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Symposium 22: Energy Forum
Sustainable/Renewable Materials for Energy Applications

Society is increasingly focused on the potential problems of climate change and the need to look at a more sustainable approach to the generation and use of energy to drive societal development. This is especially true throughout the Americas where energy demand is high and its use enables progress in many areas. The approach and choices society makes now have long term consequences. Many of the desireable energy systems options depend on the development of new materials and processes many of which are location dependent. This requires a reexamination of conventional energy systems based on coal, gas and nuclear fuels, as well as a focus on renewable and green energy cycles. In addition to these new “supply-side” paradigms, sustainable “demand-side” innovations are needed, including next generation vehicles, efficient indoor lighting, energy efficient buildings, and recycling. Pivotal in all of these areas is the requisite materials science to enable them. This symposium will look at the materials needs for sustainable energy cycles. Focus will be on the whole range of materials needs for a technology including the active device, the balance of systems and the lifetime issues – cradle to grave.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Topics to be covered will focus on the emerging materials science in the following areas:

• Renewable power generation – solar, wind, solar thermal, geothermal
• Conventional power generation – nuclear, coal, gas and oil
• Materials needs for emerging generation concepts
• Materials for Fuels Production – ethanol and hydrogen
• Materials technologies for CO2 abatement

• Next generation vehicles – plug-in hybrids, electric, aternative-fuel, fuel cell
• New materials for vehicles
• Vehicle recycling
• Stationary Power
• Fuel Cells
• Materials for next generation buildings
• Energy Storage Materials
• Batteries, CAES, Hydro, Flywheels, Ultracapacitors and thermal storage fluids

• Green process technologies
• Recycling approaches
• Lifecycle engineering
• Energy Efficient Buildings

The symposium will focus on the need to develop materials, models to anticipate their impacts, and the materials science that enables these technologies. We anticipate joint sessions where a number of topical areas overlap.

Invited speakers and panelists (tentative) include:

Symposium Organizers

David Ginley Group Manager Process Tech. and Advanced Concepts E-mail: David_ginley@nrel.gov	Claudio Estrada Director of Centro de Investigacion en Energia, UNAM, Mexico E-mail: dir@cie.unam.mx
Dr. Paul Grant E-mail: w2agz@pacbell.net	Prof. Ryan Ohayre Colorado School of Mines E-mail: rohayre@Mines.edu

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