Conference Chair
Michael W. Hartman
Air-Tech Environmental
Conference Co-Chair
Peter R. Westlin
U.S. EPA
Engineering Conferences International
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
T: 1-718-260-3743 - F: 1-718-260-3754
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This Program as a pdf file
Sunday, March 16, 2003
16:00 - 18:30 Registration (Kon Tiki Foyer, 2nd Level)
17:30 - 18:30 Social hour
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 22:00 Session 1 - Looking for Answers in All the Right Places
Session Chairs: Mike Hartman and Peter Westlin
Purpose of this session is to provide a forum for the stack testing community to identify and assess the critical priorities that affect our relationships with each other and the results of our work. The format will include small group discussions to identify and examine elements of our operations and products that could stand the light of criticism and to look for means to improvement. Followup will include a combined group discussion of the results identifying common themes and issues that we will use for reference throughout the next five days of the conference.
We will use brain-storming techniques and small and large group conversations. There will be individual and group exercises to stimulate discussion and total group involvement with time limits to ensure progress. We will try to ensure that all voices are heard and make the outcome visible and meaningful to all.
22:00 - 23:00 Social hour
Important Notes
Monday, March 17, 2003
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 12:00 Session 2 - EPA Methods/Modifications/Updates
Session Chair: Kaye Whitfield, EPA, OAR, Emissions Measurement Center
Instrumental Test Methods Revisions
Foston Curtis, EPA, OAR, Emissions Measurement Center
Mercury CEMS Update
Barrett Parker, EPA, OAR, Emissions Measurement Center
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Development of Optical Remote Sensing Method to Determine Emission Flux from Nonpoint Sources
Robin Segall, EPA, OAR, Emissions Measurement Center
Tools for the New Flow Test Methods - FLOW-CALC Software and the Observer’s klist
John Schakenbach, EPA, OAR, Clean Air Markets Division
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 17:30 Ad hoc sessions/Free time/Scavenger hunt
17:30 - 18:30 Social hour
The social hour and dinner will be on board the acclaimed William D. Evans paddle-wheel boat which will cruise Mission Bay. Please note that the boat will leave the dock promptly at 5:45 pm – be there or be left. Be sure to wear your name badge!
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner (cruise)
19:30 - 22:00 Session 3 - International Issues
Session Chair: Simon Medhurst, Source Testing Association
EU Standards - The Next Chapter
Simon Medhurst, Source Testing Association
MCERTS for Manual Stack Emissions Monitoring
Elaine Marshall, Environment Agency, UK
21:00 - 21:20 Break
Cost of Quality Monitoring
Simon Medhurst, Source Testing Association
Novel Portable Mass Spectrometer Takes the Lab to the Field
Dr. Fraser Reich, Horiba/KORE
22:00 - 23:00 Social hour
Tuesday, March 18, 2003
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 12:00 Session 4 - Data Quality Issues
Session Chair: Wayne Hunt, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Determination of Uncertainties in Continuous Emissions Measurement Systems Used for Stationary Sources with Low-NOx Emissions
David Pankratz, William Welch, Dennis Fitch, College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California - Riverside
Methods 2F and 2G Audits of Wind Tunnels used to Calibrate Velocity Probes
John Schakenbach, EPA, OAR, OAP, Clean Air Markets Division
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Voluntary Superior Monitoring
Tom Driscoll, EPA, OAR, Emissions Measurement Center
Pitot Tube / Sampling Probe Calibration
Roy Owens, Owens Corning
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 17:30 Ad hoc sessions/Free time/Scavenger hunt/Golf tournament
17:30 - 18:30 Social hour
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 22:00 Session 5 - Accreditation Panel Discussion
Session Chair: Walt Smith, Walter Smith and Associates, Inc.
Panelists
Jeff Babb, Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Jim Davis, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Scott Evans, Clean Air Engineering
Mike Hartman, AirTech Environmental, Inc.
