Green Energy

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen was President of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of several journals and as a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 60 research grants and contracts and 800 publications, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, environmental impact, and energy technology (including renewable energy and efficiency improvement). Much of his research has been carried out for industry, and he has written numerous books. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, and the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors, and is a fellow of several societies and organizations.

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Dr. Hossam Gaber is leading research in the area of waste-to-energy with advanced plasma technologies. He worked in international research projects related to biomass/biofuel (Japan), plastic production chain with recycling (Japan), and leading research group to plasma-based plastic-to-oil pyrolysis and MSW gasification process technology. He the founding chair of the IEEE technical committee on Intelligent Green Production Systems (IGPS) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Process Systems Engineering (IJPSE). He is expert in intelligent safety and control systems and their applications on clean energy technologies. This research facility will extend the research capabilities in the research group within UOIT and will allow ROI for energy from waste. It will support the research activities in plasma generation, diagnostics, and control, and their applications on high performance waste-to-energy process technology.

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Margarita V. Alario, PhD is Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI., USA. She is the author of multiple peer-reviewed articles in multidisciplinary journals. She is a Fulbright Scholar, and has been the recipient of several national and international awards and grants

Uses of Nuclear Technology & Atoms for Peace

Ali CHEKNANE is a full-Professor at the Amar Telidji University of Laghouat-Algeria. He has completed his PhD in physics. Ali is having 20 years teaching graduate and post-graduate teaching experience at the university as temporary, associated and permanent position. He has published many papers in various journals and conference proceedings on renewable energy subjects. He published more than 50 journal papers, did more than 40 conference presentations and served as an editorial board member for several technical and organizing committees for international conferences. He has many years’ experience of supervising several postgraduate and graduate students. He got an incentive award from “Centre de Development des Energies Renouvelables- CDER”. He was awarded for the best publication in physics in Algeria from the ANDRU agency in 2008. He is the Head of the research team: “Photovoltaic Systems & Devices” at the Laboratory of Semiconductors and Functional Materials. He is a reviewer in many Journals as: Solar Energy, Conversion Energy and Management Journal; Electronics Journal, International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research, Measurement and International Journal of Electronics…etc. Ali CHEKNANE is the Dean of the Faculty of Technology at Amar Telidji University of Laghouat- Algeria.

An innovative method based on satellite image analysis to check fault in a PV system lead-acid battery, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Simulation and modelling of charge transport in dye-sensitized solar cells based on carbon nano-tube electrodes+

Loai Aljerf is a Prof in the Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine/Damascus University. He is a specialist in analytical and industrial chemistry. He obtained many awards and published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers (two of them in French) in Environmental Sciences, Green Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Synthesis Chemistry, Concrete, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Petrochemical, Extraction, Separation, Lithium-Ion-Batteries, and Oral Chemistry. He is a partner in Advances in Cleaner Production Network, and a member of the German Chemical Society e.V. (GDCh) and the American University of Beirut. He is a member of the higher committee of the 6th International Workshop-Advance in Cleaner Production (São Paulo, Brazil (May 24th to 26th - 2017). Loai Aljerf is in the Cambridge Scholars Publishing-Life Science Advisory Board and an editor of more than 50 journals and a reviewer for Top journals in Industry, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Cement Industry, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Advances in Cleaner Production, Climate Change.

Born on 13 th October, 1968 in Ludhiana, Dr V P Sethi joined B Tech in Agricultural Engineering at College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, PAU in the year 1985. He graduated in 1989 and gained industrial experience for two years before joining M Tech in the year 1991 in Mechanical Engineering department (Thermal Environmental Engg.,) at PAU. He received Jindal Irrigation scholarship during B Tech and PAU merit Scholarship during M Tech programme. He joined as Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering in July 1993 and taught many subjects of Mechanical Engineering for about 11 years before joining Ph D (in Solar Thermal Engineering) at Energy Research Centre, Panjab University Chandigarh in 2004. His PhD thesis was nominated amongst the top 10 best thesis at the National level by Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) for innovative students project award-2007. He was promoted as Associate Professor in May 2007 and as Professor from July 2010. Apart from teaching UG and PG courses, he has handled four research projects as PI funded by (i) Punjab Govt. (on Solar Energy Utilization), (ii) ICAR (AICRP, Solar Energy component) and (iii) RKVY (Indigenous Hydroponics, Aeroponics and NFT Technology) & one Project as Associated Scientist (AICRP Wind Energy component) iv) Apart from this, one extramural research project sponsored by ICAR on Paddy straw management is in progress.He has been 4 nominated by Punjab Agricultural University for the most prestigious Shri Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award-2013 in Engineering by CSIR, New Delhi. He was invited as guest faculty by University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada to deliver seminar on “New Hydroponics Technologies and Future Research Collaboration" from 16 to 23 Aug 2015. In recognition of his contributions at international level, he was awarded with Albert Nelson Marquis Life time achievement award 2017 by the Marquis Publishing Board, USA. The institution of engineers India(IEI), Chandigarh chapter has awarded him outstanding Professional Achievement Award in August 2017.

