RECENT ACTIVITIES,
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
For a .pdf copy of any publication listed below,
you may email jim.seebold@earthlink.net
International Flare Consortium (IFC) Update, International
Flame Research Foundation Members Conference #16, Boston, June 2009
Landfill Gas Flare Issues, ASME Landfill Gas Forum,
The Joint Conference: International Thermal Treatment Technologies (IT3) & Hazardous Waste Combustors (HWC), Cincinnati,
OH, May 2009
Estimation of B(a)p-equivalent Load from Flare, Caltex
Refineries (NSW) Kurnell Refinery, Dec 2008
Flare Modernisation Project Consultation, Chevron (S.A.)
(Pty) Ltd Cape Town Refinery, Nov 2008 - ongoing
Flare Odor Hearing, Expert Witness, Concurrent Testimony,
New South Wales Land & Environment Court, Sydney, Australia, May 27, 2008
Flare Incident Consultation, Caltex Kurnell Refinery,
Caltex Refineries Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, Feb-May 2008
Combustion R&D Needs in the Petroleum, Petrochemical
& Chemical Sector, Colloquium Organizer & Moderator, AFRC International Symposium, Park City, Utah, May 12, 2008
Keynote & Wrap-Up, Alberta NOx and SOx Control
Technologies Symposium; organized by Alberta Finance & Enterprise; Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, April
9, 2008
Community Noise Consultation, Cape Town Refinery, Chevron (S.A.) (Pty) Ltd., Dec 2007 - June 2008
Flare Impact Mitigation Consultation, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., Nov 2007- March 2008
"An ex-oilman's somewhat informed, possibly misguided
and definitely irreverent view of the energy future,"American Nuclear Society, San Francisco, CA, Nov 27 2007
Flare Tutorial, Praxair Inc., Tonawanda, NY, Nov 13
2007
Marijuana incinerator pulsation, pro bono consultation, Drug
Enforcement Administration, Nov 2007 - Feb 2008
Products of incomplete combustion (PIC) from petroleum,
petrochemical & chemical sector process heaters and industrial boilers, 10th International Congress on Combustion By-Products
and Their Health Effects, Ischia, Italy, June 2007
Elevated Flare Pulsation Due To Seal Drum Surging -
Prediction, Prevention & Proof, The IFRF Electronic Combustion Journal, June 7 2007
Combustion Noise in Heating Equipment, Seminar, ASHRAE
Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, January 30, 2007
Plant-wide NOx Reduction Strategies, Texas Technology
Showcase 2006, Galveston, TX, December 7, 2006
Gas Turbine NOx Reduction Retrofit, 2006 AFRC International
Symposium, Houston, TX, October 2006
Relief & Flare System Consultation, Chevron Production,
Rangely, CO, Sept 2006 - Sept 2007
Boiler Combustion Oscillation Consultation, Lochinvar
Corporation, August, 2006
Combustion-Driven Oscillations in Process Heaters:
How to design them out!, 2006 American Flame Research Committee Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2006
NOx Project Consultation, Sweeny Ethylene Complex, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Feb 2006 - Nov 2007
Relief & Flare System Consultation, El Segundo Refinery, Chevron Corporation, Oct 2005
Combustion-Driven Oscillation in Process Heaters, IFRF Electronic Combustion Journal, October 2005
Recent contributions to the International Flame Research Foundation's (IFRF) OnLine Combustion Handbook (click on the links below):
Flare & Relief System Design, Consultation, Greater Gorgon Development Project, Chevron Australia Pty Ltd,
June 2005 - April 2006
Founding Principal Investigator, International Flare Consortium, 2004-present
Combustion-Driven
Oscillation in Process Heaters, American Flame Research Committee - Japanese Flame Research Committee (AFRC-JFRC) 2004 Joint
International Combustion Symposium, Maui, Hawaii, October 2004
Practical Implications
of Prior Research on Today's Outstanding Flare Emissions Questions and a Research Program to Answer Them, AFRC-JFRC Joint
