The Biomass Energy Advantage:
Cost Competitive Today and Carbon Neutral For Tomorrow’s Energy and Fuels

“The use of biomass for energy is not a new concept. But there is a right way and a wrong way to implement it in industrial applications. Having seasoned personnel that understand solids handling, for example, is critical in design and specification.”  Thomas F. McGowan, PE, President, TMTS Associates Inc.

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Duration: 90 minutes
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Price: $249.00. Attend from your desktop or conference room. Invite your team to attend at one low price of $249.00 per location.  Each registration comes with access to the archived version of the program and the materials for 1-year.

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ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

Two of the biggest concerns for the chemical process industries today are emerging from the global economic recession and the impact that future carbon regulations will have on recovery. A switch to biomass for fuel today can help ease the burden in your plant on both fronts.
Biomass energy stocks:

• Offer cleaner, renewable ways to produce steam, power and hot gas
• Can greatly reduce operating costs
• Are considered carbon neutral
• Can be turned into both fuels and chemical feedstocks

This Webinar will supply you with all the information needed to chose and implement an energy or fuel production system that matches your organization’s needs

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• What steps to take in converting biomass fuels into energy
• Key relationships for estimating fuel savings and capital, operating and production costs
• How to cut down air pollution emissions when using renewable fuels
• The basics of greenhouse gas calculation methods
• How biomass costs compare to competing alternate fuels, such as reclaimed oil, used tires, cooking oil, solid wastes, coke, coal, gas and oil
• Practical insight on how other CPI facilities are implementing biomass today, including diagrams and photographs of feed prep and material handling, boilers, and air pollution control from actual installations
• How to implement direct combustion of wood and biomass, including types of grates and furnace designs
• How direct combustion of biomass compares to gasification for combustion and for chemical feedstocks
• The potential for new markets in production of liquid fuels and feedstocks from biomass

WHAT IS COVERED?

• Small-to medium-sized wood-fired boilers
• Hot gas generators for drying
• Cogeneration of steam and power
• Fuel supply
• Air pollution control

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

If you spend a quarter of your time in any of the following areas, the Webinar is right for you:

• CPI managers, CEOs and CFOs
• Engineers
• Environmental specialists
• Health and safety professionals
• Plant utility workers
• Engineering firms
• Operating firms
• Consultants and regulators

SPEAKERS

Thomas F. McGowan, PE
President
TMTS Associates Inc.

Tom McGowan has been involved biomass combustion and gasification for more than 30 years. Prior to founding TMTS Associates Inc., an Atlanta firm specializing in thermal systems and air pollution control, he was previously employed by RMT/Four Nines, American Combustion, the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Particulate Solid Research, Inc. His experience includes large scale direct fired industrial wood energy systems, wood gasifiers, combustion of exotic fuels and wastes.

Tom holds an M.S.Ch.E. from Manhattan College in New York City, and a Masters in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech. He is a contributor to Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, has been published widely in technical magazines and journals, and is the editor of Biomass and Alternate Fuel Systems: An Engineering and Economic Guide, published by AIChE and John Wiley & Sons.

Dennis Coughlin
Project Manager
TMTS Associates

Dennis Coughlin works on alternate fuels, power generation from renewable fuels, thermal treatment of solid waste and soils, air pollution control, and material handling. He has over 35 years of progressively more challenging work experience in Senior Management, including P&L responsibility, procurement, application of leading edge technologies, construction management, project engineering, facilities design, and business planning. Specialties include capital and operational costing models, conceptual process system design, development of technical specifications, procurement, including RFQ development, bid evaluations, and final negotiations with suppliers, project management, project scheduling, feasibility studies, and business plans.

Bill Bulpitt, PE
Senior Research Engineer/Strategic Energy Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology

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

Dr. Thomas B. Reed
President
The Biomass Energy Foundation

Tom Reed has almost 55 years of experience in the biomass thermal conversion and high temperature technology and kinetics. He has a PhD from the U of Minnesota in Physical Chemistry and a BS from University, in Physical Chemistry. He has published 21 books, many of them on thermal properties of fuels, gasification. He holds 16 patents, has authored more than 150 papers, and received R&D awards on oil adsorbents and oxygen gasification. He is CEO of the Biomass Energy Foundation and chief scientist for the Biomass Energy Corporation. Previous employment includes MIT, Linde, Shell Oil, and NREL

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