The International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science:
Biomass & Municipal Solid Waste to RNG, Biofuels & Chemicals
The International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science:
Biomass & Municipal Solid Waste to RNG, Biofuels & Chemicals
September 10–12, 2024 | Westin Hotel, Itasca, IL
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There are many advantages to being a tcbiomass2024 sponsor or exhibitor. Whether you’re looking for an opportunity to support the thermochemical conversion of biomass and municipal solid waste (MSW) to renewable gas (RNG), liquid fuels, and chemicals or expand awareness of your corporate presence, there’s an opportunity for you. View our sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities and plan to represent your company and network with leading organizations and high-level influencers at tcbiomass2024
Gold Sponsors
For over 125 years, SHV Energy has been delivering off-grid fuels around the world. Having already transitioned from coal to oil and from oil to LPG, we are now energised to develop a future with sustainable fuels.
As the drive to tackle climate change and to hit net-zero targets has risen, SHV Energy displayed vision by establishing us, Futuria Fuels - a dedicated business unit whose mission is to enable innovation that will accelerate the development and availability of sustainable fuels. Through collaboration, partnership, and investment, we will make this happen.
The result will be the scaling of on-purpose production of renewable liquid gas. This will allow us to drop in sustainable molecules in existing infrastructure and immediately reduce carbon emissions.
Silver Sponsors
Comstock Fuels' proprietary fuel technology converts woody-biomass into C6 sugar and BioleumTM, a unique blend of hydrocarbons. These intermediates can be processed into renewable fuels using fermentation, hydrotreating, and catalytic chemistries.
CPFD Software is advancing multiphase simulation and technology. Our flagship product, Barracuda Virtual Reactor®, is a physics-based engineering software package that simulates the three-dimensional, transient, fluid-particle hydrodynamics, heat balance, and chemical reactions in industrial fluidized bed reactors and other fluid-particle systems.
Virtual Reactor™ enables researchers and engineers working with diverse sustainability, renewables, and decarbonization technologies to explore a broad range of ideas, reduce physical testing costs, and minimize development risk, all while accelerating commercialization, scale-up, and overall time to market. The simulation results provide an objective basis for effectively communicating technological merits to partners, customers, and investors, while increasing market exposure and bolstering patent applications.
The Virtual Reactor technology can be accessed via software licensing, services, or custom collaborative arrangements. Learn more about Barracuda Virtual Reactor for sustainability applications on our Clean Technologies and Renewables page here: https://cpfd-software.com/applications/clean-technologies/
The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) is a nonprofit organization that provides leading propane safety and training programs and has been at the forefront of advocating the safe, efficient use of odorized propane gas as a preferred energy source by sponsoring research projects that position propane applications for key roles in a low-carbon future. PERC is operated and funded by the propane industry, and PERC programs benefit a variety of markets including transportation, agriculture, material handling, power generation, residential and commercial applications.
Shell Catalysts & Technologies is at the forefront of developing new services and technologies for the energy and petrochemical industries. This includes advanced catalysts for refining and petrochemicals, as well as licensing and technical services to support these technologies/solutions. Shell Catalysts & Technologies is committed to enable industry to provide more and cleaner energy solutions for today and the future. Shell Catalysts & Technologies is an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with operations in more than 70 countries.
As a full service supplier, SunGas Renewables designs, fabricates delivers and commissions complete gasification systems for your project.
SunGas provides proven gasification systems that transform woody biomass into the building blocks necessary for large scale production of renewable fuels and chemicals.
The SunGas gasification process produces at industrial scale clean, tar-free syngas essential for the production of gaseous and liquid biofuels, and biochemicals.
Bronze Sponsors
At BTG-Bioliquids we replace fossil fuels!
Where the Earth formed oil reserves over millions of years, fast pyrolysis technology can achieve this in several seconds. Fast Pyrolysis Bio Oil is produced from non-food biomass and is therefore a second-generation biofuel which does not compete with the food chain. The local decentralized production of Fast Pyrolysis Bio Oil separates out the minerals in the biomass so they can be recycled to maintain the soil quality. Due to its energy density and liquid form existing infrastructure can be used for transporting Fast Pyrolysis Bio Oil. Fast Pyrolysis Bio Oil can be stored for long periods of time and is therefore available when necessary. It can substitute fossil fuels in heat and power applications and thereby provide peak renewable power and heat to complement other (intermittent) renewable sources. Other applications are co-feeding of pyrolysis oil to FCC’s to make partly renewable fuels and gasification of pyrolysis oil using existing oil resid gasifiers to make fuels and chemicals.
The core business of BTG-Bioliquids is the delivery and deployment of our patented fast pyrolysis technology. We currently have 3 commercial references with a scale of 5 ton per hours of biomass per hour input and producing 20 million liter of oil per plant per year:
Empyro in the Netherlands since 2015;
Green Fuel Nordic in Finland since 2020;
Pyrocell in Sweden since 2021.
CADA SynSel Energy Partners is a strategic partnership formed to develop green fuel projects in the Caribbean.
Carbon Asset Developer Associates LLC (CADA) offers climate finance opportunities under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 offset markets. As both a project developer and contractor, CADA provides value propositions that earn their customers project equity and operating revenues.
