Plenary Session
Technical Overview of Biorefineries
Bryan Jenkins
Bryan Jenkins, professor of biological and agricultural engineering at the University of California-Davis, focuses his research on energy systems in agriculture, biomass fuel production, thermal conversion, and environmental impacts; combustion and gasification of biomass fuels; properties of fuels; and system models. He will speak about biorefining using thermochemical conversions and will give a thermochemical overview of a biorefinery.
John Sheehan 
John Sheehan has over 20 years of experience as a biochemical engineer in industry and government. He has worked as a senior engineer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO for the past 12 years.
Prior to coming to NREL, Sheehan worked as a process engineer at Merck Pharmaceutical and a biochemical engineer at the corporate research center of the specialty chemicals company, W.R. Grace. He has a master's in biochemical engineering from Lehigh University and a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Joe Bozell 
Joe Bozell is currently Associate Professor of Biomass Chemistry in the Forest Products Center at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Bozell's research focuses on the use of catalysis for the conversion of renewable materials into chemical products and materials, new nanostructural compounds based on renewables, and biorefinery development. Prior to joining the University of Tennessee, Dr. Bozell spent 17 years as Principal Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO, and several years as a research chemist at Monsanto Company in St. Louis. Dr. Bozell was a co-recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency's 1999 Presidential Green Chemistry Award.