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Seminar 1: CO2 Sequestration and Climate: Forefront Technologies in the Pacific Northwest – Dr. Pete McGrail (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Use of fossil fuels for electric power generation and industrial
processes is not going away anytime soon. Capture and geologic storage of CO2
represents one of the big technology levers that engineers could use to reduce
CO2 emissions from these industrial sources and avoid economic harm to these
businesses from future greenhouse gas regulations. However, numerous technical,
legal, and public acceptance challenges remain to be met before commercial
developments are realistically feasible. This talk will be extraordinarily wide
ranging, showing examples of new molecular-engineered materials that capture CO2
with 1/5 the energy required with conventional technology. Engineering tools
will be discussed that allow integrated design of CO2 capture systems, pipeline,
and wells for CO2 injection at a sequestration site, and illustrate some of the
surprising synergies that can be exploited. Finally, an overview of the only
geologic sequestration pilot being conducted in the Pacific Northwest will be
given with highlights described from drilling and testing program that was
completed last year in the Columbia River basalts near Wallula, Washington.
Three Key Takeaways attendees will learn:
1. Fundamentals of CO2 Capture & Sequestration (CCS)
2. Role of CCS in Climate Change Mitigation
3. Overview of Sequestration in Flood Basalts and Other Geologic Formations
About the Speaker:
Dr. B. Peter McGrail has been a staff member at Battelle for over 27 years and has attained the position of Laboratory Fellow, the highest level of scientific achievement at the laboratory. He directs a wide variety of research projects in greenhouse gas emission management, which covers subjects from hydrodynamics and chemistry of supercritical CO2–brine mixtures to development of new sorbents for CO2 capture from fossil–fuel power plants, work that was recently featured in Nature Materials. Dr. McGrail led the subsurface design team during the national site selection process for the FutureGen project, the first near-zero emission coal-fueled power plant in the world. He is currently directing a field research pilot study near Wallula, Washington to determine suitability of deep flood basalt formations for permanent CO2 sequestration. Dr. McGrail manages the Zero Emission Research & Technology Center at Battelle, which is conducting groundbreaking work on the reactivity of molecular water solvated in supercritical CO2 among other basic science studies of key importance for designing CO2 capture and sequestration systems. He has over 210 publications and presentations at international conferences on his research.
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Seminar 2: Next Generation Building Energy Codes – Bing Liu, P.E., and Eric Richman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Building energy codes and standards are rapidly adjusting to the increasing interest in improved efficiency and programmatic calls for more stringency. Federal legislation, green voluntary programs, and code development organizations themselves are pushing for tighter and more advanced building energy codes and separate “green” codes. To accommodate these interests, current energy codes are exploring more advanced energy efficiency options and opportunities. This includes tighter traditional energy components as well as alternative methods of incorporating and encouraging efficiency. This presentation explores where the major nationally available code efforts are going in the future. It will include discussion of specific requirements you may see in the next round of codes as well as non-traditional approaches being explored including performance approaches, modeling, renewable energy, and scope changes. Three Key Takeaways attendees will learn:
About the Speakers: Bing Liu, P.E., is a senior research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), located in Richland, Washington. PNNL is a leading laboratory, under the Department of Energy, for the development of ASHRAE Standard 90.1 and ASHRAE’s Advanced Energy Design Guide series. Bing has worked in the field for over 15 years engaged in the sustainable building design and analysis, building energy performance simulation, alternative energy assessments, and high performance building performance metering and measurement. Bing was the chief energy analyst and project lead in developing ASHRAE’s award-winning books: Advanced Energy Design Guide for Small Office, Small Retail Buildings, Warehouse and Highway Lodging Buildings. She is a licensed professional mechanical engineer (PE), certified energy manger (CEM), LEED accredited professional, and 2007 Tri-Cities Engineer of the Year. Ms. Liu has authored over twenty technical reports and papers on various aspects of building energy efficiency analyses. She is ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and serves as a consultant to the ASHRAE Standard 90.1 project committee. She has been appointed as the Technology Consultant to the Society’s Chapter Technology Transfer Committee. Bing is also a member of several ASHRAE’s Technical Committee, including TC 2.8, TC 4.7 and TC 7.6. |
| Eric Richman is a senior research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories and has been working at the laboratory since 1986 working primarily in building energy efficiency and lighting technology application analysis. He is involved in several major lighting programs focusing on new technology energy efficiency, codes and standards, and control savings assessment. He is currently the chairman of the ASHRAE/IESNA 90.1 Energy Standard Lighting Subcommittee and has been involved in the Standards development since 1995. He is also part of the DOE Solid State Lighting program working on the development of LED test methods and standards, performance program specifications, and field assessments of lighting applications including LED technologies and control effects. He has authored over fifty reports and technical papers on lighting and building energy efficiency, received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University, has held the LC lighting professional credential since 1997 and is LEED accredited. |
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Luncheon Speaker: Nuclear Power in the Pacific Northwest – Scott
O'Conner (Energy Northwest) Nuclear energy has been a
major energy source in the Northwest for more than 25 years. Nuclear
will hold a key role in our nation’s future clean energy initiatives as
a reliable, affordable and environmentally responsible source of power.
About the Speaker: Scott O’Connor is a senior nuclear engineer for Energy Northwest who works in the Reactor Engineering Department at the Columbia Generating Station in Richland, Washington. His responsibilities include core management; reactivity maneuver planning, implementation, and control; as well as oversight of new fuel receipt. Scott is a graduate of Idaho State University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and his Master of Science in Nuclear Science and Engineering in 2002 through a fellowship from the National Academy for Nuclear Training. While at Idaho State, Scott served as president of the collegiate chapter of the American Nuclear Society. Scott resides in Richland with his wife and three children. He enjoys reading, woodworking, and spending time with family. |
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Seminar 4: Smart Grid Project and the Olympic Peninsula Demonstration –
David Chassin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) The
seminar will discuss the results of the Olympic Peninsula Demonstration
Project conducted in 2006-2007 in a collaboration between IBM, Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory and Bonneville Power Administration. This
ground-breaking test of Smart Grid technology demonstrated a number of
very important ideas and concepts that are becoming part of several of
the Smart Grid demonstration project that are starting in 2010. The
emphasis in this talk will be on benefits of smart grid technologies to
customer and utilities when automated residential end-use responses to
prices and events are an integral part of the how the system is
operated. About the Speaker: David Chassin is a staff scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and has more than 25 years of experience in the research and development of computer applications software for the architecture, engineering and construction industry. His research focuses on non-linear system dynamics, high-performance simulation and modeling of energy systems, controls, and diagnostics. He is the principle investigator and project manager of DOE's SmartGrid simulation environment, called GridLAB-D and was the designer of the Olympic Peninsula SmartGrid Demonstration's real-time pricing system. He has also been awarded several U.S. and foreign patents relating to Grid FriendlyTM appliances. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the NASPI Data Network Management Task Team, Western Electric Coordinating Council (WECC) Load Modeling Task Force and Market Integration Committee, and the North American Electricity Reliability Council (NERc) Load Forecasting Work Group, and he currently chairs the OASIS Blue Steering Committee. |