Waste to Energy Workshop: Advances and Opportunities for Ohio’s Livestock & Food Processing Industries
Wooster, OH
April 7, 2009

Agenda
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7:30 AM	Registration
8:00 AM	Welcome	Dr. William Ravlin, Associate Director, OARDC John Cuttica- Director Midwest CHP Center
8:20 AM	Anaerobic Digestion: Overview & Opportunities	Dr. Floyd Schanbacher, OARDC
	Livestock Manure Digesters: Installer’s Experiences	Steve Dvorak, GHD Inc.
	Anaerobic Digestion: Non-electrical Uses of Biogas	Norma McDonald, Phase 3 Renewables
	Integration of Anaerobic Digestion	Craig Kasper, Hull & Associates
	Biogas Clean Up and Direct Use	Bill Brown, Acrion
10:25 AM	Break
10:40 AM	Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Waste	Leon Weaver, Bridgewater Dairy
	Connections with Local Utilities	Pat O’Loughlin, Power Supply, Buckeye Power-REC
	Energy Recovery from Landfill Gas	Tim Berlekamp, Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio
	Anaerobic Digestion of Food Processing Waste: Waste Water Clean Up to Energy	Mike Maringer, Technical Specialist, IFM, Inc.
12:20 PM	Lunch with Keynote Speaker	Mark Shanahan, Governor's Energy Advisor
1:20 PM	Anaerobic Digestion: Building in Industry in Ohio	Mel R. Kurtz, Schmack BioEnergy
	Other Considerations for Implementation	Dale Arnold, Ohio Farm Bureau
1:20 PM	Financial Incentives
	Ohio’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard	Anne Goodge, Ohio Biomass Energy Program, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
	Ohio Department of Development	Tony Sutor, Ohio Energy Office, Ohio Department of Development
	Ohio Job Stimulus Fund: Advanced Energy Component	Kimberly Gibson, Office of Governor’s Energy Advisor
	Federal Incentives	Randy Monhemius, USDA Rural Development
3:15 PM	Adjourn