2014 GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES
CONFERENCE
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Sunday, October 26, 2014
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Introduction to Gasification
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Project Finance
1:30-4:00 p.m.
GTC Fall Membership Meeting
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Opening Reception
Monday, October 27, 2014
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Conference Check-In
Continental Breakfast
Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
William Preston, Linc Energy Ltd
GTC Chair
Alison Kerester, GTC Executive Director
8:15 a.m.
Keynote Address
Global Energy Markets
Dr. Charles Ebinger, The Brookings Institution
9:00 a.m.
Session 1: Global Gasification Projects & Updates I
Session Chair: Faisal Mohammad, KBR, Inc.
E-Gas Technology: 2014 Progress on All Fronts
Phil Amick, CB&I (USA)
GE Power & Water: Project Update
DeLome Fair, GE Power & Water (USA)
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SES Gasification: Update on Projects and Initiatives
Robert Rigdon, Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (USA)
10:00 a.m.
Break-Exhibit Hall
11:00 a.m.
Session 2: Global Gasification Projects & Updates II
Session Chair: Phil Amick, CB&I
Siemens Gasification Technology: Improving Plant Economics Through
Performance
Harry Morehead, Siemens Energy, Inc. (USA)
Optimized Process Solutions from Feed to Product Based On Uhde HTW
and PRENFLO Gasification Technologies
Max Heinritz-Adrian, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions, AG (Germany)
Operation of Shell-Wison Bottom Quench Coal Gasification Technology
Rob van den Berg, Shell Global Solutions (China)
Noon
Lunch-Exhibit Hall
1:30 p.m.
Session 3: Gasification for Liquids & Chemicals
Session Chair: Holly Krutka, Cornerstone Magazine (World Coal
Association)
Coal Conversion to Chemicals, Gaseous and Liquid Fuels
Hermine Nalbandian, International Energy Agency Clean Coal Centre
(United Kingdom)
Homeland Fuels CTL Project in Illinois
Stephen Scott, Jacobs Engineering (USA)
Coal and Gas Feedstock Combination for Methanol and GTL
Abazajian Armen, Worley Parsons (USA)
2:30 p.m.
Session 4: Global Gasification Projects & Updates III
Session Chair: DeLome Fair, GE Power & Water
Linc Energy: Progress on Commercializing UCG Technology
William Preston, Linc Energy Ltd. (USA)
Westinghouse Plasma is an Industrial Scale Plasma Gasification
Technology for the Conversion of Various Feedstocks into Clean Energy
Walter Howard, Alter NRG/Westinghouse Plasma (USA)
Compact Gasification Integration Studies
Alan Darby, Aerojet Rocketdyne (USA)
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3:30 p.m.
Break-Exhibit Hall
4:15 p.m.
Session 5: Biomass Gasification for Power
Session Chair: Steve Jenkins, CH2M HILL Engineers, Inc.
Distributed Technology for a Distributed Resource: ZeroPoint Clean
Tech’s Approach to Biomass Gasification
Kurt West, ZeroPoint CleanTech (USA)
CHP Gasification System Using Biomass Chips
Alberto Montes, CIDAUT (Spain)
Plainfield Renewable Energy Plant: An Operational Update
Thomas Reel, Leidos (USA)
MILENA–OLGA Technology-Energy from Waste IGCC
Jan-William Konemann, Royal Dahlman (The Netherlands)
5:45 p.m.
Adjourn for the Day
6:00-7:00 p.m.
Reception-Exhibit Hall
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Conference Check-In
Continental Breakfast – Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
Karen Aldermen Harbert, Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber
Of Commerce
8:30 a.m.
Session 6: Global Projects & Technology Updates IV
Session Chair: Robert Rigdon, Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc.
Jamnagar Gasification Project-An Update
Partha Maitra, Reliance Industries, Ltd. (India)
Construction Update on SNG Plant in Korea
Jin-Kyeong Kim, POSCO E&C (South Korea) (invited)
Rectisol Technology Advancements & Project Updates
Chris Geraghty, Linde (USA)
Update on RTI’s Warm Syngas Cleanup Demonstration Project
David Denton, RTI International (USA)
9:30 a.m.
