Conference website: https://www.icb2023.com

Important dates:

Abstract submission: 31/05/2023

Notification of abstract acceptance: 14/06/2023

Early bird registration: 21/06/2023

The C-CBN April 2023 Webinar will also be co-organized with UBC's Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC). It will be held at 4:00-5:00 pm on Wednesday, April 26th, PDT. The presentation title is “Biomass supply chain – A vital factor in the success of bio-projects”. The speaker is Prof. Taraneh Sowlati from the Department of Wood Science, and the Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC. Please see the flyer below for detailed information. And click here to send an email for the Zoom passcode.

The C-CBN September 2022 Webinar will also be co-organized with the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) at UBC. It will be held at 3:30-4:30pm on Tuesday, September 27th, PDT. The presentation title is “Maybe clean-energy research and researchers needs to engage differently to face the climate-and-ecological crisis?”. The speaker is Prof. Kai Chan from the University of British Columbia (UBC). Please see the flyer below for the detailed information.

The C-CBN June 2022 Webinar will also be co-organized with the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) at UBC. It will be held at 4:00-5:00pm on Wednesday, June 29th, PDT. The title of the presentation is “The Development of Biomass Heating in China - Technologies, Standards, and Policies”. The speaker is Prof. Guangqing Liu from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). He is also the Director of Bioenergy and Environmental Engineering Research Centre at BUCT and the Executive Secretary-General of China Clean Stove Alliance. Plese click here to send an email for the Zoom passcode.

The C-CBN May 2022 Webinar will also be co-organized with the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) at UBC. It will be held at 4:00-5:00pm on Monday, May 30th, PDT. The title of the presentation is “Production of Homogenous Pyrolysis Oil from Low Quality Forestry Residues”. The speaker is Dr. Fernando Preto, Team Leader for Biomass Conversion in the CanmetENERGY-Ottawa Laboratories of Natural Resources Canada. Please click here to send an email for the Zoom passcode.

The C-CBN April 2022 Webinar will also be co-organized with the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) at UBC. It will be held at 4:00-5:00pm on Wednesday, April 27th, PDT. The title of the presentation is “Biogas Research Progress in China”. The speaker is Prof. Renjie Dong from China Agricultural University. Plese click here to send an email for the Zoom passcode.

The C-CBN March 2022 Webinar will be co-organized with the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) at UBC. It will be held at 4:00-5:00pm on Monday, March 21st, PDT. The title of the presentation is “Advanced Production of Renewable Fuel and Chemicals”. The speaker is Prof. Hua Song from the University of Calgary. Plese click here to send an email for the Zoom passcode.

The 7th International Conference on Biomass Energy (ICBE) will be held on Apr 7th-9th, 2022 at Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. The conference will also have online sessions for international attendees. C-CBN is one of the co-organizers.

The C-CBN January 2022 Webinar will be co-organized with the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) at UBC. It will be held at 4:00-5:00pm on Wednesday, January 19th, PST. The title of the presentation is “The progress of research and applied demonstration on bioconversion of biomass into liquid biofuel in Tsinghua University”. The speaker is Prof. Dehua Liu from Tsinghua University, China. Plese click here to send an email for the Zoom passcode.

C-CBC has changed its name to China-Canada Bioenergy Network (C-CBN)! Our website will remain the same for now.

The C-CBC 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online at 4:00-6:00pm on Dec 13th, PST! The meeting will include keynote speeches, academic presentations, and a members’ internal session. The keynote speeches and presentations will be open to non-members. Please email here to inquire or register. The detailed agenda will be released soon. Looking forward to your registration!

Our C-CBC October Webinar will be held at 4:00-5:00pm on Thursday, October 21st. The title of the presentation is “Development of biomass pyrolysis polygeneration and pyrolysis product upgrading”. The speaker is Prof. Haiping Yang from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Plese click here to send an email for Zoom link.

