Final Program

 

Day I                   Monday       November 20, 2006

07:30 - 09:00                         Registration

 

10:30 – 11:00

Keynote Speaker:      Dr. Ahmed Al-Hazmi 

Corporate   Manager , Environmental & Industrial Hygiene Department-Sabic

                                  Green Industries Initiatives in GCC

 

 

Session 1

GREEN INITIATIVES IN INDUSTRY

 

11:00- 11:20

Session Chairman: Mr. Khalid M. Al-Turki (   Saudi Aramco )

Water Quality in Process Plant; GPIC Case study.

Moh'd Redha and Maitham AlOraibi –

Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company – GPIC

Kingdom of Bahrain

11:20 – 11:40

Process Intensification Technologies in Green Industry

 M.S. Jassim

Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Bahrain,  Kingdom of Bahrian

 

11:40 – 12:00

 

The link from waste-even hazardous waste-to valuable Raw materials. 

Franz Scherbaum

Ecocycle technology GmbH, Germany

12:00 – 12:20

Strategic industrial wastewater management at Yanbu Industrial City (Saudi Arabia).

Ahmed S. Bajahlan, Maqbool Ahmed & Waleed S. Hammad

Environmental Control Department , Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu; Saudi Arabia

12:20 – 12:40

Greening of copper mining and ore dressing: a Case Study of copper mine in buchim, R. of Macedonia.S. Hadzi Jordanov[U1] ,  A. Dimitrov, D. Stavkov, P. Paunovic and Z. Tasev  

Faculty of Technology and Metaluurgy, University UKIM   Macedonia

12:40 – 13:00

General Discussion  

13:00 – 14:30

Prayer Break & Lunch

 

 

 

14:30 – 16:30           Forum I                        Win-Win Scenarios for Industry:

                                    The Triple Bottom-Line Approach

Panelist:

 

Dr. Basel Al-Yousfi: (Coordinator); Acting Deputy Regional Director, Regional Technology, Industry & Economics, UNEP

Mr. Maitham Al-Oraibi; Chief Chemist (D), Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company (GPIC)

Dr. Ebrahim A.jalil; Arabian Gulf University- Kingdom of Bahrain

Mr. Mohammed Al-Saiyad; Oil and Gas Authority - Kingdom of Bahrain

Dr. Ramzi Hejazi;  Saudi Aramco

 

 

16:30                                    Opening of Poster Session

 

 

 

 

Day II                  Tuesday       November 21, 2006

08:00 – 08:30               Refreshment

 08:30 – 09:00

 Keynote Speaker: Prof. DEBRA R. REINHART  

Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer, University of Central Florida   

The Landfill’s Role in Sustainable Waste Management.

Session 2A                Industrial  Pollution              Prevention-

 Water and Waste water

session 3A              Industrial Pollution Prevention-

                      Waste Management

09:15 – 09:40

Invited Speaker:  Mr. Faisal Shahin

Manager - Power &  Utilities Department – Bapco.

Bapco’s Energy”Best Practice”Management; Major Step to “ Greener Environmental

09:15 – 09:40

Invited Speaker :Prof.  Leiv Kristen    Sydnes                                               

Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen,   Norway

Waste Minimization –Educational and Scientific Challenges

 

09:40 – 10:00

Session Chairaman:

Dr. Ameera Al-Haddad, University of Bahrain

 

09:40 – 10:00

Session Chairman:

Dr. Sultan Al-Salem (Kuwait University)

The use of chemosorption materials for the purification of  drinking water and catch of precious and rare metals In waste waters

Beloborodov Valeriy

JSC STC “Investor”, LLC,  “ Aituar-. NP

Russia

The study of the thermal behaviour of bitumen blended with plastic wastes

S. Hafsi, M. Benhouzid -

Laboratorire de Chimie Appliquee et Technolgie

Centre Universitaire -  Algerie

 

10:00 – 10:20

Assessment of industrial reclaimed water for irrigation purposes.

Maqbool Ahmed & Ahmed S. Bajahlan –

Environmental Control Department , Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu; Saudi Arabia

 

10:00 – 10:20

Establishment of Integrated Waste exchange programme in Bahrain.

Rehan Ahmed & A. Karim Rashid –

Environmental Control Directorate, Public Commission for the Protection of Marine Resources Environmental & Wildlife,- Kingdom of Bahrain

10:20 – 10:40

An environmental wastewater minimization study for Ammonia and Urea plants – Pollution Prevention

Haitham M. S. Lababidi, Ghazi A. Al-Enezi, Abdulla A. Al-Swailem & Ahmad E. Al-Azmi –

Petrochemical Industries Company, PLC, Fertilizer

Plants.  Kuwait

10:20 – 10:40

Recycling of Polyethylene, Agricultural Folios.

S.Koseva, A. Prusi &  J.Dimitrievic

Ministry of Education and Science,  R. of Macedonia

10:40 – 11:00            Session 2B                                               Coffee Break               SESSION 3B

11:00 – 11:20

Session Chairman:

Dr. Fowzia Al-Saleh,  University of Bahrain

11:00 – 11:20

Chairman Session:

Prof. Leiv Kresten ( Norway)

 

Photocatalytic degradation of pollutants using a noval Nanocomposite materials.

