Program NOTE: This is the 2010 program. The 2011 program will be posted after abstract submissions are closed, judged, and slotted into sessions. Jump to >> Tuesday a.m. | Tuesday p.m. | Wednesday a.m. | Wednesday p.m. | Thursday a.m. Monday, May 3 8 am - 5 pm Expo Hall B Exhibitor move-in 8 am - 6 pm Registration Area Registration Opens 8 am Room 203 C Speaker Ready Room is 203 C 8:30 am - 4:30 pm Room 204 Renewable Hydrogen Workshop 9 am - 12 pm Convention Center entrance Ride and Drive 12:30 - 2 pm Room 202 B Hydrogen from Nuclear Information Session 2 - 4 pm Room 202 A NHA Corporation Meeting 3 - 7 pm Room 203 AB Hydrogen Business Solutions Forum (invitation only) 4 - 5:30 Room TBA Members Only Reception 5:30 - 8 pm Expo Hall B Expo Hall open 5:30 - 7 pm Expo Hall B Welcome Reception 7:30 pm Hyatt Regency Hotel NHA Board Dinner     Tuesday, May 4 - Public Day 7 am - 7 pm Registration Open 7:30 - 8:15am Ballroom Continental Breakfast 8:15 - 8:45 am Ballroom Welcome Address Mike McGowan, NHA Chairman and Head of Strategic Alliances, Alternative Energy Solutions, The Linde Group Jeffrey Serfass, NHA President Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster 8:45 - 10:45 am Ballroom Keynote Session 1 [view bios] Moderator: Anthony Eggert, California Energy Commission Catherine Dunwoody, Executive Director, California Fuel Cell Partnership Tom Sullivan, Chairman, Proton Energy Systems, Inc. U.S. Department of Energy (invited) Hydrogen Student Design Contest Grand Prize winners 10 am - 4:30 pm Locations throughout the Convention Center Public Day For this limited time, attendance is FREE for the Expo and the Ride and Drive ONLY. Conference registration is required to attend all keynotes, expert technical sessions, meals, receptions and other workshops and side events. 10 am - 7 pm Expo Hall B Expo Hall Open 10 am - 4:30 pm Convention Center entrance Ride and Drive 10:45 - 11:15 am Break 11 am - 5 pm Expo Hall B Exhibitor Forum 11- 11:30 am Kareem Afzal, PDC Machines Business Development Engineer PDC Machines - Integrating to meet the challenges of tomorrow's hydrogen economy today 11:30 am - 12 pm Dr. Gunther Kolb, Head of Energy Technology and Catalysis Department at Institut fur Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH VeGA - A 250 W LPG Fuel Processor / Fuel Cell System for Recreational Vehicles 12- 12:30 pm Thomas Jackson, Avalence LLC, Co-founder and CTO Emeritus High-Pressure Electrolyzers for Multiple Applications 12:30 - 1 pm Gregory G. Hilton, Project Manager, EngenuitySC, and Management Team Member of The University of South Carolina - City of Columbia Fuel Cell Collaborative The Fuel Cell Challenge: The Next Evolution in Clean Tech Commercialization 1 - 1:30 pm Dirk Lindenmaier, WEH Technologies, Inc., Sales Manager TK17 -- the light revolution of fast and large - volume filling of H2 1:30 - 2 pm Kevin Harris, Hydrogenics Corp, Business Development & Sales Director Hydrogen as an Energy Storage and Transfer Medium for Intermittent RE Systems to Cost-Effective Zero-Emission Transportation Fuel 2 - 2:30 pm Prabhu Soundarrajan, H2Scan, Director, Strategic Applications Development Hydrogen Safety Challenges and Importance of Accurate Hydrogen Monitoring 2:30 - 3 pm and 3:30 - 4 pm Cynthia Verdugo-Peralta, Air Pollution& Energy Efficiency Specialist, President and CEO of SEETA Air Pollution and the Health Benefits of Alternative Technologies 4 - 5 pm Chris White (California Fuel Cell Partnership), Michelle Cormack (A Girl Named Fred Design + Communication), and Rebecca Johnston (Puzzlewood Communication) Making Your Communication Count 11:15 am - 12:45 pm See rooms to right Parallel Session 1 Using & Storing Hydrogen from Renewables Moderator: Ben Mehta, EPRI (retired) Room 204 Enabling Wind, Solar, and Biofuel Energy Using Hydrogen Fred Jahnke, FuelCell Energy, Inc. Begin Now: Design and Build a Renewables-Source Hydrogen Transmission Pipeline Pilot Plant Bill Leighty, The Leighty Foundation Using Hydrogen Energy Storage System to Enable 100% Renewable Energy in Communities Robert McGillivray, Hydrogenics Inc. Wind-to-Hydrogen Project: Advanced Testing & Results Kevin W. Harrison, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Lifecycle cost and environmental analysis of hydrogen and competing technologies