Institute Hosts Two International Research Conferences this Year

 
International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization

The Twelfth International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU), will be held from June 23-27, 2013, in Alexandria, VA. Chunshan Song, director of the EMS Energy Institute and Distinguished Professor of Fuel Science, is the conference chair and is responsible for all of the conference details along with an organizing committee and a local arrangement committee.

ICCDU, which began in 1991 in Nagoya, Japan, provides a multi-disciplinary forum on recent innovations in fundamental and applied aspects of carbon dioxide utilization. In 2013, the focus will be on carbon dioxide conversion and utilization for chemicals, fuels, and materials for sustainable development. The goal of the conference is to facilitate the advances in carbon dioxide research and bring together the academic and industrial communities for the exchange of ideas, concepts, and innovations. 

ICCDU XII will include about 220 presentations in three tracks: CO₂ Conversion, CO₂ Utilization, and CO₂ Capture and Separation. Over 25 countries are represented at the conference and organizations presenting include government agencies, industries, and universities. Invited speakers are listed below, with plenary speakers in bold. Visit our website for more information, including their presentation titles.

• Michele Aresta, University of Bari, Italy
• Ronald R. Chance, Algenol Biofuels, USA
• Emily Barton Cole, Liquid Light, Inc., USA
• Anthony Cugini, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. DOE
• Yuichiro Himeda, Nat. Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech., Japan
• Osamu Ishitani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Gabor Laurenczy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Xiao-Bing Lu, Dalian University of Technology, China
• Sang-Eon Park, Inha University, South Korea
• Abdelhamid Sayari, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Peter Styring, The University of Sheffield, UK
• Bala Subramaniam, University of Kansas, USA

International Conference on Coal Science and Technology

Jonathan Mathews, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering, and program director for the Institute’s coal science and technology program, is chairing the 2013 International Conference on Coal Science and Technology (ICCS&T). The conference will be held September 29 through October 3, 2013, at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center near the Penn State University Park Campus.

ICCS&T is held every two years in locations across the globe, including Okinawa, Japan; Nottingham, England; Cape Town, South Africa; and Oviedo, Spain. The 2013 ICCS&T will be held on the beautiful Penn State campus in State College, Pennsylvania. This year marks the first time this conference will be held in Pennsylvania, which boasts a rich history in coal.

The 2013 conference will attract a diverse international audience and focus on all aspects of coal science, technology, and related areas of interest. There will be an emphasis on clean coal technologies, including combustion, oxy-combustion gasification, liquefaction, coal-to-liquids, biomass co-firing, co-gasification, CO₂ sequestration, carbon capture, coal structure, coke, coal tar, coalbed methane, coal chemistry, and ash chemistry.

ICCS&T 2013 will include over 300 oral and poster presentations from researchers representing more than 27 countries. Visit our website for more information on the technical program. In addition to our technical sessions, we have invited four keynote speaker, listed below.

• Jack C. Pashin, Oklahoma State University, USA
• Juan Tascón, Instituto Nacional Del Carbón, Spain
• Michael T. Klein, University of Delaware, USA
• Harold Schobert, Pennsylvania State University, USA

The EMS Energy Institute will play host to these two large International conferences this year. Both conferences are held biennially in various locations throughout the world. The Institute is excited to be the hosting organization as these conferences represent some of the most important events in their respective research areas.