SynSel Energy, Inc. will provide technical expertise to build and operate 100-ton-per-day modular biorefineries.
CADA SynSel Energy Partners Caribbean-based biorefineries will transform biomass into synthetic gasoline and diesel fuels – two expensive though essential commodities that presently must be delivered from the mainland.
The first plant is scheduled for Dominica as part of an Article 6 climate cooperation project finance vehicle with Switzerland. Under this “cooperative endeavors” initiative, CADA SynSel Energy Partners plans to build a total of 13 identical modular biorefineries in the Caribbean.
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable power generation, the production of sustainable biomass and the sale of renewable electricity to businesses.
Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.
The Group employs 3,400 people in the UK and North America.
Our ambition is to become carbon negative by 2030. This means that we will be removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than we produce throughout our direct business operations globally – creating a carbon negative company.
The Bioeconomy Institute (BEI) at Iowa State University leads the nation and world in establishing the bioeconomy, where society obtains renewable fuel, energy, chemicals, and materials. The institute teams with innovative companies in the energy, agricultural, and manufacturing industries. The BEI also partners with federal and state agencies, and collaborates with all of Iowa State University’s colleges. Since its founding in 2007, the BEI has been conducting research and development and providing education in the bioeconomy. The BEI has completed more than $50 million in grants and contracts in the last five years. The BEI is world renowned for its research into thermochemical conversion, where heat, pressure, and catalysts are used to convert nonfood biomass and waste streams into valuable products. The Biorenewables Research Laboratory is a 70,000-sq.-ft. building housing state-of-the-art equipment and laboratories. The BioCentury Research Farm is a first-in-the-nation integrated research and demonstration facility for biomass production and processing. It also houses the BEI’s pilot-scale systems.
To explore how the Bioeconomy Institute at Iowa State University can work with your organization, please contact bei@iastate.edu and visit www.biorenew.iastate.edu.
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 35,000 people worldwide with customers in more than 80 countries and operations in over 30 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2023 sales of $33 billion (€26 billion). We offer a broad array of industrial gases, gas application technologies and services to meet the needs of the global energy, transportation fuel and chemical industries, among many others.
Linde is proud to offer our customers more options to improve operational efficiency, decarbonize and plan for future growth. These include being at the forefront in the transition to clean hydrogen and carbon conversion with an innovative Hot Oxygen Technology for the production and reforming of syngas from various feedstocks.
For gas supply, Linde offers a complete portfolio of oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen supply options including on-site production plants to meet any size gas requirement, from a few tons to thousands of tons per day. For more than a century, Linde has been a pioneer in advancing cryogenic (ASU) and non-cryogenic (VPSA, PSA) air separation technologies. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality technologies and services which are making our customers more successful while helping to sustain and protect our planet.
Merrick & Company creates Bio Solutions to Better Our World by serving innovators in the biofuels, advanced proteins, and RNG markets. A leader in bioprocessing, Merrick provides multi-discipline services from FEL through commissioning. We specialize in thermal chemical conversion and fermentation processes for cellulosic and low carbon feedstocks. We have served clients for more than 65 years and maintain 25 offices in the US, Canada, Mexico, and UK.
Washington Mills is North America’s largest producer of abrasive grain and electro-fused mineral products, serving a diverse range of industries and applications. With an expansive family of standard, specialty and customizable products, Washington Mills is positioned to support the needs of gasification technology and innovation through custom-engineered media designed to extend bed longevity, lower attrition and reduce tars. Backed by 155 years of experience in raw material development, Washington Mills is your reliable partner for high-quality fused minerals in the decarbonization industry and beyond.
Since 1986 Zeton has been a leader in the design and fabrication of lab scale systems, pilot plants, demonstration plants and small production plants, with a focus on modularity. Customers trust Zeton to help them bring their unique process technologies to the market efficiently and cost effectively. Zeton has completed over 1000 projects in 45 countries. Our team of over 300 dedicated employees operate from state-of-the-art facilities in two countries to serve customers worldwide. An employee-owned company, Zeton’s mission is to help our customers scale their process technology.
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Aether Fuels envisions a net-zero world enabled by its breakthrough sustainable liquid fuel production technology. We are developing highly scalable solutions that dramatically improve the unit economics of producing sustainable fuels for aviation and ocean shipping. Established in 2022 as a spin-out of Xora Innovation, a deep-tech early-stage investment platform of Temasek, we maintain principal offices in the U.S. and Singapore.
For 50 years, Huntsman employees have been using science and ingenuity to create innovations that play a critical role in the everyday lives of many millions of people.
As a global chemicals company, Huntsman’s work forms the building blocks for countless consumer and industrial products that are part of your everyday life.
Our employees are united around a common goal: enriching lives through innovation.
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GTI Energy is a leading technology development organization. Our trusted team works to scale impactful solutions that shape energy transitions by leveraging gases, liquids, infrastructure, and efficiency. We embrace systems thinking, innovation, and collaboration to develop, scale, and deploy the technologies needed for low-carbon, low-cost energy systems.
At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), we focus on creative answers to today's energy challenges.
From breakthroughs in fundamental science to new clean technologies to integrated energy systems that power our lives, NREL researchers are transforming the way the nation and the world use energy.
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