14th IGEC (2022, Virtual)ProgramCommitteesCall for PapersInvited SpeakersSpecial SessionsAwardsSponsorshipImportant Dates
Session Topic #1: Advances in Energy Recovery
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The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy recovery technology for supplying part of the world's energy needs and thus reducing the rate of consumption of fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources. As one of the green energy solutions, energy recovery can reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated with traditional energy sources. This special session is aimed at evaluating the existing energy recovery systems and methods and is devoted to the latest development and R&D achievements for the energy recovery technology, ranging from components to systems, and from modeling, simulations, and analyses to experimental investigations.
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Session Topic #2: Frosting and Icing
Frosting and icing are widely seen in nature and industrial fields. In the real applications, they always play negative effects. For example, frosting on the surface of outdoor coil degrades the operation efficiency of air source heat pump, frosting on surface of evaporator extends the time and wastes more energy during liquid natural gas vaporization, icing on the wings’ surface changes the aerodynamic profile of aircraft and may result in air crush, and ice accumulated on wind turbine blade surface reduces the power generation efficiency. Moreover, frosting and icing problems are reported in the fields of electricity cables, coal transportation, food or ice storage, etc. Droplet condensation and freezing are at the early stages of frosting and icing, and thus influence their final formation. Therefore, in this session, it is fundamental and meaningful to summarize and evaluate the existing experimental and numerical studies about frosting and icing at different stages and application backgrounds.
Session Topic #3: Electrolysis process and Membrane transport
The electrolysis process has a good application prospect in power generation, hydrogen production, water treatment and even air dehumidification, especially when high-performance membranes are used. This technology is also suitable for using renewable energy sources such solar or biomass energy. The transport phenomena (heat, mass, momentum and energy transport) at different scales from molecular to macros determines the electrolysis performance and energy efficiency. This session aims to look for the research related to the modeling, material development and performance improvement of electrolysis or photocatalytic process, with priority given to research that occurs in membranes. Topics include, but are not limited to, multiscale modeling of transport phenomena, numerical simulation, system thermodynamics, transport enhancement, system optimization and energy utilization improvements.