International Combustion Symposium, Maui, Hawaii, October 2004
Flare Liquid Seal
Surging: Prediction, Prevention & Proof, AFRC-JFRC 2004 Joint International Combustion Symposium, Maui, Hawaii, October
2004
The Effect of
Chemical Composition on Flare Flame Reaction Efficiency, AFRC-JFRC 2004 Joint International Combustion Symposium, Maui, Hawaii,
October 2004
Relief System
Design, Consultation, TengizChevrOil Second Generation Plant, Parsons-Fluor-Daniel, Camberley, UK, August 2004
International
Flare Consortuim Kickoff, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada, August 2004
Burner Acoustic
Instability, Consultation, John Zink Company, Tulsa, OK, July 2004
Visions of the
Future and How to Get There, American Boiler Manufacturers Association 2004 Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, June 2004
Make Benzene by Burning Methane! -- Practical
Implications of Prior Research on Today's Concerns about Flare Emissions, American Flame Research Committee 2004 Spring Meeting,
Salt Lake City, March 2004
Pressure Safety Valve Noise Limits and Control, Consultation, Parsons-Fluor-Daniel / TengizChevrOil,
Camberley, UK, February 2004
Ultra-low NOx Steam Flood Generator Retrofits, Consultation, Aera Energy & ChevronTexaco, Bakersfield,
CA, January-February 2004
Keynote Speaker & Chairman, Process Heating in Petroleum, Petrochemical and Chemical industries:
Identifying Trends and Satisfying Needs through Leveraged External Research, International Flame Research Foundation Topic
Oriented Technical Meeting (“TOTeM”), Birmingham, UK, November 2003
Developing and Applying Innovative Burners for Extremely
Low NOx Process Heating, Combustion Canada 03, Vancouver, BC, September 2003
Reaction Efficiency of Industrial Flares – The Perspective
of the Past, Combustion Canada 03, Vancouver, BC, September 2003
Keynote Speaker & Facilitator, Evolutionary and Revolutionary Strategies for
Keeping Glass Viable through the 21st Century, Glass Manufacturer’s Industrial Council Workshop, Rochester, NY,
July 2003
Keynote Speaker & Facilitator, International Flare Symposium, John Zink Institute, Tulsa, OK,
June 2003
Relief System Design,
Consultation, TengizChevrOil Second Generation Plant, Parsons-Fluor-Daniel, Camberley, UK, April 2003
Ultra-Low NOx LeanPremix
Burners Eliminate SCRs for Process Heaters, Texas Technology Showcase, Houston, TX, March 2003
Ultra-Low NOx COOLfuel
Burners Eliminate SCRs for Boilers, Texas Technology Showcase, Houston, TX, March 2003
Combustion-Driven Oscillation
in Process Heaters, AFRC 2002 Fall Meeting, Houston, TX, November 2002
Control refinery NOx
emissions cost-effectively, Hydrocarbon Processing, November 2001
The Application of
Gas Conditioning Technology for NOx Reduction on Five Watertube Boilers, AFRC/JFRC/IEA Joint International Combustion Symposium,
Kauai, HI, September 2001
Developing and Retrofitting
Ultra Low NOx Burners in a Refinery Furnace, AFRC/JFRC/IEA Joint International Combustion Symposium, Kauai, HI,
September 2001
PERF Project 92-19
Toxic Combustion Byproducts ― Government, University, Industry Working Together for Energy Competitiveness & Environmental
Stewardship, DOE Industries of the Future Showcase, Salt Lake City, UT, August 2001
Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Institute of Clean Air Companies, Puerto Rico, May 2001
NOx Control in Fired
Equipment ― Chevron Projects Update, API 66th Spring Refining Meeting, Atlanta, GA,
May 2001
Trace Emissions from
Gaseous Combustion, Combustion News, April 2001
Gas Turbine NOx Reduction
Retrofit, SPE/EPA/DOE Exploration and Production Environmental Conference, San Antonio, TX,
February 2001
Gas
Turbine NOx Reduction Retrofit, 2000 AFRC International Combustion Symposium, Newport Beach, CA,
September 2000
Trace
Emissions from Gaseous Combustion, Recent Advances in the Science and Management of Air Toxics, Air & Waste Management
