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The 2012...North East Residuals & Biosolids Conference & ExhibitFrom Managing Nuisances to Managing Nutrients: 15 Years of Improving Biosolids Utilization October 23-24, 2012 • University of Massachusetts, Amherst Conference Program - Final Agenda: download here Download Presentations (PDF format): CONFERENCE TOUR: UMass Lab & AD Sidestream Reactor Pilot Plant SESSION 1: CO-DIGESTION Keleman: Mass Balance Evaluation of Food Waste Carbon on the Conventional Activated Sludge Process Craig: Development of an Integrated Hauled Waste Management Program Williams: Mixing Anaerobic Digesters with High Strength Waste Addition Sierra: Does the Addition of High Strength Wastes Affect Biosolids Quality?
SESSION 2: NEW APPLICATIONS OF OLD TECHNOLOGIES Nicoletti: Drying and Gasification of Organic Solids Mead and Bugay: The Tail Pipe of the Plant: Incineration, Air Permitting, and Ash Landfill Management Duprey: Beneficial Residuals Management for Mine Reclamation
SESSION 3: 15 YEARS OF IMPROVING BIOSOLIDS UTILIZATION
SESSION 4: REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS Cooper/MassDEP: Massachusetts Organics Action Plan Slater/MassDEP: Revisions to Operations & Maintenance Standards for WWTPs Lannan: How the Regulation Will Work - The Practitioner's Perspective Wolman/MassDEP: Air Pollution Control for AD and CHP Systems Bird/EPA: Implementation of Sewage Sludge Incineration Rules in New England Wolman/MassDEP: Implementation of New Sewage Sludge Incineration Regulations Benninger: Canada-wide Approach for the Management of Wastewater Biosolids Hopkins: Maine Biosolids Regulations Update Rainey: New Hampshire Biosolids Regulations Update
SESSION 5: MANAGING NUTRIENTS (P IS ESPECIALLY COMPLICATED!) Carpenter: The Basics - Measuring and Reporting Phosphorus in Soils, Fertilizers, Manures, and Biosolids Akin: The NRCS Approach to Managing Nutrients on Farms McBurnie: Current State Regulations of P Fertilizers Ryan: The Northeast Voluntary Turf Fertilizer Initiative
SESSION 6: RECOVERING NUTRIENTS FOR IMPROVED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT Mosher: It's Not Easy Being Green - Advances in Biosolids to Fertilizer Reuse Bullard: Resource Recovery Opportunities from Anaerobically Digested Sludge Dewatering Side Streams
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The 2011 conference... November 9 - 10 The Johnson & Wales Inn, Seekonk, MA (by Providence, RI). NEBRA Annual Membership Meeting - Nov. 9, 11:15 am DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM FLYER HERE. Conference PresentationsIntermission slide show with exhibitor information
Session 1: Energy Production Mishalani: Process Operations and Energy Management: A Case Study Wenskowicz: Bucklin Point Biogas CHP Feasibility Study (Narragansett Bay Commission) Lisk: Coordinating utility billing rates to maximize benefit from on-site energy...