Kimberley Jones, Colin Boxall and Richard W.

McCabe Centre for Materials Science, University of Central Lancashire, Preston UK

Utilisation of waste oil from 2nd World War stored in open ponds near Bapco and used for cement production in a cement factory in Ras Al-Khaima – UAE.

Alexander Koshi

Arabian Gulf Cement Co.- Kingdom of Bahrain

11:20 – 11:40

Propan-2-ol conversion to diisopropyl  ether over Substituted phosphomolybdate heteropoly compounds.

F. chami, C. Rabia –

Laboratoire de Chimie du Gaz Naturel. Algerie

11:20 – 11:40

The recycling of waster plastics into high Grade Fuel.

T. Gornall, R. McCabe & G. Bond

The university of Central Lancashire, Department of Forensic & Investigative Science. UK

11:40 – 12:00

Agro Technology for the production of Lac and its Diversified applications in Industrial Sector.

M. Zahurul Haque

BCSIR Laboratories, Rajshahi  Bangladesh

11:40 – 12:00

Methane dispersion modeling and source determination around urban area in Kuwait.

Sultan M. Al-Salem, Amir A. Al-Haddad & A.Rahman Khan

Kuwait University & Kuwait Institute for Scientific research

       

12:20 – 13:00

General Discussion

12:20 – 13:00

General Discussion

13:00 – 14:30                        Prayer Break &  Lunch

 

 

14:30 – 16:30           Forum II                Regional Carbon Management: Vision, Strategy and Way forward

Ch   Panelist

 

 Dr.  Dr. Zara Khatib;(Coordinator)  Shell Exploration and Production International, Middle East/Caspian and South Asia  

          Mr. Ijaz Ashraf; Environmental Management System Development Coordinator, Engineering ,Division-Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco).

          Dr. Majid Jasim: Chemical Engineering Department;  University of Bahrian

 

20:30                 Conference Banquet 

 

Day III                 Wednesday            November 22, 2006

08:00 – 08:30               Refreshment

08:30 – 09:00            Keynote Speaker:      Prof. Richard Hawkins

                                                                      Some Real Green Priorities

 

Session 4A

MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Session 5A

GREEN FUEL and VEHICLES

09:15 – 09:40

Invited Speaker:  Mr. Wajd Al Madani     General Manager Administration,  ALBA

Environmental Responsibility and Business Sustainability

09:15 – 09:40

Invited Speaker:  Ismail Malla:

Managing Director – Green Power

 

Future of the Green Power

 

09:40 – 10:00

Session Chairman: Dr. Alaadin A.Bukhari, 

                                KFUPM Saudi Arabia

09:40 – 10:00

 Session Chairman: Mr. fadhel Al-Ansari (Bahrain)

Implementation of Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSAS-18011 GPIC case).

Fadhel Al-Ansari &  Maitham Al Oraibi

Gulf Petrochemical Industrial Company. GPIC

Kingdom of Bahrain

Partnership on Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles

Ayman El-Talouny & Fareed Bushehri

UNEP

 

10:00 – 10:20

Implementation of OHSAS 18001 in Bapco.

Samah Al-Hamad

Bapco: Kingdom of Bahrain

10:00 – 10:20

From Conventional to Sustainable Transportation

Candace Vona, Executive Director Middle East & Global Refining

International Fuel Quality Center, Bahrain

10:20 – 10:40

The preventive measure of negative effect of oil and gas Production in Bashkortostan republic on the health of Workers and environment.

Hyazov Robert

Academy of Science of Tatarstan, Republic of Russia

10:20 – 10:40

The environmental dimension in using the natural gas (Green fuel) for vehicles (NGV) as energy supply for Automotive vehicles in the UAE; A Green Look.

Ali Awadh Salem Al-Amoudi -

Environmental Adviser, Federal Environmental Agency.   UAE

10:40 – 11:00             Session 4B                                       Coffee Break           SESSION 5B

                     

11:00 – 11:20

Session Chairman: Dr.T. Gornall *UK)

11:00 – 11:20

Session Chairman: Dr. Ali Al-Amoudi (UAE)

Developing Appropriate Strategies for Environmental Awareness and Training for Industries.

Noman Ahmed & Eng. Rehan Ahmed

Department of Architetcure and Planning, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Role of hybrid photovoltaic-diesel technology toward Better environment in hot climatic regions.

S.M. Shaahid &  M.A. Elhadidy -

Center for Eng. Research, Research Institute, King Fahad University of  Petroleum and Minerals

Saudi Arabic

11:20 – 11:40

Fundamental Requirements of an Environmental Management system and Bapco approach to implement EMS consistent with ISO 14001. 

Ijaz Ashraf -   

Bapco

11:20 – 11:40

Toward Sustainable hydrogen economy; improved Non-platinum electrode materials

P.Paunovic, S. Hadzi Jordanov. A. Dimitrov, D. Stavkov. And Z. Tasev

Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University UKIM    Macedonia

11:40 – 12:00

 

11:40 – 12:00

 

12:00 -  16:00                Field Trip to Industries

             Participants will be divided into 3 groups.  Each group will visit one of the following industries

1. Bahrain Petroleum Company; Bapco      

2. Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company, GPIC

3. Bahrain Aluminum, ALBA