|
Kyoto & Climate Change Technology Challenges & Opportunities
Seminar
This seminar
introduces some of the issues surrounding the Kyoto Protocol
implementation and the challenges from Climate Change Technology important to engineers. There are many opportunities
and challenges for
engineers. The challenges are
multidimensional involving much more than the technical issues.
This seminar will also draw attention to Climate Change Technology
Conference: 9-12 May 2006 at Ottawa Congress Centre see
http://www.ccc2006.ca
Suggested reading for
this seminar: April
2005 PEO Engineering Dimension article by David Lapp (a
presenter) can be viewed at: What
Engineers Need to Know about Climate Change. For the
Computer Society an article of interest in the recent
"Computer" magazine: The Profession
and the Big Picture".
When: Friday, May 13,
2005
Location:
Communication Research Center 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, in
the main auditorium
Broad Target
Audience: Technology Managers,
Engineers, Technology Managers, Engineers, interested COP 11
participants, others interested in Green House Gas technology
AGENDA:
====================
08.20 -
08.40 a.m. Registration, coffee & muffins and networking
08.40 –
08.50 a.m. John Grefford –
Introduction and overview
8:50 –
9:40 a.m. Tim Patterson –
Climate Change: A Scientific
Perspective
9:40 –
10:00 a.m. Marius-Adrian Oancea -
Two Kyoto Project Mechanisms: the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
and the Joint Implementation (JI)
10.00 –
10:20 a.m. Coffee Break
10:20 –
10:55 Marius-Adrian Oancea -
Two Kyoto Project Mechanisms: the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
and the Joint Implementation (JI)
10.55 –
11:50 p.m. Rick Whitaker –
Sustainability Development Technology $550M national clean
technology fund and the opportunities for the engineering community
in the clean tech space
11:50 –
1:00 p.m. Lunch
01.00 -
02.50 p.m. Manfred Klein –
Co-Generation Tech. What engineers need to know.
02.50 -
03.10 p.m break/coffee
03:10 –
04:00 p.m. Bill Kemp –Climate-friendly
Small-scale Generation – An Economic Perspective.
04:00 –
04:30 p.m. David Lapp – Future Engineering
opportunities and “take away”.
Registration:
(click here) : (space
is limited, registration required).
Session Cost
(includes continental breakfast, breaks, lunch
and handouts):
$90 – General
Registration (before May 9, 2005, all costs
includes GST)
$70 - OCRI, PEO,
and OSPE members
$50 - IEEE and IEE Members
(Membership for IEEE available now at 50% discount at
www.ieee.org
)
$25 - IEEE Students, (EIT)*
and EMS Members.
|
|
Overview:
Tim Patterson
Climate Change: A Scientific Perspective. In the eight years
since the Kyoto Protocol was first introduced there has been a
revolution in climate change science. This is not surprising given
that the industrial world, including Canada, has spent around thirty
billion dollars on climate research over the period. Canadian
researchers have played a significant role in this climate science
revolution (e.g. relative role of the hydrologic and carbon cycles,
celestial climate drivers, greater understanding of natural climate
variability, etc.). As the climate science changes, as it has over
the past eight years, government policy must adapt as well.
Marius-Adrian Oancea - Joint
Implementation Project (JI). The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The International opportunities.
The presentation focuses on the description of two of the three
mechanisms developed within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol,
namely the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Joint
Implementation (JI). It describes the procedural component of
developing a CDM or JI project, the nature of the emission reduction
units generated as well as the stakeholders involved. Additionally,
it will point out the role of Canada’s CDM&JI Office and the type of
financial support provided to project developers.
Rick Whitaker – Rick will
provide an overview of STDC $550M national clean technology fund and
the opportunities for the engineering community in the clean tech
space
Manfred Klein – Co-Generation
Technology - What engineers need to know: Industrial Energy Systems
CHP & Cogeneration District Energy Gas Turbine Combined Cycles Coal
Gasification
Bill Kemp –Climate-friendly Small-scale
Generation – An Economic Perspective The Kyoto Protocol requires
that Canada reduce its emissions of Greenhouse Gases to 6% below
1990 levels. A significant contribution to GHG emissions arises from
electricity generation. End use efficiency must be the top priority
as it is the most cost-effective solution. Small-scale generation
also has a significant role to play, but it must first be proven to
be economically viable. The economic viability of small-scale,
environmentally-friendly generation sources such as hydro, wind,
solar and bio-fuels is highly dependent on both external and
institutional factors. Compared to conventional large-scale
fossil-fueled generation, these technologies generally incur higher
initial capital cost per kW, but benefit from lower operating costs
and freedom from fuel price risk. From a financial viewpoint, it is
not sufficient for such projects to merely break even. They must
offer a return on capital comparable with other investment
opportunities, which is difficult when consumption of electric power
from competing conventional sources is effectively subsidized.
David Lapp – This presentation will review
some of the anticipated impacts of climate change and the
implications for engineering practices that mitigate climate change
as well as adapt to it. Climate change will be a challenge to design
using projections into the future rather than past data, which will
no longer be valid. However, climate change will be a tremendous
opportunity for engineering innovation and advancement in many
disciplines. .
