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The Center for Professional Advancement, 90 Minute Accredited Online Training
September 30, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (ET)
Who Should Attend
This online training will benefit professionals in the following industries: Coal Mining and Processing, Fuels Processing, Energy Production, Environmental Impact Assessment, Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Academic/Government Fuels Laboratories
Job functions that would benefit from the online training include: Process and Environmental Engineers, Process Chemists, Fuel and Energy Specialists, Process Energy Auditors, Process and Technical Services Managers, and Technicians
In departments such as: Process and Project Engineering, Research and Development, Commercial Development, Environmental Engineering, Process Evaluation and Design, Manufacturing, and Operations Description
Clean coal technology is being developed to reduce the environmental impact of utilizing coal in energy generation. Approximately 25% of the electricity generated worldwide is coal based. The required technologies include removing impurities from coal, followed by gasification, flue gas clean-up and carbon capture. There are technical, economic, social and political issues regarding the application of these technologies. This 90- minute accredited online training will address these issues and provide the attendees with a scientific, process and economic understanding of the current and potential utilization of clean coal technology.
Module 1:
• Current fossil fuel production and consumption
– domestic vs world-wide
• Utilization of coal
– energy production and synthesis
– environmental challenges
Module 2:
• Conventional coal processing and applications
– combustion chemistry
– energy yield and typical emissions
• What is meant by clean coal technology
– reduced emissions
– unit operations required for clean coal applications
• Power plant utilizing clean coal technology
– typical process arrangement
– novel processing including carbon sequestration
Module 3:
• Evaluation and assessment of clean coal technology
versus traditional fuel sources for power generation
– Power generation economics
– Fixed costs, variable costs and capital recovery
• Economic sensitivity
– leveraging issues including carbon credit
– sustainability
• Future of clean coal technology including technical and
political pressure
Question and Answer Session
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Organized by:
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The Center for Professional Advancement |
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Invited Speakers:
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Gennaro J. (Jerry) Maffia, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Process Engineering Manager, Petrochemicals Industry
After twenty years as a principal process engineer and manager in the petrochemicals industry, mostly with Atlantic Richfield, Inc., Jerry Maffia joined Widener University in the fall of 1992 as Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering. He retired in 2006 and is now Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at Widener University and Adjunct Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Drexel University. Prof. Maffia is an active consultant in chemical and bio-based processes, and is an associate of several consulting firms. He has offered short courses and training seminars on process engineering and related topics at industrial and academic sites around the world. Prof. Maffia has degrees from Dartmouth College (DE), NYU (MBA), and Manhattan College (BE, ME). He is the holder of six patents with another pending and has supervised forty graduate theses.
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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n/a
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Registration:
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Please click here for registration information.
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E-mail:
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salbers@cfpa.com
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