INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BIOENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Biomass and Energy: technological progress and sustainable development

WHEN: June 11, 2010

VENUE: Hotel OTHON Oceanic Avenue Ondina Salvador.Ba
Salvador - Bahia, Brazil
EXECUTING INSTITUTION: Instituto de Biologia / Universidade Federal da Bahia
ADDRESS: Institute of Biology / UFBA Campus Ondina
TELEPHONE AND FAX: Telephone (71) 32836565
WEB EVENT: www.recursosgeneticos.com.br link
ELECTRONIC ADDRESS FOR CONTACT iraceman@ufba.br
REGISTRATION: Free
LANGUAGES: Portuguese, Spanish and English
ESTIMATE OF PARTICIPANTS: 250 people (Community members, Govern members,
Agencies responsible for Public Policies in the area of Energy and Environment, Lecturers
National and International guests, Members of the Organizing Mommittee, Researchers,
Monitors.

KEYWORDS: BIOMASS / WASTE / BIOENERGY / SUSTAINABILITY

1. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Dr Iracema Andrade Nascimento

Workshop Coordinator
http://lattes.cnpq.br/1145890829141461
Dra.Solange Andrade Pereira
Coordinator of the Microalgae Bank, IB, UFBA
Dr.Jorge Antonio Moreira da Silva
Director of Inst. Biology UFBA
Dr. Francisco Carlos Rocha de Barros
Program Coordinator for Post-Graduate Studies in Ecology UFBA
Dr. Giovanni Sansone
Director CRIAcq "- Centro di Ricerche Interdipartimentale per la Gestione delle Risorse per
l'Idrobiologiche and Acquacoltura; Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

2- DISCLOSURE: GT5, Brazil

3 - SECRETARY: Maria Cristina Mendes, Iago Cabanelas Sheyla and Santa Isabel

4 – SUPPORT GROUP

Maria Bernadete Neiva Lemos Leite -Biological and Environmental Sciences

Cristina Mendes - Microalgae Bank
Jacson Nunes- Fellowship Engineering
Student Representative

5-. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Members Area of Knowledge

Dra.Iracema Andrade Nascimento Algal biomass as feedstock for bioenergy

Dr.José Geraldo Aquino Biotechnology applied to Bioenergy
Dr.Paulo Mafalda Bioenergy, Environment and Sustainability
Dr. Rogerio H. Quintella Management Science related to Bioenergy
Dr.Giovanni Sansone Bioprocess: Bioenergy from wastes
Dr Luis A. Erlon Rodrigues Biochemistry and Bioenergy
Dr. Sergio Lourenço Microalgae Taxonomy
6-OBJECTIVES

In most emerging countries Bioenergy involves two important fields, characterized by different
levels of technological development. On one hand, the traditional use of biomass for direct
combustion remains an important contribution to energy supply in rural areas, although with
high conversion inefficiency, generating social and environmental problems. Even though, the
modern use of biomass has been expanding rapidly, as a source of commercial energy, for the
production of biofuels for transport and industry, both, the traditional and the modern use of
biomass face technological challenges that pose risks to sustainability.

The International Workshop on Bioenergy, focusing on efficient use of biomass at all levels, is
an event of international scope, and aims to bring together the community involved with
bioenergy, for sharing information, ideas, project construction and planning of actions aimed to
meet the social, environmental and technological challenges, in support to the Government
Programs for the area. Despite the theme of "Bioenergy" be in evidence, there is a growing
demand for an event bringing together experts in the environmental aspects of bioenergy, which
serve to strengthen the idea of sustainability and its inclusion in the technological, economic and
social decisions related to this field.

The Workshop on Bioenergy intends to fulfill this function, by increasing the insertion of Bahia in
the process. For this purpose, aims to strengthen scientific and technological interaction with the
productive sector, for the transformation of academic production in goods and services as well
as intensify the interrelations of research groups for the establishment of dynamic and flexible
technology platforms that can make feasible projects of greater complexity, and provide more
meaningful practical results. The event was planned as a workshop where discussions on the
various sectors of influence of biomass energy, can lead to results of immediate application in
the area. Except for the opening conference, all presentations will be made in the form of
roundtables, facilitating dialogue and interference from the audience. Involve thematic sections,
including technological, economical, environmental and social sustainability as the main topics
so that discussions of the issues at the end of each session, can lead to the formulation of
guidelines for policies in the sector.

7-ORGANIZATION AND PARTICIPANTS

Keynote Conference: Biotechnology as a basis for the use of biomass as energy.

Roundtables:
1) Use of waste for bioenergy: technological and social challenges.
2) The biomass and the transition to a low carbon economy.
3) The prospects for biofuel production from second and third generation
4) Industrial development of bioenergy: problems in technology, regulation and management.

Leading researchers will defend each subject. Among the foreigners we emphasize:

Prof. Giovanni Sansone, senior scientist at the Faculty of Science, University of Naples
"Federico II",Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Physiology of Aquatic
Organisms. He is expert in cultivating organisms for various purposes, including for bioenergy.
Dr. Giovanni Sansone has developed along with Dr. Mosé Rossi University di Napoli Federico
II, technology for using wastes as raw material for cultivation of microalgae generating oil for
biodiesel. This technology is of great social value, has immediate applications and is also useful
for the pharmaceutical and food industries.

