EMS Energy Institute Researchers Showcase Work in Washington

 
Energy researchers from the EMS Energy Institute took part in a day long series of presentations on November 19, 2010, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. to highlight energy research at Penn State. The Penn State Energy Day was sponsored by the U.S. Energy Association, which represents public and private energy-related organizations, corporations and government agencies, and aims to increase understanding of domestic and international energy issues.  

The event, which was open to Penn State alumni, and government and industry personnel, included presentations by University faculty as well as government and industry representatives. It provided an opportunity for Penn State to showcase the scope of its faculty’s energy-related research.

EMS Energy Institute researchers contributed posters that covered a variety of research topics such as CO₂ capture and storage, biomass gasification, and oxy-coal combustion. Posters are listed below.

• CO₂ Capture by Molecular Basket Sorbents - Emanuela Peduzzi, Eric Fillerup, Jiahua Guo, Xiaoliang Ma, Chunshan Song, Xiaoxing Wang, Dongxiang Wang, and Zhonghua Zhang
• Biomass Gasification for CO₂ Reduction Benefits - Bruce Miller and Sharon Falcone Miller
• Oxy-coal Combustion for CO₂ Capture - Sarma Pisupati, S. Roshan Dhanesavar, Bruce Miller
• CO₂ Storage in Unmineable Coal Seams - Jonathan Mathews and Derek Elsworth
• Coal Gasification for CO₂ Capture - Sarma Pisupati, Yaw Yeboah, N. Soundarrajan, N. Krishnamurthy, L. Gibson, and A. Tchapda
• Geological Carbon Sequestration Research at Penn State -  Li Li, Seth Blumsack, William Burgos, Peter Heaney, Susan Brantley, R.J. Briggs, Derek Elsworth, Zuleima Karpyn, Turgay Ertekin, Serguei Lvov, and Antonio Nieto

In addition, two Energy Institute researchers presented their recent work as part of a panel discussion. André Boehman, professor of fuel science and materials science and engineering, participated in Future of Transportation Fuels. Seth Blumsack, assistant professor of energy policy and economics, presented The New Age of U.S. Electricity in the panel discussion Electricity Delivery and Storage. Their presentations can be viewed at www.research.psu.edu/events/2010/penn-state-energy-day-documents.

Others in attendance from the Institute included Chunshan Song, director of the EMS Energy Institute, who coordinated the poster session and led a discussion on Carbon Capture, Sequestration and Utilization, and Emanuela Peduzzi, graduate student in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering.