Umeå Renewable Energy
Meeting 2015
25-27 March
Stora hörsalen KBC
Chemical Biological Centre
KBC, Umeå
www.kbc.umu.se
www.kbc.umu.se
registration deadline 16 Mar
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Pictur e: Chris to ff er Boman, ” a burning pellet ”09:00-09:30 Registration and poster hanging
09:30-09:40
Welcome to UREM
CHRISTOFFER BOMAN AND CARLOS MARTIN
09:40-9:50
Opening address
HANS LINDBERG
Mayor, City of Umeå
09:50-10:35
Opening talk
THOMAS B. JOHANSSON
International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund
University, Sweden
10:35-11:00
Coffee break and poster viewing
Session 1: Renewable Feedstocks and Advanced Biomass Fuels
Chairperson: Sylvia Larsson
11:00-11:45
Biomass handling for valorisation: A shambolic crash between
deficient science and headstrong construction
MICHAEL BRADLEY
Director of The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology
University of Greenwich
11:45-12:15
A triptych of new opportunities
BENGT ”NIPPE” HYLANDER
ÅF, Sweden
12:15-12:45
GM trees for commercial use - where are we?
BJÖRN SUNDBERG
Stora Enso, Stockholm, Sweden
12:45-13:00
Hydrothermal treatment of lignocellulosic biomass for solid fuel
applications
MIKKO MÄKELÄ
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
13:00-14:15
Lunch and poster viewing
Day 1 Wednesday, 25 March
Session 2: Natural Photosynthesis
Chairperson: Christiane Funk
14:15-15:00
Cyanobacteria: from basic science to solar-powered catalysts for
green chemistry
WIM VERMAAS
Arizona State University, USA
15:00-15:30
The quantum design of solar-energy conversion in photosynthesis
ELISABET ROMERO
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
15:30-16:00
Coffee break and poster viewing
Session 2: Natural Photosynthesis (cont.)
Chairperson: Johannes Messinger
16:00-16:30
Simulating photosynthetic processes in Photosystem II by first
principles
LEONARDO GUIDONI
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of L’Aquila,
L’Aquila, Italy
16:30-17:00
First-row transition metal oxides as catalysts for water oxidation:
dynamic nature and parallels to the biological active site
IVELINA ZAHARIEVA
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
17:00-17:15
No interchange of the two substrate waters in the S
2-> S
3transition
of photosystem II
HÅKAN NILSSON
Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
17:15-19:00
Mingle and poster session
19:00-22:00
Conference dinner for all speakers, organisers, invited guests and
poster presenters
Session 3: System Analysis and Bioeconomy
Chairperson: Runar Brännlund
8:30-9:15
Tba
BRENT SOHNGEN
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
The Ohio State University, USA
9:15-9:45
Assessing the societal effects of promoting biomass growth and the
use of bioenergy – a cost-benefit analysis
TOMMY LUNDGREN
Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, Sweden
9:45-10:15
Next-generation biofuel production integrated with Swedish forest
industry
ELISABETH WETTERLUND
Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
10:15-10:45
Coffee break and poster viewing
Session 4: Biochemical conversion
Chairperson: Leif Jönsson/Carlos Martin
10:45-11:30
Bioenergy: people, planet, profit, and technology
Lee Lynd
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, USA
11:30-12:00
Second generation ethanol production in Brazil – present and future
perspectives
ANTONIO BONOMI
Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Campinas-SP, Brazil
12:00-12:30
Towards improved biomass and bioprocessing properties of wood in
poplar trees
HANNELE TUOMINEN
Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC), Sweden
Day 2 Thursday, 26 March
12:30-12:45
Ionic liquid pretreatment of cellulosic, hemicellulosic and
lignocellu-losic substrates
SANDRA WINESTRAND
Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå
12:45-14:00
Lunch and poster viewing
Session 5: Thermochemical conversion
Chairperson: Christoffer Boman
14:00-14:45
Gasification of biomass and waste: Challenges and opportunities
ALBERTO GÓMEZ-BAREA
University of Seville, Spain
14:45-15:15
Speciation of ash-forming elements in woody biomass and the effect
on thermal conversion processes
DANIEL LINDBERG
Åbo Academi University, Finland
15:15-15:45
Coffee break and poster viewing
Session 5: Thermochemical conversion (cont.)