PRESENTERS:
John Grefford:
John
received his B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Military
College in Kingston, ON. He received his B.Sc. and Master's in
Electrical Engineering from the U.S, Naval Post Graduate School,
Monterey, CA. and an MBA from Laval, Quebec City, PQ. John
is presently Principal Engineer at CRO Engineering Ltd. where he
oversees all project delivery for the company. John has had
experiences from teaching at University to management of large-scale
multinational projects. He is organising Chair of the Climate Change
Technology Conference, details at
www.ccc2006.ca
Tim Patterson: Dr. Tim
Patterson is a Professor of Geology at Carleton University in
Ottawa, Ontario Canada. He uses sediments, microfossils and
geochemistry to study evidence of past and present climate change in
lake and oceanic sediments. Dr. Patterson is Principal Investigator
of a Canadian Foundation For Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
project studying high-resolution Holocene climate records from
anoxic fjords and coastal lakes in British Columbia and is Canadian
leader of UNESCO International Geological Correlation Program
Project 495 “Quaternary Land-Ocean interactions". He has published
more than 100 papers in peer reviewed scientific research journals,
receiving a 2002-2003 Carleton University Research Achievement Award
in recognition of his work. He was appointed Senior Visiting Fellow
in the School of Geography at the Queen’s University of Belfast in
2003. He received both a B.Sc. in Biology (1980) and a B.A. in
Geology (1983) from Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. and a Ph.D.
in Geology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
in 1986. After a brief stint as a Visiting Assistant Professor at
the University of Southern California he joined Carleton University
in 1988 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor
in 1999. Other areas of research interest include the use of
microfossils and other proxies to quantify rates of sea level
change, the use of various freshwater proxies as paleoclimatic and
paleolimnological indicators, and the determination of whether the
methods of non-linear dynamics are applicable in the study of
evolutionary phenomena.
Marius-Adrian Oancea:
Marius-Adrian Oancea is a Senior Program Officer with the CDM&JI
Office of Foreign Affairs Canada. His professional experiences
encompasses project implementation in transportation engineering,
IT, energy and climate change in the private and public sectors in
Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Adrian graduated
with a M.Eng. from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and is a
Professional Engineer in Ontario since 1994.
Rick Whitaker: Rick Whittaker is
Vice President Investments at Sustainability Development Technology
Canada (SDTC). During his career in technology investment, Mr.
Whittaker has played a pivotal role in network convergence, led
initiatives in product development, and managed several advanced
technology investment programs. He has initiated several patents on
these technologies, which are in production today. Mr. Whittaker has
successfully launched and built four companies and has been
consistently recognized as a motivational leader, holding executive
positions in engineering, business development and venture
investment for companies such as BCE Capital, Everest Partners,
Nortel Networks, APN, West Carleton Meeting Centre, and AirShare.
Mr. Whittaker has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Sciences from the
University of Waterloo with an option in Management Science.
Manfred Klein
Manfred Klein has been a Senior Program Engineer in the Oil, Gas &
Energy Branch and the Electricity & Industrial Combustion Branches
of Environment Canada since 1991. He has assisted in the development
of CCME national emission guidelines for stationary gas turbines in
various energy sectors, and with guidelines in cement kilns and
industrial/commercial boilers. Mr. Klein is also engaged in;
economic analysis of cleaner energy choices, cogeneration and
district energy, natural gas industry R&D, energy-output based
emission standards, taxation incentives, full fuel cycle analysis,
emission measurement, and energy and environmental training
activities. He is currently Vice Chair of the Canadian committee on
Industrial Applications of Gas Turbines, and former Chair of the
ASME International Gas Turbine Institute's Environment Committee. He
spent eleven years with the National Energy Board, in the design
assessment of natural gas pipelines, gas turbine-driven compressor
stations and combined cycles. Mr. Klein holds a Bachelors Degree in
Mechanical and Aero Engineering (1980) from Carleton University,
Ottawa.
Bill Kemp Balance Solutions for
Today Inc., is a consulting electronics/software designer who
develops control systems for low environmental impact hydroelectric
utilities worldwide. He is also an author, sustainable living and
clean energy advocate working in such areas as; renewable energy
heating, energy efficiency, photovoltaic, micro-hydro and wind
electric systems. Bill is a leading expert in small and mid-scale
(<20MW) renewable energy technologies. He is the author of the best
selling book The Renewable Energy Handbook for Homeowners and has
just completed his second book titled $mart Power; an urban guide to
renewable energy and efficiency. In addition he has published
numerous articles on small-scale private power and is the chairman
of an electrical safety standards committee with the Canadian
Standards Association. He and his wife Lorraine, live off the
electrical grid on their hobby/horse farm in eastern Ontario.
David Lapp David graduated with a
bachelor’s degree in geological engineering from the University of
Toronto in 1978. He is presently the Manager, Professional Practice
with the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) and is
part of the Secretariat to the Canadian Engineering Qualifications
Board (CEQB). His work includes coordinating the development and
maintenance of national standards for the practice of professional
engineering in Canada, including continuing professional
development, practice guidelines, coordination of projects
supporting discipline and enforcement policies and procedures. His
responsibilities include industry liaison and the implementation of
a national action plan on climate change impact and adaptation.
We welcome
you to submit suggested topics for presentations.
If
you wish to volunteer to help organise a seminar, do not hesitate and contact EMS Officers.
*
For additional information or to indicate Engineer in Transition (EiT*:
anyone who is eligible to join IEEE and who is currently unemployed) please contact:
John Grefford at Grefford@ieee.org
, or call 613-839-1108. You may become a member at www.ieee.org
|
