World Biodiesel Congress & Expo December 05-07, 2016 San Antonio, Texas, USA

James Kiniry is a Research Agronomist with over 38 years’ experience in basic and applied research related to simulation modeling. He is responsible for having developed the ALMANAC plant model which has been applied extensively to simulate plant growth and development. Kiniry quantified the key crop model input parameters for maize, sorghum, rice, wheat, potato, sunflower, canola, switchgrass, and several other warm-season and cool-season grasses.

Peter H. Bauer is currently a Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and his research is in the areas of electric and hybrid electric vehicles, optimal power generation efficiency, control and modeling of dynamical systems, swarming and sensor-actuator networks, as well as optimization and sensor fusion. He received his Diplom degree from TU Munich, Germany (1984) and his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami, Fl. (1987). He is author of 180 technical papers and 6 book chapters and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is also co-founder of two start-up companies.

Ing Piotr Kardasz PhD - scientific discipline: the construction and operation of the machines, specialization: internal combustion engines and artificial sources of energy. A graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Transport specializations Organization and Design of Transport Systems and Engineering and Ecology Means of Transport, and the Department of Computer Science and Management of Wroclaw University of Technology, the Financial Analysis. Deputy Coordinator of the Cluster R & D & I.

Identification and evaluation of Biopetrol and Renewable technologies. Translation of technical opportunities into market exploitation via active investment. Biodiesel; Energy; Bioenergy; Biofuels; LCA; LCC; Programing.

Ing Piotr Kardasz PhD - scientific discipline: the construction and operation of the machines, specialization: internal combustion engines and artificial sources of energy. A graduate of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Transport specializations Organization and Design of Transport Systems and Engineering and Ecology Means of Transport, and the Department of Computer Science and Management of Wroclaw University of Technology, the Financial Analysis. Deputy Coordinator of the Cluster R & D & I.

Identification and evaluation of Biopetrol and Renewable technologies. Translation of technical opportunities into market exploitation via active investment. Biodiesel; Energy; Bioenergy: Biofuels; LCA, LCC, Programing.

Dr. George Philippidis is Associate Professor at the Patel College of Global Sustainability (PCGS) at the University of South Florida (USF). He is a Fulbright Scholar and an expert in biofuels and bioproducts with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Denver. He has authored numerous publications and 11 patents on the nexus of biotech and cleantech and has developed graduate courses in renewable energy and sustainability. Dr. Philippidis has 25 years of experience leading strategic business units in the private sector and directing applied research and development in the public sector. He started his career at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Denver before moving to Thermo Fisher Scientific in Boston, a Fortune 500 company. He then joined the Applied Research Center at Florida International University in Miami, where he created and directed the Center’s energy business. At USF Dr. Philippidis directs applied research, scale-up, and technology commercialization in the conversion of algae, biomass, and oils to sustainable bioproducts, fuels, and power in partnership with industry. He has worked in venture capital, managed energy and environmental projects in the US and Latin America, and has been advising government agencies and companies.

Fawzi Banat is a Professor & Cahir of Chemical Engineering Department at the Petroleum Institute (PI). After obtaining his chemical engineering doctorate at McGill University, Canada, in 1995, he taught at several universities before joining the PI in 2011. He has published over 120 papers in reputed journals and served in many scientific committees.

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Professor Dr. Bassim H. Hameed received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University Of Salford, UK, in 1992. He is a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He leads the Reaction Engineering & Adsorption (READ) research group. His research interest is in Reaction Engineering and AdsorptionTechnology, especially issues related to Energy and Environment. Professor Bassim has been included by Thomson Reuters in their prestigious list of Highly Cited Researchers 2015 & 2014. He has been also listed in Thomson Reuters’s “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014”.To date, he has published more than 2010 articles in ISI-indexed journals. He has also published 100 articles in other international and national journals and proceedings. Professor Bassim’s publications have been cited over 11,000 times (Scopus database). He has an author h-index of 56, and an i10-index of 158. He has secured more than RM 2.7 million in research funding and achieved a milestone of 18 research grants as a principal investigator.

