Wednesday 21 June 2023 10:00am to 3:30pm
West Hub JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0US
About
Hard to Decarbonise Technologies SIG event
Decarbonising fuel is essential to reduce worldwide carbon emissions. The purpose of this event is to identify some key research questions in this area where academia can help industry and vice versa. Longer term we hope these outputs can feed into potential academic-industry collaborative research project proposals, PhD topics with industry support and/or Master’s projects.
Themes will include: green ammonia as a carbon-free fuel; efuels/biofuels; green hydrogen and decarbonising road freight.
The day will include some presentations from academics about their research in this area, followed by breakout group discussions with academic and industry representatives.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Laura Torrente Murciano, Professor of Reaction Engineering and Catalysis
- Simone Hochgreb, Professor of Engineering
- David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium.
- David Reiner, Professor of Technology Policy
- More speakers TBC
Agenda TBC
Arrival from 10am for 10.30am start. There will be a networking lunch.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decarbonising-fuels-tickets-641183887267
Background
The Decarbonisation Network aims to connect University of Cambridge academics with external industry representatives working towards decarbonisation. Currently, there are three Special Interest Groups (SIGs): Light Harvesting, the Built Environment and Hard to Decarbonise Technologies. The SIGs have been identified as clusters of expertise within the University of Technology areas that can benefit from broader academic-industry collaborations. The Network works across the collegiate University, is supported by Strategic Partnerships Office and operates in collaboration with Cambridge Zero and the Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre.
The Network was piloted from 2021-2022, with a full time coordinator beginning in August 2022. To date, over 20 online panel discussions and one in-person symposium have taken place focusing on a range of topics. All events are attended by a mixture of internal and external people, and there are currently ~400 specialists registered to the Network’s mailing list, half of whom are external and represent ~130 organisations. Summaries of meetings are available on the Network’s website.
We have received funding for this event from Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund via The School of Physical Sciences and The School of Technology.
Please direct any queries to decarbnetwork@admin.cam.ac.uk.
For more information on the Network please visit: https://www.decarbnetwork.hub.cam.ac.uk/