Chairperson: Christoffer Boman
15:45-16:15
From theory to reality, some examples from the Domsjo Biorefinery
BJÖRN EDSTRÖM
Domsjö Fabriker, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
16:15-16:30
Real-time in situ gas analysis using laser spectroscopy – examples
from biomass combustion research
FLORIAN SCHMIDT
Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory (TEC-Lab), Applied Physics
and Electronics, Umeå University, Sweden
16:30-16:45
Control of particulate emissions from biomass combustion
JONATHAN FAGERSTRÖM
Thermochemical Energy Conversion Laboratory, Umeå University, Sweden
Session 6: Chemical-Catalytic Conversion
Chairperson: Jyri-Pekka Mikkola
8:30-9:15
Catalysis vs. biocatalysis in the service of biomass valorization for
fine chemicals production
VASILE PARVULESCU
Department of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, University of
Bucharest, Romania
9:15-9:45
Contribution of ionic liquid and carbon dioxide technologies to green
biorefineries
RAFAL LUKASIK
Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P., Unidade de Bioenergia
LNEG, Portugal
9:45-10:15
Heterogeneously catalyzed valorization of monoterpenes to high
value-added chemicals
MIKHAIL GOLETS
Umeå University, Sweden/Åbo Akademi University, Finland
10:15-10:30
Catalytic upgrading of biomass extractives to fine chemicals over
Supported Ionic Liquid Catalysts (SILCAs)
EERO SALMINEN
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
10:30-11:00
Coffee break and poster viewing
Session 7: Solar Fuels and Artificial Photosynthesis
Chairperson: Thomas Wågberg
11:00-11:45
Molecular mechanisms of artificial photosynthesis
LEIF HAMMARSTRÖM
Uppsala University, Sweden
11:45-12:15
Molecular catalysis of the reduction of CO
2with iron(0) porphyrins
MARC ROBERT
Université Paris 7, France
Day 3 Friday, 27 March
12:15-12:30
Efficient electrocatalysts based on nitrogen-doped carbon
nano-structures for water splitting reactions
TIVA SHARIFI
Department of Physics, Umeå University, Sweden
12:30-12:45
First turnover analysis of water-oxidation catalyzed by Co-oxide
nano-particles
SERGEY KOROIDOV
Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden
12:45-13:00
Photon upconversion: Concepts, news, and potential for improving
molecular solar thermal materials
KARL BÖRJESSON
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
13:00-14:15
Lunch
Session 8: Closing session
Chairperson: Carlos Martin
14:15-14:45
Direct coupling of photosynthesis to ethanol production in
cyanobacteria
KERSTIN BAIER
Algenol Biofuels Germany GmbH, Berlin, Germany
14:45-15:15
System analysis in the forest chemistry project
JONAS JOELSSON
SP Processum, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
15:15-16:00
60 years in photosynthesis, the pleasure of research
PIERRE JOLIOT
Institut de biologie physico-chimique, Paris, France
Bio4Energy
Bio4Energy is an international research environment based in northern Sweden that develops methods and tools for conducting efficient and sustainable biorefinery based on woody raw materials and refuse, as well as organic waste. In March 2015, 250 researchers were members of Bio4Energy, each affiliated with one of the five founding members of the research environment. They are Umeå University, Luleå University of Technology, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the research institutes Innventia and the SP Energy Technology Centre at Piteå. Bio4Energy also has an extensive network of industrial actors in the biorefinery and bioenergy sectors. The idea behind Bio4Energy is to bring together the best brains active in the specific field of biorefinery research and development based on feedstock from the forest and some (other) types of organic waste, and to fill knowledge gaps by recruiting top class scientists from all over the world into the research environment. Bio4Energy is world leading in focal areas of the research which its members perform. For more information, visit:
www.bio4energy.se
About UREM 2015
For 7th time the Chemical Biological Center (KBC) organises
this meeting. The meeting aims to strengthen and display our efforts towards research in the renewable energy field. The 2015 edition of UREM will include a broad and unique spectrum of topics including renewable feedstocks and advanced biomass fuels, natural photosynthesis, system analysis and bioeconomy, biochemical conversion, thermochemical conversion, chemical-catalytic conver- sion, solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis.
Organising Committee
• Christoffer Boman, Thermochemical Energy Conversion Lab, Umeå University
• Leif Jönsson, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University • Carlos Martin, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University • Johannes Messinger, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University • Thomas Wågberg, Dept. of Physics, Umeå University • Per Gardeström, UPSC, Plant Physiology, Umeå University • Christiane Funk, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University • Tomas Gustafsson, Processum Biorefinery Initiative AB • Runar Brännlund, CERE- Centre for Environmental and
Resource Economics
• Sylvia Larsson, Forest Biomaterials and Technology, Swe-dish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University • Anna Strom, Communication officer, Bio4Energy
Sponsored by:
Supported by
Chemical Biological Centre KBC Dept. of Chemistry
Dept. of Physics
Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics
Dept. of Plant Physiology Dept. of Forest Biomaterials and Technology
CERE- Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics
Artificial Leaf and Solar Fuels
Artificial Leaf Umeå and Solar Fuels Umeå are interdiciplinary research projects lead by Johannes Messinger. Scientists in the projects focus on the development of technical devices for splitting water into H2 and O2 with sunlight, and on important aspects of natural photosynthesis. The projects are funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Umeå University.