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2005 NewsTable of ContentsACERC & ICES Nineteenth Annual Technical ConferenceCombustion Short Course 2005ACERC Eighteenth Annual Technical ConferenceJohn Zink AwardBlack Liquor ColloquiumIndustry and University VisitorsICRC ConferenceACERC & ICES Nineteenth Annual Technical Conference The 2005 Conference Reservation/Invitation form is now in the mail. If you have not received yours please use the online form. You can fax or mail your reservation to ACERC. Contact information is in the blue column at the left. Link to 2005 Registration Form. The selection of session speakers is now underway. Each speaker will have twenty minutes for presentation and five minutes for questions and answers. If you have been invited to speak please contact Linda with your presentation topic by November 30th. Keepsake Letter Booklet "All Colleagues and Graduate Students of Dr. Smoot are Invited" All colleagues and graduate students of Dr. Smoot are invited to participate in the compilation of a keepsake booklet of letters. The letters written as a tribute to Dr. Smoot will be presented to him at the 2005 ACERC Conference. You may also send pictures or other items that would be appropriate for the booklet. The letters should be written to Dr. Smoot and sent to ACERC, Brigham Young University, 350 Clyde Building, Provo, UT 84602 no later than January 14, 2005. For more information contact Linda at lbosley@byu.edu or 801-422-5162.
ACERC Eighteenth Annual Technical Conference The eighteenth annual ACERC conference was on February 12-13, 2004, at the Provo Marriott Hotel. The five sessions conducted at the Conference are as follows:
A poster session included work from all ACERC projects and from relevant industrial research. For links to presentations and posters that were presented at the Conference click here. Three Chemical Engineering students were honored as the recipients of the John Zink Award in November 2002 at Brigham Young University. A member of Koch Industries, John Zink has more than 300 engineers and technical experts in the areas of fuel handling, combustion processes, environmental controls, and process controls.
Zink Award Recipients (left to right)
Far left: Chemical Engineering Department Chair Dr. Vincent Wilding Far right: Dr. Joseph Smith, former Senior Researcher of John Zink The University of Utah and Brigham Young University sponsored a Colloquium on Black Liquor Combustion and Gasification in Park City, Utah, May 13-16, 2003. The aim of the Colloquium was to bring together experts and scientists from academia and industry to present and discuss issues relating to black liquor combustion and gasification systems. The eight technical sessions covered the following topics:
A poster session included work from all ACERC projects associated with Black Liquor Combustion and Gasification. The following is a list of companies and universities who had representatives at the Colloquium.
Industry and University Visitors Representatives from the combustion industry and researchers from universities come to Brigham Young University and the University of Utah to tour the facilities and learn about the research being conducted by graduate and undergraduate students. The following is a list of visitors, the companies they represent, their positions and the dates they visited ACERC.
Above: Roger Anderson, Tom Fletcher, Daniel Radebaugh, and John Moore
Above: Chris Verrill, Rick Wessel, Chris Shaddix, and Larry Baxter Larry Baxter, Dale Tree, Hong Lu, Elvin Ip and Jud Wooters attended the International Chemical Recovery Conference (ICRC) in Charleston, SC June 7-10, 2004. The following is a list of links to the papers and posters they presented there. Effects of Particle Shape and Size on Black Liquor and Biomass Reactivity: Paper and Poster
Sponsors of the Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center Air Liquide * Alliant Energy Corporation * Alstom Power * Department of Defense * Department of Energy * Environmental Protection Agency * John Zink * National Energy Technology Laboratory * Reaction Engineering International |
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