Keynote Speakers
Prof. Yinhui Zuo
Chengdu University of Technology, China
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Experience: Professor / Doctor / doctoral supervisor, director of New Energy Engineering Department of Chengdu University of Technology, deputy director of geothermal research center of Chengdu University of technology, and member of Academic Committee of College of Energy. He has been engaged in research on geothermal geology and petroleum geology for a long time, and has presided over more than 20, provincial and ministerial projects such as general projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China / youth fund projects and projects of Sichuan Provincial Department of science and technology. It has won 3 scientific and technological advances of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation and Zhongyuan Oilfield, published more than 100 academic papers, including more than 50 papers retrieved by SCI and 6 authorized invention patents. He is the young editorial board member of marine oil and gas geology, the special editorial board member of Journal of Northeast Petroleum University, and the guest editor of frontier in Earth Science; Chairman of the 5th International Symposium on renewable energy and development, academic member of China deep geothermal forum and member of the Scientific Committee of Arabian Journal of Geosciences; Deputy director of Expert Committee of China Energy Society (expert No.: 2021551), Deputy Secretary General of petroleum geology Professional Committee of Sichuan Geological Society, member of China Petroleum Society, AAPG Association, International Association of seismology and interior Physics (IASPEI), China Renewable Energy Society and China geothermal alliance; Online evaluation experts of National Natural Science Foundation of China and evaluation experts of College Students' excellent scientific and technological works competition of China Renewable Energy Society.
Prof. Xiaoguang Wang
Chengdu University of Technology, China
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Experience: Xiaoguang Wang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering at Chengdu University of Technology. He leads the research team of Geothermal Energy Development and Geological Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in the State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, he also serves as deputy director of the research division of Geothermal Energy and Carbon Sequestration at the Tianfu Yongxing Laboratory. Previous to this he was Researcher at HydroSciences Montpellier (HSM) UMR5569 CNRS-UM-IRD. He holds BSc. degree from China University of Petroleum (East China), MSc. degree from University of Oklahoma and PhD degree from Imperial College London, all in Petroleum Engineering. Professor Wang's research interests are in flow and transport through porous and fractured media with applications to geothermal energy production, geological carbon storage, oil and gas recovery, and contaminant transport and clean-up in polluted aquifers. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous and fractured systems, including numerical modelling of coupled THMC processes, and inverse modelling using optimization and artificial intelligence methods. He has published over 40 scientific papers and obtained 8 research grants at the national and provincial level.
Prof. Guobing Zhou
North China Electric Power University, China
Title: Supercooled Thermal Energy Storage: Advances and Challenges
Abstract: Energy storage by latent heat of phase change materials (PCMs) plays an important role in solar thermal applications. Inorganic PCMs such as salt hydrates have significant supercooling, which is usually considered as undesirable to be avoided or reduced. However, this feature can be used for long–term/seasonal or flexible energy storage. This presentation discusses the recent progress, particularly in our work, and challenges on application of supercooled thermal energy storage. Realization of stable supercooling, triggering solidification, and modelling techniques on supercooled phase transition processes are mainly concerned. Some suggestions are also given for future work in this field.
Experience: Dr. Guobing Zhou, is a professor, doctoral supervisor at School of Energy, Power and Mechanical Engineering, NCEPU. He got his doctor’s degree at Tianjin University in 2005. Then, he entered Tsinghua University for 2 years of postdoctoral research work. Since 2007, he has been working for NCEPU. He also studied and worked as a visiting scholar in Carnegie Mellon University (2009-2010) and Rice University (2016-2017). His research focuses on application of solar energy in buildings, combined with latent heat thermal energy storage; fluid flow and heat transfer as well as energy efficiency in HVAC&R system. He has hosted more than 20 projects, published 80+ journal papers with more than 1700 times of SCI citation. He has 15 granted patents and one published academic book. He received the 2nd prize for Natural Sciences Award of Hebei province (as the 1st completed) in 2017. He is the member of editorial board of 3 journals.
Prof. Qian Xu
Jiangsu University, China
Title: Synergistic enhancement of performance for non-aqueous redox flow batteries
Abstract: Compared with conventional aqueous electrolytes, non-aqueous Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES) has a wider electrochemical window, simple preparation, low vapor pressure and low cost, so it has been used as electrolytes for redox flow batteries. But high viscosity of DES causes inferior transport property, resulting in lower performance. To address this issue, external fields are applied. The changes on physical and electrochemical properties and impedance of DES electrolyte are studied by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy under the effect of temperature, magnetic field and supersonic field, respectively, and the underlying mechanisms are explored. The fields-synergy is analyzed and the optimized multi-fields are applied to a DES electrolyte redox flow battery, leading to a cell performance enhancement up to 76.9%.
Experience: Dr. Qian Xu got his Ph.D from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2013. He worked as a Research Associate in HKUST and visiting scholar in University of Waterloo, Canada. Currently he is a Professor in Jiangsu University, and also serves as the Deputy Director of Institute for Fuel Cells. His researches focus on heat and mass transfer in micro-nano-structures, fuel cell and redox flow battery technologies. He is a recipient of “Jiangsu Six-Talent” Project and Excellent Youth Researcher of Jiangsu Thermophysics Society, as well as more than 10 research projects. As the first/corresponding author, he has published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, with a citation of more than 3100 (H-index 26). Besides he has published 3 books in English or Chinese, 2 chapters, applied 23 patents with 6 issued. He is the editorial member for Processes and International Journal of Green Energy.
