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Clean Coal Technology: A Clear Picture

 
  August 20, 2009  
     
 
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

 
 
Organized by: The Center for Professional Advancement
Invited Speakers: 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.
 
Deadline for Abstracts: n/a
 
Registration: Please click here for registration information.
E-mail: salbers@cfpa.com
 
   
 
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