Following sessions have been initiated by the session organizers/chairs. You are welcome to propose a session. Please send your session proposal (including title, session organizers/chairs, and 100 word description) to info@applied-energy.org for approval.
You are welcome to submit your paper in one of the following sessions or in any other topics that are not listed in the preliminary sessions. Please submit your abstract/paper online by using the link below. If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact conference at info@applied-energy.org. Please include a footnote to indicate which sessions that you would like to present the papers.
Session Title: Utilization of Algae as an Energy Resource
Organizers/Chairs: Emma Nehrenheim 
, Monica Odlare
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| The session focuses on energy utilization from algae, special emphasis on the recovery of carbon and nutrients from algae in biogas or biodiesel production. Papers dealing with energy utilization from cultivated algae from various wastewater streams (e.g. landfill leachate, municipal waste water) will be prioritized. |
Session Title: Microalgae Based Biofuels
Organizers/Chairs: Wenqiao Yuan
, Dr. Ying Shen
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| Microalgae have been regarded as one of the most promising sources of biodiesel and other renewable energy. However, several bottleneck issues associated with cost-effective large-scale algae biofuel production exist. These include but are not limited to high-throughput algal species screening and genetic enhancement, growth systems design and operation optimization, cell harvesting, dewatering and drying, and downstream biomass processing, biofuel conversion, and co-product development, etc. To address these issues, papers focusing on recent development in engineering and science related to microalgae-based biofuels are invited. |
Session Title: Future Crops for Bioenergy
Organizers/Chairs: Chuanxin Sun
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| This session is focused on any potential future crops which can be used as feedstock in bioenergy applications. Papers in the topics on types of energy crops, their associated issues including breeding, energy conversion efficiency, land use, water issues, abiotic and biotic stress, food security, multipurpose and other sustainability are welcome to submit to this session. New concepts in relation to generating next-generation energy plants are also included. |
Session Title: Modeling of Biomass Combustion and Gasification
Organizers/Chairs: Xuesong Bai
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| Biomass combustion and gasification is a major approach for conversion of biomass to heat and power or to liquid and gaseous fuels. Mathematical modeling of the chemical and physical processes involved in the biomass conversion processes provides insight into the fundamentals of the processes, which is important for efficient and clean utilization of biomass energy. This session consists of papers reporting on the recent developments in mathematical modeling of biomass conversion processes, particularly through combustion and gasification. |
Session Title: Innovative Biodiesel Production
Organizers/Chairs: Xinghai Yu
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| Biodiesel has attracted intensive attention as an important biofuel. This session consists of the recent developments in production processes, novel catalysts, high-efficiency reactors, and combustion characteristics of biodiesel. Special emphasis is put on the advances and perspectives in using microalgae to produce biodiesel. |
Session Title: Bioenergy Versus Fossil Energy
Organizers/Chairs: Dongke Zhang
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| Despite enormous promises offered by proponents of bioenergy of all sorts, the world energy consumption is and will continue to be dominated by burning readily accessible, cheap and polluting coal, petroleum and natural gas. How much can we replace the fossil energy with bioenergy and if so, how quickly can we make the transition are two of many obvious questions in any sustainable energy development debates. This session will examine various technological options for bioenergy production, conversion and use and their potential penetration into the broad energy mix in the mid to long terms. |
Session Title: CSP- Concentrated Solar Power
Session organizers/chairs: Wang Zhifeng
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Session Title: Waste-to-energy: Processes and Systems
Organizers/Chairs: Eva Thorin
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| Wastes, including residues both from household, industry and agriculture, are valuable resources that can be used for energy purposes. Many different conversion processes such as combustion, anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis and gasification can be used to utilize waste as an energy resource. Increased knowledge about the conversion processes using waste and development of efficient technologies are of importance. Other areas of interest are pre-treatment of the waste, integration of processes, emission control, the quality and use of residues/by-products from the conversion processes as well as system related issues such as infrastructure, legislation and system optimization. |
Session Title: Energy Conservation and Process Integration in Heavy Industries
Organizers/Chairs: Joakim Lundgren
, Mikaek KaLarsson
, Simon Harvey
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| Papers dealing with analysis of industrial energy systems, method development and applied system analysis. Special emphasis is put on papers dealing with integration of new innovative processes, solutions and potential industrial symbiosis. Possible ways of generating new or improved high value added products, reducing energy use and CO2 emissions in industries are of interest. |
Session Title: Thermal Energy Management
Organizers/Chairs: Tony Roskilly
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| Papers dealing with the development of novel devices and technologies which are applicable to thermal management systems. It embraces heat recovery and utilisation, energy efficiency improvement and saving, air-conditioning and refrigeration, heat pumps, thermal and electrical energy storage, energy and emissions analysis and monitoring, policy and regulation, energy management strategies, industrial based studies using modelling and simulation, system intensification, integration and optimisation, energy demand analysis and reduction strategies and any other relevant topics. |