Byron Richwine, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
John Schakenbach, EPA OAR, Clean Air Markets Division
David Todd, California Air Resources Board
Wayne Stollings, Triangle Environmental Services, Inc.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 12:00 Session 6 - FTIR, GC/MS, and Others
Session Chair: Roy Owens, Owens Corning
FTIR Monitoring in High Water Content Industrial Sources
Robert Spellicy, Industrial Monitoring and Control Corp.
Scott Swiggard, Golden Specialty Consulting
X-Ray Based Continuous Emissions Monitor for Multi-Metals and Mercury
John Cooper, B. E. Johnsen, S. C. Fry, M. P. Nakanishi, Cooper Environmental Services
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Long-Term Semi-Continuous Dioxin/Furan Sampling Systems
Gene Riley, EPA, OAR, Emissions Measurement Center
Long-Term Sampling of Dioxin/Furans with AMESA® - Newest Results by Using the Standard for Continuous PCCD/PCDF Emissions Control
Jürgen Riemann, BM Becker Messtechnik GMBH, Germany
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 17:30 Ad hoc sessions/Free time/Scavenger hunt/Volleyball tournament
17:30 - 18:30 Social hour (return scavenger hunt results)
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
19:30 - 22:00 Session 7 - Potpourri
Session Chair: Tom Rose, Eastern Technical Associates
Aerosol Beam Focused Laser Induced Plasma Spectrometer
Bryan Harre, US Navy
Fabric Filter Leak Detector Installations
Phil Juneau, B3 Systems
21:00 - 21:15 Break
Insights into Proposed Revisions to Method 23
Yves Tondeur, Alta Analytical Perspectives, Inc.
New Tools for Opacity Measurements
(ETA representative)
22:00 - 23:00 Social hour and Source Evaluation Society Hall of Fame Roast
Thursday, March 20, 2003
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 12:00 Session 8 - Low Levels
Session Chair: Robert Mann, TNRCC
SCAQMD Experience with Measuring Low-NOx Concentrations in Gas Turbine Emissions
John Higuchi, South Coast Air Quality Management District
Ammonia Measurement Experience
Eric Rodriguez, Clean Air Engineering
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Incorporating FTIR to Conduct H2SO4 Measurements at Power Utilities
Steve Hall, Gary Blythe, John Camin, Walt Gray, Curt Laush, URS Corporation, R. Rhudy, Electric Power Research Institute
Low PPM Calibration Gases, Better Accuracy and other issues in Calibrations
Robert Davis, Scott Specialty Gases
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 17:30 Ad hoc sessions - SES annual meeting and 2004 Conference planning meeting
17:30 - 18:30 Social hour
18:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Conference awards banquet)
19:30 - 22:00 Session 9 - Back to Basics
Session Chair: Jim Meador, Western Environmental Services & Testing, Inc.
Use of SUMMA Canisters in Stack Testing
Steve Eckard, Enthalpy Analytical, Inc.
Optimizing Chemiluminescence NOx for Single Digit ppm Monitoring from Combustion Sources
J. Ron Jernigan, P.E., DEE, Thermo Environmental Instruments
21:00 Break
Measurement of Landfill Emissions: Overview of a
State-of-the-Art Control and Monitoring Program
Mark McDannel, Los Angeles County
An Evaluation Of Field Applications Issues with Method 202
Larry Cottone, CCI Environmental Consultants, Inc.
22:00 - 23:00 Social hour
Friday, March 21, 2003
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 12:00 Session 10 - New Methods
Session Chair: Ray Merrill, Eastern Research Group
Sampling Batch Polymer Process Emissions
Ruth Albright, Fletcher Group
Sampling and Analysis for Hydrogen Cyanide Emissions from Combustion Sources: Sodium Hydroxide versus Zinc Acetate
David Maxwell, The Highland Group
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Methods Comparison and Validation of the TEOM Series 7000 as an Alternative Method for Measuring Particulate Matter Emissions from Coal-Fired Utility Sources
Edward C. Burgher, Michael B. Meyer, Robert C. Anderson,
Rupprecht & Patashnick Co.
Discussion and conference wrap-up
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and departure
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