gasification 2016

Gasification 2016 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

23rd-24th March 2016

LEADERS IN CONFERENCE PLAN-NING & PRODUCTION

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ACI’s 5th annual Gasification summit will once again bring togeth-

er senior executives from industry and research to discuss the

latest commercial and technical developments, challenges and

research breakthroughs throughout the entire gasification market.

The conference will have a focus on the latest technologies in

operation in the global gasification industry and also includes an

overview of the up to date and prospecting activity. Discuss the

technical challenges faced while chasing the carbon reduction,

and the challenges faced during the commercialisation process

including the views from different end markets.

Agenda Committee Members

Kelvin Halliwell, Global General Manager Upstream

Licensing, Shell Global Solutions

Claudio Allevi, Planning & Technology Development

Manager, Saras S.p.A

Christiaan van der Meijden, Process & Mechanical

Engineer, Biomass Energy Engineering

Juhani Isaksson, Director, Gasification, Pulp, Paper

and Power, Valmet

Silvio Arienti, Power Division Director of Process,

Amec Foster Wheeler

Alison Kerester, Executive Director, Gasification

Technologies Council

Berend Vreugdenhil, Gasification and Gas Cleaning

Scientist, ECN

Juergen Karg, Head Of Business Development

IGCC, Siemens Power And Gas Division

Registration is Simple If you would like to register for this event or wish to find out more

information, you can contact Mohammad Ahsan by using any of

the following methods:

+44 20 3141 0606

[email protected]

http://www.acius.net

Postal Address:

ACI Europe, 5/13 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1

Companies can gain direct access to our senior level audience and

have an increased level of visibility through branding and networking

at the conference. For information on available sponsorship and com-

mercial opportunities, please contact Tim Rowley-Evans on:

Sponsorship and Exhibiting Opportunities

Who Should Attend

Leading power generation companies, oil refining and petrochemical

industry including: managers, directors & engineers of gasification, bio-

mass or clean coal technology, power generation, processing technolo-

gies, R&D and new technologies, renewable strategy, sustainable tech-

nologies, environment and CO2 managers, CTOs, COOs as well as busi-

ness development executives from technical service providers, consult-

ants and regulators.

+44 20 3141 0637

[email protected]

http://www.acius.net

Postal Address:

ACI Europe, 5/13 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0NS

The two day conference will comprise of a series of informative

presentations combined with a number of IGCC case studies from

senior industry executives and experts. There will be two panel

discussion sessions encouraging information exchange among you

and other attendees. Furthermore, this two days event offers excel-

lent networking opportunities in order to maximize the benefits

from your participation.

An Outlook of Gasification Applications and Market Future and Prospects

RWE/Essent Amer Power Plant – Tuesday 22nd March 2016

During the afternoon of Tuesday 22nd March 2016 a number of confer-ence attendees will have the opportunity to attend an exclusive site visit

There is no extra charge to attend the site visit. Please register your attendance for the site visit when booking for the conference.

Final Schedule of Site Visit:

12:00 - Registration for site visit at conference hotel in Rotterdam

12.30 – Depart conference hotel

13:45 – Arrival and control valid proof of identity (ID, passport or driving licence).

13.30— Reception with coffee and tea.

13.40 — Presentation Amer Power Plant by Mr. W. Willeboer.

14.30— Hand out helmets, headsets and saferty glasses.

14.40— Plant tour. Guided by Mr.T. Plezier and J. van Strien.

16.00— Hand in helmets, headsets and saferty glasses.

16.10— Discussion, led by Mr. W. Willeboer.

16.30— End of the visit and depart Amer Power Plant

17:15 – Arrive conference hotel in Rotterdam

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Gasification 2016

Rotterdam, The Netherlands


LEADERS IN CONFERENCE PLANNING & PRODUCTION


12:00

12:15

▪ Efficient and flexible tar removal by oi l

scrubbing (OLGA)

▪ Optimization of gas i fication towards the

production of methane and tar

▪ Handl ing the unsaturated hydrocarbons

l ike benzene and ethylene

12:45

13:00

14:10

▪ Gas i fication for production of chemica ls or

Bio-Fuels , s tatus and promis ing ▪ Syngas fermentation

▪ Bio-Methane production

▪ Gas i fication for l iquids and chemica ls from

coa l , biomass or waste: cost of feedstock

and production

▪ Industria l projects where gas i fication i s

used to produce substi tute fuels for oi l or

NG

▪ The contribution of Fisher Tropsch units to

fuels securi ty

▪ Uti l i sation of a l ternative fuels through

gas i fication in process industry furnaces

14:10

▪ Green energy sys tems going from biomass

via waste to plas tic▪ Test results from di fferent fuels

▪ Impl ications for a sys tem lay out

14:40

▪ Technology for smal l sca le FT

▪ Status of Development

▪ Economics

Small scale FT synthesis based on biomass

steam gasification

Biomass and Waste Gasification: Greening the

future

LUNCH

CONFERENCE SESSION

Gasification for chemical and fuels production

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

Recent developments in the area of Gas

Clean-up

Q&A

Panel Q&A

The influence of tar removal on gasifier

optimization

Reinhard RauchSenior Researcher

Bioenergy2020+/Technical University Vienna

Robin ZwartTechnology and Product Development Manager

Royal Dahlman

Berend J. VreugdenhilInnovation Manager Gasification

ECN

DAY 1Wednesday 23rd March 2016

08:00

09:00

09:15

▪ Update on gas i fication plants in operation,

construction and planning.