Session Title: Cogeneration, Trigeneration and Novel Power Generation Systems
Organizers/Chairs: Yaodong Wang, Guohong Tian
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| Papers dealing with analysis of novel power generation, cogeneration (including heat and power; refrigeration/cooling and power), trigeneration systems, novel development and applications; and the integration of these systems with energy storage systems to increase the system efficiency and to reduce energy consumptions. Policy and regulation, possible or novel ways of utilisation of renewable fuels / low grade heat energy to feed these systems are also a part of the scope. |
Session Title: Thermoelectric Power Generation
Organizers/Chairs: Juanrong Qiu
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| This session will look at potential applications of thermoelectric power generation, including fuel-fired generators and waste heat recovery systems as well as improvement in thermoelectric efficiencies and acceleration of commercial availability. Fuel-fired units include space radioisotope thermoelectric power generation, oil and gas wells (cathodic protection), mobile (remote or military) power supplies, telecom transmitters, solar power backup systems, micro power generation and self-powered heating equipment. Thermoelectric waste heat recovery involves converting waste heat from automobile exhaust, industrial processes, geothermal, stationary power prime movers (gas turbines and diesels), etc into electricity. |
Session Title: Energy Efficiencies in Process Industry
Organizers/Chairs: Yulong Ding
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This session is to cover efficient use of electrical, mechanical and thermal energy in process industry. Such an industrial sector has been experiencing high energy consumption per unit product and low energy efficiency. Examples include iron making and steelmaking, chemical manufacturing, cement manufacturing, glass manufacturing, non-ferrous metal extraction, paper-making and textile. The topics include but not limited to the following:
- New materials for reduced energy consumption and improved energy efficiency
- Process intensification for an improved energy efficiency
- New equipment for an improved energy efficiency
- New Processes for an improved energy efficiency
For the above themes, experimental, theoretical analysis and mathematical modelling work will be considered. |
Session Title: Simulation and Modeling of Energy Processes
Organizer/Chair: Erik Dahlquist
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| The focus will be on physical modeling of combustion, gasification, biogas production and similar processes, but also on how to model industrial processes. The models then can be used for operator training, design of industrial processes, process optimization, diagnostics, model based control and similar. |
Session Title: Sustainable Built Environment
Organizers/Chairs: S. Deng
, C K Chau
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| Sustainable built environment covers building engineering systems that provide a sustainable indoor built environment at the least possible energy consumption, and is further enhanced by understanding the human-environment interactions. Therefore, this session will consist of papers focusing on not only the new technology developments in sustainable building engineering systems, such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lighting; but also human-related aspects, which include attitudes and risk perception towards indoor environmental stressors; behavioral change and environment; and human adaptation, preferences and choice for advanced and renewable technologies. |
Session Title: Resource-Efficient Built Environment in a Life Cycle Perspective
Organizer/Chair: Prof. Leif Gustavsson
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| The built environment accounts for a large share of the global total primary energy use and will play a major role in reducing primary energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Life cycle and system perspectives are needed to develop resource efficient buildings and infrastructure. All the life cycle phases from production to end-of-life should be considered and optimized as a whole, including the energy and material chains from natural resources to final services. This session solicit papers linked to system analysis studies of bioenergy, building construction, energy efficiency, forestry and the interaction between these fields. The overall goal is to understand how a sustainable built environment based on resource-efficient systems with low environmental impact can be designed and implemented. |
Session Title: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
Session organizers/chairs: Tariq Shamim
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| Papers dealing with the production, storage and applications of hydrogen in fuel cells will be presented. They will include various hydrogen production methods such as eletrolysis, reforming, thermochemical, biochemical, and other innovative technologies and advances in hydrogen storage techniques. Papers on recent advances in fuel cell materials, designs, systems and modeling are particularly solicited. |
Session Title: Fuel Cells and Hybrid Systems
Organizers/Chairs: Aristide Massardo
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| Fuel cell driven cycles and hybrid systems, design and off design analysis, transient and real time modeling, experimental results, advanced cycles including IGFC, biofuels in HS configurations, fuel processing, gas turbine design for HS and upgrade of existing machines and interaction with stack design, control strategies and validation. Economic considerations. |
Session Title: Engineering Aspects on State-of-the-Art Fuel Cell Technology
Chair of the Session: Sungchul Yi
, JinKuk Kim