Dr Hans Joachim Krautz, Doctor of Engineering, President of Power Plant Engineering,

Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany. He will discuss the importance of
biomass as a capturer of CO2 from industrial processes. The lecture will be complemented by
Bruna Missagia, who also develops research in the area, at COTTBUS.
Dr. Bianca Forte is a Coordinator for Biofuel Renewables East (Renewables & Environment
Industry); her specialty is the management of activities related to the promotion of relationships
between Academy, Enterprises and Government

Dr. José A. Perales works on photobiodepuration processes at the Centro Andaluz de Ciencia
y Tecnología, Universidad de Cadiz, España. He has given important contribution in the
application area of environmental engineering to the design and operation of equipment for
handling and using wastes for bioenergy production.

Dr. Augusto Comas González works at the University of Havana, Cuba and is considered one
of the most knowledgeable of microalgae Botryoccocus, the only Gen..capable of producing
hydrocarbons, which can provide bio-fuel for the aviation industry.

Among the invited Brazilian researchers, most have developed technology registered as patents
or plays an important role in the management of bioenergy government or business.

8-PROGRAMM

Day: Monday 07/06/2010-

8:30 am
Opening ceremony:

Dr. Naomi Monteiro de Almeida Filho, Rector of the Federal University of Bahia•
Dr. Antonio Alberto Lopes da Silva, Pro-Rector for Research and Post-Graduation UFBA•
Dr. Jorge Antonio Moreira da Silva, Director of the Institute of Biology, Federal University of
Bahia.
Dra. Iracema Andrade Nascimento, Coordinator for the Workshop on Bioenergy
Dr Sergio de Castro Lessa, Coordinator for the Research Program in Biotechnology, CNPq.
Dr. Paulo Roberto Machado Lopes, General Director of FAPESB

9 to 10 am
Keynote Conference: Biotechnology as a basis for converting biomass to bioenergy:politics
and governmental incentives
Dr. Sergio de Castro Lessa - Coordinator for the Research Program in Biotechnology and
Genetic Resources - CNPq, Brasília, Brazil.

10am Coffee Brake

10:30 to 11:30 am
Roundtable: The use of residues for bioenergy production: technological and social challenges
Dr. Giovanni Sansone / Dr. Mosé Rossi University di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Dr. José A. Perales, Universidad de Cadiz, Spain
Dr. Dr.Servio Tulio Alves Cassini, Departamento of Environmental Engineering, federal
University of Espírito Santo

11:30 to 12:30 am
Roundtable: The biomass and the transition to a low carbon economy
Dr. Hans Joachim Krautz/Dra Bruna Missagia, Germany.
Dr. Asher Kiperstock, LCA como suporte à produção Limpa em Bioenergia. Engineering
Institute, Federal University of Bahia
Dr. Bianca Forte The importance of the inter-relationship between Academy / Government /
Productive Sector for the development of Bioenergy. Biofuels East, England

12:30 to 14:30 Lunch

14:30 to 16:30 pm
Roundtable: Production of biofuels from second and third generation
Dr. Nei Pereira Jr-Use of lignocellulosic material as a source of energy
UFRJ-Rio de Janeiro
Dr.Iracema Andrade Nascimento- Microalgae as feedstock for biofuels, UFBA, Bahia
.
Dr. Sergio Lourenço. Perspectives in energy production with the use of new microalgae
species. Rio de Janeiro State University .
Dr. Elias Ramos de Souza- Innovation as a basis for Technological Development on
Bioenergy- FAPESB.

16.30 pm - Coffee Brake

17:00 -19:00pm
Roundtable: Development of bioenergy industry in the State of Bahia: technological barriers,
regulation and management.
Dr. Wilson Andrade - (FIEB-Sindifibras) - Use of Sisal for the production of Biogas:
technological innovation applied in Tanzania (semi-arid).
Dr. Alberto Samaia Neto -Installation of Biomea in Bahia: purposes and perspectives
Dr. Telma Andrade Cortes Frameworks: SECTI, Ba, Brazil. Actions of the Government of
Bahia for the development of bioenergy with social involvement.
Dr. Roberto Carneiro Fortuna- Economic Planning-Strategic Planning / Bahia Government

19:00pm Closing cerimony

9-SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE WORKSHOP

The International Workshop on Bioenergy, as proposed, innovates for discussing emerging

technologies for both, the traditional use, as for the modern use of biomass in order to enable
the proposals for public policies that will cover most deprived areas in the context of using
different feedstocks for the generation of bioenergy.

10-ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP

An event as proposed, allows, more effectively and quickly to achieve goals that may lead to
technological development by adding value to waste products used for bioenergy production, by
representing prospects of investment opportunities, by providing solutions for the problems
related to the processes of bioproduction, as others, related to the environment. In this
workshop the proposed themes will be discussed by foreign professionals, teachers and
researchers in our institution and stakeholders seeking interaction and enhancement, so that to
achieve the goals of sustainable production and use of biomass by innovating processes,
Holding an event of this magnitude in Salvador is also a great opportunity to reduce regional
disparities in research and post-graduate studies, because it will foster community involvement
and interaction of local scientific experts with the rest of Brazil and other countries, contributing
to the consolidation of research groups and master's and doctorate from the region.

11 - EXPECTED RESULTS

It is expected that an audience of about 200 people, and that at least 100 pieces are exhibited in
panels. The main expected results are:
1-Exchange of experiences among participants, to solve key problems in the area of
technological development and planning, aimed primarily the transfer the results to the
productive sector.
2-Expansion of opportunities for exchanges and cooperation between institutions and research
active groups in the area of Bioenergy, based on the identification of common interests in
research and education, which may result in joint projects in the area.
3-Development of joint-innovative proposals on bioenergy, based on inter-institutional debates
and exchange of ideas and experiences.
4-Discussions of scientific findings presented as panels, oral communication and publication on
5- Using up the topic of discussion "Biomass for Bioenergy seeking the benefit of rural
populations CD-ROM and on the official website of the event.