▪ Analys is of product s late from gas i fication

plants

▪ Market shares in China

09:45

▪ Biomethane in Europe

▪ Biomethane as transportation fuel

▪ Current pol icy framework for gas i fication

▪ Options for internationa l biomethane trade

10:15

10:30

11:00

11:30

▪ Energy from waste

▪ Recovery of materia ls

▪ Enabler of ci rcular economy

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

CHAIR'S OPENING ADDRESS

CONFERENCE SESSIONIntroductive market overview, drivers and

regulatory update

CONFERENCE SESSION

MORNING REFRESHMENTS

EU policy framework for gasification and

biomethane

2016 Status of the Gasification Industry

Waste gasification outlook

Panel Q&A

Westinghouse Plasma Gasification: The Next

Generation of Waste-To-Energy Solutions

Waste gasification - Pathway to circular

economy

Al ison KeresterExecutive Director

The Gasification and Syngas Technologies Council

Walter Howard CEO

Alter NRG / Westinghouse

Plasma Corp

Matti Nieminen Principal Scientist

VTT Technical Research Centre of

Finland

Chris HigmanPrincipal

Higman Consulting GmbH

Jan StambaskyPresident

European Biogas Association

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▪ An overview of how innovations in

biotechnology can overcome the sca le gap

▪ High revenue products

▪ Distributed convers ion

15:40

16:00

16:30

16:30

▪ Three years of experiences in Vaasa 140

MW bio gas i fier

- Emiss ions

- Operationa l experiences

▪ Lessons learn in Lahti Waste gas i fication

plant

- Operationa l data

- Environmenta l performance

- Lessons learnt

17:00

▪ Cortus Energy

▪ WoodRol l® technology

- A decade of development for ul traclean

syngas

▪ Test plant in Köping

- Biofuels veri fied

- Operationa l data

- Emiss ions

▪ Next s tep

- Modular 6 MW plant

- “Green gas fi l l ing s tation”

17:30

17:45

Case studies: Biomass gasification, challenges

and success stories

CONFERENCE SESSION

CLOSE OF DAY ONE

Panel Q&A

Panel Q&A

Upgrading Syngas into Oleochemicals

AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS

Biomass Gasification in Large Scale for Power

Production

WoodRoll® –ultraclean syngas taking

bioenergy forward

Juhani Isaksson Manager, Gasification And Pyrolysis Systems

Valmet

Lisa Dyson CEO

Kiverdi

Rolf LjunggrenCEO

Cortus Energy AB

DAY 2Thursday 24th March 2016

08:30

09:00

▪ Gas i fication of low rank / high ash coa ls

and l igni te

▪ Operationa l experience and lessons

learned▪ Flexibi l i ty of production: Commiss ioning

and s tart-up of plants ; time for s tart-up;

s tand-by condition

▪ Advances in technology with regards to

environmenta l safety

09:10

09:40

▪ Integration of a gas i fication technology into

process ing plant

▪ Operationa l cha l lenges :

- Gas i fication unit

- Waste water treatment

- Syngas puri fication

▪ Outlook for the future

10:10

10:40

11:00

11:30

MORNING REFRESHMENTS

CONFERENCE SESSION

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

Coal gasification technologies in EU and

overseas

Coal gasification – operational experiences

Coal Gasification, Poland

Shell Coal Gasification Process - Feedstock

flexibility - Petcoke blending offers attractive

opportunities

Panel Q&A

PANEL DISCUSSIONApplication, strengths and weaknesses of

different technologies like: fixed or fluidised

bed and entrained flow

CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS

Al ison KeresterExecutive Director

The Gasification and Syngas

Technologies Council

Thomas von KossakTechnology Manager Gas/Oil Gasification & Hydrogen

Shell

Stanislav Kapr

Chief EngineerSokolovska Uhelna

Maria SkorupkaCarbochemistry Development Director

Grupa Azoty S.A.

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▪ Technology overview

▪ Biomass and waste, how does fuel qua l i ty

influence technology choice?

▪ Appl ications , syngas or producer gas?

