Following the successful ICBB2013 Conference in Xiamen, China, the 5th International Conference on Biorefinery (ICBB2015) will be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in August 2015. The conference will consist of plenary lectures, oral presentations and poster sessions. Topics to be covered include bioenergy, bio-based materials and chemicals, integration and integrated assessment of biorefinery technologies and processes.
Scholars and experts from academia, governments and industries are invited to participate in this conference by submitting a one-page abstract for the consideration of oral or poster presentations at the conference by the deadline of March 31, 2015. Those whose presentations are selected will be encouraged to submit an extended abstract online {here} by July 1, 2015. Please check out the conference website for more information.
A summary of topics will include, but not be limited to:
Feedstocks
– Energy crops
– Microalgae
– Forest and agriculture residues
– Marine biomass
Pretreatment
– Biomass conditioning
– Pulping
– Thermal-mechanical treatment
– Thermal-chemical treatment
– Biological treatment
Conversion technologies
– Hydrolysis
– Pyrolysis
– Gasification
– Catalytic and non-catalytic (thermo-)chemical conversion
– Biochemical conversion and fermentation
Bio-based materials and chemicals
– Bio-based materials
– Platform chemicals
– High value bioproducts
Synthetic biology and platform technologies
– Synthetic biology
– Extraction, separation and purification technologies
– Design of bioreactors and photobioreactors
– Process control engineering
Integrated assessments and evaluation
– Political evaluation
– Economic evaluation
– Environmental evaluation
Contact:
ICBB2015 Organizing Committee
Email: ICBB2015@chbe.ubc.ca
Anna Jamroz
Communications Coordinator
Pulp and Paper Centre
The University of British ColumbiaTel: 604-827-2117
Email: anna.jamroz@ubc.ca