Allan McIntyre graduated from the University of Alberta and has 30 years experience as a professional engineer. Early in his career, Allan worked in the coal processing operations at three large coal mines in the Elk Valley, British Columbia. For the past twelve years he selected materials for Canadian and international oil and gas projects executed by Calgary based engineering firms. His materials selections have focused on refinery and upgrader piping and pressure equipment such as: pressure vessels, heat exchangers, heavy wall reactors, pumps, and, tanks. The range of materials includes carbon steel, chrome-moly steels, stainless steel, nickel alloys, and non-metallic materials. Thermal insulation is also an area of Allan's interest and expertise.
Oil and Gas projects are challenging opportunities for materials engineers. Carbon steel is usually selected for pressure equipment and piping systems. Chrome-moly steels and stainless steels are selected as required to meet more demanding process conditions of higher temperatures, and high corrosion rates. Materials can be "customized" to suit specific project requirements. For example, carbon steel pipe internally lined with stainless steel, and carbon steel plate clad with stainless steel offer high performance at lower cost compared to full thickness stainless steels. The material engineer uses skill and experience to select the "best fit" material from a range of options. This presentation provides a link between traditional and newer material selections for oil and gas projects.
Rene Godin is a Professional Engineer, a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, and spent most of his 40 year working career in the Nuclear field. He began as Chief Site Engineer on the construction of the first Nuclear Power plant in Quebec and became Construction Manager building Heavy Water and Nuclear Power plants. In 1989, he was appointed President and CEO of Canatom-an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning company-dedicated to Nuclear Energy - now a wholly owned by SNC-Lavalin.
Rene spent several years in South Korea and Romania in senior positions related to the construction of CANDU 6 Nuclear plants and assisted in negotiations for additional plants in Korea, and new plants in China. and elsewhere. After his retirement, Rene and his wife moved from Montreal to Calgary to be close to their two sons and their families.
In 2003 Rene was the recipient of an "Outstanding Achievement Award" in Nuclear Energy from the Canadian Nuclear Association and Canadian Nuclear Society.
Nuclear energy has been generating clean, safe, economical electrical energy for over 45 years, in 30 countries and represents 16% of the world's electrical energy. There exists many misconceptions in the general public regarding Nuclear Energy. These misconceptions are often generated by the media which seeks sensationalism.
Rene Godin's presentation will outline a brief history of Nuclear Energy, which countries use Nuclear Energy extensively and the planned new plants. He will compare Nuclear Energy with other forms of generating electricity, outline the safety aspects of Nuclear, how spent fuel is managed, economics of Nuclear Energy , how Nuclear is being accepted in society, benefits of Nuclear Energy in avoidance of greenhouse emissions, how costs of building Nuclear Plants are controlled and an update on Nuclear for Alberta.
Piotr Staniaszek, Ph. D., Senior Air Quality Scientist, Millennium EMS Solutions
Ltd.
Piotr has received M.Sc. degree from geophysics (University Of Warsaw, Poland; 1979),
M.Sc. degree in Physics (Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987) and Ph.D degree
in Environmental Physics (University of Calgary, 1992). Dr. Staniaszek joined Millennium
EMS in 2008. He has more than 18 years of experience in air quality consulting
including more than 14 years as a dispersion modeller. His areas of expertise include
air dispersion modelling, emission estimation, air quality assessments, utility software
development, meteorological data analysis/interpretation, and stack sampling.
Dr. Staniaszek has prepared meteorological data for the purpose of modelling. He has
used CALMET in order to obtain 3D meteorological data used by CALPUFF and, in
some cases, to predict maximum wind gusts. He has conducted plume dispersion
modelling using CALPUFF, ISC3, RTDM, SCREEN3 and AERMOD models.
Piotr has managed several projects, where air quality modelling results were the prerequisite
obtaining flaring permits and renewed approvals for gas plants. He has participated in
the modeling and writing of the air quality portions for EIAs for Oil Sands, Pulp and
Paper, where odour assessment was the important part of assessment. He has also
completed many projects for Coal, Gold, and Diamond Mining operations.
