August 5-7, 2019
August 8 Industrial/Institutional Air Modeling Workshop
Holiday Inn By The Bay, Portland, Maine
Amy Marshall, AECOM, Conference Chair
For 15 years Regulatory development has been the preoccupation of most of industry. Technology development has been at the forefront as the regulations were driving emissions lower and lower. The question of how do I comply with what looks to be impossible was on almost everyone’s mind. As a result almost anything except emergency requirements was deferred until after MACT compliance. Now that date is two years past, the economy is growing and ten years of deferred projects are moving forward. One company had 27 projects in one state that were in need of permits.
This year’s conference will focus on a plant’s environmental permits and what it takes to get it, comply with it and live with it – from compliance technologies to requirements and interpretations. This information is what every environmental engineer needs to know before they apply for it; and, what every power plant manager or someone directly connected to the operating facility should know before they push the start button for any energy generator – even before reading the safety and operating instructions. The old days of the annual compliance test are gone. The ability to prove compliance 24/7 is here to stay.
How do you do that? That is what this conference is all about – finding the best and most cost effective ways to improve your overall plant performance, the environment and your sustainability and financial reporting requirements.
| Monday, August 5, 2019 | |
| 11:30 – 5:00 | CONFERENCE AND FORUMS REGISTRATION / Lobby |
| Concurrent Owners’ Only, Equipment, Engineering & Environmental Service Suppliers’ Only Forum |
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| 1:30 – 3:15 | Informal “Owners’ Only” Shirt Sleeves Session Introduction by Facilitator, David Brau, Ingredion Incorporated |
| CIBO’s “Owners’ Only” Forum for facility owners and operators will discuss Industrial Boiler performance, equipment operation, technology, and management issues under today’s changing environment. The emphasis will be placed on the changing world of compliance and permitting, new powerhouse requirements and operations, labor availability, training, meeting social and public environmental demands and enforcement, handling uncertainty and assessing industry needs. | |
| 1:30 – 3:15 | Informal “Equipment Suppliers, Engineering & Environmental Service Consultants’ Only” Shirt Sleeves Session Introduction by Facilitator: Kristine Davies, Trinity Consultants Inc. |
| CIBO’s Suppliers Only Shirt Sleeve Session for industrial boiler equipment suppliers, engineers and environmental service suppliers will be held concurrent with the Owners Only Session. The focus will be on what is keeping you up at night — the changing owner, operator environment and the new environmental needs of today’s owners; what is needed from them to address new powerhouse requirements; labor and service support qualifications and training; who is the primary contact, time availability; meeting environmental demands, handling uncertainty and assessing industry needs. | |
| 3:30 – 5:00 | REVIEW OF CONCURRENT FORUM DISCUSSIONS, Moderator: Amy Marshall, AECOM |
| A joint session of the boiler owners and operators and equipment suppliers, engineers and service suppliers is convened to present to all conference participants a summary of the discussions at the Monday afternoon closed forums. Time is allowed 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 at this time. | |
| 5:00 | Shirt Sleeve Sessions Adjourn |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Welcome Mixer and Exhibits |
| Tuesday, August 6, 2019 | |
| 7:00 – 5:00 | Conference Registration / Lobby |
| 7:00 – 8:15 | Hot Breakfast / Casco Bay Hall |
| 7:30 | Death by a Thousand Cuts, Kristine Davies, Trinity Consultants, Inc. |
| 8:30 | Meeting Convenes |
| 8:30 | Introduction Amy Marshall, Conference Chair, AECOM |
| 8:35 | Welcome |
| 8:45 | ENVIRONMENTAL RULES, REGULATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR |
| 8:45 | Air Quality Trends, Background and Projections |
| 9:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:00 | EPA Industrial/Institutional Regulatory Update, TBD, US EPA |
| 11:00 | State SIP Requirements and Projections for the North East States, TBD, OTC |
| 11:45 | LUNCH & EXHIBITS / Casco Bay Hall |
| 1:00 | Overview and Status of Environmental Litigation, TBD |
| 1:45 | Federalism and the State/Government Relationship – US EPA Region 1, TBD |
| 2:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 2:30 | NSR Panel – Real Projects – Real Solutions – Real Interpretations |
| 5:00 | Meeting Adjourns |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Reception and Exhibits / Casco Bay Hall |
| Wednesday, August 7, 2019 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 | Hot Breakfast / Casco Bay Hall |
| 8:00 | MEETING RECONVENES Amy Marshall, AECOM, Conference Chairman |
| 8:00 | So You Need a Permit – Working with your State Permitting Authority, Eric Hallman? |
| 8:30 | Strategies to Decrease Emissions & Avoid PSD, TBD |
| 9:00 | Dissecting Your Permit – What do you have to do?, Tom Webster, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company |
| 9:30 | Coffee Break |
| 9:45 | Monitoring (Permit etc,), Dan Todd, Air Quality Services, LLC |
| 10:15 | Fence Line Monitoring, Joseph (Joe) Macak III, Mostardi Platt |
| 10:45 | Case Studies in Ambient Air Monitoring, Rick Osa, ERM |
| 11:15 | Reporting & Record Keeping, TBD, Grain Processing Corporation |
| 11:45 | Questions for morning session |
| 12:00 | Lunch / Casco Bay Hall |
| 1:00 | MEETING RECONVENES |
| 1:00 | Emission Control Technology Update – Getting it done! |
| 1:00 | Control Systems 1&2, Gerald (Jerry) Hunt, Lhoist North America |
| 1:30 | Control Systems 1&2, TBD, Valmet. |
| 2:00 | Sampling and Analysis (BIG DATA Stack testing versus Continuous), TBD |
| 3:00 | Finding the right testing company & verification, Rob Mead, Ingredion Incorporated. |
| 3:00 | COFFEE BREAK as needed |
| 3:15 | The World of Permitting for Water and Land Utilization |
| 3:15 | Intake Structures, TBD |
| 3:45 | Effluent Guidelines & NPDS Permits, TBD |
| 4:30 | Emission Control Technology Update (2 or 3), Kevin Dougherty, Fuel Tech Inc. |
| 5:00 | TBD, Sean McMenamin, Nationwide Boiler Incorporated |
| 5:15 | Panel/Q&A & Meeting Recap , Amy Marshall, Chair, AECOM |
| 5:30 | Meeting Adjourns |
Industrial/Institutional Air Modeling Workshop
| Thursday, August 8, 2019 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 | Registration / Lobby Hot Breakfast |
| 8:00 | Workshop Moderator: Amy Marshall, AECOM |
| Introduction | |
| 8:00 | Overview of Title V and State SIP Modeling Requirements, Jeff Underhill, New Hampshire DES |
| 8:45 | The Models Overview: Inputs, Outputs, Assumptions, Capabilities & Limitations, Why you don’t do this yourself, Kristine Davies, Trinity Consultants Inc. |
| 9:30 | Developing a Modeling Strategy and Plan, TBD |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break as needed |
| 10:15 | Conducting a Successful Modeling Analysis, Rich Hamel, ERM |
| 10:45 | Innovative Modeling Approaches and New Model Development, Bob Paine, AECOM |
| 11:30 | Regulatory Developments Impacting Modeling – What’s Next?, TBD |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Workshop Resumes |
| 1:00 | Modeling Case Studies – Panel Discussion with the Modelers |
| 3:00 | Other Topics, Questions or Concerns |
| 3:30 | Concluding Statements |
| CONFERENCE ADJOURNS
2.3 CEUs will be awarded for attendance at all sessions without Thursday Workshop. |
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