In the News - September 2009
October 2 Bio/Ag engineers meeting focuses on field-to-refinery biofuel logistics
LITTLE ROCK - An internationally renowned researcher will discuss modeling
the logistics of moving bioenergy crops from field to refinery at the 46th
annual meeting of the Arkansas Section of the American Society of Agricultural
and Biological Engineers, set for October 2 at Little Rock.
The meeting, which begins at 9 a.m., will be held at the headquarters of the
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service,
2301 S. University Ave.
To register or learn details about the meeting, contact Shawn Brewer,
hydraulic engineer, for the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
shawn.brewer@ar.usda.gov, or
501-301-3119 or Dharmendra Saraswat, assistant professor of biological and
agricultural engineering For the U of A Division of Agriculture
dsaraswat@uaex.edu, or 501-671-2191.
Registration is $20 each for the morning or afternoon sessions, or $30 for full
day. Full-day registration for students is $5. Participants will have lunch on
their own. Registration is mandatory and will be capped at 190.
The morning session will feature demonstrations of a remote control unit for
diesel engine and a variable frequency drive for electric motors, as well as a
carbon life cycle analysis of cotton produced in the United States.
The afternoon session will be a professional development workshop centered on
the Integrated Biomass Supply Analysis and Logistics (IBSAL) model.
"The short harvest window for bioenergy crops puts them in direct competition
with the harvest of food crops in terms of resources such as machinery,
buildings, and people," said Saraswat. "Taking into account all these
challenges, the IBSAL model aims to provide a minimum cost answer by simulating
biomass supply chains from field to the biorefinery."
The afternoon workshop will be given by Sahab Sokhansanj, a researcher at the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of
Saskatchewan and an Adjunct Professor of the University of British Columbia and
the University of Tennessee. Sokhansanj has co-authored more than 200
peer-reviewed journal papers and has directly supervised more than 60 graduate
students and post doctoral candidates.
The Cooperative Extension Service is a part of the University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture and offers its programs to all eligible persons
regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability,
marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status, and is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
September 25, 2009
Media Contact: Elizabeth Fortune
Extension Communications Specialist
U of A Division of Agriculture
Cooperative Extension Service
(501) 671-2120
efortune@uaex.edu
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