The COVID-19 pandemic and the massive and sudden drop-off in transportation fuel use had ethanol producers scrambling to slow or completely curtail fuel ethanol production almost overnight last spring. The flexibility and ingenuity of the industry were soon on display as plant teams reimagined their facilities as producers of specialty alcohol for the exploding hand sanitizer market. While the demand for sanitizer may wane, the lessons of how to best position an ethanol plant to produce varying grades of ethanol will remain. The experts assembled for this panel will review the lessons producers learned when pivoting their production last spring while also considering how this new knowledge will likely be leveraged in the future.

• Stephanie Gleason, Senior Manager Technical Service, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Making the Grade: Operational Considerations for Making Specialty Alcohols
• Sean Lorimor, Systems Engineer, Whitefox Technologies Limited
  Switch Between Anhydrous High-Grade And Fuel Grade Ethanol With Flexible Membrane Systems
• Monty McCoy, Director of Technology, Kurita America Inc.
  Elevating Ethanol Quality to Produce High Value Chemicals
• Dennis Buchheit, Senior Process Engineer, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
  Diversifying to High Quality and Beverage Alcohol

Unscheduled downtime is an eternal bugaboo for ethanol plant operational teams. While the chief aim of plant teams is yield and ethanol throughput, just behind that comes regular maintenance informed by technologically aided monitoring. The presentations in this panel cover a wide portion of the plant campus including fugitive dust capture and control, mineral deposition removal and wear part surveillance. Finally, the contributions of a well-maintained facility to worker safety will be shared.

• Tracy Janssen, Vice President of Air Pollution Control, CAMCORP Inc.
  Considerations that can Significantly Impact Dust Collection System Efficiency and Performance
• Adam Dittbenner, Service Manager, Interstates Inc.
  Get Better Performance from Your Facility with Regular E&I Services
• Brad Strehlow, Reliability Engineer, John Crane Inc.
  Strategies to Improve Equipment Reliability with Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) vs Condition Monitoring (CM)
• Chris Robbins, Field Technical Manager, Kurita America Inc.
  Ten Years of Progress in Process Deposit Control

In January of 2021, the U.S. Treasury published the final rules making a tax credit available for entities that can successfully capture carbon dioxide and sequester it in either geological formations or put it to use in advanced oil recovery operations. Ethanol producers have long wondered how and when they would be mandated or incentivized to capture and sequester their own carbon dioxide. The 45Q tax credit program is the preamble to answering that question. This panel will help attendees understand how the tax credit works and the early momentum within the ethanol industry to make its promises manifest for producers.

• Bradley Pederson, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  Updates on the 45Q Tax Credit for the Ethanol Industry
• John Pierce, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
  45Q Tax Credits for Ethanol Plants
• Tom Byrne, Tax Manager, CarlsonSV LLP
  What Role Can 45Q Carbon Capture Incentives Play in Enhancing Profits in Agriculture?
• Bryen Alperin, Director of Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies, Foss & Company

Over the last handful of years ethanol producers are increasingly placing a greater emphasis on their plant’s incredible potential to produce an increasingly diverse array of highly valuable protein products, often for markets not traditionally served by ethanol co-products. This panel includes discussions about the maturing efforts to tweak the traditional distillers grains output to target new markets, but goes further and imagines ethanol plant fermenters as producers of single celled protein sources for the exploding global aquaculture markets.

• Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Single Cell Protein Production to Replace Fishmeal for Salmon Feed
• Suresh Jambunathan, Principal, Energy and Water Development LLC
  Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) are Value Chain Step-Up At Ethanol Plants
• Walter Cronin, CCO, Green Plains Inc.
  Developing Trends in World Protein Markets
• Jagannadh Satyavolu, Ph.D., Founder & Managing Partner, BioProducts LLC
  A Novel Co-Product Strategy to Improve Economics During Bioethanol Production

• Vijay Srinivas, Principal Research Scientist of Thiochemicals R&D, Arkema Inc.
  Dimethyl Disulfide (DMDS) to Activate Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) Catalysts and Maintain Their Performance Long-Term in Renewable Diesel Production
• Ron Gorring, Sr. Business Development Manager, ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC
  Maximizing Renewable Diesel Profitability with BIDW Dewaxing Catalyst
• Jeremy Keller, Director of Project Development, Rondo Energy
  Renewable Steam On Demand: A New Approach to Economically Slash CI Scores and Boiler Emissions

• Tim Portz, Executive Director, Pellet Fuels Institute
• Patrick Serfass, Executive Director, American Biogas Council

The first half of this panel is built around two innovations that provide ethanol producers with real-time, on-line spectroscopy. The aim is to better equip lab teams to understand how fermentations are proceeding early enough in the process to take meaningful and on-target actions. The discussion then moves into a holistic approach to lab management and the argument for incorporating a step-wise quality management program at ethanol plant labs. The panel concludes with an examination of a novel testing approach for chloride and sulfates in fuel ethanol.

