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Biomass Production Laboratory: Project 2 - Residues

Mark Lefsrud, Associate Professor McGill University

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• Focused on Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP), but

anyone from outside the organization is also welcome.

• This online course is a overview of biofuels

feedstocks, conversion technologies, combustion/emissions, as well as sustainability and aspects of commercialization.

• The course will provide participants with a global

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Description

07/08/2015 BioFuelNet Canada 4

• Online pre-recorded lectures (one 60-min lecture

per week, for 14 weeks)

• Short multiple-choice quizzes given after each

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• Participation on an online discussion forum
• One final writing assignment: popular-science

style article (700-900 words)

• $150 + taxes
• Equivalent to 1 credit

Requirements

07/08/2015 BioFuelNet Canada 5

• Lecture 1: Introduction to BioFuelNet’s Advanced Biofuels Course (ABC)
• Lecture 2: Overview of biofuels – Donald Smith, Scientific Director of BioFuelNet
• Lecture 3: Introduction to feedstocks – Donald Smith
• Lecture 4: Forestry and woody residues – Mariya Marinova, Polytechnique Montreal
• Lecture 5: Energy crops – Kevin Vessey, Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s

University

• Lecture 6: 1st & 2nd generation biofuels, and beyond – David Levin, University of Manitoba
• Lecture 7: Biomass pyrolysis into bio-oil, bio-char and gases. Products uses and upgrading

– Franco Berruti, Professor, University of Western Ontario

• Lecture 8: Gasification: Concepts, production and use – Jean-Michel Lavoie, Sherbrooke
• Lecture 9: Introduction to utilization, combustion and emissions – Jeff Bergthorson,

Associate Professor, McGill University / Murray Thompson, Professor, University of Toronto

• Lecture 10: Understanding intellectual property (IP) and its role in industry – Jeremy

Lawson, Chemical Engineer and Patent Agent, ROBIC

• Lecture 11: Case study: The early stages of technology commercialization – Mark

Lefsrud, McGill

• Lecture 12: Case study: Community-scale resource recovery and the biorefining approach -

Simon Barnabé, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

• Lecture 13: Sustainability, food vs. fuel and LCA – Dr. Warren Mabee, Queen’s University
• Lecture 14: Environmental, policy, and regulatory issues at the biofuels / sustainability

interface – Terry McIntyre, Government Liaison Officer, BioFuelNet Canada

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Dr Mark Lefsrud’s Biomass Production Laboratory

Biomass Production Laboratory

• Dr. Robert Williams
• Dr. Tahera Naznin
• Mr. Yvan Gariepy
• PhD

– Bo-Sen Wu – Srinivasa Reddy – Lucas McCartney – Edris Madadian – Anil Patel – Nafiseh Yavari – Débora Parrine

• Masters

– Camilo Perez Lee – Yves Roy – Richa Kalia – Stepanus Rossouw – Christine Crowe

• Undergraduate Students

– Polina Fateeva, Emmet Austin, Stephen McGuire, Blake Bissonette, Polina Fateeva, Ryan Knight, Antoine Malouin, Luc Roy, Jennifer Ashfield, Patricia Gaudet , Sara Tawil

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Biomass Utilization

Direct Combustion

SBI: Caddy Alterna All Power Labs: GEK

Gasification

Energy Efficiency

• Biofuels touted as reducing carbon emissions

and increase energy

• Energy ratio based on Energy in verse Energy
• ut.

–Normalized as E out : E in

Herbaceous and woody crops burning

– Max 17:1 – More realistic: 5:1

• Sugar Cane to ethanol

– 8:1

• Corn to ethanol production

– ~1.5:1

• Switchgrass producing ethanol (cellulose)

– 4.4:1

• Bio-diesel

– 3.2 : 1

Energy Balance

Biomass Advantages

• Advantages bio-based energy system

– “cycle time” is very short as compared to petroleum / coal – carbon neutral, if grown in a well managed system.

• This means that the carbon dioxide that is

emitted by burning these fuels will be reabsorbed quite soon by other plants.

http://www.canren.gc.ca/tech_appl/index.asp?CaID=2&PgId=62 http://www.canbio.ca/bioenergy.htm

Carbon Dioxide Advantage

Wood pellet Natural Gas Propane Heating oil Hydro-electricity

REAP Canada

Introduction: Multipurpose Energy System

Biomass Combustion Energy CO2 Heat and Power Fertilization

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Questions