Opening Keynote Address: Surya Prakash, Loker Institute & USC

"E-Methanol: A Versatile High Density Hydrogen Carrier, a Drop-In Fuel, and a Chemical Feedstock"

Session 1: Hydrogen Supply Chains

Session Chair: Siari Sosa, SoCalGas

Plenary Speaker: Pradheep Kileti, National Grid

Sponsored by National Grid

"Optimal Sizing and Design of a Responsive Hydrogen Storage Systems for Blended Hydrogen in Gas Utility Networks"

Invited Speaker: Shaama Sharada, USC

"The Hydrogen Evolution Activity of BaZrS3, BaTiS3, and BaVS3 Chalcogenide Perovskites"

Invited Speaker: KC Tran, Maat Energy

"Microwave Generation of Hydrogen"

Invited Speaker: Timothy Harris, ENTRUST Solutions Group

"Utility Hydrogen Blending: Ideation, Implementation, and Operational Considerations

Invited Speaker: Michael Peters, IQ4H2/BrainDrip

"Innovative Hydrogen Storage and Health Monitoring for Energy Storage Applications"

Invited Speaker: Wesley Cate, NGL

"The Challenges of Distributing Hydrogen"

Submitted Abstracts:

Hernan Henriquez (BayoTech): "Locally Produced Hydrogen: A Game-Changer for Fleet Operators"

Sunwoo Kim (KAIST): "Techno-Economic Analysis of International Hydrogen Supply Chain Considering Uncertainty of Renewables and Demand Using a Temporal Integrated Decision-Making Approach"

Session 2: High Density Hydrogen Carriers

Session Chair: Shaama Sharada, USC

Plenary Speaker: Siari Sosa, SoCalGas

"The Role of Clean Fuels in advancing California's Energy Transition"

Invited Speaker: Travis J. Williams, USC

“Catalytic Technology to Enable Formic Acid and Alcohol Hydrogen Carriers”

Invited Speaker: Devinder Mahajan, Stony Brook University and I-GIT

"Economical Hydrogen Storage and Transport: The Role of Homogeneously Catalyzed Methanol Synthesis"

Invited Speaker: Jim Petrecky, GKN Hydrogen

"Safety, Simplicity, Efficiency: Storing H2 as a Solid"

Coffee Break

Invited Speaker: Josephine Armando, Con Edison & Trent Rogers, EPRI/LCRI

"Decarbonization of Consolidated Edison’s District Steam Heating System with E-methanol"

Invited Speaker: Todd Deutsch, NREL

"The History of Techno-economic Analysis of Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production"

Submitted Abstracts:

Colin Wolden (Colorado School of Mines): "Ammonia As a Vector for Distributed Delivery of UHP Hydrogen and Clean Combustion Mixtures"

Hanna Breunig (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab): "We Need Hydrogen Storage Materials to Bring Dedicated Green Hydrogen into Industry"

Zhenmeng Peng (University of South Carolina) "Enabling Ethylamine As Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier for Ambient Hydrogen Storage"

Dinner Banquet and Poster Session

Invited Speaker: Ishwar Puri, University of Southern California

7:30AM - 8:00 AM

Morning Remarks: Devinder Mahajan, Stony Brook University and GTI

Keynote Address: Trent Rogers, EPRI

“E-Fuels as an Approach to Indirect Hydrogen Deployment” 

Session 3: Hydrogen End Use Applications

Session Chair: Chris Cavanagh, National Grid

Plenary Speaker: Ignasi Palou-Rivera, RAPID

"Renewable Hydrogen: An Enabler for the Industrial Decarbonization of Chemicals and Fuels Manufacturing"

Invited Speaker: Somesh Ganesh, H2scan Corporation

"Technologies for a safe and effective hydrogen future"

Invited Speaker: Vicente Galvan, Advent Technologies Holdings, Inc.

“Heat Rising: Revolutionizing Markets with HT-PEMFC as a Thermal Management Solution”

Invited Speaker: Billal Zayat, Twelve

"CO2Made Essential Products"

11:20AM - 11:40AM

Coffee Break

Invited Speaker: Fokion Egolfopoulos, USC

"Hydrogen Combustion Engines: Challenges and Opportunities"

Invited Speaker: Thomas I. Valdez, Plug Power

"Hydrogen At Scale"

Invited Speaker: Michael Rohan, Northwell Health

"Beyond Compliance, a Balanced, Hybrid Approach to Decarbonization"

Submitted Abstracts:

Simon Leyland (Siemens): "Digital Technologies for Driving Lower Lcoh through the Integration of Production with End-Use"