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EVENTS

Held November 28-29, 2012 at the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the second Annual Energy & Innovation Conference brought together business and industry leaders from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Virginia as well as members National Energy Technology Laboratory Regional University Alliance (NETL-RUA, or the Alliance). The Alliance hosted the event in collaboration with Catalyst Connection to highlight, demonstrate, and exhibit NETL-RUA research capabilities to the region’s manufacturing sector and facilitate the development of new partnerships which will be instrumental in future collaborative research and economic development.

NETL-RUA Fall Conference: Energy and Innovation, November 28-29, 2012

Conference Program and Agenda

Success Stories (Videos)

• NETL: MFiX
• NETL: Heart Stent
• Catalyst Connection: Bridge Scour Monitoring
• Catalyst Connection: Chemical Biological Decontamination Material
• Catalyst Connection: Emergency Radio Communication System

Table of Contents

Presentations

• Keynotes
  
  
• Business Processes and Best Practices Sessions
  • Open Innovation
  • Partnering with NETL-RUA, Federal Laboratories & Universities
  • Product Development & Intellectual Property
  
  

• Industry R&D Session
  • Materials Design & Development
  • Oil & Gas Production and Utilization
  
  

• NETL-RUA R&D Session
  • Materials Design & Development
  • Oil & Gas Production and Utilization
  • Process Design, Integration & Optimization

Posters

• Materials Design & Development
• Oil & Gas Production & Utilization
• Process Design, Integration & Optimization

Keynotes

• Keynote Bill Flanagan - From Western Virginia to the Forks of the Ohio, Following the Trail that Gave the World an Energy Industry
• Keynote Cindy Powell - Combining Capability and Expertise to Serve as an Engine for Innovation
• Keynote Keith Crane - Emerging Energy and Energy Policy Trends

Business Processes and Best Practices Sessions

Open Innovation

• Open Innovation - Razi Imam 113 Industries
• Open Innovation Communication - Truman Wilt PPG Industries
• Open Innovation Panel Creative Biographies
• Kennametal - Irene Spitsberg

Partnering with NETL-RUA, Federal Laboratories & Universities

• Partnering with Federal Laboratories & Universities - Jim Rooney AMTV
• Partnering with NETL-RUA - Charles Taylor NETL
• TransTech Energy Business Development - Carl Irwin WVU
• Working with Universities - Marlin Mickle Pitt

Product Development & Intellectual Property

• Building an Innovative Culture - Connie Palucka Catalyst Connection
• Protecting Intellectual Property - Duane Stewart Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Industry R&D Session

Materials Design & Development

• ATI Allegheny Ludlum - Charles Stinner
• Kennametal - Paul Prichard
• U.S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc. - Pete Moore - Unavailable

Oil & Gas Production and Utilization

• CONSOL Corporate Profile - Richard Winschel CONSOL Energy Inc
• Developing a Shale Gas Research Strategy Water & Waste - Paul Ziemkiewicz WVU
• EdgeMarc Energy Holdings LLC - Josh Hickman
• Nabors Completion & Production Services Co. - John Cramer Nabors Well Services
• Research and Development for Upstream Oil & Gas Industry - Richard Hammack NETL

NETL-RUA R&D Session

Materials Design & Development

• Advanced Alloy Fabrication - Jeffrey Hawk NETL
• Catalyst Sorbent Development & Commercialization - Dave Berry NETL
• High Throughput Materials Discovery and Optimization - Andrew Gellman CMU
• Partnering for Innovation Critical Materials - Roe-Hoan Yoon VT
• Providing Relevant Solutions to Global Challenges - Bryan Morreale NETL
• Soft Materials Capabilities and Successes - David Luebke NETL

Oil & Gas Production and Utilization

• Advanced Simulation Tools for Reservoir Performance - Grant Bromhal NETL
• Monitoring Natural Systems - Alexandra Hakala NETL
• NETL-RUA Shale Energy Resources Alliance (SERA) - George Darakos NETL
• Oil & Gas Production and Utilization Overview - George Guthrie NETL
• Well Bores & Drilling - Brian Strazisar NETL

Process Design, Integration & Optimization

• Applications of Optimization to Industrial Problems - Nick Sahinidis CMU
• Partnering for Innovation Power Electronics for Smart Grid - Gregory Reed Pitt
• Partnering for Innovation Reducing Engine Air Emissions - Dan Carder WVU
• Process Design, Integration & Optimization - Geo Richards NETL
• Simulation-Based Engineering - David Miller NETL

Posters

Materials Design & Development

• Adaptable 3D Electron Microscopy for Nanoscale Materials
• Computational Approaches for Materials Design
• Cost Effective Integrated Approach to Soft Materials Development
• Designing Efficient Gas Separation Sorbents
• Mutltilevel Approach for Developing Electroceramics and Fuel Cells
• Novel Electrical Energy Storage Device Strategies
• Novel High-Entropy Overcomes Limitations of Conventional Materials
• Optimizing Materials and Processes for Severe Service Environments

Oil & Gas Production & Utilization

• Efficient Real-Time Environmental Monitoring
• Enhancing Wellbore Stability
• Evolution of Cement and Transport Properties During GCS
• Grid-Based Surrogate Reservoir Model (SRMG)
• Innovative Fractured Reservoir Analysis Methods for Fossil Energy & CO2
• Mutli-Model Predictive System for Carbon Sequestration
• Novel Detection and Monitoring of Caprock Fracture
• Optimizing Fracture Flow
• Tools to Assess and Control Gas Migration

Process Design, Integration & Optimization

• An Efficient Approach to Industrial CO2 Mgmt
• Assessing the Feasibility of CO2 in Natural Gas Recovery
• C3M- A Superior Approach to Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling
• MFIX - A New Approach to Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Monitoring and Optimizing Chemical Looping Combustion
• Optimization of Industrial Processes using ALAMO
• Real-Time Raman Gas Composition Sensor
• Using AVESTAR for Clean Energy Plants