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The following are the details for the night's events:

Meeting Location: Continuing Education and Conference Center, 1890 Buford Ave South, University of Minnesota St. Paul Campus. 

Download campus map at: 
http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/CECC/index.html

Meeting Schedule: 
Executive Meeting: 5:30-6:30 pm in Room 155 
Dinner: 6:30 pm -7:30 pm in the Main Dining / Courtyard of the CECC. 
Presentation: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm in Room 155

Dinner/cost: 
Dinner will consist of chicken picatta, wild rice blend, salad, chef’s blend of vegetables, apple pie dessert, and coffee/soft drinks. Limited vegetarian option will be available.  Cost of dinner is $20, payable at the door, or $18 pre-registered at www.mnacs.org.

Reservations: Send to Richard Walsh at mnacs.chair@gmail.com or by a detailed message at 651-795-6615 by COB Tuesday,  September 2nd.

Directions to CECC and Parking: 
Incoming from the North: I35W Southbound to the Cleveland/Hwy 36 East exit.  Follow Cleveland Ave south to Larpenteur, turn left onto Larpenteur Ave.  Follow to Gortner Ave (1st stoplight) and turn right.  CECC is at the SouthEast corner of the intersection of Buford and Gortner.  Parking is available in the Buford Ave Ramp (continue on Buford through the intersection, turn left into the lot) (pay lot) or in lots east and southeast of the CECC.

Incoming from the East, South or West : Either I-94 east or west to Hwy 280, or I-35W north to I-94 East to Hwy 280 North.  Follow 280 to the Larpenteur Ave exit.  Exit at Larpenteur and turn right at the end of the exit ramp onto Larpenteur.  Follow to Gortner Ave and turn right.  CECC is at the SouthEast corner of the intersection of Buford and Gortner.  Parking is available in the Buford Ave Ramp (continue on Buford through the intersection, turn left into the lot) (pay lot) or in lots east and southeast of the CECC.


Speaker: Dr. Badal C. Saha, “Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass:  Challenges and Opportunities”
Talk Abstract:
 In the U.S., the production of corn grain based ethanol reached 4.5 billion gallons in 2005, a fraction of the 140 billion gallons of transportation fuel used annually. The goal is to displace 30% of the nation_s current gasoline use with ethanol by 2030 and this will require production levels equal to roughly 60 billion gallons a year. If all corn grain now grown in the US is converted to ethanol, it can satisfy approximately 15% of current transportation fuel needs. Thus, developing ethanol as fuel, beyond its current role as fuel oxygenate, will require developing lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock because of its abundance. This includes various agricultural residues such as corn fiber, corn stover, rice straw, wheat straw and sugarcane bagasse, and energy crops such as switchgrass. In this presentation, the current state of research and development for cost-effective conversion of lignocellulosic feedstock to fuel ethanol, and efforts to bring the technology into the market place will be reviewed. Recent research progress dealing with the production of some other value-added chemicals from biomass will also be described.



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