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Mike Barkdoll is the former Manger of Technology Development for SunCoke Energy. He is a registered professional mechanical engineer with a Masters Degree in environmental engineering. He holds 11 patents and has 2 pending primarily in the areas of combustion, cokemaking and air pollution control.

Mike has been involved with the development of the SunCoke Heat Recovery coke oven technology since 1974.He retired from SunCoke Energy in 2010 and is currently the VP of Forest Vue Research,LLC a research company focused on developing non-traditional industrial processes.

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Oana Olaru-Niculita is the Marketing Manager of John M Henderson, the Scottish based engineering company, one of the world's leading suppliers of Coke Oven Machinery. Her role with John M Henderson is to help expanding this world class engineering technology to coke and steel plants all over the world.

Throughout her activity in the coke making industry, Oana has had the opportunity of visiting many of the Coke Plants and Coke Making countries in the world and participating at numerous coke related conferences worldwide.

Oana has an extensive experience in international marketing for a wide range of industries. Professional qualifications include an Honours Degree in Marketing, Masters Degree in International Marketing from the Universities of Freiburg, Germany and Lisbon, Portugal and a PhD in International Marketing in development with the University of Dundee, Scotland. She has worked as a business consultant for major multinational companies and published a number of books and papers in the areas of strategic and international marketing.

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• Metallurgical & industrial engineer by the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (1977)
• M.Sc. In Coal Science by the Pennsylvania State University, USA (1981)
• Specialization in petrography & coke reactivity, University of Newcastle, UK (1985)
• Researcher at the Brazilian national steel - CSN' s R&D centre on coal & coke, Brazil (1977 - 1988)
• General manager coke-making operations at CSN, Brazil (1989 - 1993)
• Consultant for fundaçao christiano otoni on total quality management (1993 -1995)
• Consultant on technical marketing and coke-making process for customers in Australia, Canada , USA, India, Columbia and Brazil ( 1984 - 2008)
• Manager technical marketing for Jellinbah Group, Australia (2008 to date)

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Ingomar Koehler is a former Senior Development Engineer with ThyssenKrupp. He is now retired and working in a consulting capacity with procomco. He has over 30 years experience in all areas of cokemaking including coal and coke analysis, design of charging coal blends, cokemaking technology/process engineering, commissioning of coke oven batteries, and research and development of new technologies for slot type and heat-recovery coke ovens and by-product plants.

He performs plant inspections worldwide and elaborates feasibility studies whose findings and results are implemented in practice jointly with his customers. Ingomar Koehler is a pragmatist who managed to acquire experience and know-how in the fields of research and development and passes his wide-spread know-how of cokemaking in training courses as well as in seminars for plant management, operators, and young design engineers.