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Fluid Bed XX Conference
May 21-23, 2007
Embassy Suites, Lexington, Kentucky

If you are an FBC plant manager or own, operate, supply equipment or provide services for FBC, coal, waste fuel or biomass systems, or someone looking for a new boiler or power plant to burn solid or waste fuels, and meet Boiler MACT, this is the conference for you.

How Do You Meet Boiler MACT, CAIR, CAMR, Climate Change and Regional Haze with New and Existing Units and Burn Solid Fuel? Are Fuel and Ash Handling and Management a Concern?

With Natural Gas holding in the $7.00/MMBtu - Plus range and looking to cost more than 8.00/MMBtu at the slightest sneeze in weather conditions, solid fuel, alternative fuels, and renewable fuels, like biomass, are growing in popularity - "Back to the Future". However, unlike the past, the number of people who understand the fuels and how to convert them to efficient, effective and usable energy are much more difficult to find. Today’s Fluidized Bed Technology may be the only combustion technology capable of meeting almost all state and federal environmental requirements when using locally available and lower cost alternative fuels effectively for the small to middle size utility, Independent Power Producer (IPP) and Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) communities.

This year’s conference brings the current equipment designers, operators, and support personnel together to better understand the state of the industry, and continue the owners’ only and manufacturers’ & suppliers’ only forums with a joint review and presentation in the general session. Along with this, the conference will include: the presentation of the results of the reformatted CIBO Annual FBC Survey; the latest FBC technology and permitting developments; and a tour of East Kentucky Power’s newest generation FBC boiler facility outside Maysville, KY. Special emphasis will be placed on the fuel and ash storage and handling operations and systems. This should be a direct benefit to anyone currently using solid and biomass fuels. Special fundamentals sessions will be presented for those who want to learn or review what a Fluid Bed Boiler is, how it works and what can be done to optimize its’ performance.

2 0 0 7  P R O G R A M

Jay Hofmann Trinity Consultants, Inc. Chairman Communication Education & Outreach Committee

John S. Hall Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P. Conference Chairman

Monday, May 21, 2007
11:00 AM	Conference Registration Opens
11:00 - 2:30 PM	Registration, Owners’ Forum Equipment & Service Suppliers’ Forum
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
12:30 PM	Optimizing Circulating Fluidized Bed Boilers Workshop Roger A. Leimbach, Metso Power and Automation
Concurrent Owners’ Only, Equipment & Service Supplier's Only Forum
2:30	Informal "Owners' Only" Shirt Sleeves Session Facilitator: John S. Hall, Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P.
2:45	Presentation of 2006 FBC Owners' Survey & Benchmarking Results Jack A. Fuller, West Virginia University
3:00	Coffee Break
3:50	General Discussions Agenda to be Developed by Participants
CIBO’s "Owners’ Only" Forum will convene for the eleventh time on the Monday afternoon prior to the conference. Facility owners and operators will discuss Fluidized Bed performance, equipment operation, technology and management issues under today’s changing environment.
2:30	Informal "Equipment and Service Suppliers' Only" Shirt Sleeves Session Facilitator: Robert (Bob) Bibb, B&A Inc., Engineers
CIBO’s fifth shirt-sleeve session for equipment and service suppliers convenes. The participants will generate their own agenda and discussion points. One of the items to be discussed could be the development of an outline for a Guide for the selection and application for Fluidized Bed Boilers in the United States today.
3:00	Coffee Break - as needed
Each group will appoint people from the group to report on and review the forum discussions in the open conference session on Tuesday morning.
5:00	Shirt Sleeve Sessions Adjourn
5:30 - 7:00	Registration, Welcome Mixer and Exhibits

