The Westin Convention Center and Hotel

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Throughout the world, coal is a major energy source, providing nearly 25% of the world's primary energy consumption. Although coal's share of total energy use was previously expected to decline in the future, the recent high cost of natural gas and petroleum together with projected increasing demand and decreasing reserves of both have created a heightened interest in the use of coal within the United States. However, to maintain this growth, the industry must be responsive to increasing pressures on environmental emissions and global warming as well as improve its public image.

The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference focuses on environmental emissions issues and technologies surrounding the continued use of coal and the development of future coal-based energy plants to achieve near-zero emissions of pollutants, reduced costs, and high thermal efficiency while producing a suite of products to meet future energy market requirements.

After registering and making hotel reservations, please be sure to check out other conference events, such as the Gateway Clipper and the Just Ducky Tour!

1. Combustion
Chairs - John Wheeldon and Evan Granite

2. Gasification
Chairs - Gary Stiegel , Johan Van Dyk , Julio Friedmann and Ke Liu

3. Sustainability and Environment
Chairs - Frank Kranik and Massood Ramezan

4. Carbon Management
Chairs - Bob Miller and Leslie Ruppert

5. Coal-Derived Products

Chairs - Chunshan Song, Sam Tam, Bryan Morreale and Rachid Oukaci

6. Coal Science
Chairs - Jim Hower, B.K. Parekh, and Frans Waanders

Papers may be contributed in all subject areas dealing with coal technologies and related policy issues. To qualify for acceptance, you must submit a one-page abstract by e-mail on or before April 15, 2009.

Please submit using this template and send it to:  ipcc@pitt.edu.

Make sure"2009 Abstract Submission" is in your Subject line.

Conference Secretary

International Pittsburgh Coal Conference

University of Pittsburgh

1249 Benedum Hall

Pittsburgh, PA  15261 USA

Phone: +1-412-624-7440      Fax: +1-412-624-1480    

  Email: ipcc@pitt.edu

The abstract must include sufficient content and information for adequate evaluation by the Program Committee.  The International Pittsburgh Coal Conference Program Committee reserves the right to accept, place on a waiting list, or reject any paper.

Each abstract should include the following:

1) PROGRAM TOPIC (Please see the list above for your appropriate topic)

2) ABSTRACT TITLE

3) AUTHOR LISTING

      (Principal/Corresponding Author First)

4) CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EACH AUTHOR

      (Please list each authors' valid mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail addresses INDIVIDUALLY)

5) ABSTRACT TEXT

Abstracts are due in the PCC office on or before April 15, 2009. Manuscripts and Author Data Sheets are due in the PCC office on or before August 15, 2009.

* The conference welcomes papers from academia, industry, nonprofit organizations, government institutions, research institutes, and other interested parties.

By May 1, 2009, the Program Committee will inform the submitting author of the paper's status.  If a paper is accepted, an original copy of the manuscript sent by email or by mail is due in the PCC office on or before August 15, 2009. In addition to submitting a manuscript, authors must submit a 2009 AUTHOR DATA SHEET.

DEADLINE: August 15, 2009

Completed Manuscripts are to be submitted by E-MAIL (preferred) to: ipcc@pitt.edu or via US mail on a CD-ROM in *PDF Format (preferred) or Microsoft Word. Please make sure to notify the conference secretary if you have changed your Title or Authors since the original abstract submission!  There is NO general format or page limitation that the Manuscript has to follow because it will be published on a CD-ROM. 

*If your manuscript contains multiple graphs, charts, or figures please submit your manuscript in PDF Format.  The PCC will NOT be responsible for errors resulting from conversion to PDF.

Presenting authors submitting papers are required to pre-register and pay the registration fee for the Conference at the time of paper submission. 

Authors who have not submitted a completed registration form and paid registration will not have their papers included in the Proceedings.

A Conference Brochure containing the preliminary program will be sent to you in June 2009.  

As you prepare for your presentation in either the Poster or Oral Session, please follow the Guidelines for Poster and Oral Presentations.

Please note all manuscripts and presentations must be in English.