Catalytic Pyrolysis, Biodiesel, Nanoporous Materials, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Adsorption, Environmental Catalysis, Activated Carbon, Biochar, Carbon Dioxide Capture, Biomass & Bioenergy

Kestur Gundappa Satyanarayana (Dr. K.G. Satyanarayana) is Ph.D.(Physics-Metallurgical Engg.) from the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (1972) and presently Honorary Professor at the Poornaprajna Institute for Scientific Research (PPISR), Bangalore. Previously he was with the Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum of the CSIR, Government of India in several positions, including the post of Director of the laboratory, until his retirement in October 2002. Thereafter, he was Visiting Professor (June 2003-June 2007) in the Chemistry Department at the UFRN (Curitiba-Brazil) and FINEP Visiting Researcher (April 2008-September 2009). Recently, he was Visiting Scientist at EMBRAPA, Colombo, Brazil during Nov. 2012- April 2013; also Consulting Chief Scientist Acharya R&D Center, Acharya Group of Institutes, Bangalore (India) and Head, R&D Center in B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore (India) during the period 2007-2011. Guided students for Master s and Doctoral programs and taught post-graduates in PIPE of the University. Has published about 360 papers scientific journals and proceedings of Conferences, edited / contributed to about 32 books / monographs till 2016. He has 126 articles with 2600 citations in Peer reviewed Journals with scientific factor H = 28 (based on 4th March 2016- ISI - ISI/ Web of Science). He has 18 patents and guided ten students for Ph.D. and five for Masters Degree. Presently Editorial member of the Open Journal of Polymer Chemistry and Member of Reviewer-Int. J. Expt. Spect. Techniques. He was co-editor of the book Clay Surfaces Fundamentals and Applications, Academic Press [2004]. Recipient of a number of awards and honors including WIPO Gold medal. Life Member of various Professional Bodies and invited Reviewer for more than 30 international Reviewed Journals.

His areas of interest include Composites both Metal Matrix and polymer matrix with natural fibers. In recent years his emphasis has been on Green composites, biofuels and development of new materials based on agro-industrial waste.

Dr. Lee Keat Teong obtained his Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2004. He is currently holding the position of Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and he is also the Director of Research Creativity & Management Office, Universiti Sains Malaysia. Dr. Lee has co-authored 2 books, 10 book chapters, 30 review papers and more than 100 research papers in peer reviewed international journals. Dr. Lee is currently the Co-Editor for Energy Conversion and Management (Elsevier) and Editorial Board Member for Bio resource Technology (Elsevier) and Energy Science & Engineering (Wiley).He has also won numerous awards including Young Scientist Award 2011 by The International Forum on Industrial Bioprocess and 2012 Top Research Scientists Malaysia by the Academy Sciences of Malaysia.Currently he is working on the production of biofuels (biodiesel and bioethanol) from biomass (including macro and microalgae) using various technologies. Apart from that, he also has special interest on the social and sustainability aspects of biofuels.

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Dr/Marwa Elkady is working now as an Associate professor of chemical engineering at Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering Department, Egypt-Japan University for science and technology. Previously, she worked at Fabrication Technology Department, City of Scientific Research. She has more than 13 experiences in the field of Environmental and Material Sciences. She has about 27 international publications at Scopus and H-index of 7 with about 204 citations for published papers. She gained many scientific prizes due to her scientific achievements. She has one gained patent and other three patents pending. She published one book chapter and has other book chapters pending.

Nano-materials preparation and characterization, nano-magnetic materials preparation and characterization, Water and wastewater treatment, composite materials, flocculation process for wastewater treatment, polyelectrolytes and bioflocculent preparation and characterization, nano-polymeric materials for wastewater treatment, microwave processing, biosynthesis of silver nanoparticles, membrane technology, Biodiesel and micro-reactors.

