BIOS, ABSTRACTS, PHOTOS – AUGUST 26, 2010

HOWARD HERZOG – MIT ENERGY INITIATIVE

BIO: Howard J. Herzog is a senior research engineer in the MIT Energy Initiative.  He received his undergraduate and graduate education in chemical engineering at MIT.  He has industrial experience with Eastman Kodak (1972-1974), Stone & Webster (1975-1978), Aspen Technology (1981-1986), and Spectra Physics (1986-1988).  Since 1989, he has been on the MIT research staff, where he works on sponsored research involving energy and the environment, with an emphasis on greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (released September, 2005), a co-author on the MIT Future of Coal Study (released March 2007), and a US delegate to the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum's Technical Group (June 2003-September 2007).

ABSTRACT: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage:  A Status Report Howard Herzog, MIT Energy Initiative

ABSTRACT:  All components of a Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage system are in commercial operation today and it is currently operating at the megaton (millions of tons per year) scale.  However, for CCS to play a significant role in mitigating climate change, it must operate at the gigaton (billions of tons per year) scale.  This presentation will provide an overview on where CCS is today and the challenges that must be addressed to reach the gigaton scale. 

MICHAEL MONEA – SASK POWER

BIO: Michael Monea was appointed vice-president of the Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Projects in October 2008.

Prior to his role with SaskPower, Monea was senior vice-president with Canada Capital Energy Corporation. He served as Executive Director of the Petroleum Technology Research Centre at the University of Regina and has held a number of other Executive and technical positions in the oil and gas sector.  In 2008 he was appointed into the Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecture program as an expert in CO₂ storage.

Monea holds professional engineer and geoscientist designations and received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Regina. He serves as a board member with the Petroleum Technology Research Centre and is chair of both the South Saskatchewan Geological Resources Advisory Committee and Saskatchewan Conservation Board.

ABSTRACT: The Boundary Dam ICCS Demonstration project is a $1 billion government-industry partnership between the Government of Canada, Government of Saskatchewan, SaskPower and private industry, which will fully integrate and retrofit an aging coal-fired generation unit with a carbon capture and an enhanced oil recovery operation, resulting in low-emission electricity and carbon dioxide (CO₂) for oil extraction. This leading-edge project will determine the technical, economic and environmental performance of clean coal/carbon capture and storage technology.

DAVID ST. ANGELO- SKYONIC

BIO: David St. Angelo joined Skyonic Corporation in May of 2005 and is currently the Vice President of Engineering.  He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.  His career has spanned a variety of fields that include semiconductor processing and equipment, solar energy research, advanced set-top boxes and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.  Most recently he designed built and tested Skyonic’s SkyMine® demonstration plant for CO₂ mineralization and acid gas and heavy metal capture. The facility is a 100 MT/yr carbon capture plant located at Capitol Aggregates, a cement facility in San Antonio Texas.  Skyonic was recently awarded the largest DOE grant in the Beneficial Use Category for Innovative Technologies and is in the process of designing and building a 75,000 MT/yr capture facility.

ABSTRACT: SkyMine^® Process Commercialization

The SkyMine^® process relies on well-understood chemical reactions and unit operations to capture and mineralize CO₂ at a competitive energy penalty. The process includes the production of marketable chemicals such as hydrogen, chlorine, hydrochloric acid and sodium bicarbonate.  The process also prevents the release of the acid gases associated with the burning of coal, regulated heavy metals [e.g. mercury], and other not yet regulated heavy metals [e.g. selenium, chromium]. The combination of remediating CO₂, acid gases, and metals and selling industrial chemicals yields an all-in-one cost effective, profitable solution. Skyonic was recently awarded a Phase II, DOE grant in the beneficial reuse of CO₂ category and is working to build a 75,000 MT CO₂ /yr capture facility at a cement plant in San Antonio, Texas. The progress of this project will be reviewed in this presentation.

NED LEONARD – AMERICAN COALITION for CLEAN COAL ELECTRICITY (ACCCE)

BIO: As Vice President of Program Support - working out of the Office of the President  & CEO - Ned Leonard supports ACCCE [pronounced “ace”] senior management in State Affairs, National Affairs, and Communications concerning the use of coal in electricity generation. His focus is on clean coal technology development, including carbon dioxide capture, storage, transportation, and beneficial use.

Ned joined the Center for Energy and Economic Development as Associate Vice President for Policy in March 2005 and continued in that role when – in early 2008 – CEED  [pronounced “seed”] and Americans for Balanced Energy Choices were folded into a single organization called the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. In October 2008 he was promoted to Vice President for Technology Policy. He assumed his current position in January 2010.

His background includes twenty-four years managing communications and advocacy programs for Western Fuels Association, a national fuel supply cooperative for consumer-owned electric utilities. Prior to that, he was responsible for energy, environmental, and natural resource issues for Senator George McGovern (D-SD) from 1977 through 1980. Between 1974 and 1977, he directed public information for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Missouri-Oahe [oh-wah’-hee] Projects Office in Huron, South Dakota. Upon graduation from South Dakota State University in 1973, he was News Director at KIMM Radio in Rapid City. He put himself through college working as a commercial DJ at KBRK-FM in Brookings, South Dakota.

BILL SHEFCHIK – BURNS & MCDONNELL

BIO: Mr. Shefchik has been a geologist at Burns & McDonnell for over 34 years, and has contributed geological expertise to may Compressed Air Energy Storage projects (including the first CAES plant in the US, at McIntosh, Alabama), and CO₂ sequestration pre-feasibility evaluations.

ABSTRACT:

Many parts of the country have no potential geological reservoirs in the appropriate depth range for sequestration of CO₂ from coal-fired power plants.  Within a significant fraction of the limited areas where reservoir rocks may be in the appropriate depth range, defining localized potential traps (if any) will represent an enormous challenge.  Those traps already reasonably defined as oil & gas plays likely include numerous penetrations (old wells and test holes) that could leak CO₂ at the storage pressures required for sequestration can be highly toxic.  Most sequestration endeavors for the volumes required would require well fields (and surface piping) covering hundreds or thousands of square miles per power plant.