This innovative technology accepts mixed municipal solid waste, recovers recyclable materials, and refuse derived fuel (RDF), and produces a marketable soil amendment. The presentation provides photos of newly operational facility.
The South West Hub Project: Developing a project in unconventional geologyGlobal CCS Institute
The WA Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) has been investigating the Lesueur Formation on-shore South West of Western Australia.
The South West Hub project has been acquiring field data between 2011 and 2015 involving 2D and 3D seismic and four wells. The third generation of modelling has just been concluded.
This webinar provided an opportunity to understand how a project goes about establishing confidence in storage based on migration assisted trapping (MAT) in unconfined saline aquifers. The injection reservoir is heterogeneous and over 1,500 m thick with varying permeability layers that should support residual and solubility trapping for primary containment.
To assist the understanding of the challenges faced in characterising this ’unconventional’ play, Dominique Van Gent, the Coordinator of Carbon Strategy in the Department of Mines and Petroleum, and Sandeep Sharma, the Technical Advisor to the project, presented on the findings including:
- Data Acquisition
- Static modelling
- The results of dynamic modelling
- Challenges for the future
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (MEEC) delivers best-in-class, patented solutions for the coal-fired electric utility industry to achieve and maintain compliance with highly restrictive new EPA requirements on mercury smokestack emissions.
The South West Hub Project: Developing a project in unconventional geologyGlobal CCS Institute
The WA Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) has been investigating the Lesueur Formation on-shore South West of Western Australia.
The South West Hub project has been acquiring field data between 2011 and 2015 involving 2D and 3D seismic and four wells. The third generation of modelling has just been concluded.
This webinar provided an opportunity to understand how a project goes about establishing confidence in storage based on migration assisted trapping (MAT) in unconfined saline aquifers. The injection reservoir is heterogeneous and over 1,500 m thick with varying permeability layers that should support residual and solubility trapping for primary containment.
To assist the understanding of the challenges faced in characterising this ’unconventional’ play, Dominique Van Gent, the Coordinator of Carbon Strategy in the Department of Mines and Petroleum, and Sandeep Sharma, the Technical Advisor to the project, presented on the findings including:
- Data Acquisition
- Static modelling
- The results of dynamic modelling
- Challenges for the future
Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (MEEC) delivers best-in-class, patented solutions for the coal-fired electric utility industry to achieve and maintain compliance with highly restrictive new EPA requirements on mercury smokestack emissions.
Advisian Digital Enterprises hosted the COMIT community day at Brentford in March 2015 at WorelyParsons. These slides were presented during their showcase slot.
The technology of cleaning semiconductor wafersMaxim Zarezov
The technology of slicessurface structuring and purification from metal, organic contaminants and removal of the photoresist, using highly concentrated ozone
Inogent Laboratories Pvt. Ltd is the manufacturing and development services subsidiary of GVK Biosciences (GVK BIO). Inogent offers a broad spectrum of services that include Custom Research & Development, Custom Synthesis, Contract Manufacturing and Commercial Manufacturing, while also intelligently managing and offering Intermediates & Bulk Actives to a large base of clients globally.
Advisian Digital Enterprises hosted the COMIT community day at Brentford in March 2015 at WorelyParsons. These slides were presented during their showcase slot.
The technology of cleaning semiconductor wafersMaxim Zarezov
The technology of slicessurface structuring and purification from metal, organic contaminants and removal of the photoresist, using highly concentrated ozone
Inogent Laboratories Pvt. Ltd is the manufacturing and development services subsidiary of GVK Biosciences (GVK BIO). Inogent offers a broad spectrum of services that include Custom Research & Development, Custom Synthesis, Contract Manufacturing and Commercial Manufacturing, while also intelligently managing and offering Intermediates & Bulk Actives to a large base of clients globally.
Risk-Based Qualification of X-Ray Sterilization for Single-Use SystemsMilliporeSigma
Watch the presentation of this webinar here: https://bit.ly/3vQf0qv
In the single-use bioprocess industry, X-ray irradiation warrants consideration as an alternate sterilization technology. Using a risk-based qualification testing strategy is important when evaluating and implementing equivalent ionizing irradiation sterilization methods.
