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Tuesday, 7 March 2023
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09:00
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Chair’s opening remarks
Mike Bradley, Director Wolfson Centre Bulk Solids Handling, University of Greenwich and Member of the Bulk Materials Handling Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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Bulk materials handling as an enabling technology towards net-zero
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09:10
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Setting the sustainability scene for bulk materials handling
Allan Barton, Global Resources and Waste Business Leader, Arup
- Highlight how society got to the challenges of today
- Identify key drivers that will impact on the future
- Suggest areas to be considered correct our current trajectory
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09:30
Keynote
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Utilising solids handling in biomass operations to support net-zero
Paul Sheerin, Director Disport Operations, Enviva
- The growing significance of biomass operations across the UK
- How solids handling processes of biomass are moving towards decarbonisation
- Future considerations to strengthen biomass operations
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10:00
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Energy from waste - how to harness missed opportunities
Phil Jenkinson, Chief Engineer – Thermal Applications, N+P Group B.V
- Benefits of waste sorting, size reduction and densification
- Advanced alternative fuel production and associated benefits for handling, logistics and end use
- Materials handling constraints and opportunities
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10:30
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Networking refreshment break
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Minimising the negative impact of solids handling
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11:00
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Case study: Innovation to support the handling of solids
Speaker to be announced
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11:30
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Reducing emissions in the size reduction and drying industry
Nikheel Mistry, Project and Process Commissioning Manager, Bradley Pulverizer
- Efficient milling techniques
- Efficient drying techniques
- Optimized plant design for reduced emissions
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12:00
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Panel session: Working towards best practice
- How do we get bulk materials engineers focused
- What does good sustainability look like in bulk materials processes
- Why best practice is a must to drive sustainability and decarbonisation
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Networking lunch
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Working to reduce our carbon footprint on bulk materials handling processes
Garry O’Malley, Operations Director, Teeswork
- The challenges facing Teeswork when it comes to solids handling
- The challenges facing Teeswork when it comes to solids handling
- Solids handling – future thinking
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Innovative approaches to pneumatic conveying to reduce energy consumption
Richard Ellis, VP EMEA, Schenk Process
- Innovative techniques to reduce power consumption with lean phase conveying
- Innovative techniques to reduce power consumptions with dense phase conveying
- Opportunities provided by conditional monitoring and industrial digitisation to reduce power consumption of all types of pneumatic conveying
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Networking refreshment break
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Interactive roundtables – Improving sustainability of materials handling operations
- Analysing the opportunities in renewables energy industry
- Considerations of financial sustainability
- Improving equipment sustainability
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Feedback of roundtable discussions
An opportunity for each table to summarise their discussions and findings. The outcome of these discussions will be summarised and shared with all attendees post-event.
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Future thinking from the Bulk Materials Handling Committee
Mike Bradley, Director Wolfson Centre Bulk Solids Handling, University of Greenwich and Member of the Bulk Materials Handling Committee, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
- The role of bulk materials engineers in decarbonising processes
- What will future processes look like?
- Can we go further than 2050 targets, and what does that mean for sustainability?
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16:30
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Chair’s closing remarks
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17:00
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End of seminar
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