Biofuels & Feedstocks Philippines

Among the topics:
1. Investing in Philippines – Opportunities & Challenges
2. Comparison of biofuels feedstocks - Price, Supply, Quality and Economics
3. Latest findings on Jatropha – Life Cycle Analysis, Economics, Plantation Management
4. How biofuels be blended with conventional fuels?
5. Outlook of Biofuels offtakes in Europe, USA, Japan/Korea

Tentative Programme:

GLOBAL BIOFUELS OUTLOOK

§ Policies, Markets, Challenges and Barriers

§ Prospects of Asian exports

MARKET OUTLOOK & AVAILABILITY OF BIOFUELS FEEDSTOCKS

§ Supply/demand outlook for oils and grains used for biofuels production

§ Comparison of feedstocks – economics & quality

§ Feedstock sustainability strategies

§ Risk management

FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR BIODIESEL ACROSS THE VALUE CHAIN

§ Current state of market - opportunities and risks

§ Future market and supply demand balance

§ Technology developments

§ Feedstock developments

§ Storage and Logistics Developments

§ Winners and Losers

Investing In The Philippines

THE PHILIPPINE BIOFUELS ACT OF 2006 AND ITS FRAMEWORK

PNOC-AFC BIOFUELS ROAD MAP

FINANCING OPTIONS & STRATEGIES FOR BIOFUELS PROJECTS

FISCAL INCENTIVES FOR BIOFUELS PROJECTS

MANAGING COSTS, YIELD & PRODUCTIVITY

§ How to increase yield and productivity?

§ Which species is good?

§ Planting materials – securing guaranteed supply and quality ones

§ Innovations in extraction / processing

§ Quality & characteristics of FAME using jatropha oil

§ Factors to consider in managing large scale plantation

JATROPHA CULTIVATION, PROSPECTS & CHALLENGES

§ Plantation material

§ Spacing, Fertilisers, Irrigation, Pests and diseases, Pruning, Harvesting, Inter crops

§ Sustainable farming

§ Risk mitigation

§ Large scale cultivation

JATROPHA BIODIESEL – EXPERIENCE FROM MYANMAR

v Plantation experience

v Extraction/Processing

PLANNING & CONCEPTUALISATION OF JATROPHA BASED PROJECTS – THE PHILIPPINES EXPERIENCE

OIL PRODUCERS’ ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: BIOFUELS’ ROLE IN THE ENERGY MIX

OUTLOOK & DEVELOPMENT OF BIODIESEL IN PHILIPPINES

§ Feedstock strategies

§ Sales & Marketing

ETHANOL & ITS IMPACT ON MOLASSES TRADE

§ Ethanol in Philippine

§ Molasses – balance of stocks and projection for next 5 years

SWEET SORGHUM BASED ETHANOL PROJECT

§ Characteristic of ethanol from sweet sorghum

§ Cost & economics

§ Sustainability of feedstock

§ Technology update

POTENTIAL & DEVELOPMENT OF CELLULOSIC ETHANOL

VIABILITY OF BIOFUELS AS ALTERNATIVE FUELS FOR CAR ENGINES

§ Implications on performance, emission and durability using different blends

§ Outlook of biofuels usage in automobiles

PROSPECTS & CHALLENGES OF BIOMASS & BIOFUELS USAGE IN POWER GENERATION

§ Various technologies and options available

§ Prospective segments suited for such applications

§ Challenges involved in setting up such power generation systems

BIOFUELS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

§ Blending issues

§ Storage and handling

§ Trade flow

BIOFUELS BLENDING & SPECIFICATIONS

§ How biodiesel & bioethanol be blended with conventional fuels?

§ Key aspects of quality control in the production of Biodiesel & Bioethanol

§ Understanding and meeting biofuels specifications in US and Europe

SHAPE OF BIOFUELS INDUSTRY IN THE FUTURE

§ Current, emerging, and potential future technologies to produce biogasoline and biodiesel

§ Paths of least resistance for developing the global biofuels industry based on leveraging current or co-developing technologies, such as coal gasification and gas-to-liquids catalysis

§ Lessons from the western world and how Asia should progress

Contact: Nadia
Email: [email protected]
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