Randall Harris

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  Published on: 4/25/2008    Last Visited: 5/1/2008  

  Randy Harris, director of the authority's Project Development team, said plans are underway to conduct tests to determine whether coal-to-liquid emissions are environmentally acceptable.
  
  "After this testing, we'll have certification that our fuel will work in over-theroad trucks, in heavy equipment, in underground equipment and train engines," he said."As far as we know, no one else is doing this anywhere in the country.This will be the newest data, and will probably be quoted in journals for the next four to five years.
  
  Several companies, West Virginia University and the state of West Virginia, are participating in the project.Harris said Rentech, a leading fuel technology and development company, will pay for the tests and provide the ultra-low diesel with the same specifications as fuel produced by coal-to-liquid.
  
  He said the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and the West Virginia Mine Safety Office would participate in the testing process to ensure that coal-to-liquid fuel is safe for underground use.
  
  "Arch Coal is going to put some of the fuel into a piece of surface equipment used at one of its mines and use it for a month or two.That will ensure we have actual field experience as well," Harris added."Walker Equipment is going to use CTL diesel in one of their equipment trucks that has the same engine used in their 18-wheeler tractor trailers for two months as well."
  
  Harris said Norfolk and Southern Railway is testing train engines in order to make purchase decisions for the future of their railroad.He said the railroad company would be testing the synthetic fuel.
  
  There are only two mobile emissions testing units certified by the Enviromental Protection Agency in the country, and one of them, located at West Virginia University, will be used in the testing.
  
  According to Harris, the Air Force is interested in using synthetic diesel fuel on a larger scale than previous planned.

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  Published on: 8/30/2007    Last Visited: 9/1/2007  

  One West Virginia mine operator reported 30 stolen air packs this month and Pittsburgh-based Consol Energy reports losing about 10 per month, said Randy Harris, engineering adviser for the state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.
  
  Authorities do not know who is stealing the air packs or why, but Harris suspects at least some are being sold to mine operators or contractors.
  
  "Most likely the market is out of state for the big quantities," said Harris, who bought one for $25 at a yard sale six months ago that he used during performance testing.He recently found another at an antique store in Oak Hill.
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  "Sooner or later somebody's going to show up at a cache in an emergency and it'll be empty," Harris said.
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  "We think, quite honestly, that it's a good thing the industry is doing it themselves," Harris said.

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  Randy Harris - Mingo County Redevelopment Authority
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  Randy Harris - Conference Speaker
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  Randy Harris
  
  DIRECTOR, PROJECT DEVELOPMENT MINGO COUNTY REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
  
  Mr. Harris has over 20 years of energy related technical management.Currently Director of Project Development for the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority where is leading development of the Mingo Hybrid Energy center, a biomass/coal gasification to liquids project.He also serves as the Engineering Consultant to the Director of the West Virginia Office of Miner's Health Safety and Training, as a member of the WV Energy Taskforce, member of the WV Coal Forum, the WV Vision Shared energy development subcommittee, and several mining industry safety groups.Previously he served as the Senior Engineer and Advisor to the Director of the U. S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory where he was involved in the development and implementation of the U.S. DOE's advanced fossil fuel development programs.He has also served as a member of the U.S. government's interagency technology transfer steering committee, as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Energy and as a special assistant to the Secretary of Energy.
  
  Harris did his undergraduate work in Nuclear Engineering and Applied Physics at the University of Florida, with graduate work in health physics at the University of Florida and the University of Tennessee, in engineering management through the US DoD sponsored National Technical University consortium, and MBA at West Virginia University.He has also completed postgraduate work at the Wharton School of Business in business administration, finance, and management, and federal executive management training at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Federal Executive Institute at the University of Virginia.
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  Randall Harris, Director, Project Development, MINGO COUNTY REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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  Published on: 8/7/2008    Last Visited: 10/8/2008  

  Below is the complete text of a new study by Randall Harris, a former senior engineer for U.S. Dept. of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).Harris is now a technical consultant on energy projects in West Virginia.
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  Harris: "In looking at CO2 emissions from a crude oil refinery, not all the carbon associated with the crude can be assigned to one product.

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  Published on: 10/29/2009    Last Visited: 10/29/2009  

  Randall Harris, Project Director for the Authority, said that while several environmental concerns are significant, air quality has been the biggest hurdle to the project.
  
  "There are multiple permits to obtain," Harris said.
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  Randall Harris, project director for MCRA, said the opportunity for economic development would mean Southern West Virginia could move forward during a difficult period for the coal industry.
  
