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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
2015 GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE
11-14 OCTOBER 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
1:30-3:30 p.m.
GTC Fall Membership Meeting
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Project Finance
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Introduction to Gasification
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Opening Reception –Exhibit Hall
Monday, October 12, 2015
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Check-In
Continental Breakfast – Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Welcome
William Preston, KP Engineering, GTC Chair
Alison Kerester, GTC Executive Director
8:15 a.m.
Keynote Address:
Dr. Yongwang Li, Synfuels China Engineering Co., LTD (China)
9:00 a.m.
Session 1: Global Gasification Projects & Updates
Session Chair: William Preston, KP Engineering
CB&I E Gas Technology: 2015-2016 Progress on All Fronts
Jayesh Shah, CB&I (Platinum Plus Level Sponsor) (United States)
Commercializing Gasification Technology for Today’s Market
DeLome Fair, Synthesis Energy Systems (Gold Level Sponsor) (United States)
Siemens Gasification Market and Technology Outlook 2015
Rolf Russeler, Siemens Energy (Germany)
10:00 a.m.
Break- Exhibit Hall
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11:00 a.m.
Session 2: Global Gasification Projects & Technology Updates II
Session Chair: Karsten Radtke, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions
TRIG-Commercialization Status Updates
Manoj Nagvekar, KBR (United States)
Westinghouse Plasma Gasification for Power, Fuels, and Chemicals
Walter Howard, Alter NRG-Westinghouse Plasma Corp. (Canada)
Update of ECUST OMB Gasification Process
Zhijie Zhou, East China University of Science and Technology (China)
Noon
Lunch – Exhibit Hall
1:30 p.m.
Africa: An Emerging Market
Melissa Cook, African Sunrise Partners, LLC
2:15 p.m.
Session 3: Waste and Biomass Gasification I
Session Chair: DeLome Fair, Synthesis Energy Systems
The Role of Gasification in Managing North American Waste Streams
Rob Hallenbeck, Waste Management (United States)
The Thermochemical Pathway: A Sustainable and Competitive Waste Diversion
The Case of Enerkem and the City of Edmonton
David McConnell, Enerkem (Canada)
Small Scale Distributed Plasma Enhanced Gasification
Jeff Surma, InEnTec (USA)
3:15 p.m.
Session 4: Global Gasification Projects & Technology Updates III
Session Chair: Chuck McConnell, Rice University
Shell Coal Gasification Technology: An Integrated Solution for Efficient
Coal-to-Products Value Chain
Rob van den Berg, Shell Global Solutions (Netherlands)
Project Updates
Honghai Dong, GE Power and Water (China)
The Low Cost Gas Era: Gasification versus Steam Reforming- a True Alternative?
Karsten Radtke, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (Germany)
4:15 p.m.
Break
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5:00 p.m.
Session 5: India
Session Chair: Walter Howard, Alter NRG-Westinghouse Plasma Corp.
Gasification India- Present & Future
Ashwinkumar Katri, Mission Energy Foundation/Gasification Technologies Research
Council (India)
Jamnagar Gasification Project-An Update
Antony Francis, Reliance Industries (India)
An Innovative Way of Iron Making
Jona Pillay, Jindal Synfuels Limited (India)
6:00 p.m.
Adjourn for the Day
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Reception- Exhibit Hall
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Check In
Continental Breakfast – Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
8:30 a.m.
Session 6: Emerging Markets: Brazil, Indonesia & Korea
Session Chair: Mohamed Soliman, GE Power and Water
Gasification Opportunities in Brazil
Stephan Hardt and Everson Talgatti, MRG Solutions (Brazil)
TITLE (Indonesia)
Richard Cant, Dezan Shira & Associates (United States)
Title (Korea)
Speaker on Korea- Invited
9:30 a.m.
Session 7: Equipment and Process Advances
Session Chair: Michael Lemeshev, MOGAS Industries, Inc.
Use or Application of LIOS Reactor Skin Temperature Monitoring Solution (RSTMS) for
Kemper County Energy Facility Gasifier Vessels
Landry Molimbi, LIOS Technology, Inc. (United States)
An Update on Clean Energy R&D Projects and Programs at RTI International
David Denton, RTI International (United States)
The Challenges Presented During the Filtration of High-Temperature,
High-Pressure Syngas
Andy Bevis, Porvair (United Kingdom)
Advances in Refractory Materials and Their Application in Gasification Projects
Dr. Hongxia Li, Sinosteel Luoyang Institute of Refractories Research (China)
10:30 am.
Break – Exhibit Hall
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11:15 a.m.
Session 8: Gasification for Liquids and Chemicals
Session Chair: John Stevens, Praxair
Homeland Fuels CTL Project in Illinois
Stephen Scott, Jacobs Engineering (United States)
Think Smaller: Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch Enables Biomass to Liquids
Brian Cody, Velocys, Inc. (United States)
An Innovative Solution for Low-Carbon Renewable Fuels
Lee Rich, Fulcrum BioEnergy (United States)
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Session 9: Gasification for Power
Session Chair: David Denton, RTI
Title
Jack Stultz, Duke Energy (United States)
Title
James Tan, Community Power Corp. (United States) (Biomass)
TAEAN IGCC Project Update
Seungmin Kim, Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (Republic of Korea)
2:30 p.m.
Session 10: Biomass and Waste Gasification II
Session Chair:
TITLE
Richard Fosgitt, Cirque Energy (United States)
Gasification Hybrid Developed for the Production of Renewable Hydrogen
Mike Hart, Sierra Energy (United States)
Small, Modular Gasification for Waste-to-Energy Systems
Abraham Haspel, COGENT Energy Systems (United States) and
Kevin Kenney, Idaho National Laboratory (United States)
3:30 p.m.
Break – Exhibit Hall
4:15 p.m.
Session 11: Middle East and Asia
Session Chair: Jayesh Shah, CB&I
TITLE
Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia)
ENN’s Underground Coal Gasification Introduction
Feng Chen, ENN Group, Ltd. (China)
Demonstration of Twin IHI Gasifier (TGIRa) for Lignite Coal
Hidehisa Tani, IHI (Japan)
5:15 p.m.
Adjourn for the Day (Evening Open)
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Check In
Continental Breakfast – Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Status of the Gasification Industry: Worldwide Gasification Database 2015 Update
Christopher Higman, Higman Consultancy GmbH (Germany)
8:15 a.m.
Session 12: Biomass and Waste Gasification III
Session Chair: Steve Jenkins, Energy & Chemicals Consulting
Biomass Gasification Integrated with Wastewater Treatment
Jeff Snyder PHG Energy (United States)
Identifying Likely Late-Stage WTE Gasification Candidates
Christoph Cothran, Stratas Advisors (United States)
Title
Terry Kulesa, Red Rock Biofuels (United States)
9:15 a.m.
Session 13: Advances in Gasification
Session Chair: Richard Range, PALL Corporation
Feasibility Analysis of Combined IGCC and Syngas Chemical Looping for Power
Generation
William Summers, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy (United
States)
Gasification Market in North Dakota and Opportunities for Power, Fuels, and
Chemicals
Josh Stanislowski, University of North Dakota (United States)
Coal and Sewage Sludge Gasification Based on New Generation ICP/RF Plasma
Igor Matveev, Applied Plasma Technologies (United States)
10:15 a.m.
Break- Exhibit Hall
11:00 a.m.
Session 14: Plant Operations: Lessons Learned
Session Chair:
TITLE
Mark Hornick, TECO Energy (United States)
TITLE
Juhani Isaksson, Valmet (Finland)
Speaker Invited
Noon:
Concluding Remarks
Conference Adjourns
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