Sunday Evening |
Hydrocarbon Resources in the 21st Century |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Professor Akira Tomita, Tohoku University, Japan
Dr. D. Duayne Whitehurst, Consultant (Former Mobil Oil), USA
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- 6 PM - Welcome reception and dinner
- Dr. Jeff Brown, Mobil Oil, USA
Global Trends in Known Reserves and Predicted Future Conventional Hydrocarbon Resources
- Dr. Timothy Collett, US Geological Survey, USA
Gas Hydrates: An Unlimited Energy Resource or Just a Lot of Gas?
- Dr. Takeo Yamada, Idemitsu Kosan Company, Japan
Just Enough CO2 to Warm It Up ?
Monday Morning |
Advances in Carbon Materials: Nano-Structures and Catalysts |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Professor Morinobu Endo, Shinshu University, Japan
Professor Pierre Ehrburger, University of Mulhouse, France
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- Professor Isao Mochida, Kyushu University, Japan
Novel Carbon Catalysts and Catalyst Supports
- Professor Peter Scharff, Technical University Clausthal, Germany
Motifs of 3D Interlinked Fullerenes
- Mr. Yoshio Nishi, Sony Corporation, Japan
Technology of Lithium Ion Secondary Battery: Present and Future
Monday Evening |
Computational Approaches to Hydrocarbon Reaction Chemistry |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Dr. Jean-Loup Faulon, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
Dr. Françoise Behar, IFP , France
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- Professor Michael Frenklach, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Development and Optimization of Reaction Models
- Dr. Hervé Toulhoat, Institute Français du Pétrole, France
Hydrogenation of benzene and thiophene on molybdenum sulfide based model hydrorefining catalysts: ab-initio investigations of the energetic profiles.
- Professor William Goddard, California Institute of Technology, USA
Advances in Computational Approaches to Hydrocarbons
Tuesday Morning |
Frontiers of Catalysis in Hydrocarbon Reactions |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Professor Enrique Iglesia, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Hideshi Hattori, Hokkaido University, Japan
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- Dr. Stuart Soled, Exxon Research and Engineering, USA
Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Catalytic Materials
- Professor Rutger vanSanten, Eindhoven , Netherlands
Molecular modelling of the hydroisomerisation reaction
- Professor Wayne Goodman, Texas A&M University, USA
Metal Clusters on Oxide Supports: A Correlation of Structure, Electronic Properties, and Reactivity
- Professor Yoshio Ono, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dynamics of Protons in Solid-Acid Catalysts as Studied by Temperature Variant 1H MAS NMR
Tuesday Evening |
High-Temperature Hydrocarbon Chemistry |
Session Co-Chairs: |
b>Professor Selim Senkan, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Charles Westbrook, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, USA
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- Dr. Anthony Dean, Exxon Research and Engineering, USA
Detailed Kinetic Models for High-Temperature Reaction Systems
- Dr. Wing Tsang, NIST, USA
Fundamental Approaches to the Understanding of Gas Phase Hydrocarbon Chemistry
Wednesday Morning |
Advances in Compositional and Instrumental Approaches to Hydrocarbon Chemistry |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Professor Ronald Pugmire, University of Utah, USA
Professor Colin Snape, University of Strathclyde, UK
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- Professor David Grant, University of Utah, USA
Recent Two Dimensional NMR Methods in the Study of Hydrocarbons
- Dr. George Cody, Carnegie Institute, USA
Fuel Chemistry at nano to microscales: Probing structure and chemistry with Soft X-Ray Spectralmicroscopy
- Dr. Steve Larter, GRC Newcastle, Great Britain
Molecules and Mazes-Advances/failures in the molecular definition of petroleum migration and reservoir charging.
Wednesday Afternoon |
Poster Session |
- Speakers at Posters
- Informal poster sessions\refreshments\socials following Monday and Tuesday evening sessions
Wednesday Evening |
Membrane Reactors |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Professor Doug Way, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Professor Ei-ichi Kikuchi, Waseda University, Japan
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- Professor Yi Hua Ma, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Highly Selective Dense Perovskite and Palladium Membranes for Energy Applications
- Professor Shigeharu Morooka, Kyushu University, Japan
The Development of Inorganic Membranes for Use in Membrane Reactors.
Thursday Morning |
Advances in Methane Conversion Chemistry |
Session Co-Chairs: |
Professor Kaoru Fujimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Jack Lapzewicz, CSIRO, Australia
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- Prof. Masaru Ichikawa, Hokkaido University, Japan
Catalytic Polymerization of Methane towards Ethylene and Aromatics, Novel Hybrid Metal Catalysts and their Bifunctional Catalysis
- Dr. Ib Alstrup, Haldor Topsoe Laboratories, Denmark
Methane Chemisorption on Modified Nickel Surfaces
- Dr. Jan Galuszka, CANMET, Canada
Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane to Syngas - from Science to Application
Thursday Evening |
Keynote Address |
- Conference Dinner
- Dr. Earl Beaver, Monsanto Corporation
Usable Tools for Making Sustainable Decisions in Industry
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