PLNT6250 - Colloquium in Plant Agriculture
PLNT*6250 is offered a topic specific colloquium offered on a per semester basis dependent on instructor and student interests.
The Fall 2006 Colloquium had the topic focus of "Bioproducts in the Context of Ontario's Agricultural and Manufacturing Industries". During this Colloquium students prepared presentations relavant to the topic and these presentions are shown as an archive of examples of studies that graduate students in the Department of Plant Agriculture are persuing. When future colloquiums focus on this topic they will be made available for your view if possible.
Instructor
L. Erickson (erickson@uoguelph.ca)
Overview
There is an opportunity for agriculture to acquire a new relevance to the Ontario economy as a source of renewable biomass for the production of chemicals, materials, and fuels. Ontario's agricultural sector is knowledgeable and experienced in the production of a multitude of plant materials, and our manufacturing sector has a wide range of input needs, many of which are currently derived from petroleum or natural gas, but which could be derived from biomass. The challenge is to determine what crop-based materials best fit with our industrial needs in the future, and how to develop the complementary agronomic and processing components required to meet those needs. It is clear that this task will require an integrated, interdisciplinary, approach, which will include biologists, engineers, and economists, as well as collaborators from the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Students in this course will investigate some of the opportunities and challenges faced by plant agriculture in the emerging bioeconomy.
Final presentations
Slideshows
| Andrew Burt | Is Corn Stover a Waste? |
| Liz Brauer | Switchgrass: An Ontario Perspective |
| Rachell Campbell | Biocomposites in Automotive Manufacturing |
| Ben Chapman | Is Bioproduct a Good Name? |
| Mahsa Golbabaie | Applications of Biocomposites in Building Industry |
| Scott Liddycoat | Obstacles to a plant-based pharmaceutical industry in Canada |
| Ivan Malchev | Plant-Oil-Based Lubricants |
| Eric Shaw | Using Canola - Derived Biodiesel as a Competitive Alternative to Petroleum |
