FUEL CHEMISTRY NEWS
Volume 77, No. 2 http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/ Summer 1998
Election 1998
It is again time for the election of Division officers. Please take this opportunity to let your
opinion be known by electing new officers or re-electing current Division officers. These
officers will serve the Fuel Chemistry Division in 1999. Biographical information and
statements from the two candidates for the Chair-Elect position begin in the next paragraph. The
names and positions of the other nominees are listed on the ballot. Your ballots and two
envelopes are enclosed in this issue. All Fuel Chemistry Division members are eligible to vote.
Your vote is very important, so please complete and return your ballot to the Division Secretary,
Larry Anderson by Friday, August 21, 1998. For those of you who are overseas and may not
receive this newsletter in time to vote by regular mail, please e-mail your vote to
larry.anderson@m.cc.utah.edu, and be sure to put Election 1998 in the subject line of your e-mail
message.
Candidates for Chair-Elect
Anthony Cugini is a chemical engineer/team leader in the Office of Science and Technology at
the Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The
mission of FETC is to solve national energy and environmental problems. Anthony's primary
focus has been in energy, specifically fuels research. His research interests have included coal
liquefaction, coal-oil coprocessing, global warming and CO2chemistry, and methane hydrates as
a future energy source. Anthony has a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the
University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining DOE, Anthony worked as a Senior Engineer at the Gulf
Science and Technology Center in the Refinery Services Division. He also worked as a
consultant to the nuclear industry with Pentek, Inc. He has authored many publications and has
presented at national and international meetings. He served as the Treasurer of the Fuel
Chemistry Division from 1994-1997.
Anthony's Statement: I have a unique perspective from which to deal with the important issues
facing our division. I have been very active within the Fuel Division and witnessed the benefits
of symposia diversification and the resultant benefits of increased attendance and
interest at the meetings as well as increased revenues to the treasury. I will be active in
attempting to continue our efforts to diversify symposia within the Fuel area. Also, in my role
with the federal government, I am very sensitive and aware of the changing focus of government
sponsored research. I will try to continue the efforts for the Fuel Division to act as a focal point
in the government and industrial research debate. I will be cautious in any discussions of the
potential merger with the Petroleum Division and try to assure that we maintain a focus on our
core values. The financial strength of our Division has been important to me since my role as
Treasurer and I will work actively in this area. I believe that there are certain controls, such as
assuring that we work with ACS to obtain full compensation for our efforts (such as meeting and
symposia attendance), that we can apply as a division that will strengthen our financial position
without relying on Trust funds.
In my opinion, the division provides an important service to both its membership and the general
scientific and fuels community. This service is the ability of the division to act as a focus for
scientific exchange in the areas of fuel chemistry. Evidence of this exchange are the excellent
and important symposia sponsored by the division as well as the longer-term record of the
presentations at these symposia (the preprints). These assure an important debate in the fuels
area and allow for emerging research to be discussed and utilized to foster new and important
developments in this area. I believe continuing the scientific exchange in these areas is,
singularly, the most important mission for the division into the future. This is consistent with the
vision statement of our strategic plan:
"By the year 2005, the Division of Fuel Chemistry will be recognized as the leading source for
information and education in the areas of fuel chemistry and technology, including coal, gas, and
alternative fuels and feedstocks."
The objectives listed in the strategic plan are important to consider as we address the central
issues that face our division in the near future. The objectives listed are:
"Enhance and Diversify Symposia", "Promote and Influence Public Policy and Education",
"Provide Improved Services to Division Membership", "Improve the Worldwide Recognition of
the Division", and "Maintain Fiscal Soundness".
Among the important issues facing our division are: expanding our focus within the fuels area,
the proposed merger with the Petroleum Division, the fiscal health of our treasury, and the
changing focus of both government and industrial sponsored research. As we address these
issues, I believe we need to maintain our core values and beliefs as a division. We are very
proud of our preprints and the legacy of research these preprints represent. This needs to be a
paramount consideration in any decisions we make into the future. We recognize the need to
diversify our symposia. This essentially means that we need to embrace a broader vision of what
the fuels area encompasses. In essence we have started to develop this vision in some of our
(more successful) new symposia areas such as carbon products. We must maintain a fiscally
sound treasury. Finally, we must continue to be active in promoting division activities, educating
the community, and having a voice in setting future directions of funding for fuel-related
research.