Association, Banff, AB, April 2000
Combustion
Chemistry: The Rest of the Story, Environmental Engineering & Science Seminar, Stanford University, October 1999
Hazardous
Air Pollutant Emissions from Gas-Fired Combustion Sources: Emissions and the Effects of Design and Fuel Type, Sixth International
Congress on Toxic Combustion Byproducts, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 1999
The Origin and Fate
of Toxic Combustion Byproducts in Refinery Heaters: Research to Enable Efficient Compliance with the Clean Air Act, Petroleum
Environmental Research Forum Project 92-19, Final Report, August 1997
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/iccr/dirss/perfrept.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/ttnatw01/iccr/dirss/perfrept.pdf
The
Origin and Fate of Trace Toxic Emissions in the External Combustion of Gaseous Hydrocarbon Fuels by Means of Highly-Reactive
Turbulent Jet Diffusion, European Commission's Fourth International
Conference on Technologies and Combustion for a Clean Environment, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, July,
1997
Emissions
of Volatile Organic Compounds From Stationary Combustion Sources: Numerical Modeling Capabilities; AFRC 1992 Fall International
Symposium, Cambridge, MA, Oct 1992
Environmental Noise Reduction - The Implementation Failure, NCEJ,
Jan-Feb 1988
Control Valve Noise, NCEJ, Jan-Feb 1985
Tube Skin Thermocouples, Chemical Engineering Progress, December 1985
Refinery Auxiliary Stack Redesign to Eliminate Fluid Induced Resonance
Tone, NCEJ, Jan-Feb 1975
Pulsating Combustion in Elevated Flares Caused by Seal Drum Sloshing, NCEJ, Jul-Aug 1974
Capillary Hydrostatics in Annular Tanks, J. SPACECRAFT, Vol.4, No. 1, January 1967
Curriculum Vitae
EXTERNAL COMBUSTION
40 years experience
in design, operation and maintenance of burners, fired heaters, furnaces, incinerators, boilers and flares, including low-NOx
burners, selective catalytic and non-catalytic NOx reduction systems, and hazardous air pollutant (HAPs) emissions. Conceived
and led 4-year $7-million 20-participant industry-government-university collaboration on toxic combustion byproducts. MCP,
International Flame Research Foundation; Technical Advisor, DOE Study of Oxygen Enriched Combustion; Technical Advisor, EPA
Study of Industrial Flares; TCEQ Flare Science Committee.
NOISE CONTROL
40 years experience
in all aspects of onshore plant, offshore platform and shipboard noise control engineering. Director, Noise Control Foundation;
President, Institute of Noise Control Engineering; INCE Board Certified.
DETONATION FLAME
ARRESTERS
Design, application
and maintenance of detonation flame arresters in fired vapor disposal systems. Conceived and led the American Petroleum Institute's
Detonation Arrester Testing Program.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Chairman, API Storage
Tank Leak Detection Task Force; Technical Advisor, DOE Industries of the Future Combustion Roadmap; International Karasek
Invitation-Only Dioxin Conference; Technical Manager, CNAEP Eastridge Cogeneration Plant SCR Retrofit Project; Industrial
Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking Federal Advisory Committee; Consultant, CCR Hibernia Platform Relief & Blowdown System
Revalidation; Consultant, CPDN Richmond Refinery NOx Reduction Project; Consultant, Greater Houston Business Coalition for
Clean Air; Consultant, ChevronPhillips Chemical Company Greater Houston NOx Reduction Project; Technical Manager, CTOP FPSO
Kuito Relief System Assessment; Consultant, TengizChevrOil Second Generation Project Relief & Flare System Design &
Procurement; ...
ChevronTexaco Chairman’s
Award; ERTC President’s Award (2); BS(Appl. Mech.); MS(Mech.Eng.); Ph.D.(Mech.Eng.); Stanford University.
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