successful biogas plant

Waste utilization of pig and poultry farms with production of biogas and fertilizers
Valentin TATARINOV, Konatem

Biogas installation with the recuperation of the thermal waste of fermentation
Shavkat IMOMOV, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration, Uzbekistan, Hwang Sang Gu, Kouenotech Co., LTD, Korea

18:00 Final