应中国科学院广州能源研究所新兴固废高值循环研究中心城乡矿山集成技术科研团队邀请，英国卡迪夫大学Agustin Valera-Medina教授将于2026年4月16日（周四）进行线上学术报告，具体事项如下。

一、时间及地点

时间：2026年4月16日17:30-19:00

线下集中观看地点：新能源大楼510会议室

飞书会议：762-106-129

二、报告题目及简介

报告题目：Ammonia conversion for heat production

报告简介： Ammonia is a chemical that has been promised as a fuel for power and heating applications. Although electrification is foreseen as a way to decarbonise highly populated regions such as cities and metropolis, rural locations without direct connection can highly benefit from the use of ammonia as a fuelling vector. Ammonia in these areas does not only promise heat and power, but also supports current uses in the fertilizing and processing industry, hence serving multidimensionally across the rural spectrum. Therefore, this presentation shows current works performed by Cardiff University and partners towards the development of novel units capable of burning ammonia blends with high efficiency whilst producing low emissions profiles.

三、报告人简介：

Professor Agustin Valera-Medina has participated as PI/Co-I on 33 industrial projects with multi-nationals including PEMEX, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Ricardo, Airbus and EON (>£36M). He has published 221 papers (h-index 39), 93 of these specifically concerning ammonia power. Prof. Valera-Medina led Cardiff’s contribution to the Innovate-UK “Decoupled Green Energy” Project (2015-2018) led by Siemens and in partnership with STFC and the University of Oxford, which aims to demonstrate the use of green ammonia produced from wind energy. He is currently PI of various projects (SAFE-AGT (EP/T009314/1), FLEXnCONFU (884157), OceanREFuel, etc.) to demonstrate ammonia power in turbine engines, Internal Combustion Engines and furnaces. He has been part of various scientific boards, chairing sessions in international conferences and moderating large industrial panels on the topic of “Ammonia for Direct Use”. He has supported two Royal Society Policy Briefings related to the use of ammonia as energy vector, and he is the principal author of the book “Techno-economic challenges of ammonia as energy vector”. He is Co-Director of the Institute of Net Zero Innovation, Cardiff University, and Director of the Centre of Excellence on Ammonia Technologies (CEAT). He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. 

欢迎感兴趣的科研人员和研究生参会。