Program at a Glance

We are excited to chat and learn from the following oral and poster presenters.

  • 7:00pm - Speakers' Dinner - Kinnear Centre, Room 103

  • 7:00am - Breakfast, Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Recreational Facilities Building

    8:15am - Official Welcome, Max Bell Auditorium, Max Bell Building

    8:45am- Keynote Speaker - Roman Shor

    9:15am - Steffen Griepke - Assessment and Modeling of Attendant Smoldering During TCH at a Former MGP

    9:45am - Clayton Campbell - Thermal Remediation of Ethylene Dichloride (EDC): Investigating Hydrolysis, Soil Buffering Capacity, and Electrical Conductivity

    10:15am - Coffee Break, Max Bell Central Foyer, Max Bell Building

    10:30am - Gorm Heron - Thermal Treatment of PFAS-containing Soil: What is different?

    11:00am - Alyson Fortune - Insights into the Fate of PFAS During Thermal Treatment and A Novel Approach for High Temperature Catalytic Treatment of Vapors

    11:30am - Dave Liefl - STAR and STARx – A Smouldering Solution to PFAS from Laboratory to Field Scale Applications

    12:00pm - Lunch, Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Recreational Facilities Building

    1:15pm - Gurpreet Kaur - Analysis of geothermal heating effects on BTEX biodegradation using novel bacterial strains isolated from borehole soil

    1:45pm - Liam Price - Analyzing Recovered Condensate to Monitor Progress During In-Situ Thermal Treatment of Coal Tar and Creosote

    2:15pm - Anneli Liljemark - Evaluating the climate impacts of remediation projects in Sweden – a comparison of carbon footprint from different remediation technologies

    2:45pm - Coffee Break, Max Bell Central Foyer, Max Bell Building

    3:00pm - Poster Presentations, Elder Tom Crane Bear and Max Bell Central Foyer, Max Bell Building

    5:30-7:30pm - Dinner, Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Recreational Facilities Building

  • 7:00am - Breakfast, Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Recreational Facilities Building

    8:45am - Jan Haemers - Deconstructing the Energy Consumption of In Situ Thermal Desorption: Factors, Parameters, and Realities

    9:15am - Reza Rahimi - The Effect of Initial Air Content on the Performance of Electrical Resistance Heating: a Numerical Modeling Study

    9:45am - Jarrod Yoder - A Geological Engineering Perspective of In-Situ Thermal Remediation

    10:15am - Coffee Break, Max Bell Central Foyer, Max Bell Building

    10:30am - Scott Tarmann - Engineering Design to Thermally Treat a Deep TCE Source Beneath an Active Facility

    11:00am - Xiaosong "Jason" Chen - Lessons Learn from the Application of In Situ Thermal Technology on Site Contaminated with Sulfite Compounds

    11:30am - David Rountree - Soil Vapor, Groundwater, and Condensate Treatment for High-Temperature Thermal Remediation Sites: Design Considerations and a Case Study

    12:00pm - Lunch, Vistas Dining Room, Sally Borden Recreational Facilities Building

    1:15pm - Seyed "Ali" Madani - Experimental Study of Granite’s Thermal Properties Temperature Dependency Using a Steady State Approach

    1:45pm - Shahab Ghasemi - Pore-Scale Investigation of Heat Transfer in Granular Porous Media

    2:15pm - Coffee Break, Max Bell Central Foyer, Max Bell Building

    2:30pm - Nicolas Bernardes - High Temperature IT-DSP™ Ex-Situ PiIot Tests – A Case Study

    3:00pm - Nick Dumaresq - Steam Enhanced NAPL Recovery at a Former Manufacturing Site in Canada. Challenges and Solutions

    3:30pm - Poster Presentations and Reception, Elder Tom Crane Bear and Max Bell Central Foyer, Max Bell Building

    5:30pm - Symposium adjourns

  • Amy Salvador - How Does Climate Change Impact Thermal Remediation?

    Bruce Scott Kennington - Digital Tools for Project Management during Construction and Demonstration of Thermal Treatment Performance for Regulatory and Stakeholder Acceptance

    Chris Kalinowski - Case Study and Lessons Learned from ISTR Application in Glacial Till Setting with High Water Table Conditions

    David Alcocer Rodriguez - Assessing the Magnitude of Temperature Enhanced Hydrolysis and Biochemical Degradation in VOC/SVOC Impacted Groundwater via a Thermal In-situ Sustainable Remediation Pilot Study

    Eva Davis - Sustainability and Life Cycle Analysis of Site Remediation

    Flavio Coelho - Design and Installation of a Thermally Enhanced Biological Barrier

    Gorm Heron - Thermal treatment below an active facility with no access for drilling

    Graham Mackey - The Use of Data Management, Visualization, and Machine-Learning Tools to Optimize Design and Performance, and to Streamline Stakeholder Communications on In-Situ Thermal Remediation Projects

    Ilia Kuznetcov - Electromagnetic sensing of materials

    Jan Haemers & Miles Stumbaugh - State of the art for PFAS-impacted soils. What are the available remediation technologies?

    Jan Haemers & Miles Stumbaugh - Thermoreact® - An innovative remediation product for In Situ neutralization of halogens and sulfur during Thermal Desorption

    Janine Schmitke - Bench Scale Treatability Study for In-Situ Thermal Remediation of
    2,2,4,6,6-Pentamethylheptane Comparing ET-DSP™ and IT-DSP™

    Jarrod Yoder - From concept to post-performance - 30 years of lessons-learned on thermal remediation projects

    Jonah Munholland - In Situ Thermal Remediation Market Review from 1988 to 2020

    Kevin Crowder - Combining ERH and Steam to Remediate a Complex Lithology

    Milad Arabloo - Impedance and dielectric frequency domain measurements of sand sample at elevated thermobaric conditions

    Nader Nourdanesh - Application of Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs) for Electric Power Generation in Geothermal Plants

    Nicolas Bernardes - Pentamethylheptane – A novel chemical characterization and remedial approach

    Paul Furbacher - Kinetics of Naphthalene Biodegradation by the Thermophile JF8

    Qianli Xie - Simulating the spatial extent of groundwater subject to enhanced degradation rates forlow temperature thermal treatmentunder heterogeneous permeability conditions

    Steffen Griepke - Steam Enhanced Extraction – Lessons Learned from Several Field Implementations

See presenter biographies here.