The urgent need for life-saving therapies as a result of the global pandemic has reinforced the criticality of flexibility in pharmaceutical manufacturing, including sterilization. The single-use bioprocess industry traditionally has employed gamma irradiation sterilization. X-ray irradiation is being considered as an additional sterilization technology for business and supply continuity. We will share a risk-based qualification testing strategy including Extractables and data generated to support comparability of gamma irradiation and X-ray irradiation as equivalent ionizing irradiation sterilization methods.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
• The comparison of gamma and X-ray irradiation sterilization
• A risk-based qualification test strategy
• Data evaluation of gamma versus X-ray sterilized single-use components
Presented by:
Monica Cardona,
Global Senior Program Manager
Paul Killian, Ph.D.,
R&D Director, Analytical Technologies
Risk-Based Qualification of X-Ray Sterilization for Single-Use SystemsMerck Life Sciences
Watch the presentation of this webinar here: https://bit.ly/3vQf0qv
In the single-use bioprocess industry, X-ray irradiation warrants consideration as an alternate sterilization technology. Using a risk-based qualification testing strategy is important when evaluating and implementing equivalent ionizing irradiation sterilization methods.
The urgent need for life-saving therapies as a result of the global pandemic has reinforced the criticality of flexibility in pharmaceutical manufacturing, including sterilization. The single-use bioprocess industry traditionally has employed gamma irradiation sterilization. X-ray irradiation is being considered as an additional sterilization technology for business and supply continuity. We will share a risk-based qualification testing strategy including Extractables and data generated to support comparability of gamma irradiation and X-ray irradiation as equivalent ionizing irradiation sterilization methods.
In this webinar, you will learn about:
• The comparison of gamma and X-ray irradiation sterilization
• A risk-based qualification test strategy
• Data evaluation of gamma versus X-ray sterilized single-use components
Presented by:
Monica Cardona,
Global Senior Program Manager
Paul Killian, Ph.D.,
R&D Director, Analytical Technologies
Future-proof industrial assets with circular strategiesStork
Bijna de helft van de koolstof emissies is product gerelateerd en de beschikbaarheid van grondstoffen wordt steeds kritischer. Op weg naar een duurzame samenleving is het onvermijdelijk om de lineaire economie van “take-make-dispose” te doorbreken door de toepassing van circulaire strategieën. Maar wat betekent dit voor de industrie, en welke bijdrage kan Asset Management hieraan leveren?
In dit webinar schetsen Jack Doomernik en Erika Kuo mogelijke rollen die Asset Management kan spelen in circulariteit. Zij presenteren een aanpak met vier oplossingsrichtingen waarmee u uw uitdagingen in circulariteit te lijf kunt gaan
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
Waste conversion of the future, operating facility in France
1. Nouveau Waste Conversion:
An Innovative French Technology Comes to the US
January 31, 2012
Presented by:
Sandy Gutner, P.E.
2. Founder of Value Added Consulting, based in Ft. Lauderdale.
25 years in solid waste management consulting experience
gained with nationally known consulting firms.
Primarily role as municipal clients’ or serve as owners’
representative.
Extensive technology evaluation experience from MSW
composting, pyrolysis, and others in late ’80s, 1st generation of
plasma gasification, through current generations.
www.value-addedllc.com
Sandy Gutner, P.E.
Focused expertise leveraging and complementing your resources
3. Discussion Topics
Project background and overview
Technology description and development history
Feasibility study methodology
Pictures
Study findings
Current status
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4. Emerging Technologies
New technologies being introduced constantly.
Implementation slow to materialize in US.
Most new technologies involve thermal
conversion, electricity generation, or fuel production.
US market success heavily reliant on commercial
viability.
Oxalor is a unique waste conversion technology based
on relatively simple concepts that generates
marketable products from household waste.
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5. Criteria for Success of Emerging
Waste Management Technologies
A working technology is only the 1st step.
Reference facility in commercial operation, using
similar feedstock, in this case as-delivered municipal
solid waste (MSW).
Vendor willing and able to accept financial and
performance risk.
Marketable products to support diversion claims.
Competitive tipping fee
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6. Study Background
Oxalor is a patented waste conversion technology, with
US patents pending.
