7th Sino-Australian Symposium on Advanced Coal and Biomass Utilisation Technologies

3 – 6 December 2019  Wuhan, China https://sinoaussymposia2019.aconf.org

Key dates
30 Jun 2019 
Deadline for abstract submission. Please see Instructions for abstract submission
27 Sep 2019
Deadline for early-bird registration
1 – 31 Aug 2019 
Time for submitting manuscript to Energy & Fuels special issue
11 Nov 2019 
Deadline for registration to attend the sympoisum 
3 – 6 Dec 2019 
Symposium

Program
3.30pm – 7pm   Tuesday 3 Dec 2019 
Welcome function

8:30am – 6pm   Wednesday 4 Dec 2019 
Symposium program

8:30am – 6pm   Thursday 5 Dec 2019 
Symposium program

8:30am – 6pm   Friday 6 Dec 2019 
Symposium program

Poster sessions will be provided during lunch on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A symposium dinner will be organised in the night of Thursday 5 Dec 2019.

7th Sino-Australian Symposium on Advanced Coal and Biomass Utilisation Technologies
3 - 6 December 2019
Ramada Plaza Optics Valley Hotel, Wuhan, China
 
Day 1, Tuesday, 3 December 2019
 
15:30 - 19:00 Welcome Function (South Lake Ballroom)
 
Day 2, Wednesday, 4 December 2019
 
08:30 - 09:00 Symposium Open (East Lake Ballroom)
 
09:00 - 10:20 Plenary Session 1 (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Osvalda Senneca, Italy) Paper ID
09:00 - 09:40 A review of 30 years of research using the CPD model (Thomas H. Fletcher, Brigham Young Uni, US) PS1
09:40 - 10:20 Ultrafine particle formation in coal combustion: understanding the relationship to flame synthesis process (Shuiqing Li, Tsinghua Uni, China) PS2
 
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
 
10:40 - 12:00 Plenary Session 2 (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Shuiqing Li, China) Paper ID
10:40 - 11:20 Chemical Interactions between Potassium, Sulfur, Chlorine and Carbon Monoxide in Air and Oxy-Fuel Atmospheres (Klas Andersson, Chalmers Uni of Tech, Sweden) PS3
11:20 - 12:00 Modelling of coal or biomass-based reacting flows and industry applications (Yansong Shen, The Uni of New South Wales, Australia) PS5
 
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch (South Lake Ballroom)
 
13:20 - 15:00

Session 1A: PM Matters (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Mário Costa, Portugal)

Paper ID   Session 1B: NOx Matters (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Qiang Lu, China) Paper ID
13:20 - 13:40 Suppression of PM2.5 formation in pulverized coal combustion by modified kaolin (Fangqi Liu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 010   Low-temperature catalytic oxidation of NO in coal combustion flue gas over Mn doped Co-Ti-Ox catalyst in a fixed-bed reactor (Rahman/Jianglong Yu, Uni of Newcastle, Australia) 042
13:40 - 14:00 Particulate matters formation and AAEMs partitioning under a pressurized oxy-fuel fluidized bed combustor (Xinglei Qiu, Southeast Uni, China) 078   Effect of coal blending ratio on NOx formation under multiple deep air-staged combustion (Yongqiang Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni, China) 007
14:00 - 14:20 Effect of ammonium dihydrogen phosphate addition on particulate matter emissions during the combustion of agricultural biomass (Youjian Zhu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 013   Effect of alkali metals on NO formation and SCR catalyst activity during Zhundong coal combustion (Jing Zhao, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) 033
14:20 - 14:40 Performance characteristics of inhalable particulate matter removal in tube bundle flue gas condenser (Kai Li/Enlu Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni, China) 005   The research on the effect of temperature on NO release characteristics in O2/CO2 atmosphere during coal combustion (Xiaofeng Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni, China) 008
14:40 - 15:00 Characteristic of PM from Combustion of Zhundong Lignite with High Contents of Na, Mg, Ca, S, Fe: A Comparison between Air and Oxy-Fuel Atmosphere (Renhui Ruan, Xi'an Jiaotong Uni, China) 041   Catalytic mechanism of calcium on the formation of HCN during pyrolysis of pyrrole and indole: A theoretical study (Ji Liu, North China Electric Power Uni, China) 040
 