Mohammad Fatemi is currently a Senior Process Engineer at Amoco Corporation's Texas City
Refinery. He attended both elementary and high schools in Iran. He worked several years for the
National Iranian Oil Company prior to coming to the US in 1978. He received his B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Chemistry from Murray State and Western Kentucky Universities, respectively. He
attended Penn State University and received his Ph.D degree from the Department of Material
Science and Engineering, specializing in Fuel Science. He joined Amoco Corporation's R&D
team in Naperville, Illinois in 1989 and work for many years in the Alternate Fuel Program. His
professional memberships include the Fuel and Petroleum Chemistry Division's of ACS, The
Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Sigma Xi. He has been involved with the Fuel Division's
Executive Committee for over ten years and has served many offices. He served for three years
(1993-1995) as the Division's Secretary and Newsletter Editor. He has been the Division's
Alternate-Councilor since 1997. He also is the Fuel Division's Program Co-Chair in 1998.
Mohammad's Statement: At the present time, the Fuel Chemistry Division is fairly strong
financially and relatively stable in regard to membership. However, this will not last without
strong leadership as well as personal commitment by all members of the executive committee.
The Fuel Chemistry Division celebrated it's 75th Anniversary this year at the Spring National
Meeting in Dallas. In order for the Fuel Division to be able to celebrate it's 150th Anniversary,
the Executive Committee MUST address several key issues in the next few years and prepare the
Division for the start of the new century and the long journey.
First and foremost, we must address the question that has been hanging over the Division for the
last ten years, regarding the proposed merger with the Division of Petroleum Chemistry. I have
always been and am still for this merger. I believe the needs of the members of both Divisions
are very similar and the members of both Divisions will be best served when the two Divisions
become one. As the Fuel Division chair for the year 2000, I will work with the 1999 Division
Chair on this issue, so that by the year 2000 or 2001, this merger will be complete.
Second, in the early 90's, Alan Scaroni emphasized "the need for change in the Division's
activities, particularly programming, to meet future societal needs and not remain focused on
activities and technologies of the past." While I believe our programming has already diversified
significantly to address this issue, we should aggressively continue to be the knowledge base for
a variety of fuels and the environmental impacts of fuel utilization in general. We should
relentlessly recruit engineers, researchers and scientists who are working in the production of
fuels from new sources, such as biomass and wastes, and encourage their participation and
involvement in the Fuel Division affairs. As chairman, I will work with the membership and
Program Chairs on both of these important issues.
Finally, under the leadership of Alan Scaroni and Randy Winans, an excellent long-term strategic
plan was developed for the Fuel Division by a selected team of Division members. I was
involved in the development of this long-term strategic planning program. I firmly believe that
the future of the Division is almost entirely dependent on following this forward-looking plan.
However, I also believe that we have been too slow in the implementation of many important
parts of this plan. The membership of the Division MUST get involved and work closely with
the officers to forge a path to the future, following the plan. As chairman, this will be the focus
of much of my effort and attention. I will work with the Division members and elected officers
to ensure that all parts of the plan are put in place and ACTIVELY WORKING.
Chair's Message
A mid-year update from the Chair. There is quite a lot of activity in the Division right now, most
of which is behind the scenes in this apparent lull between the two national meetings. The Storch
Award committee is working to evaluate nominations. I obtained from Jim Bradford in ACS
headquarters the nomination packages of the last set of nominees who had been under
consideration at the last time the award was still administered by the Society. These have been
passed along to the committee for consideration along with any new nominations that might
come in. We should be in a position to announce the winner of the award at the Boston meeting,
and to have our next Storch Award symposium at the Anaheim meeting in March, 1999.
Three discussion groups are examining various facets of a potential merger of our division with
the Division of Petroleum Chemistry. At the Dallas meeting, several members of the executive
committees of both divisions had a working breakfast at which we identified three crucial areas
that would need to be aligned if the two divisions were to merge. These areas are divisional
administration, finances, and publications (specifically, preprints). We agreed to form working
groups to address each of these areas, with each group to consist of six members, three from each
division. Goeff Dolbear, this year's Chair of Petroleum Chemistry, and I drafted a charge for
these working groups, got volunteers from each division, and we have disseminated
electronically the names, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of the members of the groups.
These groups have been charged to complete their discussions by December 31, 1998, and to
provide interim reports of progress at the Boston meeting. It may be that questions or comments
will arise at the Boston meeting that will be worth additional consideration by the various
discussion groups before completing their work in December. Each group has been asked to
prepare a final report that could be used for further discussions at the executive committee and
business meetings of the two divisions at Anaheim next spring.
