Biomass Production
Laboratory: Project 2 Residues
Mark Lefsrud,
Associate Professor
McGill University
HQP Training
Advanced
Biofuel
Course
Brought to you by Canada’s
advanced biofuel network.
Description
• An online certificate course on advanced biofuels.
• Focused on Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP), but
anyone from outside the organization is also
welcome.
• This online course is a overview of biofuels
feedstocks, conversion technologies,
combustion/emissions, as well as sustainability
and aspects of commercialization.
• The course will provide participants with a global
understanding of the highly multidisciplinary
biofuels sector and insight into the biofuels
industry as well as the current challenges and
opportunities.
07/08/2015
BioFuelNet Canada
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Requirements
• Online pre-recorded lectures (one 60-min lecture
per week, for 14 weeks)
• Short multiple-choice quizzes given after each
module
• Participation on an online discussion forum
• One final writing assignment: popular-science
style article (700-900 words)
• $150 + taxes
• Equivalent to 1 credit
07/08/2015
BioFuelNet Canada
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Lecture 1: Introduction to BioFuelNet’s Advanced Biofuels Course (ABC)
Lecture 2: Overview of biofuels – Donald Smith, Scientific Director of BioFuelNet
Lecture 3: Introduction to feedstocks – Donald Smith
Lecture 4: Forestry and woody residues – Mariya Marinova, Polytechnique Montreal
Lecture 5: Energy crops – Kevin Vessey, Professor, Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s
University
Lecture 6: 1st & 2nd generation biofuels, and beyond – David Levin, University of Manitoba
Lecture 7: Biomass pyrolysis into bio-oil, bio-char and gases. Products uses and upgrading
– Franco Berruti, Professor, University of Western Ontario
Lecture 8: Gasification: Concepts, production and use – Jean-Michel Lavoie, Sherbrooke
Lecture 9: Introduction to utilization, combustion and emissions – Jeff Bergthorson,
Associate Professor, McGill University / Murray Thompson, Professor, University of Toronto
Lecture 10: Understanding intellectual property (IP) and its role in industry – Jeremy
Lawson, Chemical Engineer and Patent Agent, ROBIC
Lecture 11: Case study: The early stages of technology commercialization – Mark
Lefsrud, McGill
Lecture 12: Case study: Community-scale resource recovery and the biorefining approach Simon Barnabé, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Université du Québec à
Trois-Rivières
Lecture 13: Sustainability, food vs. fuel and LCA – Dr. Warren Mabee, Queen’s University
Lecture 14: Environmental, policy, and regulatory issues at the biofuels / sustainability
interface – Terry McIntyre, Government Liaison Officer, BioFuelNet Canada
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Dr Mark Lefsrud’s
Biomass Production
Laboratory
Biomass Production Laboratory
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Dr. Robert Williams
Dr. Tahera Naznin
Mr. Yvan Gariepy
PhD
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Masters
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Bo-Sen Wu
Srinivasa Reddy
Lucas McCartney
Edris Madadian
Anil Patel
Nafiseh Yavari
Débora Parrine
Camilo Perez Lee
Yves Roy
Richa Kalia
Stepanus Rossouw
Christine Crowe
Undergraduate Students
– Polina Fateeva, Emmet Austin, Stephen McGuire, Blake Bissonette, Polina Fateeva, Ryan
Knight, Antoine Malouin, Luc Roy, Jennifer Ashfield, Patricia Gaudet , Sara Tawil
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Biomass Utilization
Direct Combustion
SBI: Caddy Alterna
Gasification
All Power Labs: GEK
Energy Efficiency
• Biofuels touted as reducing carbon emissions
and increase energy
• Energy ratio based on Energy in verse Energy
out.
– Normalized as E out : E in
Energy Balance
Herbaceous and woody crops burning
– Max 17:1
– More realistic: 5:1
• Sugar Cane to ethanol
– 8:1
• Corn to ethanol production
– ~1.5:1
• Switchgrass producing ethanol (cellulose)
– 4.4:1
• Bio-diesel
– 3.2 : 1
Biomass Advantages
• Advantages bio-based energy system
– “cycle time” is very short as compared to petroleum / coal
– carbon neutral, if grown in a well managed system.
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This means that the carbon dioxide that is
emitted by burning these fuels will be
reabsorbed quite soon by other plants.
http://www.canren.gc.ca/tech_appl/index.asp?CaID=2&PgId=62
http://www.canbio.ca/bioenergy.htm
Carbon Dioxide Advantage
Hydro-electricity
Wood pellet
Natural Gas
Propane
Heating oil
REAP Canada
Introduction: Multipurpose Energy
System
Energy
Heat and Power
Biomass
Combustion
CO2
Fertilization
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