• Jonathon Speed, Product and Applications Manager, Keit Spectrometers
  The Journey of Turning an FTIR Spectrometer into a Process Analyzer for the Bioethanol Industry
• Steen Skjold-Jorgensen, VP of Biofuels, Specshell ApS
  Experience with Online Actionable Process Monitoring Based on Mid Infrared Spectroscopy
• Andrew Hawkins, Director of Laboratory Services, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Lab Quality Management Program: Elements for Success
• Shibu Paul, Product Specialist, Ion Chromatography, Metrohm USA
  Determination of Chloride and Sulfate in Denatured Ethanol by Direct Injection Ion Chromatography

Unless it is put to work increasing yield, captured operational data is just noise. The presenters in this panel will offer attendees a look at what the future of data capture and use might look like. While the present finds plant operators capturing and using data to guide operational decisions, this panel asserts that the future is far more ambitious. These presenters will ask producers to imagine the role artificial intelligence might play in their operations and the payoff for those teams willing to embrace its potential.

• Pedro Pena, Lab and R&D Director, CTE Global Inc.
  Data Driven Strategies for Optimization of Starch Conversion
• Don Mack, Industry Manager, Siemens Industry Inc.
  Practical Industry Use Cases for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Tony Schindler, Regional Application Development Leader, IFF
  XCELIS AI: Maximize Your Now, Predict Your Future

• Juan Vargas-Ramirez, Scientist, Novozymes
  Accessing Distiller's Corn Oil (DCO) and Optimizing Its Recovery
• Michael Franko, Partner, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
  Maximizing Oil Yields
• Bob Fesser, Technical Sales Manager, Trucent Inc.
  The Hunt for More Corn Oil: Tips and Techniques for Maximizing Corn Oil Yield
• Connie Lindstrom, Senior Biofuels Analyst, Christianson Benchmarking LLC
  Co-Product Trends and Their Impact on Profitability

This discussion will provide attendees with a look at the effort to imagine and make manifest a clean fuels policy in the Midwest, the birthplace of renewable fuel production. The report “Clean Energy Fuels Policy for the Midwest” was released in 2020 but was not afforded the opportunity for a live public discussion last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion will offer attendees a unique opportunity to hear about the reports aims, its findings and the ongoing efforts to get its ideas some traction with policymakers.

• Brendan Jordan, Vice President, Transportation and Fuels, Great Plains Institute
• Ron Alverson, Retired Corn Farmer & Investor, Dakota Ethanol

• Bryan Yeh, President & CEO, Community Fuels
  Addressing Production Challenges with Alternative Feedstock
• Daniel Parker, CEO, DPChem Consulting, Inc.
  Brown Grease Biodiesel Trials Using Immobilized Enzyme Reactors
• Luca Zullo, Advisor to NextChem, VerdeNero LLC
  Renewable Diesel Sized to Feedstock
• Daniel Phillips, Business Development, Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions US Inc.
  From Soapstock to Low CI HVO Feed: Soap Carbonate Technology

• Nathalie Hoffman, CEO, LCFS Consulting Services Inc.
  How to Increase the Revenue from Your Corn Ethanol Plant through Biogas and RNG
• Suresh Jambunathan, Principal, Energy and Water Development LLC
  Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Deproteinated Thin Stillage (DTS) Sustainably Increases Operating Cash Flow
• Todd Taylor, Attorney & CEO, Avisen Legal
  14,958: Building Biogas Projects to Meet U.S. Needs
• Ashley Player, Partner, Weaver
  RFS and LCFS Biogas Project Considerations

In the never-ending quest for increased yields and reduced expenses in fermentation, ethanol producers continue to turn to their yeast populations. Historically, producers could choose between yeasts that were hearty and resistant to changes in pH or temperature or yeasts capable of high yield, but not both. The presenters in this panel will assert that this either/or era may be coming to a close as yeast providers work to produce varietals that are robust, high yielding and capable of expressing the necessary enzymes for greater starch solubilization.

