Ammonia — The Key to Energy Independence
September 26-28, 2010 • Romulus, MI
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Monday, September 27
Welcome and Speaker Introduction
John Holbrook, AmmPower
Matt Simmons Memorial
Bob West, Ocean Energy Institute
Keynote Address
Herbert I. London, President, Hudson Institute
Conference Kick-off
Norm Olson, Iowa Energy Center
Who’s Driving NH3 as a Fuel?
Casey Stack, NH3 Fuel Association
Production of Anhydrous Ammonia from Wind Energy — Anatomy of a Pilot Plant
Mike Reese and Cory Marquart, University of Minnesota
NH3 as an Energy Storage Medium — an Island Experiment
Laurenz Schmidt and Gordon Richardson, Ocean Energy Institute
Making Ammonia Fuel From Alaska’s Abundant Stranded Renewable Energy
Bill Leighty, Alaska Applied Sciences, Inc.
Transition-Metal Catalyzed Reduction of Nitrogen to Ammonia
Andreja Bakac, Aaron Sadow, Oleg Pestovsky and Barun Jana, Iowa State University
Biogas as a Source of Renewable Anhydrous Ammonia
Paul Pansegrau, Joshua Ziman, Kerryanne Leroux, Kristopher Jorgenson, Michael Collings, John Richter, and Bruce Folkedahl, University of North Dakota, Energy & Environmental Research Center
Integrated Electrochemical–Thermal Ammonia Production Process
Junhua Jiang, Alexey Ignatchenko, and Ted Aulich, University of North Dakota, Energy & Environmental Research Center
NFuels Units: From Mega-Ammonia to Micro-Ammonia
Hans Vrijenhoef, Proton Ventures BV
Update on the Maryland NH3 Project
St. John Martin and William H. Kumm, Arctic Energies Ltd.
Possible NH3 Fuel Transportation Demonstration Projects
Steve Crolius, Clinton Climate Initiative
Carbon-Negative NH3 Fuel Production from Biomass via Gasification
Jack Oswald, SynGest Corp.
Monday evening address
David Cole, Chairman, Center for Automotive Research
Tuesday, Sept. 28
Welcome and Announcements
John Holbrook, AmmPower
New NH3FA website and membership area
Gordon Nyquist, Mackinaw Associates
Hawaii: Most Suitable for Demonstrating the use of NH3 for Renewable Grid Energy Storage, Transportation and Fertilizer
Guy Toyama, H2 Technologies, Inc.
Ammonia Combustion with Near-Zero Pollutant Emissions
Praveen Kumar, Kyle Redfern, Daniel Diaz, and Terrence Meyer, Iowa State University
Ammonia Combustion in Spark Ignition Engine Conditions
Catherine Duynslaegher, Hervé Jeanmart, and Jacques Vandooren, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
A Comparison of Combustion Promoters for Ammonia
Shawn Grannell, Casey Stack and Don Gillespie, NH3Car
Increasing the Combustibility of NH3 Fuel
Jason Ganley, NHThree LLC
Results of Various NH3 Engine Developments
Mike Bowery, Eliminator Products
Update on Ammonia Engine Development Using Direct Fuel Injection
Matthias Veltman and S-C Kong, Iowa State University
Performance of a Ceramic, Intermediate-Temperature Direct NH3 Fuel Cell
Nigel Sammes, Colorado School of Mines
Converting Liquid NH3 to an Energy-Dense Engine Fuel
Ted Hollinger, Hydrogen Engine Center
NH3 — The Road Ahead
Ralph Perpetuini and Albert Venezio, Icom North America
Introducing a New Fuel to Commerce — Not so Easy, Experience from the Biodiesel Industry
Bill Ayres, R3 Sciences, LLC and Steve Howell, Marc-IV
Conference Wrap-up and Road to NH3 Certification
John Holbrook, AmmPower