HTC 2017 Conference Programme
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Monday 3rd April 2017
| 8.30 - 9.30 | Registration [1.13] |
| 9.30 – 9.45 | Welcome and Introduction Magdalena Titirici (QMUL, UK) |
| Keynote session – Chaired by Magdalena Titirici | |
| 9.45 - 10.15 | Robin White - Performance Enhancing Doping and Hydrothermal Carbons (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Germany) |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Andrew Ross – Opportunities for energy and nutrient cycling using hydrothermal carbonisation (University of Leeds, UK) |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Saskia Buller - Hydrothermal derived carbon discs and their application in electrocatalysis (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany) |
| Session 1 – Chaired by Magdalena Titirici | |
| 11.15 – 11.35 | Tim-Patrick Fellinger - From hydrothermal to ionothermal carbon sol-gel chemistry (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) |
| 11.35 – 11.55 | Jan Willem Straten - Binder-free N-functionalized carbon disk electrode materials for electrochemical applications (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Germany) |
| 11.55 – 12.15 | Kathrin Preuss – Tunable heteroatom doped carbogels as sustainable electrocatalysts (QMUL, UK) |
| 12.15 – 12.35 | Tamara Church - CO2 sorbents from biomass and biomass waste (Stockholm University, Sweden) |
| 12.35 - 13.40 | Lunch and Posters [1.13] |
| Session 2 – Chaired by Andrew Ross | |
| 13.40 – 14.00 | Jude Onwudili - Results from rapid hydrothermal torrefaction of sawdust samples (Aston University, UK) |
| 14.00 – 14.20 | Barbara Weiner - Hydrothermal carbonization and wet oxidation of sewage sludge in the framework of the project CARBOWERT (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany) |
| 14.20 – 14.40 | Layla Filiciotto - Towards the hydrothermal carbonization of humins: a preliminary insight into the mechanism (Universidad de Cordoba, Spain) |
| 14.40 – 15.00 | Aidan Smith - The influence and implications of recycling hydrothermal process waters on hydrochar combustion chemistry (University of Leeds, UK) |
| 15.00 – 15.20 | Benjamin Wirth - Hydrothermal treatment of insect rearing residues and whole insects – the use of experiment design for finding trends and correlations (Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, Germany) |
| 15.20 - 16.20 | Break and poster judging [1.13] |
| Session 3 – Chaired by Robin White | |
| 16.20 – 16.40 | Nikolaos Papaioannou – Biomass derived carbon dots using hydrothermal carbonisation (QMUL, UK) |
| 16.40 – 17.00 | Mari Carmen Ortega-Liebana - Light-emitting carbon nanomaterials with tunable optical response and their application in environmental photocatalysis (University of Zaragoza, Spain) |
| 17.00 – 17.20 | Kenneth Latham - Examination of the surface functionality of nitrogen doped hydrothermal carbons from different ammonium salts through NEXAFS and XPS (University of Newcastle, Australia) |
| 17.20 – 17.40 | Fabian Quesada-Plata - Improving porous texture and electrochemical performance of green-activated carbon prepared through H3PO4-assisted hydrothermal carbonization by heat treatment at high temperature (University of Alicante, Spain) |
| 17.40 – 18.00 | Samuel Darko - Materials recovery from a complex mixture of pharmaceutical wastes via hydrothermal carbonization (Benedict College, USA) |
| 19.30 - 23.00 | Conference Dinner (BISTROTHEQUE, East London) |
Tuesday 4th April 2017
| Keynote session – Chaired by Nicole Berge | |
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Andrea Kruse - Carbonization in water: A contradiction? (University Hohenheim, Germany) |
| 9.30 – 10.00 | Eric Heeres - Catalytic conversions of humins using heterogeneous catalysts (University of Groningen, Netherlands) |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Break [1.13] |
| Keynote session – Chaired by Judy Libra | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Marta Sevilla - Hydrochar as precursor of highly porous functional materials for energy applications (Instituto Nacional del Carbón, Spain) |
| Session 4 – Chaired by Judy Libra | |
| 11.00 – 11.20 | Marisa Hernandez - Hydrothermal Carbonisation of Organic Fraction – Municipal Solid Waste (Ingelia, Spain) |
| 11.20 – 11.40 | Marc Buttmann - Industrial scale HTC plant for sewage sludge treatment in Jining/China and phosphate recovery by TerraNova® Ultra HTC Process (TerraNova, Germany) |
| 11.40 – 12.00 | Kunio Yoshikawa – Commercial-scale demonstration of high quality solid fuel production from biomass and wastes employing HTC (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) |
| 12.00 – 12.20 | Veronica Belandria – Valorization of olive oil residues by hydrothermal carbonization (Université d'Orléans, France) |
| 12.20 - 13.30 | Lunch and Posters [1.13] |
| Session 5 – Chaired by Andrea Kruse | |
| 13.30 – 13.50 | Joseph Flora – Probing the reaction mechanisms of hydrothermal carbonization through molecular dynamics simulation (University of South Carolina, USA) |
| 13.50 – 14.10 | Veronica Benavente – Life cycle assessment of hydrothermal carbonization and other management techniques approaches: case study of olive mill waste (University of Alicante, Spain) |
| 14.10 – 14.30 | Axel Funke – Hydrothermal carbonization of digestate-process integration of biogas plants (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) |
| 14.30 – 14.50 | Andreas Clemens – Environmental and economic assessment of different hydrothermal carbonization concepts producing coal from sewage sludge for energetic and agricultural use (Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, Germany) |
| 14.50 – 15.10 | Andrés Álvarez-Murillo – Some steps in modelling the HTC process of biomass. Kinetics of the solid phase (University of Extremadura, Spain) |
| 15.10 – 15.30 | Jillian Goldfarb - Impact of Bentonite clay on in situ upgrading of hydrothermal carbonization and pyrolysis biofuels and biochars for renewable fuel and sustainable material production (Boston University, USA) |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Break [1.13] |
| Session 6 – Chaired by Kyoung Ro | |
| 16.00 – 16.20 | Luca Fiori – Agro-waste to solid biofuel through HTC: the role of process variables on secondary char formation and hydrochar energy properties (University of Trento, Italy) |
| 16.20 – 16.40 | Nicole Berge – Aggregating literature-reported carbonization data: investigating the role of feedstock properties on carbonization products (University of South Carolina, USA) |
| 16.40 – 17.00 | Marc Breulmann – Hydrothermal carbonization of sewage sludge for soil amelioration: key-results from joint research project CARBOWERT (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany) |
| 17.00 – 17.20 | Kyoung Ro – Hydrothermal carbonization of animal manures and soil application of swine manure-based hydrochars (USDA, USA) |
| 17.20 – 17.40 | Judy Libra – Designing the HTC-process and hydrochar characteristics to match the demands of the application: improve agricultural nutrient use efficiency (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy, Germany) |
| 17.40 – 18.00 | Close and poster prizes Magdalena Titirici (QMUL, UK) |