Upcoming Events

2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

We are currently planning our events for this year and will update this page as events are confirmed.

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Advances in LNAPL Characterisation and Remediation Technology: Assessment, Clean Up and Management Strategies

ACLCA is pleased to present a high profile short course on “Advances in LNAPL Characterisation and Remediation Technology: Assessment, Clean Up and Management Strategies”, which was developed in collaboration with the Midwest Geosciences Group and with support and sponsorship from the LNAPL Forum (a CRC CARE initiative).

The 2-day short course was developed by some of the leaders in the assessment and management of LNAPL sites (i.e. Prof. Randy Charbeneau, Mark Adamski and Prof. Tom Sale) for ACLCA and will be presented in a road show in four centres around Australia mid to end of March 2012 (exact dates to be advised).

ACLCA has been working with the Midwest Geosciences Group (www.midwestgeo.com) for a number of years and they have presented a number of successful short courses in Australia since 2008.

This course will be aimed at intermediate to advanced level professionals (i.e. practitioners, project managers, auditors, regulators and site owners) specialising in the assessment and management of LNAPL impacted sites.  The course is aimed to provide the technical foundation for improved technical, management and policy approaches for LNAPL sites (in the context of technical impracticability, CUTEP, RTEN and similar policy requirements).

This education experience begins with the basic behaviour of petroleum hydrocarbon liquids. It builds upon how LNAPL behaves in the subsurface and compares and contrasts that to what we observe in the field. The course design and delivery strategy consists of:

Two conceptual course parts:
(1) Project Management Overview and Strategies and
(2) Practitioner Procedures and Technologies

Section 1 (Project Manager Overview and Strategies) is a high level overview for project managers to serve as an introduction for the detailed second section.

Section 2 (Practitioners Procedures and Strategies) is designed to give practitioners the understanding and tools to get started undertaking LNAPL CSMs and analysis.  The education and training dives into LNAPL distribution in soil and its conductivity and to make reasonable predictions of its hydraulic recovery.  This course focuses on the underlying principles of capillary pressure and multi-phase flow. Recent LNAPL developments and research will be presented and discussed. The course includes important applications to real world situations in which heterogeneity and other complicating factors are considered and addressed. These real world examples will provide a measure of comfort for applying these basic principles.

The course presents the latest advances in how our understanding of NAPL behaviour has improved over the last few years. NAPL distribution in the soil will be addressed in light of the effects of various soil properties including pore size distribution, porosity, saturation, capillary pressure and permeability. Fluid properties such as viscosity, density, and interfacial and surface tensions and how these fluid properties affect NAPL distribution and recovery will also be addressed. NAPL distribution in the soil and its saturation determine its conductivity that influences its migration and potential hydraulic recovery. We will also introduce methods of predicting and evaluating recovery of NAPL. We will briefly discuss some assessment techniques and look at core photos taken from within NAPL plumes. We will end with four real world applications of these basic concepts.

Presenters:
• Prof. Randy Charbeneau, Jewell McAlister Smith Professor in Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
• Mark Adamski, Hydrogeologist, Senior Technical Specialist with BP America in Houston, Texas
• Tom Sale, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Contaminant Hydrogeology, in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University.

Date:  22 & 23 March 2012 – Sydney - Karstens, 111 Harrington Street, Sydney.

The cost to attend the 2-day course is $1,200 per person (incl GST) for members of  ACLCA, ALGA, LNAPL Forum and CRC CARE, and $1,400 per person (incl GST) for others.

For further details and course program please visit the ACLCA Victoria website - http://www.aclca.org.au/cms-events/index.phps.

Registration should be made online via the ACLCA Victoria website - http://www.aclca.org.au/cms-events/event-registration.phps.

Please check our "General Meetings" page for further details of our monthly technical seminars listed below.

*** These events are currently being confirmed and this information will be updated shortly.

Please RSVP to Executive Officer if you would like to attend any ACLCA NSW events, so that adequate arrangements can be made.