Solar Energy & Greenhouse Effect.

Senior Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and recognized researcher in Solar Thermal Engineering. Senior Tutor in Heat Transfer, Design of heat exchangers, Solar thermal energy. Has recently led major studies of mathematical modelling and experimentation of solar thermal systems. Has a proven track record of course development, teaching and examining at all levels in technical education.

Solar energy, Energy conservation & Management, Applied energy

Farrokh joined ERL as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2014 after working as geomechanic engineer in Itasca Houston and completing his PhD, and he is now a Research Scientist. He received his PhD in civil engineering, with a minor in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. His PhD focused on the application of 3D boundary element modeling on natural and hydraulic fracture development. Farrokh's experience and interests include natural fracture development and behavior, hydraulic fracturing, fracture mechanics and propagation modeling and constitutive modeling of fractured rocks. He also does numerical geomechanical modeling using the discrete element, finite element, boundary element and displacement discontinuity methods. Farrokh is currently working on the modeling of hydraulic fracture propagation in naturally fractured reservoirs, fault reactivation and HF induced seismicity.

Hydraulic Fracturing, Geo-mechanics, Homogenization, Natural Fractures Network

Sunita Mahavar is working as Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, India since 2013. She is actively engaged in the Solar Thermal Energy research area since her Ph.D. duration; she has guided graduate, post-graduate and M.Tech. projects. She has also supervised projects funded by national scientific organizations and presently working on project “solar paraboloid collector systems” funded by Department of Science and Technology, India. Her research is recognized with more than 35 research papers in reputed national and international journals and conferences. She also has international participations supported by Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of India, DST. She was awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Physics in the year 2013 from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. She completed her B.Sc. degree in 2006 from Maharani’s college, Jaipur, India and M.Sc. degree (2008) in Physics from Department of Physics, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.

Modelling, Design development and Testing of Solar Thermal Appliances viz. solar water heater, solar cooker, solar still, solar concentrator etc.; Synthesis of nanoparticles and their use in solar absorber materials.

Nabeel Al-Rawahi is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE) Department at Sultan Qaboos University. He had his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002. He had been the Head of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department from 2011 to 2017. His research work covers areas of multiphase flow, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and renewable energy. He published more than 40 reviewed papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase flow, Renewable Energy, and Water Desalination.

Mahmood has completed his PhD at the age of 38 years from Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) / Malaysia. He is a Faculty member of Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Basrah. He has published more than 6 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Renewable Energy, Solar thermal technologies, Power plants, Hybrid solar-fossil power plants.

Dr. Abu Yousuf has completed his PhD at the age of 31 years from University Naples Federico II, Italy in 2010 and postdoctoral studies from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed ISI journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Bioenergy and Biofuels, Frontier, Switzerland and Peertechz Journal of Biological Research and Development, India. He won UNESCO Prize on Energy for sustainable development in Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2011. He attended the BIOVISION.Next Fellowship Programme at BIOVISION 2013 - the World Life Sciences Forum, Lyon, France, after a selection based on scientific excellence, mobility, involvement in civil society.

Biorefinery, Bioenergy, Waste-to-Energy, Bioremediation

Dr. Muhammad Rashed Al Mamun successfully completed B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering and MS in Farm Power and Machinery from the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh which was established with academic support from the Texas A&M University during 1961. He received his PhD on advanced technology from Kumamoto University, Japan. Dr. Al Mamun is an Associate Professor, Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Sylhet Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Prior to this position, he has working as Assistant Professor and Lecturer for the same University and Agricultural Engineer in Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh. He also worked as Research Scientist in Groundwater Leadership Program (GelK), and Guest Lecturer in Kumamoto University, Japan, Visiting Professor at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Forestry Science and Technology School, Agricultural Training Institute, Bangladesh. Dr. Al Mamun’s research concentrate on renewable energy, agricultural machinery, precision agriculture, remote sensing, groundwater hydrology, solid wastes management and GIS based agricultural policy management. He is working simultaneously in different research projects such as agricultural mechanization, tea processing technology, bioenergy, and solid waste management. Dr. Al Mamun teaches Heat Engines, Agricultural Power, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Mechanization, Heat and Mass Transfer, Precision Agriculture, Bio-Materials and Systems, Project Planning and Evaluation, Engineering Management, and Farm Mechanics in the undergraduate course of studies. In the graduate program, he teaches Farm Machinery, Agricultural Research Methodology, Farm Power, and Bioresources Engineering. Besides teaching activities, he performs research and supervises graduate students in the field of renewable energy, farm machinery, solid waste management, hatching and house management of poultry, and farm mechanization. His research articles have published in the many reputed journals and written a book on Renewable Energy. He chaired many technical sessions at International Conference. He has achieved Kumamoto University President Award, Sylhet Agricultural University Best Publication Award, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia award for Environmental Management in the Islamic World and Venus International Research Award for Outstanding Scientist in Farm Power and Machinery.