Session 7: Biomass Gasification for Fuels
Session Chair: Alan Darby, Aerojet Rocketdyne
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Smaller Scale Fischer-Tropsch Enables Biomass to Liquids
Jeff McDaniel, Velocys (USA)
Synthesis Gas Generation for Transportation Fuel Production
Andras Istvan Horvath, Carbona/Haldor Topsoe (Finland)
Efficient Conversion of Biomass to a New Ultraclean Diesel Fuel
Ingvar Landalv, Lulea University of Technology/Chemrec AB (Sweden)
10:30 a.m.
Break-Exhibit Hall
11:15 a.m.
Session 8: Gasification Related Equipment Advances
Session Chair:
Application of LIOS Reactor Skin Temperature Monitoring Solution at
Kemper County Energy Facility
Landry Molimbi, LIOS Technology, Inc. (USA)
Evaluating Gasifier Refractory Suppliers
Matthias Schumann, Saint-Gobain (France)
Custom Tailored Gasifier Fed Pumps
Uwe Arce de la Cruz, FELUWA Pumpen GmbH (Germany)
12:15 p.m.
Lunch-Exhibit Hall
1:45 p.m.
Session 9: Biomass and Waste Gasification Advances
Session Chair: Bob Brickner, Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc.
Gasifier Integrated Boiler Based Power Plant: A Boon for All Scale
Industrial Sectors to Meet Thermal and Power Demand
Vinoth Kandasamy, Chogen Powers (India)
DOE’s Biomass Gasification to Fuels and Products Program: Current
Efforts
Paul Grabowski, Bioenergy Technologies Office, U.S. Department of
Energy (USA)
Scaling Advanced Gasification For Commercial Deployment: A Lockheed
Martin Perspective
Paul Klammer, Lockheed Martin (USA)
2:45 p.m.
Session 10: Plant Economics
Session Chair: Charles McConnell, Rice University
Case Study: Lump Sum Turnkey Project Execution for North American
Gasification Projects
Tom Maramba, SK E&C USA (USA)
RNG: Pyrolysis by Numbers
Richard Tucker, The ReNewable Gas Company (RNG) (USA)
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Technical and Economic Analysis of Acid Gas Removal Solutions for
Producing Substitute Natural Gas for China Region
Ganesh Nayak, UOP (USA)
3:45 p.m.
Break – Exhibit Hall
4:30 p.m.
Session 11: Carbon Dioxide Management
Session Chair: -Divya Reddy, EurAsia Group
Producing Synthetic Fuels Out of CO2 Using High Temperature
NewCO2Fuels Innovative Technology
David Banitt, NewCO2Fuels (Israel)
Flexible Integration of the CO2 Allam Cycle with Coal Gasification for
Low-Cost, Emission-Free Electricity Generation
Xijia Lu, 8 Rivers Capital (USA)
Safe Carbon Sequestration is a Reality
Dwight Peters, Schlumberger Carbon Services (USA)
5:30 p.m.
Adjourn for the Day (Evening Open)
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
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 2014 Update
Christopher Higman, Higman Consulting GmbH (Germany)
8:15 a.m.
Session 12: New Gasification Technologies
Session Chair:
Low Pollutant Emissions Gasification Technology for Coal-Fired Power
Plants
Thomas Hewson, ClearStack Power, LLC (USA)
Free Radical Gasification
Gordon Fraser, Responsible Energy Inc. (Canada)
Gasification of Biomass with In Situ CO2 Capture and Separation with a
200 KWth Pilot Plant
Heiko Dieter, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
TRIG™ for Low Rank Coal: A New Perspective on IGCC
Qianlin Zhuang, KBR, Inc.
9:45 a.m.
Break – Exhibit Hall
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10:15 a.m.
Session 13: Advances in Gasification
Session Chair:
Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of a Pilot-Scale Transport
Gasifier Using Mississippi Lignite Feedstock
Jenny Tennant, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department
of Energy (USA)
ITM Oxygen
Charles Woods, Air Products (USA)
Expansion for Fuel Flexibility and Application to Commercial Projects for
Mitsubishi–Hitachi IGCC/Gasification Technology
Koichi Sakamoto, Mitsubishi-Hitachi (Japan)
Understanding Long Term Performance of Biomass-Derived Syngas
Cleaning Catalysts
Kim Magrini, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of
Energy (USA)
11:15 a.m.
Session 14: Plasma Gasification for Waste
Session Chair
Next Generation Plasma Waste to Energy Systems
Abe Haspel, Cogent Energy Systems, (USA)
Title: TBD
Sunshine Kaidi Holding Company (invited)
Title-TBD
Andy Allen, Foster Wheeler (United Kingdom)
12:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Conference Adjourns
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