Focused Session 2: Ceramics to Shape the Future of Low-Carbon and Carbon-Negative Technologies
Reducing, and preferably eliminating, unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions is critical to preventing the damaging and costly effects of climate change. Technology plays a key role in the 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 have a significant impact on many of these technologies. This symposium will provide a platform to discuss the latest advances, novel solutions, and remaining challenges in materials (including discovery, property engineering, processing, and manufacturing), components, and systems. The symposium’s goal is not only to exchange recent results from experienced and young scientists, but also to engage in an 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 the utilization of CO2 or solid carbon as feedstocks
- Chemical looping for CO2 valorization
- Alternative fuels production
- Catalysts and materials for hydrogen production (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 and pipelines
- Ceramics for hydrogen storage
- Hydrogen sensors
- Membranes for separation of hydrogen from natural gas, ammonia, etc.
- Electrification and energy efficiency
- Ceramics for industrial-scale electricity-to-heat conversion: heating, etc.
- Ceramics for electrical production of heat or steam
- High voltage power electronics
- Microreactors for process intensification
- Heat exchangers for industrial processes
- Materials, coatings, and components for supercritical CO2 power cycles
- Ceramics for thermal energy storage
- Manufacturing, lifecycle assessment, and circular economy
- Decarbonizing ceramic production
- Advanced/green manufacturing
- Lifecycle analysis (LCA) and circular economy
Symposium Organizers
- Charles Lewinsohn, Rational Solutions, LLC, USA
- Marta Boaro, Università di Udine, Italy
- Federico Smeacetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Alexander Michaelis, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
- Takashi Makino, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- Lyndsey McMillon-Davis, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Points of Contact
- Charles Lewinsohn: clewinsohn@rationalsolutions.tech
- Marta Boaro: boaro@uniud.it