DRAFT Biogas workshop agenda

Biogas Workshop Programme
Tuesday - 6 th December 2011
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:05
09:05 – 09:20
09:20 – 09:30
Welcome remarks
Peter Gibbs, Dean of Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
Presentation on EEM course at Flensburg and INEES project
John Kuteesakwe, The University of Flensburg
Presentation on the DIREKT project
Natasha Corbin, The University of the West Indies
09:30 – 10:45
Lecture 1: Biogas as an integrative and multipurpose solution -
sanitation, waste/wastewater to energy and fertilizer, energy storage.
BREAK (15 min)
11:00 – 12:30 Lecture 2: Biogas feedstocks and logistics
LUNCH (1 hour)
13:30 – 14:30 Lecture 3: Biogas formation and process conditions
14:30 – 15:30 Group workshop
BREAK (15min)
15:45 – 16:45
Seminar session – (Awaiting a title)
Prof. Janke and Dr Edwards
FINISH

Wednesday – 7 th December 2011
09:00 – 10:30 Lecture 4: Biogas digester technologies and process management
BREAK (15 min)
10:45 – 12:30 Group workshop
LUNCH (1 hour)
13:30 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:30
Lecture 5: Biogas utilization – extraction, preparation and
storage
Lecture 6: Biogas in bio-refineries – cascade utilization of
biomass (biogas in sugar factories, biogas in biofuel production
plants)
BREAK (15min)
15:45 – 16:45
Seminar session – (Awaiting a title)
Prof. Janke and Dr Edwards
FINISH
Thursday – 8 th December 2011
09:00 – 10:30
Lecture 7: Techno-economic feasibility of biogas plants – case
studies with design calculations based on retrospective feedstock
BREAK (15 min)
10:45 – 12:30 Group workshop
LUNCH (1 hour)
13:30 – 17:00 Field trip to Richard Hoad’s farm to see an operational biodigester
FINISH