An Archive of all conferences attended by REI people from May - December of 2003.


2003 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference
May 4-9, 2003 , Dallas, TX USA
  • Constance Senior, Adel Sarofim, Eric Eddings, “Behavior and Measurement of Mercury in Cement Kilns”

Fluent Users' Group Meeting
May 5-7, 2003 ,Manchester, NH USA
  • Christopher Montgomery, QingTang and G.M. Goldin, "Getting More Combustion
    Chemistry into CFD Simulations: Using Reduced Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms
    in Fluent"

22nd International Conference on Incineration and Thermal Treatment Technologies
May 12-16, 2003 , Orlando, FL .USA
  • Martin K. Denison, Christopher J. Montgomery, Adel F. Sarofim, Michael J. Bockelie, Alfred G. Webster, “Computational Modeling of a Chemical Demilitarization Deactivation Furnace System”

Colloquium on Black Liquor Combustion and Gasification
May 13-16, 2003 , Park City, UT USA
  • Martin K. Denison, Michael J. Bockelie, Zumao Chen, Constance L. Senior, Temi Linjewile, Adel F. Sarofim, “CFD-Based Models of Entrained-Flow Coal Gasifiers with Emphasis on Slag Deposition and Flow”
  • Zumao Chen, Adel Sarofim, Mike Bockelie and Kevin Whitty, "A Model for Black Liquor Gasification in a Fluidized Bed"

DOE-EPRI-U.S. EPA -A&WMA Combined Power Plant Air Pollutant Control Symposium - The Mega Symposium
May 19-22, 2003 , Washington, DC USA
  • Constance Senior, C. Jean Bustard, Kenneth Baldrey, Travis Starns, Michael Durham, “Characterization of Fly Ash From Full-Scale Demonstration of Sorbent Injection For Mercury Control on Coal-Fired Power Plants”
  • Marc Cremer, James Valentine, Hong-Shig Shim, Kevin Davis, Bradley Adams, J. J. Letcavits, Scott Vierstra, “CFD-based Development, Design, and Installation of Cost-effective NOx Control Strategies for Coal-fired Boilers”
  • Marc Cremer, Bradley Adams, and David O'Connor, "Improved Rich Reagent
    Injection Performance for NOx Control in Coal Fired Utility Boilers" (Poster No. 234)
  • Hong-Shig Shim, Bradley Adams, K. Wu, H. Lee, H. Wan, S. Chen, “Evaluation of Biomass Syngas Co-firing and Reburning in a Coal Fired Boiler” (poster No. 105)

2003 International Joint Power Generation Conference
June 16-19, 2003 , Atlanta, GA USA
  • James Valentine, Marc Cremer, Kevin Davis, J.J. Letcavits, and Scott Vierstra, "A CFD Model Based Evaluation of Cost Effective NOx Reduction Strategies In a Roof-Fired Unit"

AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference
June 23-26, 2003 , Orlando, FL USA
  • Christopher Montgomery, Wei Zhao, W., D.R. Eklund, and J.-Y. Chen, "CFD
    Simulations of Supersonic Hydrocarbon Combustion Using Reduced Mechanisms and ISAT"

Regional Business Opportunities in Supercomputing
July 14, 2003, Waynesburg, PA USA
  • Michael Bockelie, "CFD Simulation - a Small Business Perspective"
Solution Methods for Large Scale Non-Linear Problems Workshop
August 6-8, 2003, Livermore, CA USA
  • Michael Bockelie, Qing Tang, Martin Denison, David Wang, Marc Cremer, "A Newton-Krylov Based Solver for CFD Models using Finite Rate NOx Chemistry"

Mercury Control Technology R&D Program Review Meeting
August 12-13, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA USA
  • Constance Senior and Temi Linjewile, "Oxidation of Mercury Across SCR Catalysts in Coal-Fired Power Plants Burning Low-Rank Fuels"

