GASIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE 2013
OCTOBER 13-16, 2013
DRAFT PROGRAM
Sunday, October 13, 2013
1:30-4:00 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Gasification 101
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Pre-Conference Workshop: Project Finance
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Fall Membership Meeting
4:00-7:00 p.m.
Conference Registration
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Opening Reception
Monday, October 14, 2013
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Check-In
Continental Breakfast—Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
Michael DeLallo, CH2M Hill, GTC Chairman
Jeff Phillips, Electric Power Research Institute
Alison Kerester, GTC Executive Director
8:15 a.m.
Keynote Address
Global Energy Markets
Robert Ineson, Managing Director, North American Natural Gas,
IHS CERA
9:00 a.m.
Session 1: Global Gasification Projects & Technology Updates
Session Chair: Mike DeLallo, CH2M Hill, GTC Board Chairman
E-Gas Technology: 2013 Outlook
Phil Amick, CB&I
GE Project Updates: Solutions for the Global Market
Jason Crew, GE Energy
SES Gasification: Update on Projects and Initiatives
William Preston Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc.
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10:00 a.m.
Break—Exhibit Hall
10:45 a.m.
Session 2: Global Gasification Projects & Technology Updates
Session Chair: Phil Amick, CB&I
Integrated Shell Gasification Value Proposition
Sze-Hong Chua and Kwi-Cheng Lee, Shell Global Solutions
KBR Gasification Technology & Project Updates
Faisal Mohmand, Kellogg, Brown & Root
Westinghouse Plasma is the Most Advanced Gasification Technology for the
Conversion of Waste to Power, Biofuels and Fossil Fuel Replacement
Walter Howard, Alter NRG Corp./Westinghouse Plasma Corp.
Siemens Gasification: Progress and Innovation
Harry Morehead, Siemens Energy, Inc.
12:00 p.m.
Lunch—Exhibit Hall
1:30 p.m.
Session 3- Gasification for Heat and Power
Session Chair: Jason Crew, GE Energy
Duke-Edwardsport Plant
Jack Stultz, Duke Energy
Texas Clean Energy Project: Status & Lessons Learned
Eric Redman, Summit Power Group, LLC
Large Scale Gasification of Wood Waste and Sorted Municipal Solid Waste
William Partanen, Metso Corporation
Update on the Kemper Project
Randall Rush, Southern Company
2:45 p.m.
Session 4: Global Gasification Projects & Technology Updates
Session Chair: Faisal Mohmand, Kellogg Brown & Root
Tailor-made Gasification Solutions: ThyssenKrupp Uhde's HTW and PRENFLO
Technologies
Karsten Radtke, ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH
Compact Gasifier and Dry Solids Pump Development Status
Alan Darby, Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne
An Update on Clean Energy R&D Projects and Programs at RTI International
David Denton, Research Triangle Institute International
3:45 p.m.
Break—Exhibit Hall
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4:30 p.m.
Session 5: Gasification for Hydrogen
Session Chair: Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association
Hydrogen Energy California Project Update
Jim Loney, Fluor
Evaluation of Hydrogen Production at Refineries: The New UOP SeparALL™
Process
William Echt, UOP, A Honeywell Company
Molten Salt Gasification of Refinery Waste to Produce Hydrogen
Lyman Frost, Western Hydrogen LTD
5:30 p.m.
Adjourn for the Day
6:00-7:00 p.m. Reception—Exhibit Hall
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Check In
Continental Breakfast—Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
TBD
8:30 a.m.
Session 6: Polygeneration (Refining, Chemicals, SNG & Transport Liquids)
Session Chair: William Preston, Synthesis Energy Systems
Jamnagar Gasification Project – An Update
Partha Maitra, Reliance Industries Ltd.
A Construction Update on SNG Plant in Korea
Jin-Kyeong Kim POSCO E&C
Gasification and CFB Technology Integration for Combined Power and
Chemicals Production
Rosa Domenichini, Foster Wheeler
9:30 a.m.
Session 7: Advances in Coal Gasification
Session Chair: Eric Redman, Summit Power Group, LLC
Update of ECUST OMB Coal Gasification Process
Zhijie Zhou, East China University of Science and Technology
Air Separation Units for IGCC and Other Gasification: Learning by Doing in U.S.
and Asia.