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break
 
15:20 - 17:00 Session 2A: Ash Formation and Deposition (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Changdong Sheng, China) Paper ID   Session 2B: NH3/CH4 Combustion (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Weidong Fan, China) Paper ID
15:20 - 15:40 A comparison study of ash partitioning and deposition behavior between two rice husk fuels under a 100kW combustor (Jianqun Wu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 067   Combustion of NH3/CH4/air and NH3/H2/air mixtures in a porous burner: experiments and kinetic modelling (Mario Costa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) 068
15:40 - 16:00 Arsenic partitioning in high-temperature ash deposits during oxy-fuel combustion (Huimin Liu, North China Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 029   A Study on Laminar Flame Speeds and Ammonia Chemistry of CH4/NH3 Mixtures under Oxy-fuel Combustion (Shibo Liu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 023
16:00 - 16:20 Effect of rice husk/coal co-firing on ash deposition and deposit sintering strength development under oxy-fuel condition (Jianqun Wu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 009   Fugitive Methane Capture and Mitigation; Examining Methane Explosion Characteristic in Explosion Vessel Connected to A Long Venting Duct (Jafar Zanganeh, The Uni of Newcastle, Australia) 044
16:20 - 16:40 Numerical prediction on fouling characteristics and arrangement optimization of the superheater tubes for a high-alkali coal (Tai Zhang, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 018   Experimental and Numerical Study of the Effect of CO2 on the Ignition Delay Times of Methane and Ethane under Different Pressures (Huiqiao Jia, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 022
16:40 - 17:00 Modeling K-containing species transforming into submicron ash particles in flue gas of pulverized biomass combustion (Mingzi Xu, Southeast Uni, China) 027      
 
17:00

End of Day 2

 

17:30 - 20:00 Dinner (South Lake Ballroom)

 

 

7th Sino-Australian Symposium on Advanced Coal and Biomass Utilisation Technologies
3 - 6 December 2019
Ramada Plaza Optics Valley Hotel, Wuhan, China
 
Day 3, Thursday, 5 December 2019
 
09:00 - 10:20 Plenary Session 3 (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Thomas H. Fletcher, USA) Paper ID
09:00 - 09:40 Effects of heat treatment conditions on the products of coal and biomass pyrolysis (Osvalda Senneca, IRC-CNR, Italy) PS4
09:40 - 10:20 Optimising the sustainability of hydrogen production and biomass conversion from catalytic thermochemical processing (Jun Huang, The Uni of Sydney, Australia) PS6
 
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
 
10:40 - 12:00 Plenary Session 4 (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Hongwei Wu, Australia) Paper ID
10:40 - 11:20 On the interplay between chemistry and transfer processes during the pyrolysis of biomass (Sascha Kersten, Uni of Twente, The Netherlands) PS7
11:20 - 12:00 Progress in Bio-oil Characterization and Separation Strategies: Contributions to the Creation of Bio-oil Refineries (Manuel Garcia-Perez, Washington State Uni, US) PS8
 
12:00 - 13:20 Lunch (South Lake Ballroom)
 
13:20 - 15:00 Session 3A: Coal/Biomass Pyrolysis 1 (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Haiping Yang, China) Paper ID   Session 3B: Hydrothermal/Torrefaction Processes (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Vladimir Strezov, Australia) Paper ID
13:20 - 13:40 Enhancing the production of light olefins from wheat straw pyrolysis with different metal-modified HZSM-5 catalyst (Jingai Shao, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 014   Compositional Analysis and Kinetic Modeling of the Hydrothermal Carbonisation of Macroalgae (Philip van Eyk, The Uni of Adelaide, Australia) 058
13:40 - 14:00 Production and Conversion of a Biorenewable Platform Chemical: Levoglucosenone (Xin Huang, Chongqing Uni, China) 083   Process design of levulinic acid production from glucose in choline chloride aqueous solution (Ryu  Sato, Tokyo Uni of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) 065
14:00 - 14:20 Impacts of temperature on evolution of char structure in pyrolysis of lignin (Xun Hu, Jinan Uni, China) 039   Reaction kinetics of hydrothermal liquefaction of mixtures of polymer compounds representing organic fractions of biomass (Philip van Eyk, The Uni of Adelaide, Australia) 057
14:20 - 14:40 Coal and Biomass Co-Pyrolysis in a Fluidized-Bed Reactor: Numerical Assessment of Fuel Type, Particle Diameter and Blending Conditions (Tamer Ismail, Suez Canal Uni, Egypt) 074   Improvement of Pelletability of Woody Biomass by Torrefaction under Pressurized Steam (Jun Okada, Kyushu Uni, Japan) 064
14:40 - 15:00 Analytical Procedure for Proximate Analysis of Algal Biomass: Case Study for Spirulina and Chlorella (Xiangpeng Gao, Murdoch Uni, Australia) 061   The Effect of Hemicellulose, Cellulose, and Lignin on Fuel Properties and Propensity to Spontaneous Heating of Biomasses Pretreated under Severe Torrefaction (Nakorn Worasuwannarak, King Mongkut’s Uni of Technology Thonburi, Thailand) 069
 
