Featured Session: Harnessing Vegetable Oil Waste - Circular Economy in Action

Chair(s)

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  Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir, PhD

  Director General
  Director General Office
  Malaysian Palm Oil Board
  Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia

Harnessing Vegetable Oil Waste: Circular Economy in Action directly addresses urgent global challenges including biodiversity loss, waste emissions, and climate change. By emphasising on a circular economy, the focus will be on innovative strategies to minimize waste, maximize resource efficiency, and contribute to a more sustainable future. Vegetable oil waste, once considered an environmental challenge now holds potential as a renewable energy source (in the form of biogas) and as a source for valuable phenolic bioactive compounds among others.

Presentations:

• 8:35 AM – 8:55 AM PST

  Biotech Enablers for Harnessing Vegetable Oil Waste
  

  Presenting Author: Martin Rushworth (he/him/his) – Novonesis Malaysia

  Co-Author: HonSeng Yee (he/him/his) – Novonesis Malaysia

  Co-Author: Shalin Phoon – Novonesis Malaysia

  Co-Author: SokeYan Chong – Novonesis Malaysia
• 8:55 AM – 9:15 AM PST

  Water-Soluble Palm Fruit Extract: Valorisation of Palm Phenolics for Health and Wealth
  

  Presenting Author: Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir, PhD – Malaysian Palm Oil Board
• 9:15 AM – 9:35 AM PST

  Valorizing waste streams to enhance sustainability and economics in microbial oil production
  

  Presenting Author: David R. Appleton, PhD – SD Guthrie Berhard

  Co-Author: Nicholas Renegar – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Seth Rhoades – Fulgens Consulting

  Co-Author: Anusha Nair

  Presenting Author: John P. Ward – Berry’s Brook Consulting

  Presenting Author: Anthony J. Sinskey – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 9:35 AM – 9:55 AM PST

  Efficient conversion of low value lipids into various monomers and biopolymers
  

  Presenting Author: Aman Ullah, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Alberta