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Wednesday, September 30, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST
(1:00 – 2:30 PM Central)
Biomass Test Program at Ontario Power Generation
Les Marshall, Sr. Technical Officer, Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Power Generation is exploring the capability to employ biomass fuels to displace coal in the OPG fossil fleet. This presentation will discuss the initial test efforts with agricultural biomass and wood pellets fuels and the expansion of the program to different firing configurations and higher biomass capacity. Two specific case studies are considered. First is Nanticoke GS, an 8 x 500 Mwe station, designed for bituminous coal. Nanticoke has installed a direct injection system capable of providing 50 MWe from biomass. Much of the proof-of-concept testing for biomass was initially conducted at Nanticoke GS. The second site is Atikokan GS, a single 227 MWe unit, designed for lignite. Atikokan is perhaps the best example of the use of the "dedicated milling" concept - the use of coal pulverizers to handle wood pellets. The 2008 test program at Atikokan included operation at full unit load with 100% wood pellet fuel. This presentation will focus on the lessons learned throughout the OPG test program.
A Green Combined Cycle Plant: From Landfill to Power
Walter Serbetci, Engineering Manager, WorleyParsons-Chicago
A case study based on the detailed design of an actual Combined Cycle Plant in which landfill gas is used as the sole fuel for the gas turbines. The most critical component of this plant is the landfill gas treatment system because landfill as harvested does not lend itself to direct combustion in gas turbines. Several physical and chemical scrubbing technologies need to be applied sequentially to bring the landfill gas to gas turbine manufacturer’s specifications. The most efficient and also cost effective landfill treatment system has been determined based on 10 year NPV analysis. The plant economics indicate that despite the high initial cost requirements, when compare to a natural gas fired plant, the pay-back period for this particular plant with the fully regenerable LFG treatment system would be around 14 months.
Ashwani Gupta, Professor, University of Maryland
Biomass: Fundamentals and Applications
Biomass and waste fuels offer great opportunity for use in power plants. However, their use must not adversely impact the performance of the furnace or boiler and also must not impact the emission of various pollutants. Learn fundamental information on the transformation of biomass and solid waste fuels to clean energy. Recent advances in biomass gasification technology will be presented. In addition some examples of showcase demonstration plants will be provided. Examples provided will cover recent successes with the use of biofuels in power plants.
What will you learn?
By attending you will learn:
- The issues to consider when defining your biomass firing program
- Learn about efficient and economical treatment of landfill gas for gas turbine applications and the favorable plant economics when burning more than 4,000 scfm of landfill
- Explore means to use low grade fuels in your boilers or furnaces and save fuel costs and enhance reliability of fuels availability at affordable costs for increased profits. The pay back for the upgrade can be achieved in a very short period of time.
- Reduce environmental compliance costs and environmental impact. Learn how to make impact on achieving cleaner environment even with the use of low grade fuels, biomass and wastes and enhance boiler/furnace life with no fouling and slagging of the furnace/boiler.
- Learn how the recent advances have helped promote rapid implementation of the new technologies successfully in many plants worldwide. Example case studies will also be presented.
- Hear from other users and members of common interest on cost effective use of wastes and biomass in their plants
Who Should Attend?
Who Should Attend from the Plant and Corporate Headquarters:
- Generation Business Managers
- Fuels Managers
- Project Managers
- Operations Managers
- Engineering Managers
- Fuel Handling Managers
- Engineering/Technical Services Managers
- Environmental Compliance Managers
- Plant Engineers
- Business Development Managers
Who Else Should Attend:
- Engineering/Procurement/Construction Companies
- OEM’s
- Fuel Suppliers
- Research & Development Organizations
- Consultants
Speaker Bios:
Les Marshall began his career with Babcock & Wilcox International, where he was involved with commissioning, testing and field R&D, primarily on new units in overseas markets. For the last ten years, he has worked with Ontario Power Generation as a boiler performance specialist. As of 2006, he has been dedicated exclusively to the OPG Biomass Program where his role includes the execution and evaluation of all field testing within the Fossil fleet as well as the technical aspects of the ongoing Biomass program. Les currently serves on the ASME PTC 4.3 Committee (Air Heaters) and is the author of over a dozen technical papers relating to boiler performance and biomass power.
Walter Serbetci holds M.S. and Ph.D degrees both in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. He has over 20 years of engineering experience in thermo-mechanical systems and power plant design.
Prior to joining to WorleyParsons-Chicago as an engineering manager, he has worked at NASA John Glenn Center as a low thrust rockets specialist and consequently at Sargent & Lundy as a gas turbine and combined cycle power plant specialist.
Dr. Serbetci has extensive EPC experience especially on gas turbine and combined cycle plants and in multi-discipline engineering team management.
He was involved in the design and betterment of 30 fossil fuel plants and 3 nuclear power plants and authored 21 publications in the areas of thermal systems and power plant design.
Ashwani Gupta is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and also Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from Sheffield University, UK. He has co-authored three books and over 450 technical papers and edited 10 books. He is a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, SAE, and the Institute of Energy (UK). He is the recipient of AIAA Energy Systems award, and Propellants and Combustion award, the ASME George Westinghouse Gold medal award, James Harry Potter award and James Landis award, Worcester Reed Warner award, and University of Maryland President Kirwan research award and College of Engineering research award. He has also received several best paper awards from AIAA and ASME. He is an associate editor for AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, J. Applied Energy, and co-editor of the Environmental and Energy Engineering series of books published by CRC press.
Mr. Bulpitt is a Senior Research Engineer for the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute. He returned to Georgia Tech in 2004 after twenty five years in the electric utility and environmental consulting fields. He has extensive experience in the areas of business development, energy-related research, power plant/energy plant construction and startup, environmental affairs related to energy plants and heavy industry. In particular, during his six years as Director of Environmental Affairs of Southern Energy (now Mirant Corporation) he was responsible for environmental due diligence related to power plant mergers and acquisitions in the U.S., South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. He was also responsible for overseeing environmental operations in those regions, and was also responsible for permitting of new facilities in those regions. As Director of Business Development for Mirant he was responsible for permitting, construction, and startup of several large combined cycle power plants. Bill is now responsible for research in renewable and transitional energy with utilities and industry including wind farm development and biomass energy resource development.
How does the Webinar work?
The live audio is delivered to your location over the telephone or your computer speakers. The Power-Point presentations are presented over the Internet and are available to print out before the program. This is like a talk-radio program with visuals on the Web. You and your team will be able to have a live Q&A with all the speakers.
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Questions?
If you are having any technical difficulties or need assistance meeting these requirements, please contact our Technical Support Center at 1-866-709-8255 or click here. For content questions regarding this Webinar, contact Carrie Shapiro 713-343-1881 or email carrie@tradefairgroup.com
*ELECTRIC POWER does not offer any refunds for the webinar. All sales are final.
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Walter Serbetci, Engineering Manager, WorleyParsons-Chicago 
