Maximizing each plant fermentation is a matter of producers simultaneously giving yeast populations adequate nutrients while simultaneously limiting stressors. The discussions promise fascinating discoveries about the varied ways in which biological stressors get into plant fermentation tanks, but go a step further and offer producers guidance on how to manage these perpetual threats. Panelists will offer solutions as varied as inbound grain inspection, highly tailored nutrient regimes and yeast strain blending.

• Dennis Bayrock, R&D Director, Phibro Ethanol
  Mycotoxin Inhibition of Yeast Fermentation and Growth
• Crysta Greenleaf, Technical Service Representative, Leaf by Lesaffre
  Role of Micronutrition in Maintaining Stable operation of a Modern Biorefinery
• Matt Hawkins, Applications Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Sulfites in Corn Mash Fermentation Processes – Implications and Impacts
• Lee Robinson, Applications Scientist, IFF
  Yeast Blending – A Valuable Tool that Brings Flexibility to Your Plant

The suite of equipment at an ethanol plant used to move, remove and drive off water is significant and generates significant cost for operating teams. Efficient water management is vital for plant teams looking to maximize bottom line profits. This panel features presentations that target water waypoints throughout the ethanol production cycle, eliminating leaks, refreshing RO membranes, decreasing water loads on plant dryers and providing greater overall visibility to water flows and water usage throughout the plant.

• Quinn Hanson-Pollock, Industry Technical Consultant, Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
  Optimizing the Utility Water Balance with Water Flow Intelligence
• Terry Roberts, Regional Manager, SEPCO Sealing Equipment Products Co., Inc.
  Water Conservation in Ethanol Evaporation Operations
• Brad Thompson, Industry Leader, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
  Breaking New Ground: Extending the Life of Your RO Membranes
• Chuck Gallop, Director, Innovation, ICM, Inc.
  Making Thin Stillage Thin: How to Further Refine Your Evaporator Feed

Board members at ethanol plants often wear a number of hats, but the variety of their roles doesn’t detract from the seriousness of their fiduciary responsibilities as a member of a plant’s leadership team. The presentations in this panel are varied, spending time on topics like board training, margin management and fiduciary duties but are all connected in that they fall under the domain of a well-trained, informed and active board.

• Sara DeRoo, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  Current Trends in Accounting – What You May Not Know
• Clinton Baker, Partner, K-Coe Isom LLP
  Board Training and Planning – What Has Changed and What Needs To Change
• Todd Taylor, Attorney & CEO, Avisen Legal
  Board Fiduciary Duties in a Challenging Market
• Chip Whalen, Vice President of Education & Research, Commodity & Ingredient Hedging
  Navigating High Corn Input Costs

The importance of feed co-product revenue streams for ethanol plants is widely understood, yet returns on feed programs across the industry are highly variable. Best in class producers are continually pushing for improved co-product quality as a means of unlocking greater overall feed value. This panel will feature some compelling pathways available to ethanol plant teams to capture more value within the markets they are already serving while simultaneously establishing new ones.

• Ryan Mass, Director of Animal Nutrition, ICM, Inc.
  Impact of an Ethanol Plant’s Drying Operations on Feed Nutritional Value
• Janet Remus, Senior Technical Director, Danisco/IFF
  Adapting Coproducts to Changing Feed Industry Needs
• Peter Williams, Senior Nutritionist, Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC
  
  Opportunities for Designed Feeds from the Bio Fuels Facility
• Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Potential Marketing Corn Ethanol Co-Products for Fish Feed Ingredients

The presentations organized in this panel will assert that the pathway most likely to yield commercially relevant volumes of sustainable aviation fuel is the one that utilizes the foundation already established by first generation biofuels producers and researchers. Increasingly project and technology developers are embracing the advantage of building out from or bolting on to successful and operating biofuels production sites. These presenters will walk attendees through their plans for leveraging existing production and research assets to accelerate the push for commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuels.

• John Oyen, Business Development Manager, ABB Inc.
  Key Considerations in the Development of SAF Facilities
• Tim Cesarek, Chief Commercial Officer, Gevo Inc.
  Paths to Sustainable Aviation: Ethanol-to-Jet
• Mark Yancey, Chief Executive Officer, SAFFiRE Renewables LLC
  Ultralow Carbon SAF - Be a Part of this 10 Billion Gal/Year Opportunity
• Justin Sluiter, Biomass Composition Specialist, National Renewable Energy Laboratories
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory Flying Towards Sustainable Aviation Fuel

If profitable ethanol production hinges on efficient fermentations, then instruments that offer lab managers a view of what is happening in fermenters are a lynchpin in overall plant success. The presentations that make up this panel will help lab managers not only get their equipment online and calibrated efficiently, but also arm them with some practical ways by which the yielded information can be utilized to make operational decisions that overall ethanol yield.

