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WHO SHOULD JOIN - Industrial heat and electricity using plants and mills; - Thermal Electric power plants ( generators) fossil and nuclear - Independent Power Producers - equipment suppliers; -Engineering firms; - EPC contractors; -Electric power utilities including generation, transmission & distribution planers; -Natural gas utilities and marketers; - Educational institutions; -Regulators; Environmental Groups, - Industrial developers; -Municipal utilities; -Energy groups within firms and governments -Economics firms; law firms as well as technical, economics & statistics research groups. COGENCanada has taken over the ThermoShare training program which delivered some 25 Cogeneration courses and did a number of Cogeneration studies over the past fifteen years. Last year it delivered a Cogeneration course in Calgary at the request of Suncor. The inaugural Cogeneration Policy and Technology conference was highly successful and there are testimonials to that effect. There were presentations by the Director of Cogen Europe, a person from the UK who has been a key player in developing CHP (Cogeneration) and is now advising the UK government about CHP policy, .At courses or seminars there are presentations on gas turbines, steam turbines, boilers, combined cycles, integrated gasification combined cycles, Natural gas supply price, contracts, Cogeneration based Eco Industrial Networks etc. Benefits of membership-Input to incentives policy -Networking opportunities -Access to steam user, cogen system and power plant detailed data base -Training - Continuing Education Units Awarded -Cogen research and development - help members promote demonstrations -An annual conference There are testimonials confirming the usefulness of the first conference Services include -COGENCanada Digest will provide valuable cogen related information, analysis and news - Access to the detailed data base information. -Opportunities for people from member plants to learn from people in other member plants. Generators can learn about steam users and visa versa. Info. includes capacity & types of GT & ST, Steam pressures, use, sales, fuels & more -An advocacy function. -Better Incentives, financial and otherwise , to promote Cogeneration (CHP), better contracting, better connection arrangements etc will be advocated on behalf of members. COGENCanada people have been involved at the federal and provincial levels . -Facilitate Communication among plants, IPP developers, utilities, generation, transmission, distribution planers, governments, industrial developer etc with help of data base & mailing list promotional profile for each member will appear in the Membership Directory on the COGENCanada website. This will help bring buyers, sellers, generators, heat users etc together. BENEFITS OF COGENERATION -Much less fuel used -Significantly lower emissions -Reduced Transmission losses -Enhanced industrial competitiveness -Long term firm gas contracts, no HFO with combined cycle Cogen -Biomass Cogen systems displace fossil fuel otherwise used for process and power -Biomass Cogen systems emit no more GHG than landfill or incineration alone -Less risk of costly plant shut downs -Flexible combined cycles provide firm power, peaking power and spinning reserve -Cogeneration-based Eco Industrial Networks are the right road to sustainable development -Nuclear Cogeneration produces no emissions To promote Cogeneration, energy cascading, heat recycling and cogen-based Eco Industrial Networks, COGENCanada was federally incorporated as a not for profit association less than one year ago by ThermoShare. It has a board of advisors including world class authorities on gas turbines, steam turbines, boilers, combined cycle cogeneration system design, operation and maintenance . There is also expertise in natural gas supply and conracts, biomass, coal, nuclear energy, pulp and paper, oil refining, petrochemicals, heat recovery, Eco Industrial Networks etc. It took over a detailed data base of all cogeneration systems, industrial steam users and thermal power plants in Canada developed with help from the Federal Government. The aim is to have all these plants plus municipalities, industrial developers & service providers as members. Cogeneration and Combined Heat and Power (CHP.) are synonyms. Single purpose thermal electric power plants reject between 50% and 65% of the fuel heat to rivers, lakes, the ocean or the atmosphere. Cogeneration systems use this rejected heat for purposes such as paper drying, chemical processing, food processing, space heating or cooling (absorption chillers). Purpose of COGENCanadaCOGENCanada will Promote Research, Development & Demonstration of technologies such as biomass fuel drying, gasification, condensing heat recovery. Activities will included propagating techniques for determining true cogeneration potential of various cogen cycles and allocating fuel to electricity as opposed to process heat. Helping Statistics Canada improve cogeneration statistics is an objective. COGENCanada Board of AdvisorsThe following highly qualified people advise Cogen Canada members and staff - Gordon A. Robb, P. Eng., MASME , Power Eng. Certificate, Economics & Financial training. Training - major electric utility generation, transmission; dist., planning; - training program with Canadian General Electric (now GEC). AECL Nuc. Power steam cycles. 