SLIDE 1
Workshop KK
New to EHS/101 Basics … Air Pollution Control 101 – Selecting, Operating and Maintaining Scrubbers, Baghouses and Thermal Oxidizers
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Biographical Information
Beau Carder, Mechanical Engineer, FerroGlobe PO Box 157, Beverly, OH 45715 740-984-8541 bcarder@ferroglobe.com Arnie T. Beringer, Owner & Managing Partner CEECO Equipment, Inc., Cincinnati, OH 513-709-8444 Fax: 513-672-0045 aberinger@ceecoequipment.com WWW.CEECOEQUIPMENT.COM Arnie began his career as an intern for the Ohio EPA (RAPCA) while he was attending the University of Dayton pursuing a Degree in Environmental Engineering. After spending an additional year with Ohio EPA after graduation, Arnie worked as an environmental engineer for Navistar for approximately 3 years in both their Springfield and Columbus
- Operations. After Navistar, Arnie took the environmental manager position at Sun
Chemical at their pigment plant operation in Cincinnati. For the next 16 years he had various plant and regional EHS management positions and last served as the Corporate EHS Compliance Assurance Manager for the North American operations for Sun
- Chemical. In May of 2011 he left Sun Chemical to take over the family business, CEECO
Equipment, as a manufacturer’s sales representative specializing in air pollution control and process equipment solutions. Arnie is a longtime member of the Air & Waste Management Association where he has served as the President of the Southwest Ohio Chapter on 3 separate occasions including currently. Ron Hawks, Process Engineering Manager and a Principle QSEM Solutions, Inc. (A Trinity Consultants Company) 919-848-4003 rhawks@qsemsolutions.com
- Mr. Hawks is expert in the evaluation, operation, and maintenance of air control systems
including capture hooding, ducting systems, scrubbers, fabric filters, electrostatic precipitators, and afterburners. He has conducted numerous internal inspections of equipment and consults regularly on system performance with industrial clients across the US. His intense knowledge of the processes within steel, coke, lime, chemical, and cement facilities, among others facilitates insight into the interaction between the processes and collection systems. His process, mechanical and collection system understanding often provides a clear path to mitigate air compliance issues driven by these complex interactions. Mr. Hawks has completed several control equipment evaluations and upgrades at integrated steel mills and mini-mills, coke batteries, cement facilities, and other industries to achieve compliance with their air requirements. His experience includes thermal systems such as afterburners, RTO’s, Cement kilns, Lime kilns, abatement systems, industrial process evaluations, and other air pollution control
- systems. Mr. Hawks holds an M.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.S. in Chemistry,
and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, and has authored many papers on these subjects through the A&WMA and IEEE, among others.