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Opportunities for Enabling the Use of Coal as a Precursor for Value-Added Products

August 9th, 2018

In this presentation, opportunities for using coal as a precursor for value-added products will be reviewed. Research needs and priority research directions for enabling the development of energy-efficient and cost-effective processes for refining coal into precursors for manufacturing products, such as mesoporous and activated carbon, metallurgical coal, carbon fibers, electrodes for energy storage devices, electronic devices, materials for thermal management, construction materials, etc., will also be reviewed.

Edgar Lara-Curzio

Job Title: 
Distinguished Research Staff Member
Organization: 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Edgar Lara-Curzio is a Distinguished Research Staff member and leader of the Mechanical Properties & Mechanics Group in the Materials Science & Technology Division (MSTD) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where he leads the scientific and technical operations of a group focused on the development and characterization of functional and structural materials for applications in energy and national security.  Lara-Curzio also directs the High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML) and co-directs the Fossil Energy Program at ORNL.  He served as Director of the HTML User Program between 2007 and 2012 and coordinated the integration of science and physical resources in MSTD between 2013 and 2015.  Lara-Curzio is currently a U.S. Department of Energy Technologist in Residence with Arconic Inc. (formerly Alcoa Inc.).

Lara-Curzio received a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the Metropolitan University (Mexico City) and a Ph.D. degree in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY).  Since joining ORNL in 1992, he has been a principal investigator for several research projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, other Federal Agencies and industry, and has successfully led multiple collaborative projects with industry and academia. His areas of expertise include: mechanical behavior of materials, in particular materials for power generation and for the conversion, transmission, utilization and storage of energy.

Lara-Curzio has served in multiple professional societies and organizations, primarily in the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), including serving in the Board of Directors of ACerS between 2013 and 2016.  He is currently a member of the External Advisory Board for the Institute for Materials at the Georgia Institute of Technology and of the Industrial Advisory Council for the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. 

Lara-Curzio has authored or co-authored more than 230 articles in peer-reviewed journals or conference proceedings, four book chapters, five U.S. Patents and edited or co-edited 16 books.  He received the 2014 FLC Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, three R&D100 Awards, the Arthur Frederick Greaves-Walker Award from ACerS and the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers, the Richard M. Fulrath Award from ACerS, the Advanced Ceramics Award from ASTM, the Award of Merit from ASTM and the 1997 HENAAC Hispanic Engineer of the Year Award for Outstanding Technical Achievements.  Lara-Curzio is a Fellow of both ACerS and ASTM and a member of Alpha Sigma Mu the International Metallurgical Honorary Society.

Profile Type: 
Speaker
Credentials: 
PhD

USEA Now August 2018

July 30th, 2018
USEA Now

Trends in Energy and Energy Efficiency Employment

August 29th, 2018

This presentation will summarize the high level results of the 2018 US Energy and Employment Report (USEER) in four key sectors of the American economy--Electric Power Generation and Fuels Production; Transmission, Distribution, and Storage; Energy Efficiency; and the Motor Vehicles Industry.  In addition to providing job numbers in emerging technologies, such as renewables, energy storage, and smart grid, the USEER analysis reveals the large number of direct employment that has gone uncounted in traditional energy sect

David A. Foster

Job Title: 
Distinguished Associate
Organization: 
Energy Futures Initiative

David Foster served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz from 2014-2017 on energy, environmental, climate, economic development, workforce development and labor relations issues.  He also designed and oversaw the annual production of the U.S. Energy and Employment Report, a survey driven study of labor markets in four key energy-related sectors of the U.S. economy.

Prior to working at the Department of Energy, David Foster served as the founding Executive Director of the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership of 14 of America’s most important unions and environmental organizations with a combined membership of 14.5 million.  

From 1990-2006, he was the Director of United Steelworkers (USW), District #11, a 13 state region based in Minneapolis, MN.  His responsibilities included serving on the union’s International Executive Board and negotiating labor agreements with many of the country’s largest steel, iron ore and aluminum companies. 

Since 2009 Foster has served on the Board of Directors of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation and, since 2006 the Board of Directors of Oregon Steel Mills and its successor, Evraz, North America. 

From 2003-2010, he taught graduate classes on globalization, sustainability, and labor relations at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. 

Position Announcement: Program Coordinator

July 26th, 2018

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Position Title:  Program Coordinator

Location: Washington, DC

Category: Energy & Environment, International Affairs

Eastern Europe Natural Gas Partnership (EE-NGP) Working Group Meeting and Load Forecasting Workshop

July 26th, 2018

Energy Technology and Governance Program

EASTERN EUROPE NATURAL GAS PARTNERSHIP (EE-NGP)
FOURTH WORKING GROUP MEETING

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL – Short-Term Technical Assistance - Project Management - Rwanda

The United States Energy Association (USEA) is inviting prospective organizations or individuals through this Request for Proposal (RFP) to submit proposals for conducting a short-term technical assistance on issues of project management to the Rwanda Energy Group (REG) and its subsidiaries

Graciela Chichilnisky

Job Title: 
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Organization: 
Global Thermostat

 Graciela Chichilnisky is a world-renowned economist and mathematician, the creator of the Carbon Market of the UN Kyoto Protocol, the concept of Basic Needs and the formal theory of Sustainable Development. She was the Lead US Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. Her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to Columbia University and currently a visiting professor at Stanford University. She acts as a special adviser to the UN, the IMF and the World Bank, is a TED speaker and speaks frequently in CNN ABC and BBC.

Chichilnisky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Global Thermostat, an award-winning company in which she co-invented a "Carbon-Negative Technology"TM that captures CO2 from air at low cost transforming it into profitable assets such as biofuels, beverages and polymers and building carbon negative power plants, a company that FORBES and KPMG say can reverse climate change.

Most recently in 2018, she became a member of the Board of Transition Monaco Forum under the High Patronage of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, a global platform committed to accelerating the transition toward a clean future across all sectors and industries. She also authored the 2018 book, “The Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change.” Her next title, “Reversing Climate Change,” is in final production. On July 17, 2018 she was featured in the Wall Street Journal, for receiving the Albert Nelson Marquis (“Who’s Who”) Lifetime Achievement Award. On August 22, 2018, she will deliver the international keynote address at the 18th Energy in Western Australia Conference in Perth, Australia.  

Profile Type: 
Speaker
Credentials: 
Ph.D.

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