International Scientific Conference Biogas Science 2009 science meets practice 02-04 December in Erding, Germany

Poster Session

The poster session takes place in separate rooms during the whole conference.
On December 02, 2009 at 5:15 pm, three of the presented posters will be awarded. You can meet authors during the conference at special appointment periods.

Poster session - printable version  

List of all posters

• Session 1: Raw materials and additives for biogas production
• Session 2: Efficiency of processes at laboratory and pilot scale
• Session 3: Efficiency of processes in practice
• Session 4: Microbiology and molecular biology
• Session 5: Analysis, process measuring, control technology and process modeling
• Session 6: Economical and ecological impact assessments

Session 1: Raw materials and additives for biogas production

1. Experiments with weed seeds in the silage and fermentation process for biogas.
   Dr. Paula Westermann, Rostock, Germany
2. Documentation and production of quality silage from the harvest up to storage.
   Klaus Kellner, Bruchsal, Germany
3. Losses of energy during the storage of co-substrates and possibilities for avoiding them.
   Dr. Harald Lindorfer, Pinneberg, Germany
4. Two harvests per year for biomass production?!
   Dr. Joachim Moeser, Isernhagen, Germany
5. Effects of limonene on anaerobic co-digestion of citrus waste.
   Dipl.-Ing. M.B. Ruiz Fuertes, Ainia, Spain
6. Biogas from genetically modified Bt-maize - potentials and limitations.
   Dipl. Biogeogr. Ulrike Schöbinger, Trier, Germany
7. Green rye as intermediate winter crop for the production of biogas.
   Dr. Ewald Sticksel, Freising, Germany
8. Energy yield potential and climate effects of biogas production from cropping by-products.
   Walter Stinner, Leipzig, Germany
Evaluation of gas production potential of renewable primary products
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Weißbach, Elmenhorst, Deutschland

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Session 2: Efficiency of processes at laboratory and pilot scale

1. Biogas production from grass silage: examinations of process stability.
   M.Sc. Diana Andrade, Freising, Germany
2. Optimising biological desulphurization with addition of humic substances.
   Dipl.-Ing Ulrike Gayh, Hamburg, Germany
3. Thermophilic Digestion of Cellulose – Investigation of the Inhibitory State.
   Dipl.-Ing Katarzyna Golkowska, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
4. In-situ methane enhancement system using differential solubility of biogas.
   Prof. Dr. Ho Kang, Deajeon, Korea
5. Development of a new biogas procedure on thermophilic basis for the efficient use of renewable raw materials.
   M.Sc. Carmen Marin-Perez, Freising, Germany
6. Identification of the maximum space load of a mono-maize fermentation in a one and two-stage system with 40°C and with 50°C at technical scale.
   Dr. Monika Reuter, Schwandorf, Germany
7. Anaerobic digestion of rye silage in a two-phase process.
   Dipl.-Ing. Mandy Schönberg, Potsdam, Germany
8. Digestion of grass silage by a two-phase biogas process.
   M.Sc. Simon Zielonka, Hohenheim, Germany

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Session 3: Efficiency of processes in practice

1. Improvement of the efficiency of agricultural biogas plants by mashing the co-ferments.
   Dipl.-Ing. Paul Krampe, Essen, Germany
2. Construction of biogas plants - It depends on the disintegration and new conclusions on bio-extrusion.
   Dipl.-Ing Lehmann, Pöhl, Germany
3. Exhaust air cleaning after a pressurised-water wash of fermentation gas.
   Dipl.-Ing Ernst Luthardt, Aachen, Germany
4. Fish farming-recirculation systems in combination with biogas production - possibilities and problems.
   Dr. Helmut Wedekind, Starnberg, Germany

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Session 4: Microbiology and molecular biology

1. The influence of antibiotics on running processes in biogas production.
   Dipl. Chem. Günter Henkelmann, Freising, Germany
2. Selection and analysis of microbial cultures for efficient biomass conversion to methane.
   Dipl.-Ing. Tanja Köllmeier, München, Germany
3. Hydrolytic enzymes for the increase of gas yields in biogas production.
   Dipl.-Ing. Vincent Pelenc, Berlin, Germany
4. Dynamics of microbial community for anaerobic digestion from a synthetic model substrate for maize silage under influence of trace elements.
   Mag. Herbert Pobenheim, Graz, Austria
5. Characterisation of methanogenic archaea in agricultural biogas plants with renewable raw material.
   Dipl.-Biol. Kerstin Seyfarth, Mainz, Germany
6. Enhancement of biogas production by addition of hemicellulolytic bacteria immobilised on activated zeolite IPUS meth-max®.
   Dipl.-Biol. Stefan Weiß, Graz, Austria

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Session 5: Analysis, process measuring, control technology and process modeling

1. Visualization of methane emissions.
   Dipl.-Ing Marcus Brand, Köln, Germany
2. Process control of an anaerobic hydrolysis-acidogenesis phase of a two-stage fermenter system treating maize silage.
   M.Sc. Fei Liu, Freising, Germany
3. Laboratory services and quality assurance in the sector of biogas production.
   Dipl. Chem. Kirsten Meyer zu Köcker, Freising, Germany
4. Parameter identification for a non-linear model of biogas production.
   Dipl.-Ing. André Schreiber, Leipzig, Germany
5. FOS/TAC derivation, methodology, application and significance.
   M.Sc. Erwin Voß, Landesbergen, Germany
6. Prediction of process parameters of the anaerobic digestion by means of near-infrared spectroscopy
   Dipl.-Ing. Krapf, Cristian, Freising, Deutschland
7. Process control and optimisation in biogas plants using NIR spectroscopy.
   Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Luck, Bad Langensalza, Deutschland

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Session 6: Economical and ecological impact assessments

1. Economic sensitivity analysis of the biogas process on the basis of neuronal networks.
   Dr. Felicitas Bechstein, Berlin, Germany
2. Material flow analysis of the biogas production chain: harvest- silage-anaerobic digestion.
   Dipl.-Ing Dirk Banemann, Rostock, Germany
3. Assessing the overall efficiency of Bavarian Pilot biogas plants.
   M.Sc. Djordje Djatkov, Freising, Germany
4. Energy and CO₂-balance for silo maize for biogas production.
   Dipl.-Ing. Barbara Eder, Freising, Germany
5. Biomass-harvest logistics - Assessment and optimization.
   Dipl.-Ing. Martin Strobl, Freising, Germany
6. Experiences and regulations for the use of off farm source materials as co-substrates for farm based digesters in the province of Ontario
   P. Eng. Donald Hilborn, Woodstock, Ontario
7. Operational modelling of a green gas supply chain
   Jan Bekkering, Groningen, Niederlande

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