A particularly important part of the charge to the discussion groups is this: "In your discussions,
we want you to examine all issues germane to your groups very carefully and thoroughly,
considering issues in detail from both pro and con perspectives. When this merger issue comes to
a vote of the membership, we do not want anyone to have grounds to feel that the discussion
groups were stacked, or were in any way instructed--or implied--that they should rush to one
particular judgment." Both Geoff Dolbear and I take this very seriously. Both of us believe that
there could potentially be significant benefits to a merger of the two divisions, but in no way
whatsoever do we feel that this is a "done deal" cooked up in some back room that now simply
needs to be rubber-stamped.
Alex Mills, who has been a stalwart of the trustees for many years, has resigned. He will be
replaced among the trustees by Frank Burke. Frank's position was confirmed by vote of executive
committee at Dallas.
Our service award will be presented to Howard Stephens, also at the Boston meeting. Over the
years Howard served the division in many capacities, and always with a high degree of
professionalism. The award is richly merited, and hopefully the Boston meeting will have a good
turnout of Howard's many friends to recognize his accomplishments and congratulate him.
Finally, two personal notes: First, the one genuine pleasure of this job--which occasionally seems
to be an infinite sequence of e-mails and phone calls with queries, problems, and minor crises--is
the tremendous help and support of the members. Every single person I contacted to "volunteer"
for service on the Storch Award committee or one of the discussion groups with Petroleum
immediately accepted. I've been greatly supported by our Past Chair, Jerry Huffman, who having
been through the ropes one year ahead of me, has been an excellent source of advice and counsel.
I've also been greatly supported by our Chair-Elect, Katie Carrado, who has shouldered lots of
the burdens of my job without complaint (at least so far). Others on the executive committee and
trustees have pitched in with help and advice; some members who hold no office have also
contacted me with comments and suggestions. It's a pleasure to extend sincere thanks to
everyone. Second, a more mundane issue: we are in the midst of a gigantic simultaneous double
reorganization at Penn State, so as of mid-July the transition state entropy is enormous. I expect
that after August 1 my phone will change to 814-863-1337; fax, to 814-863-7432; and mailing
address, to C211 Coal Utilization Laboratory, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802.
I strongly believe that the Chair serves on behalf of all the members of the division, so keep those
letters, phone calls, and electrons coming. I hope to see you all at Boston.
Harold H. Schobert, Chair
ACS Fuel Chemistry Division
Distinguished Service Award
We are delighted to announce that Howard Stephens will be presented with the Fuel Chemistry
Division's Distinguished Service Award during the Boston 1998 ACS meeting.
Howard received his B.S. degree in Chemistry, cum laude, from California State University,
Long Beach and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Purdue University, where he was a
National Science Foundation Fellow. In 1967, while attending Purdue, he joined the American
Chemical Society, and in 1980, the Division of Fuel Chemistry.
Upon graduating from Purdue in 1970, Howard joined the staff of Sandia National Laboratories,
Albuquerque, where he first worked on a number research projects in high temperature material
science and nuclear waste isolation. In 1980 he joined Sandia's R&D effort in coal liquefaction,
pursuing over the next 17 years research in a number of areas in fuels chemistry including: direct
and indirect coal liquefaction, catalytic hydropyrolysis of coal, development of new catalysts for
the conversion of coal to liquid fuels, mechanisms of catalyst deactivation, the hydroprocessing
of coal liquids and resids, and advanced thermally stable jet fuels. He is the author of over 100
presentations and publications in these areas, and holds three patents on the development of new
catalysts.
Howard received Sandia National Laboratories' Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
Award in 1983 for his outstanding contributions to coal liquefaction and other areas of research.
In 1988, he was named Manager of the Process Research Department, the organization
responsible for fuels research at Sandia.
During his career in fuel chemistry, Howard has served the Division of Fuel Chemistry in a
number of capacities: as Organizer and Chair of Division Symposia on Coal Liquefaction (1986),
New Catalytic Materials in Fuel Processing (1989), and Catalysis in Fuels Processing (1992); as
Director of Preprint Subscriptions (1988 - 1993); as the Division's representative to the Catalysis
and Surface Science Secretariat (1989 - 1991); as Councilor (1990 - 1992); as a member of the
Executive Committee (1988 - present); as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee (1993 -
present); and as Chair of the Division (1994). Howard twice received the Division's R. A. Glenn
Award (1981 and 1985), in recognition of "the most outstanding paper on coal or derived
products".
