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Director, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Vice President for Research Distinguished Professor, Materials Physics & Device Engineering, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Session 1-1 – Carbon Capture. Chair: William L. Roberts
Director, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
A range of technologies has been proposed for CO2 capture in the power sector, but only one, post-combustion capture (PCC) using amines, has been implemented at scale to date. Other capture options proposed and the reasons for the attractiveness of PCC will be discussed.
Professor of CCS, University of Sheffield
High-flux solar irradiation obtained with optical concentrators is an excellent source of clean process heat for high-temperature physical and chemical processing.
Professor, Australian National University
This talk is a review of conventional amine scrubbing for CO2 capture. Conventional amine scrubbing will be a dominant technology for post-combustion capture.
Research Science Consultant of Technology Strategy & Planning, Saudi Aramco
Cryogenics started in the last decades of 1800’s with the liquefaction of oxygen and grew since to serve many applications at different temperature range.
Science Specialist, Saudi Aramco Research & Development Center
CO2 capture and storage technologies have been recognized as the primary option to mitigate the issue of climate change caused by the utilization of fossil fuels. In the last decades, several CO2 capture approaches have been developed, such as absorption, adsorption, membrane, cryogenic, hydrate and chemical looping combustion etc.
Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University
Session 1-2 – SCO2 Power Cycles. Chair: Hong Im
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
The Allam Cycle is leading the push in reducing emissions from fossil fuel power generation by using an oxy-combustion cycle that employs high-pressure supercritical CO₂ as a working fluid.
Chief Engineer, 8 Rivers Capital
This presentation will focus on technical issues and simulation challenges in modeling sCO2 oxy-combustors for direct fired cycles.
Vice President & Co-founder, CRAFT Tech
The directly fired supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle has high efficiency while allowing nearly complete carbon dioxide (CO2) capture.
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
This talk will present fundamentals and review of recent efforts in the development and validation of a combustion chemical kinetic mechanism for sCO2 oxy-methane/natural gas combustion that can be used for computational fluid dynamic code (CFD) simulations in sCO2 oxy-combustion development.
Associate Professor Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida
Session 2-1 – Hydrogen/Ammonia Combustion Systems. Chair: Mani Sarathy
Associate Director of Clean Combustion Research Center and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Hydrogen is an option for storing energy from renewables and surplus electricity. Hydrogen is also a major constituent in various streams in the chemical industry and sometimes available for power and heat generation using gas turbines.
Adjunct Professor, Chalmers University
A hydrogen economy has been the focus of researchers and developers over the decades. However, the complexity of moving and storing hydrogen has always been a major obstacle to deploy the concept.
Reader/Associate Professor, Cardiff School of Engineering
This presentation details a pathway that KAUST’s Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) is following to accelerate the conversion of commercial gas turbines from natural gas to carbon-free ammonia-hydrogen blends.
Research Scientist, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
In this presentation, I will introduce our results of premixed laminar flame characteristics, such as laminar burning velocity and product gas, of ammonia/air premixed flames.
Associate Professor, Tohoku University
Even if several studies performed during the mid-60’s investigated the possibility to consider ammonia as a fuel for internal combustion engines, mainly by means of CFR experiments or OD modeling, ammonia-based combustion engine fueling methods are not ready to be marketed not only because of supply and safety issues but also because of its combustion characteristics compared to conventional fuels.
Full Professor, University of Orléans
Session 2-2 – Hydrogen/Ammonia Combustion. Chair: James Turner
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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Executive Director, Ammonia Energy Association
Ongoing and future efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions in fulfilling energy needs involve the use of carbon-free energy carriers such as hydrogen and ammonia.
Senior Research Scientist, SINTEF Energy Research
Ammonia has attracted great attention in recent years, as a carbon-free fuel for power generation, transportation, furnaces, and boilers.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
The energy sector’s decarbonization is a complex process and includes different approaches aiming for the stepwise movement to a low carbon mobility future.
Senior Research Scientist, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
In the recent times, the interest towards ammonia combustion has been significantly increasing for two major reasons: a smarter use of the energy resources to reduce energy waste, and the need to control pollutant emissions.
Assistant Professor, Chemical Plants, Politecnico di Milano
This year, the E-Poster session was hosted virtually as a competition. We received 40 posters from research students from 26 different institutions around the world. The winning posters will also be presented at this time.
Session 3-1 – Decarbonizing Industry. Chair: Bassam Dally
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
To achieve net zero emissions by 2050, the industry sector will need to get close to zero emissions by itself. The industry requires large amounts of heat, which represent ¾ of its energy needs.
Senior Analyst of Energy and Climate, IFRI, Centre Energy and Climate, and IEA (ret.)
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Ma’aden, is a diversified mining business with operations in the extraction of phosphate, industrial minerals, aluminum, gold and base metals. Mining operations are organized in Strategic Business Units (“SBU’s”) which are profit centers with full accountability for profit and loss.
Manager of Renewable Energy Project, Ma'aden Corporate
he presentation will address key opportunities to decarbonise the high temperature calcination process within alumina manufacture which, in turn, is one of the most challenging processes to decarbonise in the production of aluminium.
Professor, Director Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide
he cement industry is an energy intensive industry generating 8% of the world’s GHG emissions. Majority of cement related emissions come from the process to produce clinker, an intermediate product to make cement.
Managing Director & Co Founding Partner, Cementis
The EU commission has committed to fulfilling the targets of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction in 2050 by 80 % compared to the level of 1990.
Professor, Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy, Montanuniversität Leoben and K1-MET GmbH, Leoben, Austria
Session 3-2 – Renewable Technology. Chair: Aldo Steinfeld
Full Professor, Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Solar thermal water splitting (STWS) is a method for producing renewable hydrogen from water and concentrated sunlight using energy from the entire solar spectrum to directly drive the splitting reactions and, therefore, providing for high theoretical solar to hydrogen efficiencies.
Clark Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado
There is growing interest in possible pathways to cost-effectively decarbonise the production of copper, which is the third-most widely-used metal with a current global demand of 18 million metric tonnes per year.
Senior Research Associate, University of Adelaoide’s Centre for Energy Technology
Environmental protection has gained considerably in importance since climate change has been recognized as one of the most difficult challenges for mankind.
Professor, University of Stuttgart. Director of the DLR-Institute
The transition to low carbon future requires interim measures which allows the integration of renewable energy sources into existing systems and the development of new technology that integrate the new and the old.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Efficient and scalable energy storage systems capable of loading and discharging energy streams with high thermodynamic value (i.e., high exergy) are paramount in the envisaged decarbonized economy.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, PREC group, ETH Zurich
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
The first seminar will shed light on the ME countries’ vision and policies for hydrogen production, export and utilization. It will also explore the balance between blue and green hydrogen, and the role of the Middle East in supplying the world with carbon-free fuel in the future. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Bassam Dally.
Date: Aug 30, 2022. Time: 12:00-13:30 PM
Venue: Auditorium between Building 2 and Building 3
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Seminar 2: Hydrogen Production Technologies - 13 September 2022,