27th Annual Steam Power Plant Supervisory Training Program

27th Annual Steam Power Plant Supervisory Training Program

August 23-27, 1999

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This seminar has become an important annual event for senior operating personnel, management and training people in steam power plants throughout the country.
Audience and Purpose . . .

This week-long training course is designed for senior operating personnel in steam power plants and for their proximate counterparts in management and training. The underlying premise of the course is that individuals in these categories typically have responsibility for the development of the technical background and improved performance of both new and regular shift personnel.

The substantive content of the course, the supporting material handed out, and the teaching methodology used are all specifically designed to help those persons who have major responsibilities for the monitoring and improvement of operator performance. Whether such persons work through immediate supervisory relationships or through in-plant training programs, this course is designed to help them disseminate essential knowledge and responsibility in power plant operation.

Content and Emphasis . . .

This course is concerned primarily with fossil fuel-fired plants producing steam for heating and process loads. Firing methods considered for this offering include, but are not limited to, the following solid fuel-fired equipment: Spreader Stokers, Underfeed Stokers; Chaingrate Stokers; Fluid Bed Combustors; Pulverized Coal, Cyclones and also include Natural Gas Firing and both Heavy and Light Oil fired systems.

Although the course will be specifically directed toward supervisors from industrial and institutional-type plants, personnel from utility-type central stations will find much of the content pertinent to their supervisory responsibilities.

The subject matter will emphasize the principal aspects and associated problems of steam plant operations. Included will be fuel/steam costs, heat rate improvement, fuel blending, alternative fuel firing, and proper operation. The safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the steam power plants will be the underlying objective of the instruction. The instructors have had years of operating experience as well as startup, training, and supervisory roles, qualifying them as experts in this field.

Instructors:
John C. Ellis
Manager, Power Plant Services
Commercial Testing & Engineering Co.
South Holland, Illinois

Mr. Ellis is Manager of Power Plant Services for Commercial Testing & Engineering Co. (CT&E) with over 25 years of diversified background in engineering and management of facility operations, including boiler plant operations utilizing coal, oil and gas; refuse-derived fuel (RDF) processing and handling; biomass-fired waste-to-energy systems for communities; instrumentation and control systems; facility start-up and malfunction analysis. Prior to joining CT&E, he worked as Operations Manager for National Energy Systems, a small co-generation development firm, and for the City of Chicago for 27 years in the Departments of Public Works and Streets and Sanitation where he held numerous engineering and managerial positions, and was the City's loaned plant engineering executive to the Cities of Harrisburg, PA and New York at their request to assist them with improving operations at their various waste-to-energy biomass facilities. He also held responsible charge, as Plant Manager for the Dravo Corp. in the hiring and training of all personnel, start-up and commissioning of a major waste-to-energy facility in Southern California. He performs training of power plant personnel with particular emphasis on operational safety and energy conservation through improving efficiency of facilities operation.

Mr. Ellis is the representative of the National Association of Power Engineers for the Annual American Power Conference and currently chairs the Environmental Protection Compliance Strategies Session. He is the Immediate Past President of the Illinois Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers. Mr. Ellis is presently providing performance testing for NIPSCO, and engineering services to the University of Chicago Facilities Steam Plant. Mr. Ellis holds a BSc. in Industrial Technology from Chicago State University and received his MSc. from Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Ellis is well known to many power plant operations people for his annual lecture work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Steam Power Plant Supervisory Training.

Licenses and Certification

- Chief Engineers License (NIULPE)

- Instructor License (NIULPE)

- Commissioned Examiner (NIULPE)

- High Pressure Steam Plant Operator

License (City of Chicago)

- OSHA Instructor Certificate

(State of Illinois EPA)

- Water Plant Operator Certificate

(State of Illinois EPA)

Ron Kreider
Supervisor - Employee Training
Division
Wisconsin Electric Power Company
Milwaukee, WI

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