Renewable Energy, Solid Waste Management, Farm Machinery, Agricultural Mechanization, Precision Agriculture, Groundwater Hydrology, GIS based Agricultural Policy Management

Srikanth Reddy K received B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (JNTUK), India, in 2012, M.Tech. degree in renewable energy from MNIT, Jaipur, India, in 2015 (recipient of POSOCO Power System award from FITT (Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer) for best thesis) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India. His research interests include resource scheduling in smart grids, energy storage and electric vehicle applications in power systems, clean energy technologies, and deregulated electricity markets. He is also working in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, heuristic approaches, fuzzy inference systems, decision making systems with application to power system operation and planning. He serves as review board member for various Journals from IEEE, IET and Elsevier publishers. He has been awarded with “Outstanding Reviewer” for journals “Electric Power System Research” and “Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence” and “Renewable Energy (Elsevier)” for the year 2017.

Energy storage, Electric vehicle applications in power systems, Clean energy technologies, and deregulated electricity markets.

He is a lecturer of Hydrology and Hydro-technical Structures at undergraduate study programme of Environmental Engineering. Course lecturer of Hydrology of River Basins, Water Supply and Drainage and Hydro-technical structures II at graduate study programme of Environmental Engineering.Member of the committees and working groups on the faculty, member of the technical board of journal "Inženjerstvo okoliša".

Hydrology,Applied Hydrology,Environmental Hydrology

Dr Terence Goh is a Deputy Director at Singapore Power, Singapore’s electrical transmission and distribution network with more than two decades of experience in energy systems related to microgrid and mobile applications. He holds a PhD, DIC from Imperial College London, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and a Physics degree from the National University of Singapore.Previously with DNVGL, he was the Energy Storage Lead for APAC and the Centre of Excellence Leader for Energy Storage and Smart Grid for Singapore as well. He had managed several projects in rural electrifications, microgrid and on-grid energy storage projects across the Asia Pacific countries. He is an authority and thought leader on Energy Storage and has been both panel chairman and speaker at several international conferences

Microgrid, Photovoltaic

Professor Sayma obtained BSc in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from Birzeit University in Palestine in 1987, MSc in Energy Technology from Salford University in 1990 and PhD from UMIST in 1994. His thesis topic was Finite Element model for dense gas dispersion in the atmosphere. He joined the Aeronautics department at Imperial College London in 1994 on EPSRC funded project as a research assistant where he worked on the development of an external aerodynamic compressible flow model introducing boundary layer grids and viscous effects in the Euler solver. In 1996, he joined the Rolls Royce Vibration University Technology Centre (VUTC) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, where he stayed for about 9 years. He progressed to a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and then Principal Research Fellow. In 2001, he was awarded the title RolIs Royce reaserch fellow at Imperial College and in 2003 he was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow co-funded by Rolls-Royce Plc. During his spell at the VUTC, he was one of two main developers for the unsteady aerodynamics and aeroelatisity code AU3D which has been the main aeroelasticity system at Rolls Royce. He also contributed to several major aero-engine projects including analysis of compressors, fans, turbines, rotating cavities, intake and bypass ducts and downstream nozzles. In 2005 he became a Senior Lecturer in Computational Mechanics at Brunel University. A year later, he was given a Chair in Computational Fluid Dynamics at the University of Sussex where he worked at the Thermo-Fluid Mechanics Research Centre (TFMRC) at the Department of Engineering and Design. He continued to lead research in unsteady compressible flow in turbomacinery, where he focused on industrial gas turbines and micro-gas turbines. He held several senior administrative positions, the last of which was the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the School of Engineering and Informatics. He also introduced a new MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology. In January 2013, he joined City University London as a Professor of Energy Engineering. He is currently leading EU FP7 consortium for conducting research and demonstration of a concentrated solar power system powering a small-scale micro-gas turbine. He is also conducting research in waste heat recovery using small scale Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in addition to continued activity in turbomachinery CFD and aeroelasticity.He has been an active member of the European Turbine Network (ETN), based in Brussels, which coordinates European industrial gas turbine activities across the whole value chain. He has been the chairman of the Cycle Efficiency Technical Committee and he is currently a member of the ETN project board.

Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelaticity, Gas Turbines for jet propulsion, Industrial gas Turbines, Micro-gas turbines, Energy systems including solar power and waste heat recovery

BSc in Chemistry & Physics in 1995 and MSc in Catalysis in 1996 at the University of Bucharest (UB), Romania. PhD in Catalysis in 2002 at the Institute of Catalysis – University Lyon 1, France. CNRS post-doctoral researcher at the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France, from October 2006 to September 2007. Habilitation in Catalysis in 2013 at UB. Associate Professor at UB from 2005, currently in charge of Chemical Technology and Catalytic Materials courses. Senior Researcher at the Research Center for Catalysts and Catalytic Processes of UB from 2007. Research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides. More than 70 publications including a book chapter.

Research interests cover the field of catalysis by metal oxides.

Dr. Liang An received his Bachelor degree in Thermal and Power Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology and PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). After graduation, he worked as a visiting scholar and a postdoctoral fellow in the same research group. His research interests are in the area of clean energy-conversion technologies and renewable energy-storage technologies. He has particular research interests in fuel cells, lithium-based batteries, flow batteries, and water electrolysis.

Thermofluid; Energy conversion and storage technologies; Advanced materials

BK Sharma joined the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) in 2009 and is a Senior Research Engineer in the Applied Research on Industrial Environmental Systems Program (ARIES) Group at ISTC. BK's research areas are biofuels, biolubricants, and alternative fuels. In February 2016, BK was elected as fellow of Society of Tribology & Lubrication Engineers

Biofuels, Green Energy, Renewable Energy

Ximing Cai’s current research areas include coupled human-natural system analysis with an emphasis on human interferences in hydrological processes, water-energy-food system modeling especially in dry areas, and sustainable water resources management particularly in developing countries. He has authored or co-authored more than 125 peer-reviewed journal papers, three books and several monographs. He currently serves as Editor for Water Resources Research the flagship journal of water resources, published by the American Geophysical Union, and on the editorial board of other major water journals. He has received several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award and best paper awards from Water International and the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. He has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations and other international agencies.

Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Environmental Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems

Dr. Sebastian Helgenberger leads the “Multiple Benefits of Renewables” project at IASS Potsdam. In their research activities and international science-policy dialogues Sebastian and his team are giving particular emphasis on the social and economic benefits of renewable energies as drivers of accelerated transitions towards sustainable energy for all. Sebastian graduated in Environmental Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg and conducted his master thesis at ETH Zurich on knowledge co-creation among science and society in sustainability transformations. He also holds a PhD in socio-economics. Throughout his career Sebastian Helgenberger has been committed to advancing and experimenting with the transformative potential of science and research to accompany societal change.

Transdisciplinary Panel on Energy (TPEC)

Aaron Praktiknjo has been an Assistant Professor of Energy Resource and Innovation Economics at RWTH Aachen University since 2015. Before joining RWTH Aachen, he was a team leader and lecturer at the Institute for Energy Engineering, TU Berlin, and served as a consultant for national and international agencies and companies. After studying industrial and civil engineering, he completed his PhD on the topic of energy supply security at the Chair of Energy Systems at TU Berlin, graduating in 2013 with highest honors. He has received awards for his research from the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and the European Energy Exchange (EEX).

Energy Systems Analysis, Safety of the power supply,Design and modeling of energy markets

Wolfram Sparber is currently working as chairman of the executive board of Alperia spa. Alperia spa is a company which arose from the merging of the two regional energy utilities SEL spa and AEW spa. From November 2011 till December 2015 Wolfram Sparber was chairman of the board of administration of SEL spa and of several daughter companies. Since 2011 he is Vice President of the Board of the European Technology Platform Renewable Heating and Cooling.

Sustainable energy systems for regions and cities, Integrated renewable energy concpets for buildings

Peter NOVAK completed his Ph.D. degree in Technical Sciences, University of Belgrade in 1975. Peter NOVAK was professor for HVAC, Renewable energy and Environment and dean at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. Hi is professor emeritus of Faculty for technology and systems, Novo mesto. Hi is owner of consultant company Energotech. At present is involved in preparation of energy concept of Slovenia for Slovenian government. He is associated with ASHRAE (Fellow and Life member). In the International Institute of Refrigeration served eight years as president of Commission E1 for Air Conditioning (now Honorary Member of IIR) and past Vice chairman of Scientific Committee at European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen (2012-2016). Hi is also honorary member of REHVA, SLOSE, and SITHOK. More than twelve years hi was served as member of Environmental Council of Slovenia.

Sustainable Energy, Biomass, Renewable energy resources

Dr Dansoh is a Chartered PhD qualified engineer with over 30 years’ experience in multi discipline industrial environments. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in renewable energy technologies at Kingston University in London.

Biomass and Biofuels, fuel cells and Hydrogen, wind and Solar power and ocean energy systems, such as wave and tidal power

Professor Buxing Han received Ph.D. degree at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1988, and did postdoctoral research from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has been a professor at Institute of Chemistry, CAS since 1993

physicochemical properties of green solvent systems, green solvents in green chemistry, green energy