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| This session, Engineering Aspects on State-of-the-Art Fuel Cell Technology, will focus on the efficiency improvement and advanced technology on fuel cell system, such as proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) and microbial fuel cell (MFC). The papers will cover stack performance and sustainability issue on various fuel cell applications. Engineering aspects on mass and thermal management, efficiency of the stack and BOP control strategies in various fuel cell applications will be dealt. |
Session Title: Electrochemical Systems for Energy Storage and Conversion
Organizers/Chairs: Ni Meng
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| Rechargeable batteries and fuel cells are promising electrochemical systems for energy storage and conversion. This session consists of papers on the recent developments in material science/engineering and mathematical modeling of batteries and fuel cells, particularly solid oxide fuel cells. |
Session Title: Smart Grid and Consumers Behaviors
Organizers/Chairs: Fredrik Wahlin
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Session Title: Innovations in Energy Cycles
Organizers/Chairs: Aristide Massardo
, Loredana Magistri
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| The session deals with innovations in energy cycles towards low emission and sustainable power plants. Topics included in the session are: Low or no emissions thermal cycles with advanced CO2 handling, Supercritical CO2 cycles, polygeneration cycles and integration (power, heat, cooling, fuels, chemicals), humid air cycles, thermoeconomics, low temperature heat recovery cycles, Compressed air energy storage cycles. |
Session Title: Carbon Capture and CO2 Mixture Properties
Organizers/Chairs: Hailong Li
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| This session covers the developments in carbon capture in the power sectors and in the major manufacturing and production industries. It concerns the whole CO2 capture and storage (CCS) chain, including CO2 capture, CO2 transportation and CO2 storage. This session consists of papers reporting new research results, technical advances, and cost reduction strategies. |
Session Title: Bioenergy Systems with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
Organizers/Chairs: Florian KRAXNER
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Session Title: Carbon Storage
Organizers/Chairs: Xi Jiang
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| Papers dealing with the analysis of possible CO2 storage for climate mitigation using numerical modelling and simulation, experimentation and monitoring technologies are called for. Special emphasis will be given to long-term carbon storage in geological media, but papers on short-term CO2 injection are also welcomed. Apart from technical papers, contributions on the risk assessments of carbon storage, public acceptance and other social aspects of CCS are also encouraged. |
Session Title: Innovative Sorbents for CO2 Capture
Organizers/Chairs: Dr. Niklas Hedin
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| Papers dealing with new sorbents, structured sorbents, and mixed sorbent/membranes for CO2 capture. Focus could be on either sorbents with high capacity for CO2 sorption or high CO2 selectivity. Papers on hydrophobic or robust sorbents for (ultra) rapid swing technologies are of interest. Processes related papers on swing processes for CO2 capture, and the demands on sorbents are invited. Very welcome are papers that employ experiments and theory, or that bridge engineering, economy, and basic science. |
Session Title: Monitoring and Modeling System in the Future Sustainable Cities
Session organizers/chairs: Yoshiki Yamagata
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| Papers dealing with analysis of the possible current/future city related new monitoring and modeling system development and applied system analysis. Special emphasis is put on papers dealing with the integration of home energy use and transportation in connection with sustainable city simulation such as compact city. Possible ways of generating new or improved high value added urban planning system which can reduce energy use and CO2 emissions are of special interest. |
Session Title: Global Energy Landscape Post Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Organizers/Chairs: Joni Jupesta
, Aki Suwa
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| This session related with the global energy policy changes due to Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. The increasing awareness for the safety issue and the huge loss in terms of economic, social and infrastructures might changes the energy policy in emerging economies: China, India, Japan, and Indonesia. Some countries move into renewable energy sources such as geothermal, clean coal technology, etc. and some keep their pace to develop their nuclear energy facilities. This session will discusses the Fukushima Nuclear impact to the energy supply and demand from technology, market and geopolitics in short and long term. |
Session Title: Energy Investment and Sustainable Development
Organizers/Chairs: Ying Fan
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| The large proportion of fossil fuel consumption has made the world to face serious energy security and greenhouse gas emission problems, especially in emerging countries. The complexity of energy security and climate change will cause large uncertainties in world’s future sustainable development. As the determinant driver of energy development, energy investment is a key option to make reasonable resource allocation and address energy and climate change issues. Energy investment is affected by many factors, such as fossil fuel prices, energy and climate policy, market mechanisms, alternative energy technology progress, and so on. Thus the study on energy investment and sustainable development is a very important topic in the field. |
Session Title: Energy for Developing Countries
Organizers/Chairs: Antonio Lecuona
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| Papers dealing with studies and analysis on the deployment of energy in developing countries. Case studies. Appropriate technologies, cost and financing issues, acceptance by the population. Barriers and ways to overcome them. Special emphasis is put on papers dealing with innovative ways of making energy available to population and particularly to satisfy basic needs and/or support incipient local industry. The application of renewables to remote areas will be especially welcome. |
