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CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Monday, 26 September 2011
Chair: Frank van Schagen, Manager Coal Chemical Technologies, Monadelphous Engineering
9.00 Opening Remarks from the Chair
Clean Coal Technologies - The Future of Coal-fired Power Generation
9.10 What Are the Opportunities and Challenges for Coal in a World Demanding Clean Energy?
Clean Coal Technology Advance and Project Updates from Australia
- Policy and regulation developments in accelerating clean coal project implementations in Australia
- Current pilot project updates, main challenges and possible solutions
- Outlook for the future clean coal success in Australia
Allan Blood, Chairman, Australian Energy Company Limited
9.50 Keynote International Case Study: AMERICA
What's next for FutureGen
Senior Representative, FutureGen Alliance
10.30 Morning Tea
11.00 Case Study:
An Update on the Victorian Brown Coal Roadmap
Jane Burton, Manager of Coal Planning and Stakeholder Engagement, Department of Primary Industries
Reducing Global Greenhouse Emissions - Innovations in Carbon Capture & Storage
11.40 Bio Carbon Capture and Storance Algal Synthesiser Test Facilities
- CO2 is collected directly from a heavy carbon emitter and is piped directly into an algae farm
- Captured CO2 from the emitter’s waste exhaust flue gases is directly injected into the circulating waste water to synthesise oil-rich algae
- This is a commercial approach to CO2 sequestration taking waste emissions and producing valuable products for sale
Andrew Lawson, Managing Director, MBD Energy Limited
12.20 International Case Study: INDONESIA
Upgrading Coal Technologies
> Analysing the mechanical five-step coal upgrading process and the potential for commercial deliverability
> The upgraded coal can be used interchangeably with other high ranking coals and does not require any technical or engineering alterations at the power stations to allow for coal combustion
Jason Nunn, Manager Technical and Marketing, White Energy
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Case Study:
Update on the NSW CCS Demonstration Project
> Update on the project, which comprises the integrated post combustion capture, transport and permanent geological storage of up to 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Justin Flood, Project Manager Demonstration CCS, Delta Electricity
2.40 Case Study:
Deep Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide - Reviewing the Experience from the CO2CRC Otway Project
> An analysis of the Otway project - the world's largest research and geosequestration demonstration project; over 65,000 tonnes of CO2 have been injected and stored in a depleted gas reservoir deep underground and further injections into different formations are being planned
Dr Peter Cook, Chief Executive, CO2CRC
3.20 Afternoon Tea
Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) & Coal to Liquids (CTL)
3.40 Case Study:
Linc Energy's Underground Coal Gasification Process for Producing Power, Fuels and Chemicals
> Combining UCG and gas-to-liquids (GTL) processes in one site
> Reducing the countries vulnerability to international price stocks and become an exporter of transport fuel
Kobus Terblanche, President, Linc Energy Australia & Africa
4.20 Closing Remarks from the Chair
4.30 Conference Close
4.35 Networking Drinks
CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Chair: Frank van Schagen, Manager Coal Chemical Technologies, Monadelphous Engineering
Facing the Challenge of Carbon Emission Accounting and Reporting – Potential Impacts of the Introduction of a Carbon Price in Australia
9.00 Case Study:
ZeroGen: Bringing Together IGCC and CCS for a Low Carbon Future
Andrew Garnett, CEO and Project Director, ZeroGen
9.40 Measuring and Managing Carbon Liability in an Uncertain Policy Environment – ‘Is your ghg and energy inventory ready?’
- Determining liability and managing data
> NGERs and a Carbon Price – common threads
> delineating the reporting boundary
> business risk vs compliance risk
> data capture and management
> common pitfalls/issues – small sources and contractors - Potential Scheme design/s and effects on business
> From a sample ghg inventory, analyse:
1. Upstream vs downstream source coverage
2. Liability transfers
3. Measurement criteria and uncertainty vs liability
4. Reducing uncertainty, reducing liability - Audits:
> who is a target,
> typical audit deficiencies found in different industries and how the auditor uncovers them,
> how to reduce compliance risk..
Matt Drum, Senior Consultant Environment, Ndevr
10.20 Morning Tea
10.40 International Case Study: Germany
WTA Technology - Steam Fluidized Bed Drying With Recovery of the Heat of Evaporation
Dr. Nikolaus von Bargen, Senior Adviser Coal Upgrading, RWE Power International
11.20 Future Directions for Investment into Coal and Coal-Based Derivatives
- Are investors ready to dump coal?
- Do coal-based derivatives (ie CTL, CSG, UCG) have a future?
- What is the economic rationale for future investment into coal and coal-based derivatives?
- What will keep driving demand for coal and coal-based derivatives, especially from China and India
- How will global political action on carbon emissions affect investment decisions on coal, and what will the likely impact be on the Australian economy over the next ten years?
- What will it take for carbon capture and storage to make investment sense?
Ross Paul, Managing Director and Chairman, Bakers Group
12.00 Case Study:
Kingston Lignite Gasification Project - Potential World Scale Urea or Methanol Project
> Large well defined and well located resource
> Gasification studies and trials show excellent quality syngas to provide an excellent product yield.
> Urea and Methanol modelling show competitive position with natural gas.
> Changing Global Energy Dynamics reinforces coal gasification as a route to high value products.
> Project at Pre feasibility stage
Dr Peter Mullinger, Technical Director, Kingston Project, Strike Energy
12.40 Lunch
Coal Upgrading & Drying - Commercialising Low Ranking Coal
1.40 Case Study:
Unlocking High Moisture Low Rank Coal for Sustainable Low Emission Use for Domestic Power Generation and Upgrading for Export Value Adding
> Challenges facing development of high moisture coals
> Exergen's' CHTD technology in lowering moisture contents with minimal energy usage
> Application opportunity of Exergen CHTD for feed to low emission Direct Injection Coal Engines for power generation
> Value adding opportunities for use of CHTD for opening high moisture coals to export markets.
Jack Hamilton, CEO, Exergen
2.20 International Case Study: CHINA
CSIRO's Engagement With China on Low Emissions Coal Technology
> The scale of the challenge ahead
> Current collaborations on low emissions Coal technology projects in co2 capture and storage
> Future activities
Cameron Briggs, Strategy Development Manager, CSIRO Advanced Coal Technology
3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.30 COAL 21 Fund - Facilitating Low Emission Coal Technology Projects
Dr Dennis R Van Puyvelde, Program Manager, Low Emissions Technologies, Australian Coal Association
4.10 Case Study:
Australia's first commercial scale coal gasification
Neill Arthur, Chairman, Ambre Energy
4.50 Closing Remarks from Chair
5.00 End of the Conference
