Latest clean-energy technologies focus of international event hosted by UCI

EVENT:

UC Irvine’s Advanced Power and Energy Program is hosting the eighth International Colloquium on Environmentally Preferred Advanced Power Generation – a three-day international event focusing on the latest developments in clean-energy technologies and their emerging international presence. Topic areas include the development of combined cycle and fuel cell power plant technologies, the impact of other countries’ energy needs on our ability to deliver energy in the United States and the potential for collaboration among nations actively participating in advanced power research. ICEPAG highlights include:

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Jan. 28, 1-5:30 p.m.: UCI experts will teach a hybrid fuel cell course to explain the fundamentals of the systems.
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Jan. 29, 8 a.m.-noon: Contributors from the United States, Europe, China, Singapore and Korea will discuss advanced power programs in their respective countries.
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Jan. 29, 1-3:45 p.m.: Participants will discuss technology readiness. This session includes a talk by Southern California Edison’s Russ Neal on the ramifications of new technologies on the power grid.

DATE: Monday, January 28, 2008
TIME: Hybrid Short Course: Jan. 28, 1-5:30 p.m.; ICEPAG 2008: Jan. 29-30, 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Jan. 31, 8 a.m.-noon.
LOCATION: Hybrid Short Course: National Fuel Cell Research Center, UCI campus. ICEPAG 2008: Fairmont Newport Beach hotel, Newport Beach, Calif.

BACKGROUND:

ICEPAG is a leading advanced power event and features presentations from world-renowned experts on various aspects of central plant power. The 2008 colloquium is titled “Advanced Power Generation: 10 Megawatts to 1,000 Megawatts.” Collaborators include the National Fuel Cell Research Center; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; the Pacific Rim Consortium on Energy, Combustion, and the Environment; the European Union and the United Nations. The event is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission.

Scott Samuelsen, director of the Advanced Power and Energy Program and National Fuel Cell Research Center at UC Irvine, is the technical program chair. Samuelsen, a professor of mechanical, aerospace and environmental engineering, is an internationally recognized expert in energy research.