Tuesday, November 7, 2023
GREATER COLUMBUS CONVENTION CENTER
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:00 a.m. — 8:45 a.m. EXHIBITS OPEN
8:45 a.m. — 9:00 a.m. WELCOME
Scott Cooper, President Glass Manufacturing Industry Council; Kerry Ward, Executive Director, Glass Manufacturing Industry Council
9:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. PROGRAM TRACK: MELTING & CONTROLS
Kenneth Bratton, Manager of, Research and Development, Bucher Emhart Glass; Eric Dirlam, Master Furnace Engineer, SSOE Group
9:00 a.m. — 9:30 a.m. Accelerated Melting and Homogenization for Single-Melter – Multi-Forehearth Processes; S.K. Sundaram, PhD, Program Director, Alfred University
9:30 a.m. — 10:00a.m. SORG’s Hybrid Furnace – the “CLEAN-MELTER®” Dirk Schnurpfeil, Research and Development Manager, Nikolas SORG GmbH & Co KG
10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. Melting Technologies for Low iron PV Glass: Recent Advancements; Wolf Kuhn, Chief Expert Glass Process, Fives Group
10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. BREAK & EXHIBITS
11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. PROGRAM TRACK: COMBUSTION
Program Chairs: Glenn Neff, Vice President, Glass Service USA; Jan Schep, Melting Strategist Refractory and Steel, O-I
11:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. Improved Process Automation for Regenerators; Neil Simpson, President, Simpson Combustion & Energy, Ltd.
11:30 a.m. — 12:00 noon Integrated Burner Technology and Oxygen Supply for Glass Melting: A Step Towards Sustainability and Decarbonization; Michael Gallagher, PhD, Lead Engineer, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
12:00 p.m. — 12:30 p.m. Regenerator Modeling for Energy Optimization; Rui Carneiro, CFD Engineer, CelSian
12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. LUNCH AND EXHIBITING
2:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. PROGRAM TRACK: DECARBONIZATION
Session Chairs: Shrikar Chakravarti, Associate Director, Glass Business Development, Linde, Inc.; Erik M. Helin, Sr. Research Engineer, Johns Manville
2:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. Integrated Solutions for Air Pollution Control, Waste Heat Recovery and CO2 Capture for Glass Melting Furnaces; Alessandro Monteforte, CEO, K2-CO2
2:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m. The Potential to Decarbonize the Glass Industry Using Hydrogen and Biofuel Technologies, Bridget Stewart, PhD, Sr. Projects Manager, Glass Futures
3:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. Optionality in Decarbonizing Glass; Sarah Eastman, Global Account Manager, Shell
3:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. BREAK AND EXHIBITS
4:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Glass Melting of the Future Operation of a Hybrid Glass Furnace Melter with a High Degree of Electric Usage: Erik Muijsenberg, Vice President, Glass Service, Inc.
4:30 p.m. — 5:00p.m. True Carbon Neutrality in Glass, Brian Naveken, Manager of Technology, Toledo Engineering Company
7:30 p.m. — 11:00 p.m. HOSPITALITY SUITES
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
8:00 a.m. — 9:00 a.m. EXHIBITS OPEN
9:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. PROGRAM TRACK: EMISSIONS CONTROL
Program Chair: Daniel Johnson, Glass Process Engineer, Libbey, Inc.; Larry McCloskey, Consultant, Anchor Hocking
9:00 a.m. — 9:30 a.m. Monitoring Ceramic Filter Health to Realize More than 15 Years of Operational Life; Ian Chisem, Technical Director, Ceramic Filter Alliance, LLC
9:30 a.m. — 10:00 a.m. Catalytic Ceramic Filter Systems – 12 Years After the First Installation; Rod Gravley, President, Precision Partners, LLC
10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. Historical Operations of Optical Monitoring in Glass and it’s Bright Future; Gary Cacciatore, Engineer, Cemtek KVB-Enertec
10:30 a.m. — 11:00 a.m. BREAK AND EXHIBITS
11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. PROGRAM TRACK: ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Program Chairs: Jong Han, Senior Engineer, II, Owens Corning; Justin Wang, Senior Process Engineer, Guardian Industries
11:00 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. Double Digit Energy Savings with Batch and Cullet Pre-heating. The ABP® 2.0 and it’s Recent Installations, Volker Maier, Head of Sales, Zippe Industrieanlagen GmbH
11:30 a.m. — 12:00 noon Advanced ORC WHR System with Radial Outflow Turbine Technology for Energy Efficiency and Decarbonization Improvements in the Glass Industry: Andrea De Finis, Sales Manager Heat Recovery, Exergy International Srl
12:00 p.m. — 12:30 p.m. Hot & Cold Repair Solutions for Glass Furnaces; Cyril Linnot, SEFPRO Care Unit Manager, SEFPRO
12:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. LUNCH and EXHIBITS
2:00 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. PROGRAM TRACK: SUSTAINABILITY
Program Chairs: Jim Uhlik, Vice President of Technical Services, Toledo Engineering Company, David Girvan, Vice President, Vitro Architectural Glass
2:00 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. Modern Glass Recycling Plants, Thomas Wesian, Product Manager, Binder+Co
2:30 p.m. — 3:00 p.m. Development and Evaluation of Hydrogen-Oxygen Burner for Glass Melting Furnaces, Yoshiyuki Hagihara, General Manager, Taiyo Nippon Sanso Co.
3:00 p.m. — 3:30 p.m. Energy Efficiency Improvement by Blending Green Fuels with Natural Gas, Hisashi Kobayashi, Senior Corporate Fellow, Linde, Inc.
3:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. Criticality of Glass in the Deployment of Solar for Decarbonization; Hope Wikoff, Research Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
4:00 p.m. CONFERENCE WRAP-UP