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May
13
to May 15

7th Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology

The Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology (CIB) conference spotlights best practices, lessons learned, and technology innovations for accelerating commercial production of bio-based products and building the circular bioeconomy. This is the premier conference focused on scale-up and commercialization of new products in the synthetic biology, fermentation, and industrial biotechnology spaces.

You’ll engage with industrial biotech leaders and practitioners as you explore the latest in the field — including developments that are driving a new wave of products. At CIB, you'll hear hard-won lessons from industry veterans — and draw inspiration for your own technology development efforts while learning and networking about new enabling technologies, products, market needs, and companies.

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2025 AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference & Exhibit
Nov
16
to Nov 18

2025 AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference & Exhibit

  • National Harbor, MD (map)
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Learn more about the five main educational tracks at the 5th Annual AFCC Conference.

  • Biobased Manufacturing: Renewable Chemicals, Bioplastics, Biomaterials Creating a Cleaner Planet

  • Sustainable Feedstocks, Biofuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF),  Food and Feed Products Driving Decarbonization

  • Renewable Specialty Chemicals

  • Synthetic Biology, Alternative Proteins, Regenerative Agriculture, Food & Fiber, Biofuels

  • Building the Biobased Economy Supply Chain, Featuring End of Life, Recycling, Biodegradable, Compostable Products, Certification, Carbon Intensity Manufacturing Labels for Consumer Choices

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2024 AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference & Exhibit
Nov
20
to Nov 22

2024 AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference & Exhibit

I’m looking forward to attending the Fourth Annual AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference, where I will be giving a presentation titled “Growing the Bioeconomy with Gas Fermentation”.

Gas fermentation is a novel industrial biotechnology that can contribute to the growth of the bioeconomy by using low cost, readily available carbon sources such as methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide to produce various fuel, chemical and food products, such as ethanol, ethylene, triglycerides, proteins, and polyesters.

Gas fermentation has advantages over conventional processing routes, including lower cost operating conditions, robustness to fluctuations in feed rate and composition, and tolerance to contaminants in the gaseous feeds. 

However, a key challenge with gas fermentation involves the design of a cost-effective reactor system with high mass transfer coefficients for the gaseous feedstocks into an aqueous media.    A number of reactor types have been proposed to overcome this challenge, from simple bubble columns to more sophisticated air lift and external loop reactors. These reactor types have tradeoffs between mass transfer and design complexity.  We will review these tradeoffs and discuss implications for different gas fermentation applications. 

This presentation will also review the current industrial applications of gas fermentation and key players in this industry.  We will examine the opportunities, challenges, and tradeoffs of different feedstocks and products based on the author’s experience with various gas fermentation technologies. Lastly, some areas of research and development will be recommended that can help solve the current challenges of gas fermentation and promote the growth of the bioeconomy. 

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