Dr Ting Wang is the Jack and Reba Matthey Endowed Chair of Energy Research, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of New Orleans, and Director of the Energy and Conversion and Conservation Center, USA. Dr Gary Stiegel is Director of the Major Project Division at the National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, USA. He is responsible for the Department of Energy’s commercial demonstration projects within the Clean Coal Power Initiative and Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage programs.