• Guillermo Coward-Kelly, Senior Staff Scientist, Novozymes
  Bringing a New Holistic Approach to the Ethanol Industry
• Lee Robinson, Application Scientist, IFF
  Next Generation of Yeast Strains Designed for Optimal “Yield In Use”
• Jenny Forbes, Vice President of Products & Services, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Protecting Investments: Enhancing GMO Yeast Performance with Conventional Yeast
• Matt Richards, Director Application Technology, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  From Inception to Implementation: De-Risking the Innovation Cycle

As the ethanol production process has matured the ability to capture and utilize operational data has emerged as a key differentiator between the industry’s most successful and efficient operators and everyone else. This panel, one of two at the conference to look specifically at data capture and use, outlines how producers can construct a cohesive operational plan from a dizzying slug of inbound data. This panel features discussions that highlight how data can be used to understand everything from the thoroughness of cleaning by specific operators to when and how to intervene with an underwhelming fermentation cycle.

• Anne Chronic, Director, Market Analytics, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Finding Your Rockstar Operator III
• Hank Brittain, Director of Optimization & Advanced Control, OpX Control Inc.
  Tracking and Cracking Process Control Oscillations in Ethanol Plants
• Alex Sexton, Technical Service Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Solving Fermentation Issues with Advanced Troubleshooting
• Amanda Hildebrand, Grain Applications Scientist, IFF
  The Power of Prediction: Product and Process Optimization through Virtual Plant Technology

Profitably manufacturing fuel ethanol requires management teams to put millions of dollars in play, hit yield targets and successfully market an increasing array of final products. Subtle fluctuations in the price of inbound corn and natural gas or unexpected dips in ethanol prices can lead to evaporating or vanishing margins. The most successful management teams deploy and refine a suite of risk management approaches to mitigate risk wherever possible. This panel will examine risk management in the context of an industry exiting arguably its largest business disruption ever.

• Chip Whalen, Vice President of Education & Research, Commodity & Ingredient Hedging
  Managing the Volatility of Corn Input Costs
• Justin Mentele, Principal, Manufacturing & Biofuels Group, K-Coe Isom LLP
  The Time is Now to Hedge More Than Your Grain Risk
• Melissa DeDonder, Manager, K-Coe Isom LLP
  Understanding your IT from a Business Risk Perspective
• Adam Hopkins, Ph.D., Spectroscopy Product Manager, Metrohm USA, Inc.
  Mitigating Production and Operation Risks with Cloud-Based Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

The industry wide crash course in producing alternative alcohol products via the virtually overnight rise of the hand sanitizer market in the second quarter of 2020 rejuvenated the industry’s belief and confidence that it could and should establish a foothold in new, higher value alcohol markets. These ambitions are nearly as old as the industry itself, but this panel highlights that the commercial viability of technologies enabling access to these markets are ready for deployment now.

• Terry Marker, Senior Institute Engineer/ Bioenergy Initiatives Manager, GTI
  Cool GTL for CO₂ Conversion to High Quality Gasoline Jet and Diesel
• Shrikant Rathi, Sr. General Manager of Business in Americas, PRAJ Industries Limited
  Diversify Your Product to Produce Variety Grade of Alcohol from Your Ethanol Plant
• John Hannon, COO, Vertimass LLC
  Expanding Ethanol Markets by Simple Consolidated Alcohol Deoxygenation and Oligomerization (CADO) into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel Blendstocks and Higher Value Chemicals (BTEX)
• Dean Drake, Engineer, Defour Group LLC
  Higher Octane, Lower Aromatics and More Ethanol: The Keys to an Electric Equivalent Fuel

• Josh Pedrick, Americas Biofuels and Sugar – Managing Editor, Platts
  Pricing an Emerging Market: Renewable Diesel Dynamics
• John Oyen, Business Development Manager, ABB Inc.
  Integration and Digital: The Pathway to a Low Carbon Index
• Dan Anderson, P.E., Business Development Manager, Alfa Laval
  Renewable Diesel Pretreatment Processes for Variable Feedstocks

• Jason Krbec, Sales Engineering Manager, CV Technology, Inc.
  Pellet Mill Combustible Dust Hazard Differences
• Bruce McLelland, Business Development Director, Explosion Protection, Fike Corporation
  The Lifecycle of Fire and Explosion Protection
• Becky Long, Dryer Design Engineer, Thompson Dryers
  Changing your Attitude about Fires and Explosions in Dryer Systems
• David Grandaw, Vice President, Sales, IEP Technologies
  Passive vs. Active Explosion Protection for the Biomass Industry

