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Day One: Tuesday 13th October
08:15  

Registration
08:30 James Varley
Group Managing Editor
MODERN POWER SYSTEMS

Opening remarks from the Chair
Complying with European Directives
08:50 Dr. Bill Kyte OBE
Senior Advisor, Climate
E.ON
UK Chief Advisor, International Climate Policy
EURELECTRIC
Hon President
UK Emissions Trading Group (ETG) Ltd
Member
ENDS Editoral Advisory Board

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Aiming for a carbon-neutral electricity future

  • An overview of climate change: Kyoto and the EU ETS
  • Taking the carbon out of electricity and the impact on business
  • Reaching a carbon neutral future
09:30

Johannes Enzmann
DG Environment
EUROPEAN COMMISION

The Climate Change Package and the Emission Trading System (ETS)

  • Serving as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol
  • Lessons learnt from outdated failure of the Kyoto Protocol
  • Accomplishing the 2012 objectives
  • Achieving a 20% reduction in green house gas emissions by 2020
  • Revising the EU’s ETS
  • Are these targets realistic?
10 :00  

Morning refreshments
Progress of Carbon Capture and Storage – Case studies from European utility leaders
10:30

Helmut Rode
R&D Manager Department for Technology Policy, New Technologies
E.ON, GERMANY

E.ON’s view on power generation from coal and on future role of CCS

  • Overview of E.ON R&D activities in CCS
  • R&D requirements in post-combustion capture
  • Current status of E.ON’s post-combustion capture pilot plant activities
  • E.ON’s approach to prepare for CCS
  • Retrofitting in coal new build projects
11:00

Willy van Well
Coordinator Technology Development CO2 capture
DONG ENERGY, DENMARK

Results from the CO2 capture pilot plant in Esbjerg – experiences from the CASTOR project

  • Short introduction to background of absorption of CO2 in amine solutions.
  • The CASTOR project and the objectives of the pilot plant.
  • Results from the measuring campaigns with standard amine MEA, and newly developed solutions CASTOR-1 and CASTOR-2
  • Conclusion and lessons learnt from these projects
  • Plans for testing within the CESAR (EU FP7 project)
  • Outlook for the amine technology
11:30

Ales Laciok
Coordinator of R&D
CEZ

CO2 emission reduction strategy of the CEZ Group

  • Investing in low carbon generation capacity
  • Funding of research and development activities
  • CCS – current reality and expectations
12:00  

Lunch
13:00 Klaas Kerssemakers
Business Development Manager
ANTHONY VEDER, THE NETHERLANDS		 Large scale transport of CO2 by ship
·        Outlining world existing CO2 fleet
·        Highlighting the technical challenges involved
·        Exploring offshore discharge concepts
·        Business case CO2 shipping
13:30 Mikko Iso-Tryykari
Manager Strategy and Investments
FORTUM, FINLAND

Meri-Pori CSS - retrofit of a 565 MWe coal fired power plant

  • Steps of a CCS project development
  • Technology alternatives
  • Technology selection
  • Ship transport
  • CO2 final storage solutions for a country without own storages
14:00

Oscar Graff
Chief Technology Officer
AKER CLEAN CARBON, NORWAY

Post-combustion technology: latest developments

  • Results review from Aker Clean Carbon’s test facility
  • SOLVit R&D progress report
  • Commentary on selected international projects
Running an efficient power plant
14:30

Edita Vagonyte
European Affairs Manager
EUROPEAN BIOMASS ASSOCIATION

Biomass co-firing in China

  • Opportunities for EU-China cooperation
  • Overview of European biomass co-firing technologies
  • Best suited co-firing techniques in China
  • Biomass potential in China
  • Policy framework in China
15:00  

Afternoon refreshments
15:30

Dorian Matts
Manager
Boilers and Construction
RWE NPOWER

 

Addressing Environmental Constraints within a Competitive Electricity Marketplace
16:00

Dr. Rudolph Blum
General manager R&D
DONG ENERGY

Clean coal technology: present state and future aspects

  • High efficient coal fired power plants with CCS needed for another generation
  • Advanced thermodynamic combined with improved ferritic and austenitic steels hit the target
  • Presenting more than 10 years excellent service experience with advanced high temperature plants demonstrate a success
  • Present steel based concept have potential for efficiency close to 50%
  • AD700: the advanced nickel alloy based power plant concept aims for 54% efficiency
16:30

Antonio Mano
Director for I&D and New Technologies
EDP, PORTUGAL

EDP’s path to lower emissions in power generation: experience in Sines Power Plant

  • Alternatives to lower emissions: managing the portfolio.
  • Lower NOx, SOx and particulates in Sines coal Power Plant: past, present and future.
  • Improving ash handling and final use.
  • Reducing CO2 emissions: biomass co-firing route assessment.
  • The CCS approach: retrofitting versus new build.
  • Consequences for conventional emissions
17:00   Closing Remarks



Day Two: Wednesday 14th October
08:15  

Registration
08:50 James Varley
Group Managing Editor
MODERN POWER SYSTEMS

Opening remarks from the Chair
Overcoming climate policy challenges
09:30

Hélène Lavray
Advisor on Environmental Emissions
EURELECTRIC

The Industrial Emissions Directive: perspective of the power sector

  • Outlining the uncertainty and risk for existing power plants
  • Highlighting flexibility mechanisms
  • Assessing the impact on security of supply
  • Understanding cost-effectiveness
  • Forecasting the transition to a low carbon economy
09:25

Pilar Coca
Researcher
ELCOGAS, SPAIN

Elcogas IGCC: R&D activities towards zero emissions

  • The Elcogas experience: status and overview
  • Understanding the advantages & disadvantages of IGCC
  • Current R&D activities in which Elcogas is involved
  • Discussing CO2 capture and clean H2 production
  • Using of biomass, wastes IGCC optimisation to achieve an overall reduction in emissions
09:50  

Morning refreshments
10:05 Hani Gadalla
Field Research Scientist, Air Protection Technologies
Nalco Mobotec, USA

Enabling NOx reduction with unburned carbon improvement and biomass co-firing through the installation of ROFA

  • Introducing the ROFA system: an advanced boosted over-fired air system
  • Achieving NOx reduction exceeding 50% (illustrated with results from Wroclaw)
  • High levels of mixing through turbulent dissipation in the upper furnace allows for deep staging and efficient carbon burnout.
  • Enabling biomass cofiring by eliminating typical combustion problems (illustrated with results from Wroclaw).
  • Combining with Rotamix, an advanced SNCR system to achieve total NOx reduction approaching 75% (illustrated with results from USA installations).
10:30

Dr. Jens Reich
Energy Technologies
EVONIK STEAG, GERMANY

The Evonik road to highly efficient power plants

  • Experiences from power plant projects abroad
  • Current power plant projects and their settlement
  • High efficiency against CO2 separation
  • Efficient operation
10:55  

Closing remarks from Chair and Champagne prize draw
11:00  

Coach leaves for Schwarze Pumpe

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