• Andrew Hawkins, Director of Laboratory Services, Phibro Ethanol
  Care and Troubleshooting HPLCs – Workhorse of the Lab
• Jonathon Speed, Product & Applications Manager, Keit Spectrometers
  Taking the Stress out of Using Spectroscopy

Bacterial infections remain a bugaboo for ethanol plant fermentations, eroding yield and constraining plant revenues. Fortunately for producers, the economic value of protecting against and managing infection has inspired continual research from a robust stable of solution providers. Presenters in this panel will assert that best-in-class plant cleaning regimens are fundamental and the most cost effective approach to keeping these pernicious infections at bay.

• Mark Altier, Sr. Program Leader, Ecolab, Inc.
  Total Plant Clean in Place (CIP) Solutions for Fuel Ethanol Producers
• Ryan Brock, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Plant Hygiene, Why Cleaning is so Important to the Bottom Line
• Anne Chronic, Director of Market Analytics, Phibro Ethanol
  Innovations in Cleaning
• Lance Renfrow, President, Clear Solutions USA, LLC
  A Safe and Effective Way for CIP Cleaning in Ethanol Plants

• Kari Buttenhoff, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  Understanding the Intricacies of California’s LCFS CCS Certification and Verification
• Jim Ramm, VP Sales, EcoEngineers
  The Importance and Organizational Challenges of Net-Zero Ethanol
• Thomas P. Ventulett, CEO, Aegex Technologies
  Digital Solution for Track and Trace of Feedstock Sources and Carbon Intensity Scoring
• Ashley Player, Partner, Weaver
  Updating Your CI Scores Under LCFS

Whether it is broadly understood or not, the path to market access for ethanol producers is paved with a dizzying array of fuel specifications and state and federal regulations. This annual conversation will feature updates from those professionals actively engaged in ensuring that existing fuel specifications do not present an unwarranted obstacle to important fuel and alcohol markets. Time and attention will be given to year round E15 sales, LCFS markets and high purity alcohol markets.

• Chris Bliley, Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Growth Energy
  Federal Update, Streamlining, E15 Market Update (RFGSA)
• Chuck Corr, Iowa Renewable Fuels Association
  Low Carbon Fuels Programs Update (CA, OR, NM, Canada)
• Bart Plocher, Director of Quality Control, Poet Biorefining, POET
  USP/ GMP High Purity Alcohol Regulatory Considerations
• Kristy Moore, Principal, KMoore Consulting/Growth Energy
  ASTM/ ISO/ ABNT International Market Specification Updates

The use of distillers corn oil as a feedstock for renewable diesel production is gaining traction because of its lower carbon intensity than soybean oil. DCO, however has higher levels of minerals and metals that can foul catalysts in the renewable diesel production process. This panel will highlight the emerging processes and technologies that allow ethanol plant teams to purify DCO streams, making them suitable for renewable diesel production thereby unlocking even greater value from this important and increasingly flexible co-product

• Chuck Gallop, Director, Innovation, ICM, Inc.
  
  Purifying Feedstocks for Renewable Diesel Refineries
• Scott Kohl, Chief Technology Officer, Visionary Fiber Technologies
  DCO Cleanup for Renewable Diesel
• Juan Vargas-Ramirez, Product Line Manager, Novozymes
  Distiller’s Corn Oil (DCO) – Overcoming Hurdles to Improve Its Desirability as Feedstock for Renewable Diesel
• Tara Vigil, Vice President/GM Bioprocess Solutions, Trucent Separation Technologies, LLC
  Next-level DCO - Elevating Distiller's Corn Oil from a Commodity to a Premium Product

While Saccharomyces cerevisiae remains the go-to microorganism for ethanol production, perhaps the biggest reason for its staying power is its malleability. Fermentations are hostile environments for yeast populations and significant research attention is dedicated to the development of strains able to withstand these punishing environments. This panel will bring producers up to date on the efforts to deliver strains to the marketplace that keep them abreast of their yield targets in an increasingly competitive market.

