State of Hawaii > DBEDT > Strategic Industries Division > Ethanol

(Presented
by Doug
Durante)

Eileen is the Pacific Liaison for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Seattle Regional Office. Eileen is responsible for oversight, technical/field management, coordination and implementation of DOE's programs and projects administered in the Pacific Insular Area comprised of the State of Hawaii, Territory of American Samoa, Territory of Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Republic of Palau.

Eileen was born in Hawaii. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Business Administration.

Download presentation, Welcoming Remarks (Adobe Acrobat file, 379 kb).

Maurice Kaya is the Administrator for the State of Hawaii Energy, Resources & Technology Division. Maurice has 30 years experience in energy and environmental engineering in the State of Hawaii in both the public and private sectors. He currently administers statewide energy programs for the State of Hawaii. He is responsible for the planning and execution of energy policy in three major areas: statewide energy emergency preparedness, energy conservation programs, and development of renewable energy projects.

As director of Hawaii's Energy program, Maurice has lead efforts to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in the state, including the successful development of a Model Energy Code, performance contracting programs, and widespread adoption of statewide utility demand-side management programs. These efforts have resulted in national recognition for Hawaii's energy code, Million Solar Roofs Partnership, Rebuild America program, and numerous other innovations.

The U.S. Energy Secretary appointed Maurice to a two-year term as Chair of the federal State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB). He serves on the Advisory Board of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELHA); Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii; and is current Chair of the Emerging Energy Technologies technical committee, Energy Division, American Society of Civil Engineers. He holds a Bachelor's in Civil Engineering and a Master's in Environmental Engineering from the University of Hawaii.

Download first presentation, Introduction (Adobe Acrobat file, 90 kb).

Download second presentation, Ethanol Fuel for Hawaii:State Policy,Incentives, and Mandate (Adobe Acrobat file, 923 kb).

Douglas Durante serves as the Executive Director and Washington Representative of the Clean Fuels Development Coalition (CFDC), a non-profit organization he assisted in forming in 1987. The CFDC works in support of renewable alcohols and ethers and has a broad-based membership including automotive, agricultural, and other alternative energy interests.

Doug has been working in the fields of energy, transportation, and the environment since 1977. He was the Director of Public Affairs for the National Alcohol Fuels Commission and also served as a Special Assistant in the Office of Alcohol Fuels at the U.S. Department of Energy. He has been involved in the development of several ethanol projects throughout the U.S. Doug has served on numerous state and federal advisory committees, including Chair of the Fuels Subcommittee of the Federal Biomass Advisory Committee.

Doug holds a B.A. degree in English and Journalism from Elon University (North Carolina) and has completed a number of graduate courses and programs in business and government affairs. He served on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Fuels Advisory Committee, and the Department of Energy's Business Roundtable Advisory Group.

Download first presentation, Overview by Clean Fuels Development Coalition (Adobe Acrobat file, 889 kb).

Download second presentation (given on behalf of Gary Herwick of General Motors), Ethanol: An Important Role in Global Transportation Fuels (Adobe Acrobat file, 256 kb).

Mr. Schafer is the Legislative Counsel for the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). He specializes in the political tax arena and serves as RFA's lead lobbyist before the tax and trade writing U. S. House of Representative Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service.

Prior to coming to RFA, Mr. Schafer served as Vice President of Legal, Tax & Accounting (LTA) Policy with the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC). Where he was the policy director and lead lobbyist on legal, tax and accounting issues.

Prior to joining NCFC, Mr. Schafer served as Legislative Counsel to U.S. Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), where he provided legal and legislative analysis concerning agriculture, trade and other important issues. Mr. Schafer is a native of Mandan, North Dakota. He received his law degree from the University of North Dakota School of Law, and holds a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from Valley City State University in North Dakota.

Download first presentation, Biofuels for Sustainable Transportation (Adobe Acrobat file, 856 kb).

Download second presentation, Ethanol and Fuel Cells (Adobe Acrobat file, 893 kb).

Mark Yancey is the Director of Consulting Services for BBI International - a biofuels consulting firm based in Colorado. Mark provides feasibility studies, business plans, project development advice and economic impact analyses for both national and international clients. Mark has twenty-three years of experience in the fields of renewable energy and bioengineering and holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.

Download presentation, Economic Impact Assessment of Ethanol Production and Use in Hawaii (Adobe Acrobat file, 952 kb).