Howard has served the coal research community in several other capacities: as a peer reviewer of
U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) coal research programs, as a delegate to DOE joint technical
meetings with Japan on coal liquefaction; as Co-Vice Chair of the 1990 Gordon Research
Conference on Fuel Science; as Co-Organizer and Co-Chair of the 1992 Gordon Research
Conference on the Science of Hydrocarbon Research; as an Amoco-Argonne Coal Chemistry
Research Program Distinguished Seminar Series Speaker (1992); and as an invited Lecturer with
Japan's "New Energy Technology Specialist Invitational Speaker Program", sponsored by Japan's
New Energy Industrial Technology Development Organization (1995). During 1996-1997
Howard worked with DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, managing University and National
Laboratory programs in Coal Science and Catalyst Research. Howard retired from Sandia
National Laboratories in July, 1997, to pursue further development of his skills in navigation and
sailing.
On a personal note, Howard considers his tenure and service with the Division of Fuel Chemistry
an honor and a privilege. He would like to thank his wife, Virginia, his colleagues in coal
research, and the officers and members of the Division for the encouragement and support they
have given him over the years. We thank him as well.
The Distinguished Service award is limited to individuals who have been members of the
division for at least ten years and who have had, in the opinion of the selection committee, a
significant and continued impact on the advancement of fuel chemistry through research,
teaching, service or a combination of the three over an extended period of time. The award is
granted without regard to age, sex or nationality. In addition, no one who has served in any of the
following offices in the award year or two prior years is eligible: Past Chair, Chair, Chair-Elect,
Secretary or Treasurer. Past Awardees were Shirley Radding, C. Thomas Ratcliffe, Martin "Bob"
D. Schlesinger, Paul Scott, Karl S. Vorres, William H. Calkins.
Highlights of the Dallas Meeting
The Fuel Chemistry Division meeting in Dallas was well attended with an average participation
of over 30 people in each session. The total number of papers was 75. The meeting kicked off
with a general papers session on Sunday afternoon March 29 at the convention center where the
latest development in coal conversion chemistry, both fundamental and commercial aspects, were
presented. Monday's sessions included symposia dealing with the storage stability of diesel and
jet fuels organized by Dennis Hardy and George Mushrush as well as combustion chemistry of
traditional and non-traditional fuels organized by Sarma Pisupati and John Chen.
Participation of a large number of our colleagues from overseas, particularly in the storage
stability symposium, was quite noticeable. These sessions were continued on Tuesday afternoon.
At the Sci-Mix on Monday night eight papers were presented by our colleagues as posters; this
was a huge success as gauged by the very large attendence at our posters. The 75th anniversary of
the Fuel Chemistry Division organized by Bob Schlesinger and Donald Cronauer was held on
Tuesday morning. A large audience was present to listen to the history of the Division as well as
the technical aspects of fuel chemistry, the obstacles the scientists have overcome and the
challenges that they face were discussed by a number of distinguished scientists. This meeting's
festive divisional dinner, organized by James Franz, featured Spanish tapas cuisine and was held
at the La Tasca Espanola. Other sessions included value-added products from hydrocarbon
streams organized by Michael Oballa, on-line analytical techniques for fuel processing &
characterization organized by Rick Pauls and Ernie Baughman, and application of oil chemistry
in exploration & production: past, present and future organized by Robert McNeil and Owen
BeMent. These were held Wednesday through Thursday morning. The Division of Fuel
Chemistry has issued a certificate to each symposium organizer to recognize their efforts for
organizing such a fine program in Dallas.
R.A. Glenn Award
In 1956, the ACS Fuel Chemstry Division, in cooperation with Bituminous Coal Research, Inc.,
established an award to recognize the best paper presented at Division Symposia. In 1972, the
award was named in honor of Richard A. Glenn, who served as Assistant Director of Research at
Bituminous Coal Research, Inc. and as Chairman of the Fuel Chemistry Division in 1960. All
papers presented at Fuel Chemistry Division symposia are eligible for this award. Session chairs
review the papers in their sessions and select about one paper for every every ten submitted that
they feel are are the most innovative and interesting. A selection committee then reads all of the
papers and attends the presentations of those papers at the meeting. Based on the oral
presentation, technical subject matter, and the quality of the preprint, the committee selects a
paper to receive the R.A. Glenn Award.
Excellent symposia and papers were presented at our last meeting in Dallas. The Glenn Award
for the Dallas meeting has been chosen by the selection committee. The award goes to John
Chen, Maurice Richardson, and Jianping Zheng of North Carolina A&T State University for their
paper on "Ignition Behavior of Pulverized Coals: Experiments and Modeling," ACS Preprints
Vol. 43, No. 1, 157-161. It's a pleasure to congratulate these folks on their fine work. The award,
which consists of a plaque for each author and a $300 check to be divided by the authors, will be
presented at our Division dinner, to be held on Tuesday evening at Anthony's Pier 4 Restaurant.
