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2013

April 23, 2013

Session Topic: The Culver Duck Anaerobic Digester Session with Site Tour
Download the Agenda HERE.
An introduction to this project is available online HERE.

Photo Album

Presentations:

Dr. Jiqin Ni
Purdue University
Presentation Title: "Anaerobic Digester Technology"

Ken Jones
Jones Petrie Rafinski
Presentation Title: "The Culver Duck Digester - Concept to Reality"

David Turner
Turner Tech, LLC
Presentation Title: "Regulatory Considerations for Culver Duck"

Norma McDonald
Organic Waste Systems, Inc.
Presentation Title: "Finding the Right Recipe or Successful Digester Operations"

Dee Cota
NIPSCO Utility
Presentation Title: "The NIPSCO Feed-in Tariff"

Location:
Das Essenhaus Dutchman Restaurant Upstairs
240 U.S. 20
Middlebury, IN 46540
(800) 455-9471

January 8, 2013

Session Topic:
Spotlight on Biofuels Development for the Aviation Sector and New Biomass Energy Development in Indiana

Location: Purdue Beck Agriculture Center (Map)

Meeting Resources:

Dr. Maureen McCann, Professor,
Director of the Purdue Energy Center
Presentation Title: Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels

Dr. Nate Mosier, Associate Professor,
Ag and Biological Engineering
Aviation Biofuels: Challenges and Opportunities for Biocatalytic and Thermocatalytic Processes (Click for PDF)

Dr. David Stanley, P.I. NATEF and Professor,
Aviation Technology
Aviation Biofuels: Motivating Factors, Considerations, and Hurdles to Implementaton (Click for PDF)

Dr. Wallace Tyner, James and Lois Akerman Professor,
Department of Agricultural Economics
Aviation and Second Generation Biofuels: Economic and Policy Issues (Click for PDF)

Melanie Thom, President and Senior Staff Scientist,
Baere Aerospace
If I Build and Alternative Aviation Biofuel, Will They Come? (Click for PDF)

New Biomass Energy Update around Indiana
Paul Hartman, Logansport Municipal Utilities
Present RFP to construct a 300 MW Renewable Derived Fuel/Natural Gas power plant (PDF)

2012

Woody Biomass in Indiana Conference
September 26 – 28, 2012
Meeting Announcment Found Here

Clifty Falls State Park Madison, IN
In cooperation with the Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Resources

Meeting Resources:

Rob Chapman, Extension Wildlife Specialist
Purdue University, Department of Forestry and
Natural Resources
Woodland Salamander Response to
Woody Biomass Harvest (Click for PDF)

Lana L. Narine and Dr. Fransisco X. Aguilar
University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Forestry
Woody Biomass Availability for Energy (Click for PDF)

Mike Jenkins
Purdue University, Department of Forestry and
Natural Resources
Coarse Woody Debris in Managed and Unmanaged Hardwood Forests (Click for PDF)

June 7, 2012
IDEM Listening Session / Rule Discussion on Biomass Anaerobic Digestion Facility and Biomass Gasification
Facility Rule, #09-193

This event will be held in the Indiana Government Center South, Conference Center Room B, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. Please allot for extra time needed to go through the security gate at 302 West Washington Street. Limited parking is available on Washington Street, and the Circle Center Mall or White River State Park parking garages are also available options. The discussion session will begin at 1:30 PM EDT on June 7, 2012.

Contact
If you have any questions about this event, please contact Lynn West at LWEST@idem.in.gov or Chad Martin at martin95@purdue.edu

March 8 , 2012
Schnitzelbank Restaurant, 393 Third Avenue, Jasper, IN

Topic: Biomass Energy Crops for Electricity

Meeting Announcment Found Here (PDF)

2011

November 1 , 2011
Purdue Beck Agricultural Center, West Lafayette, IN

Topic: Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Technology with a tour of the Biotown Ag facility in Reynolds, IN

Meeting Announcment Found Here (PDF)

Lynn West and John Hale, IDEM
Indiana Department of Environmental Management Biomass Rule Update
(Click Here for PDF)

Joseph Soelberg, GE Enterprise Team
GE's Gas Engine Business: The Biogas Market
(Click Here for PDF)

Dr. Jiqin Ni, Assistant Professor, Purdue University - Ag and Biological Engineering
Anaerobic Digestion Research Opportunities
(Click Here for PDF)

WIndiana 2011 and Indiana Renewable Energy ConferenceAgendas, Presentations, and Photos can be found here.

