Plenary & Keynote speakers
Plenary Lecturers
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Professor Erik Heeres University of Groningen, the Netherlands VALORIZATION OF SOLID BIOMASS RESIDUES (LIGNINS AND HUMINS) USING CATALYTIC APPROACHES |
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Professor Simoni Meneghetti Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Instituto de Química e Biotecnologia, Laboratório de Biocombustíveis e Energia – LaBEn, Maceió, Brazil EXAMPLES OF CATALYTIC SYSTEMS ABLE TO BE APPLIED IN BIOREFINERIES |
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Professor Sergei Varfolomeev Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, Russia CHEMISTRY OF BIOMASS: NOVEL CATALYTICAL DEPOLYMERIZATION PROCESSES, NOVEL BIOFUELS, NOVEL BIOPLASTICS |
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Professor David Chiaramonti University of Florence, Italy INDUSTRIAL-SCALE PYROLYSIS FOR ENERGY AND PRODUCTS: WHICH OPPORTUNITIES TO PRIORITIZE? |
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Professor Jose A. Lopez-Sanchez University of Liverpool, United Kingdom UNCONVENTIONAL CATALYTIC ROUTES FOR THE VALORISATION OF BIOMASS USING LIGHT AND MICROWAVES |
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Dr. Jean-François Joly IFP Energies Nouvelles, Lyon, France FUELS AND CHEMICALS PRODUCTION FROM BIOMASS: SOME SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES FOR ACCELERATING INNOVATION AND PROCESS DEVELOPMENT |
Keynote Lecturers |
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Professor Dr. S.R.A. Kersten University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF BIOMASS PYROLYSIS |
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Professor Mark Tsodikov A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis RAS, Moscow, Russia PECULIARITIES OF POISONING DEGRADATION AND PLASMA-CATALYTIC LIGNIN REFORMING UNDER MICROWAVE IRRADIATION |
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Professor Francesco Frusteri Institute CNR-ITAE “Nicola Giordano”, Messina, Italy DME SYNTHESIS BY CO2 HYDROGENATION ON HYBRID CATALYTIC SYSTEMS |
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Professor Dmitry Murzin Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland CATALYSIS BY BASES IN BIOMASS VALORIZATION |
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Professor Karen Wilson Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom DESIGNER CATALYSTS FOR BIOFUELS SYNTHESIS |
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Professor Boris Kuznetsov Institute of Chemistry and Chemical Technology SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia DEVELOPMENT OF NEWINTEGRATED CATALYTIC PROCESSES OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS VALORIZATION INTO VALUABLE CHEMICAL PRODUCTS |