Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting 2015

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1 Picture: Christoffer Boman, a burning pellet Umeå Renewable Energy Meeting March Stora hörsalen KBC registration deadline 16 March Chemical Biological Centre KBC, Umeå

2 Wednesday, 25 March Day 1 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

3 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 3 transition 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

4 Thursday, 26 March Day 2 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

5 Day 2 Thursday, 26 March 12:30-12:45 Ionic liquid pretreatment of cellulosic, hemicellulosic and lignocellulosic 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 18:00-23:00 Social activity for the speakers, organisers and invited guests

6 Friday, 27 March Day 3 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 2 with iron(0) porphyrins MARC ROBERT Université Paris 7, France

7 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 16:00-16:05 Concluding remarks

8 About UREM 2015 For 7 th 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 conversion, 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, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Jyri-Pekka Mikkola, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University Anna Strom, Communication officer, Bio4Energy 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 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: 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 H 2 and O 2 with sunlight, and on important aspects of natural photosynthesis. The projects are funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and Umeå University. Sponsored by: