2008 : IMPROVING WINERY PERFORMANCE

Time/Place: 18 & 19 June - Wolf Blass Visitors Centre, Nuriootpa, South Australia

Key Note Speaker: Mr Wolf Blass

Statistics: 377 Delegates, 61 Exhibitors

Travel Award: tba

Engineering Excellence Charles Sturt University: Geoffrey Thompson

University of Adelaide Study Grant:

SPEAKER LISTING

Wednesday 18 June 2008

Conference Welcome: Geoff Leighton (WEA President)
Products for Tank Farm Automation : John Papazoglou (Festo)
Variable Speed Drives - Harmonics & Mitigation Techniques : Peter Tomazic (Rockwell)
Manufacturing Intelligence for the Wine Industry : Rikki Gideon (Sage)
The Hidden Risk: What Wineries Need To Know About Rooftops : Carl Sachs (Workplace Access & Safety)
Learning from OH&S Audits and Investigations : Peter Wong (SafeWork SA)
Wine Safety - Health Issues Associated with the Production & Consumption of Wine : Creina Stockley (AWRI)
Steam System Efficiency : Bob Irvine (Spirax Sarco)
Dry Vacuum Cuts Costs & Saves Water by Employing New Alternatives to Tradition Technologies : Alexis Lim (Busch Australia)
Thermal Storage Solutions : Brad Semmler (Cold Logic)
Next Generation Adiabatic Condensers & Fluid Coolers : Craig Willis (ISECO)
ROPP Capping Kept Simple : Andrew Byles (Constellation Wines Australia)
Trial Updates Associated with HDPE Maturation Vessels - Australian & International Experiences : Peter Steer (Flextank)
Application of High Power Ultrasonics to Improve Barrel Sanitation : Andrew Yap (Cavitus)
Winery Wastewater Treatment - A Review of the Current State of the Art : Dr Matt Savage (Aqwell Water Treatments)
Travel Study Award - Winery Operations & Equipment in Italy / Spain : Ken Johnson (Yalumba)
Improving Refrigeration Efficiency : Jannie Howard (GHD)
The Application of Quality Measures in Winery Processing : Dr Marcus Herderich (AWRI)
Engineering Fermentation : Dr Richard Muhlack (AWRI)
Getting stuck into sluggish fermentations : Dr Paul Chambers (AWRI)
Consumer testing - What People Really Think : Brook Travis (AWRI)
Why on earth would an engineer want to know about tannin? : Dr Paul Smith (AWRI)
Strategies for Water & Waste Reduction in Wineries : John Ide (Yalumba)
Carbon Footprinting & Lifecycle Analysis : Karl Forsyth (Provisor)
Current Practices in Australian Wineries for wastewater Reuse: their advantages and limitations : Dr Anu Kumar (CSIRO)
Resource efficiency in Winery Operations - Designing the Ideal Plant : Andrew Gelbart (Beca)
Decentralised Control Concepts for Tank Farm Automation : John Papazoglou (Festo)
New Generation Hoses & Fittings specifically designed for the Wine Industry : Bill Bailey (Byford Equipment)
Advances in Refrigeration Applications : Mark Holden (Oomiak Refrigeration)
How to Improve Winery Performance : Tim Grosser (GHD)
The Fosters Group Experience with Energy Management & Approach to EEO : Paul Brodie (Fosters Group)
How to Reduce Costs in Controlling your Winery Processes by using simple to use 2 wire control : John Kirkland (NHP)
Presenting the new dry running vacuum pumps/systems - Cobra, Panther & Mink : Alexis Lim (Busch Australia)
More Efficient Aeration of Wastewater : John O'Loughlin (PCPL)

EXHIBITION & SPONSORS

coordinated by Trevor Leighton

Abeve and Spiram International
Aesseal Australia Pty Ltd
Australian Beverage Systems Pty Ltd
B.L. Shipway
Balticare Pty Ltd
Burkert Fluid Control Systems
Byford Engineering & Trojan Transport
Cavitus
C.E Bartlett Pty Ltd
Champion Compressors
Chemical Plant & Engineering
Costa Enterprise
Cuno Pty Ltd
Energy Power Systems Pty Ltd
EPG Pumps
F Miller & Co
Festo
Flextank Pty Ltd
Gas Process Control
HL Cooling Aust Pty Ltd
IFM Effector
JB Macmahon
JJC Engineering
JMA Engineering Pty Ltd
JPR Controls
Krones Pacific
Matrix Process Solutions
Microview Australia
Mono Pumps
MSS Pump, Seal & Safety
NHP Electrical Engineering Pty Ltd
Oomiak
Pall Australia
Parker Domnick Hunter
PCPL - (Patrick Charles)
Power Pumps and Engineering
Prochem Pipeline Products
Pryde Measurement Pty Ltd
Raymax Applications Pty Ltd
Reeve Engineering
Ridgelea Pty Ltd
SEW Eurodrive
Stirlings Australia
Travhotec Pty Ltd
Tyco Flow Control
Utilacor
Westfalia Separator Pty Ltd
WE Ware & Co
Yokogawa Aust