2009 University Coal Research/Historically Black Colleges and Universities
and Other Minority Institutions Contractors Review Conference
June 9-10, 2009

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PRESENTATIONS

TUESDAY, June 9, 2009

• Battery-free Wireless Temperature and Pressure Sensors [PDF-2.1MB]
  Yi Jia, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
• Hybrid Wired -Wireless Silicon Carbide -based Optical Sensors for Extreme Sensing Environment Temperature [PDF-1.9MB]
  Nabeel Riza, University of Central Florida, CREOL, College of Optics& Photonics
• Enabling Advanced Modeling and Simulations for Fuel-Flexible Combustors [PDF-1.8MB]
  Guillaume Blanquart, Stanford University
• Effects of Combustion Induced Vortex Breakdown on Flashback Limits of SyngasFueled Turbine Combustors [PDF-2.6MB]
  Ahsan Choudhuri, University of Texas at El Paso
• Prediction of Combustion Stability and Flashback in Turbines with High-Hydrogen Fuel [PDF-1.5MB]
  Domenic Santavicca, Pennsylvania State University
• Development of Low Cost Membranes (Ta, Nb& Cellulose Acetate) for H₂/CO₂Separation in WGS Reactors [PDF-1.8MB]
  Naidu Seetala, Grambling State University
• Novel Low Temperature Solid State Fuel Cells [PDF-6.3MB]
  Chonglin Chen, University of Texas at San Antonio
  

WEDNESDAY, June 10, 2009

• Fabrication of Pd/Pd-alloy Films by Surfactant Induced Electroless Plating for Hydrogen Separation from Advanced Coal Gasification
  Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State University
• A Study of Advanced Materials for Gas Turbine Coatings at Elevated Temperatures Using Selected Microstructures and Characteristic Environments for Syngas Combustion [PDF-1.2MB]
  Ravinder M. Diwan, Southern University & A&M College
• Rheological Behavior of Dense Assemblies of Granular Materials [PDF-2.3MB]
  Gabriel I. Tardos, The City College of the City University of New York
• Computer Aided Multi-Scale Design of Sic-Si₃N₄ Nanoceramic Composites for High-Temperature Structural Applications [PDF-6.4MB]
  Vikas Tomar, University of Notre Dame
• Model Predictive Control of Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Power Plants [PDF-1.2MB]
  Priyadarshi Mahapatra, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• A Pattern for Analysis of Gas-Solid Fluidized Systems [PDF-0.2MB]
  Moses N. Bogere, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
• Experimental and Computational Investigations of Boundary ConditionEffects on CFD Simulations of Thermo-Acoustic Instabilities [PDF-1.0MB]
  Robert L. West, Virginia Tech
• Development of Criteria and Identification of Particle Cluster Size Based on Measurements of Void Fraction in Gas-Solid Systems [PDF-2.7MB]
  Seckin Gokaltun, Florida International University
  

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