Focused Session 7: Ceramics for Global Decarbonization

Focused Session 7: Ceramics for Global Decarbonization

Reducing and, preferably, eliminating unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions is critical to preventing damaging and costly effects of climate change. Technology plays a key role in direct avoidance of carbon emissions, carbon capture storage and utilization, alternative fuels production, renewable energy generation and use, and energy efficiency. There is extensive global activity in decarbonization technology and ceramic materials provide a significant impact to many of these technologies. This symposium will be a platform to discuss the latest advances, novel solutions, and remaining challenges for materials (including discovery, property engineering, processing and manufacturing), components, and systems. The goal of the symposium is not only the exchange of recent results by experienced and young scientists, but also extensive discussion of unsolved problems and development directions.

Proposed Session Topics

• Carbon Direct Avoidance technology
  • Ceramics for green steel production
  • Inert Anodes for aluminum production
  • Ceramics for oxyfuel combustion
• Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
  • Solid CO₂ sorbents
  • Membranes for CO₂ capture and utilization
  • Ceramics and catalysts for utilization of CO₂ or solid carbon as feedstocks
  • Chemical Looping for CO₂ valorization
• Alternative Fuels Production
  • Hydrogen (excluding high temperature electrolysis)
  • Ceramics for ammonia synthesis, reforming, separation, storage, and handling
  • Ceramics for biofuel and biochar production and use
  • Catalysts and materials for Fischer-Tropsch reactions
• Hydrogen Utilization
  • Materials and Coatings for hydrogen engines
  • Materials and Coatings for hydrogen pipelines
  • Ceramics for hydrogen storage
  • Hydrogen sensors
  • Membranes for separation of hydrogen from natural gas, ammonia, etc.
• Electrification
  • Ceramics for industrial scale electricity-to-heat conversion: heating, etc.
  • Ceramics for electrical production of heat or steam
  • High voltage power electronics
• Energy Efficiency
  • Microreactors for process intensification
  • Heat exchangers for industrial processes
  • Materials, coatings, and components for supercritical CO₂ power cycles

 

Symposium Organizers

• Charles Lewinsohn, Colorado State University, USA
• Federico Smeacetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Alexander Michaelis, IKTS, Germany
• Marta Boaro, Università di Udine, Italy
• Takashi Makino, AIST, Japan

 

Points of Contact

• Charles Lewinsohn: lewinsohn@colostate.edu
• Federico Smeacetto: federico.smeacetto@polito.it