That bacterial infections rob ethanol producers of yield is well-understood, but the art of cost-effectively controlling these infections continues to evolve. The economic impact of what does and does not happen in plant fermenters continues to inspire robust research in the microbiology that is the beating heart of an ethanol plant. This panel will challenge lab managers to think in new ways about the bacterial populations that will inevitably find their way into their production environment, how to eliminate them and some discussion about when and how certain bacterial ethanologens might actually offer some yield benefit.

• Dennis Bayrock, R&D Director, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  The Critical Role of Pka and Ph in Bacterial Contaminationa and Yeast Inhibition
• Michail Karavolos, R&D Laboratory Manager, BetaTec Hop Products Inc.
  Evaluation of the Effect of Antimicrobials on the Fitness of 6,000 Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Gene-Disruption Variants
• Jim Steele General Manager Lactic Solutions Group, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Selecting the Most Effective Antimicrobial Intervention using Molecular Biology Techniques

The presenters on this panel will provide a compelling argument for a complete audit of a plant’s leak detection and repair program owing to the increase regulatory scrutiny around the subject. In the short term, unresolved leaks cost ethanol plants real dollars, but the long-term risk of inspection and a Notice of Violation carry far greater financial risks. This panel will explore not just the technical aspects of detection and repair, but also the record-keeping discipline that will assure regulators of your facility’s commitment to compliance.

• Andrea Foglesong, VP/SR EHS Consultant, PROtect LLC
  How a Top-Notch LDAR Program will Make Your Facility More Sustainable
• Jessica Buckley, Project Manager, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  Sneak Peek at Leak Tweaks: Evolving Requirements and Alternative LDAR Compliance Programs
• Mike Ogden, Project Manager, Trihydro Corporation
  New Administration doesn’t Mean Less USEPA Enforcement at Ethanol Sites: How a Comprehensive LDAR Program can Reduce Risk
• George Gregorowicz, Fluid Sealing Specialist, ProFlow Pumping Solutions
  Reducing Troublesome and Costly Leaks: An Alternative to the Traditional Mechanical Seal

The composition of the yielded co-product streams at ethanol plants are the result of the production decisions made upstream, often reaching all the way back to fermentation. This panel will explore the consequences for co-product quality and composition when producers deploy new process approaches upstream. This panel asserts that the impact of new processes on economically vital co-product streams must factor into the decision-making process of increased fiber and oil extraction, enzyme use and the deployment of novel fractionation technologies.

• Ryan Mass, Director of Animal Nutrition, ICM Inc.
  Effect of Pre-Fermentation Fiber Removal during Ethanol Process on the Nutritional Value of Corn Bran Plus Solubles
• Joseph Ward, Senior Nutritionist, North America, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
  How Process Inputs Can Affect Protein Quality and Analysis
• Janet Remus, Senior Technical Director - Animal Nutrition North America, IFF
  Maximizing Value from Corn Coproducts
• Sally Jorgenson, Field Technical Manager, Kurita America Inc.
  Antioxidant Chemistries Maximize Coproduct Value

There is a widespread feeling that the evolution of corn ethanol plants to integrated biorefineries will not be complete until the conversion of plant corn fiber streams to cellulosic ethanol is as widespread a practice as corn oil capture has become. This first of two panels at the conference exploring this topic will offer producers a comprehensive look at the state-of-play in fiber isolation, separation and preparation for downstream conversion.

• Radhakrishnan Srinivasan, Founder, Weighty Corn LLC
  Fiber Separation from Corn Flour: A Commercial Success
• Marina Chow, Senior Scientist, IFF
  How to Enzymatically Modify Corn Kernel Fiber to Your Benefit
• Anda Panaitiu, Research Scientist, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Maximizing Conversion of Carbohydrates
• Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Maximize the Cellulosic Converted Fraction in Corn Kernel Fiber

• Evelyn Beebe, Engineering Manager, Weaver & Tidwell LLP
  Renewable Diesel Co-Processing vs Standalone Considerations under the Renewable Fuel Standard
• Thomas Jeffries, President, Xylome Corporation
  Creating Cellulosic Biodiesel and Higher Value Products from Stillage Fiber
• Neil Rodrigues, Consultant, Ceimici Novel Ltd.
  The Beauty of Glycidol
• Matthew Clingerman, Business Segment Leader, Sulzer GTC Technology
  Innovative Processes for Low-Cost Renewable Diesel Projects

