Poyry - Is biocoal a game changer? - Point of ViewPöyry
Climate change concerns have created pressure to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Once heralded as the next big thing - the potential of co-firing biomass in coal boilers
has been limited by the significant capital investment required to modify fuel handling and combustion systems. However, biocoal can be co-fired in existing coal fired power plants, produced from a vast array of feedstock, and is efficient to ship, even over long distances. Is biocoal a game changer?
Given by Heng Sokbil
The second in our series of workshops designed to gather input from stakeholders involved in existing off-grid projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This event is workshop scheduled to be held in Malaysia for the ASEAN countries will be organised by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) in collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).
Bionic Palm Ltd, Ghana has developed a unique and highly innovative plantation model that is addressing a large number of current issues about African commercial agriculture:
- Food and Fuel instead of Food vs Fuel
- Make African agriculture sustainable
- Reverse degradation of arable land
- Fight hunger and poverty
- Deliver an overall negative carbon footprint
- Offer a safe and profitable investment in Africa for socially conscientious investors
Poyry - Is biocoal a game changer? - Point of ViewPöyry
Climate change concerns have created pressure to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Once heralded as the next big thing - the potential of co-firing biomass in coal boilers
has been limited by the significant capital investment required to modify fuel handling and combustion systems. However, biocoal can be co-fired in existing coal fired power plants, produced from a vast array of feedstock, and is efficient to ship, even over long distances. Is biocoal a game changer?
Given by Heng Sokbil
The second in our series of workshops designed to gather input from stakeholders involved in existing off-grid projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This event is workshop scheduled to be held in Malaysia for the ASEAN countries will be organised by the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) in collaboration with Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).
Bionic Palm Ltd, Ghana has developed a unique and highly innovative plantation model that is addressing a large number of current issues about African commercial agriculture:
- Food and Fuel instead of Food vs Fuel
- Make African agriculture sustainable
- Reverse degradation of arable land
- Fight hunger and poverty
- Deliver an overall negative carbon footprint
- Offer a safe and profitable investment in Africa for socially conscientious investors
Presentation at the Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology and Public Utilities Private Sector Forum, Pelican Beach Resort, Dangriga Town, Stann Creek Belize, April 4, 2013
Mr. Oliver Frith is the Acting Programme Director at the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and based in Beijing, China. He has an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University and an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge. He has worked at INBAR’s Beijing Headquarters for over 7 years, managing and advising livelihood development and environmental projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Promoting Renewable Energy Technologies through Public Private Partnership_NR...Nawa Raj Dhakal
Paper presented in international workshop on "Financing Village Level Energy for Development in Asia Pacific" jointly organized by ADB, GVEP & FDC in Manila
Dr. Navin Sharma is Biofuel Programme Manager with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) based in India. He holds a Ph D in Applied Biology from the University of Cambridge and has carried out his Postdoctoral work at the University of York. Navin has over 23 years of experience in industrial R&D working with two major FMCG companies: Unilever and ITC. He is currently leading a biofuels initiative being implemented in South Asia, Latin America and Africa. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/cop12
Presentation at the Ministry of Energy, Science & Technology and Public Utilities Private Sector Forum, Pelican Beach Resort, Dangriga Town, Stann Creek Belize, April 4, 2013
Mr. Oliver Frith is the Acting Programme Director at the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) and based in Beijing, China. He has an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University and an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge. He has worked at INBAR’s Beijing Headquarters for over 7 years, managing and advising livelihood development and environmental projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Promoting Renewable Energy Technologies through Public Private Partnership_NR...Nawa Raj Dhakal
Paper presented in international workshop on "Financing Village Level Energy for Development in Asia Pacific" jointly organized by ADB, GVEP & FDC in Manila
Dr. Navin Sharma is Biofuel Programme Manager with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) based in India. He holds a Ph D in Applied Biology from the University of Cambridge and has carried out his Postdoctoral work at the University of York. Navin has over 23 years of experience in industrial R&D working with two major FMCG companies: Unilever and ITC. He is currently leading a biofuels initiative being implemented in South Asia, Latin America and Africa. http://www.worldagroforestry.org/cop12
Project LIBERTY Field Day - Presentationpoetenergy
On November 6, 2008, POET held Project LIBERTY Field Day where farmers from the area gathered to see a presentation and view cob harvesting equipment. This presentation was given at the event.
הפנטזיה האורבאנית של עיריית תל אביב לגבי כיכר אתרים לא התגשמה. הכיכר עדיין עומדת שוממה.
איך זה שכיכר שנמצאת ליד הים, במיקום כל כך מרכזי בעיר, בלב החיים התוססים בתל אביב - נכשלת? ומה חושבים שרצפת עץ תעזור?
מצגת שהוצגה לחברי "אורבניקה-התעוררות עירונית" במסגרת פגישה והרצאה של שי פרקש. שי סיפר לנו רבות על המסתתר מאחורי שכבות הטיח בבתים ישנים ברחבי הארץ. נחשפנו לתחום ידע חדש ומרתק.
המצגת נגזרה מתוך מצגת אודות תמ"א 35 שהועברה בכנס הרצליה. על המצגת חתומים שמאי אסיף ונעמה מליס.
