Time & Location:
May 15th 2010 (Saturday) 9:00-19:30
Northwestern University
Abbott Auditorium, Pancoe Building
2200 Campus Dr., Evanston, IL 60208st IL
Eevent Agenda:
9:00-9:30 Registration/ Poster Mounting
9:30-9:45 Welcome
Dagang Huang, Ph.D., President, GLCACS 2010
Norman Li, Ph.D., Chairman of GLCACS Board of Directors
9:45-10:30 The Future Picture of Energy and the Challenges to China
Li Wang, Director and Chief Scientist of Catalysis at National Institute of Clean and Low-Carbon Energy ,Beijing, China
10:30-11:15 Getting things done in China
Lili Bovet , Executive Vice President, Cirrus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
11:15-11:25 Break
11:25-12:30 Poster Presentation Competition
12:30-14:30 Poster Paper Competition
Career Counseling
Lunch Break
14:30-15:15 How Indigenous Chinese Manufacturers Compete in the Global Market
Ralph Biedermann, President of the MRB group and Partner of Chinaline,LLC
15:15-16:00 Elevance Renewable Sciences: Converting Renewable Materials into Sustainable Solutions for the Specialty Chemical Industry
Stephen A. Di Biase, Chief Scientific Officer, Elevance Renewable Sciences
16:00-16:15 Break / Final Competition Ballot Casting
16:15-16:30 Poster Competition Award and Closing Remark
17:30-19:30 Dinner Reception
Guest Speakers:
The Future Picture of Energy and the Challenges to China - Dr. Li Wang
Dr. Li Wang
Director and Chief Scientist of Catalysis at National Institute of Clean and Low-Carbon
Energy ,Beijing, China
Abstract
The short “breather” that the global energy demand experienced, stemming from the economic slowdown, may soon end abruptly. The familiar scene of strong energy demand will inevitably return.
Despite the strong emphasis and efforts on developing renewable and new energy sources, for the foreseeable future, fossil fuels will continue to play a dominant role. Several factors support this view; the following are a few important ones. There is no readily available economic substitute for petroleum as a source for transportation fuels. Biofuels, based on the first-generation feedstocks, will contribute no more than 5-10% of the total transportation fuel demand; not a significant impact. The technology based on nonedible crops poses other yet to be resolved technological and soil management challenges. Yields of fuels produced from biomass are low, approximately 15% to 20% on a weight basis. The wind and solar energy, despite their rapid growth, will not provide a significant contribution to energy supplies in
the short term due to their high investment and production costs as well as limitations imposed by their inherent intermittency. Slow adoption of nuclear power in the developed world’s stationary energy sector, which is required to support the rapid growth of electric vehicles, will result in increased demand for fossil fuels.
China as a developing country experiencing strong growth no doubt will face a more difficult challenge in meeting its energy demand. Rich in coal, but poor in oil and gas, until technology advances to the point where new energy sources and alternative fuels become commercially viable, China will continue to rely on its most abundant natural resource - coal, to meet its energy needs. At the same time, China must face
the task of further optimizing the coal-to-energy conversion processes to eliminate deleterious environmental impacts and minimize the potential for adverse effects on climate. This mandate has led to the creation of National Institute of Clean and Low-Carbon Energy (NICE) which is chartered by the Chinese government and sponsored by the Shenhua Group, the world largest coal supplying company. In meeting the mandate, NICE will invent, develop, acquire and/or partner with resources of technology that render the coal chain more benign from an environmental perspective.
This talk will also briefly cover the primary activities of NICE on the conversion of coal to liquid fuels, chemicals and natural gas and the accompanied carbon and contaminants capture and sequestration. These activities undertaken by NICE should make China’s commitment to clean energy transparent.
Biography
Dr. Li Wang received his Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1982. Dr. Wang began his R&D career with UOP right after his graduation working in the technology areas of catalytic reforming and FCC SOX getter. In 1989, he joined Honeywell Corporate Research working on the development of refrigerant catalysts, on-board methane storage and Nylon recycle. He returned to UOP, a company of Honeywell, in 1996 and joined the hydrocracking technology group, in the ten years that followed, he generated a new generation of hydrocracking catalyst portfolio which included 10 new catalysts. For this outstanding contribution, he was awarded the Honeywell’s Premier Award in 2007, the highest honor bestowed to individual by Honeywell. Dr. Wang retired from UOP as a Senior Fellow in August of 2009. He is now the Chief Scientist in Catalysis and Director of Catalysis in the National Institute of Clean and Low Carbon Energy in Beijing.
Getting things done in China - Dr. Lili Bovet
How Indigenous Chinese Manufacturers Compete in the Global Market - Dr. Ralph A. Biedermann
Elevance Renewable Sciences: Converting Renewable Materials into Sustainable Solutions for the Specialty Chemical Industry - Dr. Stephen A. Di Biase
Research Presentation Contest Awardees:
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