2025 PLENARY SPEAKERS - OCTOBER 22-24, 2025
PLENARY SESSION I (October 22, 2025)
9:00 - 9:30: The Honorable Charles McConnell
Assistant Secretary of Energy (2011-13) US DOE
"The Winds of Change in the World of Energy"
9:00 - 10:00: Dr. Ahmed Aboudheir
Chief Executive Officer of Aboudheir Consulting Ltd
"Feasible Deployment of Large Scale CCUS Projects Towards Net Zero by 2050"
PLENARY SESSION II (October 22, 2025)
10:20 - 10:50: Dr. Jizhen Liu
Chinese Academy of Engineering
"China's Energy Transition: Progress and Prospects"
10:50 - 11:20: Dr. Buxing Han
Chinese Academy of Science
"Green Chemistry and Sustainable Development"
11:20 - 11:50: Dr. Peixue Jiang
Chinese Academy of Science
"Research Progress on Key Technologies for Large-Scale CO2 Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers"
PLENARY SESSION III (October 22, 2025)
13:30 - 14:00: Dr. Jiongtian Liu
Chinese Academy of Engineering
"Coal Preparation in China: Bigger, Higher, and Better"
14:00 - 14:30: Mrs. Petra Mühlen
CEO of SpectraFlow Analytics AG Switzerland
"Advanced Feedforward Gasifier Control-The New Philosophy of Gasifier Stabilization"
14:30 - 15:00: Prof. Qiang Yao
Tsinghua University
"Progress and Prospects of Clean and Efficient Coal Technology in Enabling China's Energy Transition"
PLENARY SESSION IV (October 22, 2025)
15:25 - 15:55: Dr. Quansheng Li
CHN Energy
"Coal Ecological Science and Technology Innovation and Engineering Practice"
15:55 - 16:25: Dr. Shiseng Xu
China Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute
"World's First 1.5 Million Tonnes/Year Full-Process CCUS Demonstration for Coal Power Plant"
16:25 - 16:55: Dr. Omar M. Basha
Principle manager, ONB Engineering Research and Technical Services LLC
"De-risking Hydrocarbon Process Innovation: From Screening to Techno-economically Feasible Deployment"