באחת מהרצאותיה של נעמה בכנס המתכננים, היא ביקשה שהנושא יופץ ככל שניתן. אנו משתדלים לעשות כדבריה :)
המצגת מתמצתת את תהליך העבודה עם תושבי שכונת עמידר וניצנה בבת ים. הפרויקט נעשה במסגרת אירועי הביאנלה של בת ים, 2010, והוצג למבקרים ותושבים בחוה"מ סוכות. במסגרת סדרת מפגשים נפגשו הידע המקצועי והידע המקומי והניבו יחד תוצר מרתק - רעיונות להתחדשות עירונית של שכונת עמידר וניצנה.
Grow Your Business with Professional Learning CommunitiesAnnie Teich
Use content marketing to grow your business by building relationships with your customers and prospects. The difference between content marketing and social media marketing and how to integrate them. Sponsoring a professional community for educators helps you create thought leadership, engage with decision makers, and build relationships with your audience.
Project LIBERTY Field Day - Equipment Photospoetenergy
On November 6, 2008, POET held Project LIBERTY Field Day where farmers from the area gathered to see a presentation and view cob harvesting equipment. These are photos of some the equipment that was displayed at the event.
15th Annual Ports-to-Plains Alliance Conference
Medicine Hat, AB
October 2-4, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Imaginative Enterprise-Business-from Ports-to-Plains
What are the innovative companies who are making a positive impact on our region and the world? Hear from some of the cutting edge entrepreneurs who are creating jobs in innovative ways.
Project LIBERTY is the transformation of an existing conventional corn dry mill ethanol facility into an integrated bio-refinery with eco-sustainable and renewable technologies.
Presentation by The Climate Trust's Program Manager, Peter Weisberg, at the Sustainable Food Trade Association. Presentation includes: the basics of biogas, project case studies; and the climate benefit of biogas.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
2. Project LIBERTY
• Build and operate one of the world’s
first commercial-scale cellulosic
ethanol biorefineries
• Integrate cellulosic ethanol
technologies with corn-based
ethanol technologies
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4. Key Project Deliverables
• 25 million gallons of ethanol
annually
• A sustainable biomass collection,
storage, and delivery system
• Reduced fossil fuel usage
• Viable and replicable model for
multiple biorefineries
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5. Corn Cobs
LIBERTY Design
Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
Hydrolysis &
Fermentation
Cob MHS Distillation Cellulosic
Pre-treat
Ethanol
Lignin
Separator
Alternative Solids Liquids Alternative
Energy Biogas Energy
System System
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7. Feedstock - Why Cobs?
• Abundant supply
• Low soil nutrient levels
• More carbohydrate
• Higher density
• Collectible & sustainable
• Greater ethanol yield
U.S. corn cobs represent over
5 billion gallons of ethanol
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8. Feedstock
• Requirement:
o 770 bone dry ton (BDT) per day
o 400,000 to 500,000 acres (~ third of corn acres in 35 mi. radius)
• Ethanol process can accept non-cob
corn crop residue
• Up to 25% corn stover removal is
environmentally sustainable
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9. Environmental
• Completed second year of field
study with ISU
• Very sustainable at rate of <25%
of residue removal
• Take aways:
– Minimal nutrition loss
– Know your soil
– Know what you are taking off
13. Options for 2010 Collection
1. Clean Cobs
2. Clean Bales
3. Second-Pass Bales
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14. Incentives
• DOE Feedstock Incentives
Ø Farmer variable cost incentives
Ø Equipment manufacturer incentives
• USDA Biomass Crop Assistance Program
Ø Matching payments up to $45/BDT
Ø Final rules in review
• Equipment procurement discounts offered
by manufacturers
15. Technology – Pilot Plant
• Over 14 months of operation
• 20,000 gallons per year capacity
• Making cellulosic ethanol
• Testing alternative energy
systems
• Focus is on reducing costs
ü 40% reduction since 2008
Pilot-Scale Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
POET Research Center, Scotland, SD
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16. Federal Environmental Requirement
National Environmental Protection Act
Key Milestone:
A Positive NEPA
Determination
Approved Sept. 2008
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17. LIBERTY Site
Existing Corn-Based
Biorefinery
POET Biomass
Facilities
LIBERTY
LIBERTY Biomass Biorefinery
Handling & Storage
18. Technology
Technology package complete
• Cob receiving
• Cellulose-to-ethanol process
• Alternative energy
Scheduled series of design
reviews (DOE):
• March 11-12
• May 10
• October 11
Target: Construction start in
late 2010
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19. Financing
• DOE Loan Guarantee is required
• Preliminary application accepted by DOE
in November 2008
• Submit final application in April 2010
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20. Major Partners
$14.75M from the Iowa Power Fund
$5.25M from the Iowa Department of
Economic Development
$80 million DOE grant to design,
construct, build and operate
$20 million DOE increase for
feedstock incentives
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21. LIBERTY Creates Jobs
• POET Biomass – LIBERTY
Ø 15-25 full-time jobs
• Cellulosic plant
Ø 35-45 full-time jobs
• Regional biomass supply logistics
Ø 60-70 full-time jobs
• Seasonal farm laborers
• Agriculture equipment dealers and
manufacturers
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22. Rolling it Out: National Impacts
U.S. has 1 Billion tons of
available biomass
– That’s 85 - 90 billion gallons annually
– Equal to 60% of U.S. transportation fuel supply
– And…America imports 60% of its petroleum!
Cellulosic ethanol represents thousands of
good, green jobs at home
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23. Project LIBERTY Benefits
• Reduces greenhouse gas
emissions
• Supports goal of 36 billion
gallons of renewable fuels
by 2022
• Builds upon the corn-to-
ethanol industry
Reduces
nation’s • Creates opportunities in
dependency rural America
on foreign oil
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