Warren Hall is the Manager of Hawaii Operations for EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc., a national environmental engineering and energy consulting firm based in Hunt Valley, Maryland with unique capabilities in the alternative fuels arena. Warren has worked for various federal and private clients in Hawaii and the Pacific Basin on various environmental, energy use, and alternative fuels issues. He has provided consulting services to private fleets related to alternative fuel vehicle use and infrastructure requirements and is an active member of the Honolulu Clean Cities organization.

Download presentation, Fuel Ethanol In Hawaii: A Historical Perspective (Adobe Acrobat file, 427 kb).

Sue works for BBI International -- a biofuels consulting firm based in Colorado. Last year Sue worked with eight different states to plan and conduct Department of Energy Ethanol Workshops similar to this one today. Sue also helped with a series of renewable diesel workshops conducted last year by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Sue was the moderator for the Fuel Ethanol Production panel.

Rick joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 1991 as a process engineer and is currently the Team Leader for Biomass Pretreatment Research and Development in the Biotechnology Division for Fuels and Chemicals. He has expertise in biomass conversion processes, including biomass pretreatment and thermochemical hydrolysis, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation, equipment design, pilot-scale engineering and operations, and process economic analysis. He has also been involved in several industrial collaboration projects, including New Energy Company of Indiana that was the recipient of a prestigious R&D 100 Award in 1993. Rick will be the NREL technical leader of a recently-awarded $38MM, 4 year collaborative project involving DuPont, Diversa Corporation, John Deere, Michigan State University, and NREL to develop an integrated corn-based biorefinery.

Prior to joining NREL, Rick was a process development engineer at Genencor International Inc. At Genencor, Rick worked on processes for the production and recovery of several industrial enzymes, including cellulase. Rick holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Colorado.

Download presentation, Ethanol From Cellulosic Materials (Adobe Acrobat file, 2614 kb).

Jayant Godbole is the Regional Director for the Americas at Praj Industries Limited. He has worked with Chemical Engineering Companies including Alfa Laval in India before joining PRAJ. He started and headed the international business division of PRAJ from 1994 to 1998. He has developed and successfully secured several international projects in Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal, South Africa, Peru, and Colombia. In 1999 he established PRAJ 's regional office for Latin America & the Caribbean's at Bogotà, Colombia. He has worked closely with sugar factory & distillery clients in Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Barbados, and Jamaica. He speaks both English and Spanish. He heads the operations in Latin America and Caribbean's for PRAJ.

Jayant is a graduate of the University Department of Chemical Engineering, Mumbai, India. He has a postgraduate diploma in International Business.

Download presentation, Ethanol fromCane Molasses (Adobe Acrobat file, 843 kb).

Bob Shleser is the President of The 'Aina Institute, a nonprofit organization established to conduct research development and technology transfer on methods of recapturing value from biomass. He has been a resident of Hawaii for 26 years. Bob has worked on projects and activities that have contributed to the foundation for biomass energy opportunities in Hawaii.

In 1991, Bob and others formed the 'Aina Institute. He became directly involved with evaluation of technologies for production of ethanol from biomass in 1993 when he was consultant to Department of Business Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) of the State of Hawaii to evaluate the technical and economic performance of seven emerging technologies for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol and authored the 1994 report, "Ethanol Production in Hawaii."

During the period 1994-96, he was the Manager of the Sustainable Biomass Energy Program at the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR). He developed programs to evaluate technologies that might contribute to the economic performance of sugar production in Hawaii.

He holds a BS, Agriculture, Purdue University, MS, Genetics, Purdue University, and a Ph.D. Biophysics/ Molecular Genetics, Purdue University.

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Larry Johnson is the Business Development Manager at Delta-T Corporation. For 15 years, Larry managed his own consulting company called Ethanol Marketing and Management Services. He became known as the "Ethanol Answerman" for his work with engine mechanics, fuel distributors and consumers, while developing the Minnesota ethanol market and organizing more than a dozen farmer-owned cooperatives.

On January 1, 2000, he took the position of U.S. Business Development Manager with Delta-T Corporation of Williamsburg, Virginia. Delta-T is a leading design/engineering firm with more than 60 ethanol installations around the world. His primary role today is the development of new ethanol projects. Mr. Johnson now combines his 20 years of experience in ethanol marketing and project development with the technology, engineering, financing and project development resources of Delta-T Corporation. This combination of resources can provide any feasible project with the most experienced and comprehensive project support and development services available today.

