SPECIAL EVENTS ...

Advisory Panel Meeting Dates for 2008

2008- #1 Thursday, March 6, Indianapolis (Indiana Government Center)
2008- #2 Thursday, June 5, Bloomington (Memorial Union, Indiana University)
2008- #3 Thursday, September 11, CANCELLED
2008- #4 Thursday, December 11, West Lafayette (Stewart Center, Purdue University)

Clean Coal for Transportation Fuels Works, December 2, 2005

In conjunction with the Energy Center at Purdue, a workshop was held on this subject on December 2, 2005, at Purdue University. The following presentations were made at this workshop.

1. "Air Pollution Implications of Coal Based Gas-To-Liquid Transportation Fuels," Evan J. Ringquist, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
   
   
2. "The 2005 Energy Policy Act Illinois Basin Coal Indiana Perspective," Marty W. Irwin, Director, Center for Coal Technology Research, Purdue University
   
   
3. "Clean Coal Gasification, FT Process Design and Implementation," Michael E. Reed, Systems Analyst, Office of Systems, Analyses, and Planning, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
   
   
4. "Clean Coal and Co-Production Potential," Tom Lynch, Chief Engineer - Gasification, ConocoPhillips
   
   
5. "OSD Clean Fuel Initiative and the Air Force," Theodore K. Barna, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Advanced Systems and Concepts
   
   

The CCTR Launching Workshop, August 18, 2004

The first workshop took place August 18, 2004, in Indianapolis. The objective of this workshop was to have an open platform discussion, among all coal stakeholders form around the state (government departments, public interest groups, companies, academia institutions) to obtain a consensus on the priorities in developing new technologies that can use Indiana coal in an environmentally and economically sound manner. Resulting from the break-out considered most beneficial to Indiana. In the opening session of the workshop two commissioned background papers were presented, one by the Indiana Geological Survey and another by the CCTR. These two papers ("Characterization of Indiana's Coal Resource:….", and "Expanding The Utilization of Indiana Coals") are available below:

1. "Expanding the Utilization of Indiana Coals"
2. "Characterization of Indiana's Coal Resource: Availability of the Resources, Physical and Chemical Properties of the Coal, and the Present and Potential Uses"