• Dale Earls, Product Application Scientist, R&D, Novozymes
  Yeast Bioinnovations Breaking Barriers
• Larry Anthony, Technical Manager, IFF
  Breeding is only the Beginning
• Massimo Merighi, Head of Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Lesaffre
  CP^2 – Comprehensive Coupled Product and Process – The Solution of Leaf for Ethanol Producers
• Matt Richards, Director, Application Technology, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Understanding Your Cellular Factories for a Better Biorefinery: What Components are Yeast Producing Beyond Ethanol?

No ethanol producer would dispute that data capture and interpretation are vital to plant optimization efforts. The challenge for producers lies in deploying not only the right technologies, but also in building a system that will deliver information and decision points that human operators can quickly interpret and act upon. These presentations offer guidance on building plant control strategies that keep the human operators top of mind, ensuring that they are equipped with relevant information from which they can make decisions that keep their facility running safely, efficiently and profitably.

• John Oyen, Business Development Manager, ABB, Inc.
  Control Room Design for Improved Operations
• Keith Riley, Product Marketing Manager - Level + Pressure, Endress+Hauser, Inc.
  Improve Throughput and Safety at your Plant with Smart Instruments
• Hank Brittain, Director of Optimization & Advanced Control, OpX Control, Inc.
  Plant Optimization Through Better Control
• Cam Fowler, Senior Director Technical Service and Marketing, Phibro Ethanol
  
  Statistical Monitoring in a Fuel Ethanol Plant

Technology has forever changed how and where we work. Ethanol plant managers can now monitor fermentations from a smartphone. The other side of this coin of course is the increased IT risk ethanol plant teams must now mitigate. This panel will offer plant IT teams the opportunity to compare their own strategies with those made available by some of the sector’s most trusted and experienced IT providers working in the sector. Unfortunately taking no action is not an option in an era of cyberattacks, particularly considering how often energy production sites are targeted for attack and cyber ransoms.

• Doug Davidson, Director of Information Technology Services, GBQ, a K-Coe Isom LLP Partner
  Incorporate IT Security into Every Aspect of Your Business
• Eric Newell, CEO, Levridge, LLC
  Ransomware – How to Mitigate Your Risk
• Joe Henderson, Director of Technology, Direct Companies
  Cyber Security, Vulnerability Analysis
• Brandon Bohle, Systems Analyst, Interstates, Inc.
  Practical Measures to Implement in Your Journey to Cybersecurity

The shock of the nearly instantaneous demand turn down the industry experienced in the pandemic’s earliest days put an exclamation point on the need for ethanol producers to diversify their product output. Alternative markets that had previously generated only passing interest from producers became vital almost overnight. That experience has catalyzed a new wave of interest in product diversification. This panel features presentations on the options available to producers, the size of these alternative markets and the steps plant teams must take in order to participate.

• Joaquin Alarcon, President & CEO, Catalyxx, Inc.
  GrenOI. How to Upgrade Fuel Ethanol into Diesel Blending
• Jessica Buckley, Project Manager, RTP Environmental Associates, Inc.
  Drink the Best and Sell the Rest: Navigating Facility Changes to Produce Higher Grade Alcohol
• Doug Rivers, Executive Vice President, Lee Enterprises Consulting.
  Diversification Opportunities: What Makes Sense for Your Ethanol Plant
• Mark Yancey, Chief Technology Officer, D3MAX, LLC
  Corn Starch, Fiber, and Stover: Diversify Your Feedstock and Your Product Portfolio

The financial rewards for the utilization of alternative feedstocks with low carbon intensity for biodiesel and renewable diesel production are catalyzing a renaissance in sourcing and perfecting production from these unique feedstocks. Still, these feedstocks present not only processing but also record keeping and CI verification and validation challenges. This panel features speakers that will look at each, ensuring producers considering expanding their inbound feedstock portfolio do so in an informed, “eyes wide open” posture.

• Melita Kyriakou, Senior Consultant, Christianson PLLP
  Capitalizing on Low CI Feedstocks
• Scott Kohl, Chief Technology Officer, Visionary Fiber Technologies
  New Low Carbon Renewable Diesel Feedstock Cleanup Process
• Bryan Yeh, General Management, Community Fuels
  Practical Processing Tips for Producing Biodiesel with Alternative Feedstock
• Ron Fedie, Senior Research Scientist, SarTec Corporation
  Catalytically Converting Waste Greases with Continuous Flow Supercritical Water into Biocrude to Produce Renewable, Green Gasoline, Jet and Diesel Biofuels

While ethanol producers work diligently to create environments for their preferred bio-organisms to thrive and propagate they simultaneously create environments for all manner of other, not preferred bio-organisms to thrive as well. Presenters in this panel will offer producers a range of options for monitoring and controlling infections in plant fermentation tanks as well as within cooling towers. Infections are costly and as a result the suite of options available for producers to deploy are under continued development and refinement. This panel seeks to offer the latest thinking in effective bacterial countermeasures.