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break
 
15:20 - 17:00 Session 4A: Coal/Biomass Pyrolysis 2 (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Yansong Shen, Australia) Paper ID   Session 4B: Biofuels and Solar Fuels (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Xun Gong, China) Paper ID
15:20 - 15:40 Enhanced aromatic yield from lignite pyrolysis by remedying the acid sites of different hierarchical HZSM-5 (Jing-Pei Cao, China Uni of Mining & Tech, China) 082   Investigating the effect of mono and bimetallic/zeolite catalysts on the selectivity of hydrocarbons during bio-oil upgrading from ex-situ pyrolysis of biomass (Vladimir Strezov, Macquaire Uni, Australia) 054
15:40 - 16:00 Mechanism study of cellulose pyrolysis by in-situ characterization of reaction process and theoretical calculation (Kaige Wang, Zhejiang Uni, China) 002   Evolution of Aromatic Structures during the Low-Temperature Electrochemical Upgrading of Bio-oil (Wei Deng, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 025
16:00 - 16:20 Study on thermal conversion mechanism of furan in molten salt (Fu Yang/Hongyun Hu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 011   Electrocatalytic Upgrading of Biorefinery Waste to Commodity Chemicals (Chun Ho Lam, City Uni of Hong Kong, China) 075
16:20 - 16:40 Solar pyrolysis of biomass: a pathway to produce solar fuels and functional bio-char (Kuo Zeng, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China)  081   Light management for improved PV-biased PEC solar fuels (Dong Liu, Nanjing Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 076
 
17:00 End of Day 3
 
19:00 - 22:00 Symposium Dinner (Hujin Restaurant)
 

 

7th Sino-Australian Symposium on Advanced Coal and Biomass Utilisation Technologies
3 - 6 December 2019
Ramada Plaza Optics Valley Hotel, Wuhan, China
 
Day 4, Friday, 6 December 2019
 
09:00 - 10:20 Session 5A: Oxy-fuel Combustion (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Xiangpeng Gao, Australia) Paper ID   Session 5B: Waste Utilisation (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Kaige Wang, China) Paper ID
09:00 - 09:20 Dynamic Modeling on Mode Switching Strategy of a 35 MWth Oxy-fuel Combustion Pilot Plant (Zihan Chen, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 016   Two-stage thermochemical conversion of sewage sludge to syngas with intensified carbon utilization (Yijiao Jiang, Macquarie Uni, Australia) 055
09:20 - 09:40 Experimental investigation of pressurized combustion characteristics of single coal particle in O2/N2 and O2/CO2 environments (Quanyun Chen, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 017   A critical review of chlorine characterisation and thermal behavior in municipal solid waste (Song Zhou, Monash Uni, Australia) 060
09:40 - 10:00 The characteristics and mechanisms of CO and NO formation during pyridine oxidation in O2/N2 and O2/CO2 atmospheres (Jianghui Luo, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 021   Ash Transformation And Deposition Behaviour During Co-firing Biomass Fuels With Sewage Sludge (Liang Wang, SINTEF Energy Research, Norway) 072
10:00 - 10:20 Effect of particle heating rate on ignition delay in oxy coal combustion under convectional conditions (Lele Feng, Tsinghua Uni, China) 084   Hazardous Waste Pre-treatment: Melting Points of Waste Incineration Ash Modified by Alkali Metal (Yufeng Zhang, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) 032
 
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee break
 
10:40 - 12:20 Session 6A: Combustion (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Liang Wang, Norway) Paper ID   Session 6B: GHG Related Issues (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Philip van Eyk, Australia) Paper ID
10:40 - 11:00 Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of the Thermochemical Behaviours of Carbon Composite Briquette in an Ironmaking Blast Furnace (Xiaobing Yu, The Uni of New South Wales, Australia) 052   Three-stage-shear serrated aerator broke CO2 bubbles to promote mass transfer and microalgae growth (Yanmei Song, Zhengjiang Uni, China) 003
11:00 - 11:20 The effect of three constituents of biomass on ignition mechanism and combustion characteristics (Mei Mei, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 020   Using lantern Zn/Co-ZIF nanoparticles to provide channels for CO2 permeation through PEO-based MMMs (Yali Wang, Zhejiang Uni, China) 004
11:20 - 11:40 Experimental and modelling study of the charcoal injection in a blast furnace: effect of biomass pretreatment (Yiran Liu, The Uni of New South Wales, Australia) 051   Mineralogical investigation of CO2 sequestration by mineralisation of fly ash (Long Ji/Ming Hua, Nanjing Uni, China) 037
11:40 - 12:00 Effect of calcium and phosphorus on the interaction mechanisms between K salt-doped wood with bed material during steam gasification or combustion (Zimeng He, Uni of Adelaide, Australia) 056   Analysis of spatial-temporal variation of biomass resources and the associated GHG mitigation potentials in China (Qing Yang, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 012
12:00 - 12:20 Examination of Propensity to Spontaneous Heating of Severely Torrefied Biomass Using TG-DSC under Isothermal Oxidation with Dry Air and Water Vapor at Low-temperature (Weerawut Chaiwat, Mahidol Uni, Thailand) 070   Heat utilisation from a fluidised bed ventilation air methane abatement plant in an organic Rankine cycle; a simulation study (Priscilla Tremain, The Uni of Newcastle, Australia) 078
 