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00	The XX CIBO FBC Meeting Convenes Introduction by Conference Chairman John S. Hall, Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P.
8:15	Presentation of 2006 FBC Owners’ Survey Results Jack A. Fuller, West Virginia University
9:00	Review of Concurrent Forum Discussions
9:00	Owners’ Panel Review and Report and Equipment Suppliers’; A/E and Service Suppliers’ Panel Review and Report
Two separate panels, FBC owners, and equipment suppliers, A/E and service suppliers are convened to present to all conference participants a summary of the discussions at the Monday afternoon closed forums. Sufficient time is allowed to provide for audience participation, clarification and interactive issue development, problem solutions and further needs identification. Additional topics may be brought up from the general participants for discussion.
10:00	General Discussion and Summary Coffee Break - as needed
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IMPACTING BOILERS PANEL
10:30	Ann Curnow, Sebesta Blomberg and Associates, Inc. William C. Campbell III, ENSR International Robert G. Fraser, ENSR International Mike L. King, Black & Veatch Corporation
Noon	Lunch and Exhibits Luncheon Speaker - Update on Ash Characterization and Regulations for Beneficial Use. Kimery C. Vories, Office of Surface Mining (invited)
1:30	Meeting Reconvenes
MEETING TODAY’S AND TOMORROW’S CHALLENGES WITH FBC TECHNOLOGY
1:30	FBC Manufacturers Panel (FBC Design for Today’s Fuels) Scott L. Darling, Alstom Power, Inc. Randy Lombardi, The Babcock & Wilcox Company Robert Deneault, Metso Power and Automation
2:30	Limestone & Sorbant Consideration for FBC Systems Howard Fitzgerald, Chemical Lime Company
3:00	Multi-Pollutant Reduction in CFB Systems Dave Judy, MobotecUSA, LLC
3:30	Coffee Break
3:45	Boiler MACT Dust Emissions Control for a Fluidized Bed Cogeneration Electric Utility Ron Dechene, Auburn Systems, Inc.
4:15	Bubbling Fluid Bed Vs. Stoker Firing John Defusco, The Babcock & Wilcox Company
4:45	Matching Ash Systems to CFB Boilers & Fuels Bob Walsh, ALSTOM Power, Inc. Gary Mooney, ALSTOM Power, Inc.
5:15	CFB System Maintenance and Performance Case Studies Carl Johnk, TUV SUD Industry Service, Inc.
5:45	Meeting Adjourns
5:45 - 7:15 PM	Networking Reception & Exhibits

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
7:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00	Conference Resumes
8:00	Fuel Transportation & Delivery Alternatives and Concerns Vanta E. Coda, Consultant
8:45	Fuel & Ash Storage and Handling State-of-the-Art: From Receipt to Disposal Steve Engrom, Mathew Norgard & Simon Shipp, Stock Equipment Company
10:45	Coffee Break (As needed)
10:45	Real World Experience with Biomass and Renewable Fuels Graeme Donaldson, Colmac Clarion, Inc. Harvie Beavers, Colmac Clarion, Inc.
11:15	Plant Tour Overview John Twitchell, East Kentucky Power Cooperative
12:00	Board Bus for Tour (Box Lunch provided) East Kentucky Power
5:00	Arrive at Lexington Airport
5:30	Arrive at Hotel
6:00-7:00PM	No Host Stragglers' Reception

Benefits of Attending the Conference: Meet with other owners and operators of fluid bed boilers to discuss technical, management and operational subjects. Discuss the latest national issues, concerns, and solutions regarding owning, building and operating FBC Units. Review the CIBO annual FBC survey and be able to benchmark your operations with the industry. Hear the latest business and technical developments and concerns of the equipment and service suppliers. Receive a CD of the conference Proceedings with the Annual Survey report. Receive 1.5 CEU’s from CIBO for attendance. Who Should Attend: Plant managers, owners and operators seeking to improve performance, understand current and future management, technical, regulatory trends and activities impacting operations, bottom line return, future operations and growth. Architects, engineers, fuel suppliers, technology developers, equipment suppliers, operations and support services’ representatives, state and federal regulators and research personnel.

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