The Wood Industry is a big actor in the bioenergy sector.
The industry is a big biofuel producer for the market and biofuel users. The conference is held 12 -15.9.2005 in connection with the International Bioenergy and Wood Exhibition in Jyväskylä, Finland. The Conference will focus on the factors affecting the future of the bioenergy opportunities in fuel production, heating and power production in wood industry. The topics are timber felling wood residues as fuel, industrial by-products as biofuel, by-product refining to pellets and their use for heating and power production in the wood industry. Also emission trading will be one topic. Technical excursions will be held after the conference. Bioenergy 2003 with over 600 participants was organised by FINBIO.

Topics. Papers are invited on the following topics:

1. Strategies, Politics, Legislation Tools and Implementation Issues: possibilities to support the EU-targets, Kyoto Protocol, national targets and free energy markets,  security of energy supply
2. Bioenergy Markets and Business: international bioenergy markets, financial instruments, green certificates and emission trading, price competitiveness, management systems
3. Fuel Production in Sawlog Production: production, pre-treatment, procurement, transport and logistics
4. Wood Industry Fuel: potentials, quantities, measurements methods, qualities and properties
5. By-product refining: Pellets,  briquettes and pyrolysis oil etc. production and use
6. Combustion and boiler systems: technologies and systems for wood industries
7. Combined Heat and Power Production (CHP): powerplants, small scale technologies and systems for CHP production
8. Environmental Technologies: flue gas cleaning, ash handling and recycling, sustainable development

Conference Information
Ms. Mia Savolainen
FINBIO, P.O.Box 27, FIN-40101 Jyväskylä,
Finland
Tel. +358-14-4451 117
Fax +358 -14-4451 199
e-mail: bioenergy2005@jsp.fi