Thursday Jan. 28, 2010

8-8:30am Registration

8:30-9:00 am Introduction Hal Debor, SSEA President

9:00 -9:45 am Dr. Morris Bitzer, Exec. Secretary NSSPPA, Professor Emeritus and Sweet Sorghum Breeder, College of Ag, University of Kentucky “The growth and development of the sorghum plant.”

9:45-10:30 am Peter Sandfort, KATZEN International, “Sweet sorghum ethanol production plant design history”

10:30-11:15 am Laurence Culliford Eng, Green Yeast, “The production of yeast from vinasse”

11:15am -12:00pm Mr. Lee McClune, Sorganol, “On-the-farm ethanol production system: sustainable & carbon neutral”

12:00-1:15 pm Lunch break/Networking (Lunch is not provided)

1:15-2:00 pm . Zacarias Alvaro, 3M of Mexico, “3M technology for juice extraction equipment”

2:00-2:45 pm Dr. Randall Powell, BioDimensions, ”Development of sweet sorghum ethanol in the Mid-South Mississippi Delta.”

2:45-3:30 pm Roland Holou, Ph.D. Student at __________ , "The impact of the soil type and nitrogen application on the biomass yield and ethanol production by sweet sorghum".

3:30-4:15 pm Mr. Tim Jost, Fulton Iron Works,"The sweet sorghum milling process."

4:15-5:00 pm speaker TBA

5:00-6:00 Social Hour

6:00-7:30 pm Banquet dinner

7:30-9:30 pm SSEA Membership Meeting


Friday Jan. 29, 2010


9:00-9:45 am Spencer Swayze, CERES, “Development of Sweet Sorghum for Biofuels and Biopower”

9:45-10:15 am Speaker TBA

11:00 am -12:30 pm Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Projects Panel Discussion (Representatives from a wide range of sweet sorghum to ethanol projects will be available for a question and answer session and discussion.) Panelists TBA

12:30-1:30 lunch

1:30 – 3:00 “The future of sweet sorghum ethanol”. Break out session discussions