C-CBC will co-organize the 7th International Conference on Biomass Energy (ICBE2021) on November 24th-26th (Beijing time) in Xiamen, China. The conference will have online sessions as well for international attendees. C-CBC has also co-organized the 6th International Conference on Biomass Energy (ICBE2018) in Wuhan, China.

A research and demonstration facility aimed at accelerating the development of low-carbon, market-ready bioenergy products and carbon-negative energy systems has opened its doors at the University of British Columbia.

Building on work conducted at UBC's Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) over the past 15 years, the new Biorefining Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) will bring together top academic researchers and industry partners to create leading-edge technologies that could significantly reduce our reliance on carbon-intensive fossil fuels.

C-CBC will co-organize a seminar with the UBC Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC) on September 29th: “Sustainable Aviation Fuel/Biojet Technologies - Commercialization Status, Opportunities and Challenges”. The speakers are Prof. Jack Saddler and Dr. Susan van Dyk from UBC Faculty of Forestry and IEA Bioenergy Task 39. The seminar will be hosted in Room 202 of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC (2360 East Mall, Vancouver) and also on Zoom (Email siduo.zhang@ubc.ca for Zoom link). The talk will also be recorded (Email siduo.zhang@ubc.ca to request a copy after the seminar day).

On Nov 25th, the C-CBC 2020 Annual Meeting was successfully held virtually. It was jointly organized by the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Hunan Academy of Forestry (HAF) and hosted by Prof. Changzhu Li, the Director of HAF and a core member of C-CBC.

On Sep 25th, a delegation from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China visited C-CBC at UBC. The delegation is led by the Vice President Dr. Wen Chen along with several Deans and staff members. C-CBC members at UBC introduced C-CBC and the UBC Faculty of Applied Science to the delegation and learned about WUT's key research areas. WUT is interested in collaborations on Joint Degree program and scholar and students exchanges. Faculty members from the two universities had a productive meeting to exchange ideas and made tentative plans. The group will keep in touch for potential collaborations.

On August 3rd, C-CBC member Prof. Anthony Lau visited Prof. Xiuli Yin at the Chinese partner institute - Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The professors have been jointly awarded funding from Guangdong Province under its Innovation Strategic Program on International Cooperation in Science and Technology in 2018. The title of the project is “Research on thermochemical conversion mechanism of solid and liquid wastes from pulp and paper industry". During this visit, Prof. Lau and Prof. Yin discussed the progress of the project, learned about the new research work and achievements from each institution, and formulated plans for future collaborations.

Since the last report in July 2018, C-CBC has recruited 4 faculty members and 3 member organizations, with a current membership of 76 researchers and 40 organizations. Four China-Canada teams have been awarded significant research grants in provincial and federal programs. The Biorefining Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) funded by the Canadian Foundation of Innovation (CFI) in 2017 is under design and the construction will start in fall 2019 at UBC. Another major funding has recently been granted by Western Economic Diversification Canada, supporting a BioAlliance project on the production of synthesis gas and renewable natural gas (RNG) from forest residues. C-CBC co-organized the 6th International Conference on Biomass Energy (ICBE 2018) in October 2018 at Wuhan, China, and co-organized the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Biofuels with Mission Innovation (MI) in April 2019 at Yantai, China. We also initiated and led the Bioenergy Dialogue of the Canada China Track II Energy Dialogue and hosted the first meeting in Beijing in January 2019. In terms of student and scholar training, C-CBC has hosted 17 new postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting students from Chinese member universities.

The C-CBC 2019 Annual Meeting was successfully held on May 31st at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The members discussed plans for the next year. C-CBC will keep leading the Bioenergy Theme of the Canada China Track II Energy Dialogue, and stay involved in the Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge (IC4) of Mission Innovation (MI) initiative. Members will actively apply for new collaboration programs at all levels. Technology development will be further supported and more student and scholar exchanges will be facilitated.