• Yanhong Zhang, Director of Research, National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center
  Low-Cost Low Energy Deconstruction of Industrial Hemp to Make Biofuel and Bioproducts
• Jayant Godbole, President & Director, Praj Americas Inc.
  Technological Strategies for Making Cellulosic Ethanol Bio-Refineries Economically Viable
• Ling Hua, Senior Vice President & Head of Group Biotechnology, Group Innovation & Sustainability, Clariant Products (Germany)
  Bringing Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Production to the Market with Sunliquid®
• Ron Fedie, Senior Research Scientist, SarTec Corporation
  Catalytic Conversion of Brown and Yellow Greases into Green Gasoline, Green Jet and Green Diesel Biofuels

• Dennis Bayrock, R&D Director, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Advanced FAN Nutrition, Proteases, and Yeast: Providing Maximal Benefit to Fuel Ethanol Plants
• Jim Miers, Nutrient Category Product Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Fermentation Nutrients Can Bring Value to the Bottom Line of the Biorefinery
• Keaton Albers, Senior Applications Associate, IFF
  Improved Saccharification Performance of Glucoamylase (GA) Expressing Yeast Strains

With the inevitable day-to-day challenges of operating a fuel ethanol production facility, it is easy to understand how plant management teams and boards can be laser focused on the challenges of today. Still, plant teams know the value of lifting their gaze from the here and now and consider future opportunities and challenges. This multi-disciplinary panel will offer producers an opportunity to consider the future of their facility from several different perspectives including capital expenditures, product differentiation and new financial management approaches.

• Kristen Glasgow, Manager, K-Coe Isom LLP
  Planning for the Future: Boards, Employees, Products
• Keith Jakel, Sales & Marketing Manager, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
  Assessing Technology Options for the Future
• Jessica Buckley, Project Manager, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  Alternative Fuels or Fuel Alternative: Ethanol Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic Landscape
• Donna Funk, Principal, Manufacturing & Biofuels Group, K-Coe Isom LLP
  The New Normal for Managing Forecasts and Cash Flow: 3 Steps to Move Business Forward

Picking up where the conference’s first corn fiber panel left off, these presentations bring the viability of corn fiber conversion into sharper focus. What has been learned from the industry’s first deployments of these promising technologies? And, where does this technology fit into the industry’s next decade as it sharpens its low-carbon ambitions, and increases its overall societal value by delivering an even wider array of fuel products from its corn inputs?

• Janet Fisher, Enzyme Product Manager, Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits
  Dispelling Myths about Corn Kernel Fiber Ethanol to Build a Higher-Value Fiber Degradation Process
• Mark Yancey, Chief Technology Officer, D3MAX LLC
  Commercial-Scale Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass
• Joe Fitzgerald, Founder, Shockwave LLC
  New Fractionation Technology for the Ethanol Industry

It is easy to forget, amidst the excitement of the promise of new fuel and feed products, that our industry is responsible for producing a fuel product with exacting specifications for a highly regulated marketplace. That ethanol has a place in the transportation market at all is the result of years of work to ensure the product is understood and endorsed by the regulatory community. This panel is an annual conversation featuring those professionals engaged in this important work. Panelists will provide attendees with a comprehensive snapshot of the regulatory impediments that have emerged in the past year and how the industry plans to overcome them.

• Chris Bliley, VP Regulatory Affairs, Growth Energy
  Federal Update, Streamlining, E15 Marketing Update (RFGSA)
• Jacki Fee, Technical Director, Cargill, Inc.
  Low Carbon Fuels Program Update (CA, OR, NM, Canada)
• Bart Plocher, Director of Quality, POET
  USP/GMP High Purity Alcohol Regulatory Considerations
• Kristy Moore, Principal Scientist, KMoore Consulting LLC
  KMooore/Growth Energy - ASM/ISO/ABNT International Market Specification Updates

• John McNichol, Market Development Manager, PQ Corporation
  Premium Adsorbents in Biodiesel and Renewable Diesel Feedstock Pre-treatment
• Jonathon Speed, Product and Applications Manager, Keit Spectrometers
  An Analyser for the Pre-Treatment of Renewable Diesel Feedstocks
• Neal Williams, Research Engineer, Imerys
  Adsorbent for Renewable Diesel Feedstock Purification
• Brian Cooke, Technical Manager, Clariant Corporation
  Adsorptive Removal of Contaminants from Fats and Oils for Production of BioFuels

