Industries of the Future - West Virginia

Events

2006: Tenth Annual IOF-WV Symposium Presentations

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
8:30

Reducing Natural Gas Costs in Industry - Presented by the WVU Industrial Assessment Center – Bhaskaran Gopalakrishnan, Director, WVU IAC, and Professor WVU Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering

Full presentation unavailable. Please contact Dr. Gopalakrishnan at (304) 293-4607 ext. 3709 or bgopalak@mail.wvu.edu for questions or requests for information.

WVU Industrial Assessment Center Brochure [.pdf 50kb]

10:30

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Benefits for West Virginia Industry

Technology Transfer [.pdf 413kb] - Bruce Sparks, Director, WVU Technology Transfer Office

Intellectual Property [.pdf 1.07mb] - William Aylor, JD, Patent Attorney, WVU Technology Transfer Office

12:15

10th Annual IOF-WV Symposium Kick-Off Luncheon

Energy Advantages for West Virginia Industries [.pdf 17kb] -
Jon McKinney, Chairman, Public Service Commission of West Virginia

2:00

Industrial Energy Issues & Trends: The Next 10 Years

The EIA Outlook for Energy Prices [.pdf 770kb] – Susan Holte, Technical Assistant to the Administrator, U.S. DOE Energy Information Administration

The DOE Save Energy Now Program [.pdf 359kb] - Brian Olsen, Energy Project Specialist, U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Advanced Power Generation Technologies [.pdf 6.23mb] - Gary Spitznogle, Manager, Generation Development - New Generation, American Electric Power

Gasification - Or Is Our Industrial Sector's Economic Future Fully Dependent on Natural Gas Availability and Price? [.pdf 2.51mb] - Mike Eastman, Senior Management and Technical Analyst, Strategic Center for Coal, U.S. DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory

Thursday, November 9, 2006
7:45

Continental breakfast and exhibit visitation

8:30

Industrial Energy Choices: A new Paradigm for West Virginia

The Global Energy Context [.pdf 3.41mb] - Charles E. Bayless, President, WVU Institute of Technology

Current Regulatory Initiatives, Rates, and Capacity Needs in West Virginia [.pdf 59kb] - Derrick Williamson, McNees, Wallace & Nurick LLC

Managing Energy Risk through Efficiency and Diversification [.pdf 137kb] - R. Neal Elliott, Industry Program Director, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

Energy Recycling – A Convenient Truth! [.pdf 3.46mb] - Thomas R. Casten, Chairman and CEO, Primary Energy LLC

2:30

Follow-Up Workshops and Project Meetings

Energy Forum: Mining Industries R&D

Coal Resources and Reserves: a Review of the USGS Assessment [.pdf 503kb] - Dr. Dan Alexander, PE, Visiting Assistant Professor, WVU Department of Mining Engineering

Mining Industry of the Future [.pdf 1.33mb] - - Mike Mosser, U.S. Department of Energy

Waste Heat Recovery Workshop – Contact: Larry Banta, Associate Professor, WVU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering