Tuesday, November 7, 2023
GREATER COLUMBUS CONVENTION CENTER
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:00 a.m. — 8:45 a.m.
EXHIBITS OPEN
8:45 a.m. — 9:00 a.m.
WELCOME
Kerry Ward, Executive Director, Glass Manufacturing Industry Council
GMIC 2023 GLASS MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE AWARD
Scott Cooper, President Glass Manufacturing Industry Council
PROGRAM INTRODUCTION
S. K. Sundaram, PhD, Program Director, Alfred University
9:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.
PROGRAM TRACK: MELTING & CONTROLS
Kenneth Bratton, Manager of, Research and Development, Bucher Emhart Glass; Eric Dirlam, Master Furnace Engineer, SSOE Group
9:00 a.m. — 9:30 a.m.
Multi-Forehearth Rapid Homogenization Glass Production; S.K. Sundaram, PhD, Program Director, and W.C. LaCourse, PhD, Professor of Glass, Alfred University
9:30 a.m. — 10:00a.m.
SORG’s Hybrid Furnace – the “CLEAN-MELTER®” Dirk Schnurpfeil, Research and Development Manager, Nikolas SORG GmbH & Co KG
10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.
Melting Technologies for Low iron PV Glass: Recent Advancements; Wolf Kuhn, Chief Expert Glass Process, Fives Group
10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.
BREAK & EXHIBITS
11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK: COMBUSTION
Program Chairs: Glenn Neff, Vice President, Glass Service USA; Jan Schep, Melting Strategist Refractory and Steel, O-I
11:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m.
Improved Process Automation for Regenerators; Neil Simpson, President, Simpson Combustion & Energy, Ltd.
11:30 a.m. — 12:00 noon
Integrated Burner Technology and Oxygen Supply for Glass Melting: A Step Towards Sustainability and Decarbonization; Ashwin Vinod, PhD, Principal Research Engineer, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
12:00 p.m. — 12:30 p.m.
Regenerator Modeling for Energy Optimization; Rui Carneiro, CFD Engineer, CelSian
12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.
LUNCH AND EXHIBITING
2:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK: DECARBONIZATION
Session Chairs: Shrikar Chakravarti, Associate Director, Glass Business Development, Linde, Inc.; Erik M. Helin, Sr. Research Engineer, Johns Manville
2:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m.
Integrated Solution for Air Pollution Control, Waste Heat Recovery and CO2 Capture for Glass Melting Furnaces; Alessandro Monteforte, CEO, K2-CO2
2:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m.
The Potential to Decarbonize the Glass Industry Using Hydrogen and Biofuel Technologies, Bridget Stewart, PhD, Sr. Projects Manager, Glass Futures
3:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.
Flue Gas Treatment for Emissions Control WHR/ORC, and Carbon Capture Optimization; Xavier Dhubert, Sr. Consultant, XDH Energy
3:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
BREAK AND EXHIBITS
4:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m.
Glass Melting of the Future Operation of a Hybrid Glass Furnace Melter with a High Degree of Electric Usage: Erik Muijsenberg, Vice President, Glass Service, Inc.
4:30 p.m. — 5:00p.m.
The Current State of Carbon Neutrality in Glass, Brian Naveken, Manager of Technology, Toledo Engineering Company
7:30 p.m. — 11:00 p.m.
HOSPITALITY SUITES
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
GREATER COLUMBUS CONVENTION CENTER
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:00 a.m. — 9:00 a.m.
EXHIBITS OPEN
9:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.
PROGRAM TRACK: EMISSIONS CONTROL
Program Chair: Daniel Johnson, Glass Process Engineer, Libbey, Inc.; Larry McCloskey, Consultant, Anchor Hocking
9:00 a.m. — 9:30 a.m.
Monitoring Ceramic Filter Health to Realize More than 15 Years of Operational Life; Ian Chisem, Technical Director, Ceramic Filter Alliance, LLC
9:30 a.m. — 10:00 a.m.
Catalytic Ceramic Filter Systems – 12 Years After the First Installation; Cameron Kiani, Project Manager, Precision Partners, LLC
10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m.
A Higher Standard of Monitory Systems & Customer Service; Gary Cacciatore, Engineer, Cemtek KVB-Enertec
10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m.
BREAK AND EXHIBITS
11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK: ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Program Chairs: Jong Han, Senior Engineer, II, Owens Corning; Justin Wang, Senior Process Engineer, Guardian Industries
11:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m.
Batch and Cullet Pre-heating ABPneo, Volker Maier, Head of Sales, Zippe Industrieanlagen GmbH
11:30 a.m. — 12:00 noon
Advanced ORC WHR System with Radial Outflow Turbine Technology for Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization Improvements in the Glass Industry: Andrea De Finis, Sales Manager Heat Recovery, Exergy International Srl
12:00 p.m. — 12:30 p.m.
Hot & Cold Repair Solutions for Glass Furnaces; Justin Packard, Care & Expendables Regional Sales Manager, North America, SEFPRO
12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m.
LUNCH and EXHIBITS
2:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
PROGRAM TRACK: SUSTAINABILITY
Program Chairs: Jim Uhlik, Vice President of Technical Services, Toledo Engineering Company, David Girvan, Vice President, Vitro Architectural Glass
2:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m.
Modern Glass Recycling Plants, Thomas Wesian, Product Manager, Binder+Co
2:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m.
Development and Evaluation of Hydrogen-Oxygen Burner for Glass Melting Furnace, Yoshiyuki Hagihara, General Manager, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Co.
3:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m.
Green Fuels for Glass Melting, Hisashi Kobayashi, Senior Corporate Fellow, Linde, Inc.
3:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
Criticality of Glass in the Deployment of Solar for Decarbonization; Hope Wikoff, Research Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
4:00 p.m.
CONFERENCE WRAP-UP
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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