International Advanced Coal Technologies Conference

The Conference is held in Laramie, (Wyoming, USA),  June  23-24, 2010 and covers the principal directions of development of clean coal technologies including

Ø gasification

Ø carbon management 

Ø non-conventional gas

Ø synthetic  fuels

The keynote addresses

• Hon. Dave Freudenthal, Governor of Wyoming (USA)
• Hon. Peter Beattie, Former Premier of Queensland and Trade Commissioner to the USA (Australia)
• Joseph Strakey, Chief Technologist, DOE-NETL (USA)
• Zuoli Zhu, Director of Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission (China)

are followed by 16 invited talks from institutions and corporations leading research and development of clean coal technologies in the USA and around the world.

Invited presentations

· Monte Atwell, General Manager-Gasification, GE Energy

· Michael Blinderman, Director, Ergo Exergy Technologies, Canada

· Richard Boardman, Head, Energy Security Initiative, Idaho National Laboratory

· John Carras, Director, Coal Technology, CSIRO, Australia

· Mark Davies, SEO, National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development Centre, Australia

· David L. Denton, Director, Energy Policy Development, Eastman Chemical

· Mark Finkelstein, Vice-President, Luca Technologies

· Julio Friedmann, Leader, Carbon Management Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

· Bob Kelly, Executive Chairman, DKRW Advanced Fuels

· Maha Mahasenan, Senior Policy Adviser, Hydrogen Energy

· Claudia Miller, Engineering Manager, Dakota Gasification Company

· Harry Morehead, Manager, IGCC Business Development, Siemens Power Generation

· Fred Palmer, Senior Vice President of Government Relations, Peabody Energy

· Philip J. Smith, Director, Institute for Clean and Secure Energy (ICSE), University of Utah

· Kelly Thambimuthu, Director of the Centre for Coal Energy Technology and Professor of Chemical Engineering at UQ

· Robert H. Williams, Senior Research Scientist, Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton University

After peer review process, a number of contributing talks are selected worldwide for presentation at the conference.

The organizers thank Wyoming and Queensland state Governments and DOE-NETL for contributing to organisation of the conference and SER at University of Wyoming for provided logistical support for the conference.

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O.A. (Gus)  Plumb  and Alex Y. Klimenko

Co-chairs of the Conference Organizing Committee

Conference Organizing Committee

Conference Steering Committee

Links:

School of Energy Resources (SER) at University of Wyoming

School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering (SoMME) at The University of Queensland

UQ Combustion and MM Research Group