| Jay Hofmann Trinity Consultants, Inc. Chairman Communication Education & Outreach Committee |
Robert Bibb B&A Inc., Engineers |
Gary L. Merritt Inter-Power/AhlCon Partners, L.P. |
| Conference Co-Chairmen | ||
FBC and boiler owners and suppliers gather to discuss saving money and improving cash flow in scary economic times -- not banking on increasing production/sales but on efficiency, alternative fuels, performance improvement, and immediate cash flow enhancement with information, knowledge and low capital intensive upgrades.
Since 1985, 25 years ago, when CIBO hosted its first FBC conference in Washington, DC, boiler owners, engineering firms, regulators and suppliers have gathered each year (twice in conjunction with ASME's international FBC conference) to discuss the design, applicability, operation and performance of fluidized bed combustion units to improve overall performance and operations in times of changing environmental regulations, energy demand and fuel availability and acceptability. This year's XXIII CIBO FBC Conference marks a quarter century of networking and technology transfer helping to bring the technology to where we are today for industrial, institutional and utility facilities.
With our new EPA administration pushing more stringent regulations for Air, Water, Land (Ash) and Energy via Climate Change Regulation many are thinking of alternative fuels and energy efficiency as a way to save money, stay in business and comply with environmental rules.
Today's Fluidized Bed Technology is a combustion technology capable of meeting most current state and federal environmental requirements when using locally available, lower cost solid fuels across the full range of boiler sizes.
The most significant question today is: will it be that way tomorrow? Understanding the capabilities and application of these systems and ways to improve efficiency and add or increase the use of Bio-fuels is imperative to lowering costs, improving cash flow and helping to secure a reasonable future.
If you own an FBC unit or burn solid fuel and want to save money, improve cash flow and meet the people who know, this is the year to come to Jacksonville, Florida for the XXIII CIBO FBC Conference - it's not just for FBC owners anymore.
| Monday, May 24, 2010 | |
| 11:00 - 5:30 | Registration, Owners' Forum Equipment & Service Suppliers' Forum |
| LUNCH ON YOUR OWN | |
| 1:00 | Fundamentals of CFB Combustion and CFB Design |
| Concurrent Owners' Only, Equipment & Service Supplier's Only Forum | |
| 1:45 | Informal "Owners' Only" Shirt Sleeves Session
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| 2:00 - 2:30 | Presentation of 2009 FBC Owners' Survey & Benchmarking Results
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| Coffee Break | |
| 2:30 - 3:30 | General Discussions
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| CIBO's "Owners' Only" Forum will convene for the 14th 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. | |
| 1:45 | Informal "Equipment and Service Suppliers' Only" Forum Facilitator: John Hall, tentative |
| CIBO's eighth forum 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. | |
| 3:30 | Coffee Break - as needed |
| 3:45 - 5:00 | REVIEW OF CONCURRENT FORUM DISCUSSIONS
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| 5:30 - 7:00 | Registration, Networking and Exhibits |
| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Conference Registration & Hot/Full Breakfast |
| 7:15 - 8:00 | Environmental Update Workshop Overview and Air Permitting Issues |
| 8:00 | The XXIII CIBO FBC MEETING CONVENES Introduction by Conference Chairman
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| 8:15 | Presentation of 2009 FBC Owners' Survey Results
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| 8:45 | Regulatory Panel CAIR II and Utility Boiler MACT Climate Change and GHG Reporting
William (Bill) Campbell, AECOM Environment EPA and CCBs
Regulatory Compliance Cost
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| 10:00 | Coffee Break - as needed |
| 10:15 | Presentation and Panel Discussion on Alternative Fuels
Peter Kline, Evergreen Community Power John Thalhauser, Archer Daniels Midland Company TBD, Georgia Pacific |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | Lunch and Exhibits |
| 1:30 - 4:00 | OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE and OPTIMIZATION Moderator: John Malloy, AC Power Colver Power Project
Steve McCaffrey, Green Back Energy Combustion Airflow Measurement & Control on CFB Boilers Steve Storm, Storm Technologies Case Study - Boiler Air & Limestone Optimization Fred Farabaugh, AC Power Colver Title TBD Matt Dooley, ALSTOM Power, Inc. |
| Coffee Break (As needed) | |
| 4:30 - 5:15 | ABSORBENTS
TBD, Solvay Chemicals Howard Fitzgerald, Lhoist North America |
| 5:15 | Meeting Adjourns |
| 5:30 - 7:00 | Networking Reception & Exhibits |
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010 | |
| 7:00 | Hot/Full Breakfast |
| 8:00 - 10:00 | BACKEND NOx, SOx and TOXICS Emission Control Technologies, SP/Amerex NOx Reductions, SOx Reductions and sorbent optimization with the Nalco Mobotec ROFA/Rotamix System on two 173MW CFBs Jay Crilley, NALCO Mobotec |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Overview of the Plants/JEA and Rayonier
Debra Lane, Rayonier |
| 11:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 | Board Bus for JEA (1:15) and Rayonier (3:15) |
| 12:45 | Bus leaves for tour |
| 5:00 | Arrive at Jacksonville Airport |
| 5:30 | Arrive at Hotel |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | No Host Stragglers' Reception |
Hotel Cut-off date is
May 3, 2010