  "After over a century of Appalachia shipping its natural resources to out of state factories where the value and the jobs are created, we finally have the opportunity to not only harvest our natural resources but to keep the jobs here, diversifying our economy and making a significant step toward a sustainable economy in the hills," Harris said.

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  Published on: 12/31/2008    Last Visited: 12/31/2008  

  The MSHA rule effectively decreases the number of people that existing shelters can accommodate, said Randy Harris, an engineering adviser for the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.
  
  "That means you're going to have to buy more of them," Harris said.

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  The MSHA rule effectively decreases the number of people that existing shelters can accommodate, said Randy Harris, an engineering adviser for the West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.
  
  "That means you're going to have to buy more of them,'' Harris said.

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  Published on: 11/7/2008    Last Visited: 2/16/2009  

  The project is in the early engineering phase, according to Randall Harris, director of project development for the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority.
  
  Marshall County CTL developers CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems announced on Oct. 23 that they would stop funding their plant's front-end engineering design package because of the "difficult financial environment."
  
  But financing is not hurting the Rentech plant at its current stage of development, Harris said.
  
  "We've been financing the engineering phase, and we don't have any problem on that yet," he said.
  
  In fact, Harris, who spoke with The State Journal from a two-day "Enabling Global Coal-to-Liquids Markets" conference in Houston, was encouraged by the banks in attendance at the conference.
  
  "(The CTL developers are) all getting 'pinged' by people that used to be tier two ,tier three financial institutions but are now tier one because the tier ones went away," he said.
  
  "The key issue has always been, can you bring a project forward that has good feedstock supply and good off-take and that your black box on whatever you're making can get you at least a 20 percent return on investment? he continued. "If so, there's never been a question of financing, and it appears there's still not a question."
  
  The Mingo County facility will be engineered to create a product mix of specialty chemicals and commodity fuels that is expected to maximize return, Harris said.
  
  Rentech is planning to ramp up production in two phases.
  
  A first phase would produce 3,000 barrels of liquid transportation fuels per day; a second would produce 30,000 barrels per day.
  
  The developers will begin seeking permits and financing about halfway through the engineering phase, Harris said. Although he did not give a timeline for that milestone, he did say that a 2012 timeline is still in place for getting the facility online.

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  Published on: 11/6/2008    Last Visited: 11/13/2008  

  The project is in the early engineering phase, according to Randall Harris, director of project development for the Mingo County Redevelopment Authority.
  
  Marshall County CTL developers CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems announced on Oct. 23 that they would stop funding their plant's front-end engineering design package because of the "difficult financial environment."
  
  But financing is not hurting the Rentech plant at its current stage of development, Harris said.
  
  "We've been financing the engineering phase, and we don't have any problem on that yet," he said.
  
  In fact, Harris, who spoke with The State Journal from a two-day "Enabling Global Coal-to-Liquids Markets" conference in Houston, was encouraged by the banks in attendance at the conference.
  
  "(The CTL developers are) all getting 'pinged' by people that used to be tier two ,tier three financial institutions but are now tier one because the tier ones went away," he said.
  
  "The key issue has always been, can you bring a project forward that has good feedstock supply and good off-take and that your black box on whatever you're making can get you at least a 20 percent return on investment?" he continued. "If so, there's never been a question of financing, and it appears there's still not a question."
  
  The Mingo County facility will be engineered to create a product mix of specialty chemicals and commodity fuels that is expected to maximize return, Harris said.
  
  Rentech is planning to ramp up production in two phases.
  
  A first phase would produce 3,000 barrels of liquid transportation fuels per day; a second would produce 30,000 barrels per day.
  
  The developers will begin seeking permits and financing about halfway through the engineering phase, Harris said. Although he did not give a timeline for that milestone, he did say that a 2012 timeline is still in place for getting the facility online.

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  Published on: 8/31/2007    Last Visited: 9/1/2007  

  One West Virginia mine operator reported 30 stolen air packs this month, and Consol Energy, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reports losing about 10 per month, said Randy Harris, engineering adviser for the state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training.
  
  Authorities do not know who is stealing the air packs or why, but Harris suspects at least some are being sold to mine operators or contractors.
  
  "Most likely the market is out of state for the big quantities," said Harris, who bought one for US$25 (euro18) at a yard sale six months ago that he used during performance testing.He recently found another at an antique store in Oak Hill.
  
  West Virginia made it a felony last year to steal an air pack, yet the devices continue to disappear.
  
  "Sooner or later somebody's going to show up at a cache in an emergency and it'll be empty," Harris said.
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  "We think, quite honestly, that it's a good thing the industry is doing it themselves," Harris said.

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