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Mark your calendar! The NREL Strategic Energy Analysis Center hosts analytical seminars on the second Thursday of every month. Topics focus on new and innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency analysis strategies, models, and technologies in development or recently completed. The presentation takes place at NREL's Washington, D.C., office from noon until 1 p.m. and at NREL's Golden, Colorado, office from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
An RSVP is required to ensure that we have enough phone lines and/or seats, please contact Kalia Kehoe at 303-384-7439.
Remote access: This seminar is also offered via conference call or Internet conferencing. After accessing the Web conference, you will need to provide conference number SA306396 and leave Conference/Meeting Passcode blank. You also can join the event directly through the conference Web site. To access by phone, call 1-877-989-1543 — the passcode is 8864359.
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Next Seminar
Butanol - Next-Generation Biofuel Views from the Field
Sam Nejame, Founder
Promotum
Thursday, March 11, 2010
10-11 a.m. (Golden, Colo.)
Noon-1 p.m. (Washington, D.C.)
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Presentation: (PPT 1.0 MB)
(The seminar is also offered via conference call or Internet conferencing. See the log-in and call-in information above. An RSVP is required to ensure that we have enough phone lines and/or seats. The presenter will be in Golden, Colorado)
Butanol is often touted as among the best next-generation biofuels, with particularly strong support among the oil companies. Used as a solvent and precursor to everything from cosmetics to paint, this higher-order alcohol may have significant benefits over ethanol. Advantages as a fuel include higher energy content and greater compatibility with downstream infrastructure. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has already approved up to 12% butanol-gasoline blends, and proponents claim 100% butanol can be combusted without engine modification. This could greatly benefit the approximately 300 million cars that make up America's installed base. In this seminar, Sam Nejame (Promotum) will discuss how butanol could become a "plug-and-play" replacement for gasoline. He'll also discuss the advances that may finally make renewable manufacture of butanol economically viable. The seminar will also highlight significant players such as Butamax (a BP/DuPont joint venture), trends, and issues that need to be overcome.
Sam Nejame is founder of Promotum, a management consulting firm specializing in technology commercialization and business development for fuels, chemicals, and biologics. Nejame has a master's degree from the Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His opinions have been published in the Biofuels Journal, Ethanol Producer Magazine, The New York Times and other publications.
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In Golden
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For nongovernment visitors, RSVP your name to Wanda Addison of Midwest Research Institute (MRI) or call 202-488-2202. Security will be notified that you are expected; otherwise you will be delayed while they call to authorize your entry. Nongovernment visitors must show a photo ID. Foreign national visitors require advance paperwork and approval by NREL's Security Office (see below). Everyone who enters the building will have to pass through a magnetometer and any carried-in items will be X-rayed.
Foreign nationals (either site)
Foreign national visitors must submit a Foreign National Data Card for approval, a minimum of five days prior to the visit. For foreign national details, contact Kalia Kehoe at 303-384-7439 or Wanda Addison at 202-488-2202.
Interested in speaking?
If you have a topic that you would be interested in presenting during an energy analysis seminar — and it fits the criteria described at the top of the page — please contact seminar organizer Rachel Gelman by e-mail or at 303-384-7322.
Seminars at EERE
The Planning, Analysis, and Evaluation (PAE) group at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) also presents seminars, which are every Thursday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. ET. These seminars bring together analysts from all the laboratories in the DOE system, as well as other groups working in energy analysis, to discuss their current projects and results.
To find out more about these topics, access the Events page on the Planning, Budget, and Analysis (PBA) Web site.
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