There will be two days with oral and poster presentations with time allowed for discussions and two days with field visits to sugar cane co-products facilities. A booklet containing the selected abstracts will be produced and distributed to the delegates. The proposed preliminary programme is presented below.

Session Hour Speaker Institution Country Presentation Title
Session A (Chairman: Prakit Sukyai) 08:30 Reception and Late Registration
09:00 Eduardo Couto (CTBE’s Director) and Regis Leal CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Welcome speech
09:20 Bryan Peter Lavarack Makay Sugar Australia Developing co-product opportunities: guidelines for successful commercial projects
10:00 Gunshiam Umrit Mauritius Sugarcane Industry Research Institute (MSIRI) Mauritius Co-products of sugarcane: current perspectives, potential issues and future prospects
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Regis Leal CTBE/CNPEM Brazil A global view of bioproducts
11:30 Marcos Watanabe CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Regional impacts of different sugarcane production systems in Brazil: a multicriteria decision analysis approach
12:00 Francisco Linero FL Consultoria e Engenharia Brazil Sugarcane trash processing: the Ferrari Mill Plant
12:30 Valeria Olivero Ledesma Argentina Process and Energy Integration in a Sugar Cane Based Agricultural Industry
13:00 Lunch
Session B (Chairman: Bryan Lavarack) 14:00 ISSCT Congress Argentina 2019  – Congress Organizing Committee ISSCT
14:30 Marcos Watanabe CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Techno-economic assessment of retrofit projects applied to cogeneration system in Brazil: the use of sugarcane trash to increase electricity production
15:00 Mathias Strauss LNNano/CNPEM Brazil Activated carbons from sugarcane bagasse: Linking critical properties with ecotoxicological and techno-economical aspects
15:30 Fernando Rosales Cengicaña Guatemala Sugarcane ethanol and bioelectricity in Guatemala
16:00 Prakit Sukyai Kasetsart University Thailand Sugarcane bagasse in biomedical applications
16:30 Discussions
17:00 Welcome cocktail (until 19:00)
Session Hour Speaker Institution Country Presentation Title
Session C (Chairman: Gunshiam Umrit) 09:00 Regis Leal CTBE/CNPEM Brazil SUCRE Project: a mid-term review
09:30 Daniel Duft CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Sugarcane trash recovery alternatives
10:00 Danilo José Carvalho CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Trash burning in boilers designed for bagasse as fuel
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Patcharaporn Pongpat King’s Mongkut University Thailand Sustainability assesment of sugarcane biorefineries system in Thailand
11:30 José Luiz Olivério Dedini Brazil The “DSM – Dedini Sustainable Mill” is a “RenovaBio Mill”
12:10 Regis Leal CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Maximizing sugarcane use and energy efficiency
12:40 Discussions
13:00 Lunch
Session D (Chairman: Regis Leal) 14:00 Thanaporn Athipanyakul Kasetsart University Thailand The costs of sugarcane harvesting and the sugarcane harvester adoption in Thailand
14:30 Mario Murakami CTBE/CNPEM Brazil New enzymatic strategies for generation of advanced sugars and 2G ethanol
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Juliana Teodoro CTBE/CNPEM Brazil Mills industrial gases: alternatives and opportunities
Leonardo Rey Oliveira Lopes LNNano/CNPEM Brazil Large scale production of Renewable energy and Biofertilizer from Sugarcane Vinasse by Anaerobic Biodigestion: Potential use of the digestate in fertirrigation
16:00 Discussions
17:00 Departure
Hour Activity
07:00 FERRARI MILL VISIT
16:00 Coffee break
16:15 CTBE/CNPEM VISIT
18:20 LEAVING FOR DINNER AT BARBACOA
Hour Activity
07:00 RAÍZEN 2G ETHANOL PLANT VISIT
14:00 Departure