12:20 - 13:20 Lunch (South Lake Ballroom)
 
13:20 - 15:00 Session 7A: Gasification (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Jing-Pei Cao, China) Paper ID   Session 7B: Fuel Cells and Materials (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Jun Huang, Australia) Paper ID
13:20 - 13:40 Re-examination of thermogravimetric kinetic analysis of char gasification (Shusaku Asano, Kyushu University, Japan) 062   Next Generation High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells for Sustainable Power Systems (San Ping Jiang, Curtin Uni, Australia) 079
13:40 - 14:00 The importance of O-containing functional groups in char as catalysts for tar reforming (Shu Zhang, Nanjing Forest Uni, China) 036   Anode materials for direct methane fuel cells (John Zhu, The Uni of Queensland, Australia) 059
14:00 - 14:20 Roles of alkali/alkaline earth metals in steam reforming of biomass tar for hydrogen production over perovskite supported Ni catalysts (Zhonghui Zhang, Chongqing Uni, China) 038   Investigation of the Catalytic Effect of CeO2 in Different Size Graphite Particles in Molten Carbonate - Direct Carbon Fuel Cells (Muhammad Ahsan, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 086
14:20 - 14:40 Effect of volatile-char interactions on the characteristics of Gas-liquid-solid products in Corn straw-H2O Gasification (Dongdong Feng, Harbin Institute of Tech, China) 031   Identification of active sites in CO2 activation on MgO supported Ni cluster (Juntian Niu, Chongqing Uni,China) 085
14:40 - 15:00 Synergistic effects and kinetics thermal behavior of bio-char and semi-coke blends during CO2 co-gasification (Enlu Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni, China) 006   Autocatalystic BaCe0.8Y0.2O3-δ-Ce0.8Y0.2O2-δ/BaCe0.8Y0.2O3-δ-Ni hollow fiber membrane for hydrogen separation and CO2 transformation (Hongda Cheng/Bo Meng, Shandong Ui of Tech, China) 030
 
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break
 
15:20 - 17:00 Session 8A: Chemical Looping/MILD Processes (East Lake Ballroom, Chair: Houzhang Tan, China) Paper ID   Session 8B: Carbon Materials (West Lake Ballroom, Chair: Hirotatsu Watanabe, Japan) Paper ID
15:20 - 15:40 Stonedust looping for ventilation air methane (VAM) abatement: a 1 m3/s pilot scale study (Priscilla Tremain, The Uni of Newcastle, Australia) 043   Graphitic carbon nitride decorated with CoP nanocrystals for enhanced photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical H2 evolution (Shaobin Wang, Curtin Uni, Australia) 047
15:40 - 16:00 Numerical investigation on the improvement of carbon conversion in dual circulating fluidized bed reactor for chemical looping combustion of coal (Xi Chen, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 024   Biochar-Assisted Water Electrolysis (Li Chen/Jun-irchiro Hayashi, Kyushu University, Japan) 063
16:00 - 16:20 Experimental and numerical study of MILD combustion for fuel-NO reduction in a laboratory-scale furnace (Cuijiao Ding, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 015   Nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbon derived from corn stalks for phenol enhanced adsorption (Yunchao Li, Zhejiang Uni, China) 001
16:20 - 16:40 Evolution behavior on co-gasification of coal and cyanobacteria with chemical looping process (Tianxu Shen/Laihong Shen, Southeast Uni, China) 028   Impact of mass transfer in the carbon/carbonate-packed bed on the DCFC power output (Hirotatsu Watanabe, Tokyo Institute of Tech, Japan) 066
16:40 - 17:00 Experimental study of the MILD combustion of residual char in a 300 kW pilot-scale furnace (Fan Hu, Huazhong Uni of Sci and Tech, China) 019   Moisture sorption isotherm of herbaceous and agricultural biomass (Can Yao, Southeast Uni, China) 026
 
17:00 - 20:00 Symposium Close and Dinner (South Lake Ballroom)
End of Day 4
End of Symposium

 

This is the DRAFT program. We may still need to make some changes according to the authors’ feedback.