Environmental

Victorian Coal & Energy 2010

Key topics includes:
  • Future for the Latrobe Valley coal industry
  • Latrobe Valley Developments
    • CTL & coal drying demonstration project
    • Cougar Energy plans for UCG in the Latrobe Valley
    • Latrobe Urea project
  • Equipping the Latrobe Valley for a carbon constrained world
    • Making the transition to a low carbon community
    • CPRS Scheme and its impact on Victorian power stations
    • Clean Coal Victoria’s vision for the coal sector
  • Technology and project updates
    • Plans for Victorian coal deposits & mines
    • Updates from the major power companies
    • Dual Gas demonstration project
    • C02CRC Otway research project
    • Carbon capture plant development
    • CTL projects
    • Developing a coldry pellet plant in Victoria
    • Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute on CCS developments
    • Geological carbon storage research
  • Exporting potential on pathway to low emission coal use
    • Infrastructure challenges
    • Potential to export brown coal to India
  • Future for coal-fired power stations
  • CSG – Will we see a new industry in Victoria as we have in Queensland?
  • Changing power use requirements

AGENDA
Future for the Latrobe Valley coal industry
  • Is brown coal a contemporary energy resource?
  • What are the key characteristics of the coal industry, are they changing?
  • Enablers and challenges to be met to support development
  • Key indicators to demonstrate real progress
  • Future production options

Geological carbon storage: the key to the future use of Victoria's coal resources?
  • Geological carbon storage (GCS) research has identified secure storage options in both the offshore Gippsland Basin and Bass Basin; storage potential in the onshore Gippsland Basin is much more limited but not insignificant
  • Both the Gippsland and Bass basins offer decades to hundreds of years of large-volume (mega-tonnes per year) geological carbon storage
  • Storage in the Gippsland Basin will probably involve injection into unconfined Latrobe group saline aquifers, whereas CO2 injected into the Bass Basin will probably be stored in structural traps within the Upper Eastern View Group
  • Detailed modelling is currently underway to refine the storage options

Ignite Energy Resources Vision for Carbon Neutral Energy from Victorian Brown Coal
  • Ignite Energy Resources Ltd (IER) – potted history of an integrated energy company
  • Catalytic Hydro Thermal Reactor
    • Using brown coal’s greatest weakness to transform it to high value / high energy density coal and oil products
    • Other forms of low-energy density feedstocks (applying CatHTR to biomass; plantation timbers, high energy perennials and algae)
  • Partnerships – IER working with Australian Coal industry today
  • EL 4416 – Victoria’s future as Eastern Australia’s energy hub
  • Carbon Sequestration Strategies – combining technology and agricultural systems to naturally capture carbon in soils and algae
  • Carbon Neutral Energy Production and Export – holistic approach to Victoria’s brown coal resource development in the near term addressing community, environmental, policy and economic criteria
  • Opportunities – IER moving quickly to become a significant participant in Victoria’s energy community


This conference will be held on the 30-31 March 2010 at Century Inn, Traralgon, Victoria -- (costs $ 2964.50 AUD + 250 WYEA admin fee). You are welcome to attend. The Information posted on this page is only meant to provide you an insight on knowledge and skills transfer opportunities available within the Australian environmental sector. In collaboration with IIR, we can design a specific program for you and your group, providing an opportunity for you to meet with Australian leading professionals in a friendly and highly rewarding environment.



National E-Waste Briefing

In 2007-08 16.8 million TVs, computers and related products reached their end of useful lives in Australia, of which 84% ended up in landfill. It's estimated that in 2028 a staggering 44 million computers and TVs will reach their end of life.

To address this escalating issue, Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, has recently released a new National Waste Policy which puts computers and TVs at the forefront of recycling initiatives.

With the national framework currently being drafted, never has it been so important to bring together the key stakeholders in e-waste management to review current systems, facilitate interstate discussion and cooperation, and discuss strategies and solutions which could prove integral to Australia's future e-waste management initiatives.