• Stephanie Gleason, Senior Manager Technical Service, Phibro Ethanol
  Controlling Infections: Best Practices for Establishing and Monitoring a Plant Hygiene Program
• Michail Karavolos, R&D Laboratory Manager, BetaTec Hop Products, Inc.
  Evaluation of the Effect of Antimicrobials on the Fitness of Industrial Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Gene-Disruption Variants
• Rachel Murdy, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Antimicrobial Rotation as a Strategy in Controlling Bacterial Contaminations
• Ashok Shetty, Senior Cooling Engineer, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions
  New On-Site Legionella Test Enables Cooling Tower Monitoring in Minutes Reducing Risk of Exposure

This second in a three-part series on plant control focuses exclusively on the opportunity to leverage captured data to maximize fermentation. The profitability of any ethanol plant hinges on successful fermentations and this panel will examine how data capture, artificial intelligence and advanced pattern recognition can be effectively utilized to help plant production teams find the sweet spot in each fermentation cycle. Presentations will be rooted in some compelling case studies where these cutting edge approaches have yielded impressive results.

• Zach Baer, Fermentation Engineer II, IFF Health & Biosciences
  XCELIS® AI: New Virtual Tools to Simplify Yeast Blending in the Fuel Ethanol Industry
• Kelly Whittenberg, Performance Engineer, Black and Veatch Corp.
  Applying Real-Time Data Analytics to Large Ethanol Production Facilities
• Nick LeFebvre, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Back to Fermentation Basics

Ethanol producers looking to take a big swing at their carbon intensity invariably turn to their plant’s energy hub. Heat and power loads bring with them significant inventories of carbon dioxide. Low-carbon options exist and marketplace reward for lower CI fuels is stoking renewed interest in reimagined heat and power solutions at ethanol plants. This panel aggregates a number of options available to producers ready to drive significant volumes of carbon dioxide from their heat and power sources.

• Bernie Hoffman, Vice President, P&E Solutions LLC
  CHP and CCS, a Marriage Made in Carbon Heaven
• Jeremy Keller, Director of Project Development, Rondo Energy, Inc.
  Renewable Steam as a Service: Lower Fuel Costs, Slash CI Scores and Boiler Emissions with No Capital Required
• Kevin Jensen, Power Generation Account Manager, Solar Turbines Incorporated
  How CHP Compliments Other Low or Zero Carbon Energy Sources
• Brandon Emme, Director of Technology Development, ICM, Inc.
  Evaluating Low Carbon Strategies: CHP and Other Process Optimizations

Producers know that increased protein in distillers grains streams correlate tightly to increased value. Feed buyers are rewarding producers who can enhance the available protein in their co-product streams and this panel features presentations from technology providers ready to aid in that ambition. Presenters will argue that protein enhancement plays offer the biggest bang for their plant reinvestment buck.

• Jaclyn DeMartini, Scientist, IFF
  Enzymes for Maximizing Output and Quality of High Protein Coproducts
• Kyle Flynn, Director of Business Development, ST Equipment & Technology
  Water Free Process for Protein Enhancements of DDGS
• Adam Anderson, Product Manager, ICM, Inc.
  Scaling High-Protein Technologies to Fit Your Biorefinery
• Joseph Ward, Senior Nutritionist, North America, Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC
  What Makes Protein Production from a Dry Grind Plant so Unique?
• Geoffrey Bell, CEO, Microbiogen Pty, Ltd.
  Maximising a Starch Ethanol Plant’s Value and Sustainability Through Novel Biotechnology Solutions

The early projections for sustainable aviation fuel demand are eye popping. The 100 billion gallon aviation fuel market is forecast to more than double by 2050 by some forecasters. Additionally, aviation markets are unlikely to see demand erosion due to electrification. Professionals with deep experience in biodiesel production know that feedstocks are already tight and these additional demand centers will require feedstock innovation if the ambitious targets for future production are to be met. These presentations will examine likely pressures on existing and emerging feedstocks and how alcohol-to-jet pathways may ease some of the pressure on triglyceride inventories.