12 years Steam Power & Energy, major Pulp & Paper mills with cogen, 15 years Fed. Govt. National Energy Board, DREE and Electric Power Group Energy Policy Sector - helped develop cogen incentive since weakened. Many industrial cogen studies + conceptual designs. Was Consultant to Industrial Gas Users Assn - Ian Bush - BA, Econ( Honours), MA Econ. Fin. Educ. MBA. Director of Training and Administration COGENCanada. A summer student job in a pulp and paper mill steam plant (Power Eng 4th Class) was followed by experience in all operations. Following graduation he continued a career in pulp and paper becoming responsible for Human Relations and Training in a major mill. For some years he has delivered training courses and been a consultant. This led to an appreciation of the benefits of cogeneration. He has experience in delivering classroom training, Audio Conferencing and various form of internet based training. - .Joe Zanyk B, Eng. Elec, P Eng, MASME, key ASME GT & Cogen Committees. Vice President COGENCanada . Was top Combined Cycle Cogeneration technical person for Dow Chemical world wide - the firm with far more Combined Cycle Cogen experience than any other. Was responsible for design and operation of major cogen plants. Currently Consultant advising leading firms re major cogeneration projects. Experience with Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles. Joe was an advisor in connection with the class 43.1 federal Cogeneration tax incentive. Recently worked on an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Cogeneration (Polygeneration) study involving gasification of coal to generate electricity, process steam heat and chemicals. - Dave Winship, P. Eng. is a Combustion and Thermal Consulting Engineer - Canada=s leading authority on boiler design, combustion, fossil ( coal, petroleum coke, oil, natural gas and biomass (wood residue) systems. World wide experience mainly with utility and industrial boilers. Helped develop special boilers for insitue Oil Sands recovery. Was recently involved in investigation of problem with Heat Recovery Steam Generator for gas turbine cogeneration systems serving Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SACD) Oil Sands recovery project. Carl Kropp BSc (Eng) BSC, MSc. MIEEE, P Eng. An has an academic background in electrical engineering and mathematics as well as 42 years of experience in the electrical utility industry. Before retirement he served for 16 years as General Manager and Chief Engineer of Ottawa Hydro. He was active in the Canadian Electricity Association and the Municipal Electric Association (Ontario) R & D programs. He also served as Chair/President of both organizations and received their Distinguished Service Awards. Currently he is adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering Carleton University. Subjects include electrical engineering for mechanical engineers. -Dr. Bernard MacIsaac, PhD, P Eng.(Bernie MacIsaac) CEO , Gas Tops Ltd., a firm which specializes in gas turbine performance and health monitoring , training simulators and condition based maintenance. GasTOPS Ltd. is active in the electrical energy sector, the oil & gas sector and in aerospace. Bernie studied under and has worked with Herb Saravanamuttoo on gas turbine research projects for decades . system design - Dr. H.I.H. Saravanamuttoo , Ph.D. P. Eng. Fellow ASME, Professor Emeritus, Carleton University, has over 45 years experience with gas turbines with both manufacturers and users. Co-author of most widely used book on gas turbines, has given industrial gas turbine courses to firms such as Siemens, Solar, Pratt Whitney etc. He is the recipient of the top 2004 ASME Gas Turbine Award. - Charles Robb, P. Eng., B Eng, B. Computer Math. CMP, Certified Microsoft Systems Engineer, Completion of essentially all of the Certified Management Accountants program - COGENCanada Vice President. Charles is a Thermal Analyst and Financial Analyst. He helped Foster Wheeler design Heat Recovery Steam Generators and has extensive experience in computer applications in cogeneration feasibility studies, industrial energy audits and industrial energy management. - Bruce Brown, P. Eng. , Following a summer in a paper mill working on energy, Bruce received a Mechanical Engineering degree. He then became an Ontario Hydro Thermal Engineering Trainee and worked in the Head Office Heat Balance Department. He then all operating positions in two major Ontario Hydro coal fired Steam Electric Power Plants and received a First Class Power Engineering Certificate. He then decades as Operating Engineer in Major Ontario Hydro Fossil Thermal Power Plants and managed one of them. He is a Steam Turbine Instructor for COGENCanada (formerly ThermShare) Cogeneration Courses (some 25 to date). He participated in a major Cogeneration based Eco Industrial Network study. Mr. BILL PEARSON is presently a senior combustion research engineer with CANMET Energy Technology Centre in Ottawa and has a varied work history in number of energy related areas. -Richard Lampron - speaks fluent French & English- Richard has many years of energy systems design and management in oil refining and pulp and paper. He was Energy Engineer for Kruger Inc.Rivieres. and heads a group of energy consultants Opti Conseil near Becancour Quebec. -Jason Stacey B Sc. MBA , An energy consulting business established in 1999, specializing in natural gas: commodity marketing, supply procurement and pipeline distribution system delivery, regulatory research and analysis with 25 years of industry experience in natural gas