for utility-scale energy storage applications Darlene Steward, National Renewable Energy Laboratory International Programs Moderator: Lisa Callaghan Jerram, FCT Consulting Room 202B HyNor – the Norwegian Hydrogen Highway Bjørn Simonsen, Lillestrøm Centre of Expertise H2 Mobility – Hydrogen Infrastructure Buildup in Germany Peter Froschle, Daimler AG IEA HIA Production Activities: Current and Prospective 2009-2014 Mary Rose Szoka de Valladares, INTA Brazil Should Lead by Example and Create the Right Policies to Foster the Development of the Hydrogen Industry and R&D at University Labs Ana Carolina C. Murphy, Institute for Latin American Studies Towards Increased Integration of Leading Technical Solutions for Hydrogen Mobility: A New Concept & Case-Study in Berlin Carsten Retzke, TOTAL Germany Education & Outreach Moderator: Mike Holmes, University of North Dakota, EERC Room 202C HyTEC: Teaching High School Students and Teachers about Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Barbara Nagle, UC-Berkeley Welcome Aboard the Air Products Hydrogen Bus with Your Tour Guide, HydroJen Robert S. Kelly, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Using Social Marketing for your Business Chris White, California Fuel Cell Partnership A New Perspective on Public Acceptance of Hydrogen: Which Hydrogen Future May Citizens Accept? Olga Di Ruggero, Delft University of Technology The Hydrogen Hybrid Bus, Education and Outreach, If You Build It, They Will Come Jeff Ranta, University of South Carolina Safety Codes and Standards Moderator: Karen Hall, National Hydrogen Association Room 203A Safety Considerations in Designing a Facility for Mechanical Property Measurements in High Pressure Gaseous Hydrogen Environments Y.S. Levy, National Institute of Standards and Technology Risk Associated with the Use of Barriers in Hydrogen Refueling Stations Jeffrey LaChance, Sandia National Laboratories Numerical Simulation of Hydrogen Mixing and Leakage in Full Scale Residential Garages Kuldeep Prasad, National Institute of Standards and Technology How Fast are Hydrogen Sensors and How Best to Measure This? Results from Different Test Methods Lois Boon-Brett, European Commission, DG JRC – Institute for Energy Storage: Chemical & Metal Hydrides Moderator: Monterey Gardiner, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Room 203B Chemical Hydrogen Storage in NHXBHX Materials Jamie Holladay, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Discovery of Hydrogen Storage Materials via Highly Parallel Ball Milling and Gas Sorption Mark Bailey, Wildcat Discovery Technologies Hydrogen Generation from Noncatalytic Hydrothermolysis of Ammonia Borane for Vehicle Applications Ahmad Al-Kukhun, Purdue University N-Hydrogen: Safe, Affordable, Efficient Hydrogen Now Norman K. Olson, Iowa State University 12:45 - 2 pm Expo Hall B Boxed Lunch in Expo 2 - 3:35 pm Ballroom Keynote Session 2 [view bios] Moderator: Matt Miyasato, South Coast Air Quality Management District Daryl Wilson, CEO, Hydrogenics Jonathan Leaver, Head of Engineering, Unitec New Zealand Ron Harmer, Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association Klaus Bonhoff, Managing Director, National Organisation Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Technologies Arwed Niestroj, Senior Manager, Fuel Cell Fleet Operations, Daimler AG 3:35 - 4 pm Break 4 - 5:30 pm See rooms to right Parallel Session 2 Infrastructure Analysis Moderator: Ken Schultz, General Atomics Room 202B Optimizing Hydrogen Pipeline Deployment in Real Geographic Regions Nils A. Johnson, UC-Davis Optimal Regional Layout of Least-Cost Hydrogen Infrastructure Brian W. Bush, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Integration of Nuclear-Generated Hydrogen and Steam into Industrial Process Applications Charles Park, Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory Technical and Economical Study About the Interest in Using Pemfc Systems to Feed Stand Alone Railway Equipment Eric Pinton, CEA Development of Novel Sampling Devices for Analysis of Impurities in Hydrogen at Refueling Stations for Fuel Cell Vehicles Shabbir Ahmed, Argonne National Laboratory Production: Electrolysis R&D Results Moderator: Larry Moulthrop, Proton Energy Systems Room 204 Results from the First Field Test of a Microbial