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Emerson to Host Bioenergy Summit

Tuesday, December 9, 2008  
Emerson Process Management will host the first in a series of regional bioenergy summits to discuss how to successfully tackle the challenge of translating alternative fuels technology into large-scale production, helping create a sustainable and commercially viable alternative fuels industry sector.
 

The first summit, "BioRefinery/BioEnergy Summit: Reducing the Risks of Migrating Vision to Production" will be held December 11 in Madison, WI. It will look at the opportunities for alternative fuels to contribute to global energy supply-demand gaps and share best production practices and contemporary plant automation technologies for alternative fuels commercialization.

The gap between conventional and total production is increasing. According to the International Energy Association (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2008, the world oil shortage will reach 28.6 million barrels a day by 2030. Filling this gap requires alternatives to conventional crude production. More…