Featuring presentations from:

  • WEEE Forum – Keynote International Address
  • Australian Information Industry Association
  • Sustainability Victoria
  • Sims Recycling Solutions
  • Australian Council of Recycling
  • E-Cycle Recovery
  • Advance Security Destruction
  • IBM Australia

AGENDA

Solving Australia's E-Waste Problem

E-Waste: The Australian ICT Industry Strategy
  • The future of producer responsibility across the ICT industry
  • Meeting the challenges of corporate and domestic waste streams
  • Coordinating State and Federal government activity
  • Driving change: The steps to success

The Future for Byteback
  • Byteback: Why it was initiated
  • Key outcomes and impacts from the program
  • Where to from here?
Role of Local Government Councils in Managing E-Waste
  • The financial and logistical issues of managing e-waste at the local government level
  • Successful collection initiatives
  • Where to from here?

Ensuring Sufficient Capacity to Handle the Avalanche of Obsolete Electronic Equipment – A Recyclers’ Perspective
  • Current capacity for e-waste recycling in Australia
  • Constraints in capacity expansion
  • Technological and regulatory solutions for best results
  • Lessons from global experience

The Role of ACOR in Promoting E-Waste Recycling
  • ACOR's new vision and expanded mandate
  • Key priorities in e-waste recycling
  • The importance of engagement with government
  • Opportunities for e-waste industry collaboration

Television and Computer Monitor Recycling
  • What's the problem?
  • What's in the glass?
  • How can it be recycled?

Our Organisation wants to Recycle its E-Waste, how can we be sure that the Data Stored in the Equipment is Permanently Destroyed?
  • Modern data storage capabilities
  • Your intellectual property, privacy policy, and responsibilities to ensure data is compliantly destroyed
  • Common methods of data destruction
  • What is 'Top Secret' destruction?
  • The process of hard-disc granulation
IBM's Goals and Experience with the Sound Environmental Management of End-of-Life IT Equipment
  • Industry leading practices in product design for the environment and management at end-of-life
  • A national perspective on recovery and recycling of end-oflife IT equipment

European IT Equipment PRO’s: Leveraging Best Possible E-Waste Recycling Outcomes for the Australian Market

The WEEE Forum is a European association of more than 40 electrical and electronic waste collection and recovery systems. The aim of the WEEE Forum is to provide a platform for these producer responsibility organisations, or take-back systems, to foster ideas and share best practices while optimising environmental performance through a proper management of electrical and electronic waste.

This conference will be held on the 29 April 2010 at Sydney Harbour Marriott, Circular Quay -- (costs $ 990.00 AUD + 250 WYEA admin fee). You are welcome to attend. The Information posted on this page is only meant to provide you an insight on knowledge and skills transfer opportunities available within the Australian environmental sector. In collaboration with IIR, we can design a specific program for you and your group, providing an opportunity for you to meet with Australian leading professionals in a friendly and highly rewarding environment.




Coal Tech 2010


Coal Tech brings together all the major coal producers, power generators, petroleum firms, engineers in addition to state and federal government representatives to provide you with an unrivalled networking forum and highly focused learning environment.

Coal Tech 2010 is your complete guide to the latest project advances and R&D developments in coal technology in Australia and overseas.


A selection of confirmed speakers include:

  • Charlie Speirs, Director, Clean Coal Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria
  • James McGregor, Energy Systems Manager, CSIRO Division of Energy Technology
  • Barry Hooper, Chief Technologist and Capture Program Manager, Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
  • Roland Davies, Manager Business Development Projects, Loy Yang Power
  • Peter Sallans, UCG Manager, Liberty Resources
  • Dr Geoff Ingram, Corporate and External Affairs, Schlumberger Carbon Services Australasia
  • Andrew Lawson, Managing Director, MBD Energy Limited
  • Greg Everett, General Manager/Strategy, Delta Electricity
  • Peter Tingate, Senior Geologist, Energy Geoscience Group, GeoScience Victoria
  • Ashley Moore, Business Manager - Coldry, Environmental Clean Technologies Limited
  • Merrill Gray, Managing Director, SYNGAS
  • Colin Whyte, Stakeholder and External Relations Manager, ZeroGen

and much more....