On May 30-31, C-CBC co-organized the IC4 Advanced Biofuels Workshop: Pathways to Market, at the University of British Columbia. It’s a workshop with Mission Innovation (MI) which is a global initiative of 23 countries and the European Union. The theme of the workshop is “Pathways to Market”. Specifically, it is “how to connect dots across the supply chain to produce and use low-carbon fungible biofuels”. The attendance reached over 130 participants from federal and provincial governments, industry, financial sector, advisory groups and universities to give presentations and exchange ideas.

On Apr 18th 2019, Western Economic Diversification Canada announced $2.38 million funding towards the research and testing of clean technologies that generate renewable natural gas (RNG) from forest residues, led by Prof. Xiaotao Tony Bi at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The project will be spearheaded by the UBC BioProducts Institute together with the BC Pulp & Paper Bio-Alliance, a formal partnership between UBC, FPInnovations, the British Columbia (BC) provincial government and all the BC pulp and paper companies.

In conjunction with MI‐4/CEM (Mission Innovation Ministerial Meeting and Clean Energy Ministerial Meetings in Vancouver May 27‐29, 2019 ‐ http://cem-mi-vancouver2019.ca/), the co‐leads of the Sustainable Biofuels Innovation Challenge (IC4) in partnership with IEA, BC Bioenergy Network, and C-CBC are organizing a workshop at the University of British Columbia to accelerate the commercialization of sustainable advanced biofuels. The theme of the workshop is “Pathways to Market”. The workshop will explore strategies for facilitating large‐scale supply of biological feedstocks and overcoming barriers to technology demonstration and commercial scale production of fungible biofuels.

On April 2nd to 4th, 2019, the "Mission Innovation (MI)- the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Biofuels" co-organized by the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, the Science and Technology Department of Shandong Province and the Yantai Municipal Government, was successfully held in Penglai, Yantai. More than 70 experts and scholars from 10 countries, representatives of governments and enterprises at all levels attended the opening ceremony. C-CBC Director Xiaotao Bi, member Longlong Ma, Fernando Preto attended the conference.

Congratulations to two groups of C-CBC member organizations for being awarded funding from the Canadian International Innovation Program (CIIP), National Research Council Canada (NRC). They are our industry member Nexterra Systems Corp. with Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and Highbury Energy Inc. with Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The awarded projects are “Biomass gasification technology research, development and application” and “Breakthrough Technologies for Bottlenecks in Renewable Liquid Fuels from Wastes”, respectively. C-CBC has been included to the “Canada-China Joint Science and Technology Action Plan 2016-2018” since 2016 thus its members qualify for this designated program. C-CBC will strive to gain more opportunities like this for our members.

On January 18th 2019, C-CBC successfully hosted a bioenergy meeting at Beijing University of Chemical Technology for the Canada China Track II Energy Dialogue. C-CBC directors Xiaotao Bi and Tianwei Tan led discussions among a group of academic and industry experts from the two countries on bioenergy development, challenges, and opportunities.

Congratulations to C-CBC partner organizations Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion (GIEC) and UBC for having received funding from Guangdong Province under the Innovation Strategic Program on International Cooperation in Science and Technology. The Principal Investigators are Prof. Xiuli Yin (GIEC), Prof. Anthony Lau, and Prof. Xiaotao Bi. The title of the project is “Research on thermochemical conversion mechanism of solid and liquid wastes from pulp and paper industry". It includes techno-economic analysis on pre-treatment methods of pulp and paper industrial wastes, formation mechanism and controllable transformation of nitrogen oxides precursors from thermochemical conversion process of pulp and paper industrial wastes, pyrolysis and gasification characteristics of pulp and paper industrial wastes and catalytic reforming of tar.

On December 4th, C-CBC Manager Siduo Zhang participated in the 2018 Canada-China Green Economy and Service Innovation Forum in Vancouver and presented C-CBC to the attendees.