Session 2: Academic Research Park: Sludge Reduction in High Rate Anaerobic Side-Stream Reactor Process Wang: Anaerobic co-digestion of microalgae and activated sludge... Brown: Soil Amendments and the Survival of Roadside Turfgrasses
Session 3: Adapting to the New EPA Incinerator Regulations Hamkins: Impacts of New SSI Standards on Mattabassett District's New FBI System Design Sapienza: Upgrade of Brockton's MH Incinerator to Meet Current Air Quality Standards
Session 4: Sustainability Craver: Evaluation of the Performance and Environmental Impacts of the Codigestion Process... McFarland: Comparing Biosolids Options for Sustainability (Bridgeport, CT) Fontaine: Energy Efficient Reuse of Biogas at WWTFs - The Trend Continues in New England Jakiela & Canterbury: Yoga for Operators - Flexible Implementation of Biosolids Improvements in Bridgeport, CT
Session 5: Keynotes Slaughter: Biosolids Law 2011: Challenges to Beneficial Use Moss: Charting the Future of Biosolids Management
Session 6: Alternative Feedstocks in Residuals Processing & Energy Production Kilbourn & Caroll: Co-Digestion of Manure and SSO Spencer: Technology Review of High Solids Digestion of SSO and Feasibility Study... Keleman: Life Cycle Assessment of Systems for the Management & Disposal of Food Waste
Session 7: Operations Kowalczuk: Aqueous Sludge Gasification Technologies - Technology Assessment McBurnie: EMS Status: At the Halfway (?) Point Dwinal: Merrimack, NH - The first FKC screw press dewatering 100% domestic biosolids in N.E. Mahoney: The First Huber Q800 Inclined Screw Press Installation in the East... (Dover, NH)
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The 2010 conference...Max-i-mize Re-co-ver-y
November 9 - 10, 2010UMass Lowell Conference Center, Lowell, MADownload: Conference Flyer & Registration Form
Conference PresentationsConference Exhibitors' Information Intermission Slideshow with Exhibitor Information New England Organics Information
Conference Tour - Greater Lawrence Sanitary District & NEFCO Pelletizing Facility GLSD & NEFCO Slideshow (presented at the tour)
Co-Digestion Workshop Toffey: Co-digestion at Wastewater Treatment Plants - On the Way to Energy Self-Sufficiency Duran: Evaluating Potential Substrates Novak: Digester Operation Lynch & Schettler: Biogas Utilizatiohn - Looking Beyond Boilers and Flares Snellings: Massachusetts Farm Digester Project Ostapczuk: Is It a Digester or a Power Plant? AD & CHP at Gloversville-Johnstown
Session 1: Energy Production & Use Law-Flood & Wong: Tapping the Energy Potential of Municipal Waste Water Treatment Reffelt: Alternative Economic Model for Biosolids Drying Success in Kingston, NY Montenegro: An Alternative Use For Biosolids Alix: Biosolids Gasification - A Technology Review
Session 2: Biosolids in the Public Eye Adamski: Biosolids and the Media Connelly: Disaster Relief - Manufactured Topsoil to the Rescue Cox: NBP Update - Retooling the Program
Session 3: Regulatory Roundtable Hopkins: Maine Regulations - Odors Rainey: New Hampshire Regulations Kelley: Vermont Regulations - Rulemaking Casella: Massachusetts Regulations U. S. EPA/Turgeon: Update on Part 503 / EPA Regulatory Work
Session 4: Hot Topics Teng: Microbial Risk Assessment Modeling Monteith: The Latest on Micro-constitutents - Cross Canada Biosolids Field Sampling Beecher/Armet: EPA Regulates Combusted Sewage Sludge as Solid Waste Kester: San Francisco Compost Program & Debate - An Update
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2009 North East Residuals & Biosolids & Energy ConferenceNovember 4 - 5, 2009 • North Haven, CT The 2009 annual conference was a resounding success, with a record number of leading professionals in the field attending. The avid interest in energy extraction from biosolids was evident. Speakers presented the latest information from across the country. The presentations from the conference are available for free download, below. Please note that these files are secured PDF documents. Any opinions they express do not necessarily represent positions of NEBRA. For permission to use or reproduce any portion of any of the following, contact the individual presenter(s). Conference Exhibitors' Information Intermission Slideshow of Conference Exhibitors (1.7 MB) Alpine Technology Information (600 KB)