International Symposium of Utilization of Coal and Biomass: Energy and Environment
August 28-29, 2003, Newcastle, Australia
  • Michael Bockelie, David Swensen, Martin Denison, Michael Maguire, Zumao Chen, Temi Linjewile, Constance Senior, Adel Sarofim, "Vision 21, The Next Generation Energy Plant, Description of its Goals and Progress in Developing Simulation Tools for It"

Twentieth International Pittsburgh Coal Conference
September 15-19, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA USA
  • Zumao Chen, Adel F. Sarofim, Michael J. Bockelie and Kevin Whitty, "Modeling of Black Liquor Gasification in A Bubbling Fluidized Bed"
  • Michael J. Bockelie, Martin K. Denison, Zumao Chen, Temi Linjewile, Constance L. Senior, Adel F. Sarofim, "Using Models To Evaluate Gasifier Performance"

Air Quality IV: Mercury, Trace Elements and Particulate Matter
September 22-24, 2003, Arlington, VA USA
  • James Kilgroe and Constance Senior, "Fundamental Science And Engineering Of Mercury Control In Coal-Fired Power Plants"
  • Constance Senior, C. Jean Bustard, Kenneth Baldrey, Travis Starns, Michael Durham, "Characterization Of Fly Ash From Full-Scale Demonstration Of Sorbent Injection For Mercury Control On Coal-Fired Power Plants"
  • Constance Senior, David Lignell, Zumao Chen, Brooke Shiley, Adel Sarofim, "Modeling Gaseous Mercury Behavior in Practical Combustion Systems"

American Flame Research Committee International Symposium on Combustion
October 16-17, 2003, Livermore, CA USA
  • Christopher J. Montgomery, Michael J. Bockelie, Joseph W. Bozzelli, "Thermochemical Properties, Reaction Paths and Kinetic Parameters for Thermal and Atmospheric Sulfur-Hydrocarbon Oxidation Reaction Systems"

DOE NETL Conference on SCR and SNCR for Control of NOx
October 29-30, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA USA
  • Marc Cremer David Wang, E. Schindler, "Improved Rich Reagent Injection (RRI) Performance For NOx Control In Two Coal Fired Utility Boilers"
  • Constance Senior, Temi Linjewile, Michael Bockelie, Eric Eddings, Kevin Whitty, Larry Baxter, "SCR Deactivation Mechanisms Related to Alkali and Alkaline Earth Elements"
  • Dave Swensen and Darren Shino, "Control Systems for Long-Term Field-Testing Applications" (poster)

2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition
November 16-21, 2003, Washington, D.C.
  • Wei Zhao, Christopher J. Montgomery, Marc A. Cremer, Bradley R. Adams, Dean R. Eklund, J.-Y. Chen, "Implementation of Reduced Mechanisms with ISAT into CFD Simulations of Full-Scale Combustion Systems"

The Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion
November 24-26, 2003, Nanjing, P.R. China
  • Brad Adams, Hong-Shig Shim, "CFD Evaluation of NOx Reduction Strategies in an Oil-fired Furnace"

JANNAF CS/APS/PSHS/MSS Joint Meeting
December 1-5, 2003, Colorado, CO USA
  • Christopher Montgomery, Wei Zhao, W., D.R. Eklund, and J.-Y. Chen, "Scramjet Combustion Simulations Using Reduced Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms and ISAT"

2003 Power-Gen Conference
December 9-11, 2003, Las Vegas, NV USA
  • Marc Cremer, David Wang, Paul Wolff, Richard Brown, "CFD Based Evaluation of the Sensitivity of Coal Fired Furnace Operation to Burner Flow Controls"
  • Brad Adams, Hong-Shig Shim, K.-T. Wu, S.L. Chen, "Evaluation of Co-Firing Biomass Syngas in a Coal-Fired Boiler"
  • James Valentine, Marc Cremer, Kevin Davis, J.J. Letcavits, Scott Vierstra, "CFD Modeling for Design of NOx Control Systems in Two Utility Boilers"