• Dave Collings, Senior Consultant, 1898 & Co.
  
  In Search of the Next Feedstock
• Jordan Godwin, Senior Journalist, OPIS
  Renewable Diesel, SAF & The Pending Battle for Feedstocks
• Jie Dong, Assistant Professor/Fermentation Specialist, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Bio-jet Fuel Precursor Production in Engineered E.coli from Corn Starch

• Asfia Qureshi, Head of Application Technology, BASF Enzymes, LLC
  Innovative Tools to Create Versatility in Processing and Evolving Market Conditions
• Michael Humphrey, Technical Services Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  The Importance and Implications of Pilot Scale Fermentations in the Fuel Ethanol Industry
• Somenath Mitra, Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Recovery of Fermentation Products via Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Membrane Distillation
• Steve Westra, Field Services Manager, Phibro Ethanol
  Supplementing Fuel Ethanol Fermentations with Nutrients and Yeast to Minimize Heat Stress

Producers know that any deployments that promise increased efficiency are likely to also deliver decreased carbon intensity. This two-pronged value proposition has accelerated producer interest and adoption of the kinds of process improvements featured in this panel. These presenters will offer practical, commercially available technologies that drive out energy and carbon intensity from pump inventories, heat exchangers and dehydration steps.

• Michael Hora, Principle Engineer, Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC
  Is Your Plant Optimized for Lower Energy and OPEX Costs?
• Tyler Johnson, District Sales Manager, Grundfos Pumps Corporation
  Efficient and Reliable Pump Solutions for Ethanol Production Facilities
• Dimitrije Djordjevic, Application Engineer, Alfa Laval Technologies AB
  The Plate Heat Exchangers as Beer Column Reboiler
• Thiago Righi, Process Engineer, Whitefox Technologies Limited
  
  Membranes’ Essential Role in the Pursuit of Primary Energy Reduction Solutions in the Ethanol Industry

Industry innovators discussing their research and development projects and novel technologies that have the potential to expand opportunities and non-traditional uses for ethanol and co-products.

• Jenelle Sams, Senior ESG Consultant, Antea Group
  ESG Standards for Biofuels
• Devendra Pakhare, PhD, Technical Lead, Pyrochem Catalyst Company
  Direct Reforming Ethanol into Low Cost Green Hydrogen
• Julie Blumreiter, CTO and Co-Founder, Clearflame Engine Technologies
  Accelerating Demand for Ethanol
• Larry Tree, President/CEO, Proteum Energy
  Profitable Clean Hydrogen Partnerships with Ethanol Producers

Driving down the carbon intensity of fuel ethanol need not be confined within plant boundaries. In fact, to fully realize the low carbon potential of corn-based ethanol, grain production itself will have to be examined for carbon-reducing opportunities. This intriguing panel discussion will ask ethanol producers to look upstream at the efforts underway to deliver carbon-reduced bushels to ethanol plant gates, aligning the demands from maturing low carbon fuel markets with new approaches in grain production practices.

• Trish Jackson, Director of Regenerative Agriculture, PrairieFood
  Lowering Carbon Intensity of Input Crops by Increasing Soil Health
• Joe Jump, Staff Scientist II, Novozymes
  Reducing Corn Ethanol Carbon Intensity and Other Benefits by Applying Biotechnology in the Agriculture Industry: The One Acre Study
• Mark Heckman, Ethanol Services Director, EcoEngineers
  (Not) Plowing to Net Zero Thru Supply Chain Efforts

Variety may be the spice of life, but for biodiesel and SAF producers variation in feedstocks means production headaches and challenges that must be overcome. This panel looks specifically at the effort to devise pretreatment strategies capable of eliminating problematic metals and minerals from a growing list of potential biofuel feedstocks. As the volumetric ambitions of SAF and renewable diesel producers grows, so too must their ability to successfully pretreat inbound waste oils and this panel will highlight the technologies available to them today.

