2009 Energy Conference - Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Surface Engineering for Energy Generation, Storage, and Conservation Conference

When: January 20-21, 2009

Where: Walt Disney World’s Shades of Green Resort

Sponsored by: the National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF)

The world is faced with twin
challenges: reducing oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. 
Coatings and other surface engineering technologies, while not
solutions in themselves, can provide great benefits for both
established and emerging energy sources.  This conference seeks to
bring the surface engineering community together with potential end
users in a two-day interactive meeting in sunny Orlando, Florida.

You won’t want to miss this opportunity to participate in this timely
conference that will address issues that are of concern to the metal
finishing industry.

The meeting will be broken down into four sessions running consecutively.  Papers are sought for the following potential sessions:

    * Surface engineering in renewable energy, including solar, geothermal, and wind;

    * Energy conservation, including surface technologies to improve engine and/or life cycle energy efficiency;

    * Surface engineering and advanced conventional energy sources, such as circulating bed nuclear reactors and coal MHD;

    * Surface technologies related to energy transmission and storage, including fuel cells, batteries, and transmission lines.

Interested?  E-mail your one page abstract to: jrtreglio@yahoo.com

If selected, we will request that you prepare a 20 minute presentation, or a poster.

For more information contact Cheryl Clark at cclark@nasf.org.