Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
Morgantown, WV
June 14-16, 2005

	Table of Contents Conference Information Disclaimer Papers and Presentations Abstracts

Papers and Presentations

• Welcoming Remarks
  David C. Hardesty, Jr., President, West Virginia University
• Providing Options for U.S. Energy Future [PDF-2244KB]
  Carl Bauer, Acting Director, NETL

NETL Program Overviews By Technology Managers
-Strategic Center for Coal

• Power Plant Emissions Control [PDF-320KB]
  Thomas J. Feeley
• Advanced Power / Gasification [PDF-380KB]
  Jenny Tennant
• Carbon Sequestration [PDF-1282KB]
  Sarah Forbes
• Distributed Generation / Fuel Cells [PDF-3212KB]
  Mark Williams
• Advanced Research [PDF-542KB]
  Bob Romanosky
• Hydrogen and Syngas [PDF-969KB]
  Bob Bedick

-Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil

• Program Overview [PDF-892KB]
  Brad Tomer

-Office of Advanced Initiatives

• NETL & Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [PDF-8440KB]
  Larry Carpenter
• Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability [PDF-240KB]
  Joe Paladino

Federal Directions For EPSCoR Program — DOE & NSF

• Matesh N. Varma [PDF-182KB]
  Program Director, DOE EPSCoR Office
• Sherry O. Farwell [PDF-221KB]
  Program Director, NSF EPSCoR Office

States' Approach to EPSCoR
EPSCoR State Panelists

• William A. Gern [PDF-9936KB]
  Vice President, University of Wyoming Research Office, and Coordinator of Wyoming EPSCoR
• James P. Wicksted [PDF-681KB]
  Associate Director, Oklahoma EPSCoR, Noble Research Fellow, and Interim Head and Professor, Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University
• Michael Khonsari [PDF-3644KB]
  Project Director, Louisiana EPSCoR, Association Commissioner for Sponsored Programs, Research and Development at the Louisiana Board of Regents, and Dow Chemical Endowed Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University
• Jay Cole [PDF-273KB]
  Deputy Secretary for Education and the Arts in West Virginia

Partnering With National Labs

• Frank Vivio [PDF-452KB]
  Argonne National Laboratory
• Michael Furey [PDF-2158KB]
  Brookhaven National Laboratory
• George Guthrie [PDF-4407KB]
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Lee Riedinger [PDF-3790KB]
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Kelly Sullivan [PDF-2927KB]
  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Christopher Shaddix [PDF-788KB]
  Sandia National Laboratory

Doing Business With NETL

• Bob Bedick [PDF-2205KB]
  NETL Division Director

Abstracts

• Novel Adsorbents for Trace Mercury Extraction from Water [PDF-13KB]
  Anthony Abatjoglou
• National/International Lab-partnerships for the Investigation of Low Temperature Poly/Epi-Silicon Thin Film Growth Using Metal Induced Crystallization [PDF-660KB]
  Husam H. Abu-Safe
• Fossil-Fuel-Derived Carbon Dioxide Emissions at Monthly Resolution for the Countries of the North American Carbon Program [PDF-13KB]
  R.J Andres
• Independent Fuel Cell Hybrid Modeling Based on Best Published Data [PDF-27KB]
  W. Burbank
• Efficient Checkpointing for Mobile Grid Computing Systems [PDF-89KB]
  Paul Darby
• Real-Time/On-Line Modeling and Control of Cold-Flow Circulating Fluidized-Bed [PDF-13KB]
  Asad Davari PhD, WVU Tech
• Associative and Penning Ionization in a Rb MOT [PDF-23KB]
   B. D. DePaola
• Pore-Level Modeling of Drainage: Crossover from Capillary Fingering to Compact Invasion [PDF-22KB]
  M. Ferer
• Conversion of Chitin Monomers (n-Acetyl Glucosamine) to Value-Added Products [PDF-11KB]
  Todd French
• Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Fossil-Fuel Based Carbon Dioxide Emissions [PDF-12KB]
  Jay S. Gregg
• Synthesis of 2D and 3D Gold Nanoarrays and Semiconductor Nanoparticles in Supercritical Fluid Carbon Dioxide [PDF-10KB]
  Carlos A. Fernandez
• Effect of Pitting Corrosion Promoters on the Treatment of 2,4-Dinitrotoluene Contaminated Water Using Integrated Reductive/Oxidative Processes [PDF-13KB]
  Dr. Rafael Hernandez
• Extraction of Valuable Products from Rice Bran Using Non-Traditional Techniques [PDF-14KB]
  Dr. Rafael Hernandez
• Third-order Generalized Van Vleck Perturbation Theory for Molecular Electronic Structure. Study of the ground and lowest excited states of C2 [PDF-75KB]
  Mark R. Hoffmann
• Synthesis and transport properties of nano-composite solid polymer electrolytes: Applications to solid-state batteries [PDF-14KB]
  Ram S. Katiyar
• Studies on Spinel and Layer Structured Cathode Materials for Li-ion Batteries [PDF-11KB]
  Ram S. Katiyar
• Interphase Analysis and Control in Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites [PDF-14KB]
  Dr. Jon Kellar
• High Temperature Probe for Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy [PDF-12KB]
  Gary A. Lamberton, Jr.
• Quantitative Analysis of Fuel Sprays by Ultrafast X-Tomography [PDF-23KB]
  Jinyuan Liu
• Trace Mercury Detection at Boron Doped Diamond Electrodes using a Rotating Disk Technique [PDF-14KB]
  A. Manivannan
• Addressing System Integration Issues Required For The Development Of A Distributed Wind-Hydrogen Energy Systems [PDF-14KB]
  Dr. Michael Mann
• Implementation of Computer Aided Home Energy Management System [PDF-13KB]
  Asawari Moholkar
• Complex Computational Systems Particles, Chains, and Sheets [PDF-11KB]
  R.B. Pandey
• Structural Integrity of Hydrogen Storage Tanks at Pre-Stressing and Operating Pressures [PDF-12KB]
  J. L. Parham
• Energy-efficient Data Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks [PDF-16KB]
  Yu Wang
• Land Use and Carbon Storage in Eastern Deciduous Forests: Interactions Between Human Activities and Ecosystem Processes [PDF-13KB]
  W.T. Peterjohn
• Spatial Pattern in Modeling Electricity Prices: Evidence from the PJM Market [PDF-22KB]
  Julia Popova
• Alabama DOE EPSCoR [PDF-35KB]
  Dr. Gary C. April
• Considerations for Modeling Gas-Phase Nucleic Acid Adduction with Nitrogen Based Ligands [PDF-11KB]
  William D. Price
• Optical and Magnetic properties of Transition metal doped ZnO and TiO2 [PDF-22KB]
  A. Punnoose
• Energy Management System with Agent-based Autonomous Reconfiguration [PDF-44KB]
  Dr. Karl Schoder
• Sliding Mode Observer based Backstepping Control for Generator Excitation Systems [PDF-92KB]
  Dr. Karl Schoder
• Mean Excitation Energy for the Stopping Power of Light Elements [PDF-119KB]
  D. Y. Smith
• The Next Generation Solid State Power Conversion Materials [PDF-17KB]
  Terry M. Tritt
• Experimental and theoretical investigation of bifurcations in Jeffery-Hamel flows [PDF-131KB]
  P. Vorobieff
• Nanostructured Catalysts for Fuel Cells [PDF-101KB]
  John Wiest
• Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Advanced Power Generation Systems [PDF-11KB]
  Stephen E. Zitney

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