David McCarthy, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Lurgi FBDB Coal Gasification and Its Co-Products: A High Value Economic Asset
Max-Michael Weiss, Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions/Lurgi GmbH
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Development of High Efficiency Oxy-Fuel IGCC Systems
Yuso Oki, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, (Japan)
10:50 a.m.
Break—Exhibit Hall
11:30 a.m.
Session 8: Biomass and Waste Gasification I
Session Chair: Steve Jenkins, CH2M Hill
Waste Management’s Perspective on the State of Gasification
Joe Vaillancourt, Waste Management
Microwave Gasification for Biomass Conversion
David Haberman, IFDH, LLC
Smaller Scale FT Enables Biomass-to-Liquids
Jeff McDaniel, Velocys, Inc.
INEOS Bio
Dan Cummings, INEOS Bio
12:45 p.m.
Lunch—Exhibit Hall
2:15 p.m.
Session 9- Biomass and Waste Gasification II
Session Chair:
Bio-based Chemicals from Waste Carbon-derived Syngas
Lisa Dyson, Kiverdi, Inc.
Fuel and Chemical Products from Biomass Syngas
Patricia Gillenwater, LanzaTech, Inc.
Performance of 3ton/day Biomass Fed Bubbling Fluidized Bed Gasification
System
Prashanth Buchireddy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
3:15 p.m.
Session 10-Underground Coal Gasification
Session Chair: Julie Lauder, Underground Coal Gasification Association
Linc Energy UCG today and a look towards the future
Paul Ludwig, Linc Energy, Ltd.
Keyseam UCG Technology Developments
Burl Davis, Carbon Energy, Ltd.
Australian Syngas Association (Invited)
4:15 p.m.
Break—Exhibit Hall
4:45 p.m.
Session 11: Plasma Gasification
Session Chair:
Commercial Approach & Experience: A Case Study
Alisdair McLean, Plasco Energy Group
Plasma-Arc Gasification via Graphite Electrodes
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Hsien Wu, PEAT International, Inc.
Converting Waste into Valuable Resources With The Gasplasma™ Process
Rolf Stein, Advanced Plasma Power
5:30 p.m.
Adjourn for the Day
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
7:00 a.m.
Conference Registration and Check In
Continental Breakfast—Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m.
State of the Gasification Industry-the Updated Worldwide Gasification
Database
Christopher Higman, Higman Consultancy
8:15 a.m.
Session 12: Advances in Gasification Technology I
Session Chair: Jenny Tennant, DOE/NETL
System Integration and Water Balance Issues in Polygeneration Gasification
Plants
Tom Maramba, SKE&C USA, Inc.
Ceramics the Future Cleaning SynGas
Mark Jellicoe, Tenmat, Ltd.
Demonstration of Tunable Diode Laser-Based In-Situ Monitoring of Syngas
Composition for Pressurized Entrained-Flow Coal Gasification
Kevin Whitty, University of Utah/Stanford University
Innovativeness and Development of Tsinghua Gasification Technology
Jiansheng Zhang, Tsinghua University (China)
9:45 a.m.
Break-Exhibit Hall
10:15 a.m.
Session 13: Advances in Gasification Technology II
Session Chair:
Coal Milling & Drying for the IGCC Plant Taen Coal in Korea
Carsten Schoessow, Loesche GmbH
Investigation of Using Liquid CO2 for Feeding Low Rank Coal to Gasifiers
Jose Marasigan, Electric Power Research Institute
Using SEWGS and CrystaSulf™ to Manage CO2 and H2S from Coal Gasification
at High Pressure
Bill Steen, URS Corporation
Pilot-Scale Demonstration of Solar Gasification of Carbonaceous Feedstocks
Christian Wieckert, Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland)
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11: 30 a.m.
Session 14: Advances in Gasification Technology III
Session Chair: Jeff Phillips, Electric Power Research Institute
Research Efforts at the National Energy Technology Laboratory to Improve
Gasifier Performance
James Bennett, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Advanced IGCC with Partial Carbon Capture
Stephen Scott, Jacobs Engineering
Development of Partial/Non-slagging Entrained-bed Coal Gasifier to Lower
Capital Cost
Yongseung Yun, Institute for Advanced Engineering, (Republic of Korea)
Drop-in Gasoline from Wood in an Integrated Biorefinery: Pilot Operations
Under Way
Andrew Kramer, Gas Technology Institute
12:45 p.m.
Conference Adjourns
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