Professor Dr. Ariffin Samsuri is a Senior Professor of the Petroleum & Renewable Energy Engineering Faculty (FPREE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He has vast experience in managing R&D projects for government funded research as well as industry sponsored research projects. He had completed 3.0 years as a Dean of the Petroleum & Renewable Energy Engineering Faculty (FPREE), 3.5 years as a Dean of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering Faculty (FKKKSA), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), of 5 years as a Dean of Research Management Centre (RMC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2.5 years as a Deputy Director 1 of the RMC, 7 years as a Deputy Dean (R&D) of the Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering and 4 years as a Head of Petroleum Engineering Department. Professor Dr. Ariffin has published 102 technical papers for conferences/seminars and journals on many aspects of Petroleum Engineering development and management in international and national level, authored 5 books, 3 book chapters, translated 4 books, edited 8 books and 5 research monographs. He was awarded as a best student (science & technique) from Institute of Language & Literature Malaysia (DBP) and Malaysian Translator Association (PPM), several excellent service awards from UTM, Best Editor Award from Yayasan Pembangunan Buku Negara and Johan Setia Mahkota (JSM) from Malaysian Government. He is also a member of Board of Engineer, Malaysia, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Malaysian Translator Association, Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and Society of Engineering Education, Malaysia (SEEM).As a Professor of Petroleum Engineering, he is the head of 18 research projects and member of 14 research projects within his research interests, i.e. petroleum production optimization, rock mechanics application in petroleum engineering, wellbore stability, well stimulation, cement and cementing technology, drilling and drilling fluid technology, and biofuel. He had more than 34 years teaching and supervising experiences in petroleum engineering program for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees offer by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He also had been appointed as a visiting professor of Universiti Teknologi Petronas since 2010-2011, several expert and academic advisory panels, and peer reviewer for several journals.

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Professor Dr Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah is currently the Deputy Dean (Research) at School of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research works mostly encompass reactions involved in the production of renewable energy sources, waste treatment, oleochemical conversions and green technology. Some of them involve collaboration with industries such as Felda, WD-Media, Pacific West Foods and SilTerra to solve their problems and to improve efficiency in order to remain competitive in the future. He is among the pioneering researchers in the world to focus on the use of ultrasound to accelerate heterogeneous catalytic processes for biodiesel production. He is the recipient of several innovation and publication awards based on his research works. Many industry engineers and research scientists with higher qualification in these areas have been successfully trained. His research expertise is often sought after for the assessment of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) reports on proposed strategic commercial projects such as oil refinery, petrochemical complex, sanitary landfill, smelting plant, used acid lead battery, paper mill etc. Various industrial problems have been successfully solved through his consultancy projects. He has been involved in the propagation of science and technology through nearly 200 refereed publications in journals and book chapters mainly as the main author, and also involves as a technical committee member to nearly 60 international scientific conferences held across the globe. Many invitations on various roles have also been received to share his research experience with government officers, research scientists, junior researchers and school children. The objectives of the events vary from the critical research skills, understanding science, promotion of sustainability, community awareness, carrier development to the understanding of policy and regulatory aspects. Few travel grants have been received to share his research experience in Japan, Indonesia and Laos. Research collaborations with local and international counterparts have been successfully established for the advancement of science. He also acts as an examiner to many postgraduate theses locally and internationally as well as an article reviewer to more than 80 different leading international journals in his area of expertise. In addition, he is an evaluator to research proposals received from the university, local ministries as well as international scientific associations such as American Chemical Society and the Qatar National Research Foundation. He is one of the recipients of the Top Research Scientist Malaysia 2014 award.

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Professor Mahlia obtained B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. He pursued M.Eng.Sc and PhD at the University of Malaya and graduated in 1997 and 2003 respectively. His academic life began in June 2001 as he was appointed as a lecturer at the same department. In December 2006, he was promoted as Senior Lecturer, and as Associate Professor in November 2007. He obtained his full professor in May 2009. He moved to Universiti Tenaga Nasional in August 2012. His publications include more than 300 journal articles, proceedings and also research reports, which 157 are ISI and 187 are Scopus indexed. His H-index is 29, with total citation of more 3000. He also involved as a researcher in RM 15 million (4.2 US$ Millions) project funded by various sources.

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