HARRY TAPLIN, P.E., C.E.M., is an expert who brings over 30 years experience in boiler operations, design, testing, and troubleshooting to this program. A nationally recognized authority on boiler efficiency improvement he has managed a world wide boiler tune-up program involving close to a thousand boilers, hundreds of plants and thousands of tests - identifying deficiencies - and millions of dollars in energy savings per year. He holds an unlimited steam engineers license, three Professional Engineers licenses and is a Certified Energy Manager. He has published two books on boiler and steam plant optimization and developed an extensive course for operators of high capacity fossil fuel fired plants. He has made an extensive study of effective educational methods which he applies to his professional courses. He believes the student should be comfortable with the subject and confident he can apply the lessons. He has been president of the consulting firm BTU consultants and for the past 15 years has been troubleshooting plants, conducting efficiency tests and evaluations for much longer. His research has resulted in "new science" pushing plant efficiency to new high levels and is developing a new technology to reduce pollution and CO2 to new lower levels. He earned his B.S. degree at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.