Kurt J. Hansen, M.Sc., P.Eng, President, Green Inc.
Kurt graduated as a Civil and Environmental Engineer in 1974 at the Technical
University of Denmark. He has 37 years of environmental service experience related to
emission control technology assessment and control device testing; emission
inventorying and verification; air quality assessment; environmental impact assessment;
waste management; and project regulatory permitting assistance.
His industry experience covers a broad range: electrical power and steam generation,
mining, petrochemical, oil sands, upstream and downstream oil and gas, pipelines,
forest and wood products, hazardous waste disposal, transportation, confined feedstock
operations and various small commercial sectors.
He is the author of a score of articles and presentations on the topics of emission
control, air pollution and waste management.
Alberta oil and gas facilities occasionally cause extraordinary odour emissions that
become a nuisance to neighbouring farmers and community residents. The root causes
of the facility odour are of many abnormal operational types and occasional culprit
emission sources. The odour components are from a large chemical spectrum
(Hydrogen Sulphide, H2S, and reduced sulphur compounds, RSC, being the most
commonly used ‘odour quantifiers’). However, the compounds like BTEX, C5-C8
Aliphatics, Mercaptans, or Aldehydes, can also be potentially responsible for some
odour complaints.
This presentation will provide a basic overview of current scientifically
accepted plume dispersion models used to predict downwind ground-level exposure to
various emitted air pollutants, with an emphasis on odour emission constituents. A
modelling and predictive case history (for a SAGD and Oil Sand Mine facilities) will be
presented, followed by a brief case history of predictive modelling results (relative to
observed, measured results) for a major odour source: an Alberta pig barn operation.
The presentation concludes that predictive odour modelling is not ‘a fait accomplis’,
because of the many variables involved.
Murray Rundle, P.Eng., graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the University of Calgary in 1999. He has 12 years of experience in the design and specification of heat exchangers for oil refineries, bitumen upgraders, gas processing facilities and SAGD applications. He spent 10 years in the Calgary EPCM industry with Fluor and Colt/WorleyParsons before becoming the Canada Manager of EMbaffle where his duties include sales, business development, thermal design, specification and fabrication support for shell and tube heat exchangers incorporating EMbaffle Technology. Murray has a strong background in TEMA and API Standards, thermal design with HTRI software, ASME Code design and technical specification development.
Max Wang, Ph.D., P.Eng., is the Director of Engineering, Major Projects, Suncor Energy Services Inc. He was the Discipline Engineering Manager of Oil Sands Projects in Petro-Canada Inc before its merger with Suncor in 2009. Prior to joining Petro-Canada in 2006, Max held a number of positions in Bantrel Inc., including the Civil/Structural/Architectural Department Chief and the discipline lead engineer for several large Oil Sands projects. In addition to his project and engineering management expertise, Max is also a concrete materials and structure expert and has been a technical committee member of Canadian concrete codes since 1998.
It is a tremendous challenge for even the world’s most sophisticated engineering companies to deliver a large and technically complicated project to meet its technical integrity, schedule and cost expectations. One of the critical skills and difficulties for executing such projects is managing the engineering or design. There has been an enormous amount of research and teaching effort on business management and some effort on project management and construction management. Engineering management, probably the most complicated form of any management, however, is a subject that has been totally neglected, even in universities and institutions reputed in project management.
Consequently, there is a significant shortage of such expertise in this field worldwide and it's all too often that complicated projects go off the track because of poor management of engineering, resulting in huge cost overruns, schedule delays and/or even total functional or safety failures. The Boeing Dreamliner, Airbus A380, Chunnel Tunnel, and many Canadian Oil Sands projects are just a few examples of such recent struggles. This presentation will examine the criticality and fundamentals of engineering management for project success, particularly in the context of today's usually globalized execution of Canadian Oil Sands projects.
