European Conference on Dredged Sludge Remediation

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Wednesday, October 30th, 2002	Site visits
13.00 - 14.00	Registration of delegates participating to the site visits
14.30 - 18.00	Site visits to Boskalis Dolman Schiedam, Slufter and VBM Maasvlakte
18.00 - 19.00	Welcome Cocktail Reception
Thursday, October 31st, 2002	Conference day 1 - Technology sessions
08.30	Registration & opening of sponsor display area
09.15	Opening conference by Dr. Chrit Schouten - Chairman of Stichting Klasse 4
	Chairman of this Conference Day: Prof. W.L. Dalmijn - Technical University of Delft, NL
09.25	Introduction: SedNet - The European Sediment Research Network Mr. Jos Brils - SedNet co-ordinator, NL
	Session 1: Dredging and Pre-processing of sludges
09.50	State of the Art of Environmental friendly Dredging Ir. Johan G.S. Pennekamp - WL \| Delft Hydraulics, NL
10.15	Deposition of Contaminated Dredged Harbour Sludge using Geotextile Bags Mr. Anders Beitnes - SINTEF Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norway
10.40 - 11.15	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Wet and Dry Processing of sludges
11.15	Remediation of Polluted Sludge in an Energy Plantation Dr. Hans Breteler - Oostwaardhoeve Co., NL
11.40	Sludge Treatmetn Centre 'Fasiver' - Sanitation and Redesign of the Site 'Eilandje' at Zwijnaarde (Ghent) Mr. Bart Nevejans - DEC NV, Belgium
12.05	The Delta Drier: drying of sludges with less energy Dr. Peter Rem - Technical University of Delft, Faculty of Applied Earth Sciences, NL
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch
	Session 3: Cold immobilisation
14.00	CANCELLED Treatment of Sediments Contaminated with Tributyltin Mr. Neil McLeod - Envirotreat Ltd., UK
	Session 4: Thermal processing
14.25	Cement-Lock Process for Transforming Contaminated Sludge into Building Materials Dr. Anil Goyal - ENDESCO Services Inc., USA
14.50	Synthetic Aggregate Production and Utilisationfrom Dredged Sediment Mr. Derren Cresswell - School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee Break
15.45	SPEAKER CHANGE The Quality, Sales and Application of Dusagrind Mr. Han Bouman - Dusagrind Moerdijk BV, NL
16.10	SPEAKER CHANGE SeRTech: Sediments Remediation Technologies for Dredges Material from Venice Industrial Canals - Preliminary Results Dr.ssa Petra Scanferia - Consorzio Venezia Ricerche, Italy
16.35	Contaminated Sediments: Raw material for Bricks Mr. Jan Peter Ulbricht - Hanseaten-Stein Ziegelei GmbH, Germany
17.00 - 17.25	Closing speech: Managment of Contaminated Dredged Material in the Port of Rotterdam Ir. T. Vellinga - Rotterdam Municipal Port Management, Maritime Development, NL
19.00	Dinner cruise Rotterdam harbour - Sponsored by Rotterdam Municipal Port Management
Friday, November 1st, 2002	Conference day 2 - European Problem, National Solutions?
08.30	Registration & opening of sponsor display area
	Chairman of this Conference day: Ing. Jaap H. Ketel - General Secretary Stichting Klasse 4, NL
	Session 5: European & national policies and legislation
09.00	Status of European Polluted River Sediments Dr. Jan Dogterom - International Centre for Water Studies, NL
09.25	A Clean Port means an Open Port Mr. E. de Broe - Port of Antwerpen, Belgium
09.50	Centre for Immobilisation (CIM) - From secundary waste to promiary building material Mr. Theo Meijer - Member of Dutch Parliament (CDA) & Chairman of Centre for Immobilisation, NL
10.15 - 10.45	Coffee Break
10.45	Solving Local & Regional Governments Sludge Problems Drs. L.H.J. Verheijen - Delegate of Province of Noord-Brabant, NL
11.10	SPEAKER CHANGE Contaminated Sediments: Can Europe solve the problem? Dr. J. (Hans) Blokland - Member of the European Parliament
11.35	Introductin of Working Group 3 (Sediment Treatment) and Use of the Conference Results in this Working Group Mr. Giuseppe Bortone - SedNet WG 3 (Sediment Treatment), Italy
12.00	Voting on resolutions
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00	End of conference

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE CONFERENCE?

* National European Authorities of Water & Environment (Ministries, regional & local governments)
* River and Port Authorities
* Dredged material Processing Companies
* Research Institutes, Universities and other Academics involved in studies
* Private (dredging) companies involved in dredging and/or processing (specifically re-use)
* Problem “possessors” (anyone with a sludge problem)
* Interest Groups

SPONSORING THE CONFERENCE

The following Sponsoring opportunities are available:

- Booking a Sponsor Infostand at the Hotel upper Lobby (8 stands available). Sponsor stands can
be used for commercial activities.
Rental cost stand 2 x 3 m = Euro 1.250,- (excl. 19% VAT)
Rental cost stand 2 x 4 m = Euro 1.575,- (excl. 19% VAT)
- Placing your company name and/or logo in all conference documents
- A4 advertising page in the conference proceedings (full colour)
- Conference package/bags
- Side programmes (details on request)

For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please contact the Stichting Klasse 4 office: info@klasse4.nl or tel: +31 33-4343 500.

CALL FOR CONTACTS

In order to make sure that the conference will be attended by an international quality forum, Stichting Klasse 4 requests the assistance of those who have international contacts in various areas of harbour sludge dredging and processing. The contacts will be treated as confidential and will only be used to invite these persons to become a conference delegate or speaker. Contact details can be submitted to the E-mail address: info@klasse4.nl.

CONFERENCE COSTS

When registering and paying before June 1st, 2002 the special conference fee is Euro 810,- (excl. 19% VAT).
When registering and paying after June 1st, 2002 the regular conference fee of Euro 900,- (excl. 19% VAT) is applicable.
If you wish to attend the conference as a delegate, then please download the Conference Brochure below. This brochure contains the registration form, which can be send or faxed to:

Stichting Klasse 4
Postbus 18
NL- 3830 AA Leusden
The Netherlands
Fax: +31 33-4343 500

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This conference is organised by Brisk Events for Stichting Klasse 4.