2019 Program
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
7:00pm - Speakers' Dinner
Thursday, June 6, 2019 - Day 1
7:30-8:45am - Breakfast
8:45-8:50am - Official Welcome: Dr. Bruce McGee, McMillan-McGee corp.
8:45-9:15am - Keynote presentation - Apostolos Kantzas
9:15am - Denice Nelson - Can microbes reduce thermal remediation timeframes and implementation costs? A retrospective look at thermal sites
9:45am - Jonah Munholland - Low-Temperature Thermal Remediation
10:15am - Coffee Break
10:30am - James Baldock - Sustainable Low Temperature Thermal Remediation of Pesticides
11:00am - Jay Dablow - Sustainable Combination Heating: An Innovative Approach for In Situ Thermal Remediation in Challenging Lithology
11:30am - Xin Song - Sustainable Remediation of Diesel-Contaminated Soil by Low-Temperature Thermal Desorption
12:00pm - Lunch,
1:15pm - John LaChance - A Multiple Lines of Evidence Approach For Determining When to Shut Down an In Situ Thermal Remediation System
1:45pm - Marco Zanoni - remediation of contaminated soil: the energy balance that underpins applied smouldering
2:15pm - Magdalena Krol - ET-MIP: A Numerical Tool for In-Situ Thermal Remediation Applications
2:45pm - Coffee Break
3:00pm Panel Discussion - The Death of Thermal? What IS the future of thermal? With panelists; Gavin Grant, Erin Hauber, Jason Cole and Jay Dablow
4:00pm - Poster Sessions
5:30-7:30pm - Dinner
Friday, June 7, 2019 - Day 2
7:30am - Breakfast
8:45am - Grant Geckeler - Thermal Oxidation of Extracted Off-Gas to Supplement In Situ Heating: Modelling, Design & Imperial Results from Three Projects
9:15am - Paul Furbacher - Thermally Enhanced Bioremediation of Naphthalene by the Thermophile JF8
9:45am - Kevin Mumford - Title Unknown
10:15am - Coffee Break
10:30am - Bruce McGee - An Approach for Modeling Induction-Based Heating for In-Situ Thermal Remediation of Heterogeneous Soil with Non-Linear Properties
11:00am - Professor Bryant - Nanoparticle-enabled hyperthermia for wireless wall warming and other applications
11:30am - Robert D'Anjou - Electrical Resistance Heating and Bioremediation: Compatibility, Effectiveness, and Post-Heating Bio-Polishing
12:00pm - Lunch
1:15pm - Hamid Alemohammad - Fiber Optic Sensors for Harsh Environments: Environmental, Hydrogeological, and Chemical Sensing Applications
1:45pm - Zan Chen - Experimental Investigation on the Steam-Foam Process: Profile Control and Gravitational Drainage Effect
2:30 - Julia Vidonish - Pyrolytic Reactions: Investigating the Role of Oxygen in Thermal Treatment
3:30 - 5:30pm - Poster Presentations, Networking / Social, and Reception
5:30pm - Symposium adjourns
Poster Presentations
Mark Klemmer; Arcadis - Accelerated Abiotic Reactions under Thermal Conditions
Mark Klemmer; Arcadis/Dow - Laboratory Co-boiling Study at Site with Mixed DNAPLs
Kevin McLenehan; OnSite Remediation - In-situ Electro Kinetic Process Review
David Rodriguez; Arcadis - Assessing the Magnitude of Temperature Enhanced Hydrolysis and Biochemical Degradation in VOC/SVOC Impacted Groundwater via a Thermal In-situ Sustainable
Eva Davis; EPA - Lessons Learned and Continuing Challenges for Thermal Remediation at Superfund Sites
Kathryn Johnson; ERM - In-Situ Thermal Remediation – How Safe Is It?
Graham MacKey; ERM - The Use of Steam Propagation Tests and Thermal Modeling to Develop In Situ Thermal Remediation Design Parameters
Flavio Coelho; ERM - The Use of Steam to Remediate a Benzene Plume at a Petrochemical Facility in Brazil.
Ian Molnar; York University/Queens University - ET-MIP: A Framework for Coupling and Validating Continuum-Discrete Models for Thermal Applications
Travis Leung; McMillan-McGee Corp. - Innovations in Thermal Remediation Technology - IT-DSP
Gavin Grant - STAR (In Situ) and STARx (Ex Situ): Overview and Full-scale Applications of Smoldering Combustion for the Treatment of Contaminated Soils and Liquid Organic Wastes
Muhammad Imran; Saskatchewan Research Council - Heavy Oil EOR - Laboratory Methods for Thermal & Chemical Process Evaluation
Muhammad Imran; Saskatchewan Research Council - Designing Thermal Hybrid EOR Process - Surfactant Selection, Screening and Testing Criteria
Robert D'Anjou; Cascade Thermal - ISTR Applications at Petroleum Impacted Sites – Cascade Thermal
Clayton Campbell; McMillan-Mcgee Corp. - Thermal Conduction Heater Design Considerations for High Thermal Flux Heaters in Dry Soils - A Simulation Study
David Rountree; McMillan-McGee Corp. - Water Table Elevation Variation on Thermal Remediation Sites
Qianli Xie; Queens University - Numerical Study of Volatile Organic Compound Removal by Thermal Treatment
Sahand Etemad; University of Calgary - Efficient Nanoparticle Transport via Foam to Create Oil-In-Water Emulsion for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Ilia Kuznetcov; University of Calgary - Flow Monitoring Study in Sand Packs via Frequency-Domain Reflectometry and Dielectric Spectroscopy Analysis
Apostolos Kantzas; University of Calgary - Challenges associated with relative permeability curves in thermal processes
Jessica Butron; University of Calgary - Understand Oil Sloughing in Bottom Water SAGD
Yunxiao Wei; BCEER/University of Winnipeg - The Benefits of Sub-Boiling Heat for the Treatment of FMGP Residuals
Martin Beaudoin; Arcadis - IN SITU THERMAL DESORPTION Site Remediation Using the Electro-Thermal Dynamic Stripping Process (ET-DSP™
Erin Hauber; US ARMY - Government perspectives on Executing ISTR Projects