Rene Godin is a Professional Engineer, a graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, and spent most of his 40 year working career in the Nuclear field. He began as Chief Site Engineer on the construction of the first Nuclear Power plant in Quebec and became Construction Manager building Heavy Water and Nuclear Power plants. In 1989, he was appointed President and CEO of Canatom-an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning company-dedicated to Nuclear Energy - now a wholly owned by SNC-Lavalin.
Rene spent several years in South Korea and Romania in senior positions related to the construction of CANDU 6 Nuclear plants and assisted in negotiations for additional plants in Korea, and new plants in China. and elsewhere. After his retirement, Rene and his wife moved from Montreal to Calgary to be close to their two sons and their families.
In 2003 Rene was the recipient of an "Outstanding Achievement Award" in Nuclear Energy from the Canadian Nuclear Association and Canadian Nuclear Society.
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46 PM north-east coast of Japan was struck by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake followed by a 10 meter tsunami and aftershocks measuring 7.5. This was the most severe natural disaster in Japan's history. The towns of Sendai and Minami were affected the worst with over 25,500 dead, 95,000 houses and businesses washed away and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant complex in trouble.
Rene will outline the state of nuclear energy in the world and will dwell on the Fukushima accident. He will explain in some detail what let up to the release of radionuclides in the atmosphere and end up indicating up to date status of the reactors.
Rene will outline what impact the Fukushima accident will likely have on the world nuclear power industry.
He will outline the design of the new Advanced Passive Westinghouse reactors now being built in China and explain how CANDU reactor design can withstand severe incidences.
Pieter started to work for Nexen / Long Lake in August 2009. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, as well as a Master of Engineering and Master of Business Administration degrees. Pieter started his career with Sasol in South Africa, where synthetic crude oil is produced from coal. Pieter worked for 18 years at Sasol in different areas like project management, operations and business development in their quest for wealth creation. Pieter moved to Canada in 1998 to work on Project Millennium at Suncor Energy, living in Fort McMurray for several years. He joined Petro-Canada in 2002 as a senior project director, working on converting the Edmonton refinery from 50% sweet crude to 100 per cent synthetic crude. He was also responsible for the project execution on the Fort Hills joint venture.
Winter is mostly seen as a bad part of construction in Alberta. It is however also an ally because it would have been more difficult to execute projects if we did not experience the winters. Planning should take both aspects into account and there are mitigation actions that can be done to lower the impact of winter. The presentation will cover safety, productivity, transportation, advantages, heavy lifts, planning for winter and mitigation actions.
Laura Schuelert joined CAWST in 2007 and leads the development of their education materials and training programs. She brings to CAWST a unique combination of engineering consulting with AMEC Earth & Environmental, education programming and teaching experience earned over 13 years. Her water and sanitation project work has taken her to Zambia, Nepal, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, Mexico and Northern Canada. Laura holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering and a Masters of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Guelph, and most recently earned a Bachelor of Education in Outdoor, Experiential and Environmental Education from Lakehead University.
Why do almost 1 billion people lack safe drinking water? Why does 40% of the world population lack basic sanitation? We will explore these international development and engineering issues together and discover how CAWST, a Calgary non-profit organization, has impacted 3.6 million people with better water and sanitation in less than a decade. We will also discuss what actions you can take to help address the global water and sanitation crisis.
CAWST, the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology, provides technical training, consulting, and acts as a centre of expertise in water and sanitation for the poor in developing countries.
Nigel Shrive is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Director of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health at the University of Calgary. He has worked on the structural function of joints and soft tissues for many years. He invented an artificial knee joint which has been implanted in thousands of people worldwide and is still in use today.
The knee is a complex joint involving several tissues. These tissues interact synergistically in a healthy joint, transmitting load from one bone to another whilst also allowing almost frictionles motion of the joint. The tissues are all water saturated, fibre-reinforced materials of exquisite architecture. Our understanding of how they work is still not comprehensive - some of the difficulties will be discussed.
Injury to a joint or dysfunction of a tissue can lead to osteoarthritis.
The disease and its progression will be explained with respect to joint mechanics and function.