We are sure that the Fourth Conference on Biomass for Energy will give a new impulse to bioenergy development in Ukraine and promote fruitful cooperation between Ukrainian and foreign scientists and experts in this field.

Topics:

• Biomass resources and its pretreatment: recovery, production, pretreatment, supply and logistics for feedstock from forestry, agriculture, animal husbandry, municipal economy and processing industry.
• Research and development of bioenergy technologies: combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, extraction and utilisation of landfill gas, liquid biofuels production (biodiesel, bioethanol); co-firing technologies for biomass and traditional fuels.
• Demonstration and market implementation of biomass-to-energy technologies.
• Strategy and policy issues: national and local legislation, sources of financial support, stimulation of development, reduction of CO2 emission, socio-economic issues, national and local strategies for bioenergy development.
• Economic and environmental issues of bioenergy technologies.