ICASAT 2025
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Agustín Valera Medina
Director Net Zero Innovation Institute, Cardiff University
As part of the ICASAT Congress, we invite you to an unmissable lecturea space to explore ammonia, its challenges, and its applications in the future of science and technology.
📍Aula Magna, IPN CICATA Quertaro
📅 Date: March 12 | 🕑 Time: 14:00 hrs (Mexico)
🎥 Live streaming available on the CICATA YouTube channel.
Keynote Lecture:
"AMMONIA FOR NET ZERO CARBON ENERGY"
Abstract:
Ammonia: The key to hydrogen storage and the trnasition to clean, carbon-free energy?
The hydrogen economy faces challenges in storage and transport, making ammonia a promising alternative due to its high hydrogen content and long-established use in fertilizers. As a carbon-free chemical, ammonia can aid in decarbonizing transport, power, and industry. Direct use of ammonia reduces costs and inefficiencies, but its application in power generation requires optimizing combustion for high efficiency and low emissions. Ongoing research explores ammonia blends in various heat and power systems, addressing challenges across different power scales. This session highlights global efforts to develop stable, efficient, and low-pollution ammonia-based fueling solutions for a carbon-free energy transition.
About the speaker
Agustin Valera-Medina is a Professor at Cardiff School of Engineering. He has participated as PI/Co-I on 33 industrial projects with multi-nationals including PEMEX, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, Ricardo, Airbus and FloGas (>£35M). He has published 225 papers (h-index 42), 101 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 (Endeavr Green Propulsion, SAFE-AGT, FLEXnCONFU, OceanREFuel, MariNH3, 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 principal author of the books “Techno-economic challenges of ammonia as energy vector” and "Ammonia Combustion Applications for Energy Systems". He is Co-Director of the Institute of Net Zero Innovation and Director of the Centre of Excellence on Ammonia Technologies (CEAT) at Cardiff University, and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
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