Plenary Presentations 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Janet Gellici
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, National Coal Council, Inc., USA
“Reliable and Resilient: The Value of Our Existing Coal Fleet”
Ben Yamagata
Executive Director, Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC), USA
“Can We Develop Clean Coal Technologies and CCUS in Light of EPA’s Proposed Carbon Regulations ”
John Pippy
CEO, Pennsylvania Coal Alliance, USA
“Coal: The Energy Keystone of Pennsylvania Past, Present and Future”
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Gu Dazhao
General Manager,R&D Department of Shenhua Group, CHINA
“Water Resources Protection and Utilization Technology for Coal Mining in Western China”
Johan Brand and Johan van Dyk
African Carbon Energy (Africary), SOUTH AFRICA
“UCG –Bringing a Resource, Technology and Economics Together for a 50MW Power Station in South Africa”
Rainer Reimert
Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engler-Bunte-Institut, Fuel Technology, GERMANY
“Coal in Europe: A Rich Past – What Future?”
Thursday, October 9, 2014
L.-S. Fan
Distinguished University Professor, C. John Easton Professor in Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA
“Chemical Looping Technology for Fossil Energy Conversions”
Kenneth Nemeth
Executive Director, Southern States Energy Board, USA
“Coal’s 2014 Challenges and Opportunities”
Ed Holland
President and CEO, Mississippi Power, USA
“Energy & the Environment: A Way Forward for Coal - the Kemper Project”