Agenda

MARCH 27, 2024
           Time                        Activity
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Registration at Ferst Center for the Arts
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Welcome to Georgia Tech

Chaouki Abdallah, Tim Lieuwen, & Eric Vogel, Georgia Tech

9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Plenary Talk - Enabling our Clean Energy Future

Danielle Merfeld, Qcells

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.Transit to Exhibition Hall for Sessions
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Opening Remarks

Marta Hatzell, Georgia Tech

 
Green Hydrogen
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.Green Hydrogen and Related Electrons-to-Molecules Science and Technology 
Bill Tumas, NREL
11:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.Computational Design of Dual-Atom Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Conversion
Guoxiang Hu (Emma), Georgia Tech
11:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.Systems Perspective on the Role and Design Space of Hydrogen Technologies for Energy System Decarbonization
Dharik Mallapragada, New York University
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.Reaching the Red Planet: Magnetohydrodynamic Water Electrolysis to Enable Human Spaceflight
Alvaro Romero-Calvo, Georgia Tech
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.Lunch
 
C and N based Fuels and Chemicals
1:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.Designing the Bioproduction of a Martian Rocket Propellant on Mars
Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Tech
1:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.Circular Carbon Fuels
Matthew Realff, Georgia Tech
1:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation: Oasis or Mirage?
Andrew Medford, Georgia Tech
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.Towards Electrifying Chemical Manufacturing 
Paul Kenis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.Break
 
Clean Chemicals
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.Mechanocatalytic Conversion of Waste Plastics and Biomass
Carsten Sievers, Georgia Tech
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.Programmable Catalysis for Energy and Chemicals
Paul Dauenhauer, University of Minnesota
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.Strategies to Create Reactive and Selective Oxygen on Surfaces
David Flaherty, Georgia Tech
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.Break
 
Clean Combustion
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.R&D Needs with Hydrogen and Ammonia Combustion
Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Tech
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.End-Use Challenges and Opportunities for Decarbonizing the Hard-to-Electrify Transportation Applications with Renewable Fuels 
James Szybist, Oak Ridge National Laboratories
5:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m
Closing Remarks

Marta Hatzell, Georgia Tech

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Poster Session & Reception
Image showing NET Zero on a human hand representing carbon neutral fuels
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