BCN Retreat 2013: Day 2
Day 2 Twitter coverage of the BCN (Biorefining Conversions Network) Retreat held in Banff, Alberta, Canada on November 5-6
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Hopefully wifi will hold. 2nd day at #BCNRetreat feat. presentations from Univ.Alberta, USDA, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries, Weyerhauser
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Recaps from yesterday’s #BCNRetreat presentation from biotech co. Evolva http://www.evolva.com/
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Evolva has 4 products coming to mkt. Resveratrol, Vanilla, Stevia (in partnership w/ Cargill) and Saffron #BCNRetreat
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Evolva: Resveratrol mkt at $0.4bn. Product info: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/resveratrol/ … Co’s product is produced from fermentation of yeast #BCNRetreat
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Evolva working with IFF on yeast-based vanillin. Expects to produce in 2014. Vanillin market is $0.6bn #BCNRetreat
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Speaking now is Gordon Giles, envt. and sustainable resource devt., Govt of Alberta, talking about forestry products #BCNRetreat
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Alberta Forest Sector contributed $4bn to Alberta’s GDP in 2012 #BCNRetreat
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Alberta’s forestry products companies produce their own electricity and plan to increase them using waste forestry products #BCNRetreat
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Diversification of forestry products will include packaging, plastics, cosmetics, personal care. Lots of potential w/ cellulose #BCNRetreat
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Margins of forestry products sector is very thin. Have to be careful in investing in bio-products manufacture #BCNRetreat
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Cellulose nano-crystals – big opportunity but serious markets have to be developed over time #BCNRetreat
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Panel w/ Weyerhauser and Alberta-Pacific Forest Products Inc. #BCNRetreat pic.twitter.com/O6BDTyXhQ8 -
Weyerhauser: Biomass is our most significant costs. We are working ways to bring biomass into facility and fully utilize them #BCNRetreat
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Weyerhauser: We changed the group’s name of pulp and paper into cellulose and fibers. Our intent is to change perspective #BCNRetreat
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Next step for forestry products companies is diversification. We are looking at the use of fibers for apps e.g. chemicals, fuels #BCNRetreat
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Forestry products: We can’t afford a whole bunch of money to fail. We are partnering w/ academia, govt, oil/gas industry #BCNRetreat
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Forestry products Co. have to innovate or we will perish. Things are looking up #BCNRetreat
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Speaking now is Jamie Percy, process engineer at Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries #BCNRetreat pic.twitter.com/0XIx1my2WT -
Alpac: New project is to move pulp to increase profitability. Currently used green power produced onsite by bark, black liquor #BCNRetreat
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Alpac has $10m budget for methanol project. Commissioned in Aug. 2012 expect to produce 2850t/y methanol. Internal use is 1100t #BCNRetreat
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Alpac working on cellulose nano crystals produced from acid hydrolysis of cellulose. #BCNRetreat
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Alpac reviewing lots of potential products – sugar-derived products, lignin, thermally-derived products e.g. pyrolysis oil #BCNRetreat
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Alpac looking to sell methanol as higher-priced commodity. Right now it is under-utilized #BCNRetreat
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Alpac: We require viable, low risk tech. Lignin needs to be a higher value product #BCNRetreat
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Speaking now is Carlo Montemagno, scientific director at National Institute for Technology #BCNRetreat pic.twitter.com/2RcRuOH8eP -
Sorry, wifi is down again :(. #BCNRetreat
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Prepare to bend your head sideways to the right….
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Next speaker is Peter Seidl, professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, school of chemistry #BCNRetreat pic.twitter.com/8Ykz0DxoOC -
Seidl talking about Brazil’s bio-based activities. Sugarcane cropland for fuel is 3.5m ha (0.5% of total land) #BCNRetreat
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Seidl: Almost 50% of Brazil’s energy is renewable. Brazil’s chemical industry has a negative trade balance and getting worse #BCNRetreat
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Seidl: Brazil’s chemical industry is convincing govt to invest in green chemistry. A roadmap for bioeconomy to be released soon #BCNRetreat
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Seidl talking about the lack of patents in biobased chems using sucrose #BCNRetreat
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Speaking now is Patrick Foley, chief scientific officer of P2 Science #BCNRetreat pic.twitter.com/MDaeE1hnY6 -
P2 Science focusing on vegetable oil, terpenes, lignin using simple chemistry to produce specialty chems #BCNRetreat
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P2 Science looking into lignin depolymerization to produce surfactants, cosmetics, polymers raw materials #BCNRetreat
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P2 Science’s Lignin depolymerization research still at very early stage. #BCNRetreat
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Foley talking about depolymerization of lignin various sources eg from candenut shell (source from Uganda) and corn stover #BCNRetreat
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P2 Science: Not all lignins are the same. Potentials from phenol-rich lignins and guacyl-rich lignins #BCNRetreat
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P2 Science looking to produce specialty chemicals that can sell between $1-75/kg using 20c.-$2/kg feedstock w/ cheap catalysts #BCNRetreat
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Presentations from University of Alberta students -
I will miss this beautiful place…
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Canadian rockies
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