Case Studies to be presented include:

  • Latrobe Valley Project
  • Otway Project
  • Delta Electricity - NSW Carbon Capture Projects
  • Dewatering of Lignite - Latrobe Valley Project
  • Latest developments in Post-combustion Capture
  • Xstrata Coal's Operations


Coal Tech 2010 provides you with in-depth analysis of:

  • Underground coal gasification
  • Coal-to-liquids project development
  • Carbon capture and storage advances
  • Coal drying technology
  • IGCC and much more
  • Post combustion capture
  • Integrated drying and gasification combined cycle

and much more...


AGENDA

Case Study : Otway Project Presentation will:
> Cover the work of CO2CRC, highlighting the progress of its pre and post combustion capture projects
> Examine some of the outcomes of Australia’s first storage project: The CO2CRC Otway project
Barry Hooper, Chief Technologist and Capture Program Manager, Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies


Case Study : Delta Electricity - NSW Carbon Capture Projects
> An update on the operation of the Munmorah pilot carbon capture plant
> The proposed NSW CCS Demonstration Project
Greg Everett, General Manager/Strategy, Delta Electricity



Case study : Clinton Project - a Coal-Biomass-to-Liquid (CBTL) Project
> Syngas is targeting bringing the Clinton Project online in 2015 and operating it for 40 years
> Primary feed material is the Company’s 100% controlled feedstock
> This coal (lignite) feedstock is currently expected to be supplemented by non-food biomass sourced from the local area as part of the Company’s carbon management strategy
Merrill Gray, Managing Director and Executive Director, SYNGAS


Case Study : 2010 - Coal Projects & Prospects in Australia
An overview of coal deposits and tenement holdings within Australia demonstrating:

> The future in coal resource exploitation in Australia with regards to Coal Mining, LNG, Coal to Liquids or Coal Gasification
> Ownership and Locations of the tenements; analysing the technologies likely to be implemented in the different regions as a result
> How the different technologies can co-exist on the one tenement and issues that may arise when this occurs
> Investment opportunities and/or risks within Australia coal resource exploitation

Kevin Irving, General Manager of Mining, XSTRACT


ZeroGen Project Update

> Proposing to build one of the world’s first baseload low emissions coal fired power plants with carbon capture and storage, in Queensland
> Working with the Queensland Government, Australia’s black coal industry through ACALET, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Mitsubishi Corporation will accelerate the development and deployment of low emissions technology, a critical element in global efforts to address climate change and reduce emissions from power generation
> Supporting a sustainable future for Australia’s $50 billion coal industry and the 130,000 jobs it provides

Colin Whyte, Stakeholder and External Relations Manager, ZeroGen



MBD Energy Limited - CO2 to Energy

Greenhouse gas abatement at large emitters using algae:

  • The process, conversion of greenhouse gases to algae oil and meal
  • Project summary - from display (1 Ha) to large scale deployment
  • Bio CCS Program - 3 regional programs each targeting 50 Million tonnes of greenhouse gas sequestration per year by 2020

Demonstration of Carbon Mineralisation via Aqueous Precipitation Technology (CMAP) for Beneficial Use of CO2 in the Built Environment
  • Introduce the CMAP process: CO2 from a flue gas stream is absorbed into water and converted into carbonate anions through highly controlled pH modulation. The carbonate materials produced are essentially forms of limestone that can be used for a number of applications in building materials such as cement and aggregates
  • Consider advantages of CMAP as mineralogical sequestration process
  • Present the results of capture and mineralisation performance from continuous pilot scale tests and a 10 MW scale on a slipstream of the Dynegy Moss Landing power plant in Northern California

Challenges and Costs of CO2 Transportation and Storage CO2 storage is a critical path item in commercial CCS projects.

Presentation will consider:

> The costs and timings for a commercial CO2 transportation and storage operation
> Opportunities for development of common-user infrastructure
> The economic gap that currently faces projects proponents in the CCS market today

This conference will be held on the 1-2 June 2010 at Brisbane Marriott Hotel -- (costs $ 2744.50 AUD + 250 WYEA admin fee). You are welcome to attend. The Information posted on this page is only meant to provide you an insight on knowledge and skills transfer opportunities available within the Australian environmental sector. In collaboration with IIR, we can design a specific program for you and your group, providing an opportunity for you to meet with Australian leading professionals in a friendly and highly rewarding environment.

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