The purpose of the half-day event held June 17, 2004 was to expand biorefining by demonstrating to industry leaders that biorefining provides commercial opportunities today.

The event was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Wisconsin Department of Administration-Energy Division.

The following presentations are available for download as PDFs. They are listed in the order they were presented.

• Wisconsin Biorefining Development Initiative™, 734K. Presented by Preston Schutt, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Energy Division.

• Development of a Sustainable Liquid Fuels Infrastructure Based on Biomass. Presented by Anil R. Oroskar, UOP Innovation Group. This presentation will be posted soon.

• The Forest BioRefinery: A Partial View, 773K. Presented by Ben A. Thorp, Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta.

• Virent Energy Systems, Inc., 270K. Presented by Eric Apfelbach, Virent Energy Systems.

• An Introduction to ThermoChem Recovery International, 5.3M. Presented by Dan Burciaga, ThermoChem Recovery International.

• Renewable Environmental Solutions, LLC: Renewing Earth's Resources, 2.7M. Presented by Paul Halberstadt, Renewable Environmental Solutions, a joint venture company owned equally by ConAgra Foods and Changing World Technologies.

• Hydrogen from Biomass Pyrolysis: Integrated Co-Products and Services, 2.8M. Presented by Danny Day, Eprida.

• Biorefining Opportunities for the Dairy Industry, 330K. Presented by Mark Etzel, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Ethanol Production from Biomass: Extracting Value Prior to Pulping, 594K. Presented by Tom Jeffries, USDA Forest Products Laboratory.

• What is Our Next Step? Establish a Biorefinery Consortium, 521K. Presented by Masood Akhtar, Center for Technology Transfer.

• Green Tier Tools for Industry, 198K. Presented by Jeff Smoller, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.