BOSTON, AUGUST 23-27, 1998
Boston Program At-A-Glance:
The program will feature nine symposia with more than 150 papers that are scheduled to be
presented. A symposium on fuel for the year 2000 and beyond will focus on processes and
technologies related to development of fuels for the utilities and transportation sectors that will
meet future energy needs in an environmentally acceptable manner. A symposium on novel
upgrading techniques will provide a forum to discuss new and challenging ideas for heavy oil
and coal upgrading including biotechnology. A symposium on the chemistry of carbon in fly ash
is concerned with all aspects of carbon in the fly ash and address the new problems and
apportunities in the increasingly important area of fly ash utilization. Various topics including
steady-state and dynamic reactor modeling, kinetic studies, catalytic and thermal conversion
processes and model compound studies will be discussed in the "Reactor and Reaction
Modeling" symposium. A symposium on modified asphalt has been organized focusing on the
modification procedures and analysis techniques used today to obtain or predict improved
modified asphalts. A symposium on production and use of carbon-based materials for
environmental cleanup will present the recent progress in the R&D or commercial demonstration
of carbon-based materials. A symposium on microscopic studies of coal and carbon will feature
presentations that include different microscopic techniques including optical and transmission
electron microscopy as well as X-ray, EPR and NMR techniques for the characterization of coal
and carbon. A symposium on new technologies and developments for energy storage will include
presentations on methane and hydrogen storage technologies, adsorbed NG vehicle and adsorbent
materials. Two general sessions will concentrate on the chemistry of coal and heavy oil
conversion as well as asphaltene characterization. Fuel Chemistry Division papers will be
presented in Rooms 201, 202 and 203 of the Boston Convention Center.
Sunday, August 23
Production and Use of Carbon-Based Materials for Environmental Cleanup
Reactor and Reaction Modeling
Fuels for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Monday, August 24
Production and Use of Carbon-Based Materials for Environmental Cleanup
Fuels for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Chemistry of Carbon in Coal Fly Ash Formation, Control, and Utilization
Modified Asphalts
Sci-Mix Poster Session
Tuesday, August 25
Microscopic Studies of Coal and Carbon
New Technology and Development for Energy Storage
Modified Asphalts
Business Meeting
Production and Use of Carbon-Based Materials for Environmental Cleanup
Fuels for the Year 2000 and Beyond
Divisional Dinner
Wednesday, August 26
Microscopic Studies of Coal and Carbon
Reactor and Reaction Modeling
Novel Upgrading Techniques in Fuel Processing
Thursday, August 27
General Session
Novel Upgrading Techniques in Fuel Processing
In addition to technical programming, opportunities for more social interactions with your fellow
division members will also be provided. Members attending the Dallas meeting are also invited
to participate in other Fuel Division activities. The Business Meeting will be held on Tuesday,
August 25 from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in Room 201 of the Convention Center. The is the place to
find out the current issues relevant to the division, and to make your opinions known. The social
Divisional Dinner will be held at Anthony's Pier 4 Restaurant, 140 Northern Avenue, Boston
MA, 02210, tel. 617-482-6262, beginning with a cash bar reception at 6:00 pm and dinner at 6:30
pm. Tickets are $35.
Please visit the Fuel Chemistry Division table which will be stationed near the technical meeting
rooms. There you can receive information regarding membership, future meetings and symposia,
preprints, division activities, etc. Nearly all of the top 10% of the papers that have been
nominated for the Glenn Award (best paper award) have elected to present their work
additionally as a poster in the Sci-Mix event. There are a few other FUEL contributions here as
well. Please attend to lend them your support and to view the representative sampling provided
by other divisions. This event occurs on Monday evening.
Symposia at Future Meetings
The symposia and session chairs for future National Meetings are listed in this newsletter. There
is still room for a few more good symposiums at our future meetings. Do you know of a good
topic for a Fuel Chemistry symposium? Would you like to be a Symposium Chair? Do you
know someone else who might be a good candidate? Please help identify these individuals to use
their talent for the further advancement of the Division. Please contact one of the Executive
Committee members if you or anyone you know would be interested in organizing a symposium.
ANAHEIM, March 21-25, 1999
Program Chairman: James Franz, Batelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999,
Richland, WA 99352, 509-375-2967, FAX 509-375-2186, ja_franz@pnl.gov.
Short ACS Abstracts due to Symposium Chairs October 19, 1998; completed papers due
November 16, 1998.
