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2005 News

Table of Contents

ACERC & ICES Nineteenth Annual Technical Conference

Combustion Short Course 2005

ACERC Eighteenth Annual Technical Conference

John Zink Award

Black Liquor Colloquium

Industry and University Visitors

ICRC Conference


ACERC & 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:

NOx Reduction (Thursday morning)
Mercury Issues (Thursday afternoon)
ACERC Student Posters (Thursday evening)
Comprehensive Modeling (Friday morning)
Fuel Reactivity & Soot Formation (Friday afternoon)

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.


John Zink Award

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)

  • Adam Wehrmeister
  • Clinton Sheffield
  • Emilio Llamozas

Far left: Chemical Engineering Department Chair Dr. Vincent Wilding

Far right: Dr. Joseph Smith, former Senior Researcher of John Zink


Black Liquor Colloquium

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:

Problem Definition and Industrial Perspective
Mill Integration and Economics
Recovery System Design
Black Liquor Conversion 1 - Drying and Pyrolysis
Black Liquor Conversion 2 - Char Conversion Processes
Materials and Corrosion
Deposition and Ash Behavior
Modeling

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.

 Company City / Country 
Abo Akademi University
Finland
ALSTOM Canada
Canada
Babcock & Wilcox Co.
Barberton, OH
Canmet Energy Technology Centre
Canada
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
Chemrec AB
Sweden
ETC
Sweden
Helsinki University of Technology
Finland
Institute of Paper Science & Technology
Atlanta, GA
Jaakko Poyry Oy
Finland
Jacobs Engineering Group
Greenville, SC
Manufacturing and Technology Conversion Intl.
Baltimore, MD
MeadWestVaco Corporation
Chillicothe, OH
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Paprican
Canada
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Process Simulation Ltd (PSL)
Canada
Pulp & Paper Research Institute of Canada
Canada
Reaction Engineering International
Salt Lake City, UT
Sandia National Labs
Livermore, CA
Southern Research Institute
Birmingham, AL
STFI
Sweden
T.M. Grace Company
Appleton, WI
The BOC Group
Tucker, GA
U.S. Department of Energy
Morgantown, WV
University of Maine
Orono, ME
University of Toronto
Canada
University of Umea
Sweden
Weyerhaeuser Company
Federal Way, WA


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.

Visitor
Company
Position
Date(s) Visited
Bryan Booth
Wheelabrator Shasta Energy Company
Operations Superintendent
Feb. 27, 2003
George Woodward
Wheelabrator Shasta Energy Company
Plant Manager
Feb. 27, 2003
Ken Nichols

Weyerhaeuser

Sr. Engineering Specialist
Feb. 27, 2003
Hyun Dong-Lee
KEPRI
Advanced Power Generation and Combustion Group

April 1, 2003

Young-Zoo Kim
KEPRI
Advanced Power Generation and Combustion Group
April 1, 2003
Del Raymond
Weyerhaeuser
Director, Strategic Engineering Alternatives
May 12, 2003
Helle Junker
Tech-Wise
Project Manager
June 2-11, 2003
Stefan Røikjær
Tech-Wise
Power Plant Engineer
June 2-10, 2003
Søren Kær
Aalborg University
Professor of Chemical Engineering
June 2-10, 2003
Steve Berg
Aalborg University
Research Assistant
June 2-10, 2003
Ejvind Larsen
Tech-Wise
Power Plant Engineer
June 2-10, 2003
George Woodward
Wheelabrator
Plant Manager
Sept. 17, 2003
Bill Carlson
Wheelabrator
Vice President, General Manager, Alternate Energy Group
Sept. 17, 2003

Roger Anderson

Wheelabrator
Director, Engineer
Sept. 17, 2003
John Moore
Wheelabrator
Operations Manager
Sept. 17, 2003
Daniel Radebaugh
Independent Consultant
Former Wheelabrator Plant Manager
Sept. 17, 2003
Rick Wessel
Babcock and Wilcox
Advisory Engineer
Sept. 30, 2003
Chris Shaddix

Sandia National Laboratories Livermore

Principle Member of Tech Staff

Sept. 30, 2003

Chris Verrill
Institute of Paper Science and Technology
Senior Associate Engineer
Sept. 30, 2003
Ezra Bar-Ziv
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Professor
February 26, 2004

Above: Roger Anderson, Tom Fletcher, Daniel Radebaugh, and John Moore

Above: Chris Verrill, Rick Wessel, Chris Shaddix, and Larry Baxter

ICRC Conference

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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