Download presentation, Successful Ethanol Project Development (Adobe Acrobat file, 566 kb).

Download second presentation, Ethanol - Gasoline Blend (E10) – Performance in Engines (Adobe Acrobat file, 2250 kb).

Barry Duffin is the Quality Control Specialist at ConocoPhillips. Barry was instrumental in the development of a tactical implementation plan for the removal of MTBE and introduction of Ethanol blending at ConocoPhillips locations in California. He has 21 years in the downstream petroleum industry with broad experience in product quality. Barry Duffin began his career in the petroleum industry at Unocal's Science and Technology Center where he gained experience in process and product development, engine testing and knock laboratory management along with ASTM, SAE, STLE, NLGI, API & OEM requirements. He carried this experience to several key positions in Refining, Marketing and Transportation, which allowed him to obtain a diverse background in the industry.

Barry Duffin has been responsible for laboratory operations, internal audit programs, training, SPC programs, supplier and subcontractor evaluations, and for the successful development of Quality Management Systems to meet ISO 9000 requirements. Two of his facilities achieved Freightliner's Masters of Quality Award. He is an RAB Quality Systems Auditor and Accredited Safety Auditor as well as a member of ASTM, ASQ and SEMA. Mr. Duffin oversees the quality of products at 25 terminals located in 11 western states for ConocoPhillips.

Download presentation, California Ethanol Project Overview: Ethanol Conversion (Adobe Acrobat file, 356 kb).

Mike Allen has been president of Allen Oil Company and Allen's Inc. since 1994, and its general manager before that. Mike has 22 years in the fuel marketing business. He has been instrumental in promoting and marketing ethanol and other renewables in Helena and throughout Montana. He is active in EPAC (Ethanol Producers and Consumers) as a board member and is the winner of the 1999 ACE (American Coalition for Ethanol) Grass Roots Award.

Mike has served as President of the Montana Petroleum Marketers Association and on the Board of Directors of the WPMA (Western Petroleum Marketers Association). Mike has a BS degree in Education with a double major in business and physical education from Northern Montana College (now MSU-Northern). He resides in the capital city of Helena, Montana.

Download presentation, Fuel Ethanol Distribution (Adobe Acrobat file, 922 kb).

Joe Collette is a certified automotive technician at Bob's Auto Repair. He has been drag racing motorcycles since 1995 and using ethanol as a race fuel since 1999. He attended General Motor's automotive service excellence program at Cerritos College. Joe is ASE certified in all fields with the exception of transmission. Joe has been an automotive technician since 1992. He served on board USS Michigan (SSBN 727 Gold) from 1986-1989 as a machinist mate repairing hydraulics, pneumatics, and atmosphere control equipment. He served on board USS Proteus (AS-19) from 1989-1992 in the field of nuclear repair.

Download data on Ethanol Blends in Racing Engines (Adobe Acrobat file, 1,181 kb).

Douglas Vind is President and Chief Operating Officer of Western Ethanol Company LLC, ("WEC"), and Regent International. Doug has been working in the fuel and fuel-alcohol manufacturing and distribution business since 1982.

WEC is both a manufacturer and distributor of fuel grade ethanol throughout the Western United States. WEC dehydrates alcohol and distributes finished fuel grade ethanol through bulk storage and terminal facilities in the United States. In addition to its own proprietary production, WEC also maintains significant purchase, distribution and exchange agreements with domestic ethanol producers.

Regent International focuses on niche market opportunities and new fuel related technologies involving the use of ethanol. Regent was involved as an early participant in the operation and fueling infrastructure of E-85 vehicles. Regent has since focused on "emerging" ethanol demonstration projects including E-diesel, and ethanol used in electrical power generation in turbines and portable generators.

Doug is also directly involved in the adoption of fuel and alternative fuel legislative and regulatory activities in his capacity as Chairman of the California Renewable Fuels Council. He also serves as a member of the Washington, D.C. based Renewable Fuels Association, and has sponsored regulations and legislation promoting the alternative fuels industry throughout the United States.

Download presentation, E-Diesel and Biodiesel: A Status Report to the Industry (Adobe Acrobat file, 986 kb).

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