Electrolysis Cell for Renewable Hydrogen Production Bruce Logan, H2E Center, Pennsylvania State University High Temperature Electrolysis Dividends to the Pre-Consumer Hydrogen Economy Joseph Hartvigsen, Ceramatec Inc. The Potential of Using a-SiC:H as the Photoelectrode for Water Splitting Feng Zhu, MVSystems, Inc. Research Advances Towards Low Cost, High Efficiency Hydrogen Generation Kathy Ayers, Proton Energy Systems Comparative Performance of Electrolysis Cell Stacks at the HSU Hydrogen Fueling Station Meg Harper, Schatz Energy Research Center, Humboldt State University Military Applications Moderator: Leo Grassilli, U.S. Fuel Cell Council Room 202C Powering Forward with Hydrogen Fuel Cells at the Defense Logistics Agency Leo Plonsky, Defense Logistics Agency Analysis of DOD’s Fuel Cell Forklift Demonstration Project Todd Ramsden, NREL Environmentally Friendly HYDROGEN Refueling Station for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Enrique Troncoso, Boeing Research & Technology Europe Catalytic Steam Reformer for Hydrogen Production from Logistics Fuels Subir Roychoudhury, Precision Combustion, Inc. High Differential Pressure PEM-Based Hydrogen Generation for Backup Power and Home Fueling Applications Everett Anderson, Proton Energy Systems Fuel Cell R&D Results Moderator: Pinakin Patel, FuelCell Energy Room 203A Surface and Electrochemical Properties of Pt-Au/C Cathode Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: The Promotion Effect of Ce Addition and Post Heat Treatment Chen-Wei Liu, National Central University, Taiwan The Preparation, Promotion, and Characterization of Structure- and Surface- Tunable Pd-Co/C Cathode Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Yu-Chen Wei, National Central University, Taiwan High Efficiency, Micro-CHP (Combined Heat and Power) Hydrogen Fueled PEM Fuel Cells Ray Eshraghi, Microcell Corporation Fabrication of Dual Layer Ni/Ni-YSZ Hollow Fibers for Anode Support via Phase Inversion and Sintering Method Krzysztof Kanawka, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College of London Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Based on Proton-Conducting Ceramic Electrolyte U. (Balu) Balachandran, Argonne National Laboratory Storage: General Moderator: Monterey Gardiner, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Room 203B High-Pressure Hydrogen Storage; Validation Testing of SAE Performance Based System Level Standards Robert Burgess, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Cryo-Compressed Hydrogen Storage – A Promising Candidate to Complement the Hydrogen Vehicle Storage Portfolio Klaas Kunze, BMW Group Improving Hydrogen Tank Refueling Performance Through the Use of an Advanced Fueling Algorithm – The MC Method Ryan Harty, Honda R&D Americas, Inc. Nano-Materials for Hydrogen Storage Purusottan Jena, Virginia Commonwealth University An Innovative Technology for Hydrogen Storage in Glass Capillary Arrays for Portable and Mobile Systems Dan Eliezer, C.En Ltd. 5:30 - 7 pm Expo Hall B Industry Reception     Wednesday, May 5 8 - 9:15 am Ballroom Side B Awards Breakfast 9:15 - 11:15 am Ballroom Keynote Session 3 [view bios] Moderator: Stephen Ellis, American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Markus Bachmeier, Head of Hydrogen Solutions, The Linde Group Yoshihiko Masuda, Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation Special Guest Speaker (to be announced during the event) Gijs van Breda Vriesman, Commercial Manager Europe Alternative Energy, Shell Hydrogen Charles Freese, Executive Director of Fuel Cell Activities/Sector, General Motors 10 am - 2 pm Expo Hall B Expo Hall Open 10 am - 1 pm Convention Center entrance Ride and Drive 11:15 - 11:30 am Break 11:30 am - 1 pm See rooms to right Parallel Session 3 Delivery and Refueling Moderator: Jay Keller, Sandia National Laboratories Room 202B Feasibility Investigation of Hydrogen Vehicle Authorization System for Hydrogen Fueling Jacquelyn A. Button, CaFCP Integrating Hydrogen Fueling Station Into an Existing Fueling Station Mathew Thomas, Missouri University of Science and Technology Options for Production and Delivery of Low-Cost Hydrogen Edward Heydorn, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Application of Optimisation Techniques for Efficient Hydrogen