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Scientific Forum at ILMAC 2007:
Energy and Raw Materials – The Contributions of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Future
September 25-28, 2007
Basel, Switzerland
Messe Basel, Halle 1, Saal “Luzern”
Entrance free!
Website: http://www.ilmac.ch
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Invitation
The Swiss
Chemical Society (SCS) is holding a scientific forum to
coincide with the chemicals industry’s exhibition ILMAC 2007.
This year’s scientific forum is intended to show how in
Switzerland in the next 50 years, as the requirement for energy
increases, chemistry as an interdisciplinary science can make an
important contribution to the resolving of key future issues in
combination with other disciplines, commerce and industry. The event is
aimed at managers and their employees from the fields of science,
commerce, ecology, government, local authority and politics as well as
interested members of the public. ILMAC, an industry exhibition for
research and development and environmental and process technology in
pharmaceuticals, chemicals and biotechnology, offers an appropriate
milieu for the forum.
The theme “Energy and Raw Materials”
is highly topical at the moment. Scarcely a day goes by without some
new media report on the subject, often controversial in content. In the
forum leading experts from Switzerland, other European nations and the
United States will give their views on the presently available
alternative energy
resources and primary materials for the chemical and pharmaceuticals
industries on a generally comprehensible level. Technically and
financially realisable solutions for today and for the next 50 years
will be expounded and discussed.
Programme
Tuesday, September 25, 9:30 – 12:30
Energy
Supply - Balancing Moderation and Innovation
| Chairman | Prof. Georg Fráter, President of the Swiss Chemical Society |
| Opening | Walter
Steinmann,
Director of the Federal Office of Energy The Energy Challenge of Switzerland in the Future |
| Speakers | Fatih
Birol, Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Analysis Division,
International Energy Agency, Paris The IEA Annual Energy Outlook 2007 |
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Prof.
Alexander Wokaun,
General Energy Research Department, Paul Scherrer Institut Efficiency and Fossil Fuel Substitution - The Contribution of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering |
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Prof.
David Pimentel, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Cornell
University, USA Ethanol Fuels versus Environmental, Food, and Pollution Costs |
| Panel discussion with the speakers & additional experts | |
| Moderator | Dieter Imboden, President of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation and Professor for Environmental Physics at ETH Zurich |
Wednesday, September 26, 9:30 – 12:30
Eat it or
Burn it? The
Potential of Bio Fuels
| Chairperson | Charlotte Opal, Coordinator of the Global Alliance to Ensure Biofuels'Sustainability, Energy Center, EPFL |
| Speakers | Tim
Kroenke, Global Head of Biofuels, Syngenta International AG, Basel The promise and challenges of current crop-to-fuel regimes and cellulosic ethanol |
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Gunter
Festel,
Festel Capital, Hünenberg/Zug Biofuels - Which One is the Most Economic One? |
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Rainer
Zah,
Modelling Technology and Society Laboratory, EMPA Biofuels - Which One is the Most Ecologial One? |
| Panel discussion with the speakers & additional experts | |
| Moderator | Helen Issler, Schweizer Fernsehen DRS |
Thursday, September 27, 9:30 – 12:30
White
Biotechnology
– Technology of the Future?
| Chairman | Beat Wipf, Head of Section Protein Science, F. Hoffmann-La Roche |
| Speakers |
Prof.
Wim Soetaert, Laboratory for Industrial Microbiology and Biocatalysis,
Ghent
University, Belgium White Biotechnology: A Key Technology for Building the Biobased Economy |
| Prof.
Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, Lund Institute of Technology,
Sweden Biotechnology Applied in the Traditional Process Industry |
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Marco
Oldiges and Prof. Christian Wandrey, Institute of Biotechnology,
Research Center, Jülich, Germany White Biotechnology: Why Do We Need It Today? |
| Panel discussion with the speakers & additional experts | |
| Moderator | Christian Heuss, Schweizer Radio DRS |
Friday, September 28, 9:30 – 12:30
Sustainable
Chemistry Thanks to Renewable Raw Materials
| Chairman | Prof. Hans Björn Püttgen, Director of the Energy Center, EPFL |
| Speakers | Prof.
Jürgen O. Metzger,
Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Oldenburg,
Germany Concepts on the Contribution of Chemistry to a Sustainable Development: Renewable Raw Materials |
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Hans-Peter
Meyer, Assistant Vice-President of Lonza White Biotechnology in Switzerland - Perspectives for a Sustainable Development |
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Prof.
J. P. M. Sanders,
Agrotechnology and Food Sciences Group, Wageningen University,
Netherlands Biorefinery - The Bridge between Agriculture and Chemistry |
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Prof.
Hans Björn Püttgen, Director of the
Energy Center, EPFL The "Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels": A Multi-Stakeholder Process |