Molecular Approaches to CH Activation and Selective Oxidation of Alkanes. Roy A. Periana,
Catalytica Advanced Technologies, 430 Ferguson Drive Building 3, Mountain View, CA 94043,
650-940-6396, FAX 650-968-712, rap@mv.catalytica-inc.com; Robert H. Crabtree, Department
of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect St., New Haven CT 06520, 203-432-3925, FAX
203-432-6144, crabtree@ minerva.cis.yale.edu.
Chemistry of Renewable Fuels and Chemicals. Robert Evans, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401, 303-384-6284, EvansB@tcplink.nrel.gov.
Phillip F. Britt, Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, 423-574-5029, FAX 423-576-5235, brittpf@ornl.gov. FUEL/CELL.
Bioprocessing for Fuel Quality Improvement. Heather Dettman, National Centre for Upgrading
Technology, 1 Oil Patch Drive, Suite A202, Devon, Alberta, Canada T9G 1A8, 403-987-8629,
FAX 403-987-5349, hdettman@nrcan.gc.ca.
New Catalysts for Hydrogenation and Hydrocracking of Fuels. Mark E. Davis, Division of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125,
818-395-6811, mdavis@macpost.caltech.edu; Stacey Zones, Chevron Research, 100 Chevron
Way, Richmond CA 94802, 510-242-3524, sizo@chevron.com.
Worldwide Fossil Fuel Demand and Production for the 21st Century. Ilham Demir, Illinois State
Geological Survey, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-244-0836, FAX
217-333-2830, demir@isgs.uiuc.edu; Subhash B. Bhagwat, Illinois State Geological Survey, 615
East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, 217-333-7409, FAX 217-333-2830,
bhagwat@isgs.uiuc.edu
Role of Water in Organic Reactions. Mike Lewan, U.S. Geologic Survey, Box 25046 MS 977,
Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80255, 303-236-9391, mlewan@usgs.gov; George Cody,
Geophysical Laboratory, Institution of Washington, 5251 BroadBranch Road NW, Washington,
D.C. 20015, 202-686-2410 ext 2479, cody@gl.ciw.edu. FUEL/GEO.
IGCC and Related Technologies. Anthony A. Lizzio, Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 East
Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL, 61820, 217-244-4985, FAX 217-333-8566,
lizzio@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu.
Storch Award. Invited Papers. To be Organized by Recipient
General Papers. James A. Franz, ja_franz@pnl.gov.
NEW ORLEANS, August 22-26, 1999
Short ACS Abstracts are due to Symposium Chairs: March 15, 1999. Papers are due to
Symposium Chairs: April 15, 1999
Chemistry of Reactive Intermediates and Modeling in Hydrocarbon Conversion. J.A. Franz,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory MS K2-44, P.O. Box 999, Richland, WA 99352,
509-375-2967, ja_franz@pnl.gov; Michael T. Klein, Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716, 302-831-8072, FAX 302-831-1810,
klein@che.udel.edu.
Molecular and Network Structure of Coal. Masashi Iino, Institute of Chemical Reaction Science,
Tohoku University, Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-Ku Sendai 980, Japan, iino@hisui.icrs.tohoku.ac.jp;
Randall E. Winans, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue,
Argonne, IL 60439-4831, rewinans@anl.gov.
Resid Characterization and Upgrading. Semih Eser, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering,
Fuel Science Program, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, 814-863-1392,
seser@psu.edu; Mark A. Plummer, Marathon Oil Company, 7400 South Broadway, Littleton,
CO 80120, 303-347-5565, FAX 303-347-5551, MAPlummer@MarathonOil.com. GEO/FUEL.
Applications of NMR to Complex Systems. Robert E. Botto, Chemistry Division, Argonne
National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439, 630-252-9288,
robert_botto@qmgate.anl.gov.
Hydrogen Production, Storage and Utilization. C. Gregoire-Padro, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401, 303-275-2919, FAX 303-275-2905,
cathy_padro@nrel.gov; Francis S. Lau, Institute of Gas Technology, 1700 S. Mount Prospect
Road, Des Plaines, IL 60018, 708-768-0592, FAX 708-768-0600, Francis_Lau@igt.org.
General Papers. Dr. James A. Franz, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory MS K2-44, P.O.
Box 999, Richland, WA 99352, 509-375-2967, ja_franz@pnl.gov.
