2026 Conference Agenda

8:00 am – 9:30 am
Syngas 101: A Primer for Business, Commercial, and Financial Executives

10:00 am – 10:15 am
Conference Welcome
WE Preston, GSTC Executive Director

10:15 am – 10:35 am
The Decarbonization Crossroads: Geopolitics, Energy Security, and the Future
Grant Grothen, Burns & McDonnell

10:35 am – 10:55 am
The Revival of Clean Coal Gasification*
Karsten Radke, thyssenkrupp

10:55 am – 11:15 am
The Next Industrial Renaissance: Sustainable Blue Power in the Age of AI*
Girish Patel, Kiewit

1:30 pm – 1:50 pm
Converting Gasification Facilities from Biomass to Waste Fuel*
Ian Crummack, Cobalt Energy

1:50 pm – 2:10 pm
Reimagining Methanol Plant Design: The Power of Small-Scale Modularization*
Russell Hillenburg, Modular Plant Solutions

2:10 pm – 2:30 pm
Optimizing Furnace Performance with Furnatek Technology*
Dan Morton, Catmasters

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm
Entrained Flow Gasification: A Proven, Reliable Technology*
Frank Maupay, Air Products

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm
Biogenic Syngas for Sustainable Fuels at Scale*
Cliff Keeler, SunGas

4:20 pm – 4:40 pm
Introducing G2L – The Integrated Process for Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals*
Johan Malan, Topsoe

8:00 am – 8:15 am
Welcome
Lucy Wilson, GSTC Board Chair

8:15 am – 8:35 am
Oxygen-Based Reforming for Low Carbon Syngas from ATR and GasPOX
Martin Gorny, Sayan Dasgupta, Alexander Rosch, Air Liquide E&C

8:35 am – 8:55 am
Building Economically Durable Intelligent Gasification Platforms for Indian Coals
Abhijit Sarkur, Dastur Energy

8:55 am – 9:15 am
Sustainable Methanol Production Powered by SYNSPIRE® Methanol Catalysts*
Artem Vityuk, PhD, BASF

10:35 am – 10:55 am
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategic Tool in the Low-Carbon Syngas Economy*
Marc Bacon, Omni Conversion Technologies

10:55 am – 11:15 am
AI-Assisted Troubleshooting in Syngas Production
Jesse Mikulec, Control Rooms.ai

11:15 am – 11:35 am
Experimental and AI Approaches in a Pyrolysis and Gasification Kinetics Database
Ross Houston, National Energy Technology Laboratory

1:30 pm – 1:50 pm
Carbon Capture Options for Blue Hydrogen Applications
John R. Dowdle, PhD, Dow

1:50 pm – 2:10 pm
CO2 Removal from Low Sulfur Natural Gas and Syngas Streams
Sunil Singhal, Ravi Ravikumar, Fluor Enterprises

2:10 pm – 2:30 pm
Ninety Years of Reforming Leadership: What We Have Learned*
M.J. Cousins, Johnson Matthey

3:40 pm – 4:00 pm
Waste to Chemical Technology Development
Shoichi Nikaido, JFE Engineering

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm
Supply Chain Analysis for Gasification of Blended Feedstocks
Gary Grim, National Laboratory of the Rockies

4:20 pm – 4:40 pm
Commercial-scale CHEMREC Black Liquor Gasification
Chris Higman, Higman Consulting UK Ltd

8:00 am – 8:15 am
Welcome
Cliff Keeler, GSTC Board Vice Chair

8:15 am – 8:35 am
Advancements in Jen-Zero Technology for Reliable Gasifier Feeding
Jayant Khambekar, Jenike & Johanson

8:35 am – 8:55 am
High Temperature Membranes for Syngas Ratio Adjustment and Carbon Utilization
Joe Sawa, Membravo

8:55 am – 9:15 am
High-Temperature Ceramic Filtration in Syngas Production and Conditioning
Cameron Kiani, Precision Partners

10:35 am – 10:55 am
From Feedstock to Fuel – Optimizing Carbon Intensity and Economics
Mark Viehman, ThermaFuels

10:55 am – 11:15 am
Tar Formation and Fate in Cofired Coal/Biomass Gasification with CO2 Capture
Joshua Strege, EERC – UND

11:15 am – 11:35 am
Thermal Partial Oxidation – CFD Modeling Developments
Eric Wright, Arvos

11:55 am – 12:10 pm
Closing Remarks
W. E. Preston