8:00 am |
Introduction and Welcome
- Gregory Picker, Policy Officer, Australian Greenhouse Office
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8:20 am |
SF6 and the Environment: Understanding, Measuring, and Managing
- The Science of Global Climate Change and the Role of SF6, Jerry D. Mahlman, Former Director-Emeritus, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Methods for Measuring SF6 Emissions, Dina Kruger, Branch Chief, Methane & Sequestration Branch, USEPA
- Global Climate Change Policy: The View From Here, Vicki Arroyo Cochran, Director of Policy Analysis, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
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11:20 am |
US EPA’s Voluntary SF6 Emission Reduction Partnerships and a Perspective On Global Sales of SF6
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1:15 pm |
International Perspectives On SF6 Emission Reduction
- Australia, Gregory Picker, Policy Officer, Australian Greenhouse Office
- Germany, Katja Schwaab, Product Manager, Halogenated Substances, Federal Environmental Agency
- Japan, Shigeru Maruyama, Manager, Department of Engineering,The Federation of Electric Power Companies in Japan Masanari Meguro, Assistant Senior Manager, Toshiba Corporation
- Denmark, Frank Jensen, Biologist, Miljostyrelsen (Danish EPA)
- Canada, John Ayres, Senior Program Engineer, Minerals & Metals Division, Environment Canada
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4:00 pm |
Utility Breakout Session I: Effectively Managing SF6: Leak Detection And Reduction
- EPRI’s SF6 Management Program, Ben Damsky, Manager, Power Electronics Systems, EPRI
- Experience with Infrared Leak Detection on FPL Switchgear, John Fischer, Project Manager, Florida Power & Light and Dave Keith, Field Service Manager, Roberts Transformer
- Standoff Wide Area Detection of SF6 by Means of a Passive IR Imaging Spectrometer, E. Robert Schildkraut, Vice President, Corporate Development and Research, Block Engineering, Division of Spectra Optics Incorporated
- Remanufacturing Older Breakers, George A. McCracken, Operations Manager, ABB Power T&D Service
Magnesium Breakout Session I: Alternative Melt Protection Gases
- International Magnesium Association (IMA) and SF6, Byron Clow, Executive Vice President, IMA and James Hillis, Chairman of IMA’s SF6 Substitution Committee, Noranda
- Hydrofluorocarbons as a Replacement for SF6 in Magnesium Processing, Nigel Ricketts, Senior Leader for Magnesium Production, Australia’s CRC for Cast Metals Manufacturing
- Handling and Use of Sulfur Dioxide for Magnesium Melt Protection, Darryl L. Albright, Director of Market Development, Hydro Magnesium
- A Replacement for SF6 The MagShield System, Allen Schultz, Director, Light Metals - North America, HATCH
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6:00 pm |
Poster Sessions
- Poster #1: The SF6 ReUse Program, David Iacoe, Solvay Fluorides, Inc. and Michael Pittroff, Solvay Fluor und Derivate GmbH
- Poster #2: Impact of High Voltage SF6 Circuit Breakers on Global Warming - Relative Contribution of SF6 Losses, Jean-Luc Bessede, Alstom T&D France and Werner Krondorfer, Alstom T&D USA, Inc.
- Poster #3: Historical Global Emission Trends of the Kyoto Gases HFCs, PFCs and SF6, Jos G.J. Olivier, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Joost Bakker, TNO-MEP
- Poster #4: Electrical Insulation Performance of Extremely Small Amount of SF6 in N2 Mixture and the SF6 Reduction Rate for Electric Power Apparatus, Hitoshi Okubo, Nagoya University
- Poster #5: Carbon Membrane Separator for Elimination of SF6 Emissions from Gas Insulated Electrical Utilities, Gil Dagan, Giora Agam, Vitaly Krakov, Len Kaplan, Carbon Membranes Ltd.
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