Program Topics & Coordinators

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Industrial Applications, Economics and Environmental Issues
  • Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)
  • Syngas to Power (Gas Turbines, Fuel Cells)
  • Gasification Science and Modeling
  • Novel Gasification Technologies and Concepts
  • Co-Gasification of Coal and other Carbon-Based Fuels
  • Systems Analysis
  • Low Rank Coal Utilization
  • Polygeneration

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Existing and planned clean coal major demonstrations (process and technology demonstrations, (i.e., CCS, IGCC, SCPC, USC, SNG, CTL, Oxy-Combustion, etc.)
  • Existing and planned clean coal commercial projects (fully integrated systems) and trends
  • Industrial-scale and utility-scale carbon capture and carbon storage projects (i.e., >250,000 tons/year of CO₂), lessons learned from technology, demonstrations and first commercial deployments
  • Energy storage demonstrations applicable to medium- and long-term storage of energy from coal and fossil energy systems
  • Intermediate-scale demonstrations, (i.e. 25-50 MWe)
  • Commercially available technology reviews/updates (vendor reports on advanced technology commercial offerings)
  • Financing, business and risk management strategies for major demonstration and commercial projects, including first-of-a-kind projects with or without carbon capture and storage
  • Regulatory impacts on major demonstration and commercial projects
  • Insurance strategies for CO₂ capture and geologic storage

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Industrial applications and environmental Issues
  • Flue gas clean-up and ash chemistry
  • Modeling and economic evaluation
  • Combustion technology advancements (Pulverized Coal, Fluidized Beds, Co-Firing, etc.)
  • Novel Combustion and Cycle Technologies (Oxyfuel, Chemical looping, CO₂ Cycles, etc.)
  • Basic studies, materials, and instrumentation

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Coal-To-Liquids fuels, CTL (Direct Liquefaction, Fischer-Tropsch, MTG, DME, etc.)
  • Gas-To-Liquid, GTL
  • Synthesis gas cleanup
  • Substitute Natural Gas (SNG)
  • Hydrogen production
  • Syngas to chemicals/materials

 

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Pre-combustion capture
  • Post-combustion capture
  • Direct Air Capture (DAC)
  • CO₂ sequestration (Monitoring, Mitigation and Verification; Storage: Depleted Oil/Gas Reservoirs, Aquifers, Basalt, Coal Bed Methane, etc.)
  • Transportation infrastructure issues
  • Legal and regulatory issues
  • Carbon dioxide to chemicals/fuels

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Nano-carbons
  • Fibers
  • Composites
  • 3D Printing
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Electrodes
  • Capacitors
  • Construction Materials
  • Concretes
  • Thermal Insulators
  • Activated Carbons
  • Tars, Cokes and Pitches
  • Chemicals
  • Covetics and other carbon alloys

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Chemical (Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methanol)
  • Thermal (Thermochemical, Sensible, Latent)
  • Mechanical (Compressed Air, Pumped Hydro)
  • Electrochemical (Batteries: Flow, Li-ion, Lead Acid)
  • Other (Geothermal)

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Production
  • Transportation
  • Storage
  • Utilization

Topic Coordinator: TBA

  • Geology
  • Exploration
  • Resources and reserves
  • Drilling and production
  • Completion methods
  • Gas quality and processing
  • Environmental impacts
  • Abating methane emissions from gas and coal production
  • Economics and future outlook

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Thermodynamic and economic analysis
  • Boiler technology and design
  • Steam turbine technology (reheat, regeneration, steam seals, blade aerodynamics)
  • Gas turbines technology (syngas or hydrogen-rich combustion, compressor aerodynamics, turbine blade heat transfer, materials)
  • Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG)
  • Condenser design and operation
  • Cooling tower design and improvements
  • Water treatments
  • Post combustion gas cleaning
  • IGCC integration and components (ASU, gasifiers, syngas cooling, gas clean up, water- gas-shift, and desulfurization)
  • Oxy-fuel combustion plants
  • Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC)
  • Combined Heating and Power (CHP)
  • Energy storage (CAES, ice)
  • Power plants operation and maintenance experiences
  • Any other or innovative new cycles

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Critical minerals and rare earth elements in coal and petroleum fuels
  • Critical mineral and rare earth element chemistry in power systems
  • Mining waste
  • Fly ash and slag
  • Separation methods
  • Rare earth geochemistry
  • Measurement and characterization: challenges and solutions
  • Modeling
  • Mining and recovery methods in industry
  • Status of supply and trade
  • Emerging issues

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Ash pond reclamation
  • Extension of landfills over ash ponds
  • Long-term recovery of materials from ash ponds
  • Long-term recovery of materials from ash ponds
  • Secondary uses of closed ash ponds
  • Coal Combustion Residuals (CCRs) landfill management
  • Beneficial uses of CCRs
  • Critical mineral and rare earth element extraction from CCRs
  • Role of CCRs for CO2 storage

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Chemistry
  • Geoscience/coal resources
  • Trace elements/emission
  • Coal processing
  • Coal preparation
  • Coal utilization
  • Coal utilization by-products (Ash, Fertilizers, etc.)

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Coal seam and coal mine methane/gas management in coal mines
  • Geological issues related to coal mining/properties of coal-measure, rocks/ground behavior
  • Coal mining and reclamation
  • Mine safety

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Energy production and water use – conservation and recycle
  • Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) or Energy Production Systems (EPS)
  • Energy production and the environment
  • Energy sustainability – efficiency and conversation to reduce GHG
  • GHG, inventory protocol, legal and regulatory considerations, credits

Topic Coordinators: TBA

  • Applications in Carbon Management and
  • Energy Systems
  • AI-driven process optimization for carbon capture, storage, and utilization (CCUS)
  • Digital twin modeling of power plants and industrial carbon sources
  • Predictive maintenance and anomaly detection in energy infrastructure
  • Machine learning for emissions forecasting and control
  • Integration of AI with carbon footprint monitoring and reporting
  • Intelligent control systems for decarbonized energy systems
  • Data-driven decision support for low-carbon system planning
  • Real-time monitoring and diagnostics for energy and carbon flows