deregulation which is being applied in the deregulation of the Ontario electricity market. Client types served include : end user groups, LDC, retailer/ marketer/producer, storage developer, power generator and consultant. Employment prior to 1999, included the Energy Studies, Rates and Marketing departments at TransCanada Pipelines; then deregulated natural gas sales and marketing at Western Gas Marketing, Northridge Gas Marketing and TransCanada Gas Services -Brian Woods Msc, (physical georgraphy) LLD Was with Dome Petroleums, PetroCanada, Director of Regulatory Affairs for Mobil prior to the takeover by Exxon - now Manger of Regulatory Affairs for Imperial Oil. Brian has done environmental work but for years he has be concentrating on natural gas price regulation aimed at ensuring that ensuring that toles are fair and reasonable. Based in Calgary, Brian is involved in major natural gas developments from coast to coast including Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. -Jim Noordermeer P Eng., – Principal Engineer – Gryphon International Engineering Services Inc. Jim has 30 years of international experience in the design, layout, installation and construction, commissioning, startup and servicing of gas turbine power and steam turbine generator power plants, including cogeneration, and combined-cycle plants and associated equipment, at Gryphon, at SNC-W.P. London and at Westinghouse Canada – Gas Turbine Division. Jim is a member and past-Chairman of the Industrial Application of Gas Turbines (IAGT) Committee (www.iagtcommittee.com). -Bill Matthews P. Eng., B.ENG., Chem Eng.; Msc Chem. Eng., Chem Engineer/Economist international oil and gas, oil refining, petrochemicals, ethanol etc., speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. He has done Studies of Cogeneration based Eco Industrial Networks in Canada. -Raymond Burelle P Eng - 7 years CE (now Alstom), Fossil & biomass boilers - Specialized in fluidized bed boilers with Tampella. Ray is VP in Charge ot the Canadian operations of Clyde Bereman Soo blowers etc. and Electro Static Precipitators - many years wood residue and recovery boiler experience- fluent in French & English Subash Vohra P Eng , Vice President COGENCanada - holds a degree in mechanical Engineering from India. Following two years of energy related engineering work in the Germany followed by a period doing the same sort of work with an Engineering firm in Montreal he joined the Canadian National Research Council where he rose to become Director of Facilities Engineering and Maintenance for ten years. He became the Director General of Administrative Services and Property Management in 1997 and worked in that capacity until his retirement in January 2007. Many of Subash=s projects, such as a number of energy performance contracts and installation of a 4.5 megawatt gas turbine cogeneration unit have been considered best practices in the public and in the private sector. He is the recipient of the first Federal Energy Innovation Award, the Treasury Board Award for Leadership in the Federal Real Property Community, Ontario Hydro=s Energy Efficiency Award, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers= Technology Award, and the Governor General of Canada=s medal for contributions to Canada and the Golden Jubilee Medal. Subash has been recognized in the engineering community for his leadership in energy management that contributed to NRC being considered a pioneer in energy efficiency. The cogeneration system he developed for the multi building NRC Montreal Road complex both heats and cools that large facility. The Absorption Chillers which cool the complex use steam from the cogen system. His responsibility for operation and maintenance has provided him with a good knowledge of all aspects. He added an absorption chiller system to cool the power plant building thus increasing the gas turbine output in warm weather. Subash has delivered a number of presentations on the NRC cogeneration system and the absorption chillers it serves at COGENCanada Courses and other events. He is an active promoter of cogeneration and supporter of COGENCanada. -Catherine Strickland B. Mech. Eng -Master Environmental .Management. 15 years energy management and greenhouse gas proj. & programs - industrial energy efficiency & cogen. Maintains Cogeneration data base comparing info with COGENCanada.. Is Ciar Person of the COGENCanada Environmental Committee - Dr. Terry Rogers Chairman R & D committee Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. Many years teaching applied thermodynamics including fossil and nuclear cogeneration. -Dr. Aidan Foss P Eng, MIEEE, MIEE PhD, has over 29 years of professional engineering experience covering power, control, software and simulation. A graduate in mathematics from Cambridge University with a doctorate in turbine control from Imperial College, Aidan specialized in computer control and simulation and was Vice-Chairman of the United Kingdom Simulation Council. Through the National Grid Company, Aidan focused on power applications, including auditing of generator-grid interconnection, generator controls and power quality. As the Principal Engineer of ANF Energy Solutions Inc., Aidan provides technical consultancy services covering power-plant automation, distributed generation, power systems analysis and power quality. - Don Murray P Eng 30 years experience in the pertroeum industry including Syncrude, Esso Resources, Canadian turbo, heavy oil upgraders and cogeneration