Refueling Station Design Alistair J. Wardrope, ITM Power Combined Vehicle Fueling and Back-Up Power Applications Martin A. Shimko, Avālence Infrastructure Design Moderator: James Provenzano, Clean Air Now! Room 202C Best Practice for Qualification of Technology – from Business Idea to Commercial Product Gerd Petra Haugom, Det Norske Veritas AS, Cleaner Energy Data Analysis for ARRA Early Fuel Cell Market Demonstrations Jennifer Kurtz, NREL East Tennessee Hydrogen Initiative Ron Bailey, Center for Energy Transportation and the Environment, University of Tennessee Deploying a Hydrogen Transportation System at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park – Challenges & Opportunities Mitch Ewan, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii Home Scale Solar-Powered Hydrogen Refueling System Ikuya Yamashita, Honda R&D, Inc. Production: Biomass Moderator: Elvin Yuzugullu, Sentech, Inc. Room 203A Low Temperature Hydrogen Production from Biomass Reformation William Mays, Energy Conversion Devices Commercial Scale Hydrogen Infrastructure Using Biogas Brian Weeks, Gas Technology Institute Hydrogen from Steam/CO2 Reforming of Waste Rick Noling, Intellergy Corp. On-Site Hydrogen Production from High-Pressure Liquids Benjamin G. Oster, University of North Dakota, EERC Photobiological Hydrogen Production by Korean N2-fixing Unicellular Cyanobacterial Strains Jong-Woo Park, Kunsan National University Transportation Moderator: Jaimie Levin, AC Transit Room 203B Exceeding Expectations: Learnings From FCV Learning Demo Keith Wipke, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Railway Locomotive for the Los Angeles Basin Arnold Miller, Vehicle Projects Inc. Fuel Economy, Performance and Customer Acceptance of Hydrogen ICE Vehicles Patricia Kwon, South Coast AQMD Achievements in Fuel Cell Buses – Pursuing FTA Objectives / Zero-Emission/Enabling Transit Users Group – Transition with Hydrogen Blends Lawrence S. Wnuk, CALSTART Examples and Lessons Learned from the Hydrogen Vehicle Test Project at Yeager Airport Al Ebron, National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium Investing in Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Moderator: Ruth Cox, Executive Director, U.S. Fuel Cell Council Room 204 Are Battery Electric Vehicles Really Commercially Viable before Hydrogen Vehicles Sigmund Gronich, Charisma Consulting Alternative Transportation Technologies: Hydrogen, Biofuels, Advanced Efficiency, and Plug-in Electric Vehicles Alan Crane, National Research Council Financing the HYDROGEN Economy Irvin Barash, Vencon, Inc. Community Hydrogen Action Plan (CHAP) – Building Grassroots Hydrogen Communities Jordan McRobie, California Fuel Cell Partnership Hydrogen Retail Cost Reduction to Enable Commercialization Nikunj Gupta, Shell Hydrogen LLC 12 - 1 pm Expo Hall B Exhibitor Forum Chris White (California Fuel Cell Partnership) and Rebecca Johnston (Puzzlewood Communication) Social Media 101: Losing the Fear in under 60 Minutes 1:30 – 4:30 pm Room 204 Codes & Standards Workshop: International Standards Progress and Opportunities Moderator: Karen Hall, National Hydrogen Association SAE J2601 and Linde Fueling Technology for Fleet Fueling Bob Boyd, Linde The Hydrogen Fuel Quality Issue: The Vision of a Fuel Supplier Françoise Barbier, Air Liquide Round Robin Testing of Commercial Hydrogen Sensor Performance – Observations and Results Matthew Post, NREL Mitigating Hazards During Accident Scenarios Involving Metal Hydride Materials Daniel E. Dedrick, Sandia National Laboratories Pressure Relief Devices: Calculation of Flammable Envelope and Flame Length Vladimir Molkov, University of Ulster 1:30 - 4:45 pm Tour leaves from Convention Center entrance Industry Tours Honda's Solar Hydrogen Station in Torrance, CA Air Products Hydrogen Production facility in Carson, CA 2 - 6 pm Expo Hall B NHA/Expo Move Out     Thursday, May 6 8 - 10 am Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Room Shoreline B In-Person Meeting of the National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Codes and Standards Coordinating Committee 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Room Shoreline B In-Person Meeting of the US TAG for ISO/TC 197 (open to members of the US TAG)

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