▪ R&D Chal lenges and perspectives

▪ Appl ication : Gas i fication for operating

industria l furnaces

▪ Decentra l i zed production of 2G biomethane

for natura l gas grid injection

▪ Technology choice i s determined by

ava i lable feedstock resources and des i red

▪ Examples of appl ication of di fferent types

of gas i fiers integrated in exis ting

industries

▪ Discuss ion on technology upsca l ing

▪ Determining factors : Fuel characteris tics ,

Appl ication of product gas , Sca le

▪ Difficul t fuels , contaminated fuels , loca l

voluminous fuels ask for fluid bed

technologies

▪ Profi table appl ications are in transport

fuels and chemica ls ; energy as fina l

product i s not attractive anymore

▪ Fina l products l ike transport fuels and

chemica ls require extens ive, complex

processes that need large sca le to do i t

economica l ly

▪ Large sca le i s in genera l most profi table in

pressurized entra ined flow gas i fiers

12:15

12:45

Industrial integration of biomass gasifiers –

the key to succeed

Optimal Gasification Technology Selection

Biomass gasification challenges: from CHP to

bioSNG

Panel Discussion and Q&A

LUNCH

Which gasification technology to choose?

Chris tiaan Van Der MeijdenProcess & Mechanical Engineer

Biomass Energy Engineering

Joakim LundgrenDirector of Swedish Centre for

Biomass Gasification & Assoc. Professor, Luleå University of Tech.

Mathieu Ourliac

Combustion And Thermal Industry

EngineerENGIE

Wim Willeboer

Strategic Engineer Process TechnologyRWE Generation NL

13:45

▪ Is gas i fication going, towards electrici ty

production, chemica ls production or a mix,

what i s des i red, what i s economica l ly

viable

▪ Gas i fication as a biorefinery concept or use

to produce platform chemica ls

▪ Rais ing finance for future developments

▪ Co-production in IGCC to support IGCC

economics▪ IGCC s ti l l an a l ternative to refinery res idue

convers ion?

▪ Opportunities outs ide Europe as (coa l )

gas i fication appl ications in Europe e.g. for

power and CCS are mainly dependent on

incentive mechanisms for CO2 and/or power

▪ Large-sca le appl ications for coa l and

refinery res idues

▪ Co-production and poly-generation for

improved economics

▪ Future opportunities and cha l lenges for

power only and CCS appl ications

14:25

Presentation title TBA

Presentation title TBA

PANEL DISCUSSION

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Market future and prospects

IGCC power plants – status update and future

prospects

Moving forward with gasification: Gasifier

Fuel cell integration for very high efficiency

and flexible power production

Claudio AlleviIndustrial Development Manager

Saras S.p.A.

Juergen KargDirector IGCC Business Development

Siemens Power and Gas Division

Giuliano GrassiSecretary General

EUBIA - European Biomass Industry Association

Dr PV AravindAss . Prof. Section Energy

Technology, Process and Energy DtTechnical University Delft

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15:00

▪ Laboratory ex-s i tu tests on large blocks of

coa l performed in Centra l Mining Insti tute.

▪ In-s i tu tria ls in Experimental Mine Barbara,

Mikołów, Poland

▪ Pi lot test in KWK Wieczorek mine in

operation, Katowice, Poland – bui lding of

ins ta l lation, three months tria l , results and

discuss ion of the results

▪ Infrastructure requirements – Potentia l to

integrate with exis ting coal mining

infrastructure

▪ Determining practica l i ty of UCG in Poland –

How achievable i s commercia l

development of this technology?

15:20

▪ Introduction of the technology

▪ Demand for UCG in the EU

▪ Lessons learned on the path to

commercia l i sation▪ Enabl ing technologies

▪ Summary of UCG activi ties in EU

▪ Commercia l i s ing UCG: overcoming barriers

at the European level

15:40

15:55

16:00

CHAIRMAN'S CLOSING REMARKS

UCG: Commercialisation of this technology

challenges

Q&A

END OF CONFERENCE & NETWORKING

REFRESHMENTS

Experience in underground coal gasification

and perspectives of commercialization of ucg

in Poland

UCG: Commercialisation of this technology

challenges

CONFERENCE SESSION

Krzysztof StańczykHead of Dept. of Energy Saving and Air

Protection,Central Mining Institute& HUGE2 Project coordinator

Marc MostadeManaging Director

Most Coal Engineering

In-Depth & Informative Formal Presentations Knowledge Sharing During Informal Panel Table Discussions

Excellent Networking Opportunities

Sponsorship and Exhibition: For commercial opportunities please

contact: Timothy Rowley-Evans +44 (0) 20 3141 0637

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

Gasification 2016 Rotterdam, The Netherlands


LEADERS IN CONFERENCE PLAN-NING & PRODUCTION


If you would like to register for this event or wish to find out more information,

you can contact Mohammad Ahsan using any of the following methods:

+44 (0)20 3141 0606

[email protected]

http://www.acieu.net

Postal Address: ACI Europe, 5/13 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0NS

Registration Is Simple

Registration Is Simple

£1,495.00

Documentation Packet Only £420.00

Conference (Includes Documentation Packet) 23rd & 24th March 2016

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Exclusive Site Visit:

RWE/Essent Amer Power Plant. Available to a limited

number of conference attendees only.

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