Speaker:
Thomas F. McGowan, PE
TMTS Associates, Inc.

Thomas McGowan, president of TMTS Associates Inc., has 30 years of experience in combustion, air pollution control, and solids handling.

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Duration: 60 minutes
Price $129.00

Alternate Fuels and Fuel Switching for the CPI

THE EMPHASIS of this presentation is on practical engineering
You will be provided with information that you can directly apply in your day-to-day work regarding Alternate Fuels and Fuel Switching.

YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT:
Fuel costs are up and industry is once again working on keeping their fuel bills in line. One solution to the problem is fuel switching and use of alternate, sometimes overlooked, fuels. There are many alternate fuels available in addition to gas, oil and coal. These include used/recycled oil, internally generated liquid waste, tires, wood/biomass, ag waste, solid waste, coke, and used cooking oil. Some combustion systems were set up for multifuel firing, while others can be refitted and adapted to new fuels.

Heat recovery is the other option, adding heatexchangers to current processes, or changing over to new types of equipment, e.g., from an elevated flare to a thermal oxidizer with a heat recovery boiler to recoup useful heat.

This Webcast covers the heating value and other properties of alternate fuels, the changes required to fire them, and options for heat recovery. It also addresses in brief the regulatory aspects of fuel switching and impacts on emissions and the basics of calculating Greenhouse Gas emissions.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The intended audience is plant managers, environmental engineers, chief engineer, operations chief, purchasing personnel, consultants, A&E firm personnel, energy equipment firms, CEOs and management, those involved in regulating, purchasing, designing and operating alternate fuel systems and related air pollution control systems. A scientific, engineering or operations background would be beneficial to the attendees. No prerequisites are required.

Types of firms with need of this course are utilities, chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical firms, pulp and paper, stone clay and glass, general manufacturing, waste treatment firm with interest in thermal processes, equipment manufacturers engineering firms, consultants and regulators.

Why would they attend the course? Because they will get a good understanding of alternate fuels, their effect on combustion, air pollution control, the basics of reducing greenhouse gases, and how to cost fuel switching projects.