Conference Programme
FULL Programme Now Available
Thursday 23 & Friday 24 July
Location: Broadcast live and recorded in Zoom webinar
The fourth ANZBI Conference is a two day information sharing & networking event featuring the launch of ANZ Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG), 16 presentations and 2 discussions focussed around restoring the reef catchments through regenarating soils and transforming materials with bioenergy, biochar & wood vinegar. All presentations will be broadcasted & recorded in the Zoom webinar for the first 100 delegates. All presentations are pre-recorded with live Q & A
FULL PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE
Day 1 – Broadcast & Recorded in Zoom Webinar - Thursday July 23
Thursday 23rd July 2020
| Time & Location | Presentation | Speaker | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.00 to 9:30am | Introduction, update & housekeeping | Don Coyne | Public Officer - ANZ Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG) |
| 9.30 to 10:00am | Keynote - Biochar in Far North Queensland | Distinguished Professor Michael Bird | James Cook University |
| 10:00 to 10:30am | Keynote – Review of the art of the scientific understanding of biochar | Visiting Professor Stephen Joseph | UNSW, UNE, Univ. Wollongong & Nanjing Ag Univ. |
| 10:30-11:00am | Morning Tea | ||
| 11.00 to 11.30am | Keynote - Accelerated carbonation of biochar reinforced cement fly ash composites: Enhancing & sequestering C02 in building materials | Associate Professor Ajit Sarmah | University of Auckland |
| 11.30 to 12.00noon | Bioenergy & Biochar | Ian Stanley & Peter Burgess | Rainbow Bee Eater |
| 12.00noon to 12.20pm | A CRB Salvage Value Project Transforming dead coconut palms into charcoal and biochar | Dan Etherington | Niulife Foundation |
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30pm – 1:50pm | Biochar Analysis Explained | Graham Lancaster | Environmental Analysis laboratories - Southern Cross University |
| 1.50 to 2.10pm | A Decentralized Biomass Torrefaction Reactor Concept for Biochar Production | Kevin S. Kung | MIT University - United States |
| 2.10 to 2.30PM | Biochar's Cost Constraints are Overcome in Small‐Scale Farming in Tropical Soils in Lower‐Income Countries | Samuel Robb | PhD Student -University of Queensland |
| 2.30 to 2.50PM | Report from the Pacific Biochar Initiative | Frank Sanders | Healing Habitats |
| 2.50 to 3.10PM | Emerging carbon markets – opportunities for biochar | Annette Cowie | NSW DPI & UNE |
| 3.10 to 3.30PM | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3.30 to 3.50PM | Biochar, Soil Carbon & Carbon Trading | Ignatius Verbeek | Carbon-X |
| 3.50 to 4.10PM | Biochar industry to circular economy: A Singapore case study | Professor Chi-Hwa Wang & Assoc. Prof Kua Harn-Wei | National University of Singapore |
| 4:10- 5:00pm | Panel Discussion & Wrap Up | Selected Panel | Various |
Day 2 – Broadcast & Recorded in Zoom webinar - Friday July 24
Friday July 24, 2020
| Time & Location | Presentation | Speaker | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30 | ANZ Biochar Industry Group (ANZBIG) Launch | Nigel Murphy | Green Man Char & ANZBIG Board |
| 9:30-10:30 | Code of Practice Launch & Discussion | Nigel Murphy | Green Man Char & ANZBIG Board |
| 10:30-11:20am | Morning tea | ||
| 11.20 to 11.40 | Coverting sewage sludge waste plastics and wood to biochar | Dean Hurlstone & Stephen Joseph | Conhur |
| 11:40-12:00 | Using mineralized biochar and biochar fertiliser to exam the efficacy on suppressing nematode diseases in sweet potato | Upamali Peiris & Dr. Chengyuan (Stephen) Xu | Central University of Queensland |
| 12:00-12:20 | Turning biochar into Activate Charcoal | Lewis Dunnigan | ByGen |
| 12:20-12:40 | Quantitative and qualitative analysis of harvesting residues in Australian plantations | Dr Mohammad Reza Ghafffariyan | University of Sunshine Coast |
| 12:40-1:40 | Lunch | ||
| 1:40-2:00 | Waste to Energy Technology | Shaun Scallan | Capricorn Power |
| 2:00-2:20 | Biochar for mine tailings and their water | Suzanne Allaire | Pyrolist |
| 2:20-2:40 | CO2 Value Australia’s Carbon Removal Market | Sophia Hamblin Wang | CO2 Value Australia |
| 2:40-3:00 | Carbonfuture Trading | Hannes Junginger | Carbon Future |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Integration of biochar with other carbon sequestration technologies - an opportunity for landscape regeneration and large-scale carbon sequestration | Wolfram Buss | Australian National University - Canberra |
| 3:20-3:40 | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:40 - 5:00pm | Panel Discussion & Wrap Up |