Viridia, Int’l owns exclusive licensing rights to the Oxalor
technology in the US.
Value Added Consulting was engaged by Viridia
International to conduct an independent feasibility study
of the Oxalor technology.
Feasibility study was used to facilitate company and
project financing.
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7. Oxalor Background
The process was developed in France more than 10 years ago.
Original development was for use in converting wastewater
biosolids to fertilizer.
Testing was conducted on different feedstocks including MSW.
After successful testing, the developer was able to execute an
agreement between the Oxalor Group and a coalition of 18
regional municipalities to build and operate an Oxalor MSW
facility for 20 years.
The facility ownership is divided between the municipalities (51%)
and the Oxalor Group (49%).
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8. Oxalor MSW Development
The facility sponsors applied for a permit to construct and
operate an Oxalor facility using MSW.
Extensive regulatory scrutiny in permitting facility in
France, including comprehensive Environmental Impact
Statement.
Representative sampling and analysis was conducted
directly by local regional governmental entity.
Analysis was completed for metals and contaminants, as
well as agricultural components.
Permit to construct and operate and MSW Oxalor process
was granted in 2010.
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9. Value Added Consulting
Feasibility Methodology
Conducted independent review and analysis of previous
research conducted by developer.
Site visit to reference facilities in Lezay, France to
observe operations.
Grab samples of product and analytical testing at US
laboratory.
Analysis of project economics using several material
recovery and recycling revenue scenarios.
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11. After the ThermoAbsorber
After Thermo-Absorber, material is completely
dry, pathogen-free, and reduced in size.
Trommel separates bulk of organic fraction, which then goes
through refinement (removal of small Fe, non-Fe, inerts).
Trommel overs go through fully automated MRF using
optical sorting, magnetic and eddy current separation and
inert removal.
Non-recyclable but combustible materials shredded and
marketed.
Residue is completely inert.
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12. Material Balance
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Pathogen free
Residue to
Landfill
Recycled
commodities
Fertilizer
Refuse Derived
Fuel
The Oxalor Process
13. Oxalor – Lezay, France
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30. Oxyom Characteristics
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Parameter Value
Total Solids 69.0%
Calcium (mg/kg) 170,000
Potassium (mg/kg) 3,400
Total Organic Nitrogen (mg/kg)
8,307
Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen (mg/kg)
8,500
Ammonia (mg/kg) 193
Phosphorous (mg/kg) 1,125
Moisture 30%
31. Oxyom Product Market Position
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Soil amendment
Calcium addition
Soil pH adjustment
Fertilizer
Fertilizer blending operations
32. Capital Costs
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Low High
Land Building, Equip’t $4,350,000 $7,250,000
Oxalor System $10,000,000 $12,000,000
Engineering, Permitting,
Soft Costs
$1,900,000 $2,500,000
Total $16,250,000 $21,750,000
33. Landfill Diversion Potential
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Recovery Rates (% of total MSW)
Low Average High
Oxyom 50.0% 52.5% 55.0%
Recovered Material 4.3% 7.0% 9.5%
RDF 17.3% 25.50% 27.50%
Residue 28.50% 15.00% 8.00%
Total Waste Diversion 71.6% 85% 92%
34. Extensive Economic Scenario
Analysis
At a tipping fee of $45/ton, analyzed economic viability
using:
Three material recovery rates
Three different recovered material revenue assumptions
(low, medium and high)
Extreme low tipping fees tested.
$0 revenue for Oxyom tested
Economic viability is probable in every scenario tested.
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35. Findings
The Oxalor process successfully converts MSW to a usable
soil amendment, and recovers materials for recycling.
The technology is fairly simple.
Capital costs are significantly lower than other conversion
technologies.
Both landfills and transfer stations can benefit from Oxalor
through extension of useful life, or diversion of waste for
disposal.
Would make significant progress towards 75% goal
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36. What’s Next
Discussions with FDEP indicate permitting is
straightforward.
Project discussions being held with municipalities and
private vendors in Florida, NJ, Ohio and other
locations.
Collaboration with universities and agricultural
extensions to explore product applications and facilitate
independent peer review.
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37. Thank You!
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Contact
Sandy Gutner
(954) 495-6904
www.value-addedllc.com