• Bryan Sievers, Manager, Sievers Family Farms and AgriRenew
• Brandon Butler, Director of Communications, Roeslein Alternative Energy
• Mark Heckman, Senior Regulatory Consultant, EcoEngineers

Ethanol producers know that plant cleaning programs go far beyond the simple deployment of a growing list of available surfactants, inhibitors and acid cleaners. This panel features presenters who promise to look deeper than just a list of available treatment options, but how to best incorporate them into a comprehensive and well-considered program. The discussion begins with a review of the lessons learned from bringing plans out of prolonged outages due to the pandemic turndown, clean and ready for service.

• Monty McCoy, Director of Technology, Kurita America Inc.
  Advanced Tactics to Achieve a Clean Return to Service after Shutdown
• Mark Altier, RD&E Program Leader, Ecolab Inc.
  Product Development for Fuel Ethanol Total Plant Cleaning
• Anne Chronic, Director, Market Analytics, Phibro Ethanol Performance Group
  Cleaning Modes of Action: Choose the Best, Leave the Rest

Moving water and syrups through the ethanol production process is an energy-intensive proposition that if mismanaged can lead to yield losses and diminished profitability. Further, wastewater management creates environmental and regulatory challenges that plant teams must keep top of mind. The presenters in this panel will champion technologies that drive out headaches and expense while driving in efficiency and increased up-time.

• Robert Hendel, Senior Engineer, Suez WTS
  A Novel Non-Phosphorus Cooling Water Treatment Technology to Address Environmental and Operational Challenges
• Terry Roberts, Regional Manager, SEPCO Sealing Equipment Products Co. Inc.
  Case Study: Ethanol Sealing Challenges SOLVED
• Jeff Prochaska, Industry Technical Consultant, Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
  A Comprehensive Approach to Evaporator System Optimization
• Andrea Collier, Senior Environmental Engineer, Barr Engineering Co.
  Navigation of Wastewater Permit Requirements: How to Handle Tight Limits and Find Paths to Compliance

When the pandemic is at long last behind us, the ethanol industry may well view it as the catalyst that finally made product differentiation a vital component of every producer’s strategic plan. The rush to serve the hand sanitizer markets is the ready example, but producers also recognized how suddenly demand and margins can vanish for any product in their portfolio with little warning. This panel will feature panelists ready to remind producers of the permits required to manufacture and sell those new products and best practices for incorporating them into your existing permit program.

• Jessica Karras-Bailey, Principal, RTP Environmental Associates Inc.
  Plant Optimization and Environmental Permitting
• Andrea Foglesong, VP/SR EHS Consultant, PROtect LLC
  DSP versus AF: When a Distilled Spirts Plant Permit is Required from the Alcohol, Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

The promise of increased profitability continues to stoke producer interest in a strategic effort to maximize protein in their feed co-product output. The first three presentations feature technologies and process approaches available to producers ready to embrace a production environment optimized for higher protein. The discussion concludes with a producer presentation on how producers can better understand and measure the protein they have succeeded in isolating and incorporating into their co-product streams.

• Kyle Flynn, Director of Business Development, ST Equipment & Technology
  Water Free Process for Protein Enhancement of DDGS
• John Kwik, Managing Partner, Fluid Quip Technologies LLC
  Next Steps in Protein: Higher Purity through Enzymes
• Matt Durler, VP of Feed Development, ICM Inc.
  Designing Animal Feed: Leveraging Process Technologies for Optimized, Value-Added Products
• Grant Spratt, Protein Operations Manager, Green Plains-Shenandoah
  How to Measure Protein: An Enlightening Study How the Industry can Measure Protein.

• Rudy Pruszko, President, Pruszko Consulting
  Solutions to Your Biodiesel Production Problems
• Meha Jha, Refining Industry Marketing Manager Measurement Solutions, Emerson Automation Solutions
  Future Proofing Your Renewable Diesel Production Operations
• John Brabender, Vice President of Business Development, Ford, Bacon & Davis LLC
  Rapid Project Development Path to Renewable Diesel Production
• Christine Riedl, Technical Sales Manager Biodiesel/RetroFit, BDI-BioEnergy International GmbH
  Biodiesel RetroFit: Successful Case Studies