2010 Pacific Southwest Organic Residuals Symposium

Additional Information

UC Davis Extension: Renewable Energy Systems

Agenda (PDF) (5 pp, 70K)

Cross-Media Issues — Potential Solutions (PDF) (10 pp, 68K)

Cross-Media Regulatory Conflicts (PDF) (9 pp, 218K)

Contacts for More Information

Lauren Fondahl (fondahl.lauren@epa.gov)
(415) 972-3514

Anna Yen (yen.anna@epa.gov)
(415) 972-3976

Energy and New Uses of Organic Residuals

• Overcoming Cross-Media Challenges

September 14-15, 2010 – Sacramento Convention Center

A challenge to realizing many organic residuals projects comes when actions taken by one agency conflict with the objectives of other agencies, or even other divisions of the same agency. Should stringent stationary source emissions limits be enforced when they result in organics having to be hauled to other counties, states, or countries, with the associated mobile source emissions and fuel consumption? Should projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions be pursued even when they result in increased NOx emissions? How can our regulatory structure be arranged so as to weigh in all the impacts of an option and promote those with the most overall benefits?

Presentations From the Symposium

Remarks by James L. Stewart (PDF) (8 pp, 60K), Chairman of the Board, BioEnergy Producers Association, September 15, 2010
USDA Rural Development’s Rural Energy for America Program (PDF) (14 pp, 145K)
Healthy Air Living: "Funding Opportunities for Organic Residual-to-Clean Energy Projects" (PDF) (8 pp, 199K)
Chan Seung Park, PhD: "Steam Hydrogasification Research Overview" (PDF) (20 pp, 735K)
Peter G. Green: "Compost Volatile Organic Compounds and OzoneFormation" (PDF) (29 pp, 1.1M)
Chuck White of Waste Management: "Closing the Loop: Energy & Fuel From Waste" (PDF) (28 pp, 1.5M)
Marco Lemes/ SMUD: "NOx Emission Reduction: Technology Solutions for Small Biogas Projects" (PDF) (29 pp, 1.5M)
Caroline Quinn, Delta Diablo Sanitation District: "Bay Area Regional Biosolids to Energy Partnership: A Coalition Approach to Developing a B2E Project & Funding Pathways" (PDF) (30 pp, 1.6M)
Jacques Franco, Climate Change & Technology Group: "Urban Biomass Conversion Technologies Deployment in California –An Update" (PDF) (29 pp, 1.7M)
Frank Mitloehner PhD, UC-Davis: "Emissions of volatile organic compounds from silage" (PDF) (41 pp, 2.0M)
Hideki Hiranuma, Synagro: "Case Study: Compost Facilities in Air Quality Non-Attainment Districts" (PDF) (23 pp, 2.1M)
"Organic Residuals Concept Paper:Addressing Cross-Media Regulatory Conflicts: Impediments to Achieving Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Watershed Restoration Goals" (PDF) (23 pp, 3.3M)
Michael Payne DVM, PhD, UC Agriculture & Natural Resources program: "Food Safety & Manure" (PDF) (45 pp, 7.9M)

There is a consensus that we need new technologies to address these issues, and this year we also looked at technologies under development, the mechanisms for moving these projects along, and how these projects address emerging pollutants and pathogens of concern.