Conference Tour Presentations at Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority (NHWPCA) GNHWPCA: Biosolids Renewable Energy Project (3.1 MB) GNHWPCA: Fats, Oils and Grease Handling and Usage at the GNHWPCA (1.5 MB)
Session 1: The Broader Perspective on Biosolids & Energy Patricia Scanlon/Lori Stone: Biosolids as a Renewable Energy Source - Are We There Yet? (PDF, 1.5 MB) Michael Wilson: Bioenergy Technology Advances That Promote Wastewater Utility Energy Independence (PDF, 484 KB) Chris Hornback: The Definition of Solid Waste, SSI Regulations, and Implications for the Future (PDF, 1 MB) Richard Splete: Municipal Utilities, Then and Now (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Session 2: Accounting - Carbon & FinancialTurgeon/Beecher: Funding Opportunities (PDF, 432 KB) Carpenter: Biosolids Management and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF, 1.2 MB) Widell: Carbon Accounting at Waste Options, Nantucket (PDF, 2.9 MB)
Session 3: Biosolids Safety & QualityZiemba & Bibby: Designing Anaerobic Digestion for Energy Recovery and Pathogen Inactivation (PDF, 3.3 MB) Ecker/Connelly: Certified! New England Biosolids EMS Programs Cross the Threshold (PDF,2.2 MB) Peot: Biosolids in Virginia - Current Status: Why and How (not available) Stevens: The 2008 Targeted National Sewage Sludge Survey (not available)
Session 4: Biosolids & Energy: What's Been Done? - Case StudiesParry/Carr: Cogeneration at the Columbia Boulevard WWTP (PDF, 4.8 MB) Grace: Goodbye Fossil Fuel! The Successful Use of Biogas for Biosolids Drying (PDF, 2.6 MB) Carr: Optimizing the Value of Biogas (Des Moines, IA) (PDF, 3.2 MB)
Session 5: Biosolids & Energy: What's on the Drawing Board?Lynch: Shifting the Paradigm: Anaerobic Digestion and Combined Heat & Power for Small WWTFs (PDF, 884 KB) Hardy: Energy Reduction Using On-Site Power Generation in Enfield, CT (PDF, 1.3 MB) Headd: For Norwich Public Utilities, Microturbines Make Dollars and Sense (PDF, 824 KB)
Session 6: TechnologyOsborn: Gravity Co-Thickening - When it Works and When it Doesn't (PDF, 1.6 MB) Budzich: Large-Scale Vermicomposting (PDF, 1.5 MB) Goodmote/Lannan: Food Residuals: An Energy Source Processed by a Good Neighbor (PDF, 884 KB) Treleven: Getting More Value from Anaerobic Digestion with the Crown Solids Disintegration System (PDF, 2 MB)
____________________________________________________________________ Prior North East Residuals & Biosolids ConferencesProceedings Available: 1998 - presentNEBRA and the New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA) Residuals Committee cooperatively produce the North East Residuals and Biosolids Conference each year, usually in November. Past conference presentations are available on CD-ROM by U. S. post. FREE for members or $10 for non-members.2008: "Talk the Talk & Walk the Walk," November 12 - 13, 2008, Holiday Inn, Nashua, NH 2007: "Brown to Green," December 3 - 4, 2007, Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel, Springfield, MA 2006: "The Way Biosolids Should Be," November 14 - 15, 2006, Village By the Sea, Wells, ME 2005: "Hot & Cold: Diverse Biosolids Management in New England," November 15 - 16, 2005, Wyndham Westborough Hotel, Westborough, MA 2004: "Managing Residuals: Partnerships Across Industry Lines," November 9 - 10, 2004, Four Points Sheraton, Revere, MA 2003: "Continuing Developments in Biosolids Management," November 12 - 13, 2003, Wayfarer Inn, Bedford, NH 2002: "Meeting the Demands for Better Performance in Biosolids Management," November 13 - 14, 2002, Best Western Sovereign Hotel, West Springfield, MA 2001: not available 2000: not available 1999: "Biosolids Recycling = Water Quality," April 20, 1999, Holiday Inn West, Portland, ME (a NEBRA-only conference; presentations no longer available) 1998: "Can We Agree? Biosolids Recycling is Environmentally Correct," May 1, 1998, Holiday Inn, Concord, NH (a NEBRA-only conference; presentations no longer available)
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