LAS VEGAS, March 26-31, 2000
Program Chair: Frank E. Huggins, 533 South Lime-stone Street, Suite 111, University of
Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, 606-257-4045, fax 606-257- 7215, frank@funky.cffls.uky.edu
1990 Clean Air Act Amendments - A Ten Year Assessment
Fossil Fuels and Global Climate/CO2 Abatement Strategies
Synthesis Gas Chemistry and Applications
General Papers
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 20-25, 2000
Program Chair: Frank E. Huggins.
Fuel Science in the Year 2000 - Past and Present
Waste Material Reprocessing for Energy and Other Applications
Inorganics in Fossil Fuels, Waste Materials, and Biomass - Characterization, Combustion
Behavior, and Environmental issues
General Papers
Other Conferences and Symposia of Interest
The 6th International Activated Carbon Conference will be held in Pittsburgh, PA on September
16-17, 1998. Absracts should be submitted to Henry Nowicki, PACS Inc., 409 Meade Dr.,
Coraopolis, PA 15108,412-457-6576, FAX 412-457-1214 hnpacs.@aol.com.
An international symposium on carbon "Science and Technology for New Carbons" will be held
on November 8-12, 1998 at Surugadai Memorial Hall, Chuo University, Ochanomizu, Tokyo,
Japan. The symposium will cover the fundamental and applied science and technology related
with new carbons such as activated carbons fibers, carbon/carbon composites, diamond,
fullerenes, nanotubes, boron nitride, silicon carbide, surface science and reactivity, carbon/pore
systems, and new processing techniques. For further information please contact Dr. E. Yasuda,
carbon98@ rlem.titech.ac.jp.
The 3rd Asia Pacific Conference and Exhibition on Sustainable Energy and Environmental
Technology will be held on May 28-31, 2000 in Hong Kong, China. The conference is organized
by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. For more information please contact:
Professor Po Lock Yue, Department of Chemical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, keplyue@usthk.ust.hk, Web:http//www.ust. hk/~webceng.
Fuel Division Member Benefits
The Division of Fuel Chemistry provides a forum for presentation and discussion of fuels-related
chemistry research and development. The Division is also concerned with public policy issues
related to energy and fuels, such as the environmental impacts of fuel use and the evaluation of
options for resource utilization (e.g., fuel, chemical or material).
Division programming has remained strong in the traditionally important areas of the utilization
of coal, natural gas, and alternative fuels and feedstocks. Programming is being increased in
areas associated with the environmental effects of fossil fuel use, energy and fuel production
from biomass and waste, bioprocessing of fuels, recent developments in fuel cells and batteries,
and the production of high-value materials and chemicals from fuels.
Benefits
Meetings - Programming at national and regional meetings, co-sponsorship of an annual
symposium on Environmental Issues in Fuel Chemistry with the Petroleum and Environmental
Chemistry Divisions.
Publications - Fuel Chem News (sent prior to each national meeting), preprints of all technical
papers mailed prior to each National Meeting (four issues per year), Energy & Fuels, home page
on World Wide Web-http://www.anl.gov/PCS/acsfuel/.
Awards - Henry H. Storch Award for distinguished contributions to fuel science or engineering,
R.A. Glenn Award for the best paper at a National meeting, Distinguished Service Award for
sustained and distinguished contributions to the field of fuel chemistry.
Discounts - Discount on ACS symposium series publications, discount on student subscriptions
to Energy & Fuels.
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Advertisements can now be placed in this newsletter as well as the preprints at very reasonable
rates. Either forum is a cost effective way to reach the international community of fuel scientists.
Advanced Fuel Research, Inc. and their spin-off company, On-Line Technologies, Inc., report a
good response from advertisements in the preprints and expect similar results from the
newsletter. Please consider this as one of your options if you have goods or services that are of
interest to the fuels research community.
Newsletter advertising rates are:
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* 25% discount for annual (2 issue) advertising.
* an additional 25% will be charged for set up of
advertising copy which is not camera ready.
Dr. Sue Brandes, Director of Advertising for our Division, will be relinquishing her position after this newsletter. She served the Division magnificently for the past three years as she is the first advertising director to actually recruit advertisements for this newsletter. Her perservering style and outgoing personality enabled her to do what no person before her could do. At least half the cost of preparing the newletter is now offset by these wonderful advertisements. These ads reach a captive audience of more than 1000 fuel scientists and engineers and advertisers have reported a noticeable increase in business because of the ad they posted in this newsletter. It is a challenging position and one that requires good business sense as well as creativity. If any member of our Division is interested in serving as the new Advertising Director, please contact Tony Lizzio, 217-244-4985, lizzio@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu. American Chemical Society
Division of Fuel Chemistry
1998 Executive Committee Members
Harold H. Schobert
Chair
Pennsylvania State University
Fuel Science Program
209 Academic Projects Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-1337, fax 814-863-7432
schobert@ems.psu.edu
Kathleen A. Carrado
Chair-Elect
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue, CHM/200
Argonne, IL 60439
630-252-4121, fax 630-252-9288
kcarrado@anl.gov
Gerald P. Huffman
Past-Chair
Consortium for Fossil Fuel Liquefaction Science
University of Kentucky
533 S. Limestone St., Room 111
Lexington, KY 40506-0059
606-257-4027, fax 606-257-7215
cffls@pop.uky.edu
Michael A. Serio
Program Secretary
Advanced Fuel Research, Inc.