with gasification. Based in Calgary Don recently worked with Joe Zanyk on an Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Cogeneration (Polygeneration) study involving gasification of coal to generate electricity, steam heat and chemicals. - Bob Dunbar, President, Strategy West Inc., leads a Calgary-based energy industry consulting firm that focuses on Canada=s oil sands industry. He has led several oil sands industry consulting assignments related to the outlook for the industry, its long-term energy and hydrogen requirements, and its energy and hydrogen supply options. He recently assisted the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) in its examination of oil sands industry cogeneration opportunities. Bob has more than 35 years of Canadian and international energy industry experience. He has a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta. He has completed management programs at the University of Calgary, Queen's University and the Banff Centre and has completed the Canadian Securities Course. -Dr. Iver Simonsen PhD Chem Eng. Iver worked for many year with PARICAN studying energy use in pulp and paper mills. He also was responsible for an quarterly pulp and paper mill energy survey of quantities of energy (electricity and various fuels both fossil and biomass) used by Canadian pulp and paper mills for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association and the Forest Products Association of Canada.. He also did Energy Analysis for H A Simons, NRCan (Fed. Govt) and Ecole Polytechnique. He attended a three day ThermoShare Cogeneration, Boiler and Turbine Technology Course. George Arcand Eng. George is an Engineering graduate from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Following some years as a project Engineer in pulp and paper mills he became Steam Plant Superintendent in what is now the Gatineau Que. newsprint mill of Bowater. During the sixteen years he Managed The large Gatineau Steam plant he supervised the installation of a modern high pressure biomass boiler. More recently he supervised the installation of a 20 MW extraction back pressure (non condensing) steam turbine generator (cogen system) George is fluently bilingual. -Peter Elder- Until recently Technical Director, Power Generation projects for Delta Hudson (now part of Jacobs) This leading EPC firm handled many of Canada=s major cogen projects including the recent TransAlta Combined Cycle Cogen system supplying four large chemical -petrochemical complexes with steam and electricity - also insitu oil sand projects etc. -Bill Hogg is an electrical engineer. Until recently was Superintendent, Power and Utilities Dept. Dow Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta and was responsible for the design, startup, and the operation of the cogeneration plant there. He worked with Joe Zanyk at Dow Sarnia -John Weyland P. Eng Following preliminary experience John was in the coal group with the Federal Energy Deparment then Joined TransCanada where he helped develop cogeneration projects in Canada and Mexico Among the federal Government Contacts are: Manfred Klein, B. Eng. (Carleton) Program Engineer, Electric Power Section, Oil, Gas and Energy Division, Federal Environment Department spent 11 years with the National Energy Board involved in design assessment of natural gas pipelines, gas turbines and combined cycles. He has recently been helping develop Federal Guidelines for gas turbines and combined cycles. Ivan Harvey B.Sc (Elec Eng) MBA P Eng was New Brunswick Power starting in 1973 where he worked on power distribution, transmission and operation becoming Director, External Power Marketing. From 1992 to 1997 he was Manager of the Electric Power Branch of the National Energy Board, where he provided advice on international electricity Trade Policy, development of electricity regulations, export authorization, international transmission line certification and electricity policy. Currently he is Senior Engineer, Electricity Trade, Transmission and Regulation. He is on the Engineering Committee of the Columbia River Treaty. Keith Quach M. Eng, P. Eng., CEM is a registered Professional Engineer in Quebec and Ontario, a Certified Energy Manager and a member of the Association of Energy Engineers. He is currently the Manager of the Pilot Emission Removals Reduction Initiative (PERRL) at Environment Canada (EC) which is an innovative program that the federal government launched to combat Climate Change by funding emission reduction projects in the Canadian private sector. Before joining EC, he was a senior energy engineer and senior industry officer with the Office of Energy Efficiency at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). One of his responsibilities was to provide strategic analysis to NRCan's senior management on how to promote Combined Heat and Power/Co-Generation in Canada to increase energy efficiency. He also attended the COGENCanada Cogeneration course, the Oil Sands Option. He is fluent in Chinese, Vietnamese and advanced in French. Prior to joining the Federal Government, Keith worked for several engineering firms in the Pulp & Paper (Enerquin Air Inc. of Montreal, a leading firm supplying heat recovery systems to Pulp & Paper mills in Quebec, USA, Korea and China), Aerospace (Pratt & Whitney of Montreal) and other sectors in various capacities. His earlier experience included working as a Millwright for Stearns Catalytic at Shell, Edmonton and Suncor, Fort McMurray in the Oil & Gas sector. |