Session Title: Heat Transfer Enhancement
Organizers/Chairs: Qiuwang Wang
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| The heat transfer enhancement techniques generally use surface & geometrical modifications to the flow channel, additional device, or external power to facilitate the desired flow modification, which leads to a concomitant improvement in the rate of heat transfer. The topic of the session includes (but not restricted to) experimental, theoretical or numerical studies of the phenomena involving (a)extended surfaces, (b) porous media, (c) vortex generators, (d) nanofluids, (e) phase change, (f) additives, (g) surface and fluid vibration, (h) injection, (i) suction, and (j) high thermal conductivity composite materials, etc. |
Session Title: Energy Optimization on the Demand Side
Organizers/Chairs: Xiaohua Xia
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| Energy optimization has become an essential technique for energy efficiency improvement. On the other hand, a large number of demand side management problems are formulated in an optimization framework that demands employment of advanced techniques. The proposed session collects some typical application areas at the demand side where decision makings are all supported by sound optimization analysis. Though the exact topics will be finalized when making the final submission, provisions have been made by the perspective contributors that the session will cover areas such as alternative energy integration in buildings, lighting systems, motor-driven industrial systems such as pumps and conveyors, and waste water treatment process. |
Session Title: Energy and Water Linkages in Energy Systems
Organizers/Chairs: Peter Stigson
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The expansion and replacement of existing energy infrastructures coincides with a similar development of water infrastructures. These two systems are intrinsically linked and this development should therefore be characterized by joint design considerations over their individual system boundaries. The design of energy systems has large impacts on their water intensity and the reverse applies for the design of water systems. Failing to acknowledge this link may result in system designs’ that may fail to cope with resource constraints and a changing climate. New knowledge is therefore required in terms of design characteristics that can influence the individual systems water and energy intensities in consideration of local constraints and environmental concerns. We therefore invite papers that address:
- water intensities of energy systems (incl. fuel extraction and production, electricity and heat production as well as pollution control)
- energy intensities of water systems
- quantitative data on system links
- Policy opportunities in this area.
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Session Title: Modeling and Simulation of Sustainable and New Energy Technologies
Organizers/Chairs: Wenquan Tao
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Session Title: Energy and China: Past trends and Prospects for the future
Organizers/Chairs: Dr. Maria Jesus Herrerias
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Session Title: Energy Issues in China: Science & Technology
Organizers/Chairs: HG. Jin
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| This session is focused on the fundamental research achievements on energy area in China, including the performance improvement of coal-fired power plant, utilization of low-temperature surplus energy in power plant, energy saving in steel production process, CCHP system, energy saving and pollution reduction in inner-combustion engine. |
Session Title: Advanced and Novel Thermal-mechanical and Thermal-electrical Energy Conversion Technologies and Systems.
Organizer/Chair: Ercang LUO
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| Content: This session focus on the materials, models and experiments on various novel energy conversion technologies and systems particularly in the fields of thermoacoustic, thermal-magnetic and thermal-electrical generators, heat engines and heat pumps, etc. |
Session Title: Thermal energy storage in the era of sustainable development: new application and technologies
Organizers/Chairs: Jianlei Niu ,
Yinping Zhang
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| Thermal energy storage, which may be the most cost-effective form of the energy storage, is perceived to play more roles in renewable energy applications. On one hand, a great percentage of energy consumption is in thermal form, such as in building heating and cooling, hot water provision, and cooking. On the hands, renewable energy sources tend to mismatch with demands both temporarily and spatially. From the perspective of technology development, breakthroughs in nano materials offer possibilities for developing new storage media and new storage designs. The session aims to bring together leading researchers in the area to present and discuss the latest developments. |
Session Title: Thermochemical conversion of biomass and the role of metal catalysis for downstream synthesis
Session Chair/Organizer: Prof. M. Sanati,
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| The energy and transport sectors represent a growing contribution to the global surplus of greenhouse gases. Biomass, a renewable resource, is considered to have some potential to replace fossil fuels. A optimized and heat and energy integrated system are needed in order to improve economic and overall efficiency (low-heating value) of biomass as feedstock in conversion routs to high value products. A major problem in the production routes for biomass as feedstock is the presence of contaminants in the raw gas from the gasifier. However, advanced cleaning devices and innovative catalytic downstream processing of produced gas are required in order to get the maximum energy and heat output of biomass feedstock. This target can be reached e.g., due to innovative design of production routes, design of resistance catalysts to poisoning, which demonstrate the competition with regards to the economics of biomass-derived products when the carbon content in biomass is of the same value as that in fossil fuels. |