87 Church Street, P. O. Box 380379
E. Hartford, CT 06138-0379
860-528-9806 (ext. 105), fax 860-528-0648
mserio@afr-olt.com
Larry L. Anderson
Secretary
Chem. & Fuels Engineering Dept./3290 MEB
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
801-581-5162, fax 801-581-5162
larry.anderson@m.cc.utah.edu
Phillip F. Britt
Treasurer
Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008, MS-6197
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
423-574-5029, fax 423-576-5235
brittpf@ornl.gov
Karl S. Vorres
Director of Publications, Councilor
27 Windward Circle
Willowbrook, IL 60514-2227
630-325-0931
(Nov 11-April 15)
3432 North Applewood
Tucson, AZ 85712-5478
520-322-5256, ksvorres@flash.net
Donald F. McMillen
Councilor
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493
415-859-4301, mcmillen@mplvax.sri.com
Anthony A. Lizzio
Newsletter Editor
Illinois State Geological Survey
615 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820
217-244-4985, fax 217-333-8566
lizzio@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu
Susan D. Brandes
Director of Advertising
CONSOL, Inc.
Research & Development
4000 Brownsville Road
Library, PA 15129
412-854-6568, fax 412-854-6613
Semih Eser
Membership
Pennsylvania State University
Fuel Science Program
209 Academic Projects Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
814-862-1392, fax 814-865-3075
seser@psu.edu
John T. Riley
Alternate Councilor
Center for Coal Science
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101
502-745-6020, fax 502-745-6293
John C. Crelling
Director of Preprint Subscriptions
Department of Geology
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-4324
618-453-7361, fax 618-453-7393
jcrelling@geo.siu.edu
Howard P. Stephens
Long Range Planning
Process Research Department 6212
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0709
505-844-9178, fax 505-845-9500
hpsteph@sandia.gov
Randall E. Winans
Director at Large (1996-1998)
Chemistry Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL 60439-4831
630-252-7479, fax 630-252-9288
rewinans@anl.gov
Irving Wender
Director at Large (1997-1999)
1261 Denniston Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1328
412-624-9644, fax 412-624-9639
Donald C. Cronauer (1998-2000)
Director at Large
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue, CHM/200
Argonne, IL 60439
630-252-4121, fax 630-252-9288
dccronauer@anl.gov
G. Alex Mills
Trustee
Cokesbury Village #48
726 Loveville Road
Hockessin DE 19707-1504
302-239-7050, fax 302-239-7050
103157.3716@compuserve.com
William H. Calkins
Trustee
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2213, fax 302-831-1048
Alan W. Scaroni
Trustee
Pennsylvania State University
C208 Coal Utilization Lab
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-3264
aws1@psu.edu
Steven A. Benson
Industry Liason
EERC UND PO Box 9018
Grand Forks, ND 58202
Mohammad Fatemi
Program Co-Chair, 1998
Amoco Corporation
2401 Fifth Avenue South
P. O. Box 401
Texas City, TX 77592-0401
409-943-2367, fax 409-943-2389
smfatemi@amoco.com
Parviz Rahimi
Program Co-Chair, 1998
National Center for Upgrading Technology
One Oil Patch Drive, Devon, Alberta,
Canada T0C 1E0
403-987-8708, fax 403-987-5349
rahimi@NRCan.gc.ca
James A. Franz
Program Chair, 1999
Dept. of Chemical Technology
Pacific Northwest Labs.
Box 999, MS #K2-10
Richland, WA 99352
509-375-2967, fax 509-375-2059
ja_franz@pnl.gov
Frank Huggins
Program Chair, 2000
533 S. Limestone St. Suite 111
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506
606-257-4045, fax 606-257-7215
frank@funky.cffls.uky.edu
Sarma Pisupati
Program Chair 2001
Pennsylvania State University
Fuel Science Program
209 Academic Projects Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-0874, fax 814-863-7432, sxp17@psu.edu