• Christopher Check, Senior Research Scientist, Oil-Dri Corporation of America
  The Effect of Water on Metals Removal During Renewable Diesel Pretreatment
• Matthew Clingerman, Process Development Expert, Sulzer GTC
  Overcoming the Challenges of Triglyceride Pretreatment for Renewable Diesel & SAF
• Chelsea Grimes, Global Strategic Marketing Manager, W.R. Grace & Co.
  Renewable Feedstock Pretreatment with Silica Adsorbents
• Neal Williams, Research Engineer, Imerys
  Adsorbent for Renewable Diesel Feedstock Purification

Accurate continuous emissions monitoring has challenged many ethanol plant teams since the day their air permits were issued. Understanding and effectively deploying test methodologies for emissions levels has proven challenging. Presenters in this panel will work to demystify this important and required practice by sharing with attendees new approaches and instruments capable of detecting HAPs at levels well below established limits. Emissions testing has evolved and this panel will welcome producer attendees into an era of greater accuracy and confidence in captured stack tests.

• Jordan Laster, Senior Vice President, Alliance Technical Group
  Effective Planning for Air Source Emissions Testing
• Blake Ericson, Business Development, Montrose Environmental Group, Inc.
  Crushing Compliance and Engineering Hurdles with Real-Time Emissions Testing
• Bethany White, Project Manager, RTP Environmental Associates, Inc.
  CEMS or SEMS? When your CEMS becomes a “Sometimes” Emission Monitor

The opportunities to leverage data capture and automation within an operating ethanol plant are widespread giving production teams lots of options, but lots to consider. This panel will help producers weigh the widespread options afforded them including increased levels of automation, better predictive maintenance and the introduction of alarms and alerts that are actionable. The panel’s concluding presentation will offer producer attendees an opportunity to think about their data in a big picture manner, moving them closer to a posture of being served by captured data instead of being mystified or overwhelmed by it.

• Tyler Lind, Process Engineer, Fluid Quip Technologies
  Automation Strategies to Help the Labor Shortage
• Carson Merkwan, Business Development Manager, Direct Companies
  Benefits of Leveraging Automation
• Matt Moyer, Cognitive Solutions Business Development Manager, Samson Controls
  SAM GUARD Machine Learning Helps Bridge the Gaps Between Data and Predictive Maintenance
• Dustin Kotrba, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  Great Data: Decision Making Made Easier

The labor market is still recovering from the largest workplace disruption in a lifetime. The challenges of finding and retaining a quality team were only exacerbated by the pandemic. Presenters in this panel will assert that ethanol plants look first at the employees already on the payroll as the first place to raise overall team performance. The presentations will feature discussions about the value of training, the importance of plant culture and the role that gender equity can play in lifting overall team performance.

• Kristen Glasgow, Manager, K-Coe Isom, LLP
  Revamping Your Culture, Hiring Practices and How Your Current and Future Employees See You
• Connie Lindstrom, Senior Biofuels Analyst, Christianson Benchmarking, LLC
  Strong Team, Strong Performance: The Ethanol Workforce in 2022
• Janet Fisher, Enzyme Product Category Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  A Forum for Ethanol's Next Generation: RFA's Young Professionals Network

In less than a decade, corn oil capture went from a novel process deployed by a handful of early adopters to a nearly universally deployed, vital component of plant co-product portfolios. The handsome revenue streams generated by corn oil has inspired continued innovation in corn oil capture strategies. This panel will offer producers a look at the latest thinking in extraction strategies informed by case studies from the industry’s most experienced technology providers.

• Pedro Pena, Lab and R&D Director, CTE Global Inc.
  Comprehensive Approach to Improve Corn Oil Yield
• Christopher Gerken, Commercial Application Scientist, ICM, Inc.
  Maximizing Corn Oil Yield with FOT™ Oil Recovery
• Bill Griffiths, Industry Manager, Flottweg Separation Technology, Inc.
  Five Reasons to Choose a Tricanter for Corn Oil Ethanol Recovery: A Case Study
• Shrikant Rathi, Sr. General Manager - Business Americas, Praj Industries Ltd.
  Profit Maximisation with Product Diversification and Lowering the CI of Ethanol Plants

The marketplace demand for low-carbon biodiesel and renewable diesel has generated significant interest in increased production. Savvy producers know that the best laid plans all hinge on efficient operations with maximized yields. Presenters in this panel will look at the optimization potential of automation, instrumentation, process and logistical approaches commercially available today. Attendees prepared to put their operational approach under a microscope will appreciate this panel’s commitment to presentations rich in technical detail.

• Rudy Pruszko, President, Pruszko Consulting
  Solutions to your Biodiesel Production Problems
• Chris Stine, Director of Project Management, Norwest Engineering
  Making Renewable Diesel Work with What You Have
• Leslie McHenry, Applications Supervisor, XOS
  Biodiesel Sulfur Test Method Comparison and the Importance of Oxygen Correction for XRF