6th Frontiers in Bioenergy:
United States-Brazil Symposium on Sustainable Bioenergy
May 15-18, 2011
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana USA
Register online: http://www.conf.purdue.edu/bioenergy
Program Agenda (PDF)

May 4, 2011
Purdue Beck Agricultural Center, West Lafayette, IN

Topic: Best Practices in Building Community Trust and Support for Successful Biomass Project Development

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Dr. Janet Ayres Presentations
What Causes Community Conflict?
(Click Here for PDF)

Best Practices when Facilitating a Hostile Group
(Click Here for PDF)

January 10, 2011
Purdue Beck Agricultural Center, West Lafayette, IN

Topic: Showcasing Investments in Indiana's Biomass Investments and New Discoveries

Participants will be able to contribute to a $1.5 Million DOE Research Project on Sustainability of Bioenergy Crop Production

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

-Sarah Aubrey, Principal
Prosperity Ag and Energy Resources
Biomass Energy Funding Opportunities and Tips for Applying (PDF)

-Dr. Klein Ileleji, Associate Professor
Purdue University, Ag and Biological Engineering
Understanding the Logistical Challenges of Supplying Biomass to Commerical Scale Biorefineries/Biopower (PDF)

-Dr. Indreet Chaubey, Associate Professor
Purdue University, Ag and Biological Engineering
-Dr. Ben Gramig, AssistantProfessor
Purdue University, Dept. of Ag Economics
-Elizabeth Trybula, Research Associate
Purdue University, Ag and Biological Engineering
DOE Project: Watershed Scale Optimization to Meet Sustainable Cellulosic Energy Crop Demand (PDF)

(Additional presentations made available by direct request to the presenter.)

2010

November 9th, 2010

On Location
St. Mary of the Woods College, Terre Haute, IN

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Video of the Tour
Provided by Bingham and McHale
Thanks Dave McGimpsey!

Speaker Presentations

Pete Grills, Bingham and McHale
Where Does the Money Come From? (PDF)

Jerry Hill, SAIC at Crane
Distributed Energy from Waste (PDF)

Woody Biomass Feedstock for the Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry, Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Click Here to download report (PDF)

April 7th, 2010

Meeting with the IURC

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

March 3, 2010

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Agro-ecological considerations when utilizing biomass
(Click for PDF file)
Dr. Jeffrey J. Volenec
Purdue Department of Agronomy

Potential of Woody Biomass Use in Indiana
(Click for PDF file)
Dr. Dan Cassens
Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources

Life-cycle analysis and when utilizing biomass for energy
(Click for PDF file)
Dr. Fu Zhao
Purdue Mechanical Engineering

Technologies for generating power from biomass
(Click for PDF file)
Dr. Klein Ileleji
Purdue Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

State Permitting process for industrial and utility power plants
(Click for PDF file)
Daniela Klesmith and Lynn West
Indiana Department Environmental Management

USDA B-CAP program for producers and conversion facilities (Click for PDF file)
Gail Peas
USDA Farm Service Agency, Indianapolis

2009

April 8, 2009

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Notes (PDF)

March 11, 2009
Core Group Planning Meeting

Meeting Agenda (PDF)

Meeting Notes (PDF)

Recommended Links

State of the States 2008: Renewable Energy Development and the Role of Policy - NREL (PDF)

Great Lakes Biomass State Regional Partnership

Bioenergy Feedstock Information Network

U.S. DOE Page for the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)