Tracks

Technical Program Chair: Mike Wagner
Track Chair 1: Kevin R. Anderson, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona
Track Chair 2: Hailei Wang, Utah State University

Description: This track covers research work on the integration or interaction between energy, water and climate, which covers efficient energy designs for clean water, impact of energy system to climate, the change of climate to energy system, etc.

 

Technical Program Chairs: Heejin Cho / Justin Lapp
Track Chair 1: David Roberts, NREL
Track Chair 2: Hamidreza Najafi, Florida Institute of Technology
Track Chair 3: Weimin Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Description: The Sustainable Building track welcomes abstracts covering new and unique work that aims to reduce energy use in buildings, meet building energy loads sustainably, improve performance and health factors in building energy systems, or reduce costs of renewable or sustainable building energy systems. Research in the capture, storage, or utilization of renewable or sustainable energy for building systems or in heat recovery and reuse are encouraged. We welcome analytical, numerical, experimental, and demonstration projects. Research may cover hot water systems, HVAC systems, building envelope systems, materials, energy storage, and beyond from the single-family home to larger buildings to community scale projects.

 

Technical Program Chairs: Heejin Cho / Justin Lapp
Track Chair 1: Zhiwen Ma, NREL
Track Chair 2: Like Li, Mississippi State University

Description: This track explores how thermal and mechanical energy storage can provide technically and economically advantageous approaches for energy storage in large-scale and system-integrated applications. In particular, advances in mature and developing technologies for thermal and mechanical energy storage can provide flexible and scalable storage for demand and supply shifting in an electric grid with increased renewable energy penetration. Researchers and developers of thermal energy storage systems ranging from low-temperature phase change systems to high-temperature thermochemical systems are encouraged to present their work on materials development and on systems modeling and demonstration for applications including power generation, industrial process heat, and building energy systems. In addition to thermal energy storage, experts in mechanical and hybrid thermo-mechanical technologies, such as compressed air energy storage, flywheels, liquid-air storage, and gravitational storage are invited to present advances in process design and in component development. Experts in technoeconomic analysis and business models for different energy storage technologies are also encouraged to present their work exploring how commercial energy storage can impact power generation, industrial processes, and building energy systems. Papers in this track will allow technical leaders working in a broad range of energy storage technologies and scales to come together and wrestle with one of the today's most exciting challenges in power and energy.

 

Technical Program Chair / Track Chair 1: Justin Lapp, University of Maine

Description: The track covers the latest progress in sustainable infrastructure and transportation.

 

Technical Program Chair: Justin Lapp, University of Maine
Track Chair 1: Paul Gauche, Sandia National Laboratory
Track Chair 2: Matthew Bauer, US Department of Energy

Description: This conference track focuses on advances in Concentrating Solar Power research and technology. It brings together leading international researchers and experts in the field to discuss recent progress on a broad range of technical aspects relevant for the successful development and deployment of CSP technologies. Topics include, but are not limited to: Concentrators and Optics, Receivers, Thermal Energy Storage, Heat and Mass Transfer Analyses, System Design and Analysis, and Advanced Power Cycles.

 

Technical Program Chair / Track Chair 1: Justin Lapp, University of Maine

Description: The Solar Chemistry track includes a wide range of international research developments in the area of powering chemical processes with solar radiation through thermochemical, photochemical, or electrochemical means. Topics will span from fundamental research covering the interaction between solar radiation and chemically active materials, to development of new reactive materials for solar applications, to experimental results from prototype solar chemical reactors, to large scale implementation of solar chemical processes, and finally to integration of complex systems with multiple solar and chemical components.

 

Track 7: Photovoltaics

Technical Program Chair / Track Chair 1: Justin Lapp, University of Maine

Description: The photovoltaics track is a platform for disseminating research results in mechanical engineering studies related to photovoltaic system design, manufacturing, and operation. Current topics of interest include soiling loss modeling and testing, anti-dust technology development mitigation, thermal management, module reliability, novel system designs and new manufacturing/installation approaches

 

Track 8: Wind Energy

Technical Program Chair / Track Chair 1: Justin Lapp, University of Maine

Description: The wind track covers the latest progresses in wind technologies.

 

Technical Program Chair / Track Chair 1: Justin Lapp, University of Maine

Description: This track covers latest progresses in solar desalination and process heat application using solar technology.

 

Technical Program Chair: Guangdong Zhu
Track Chair 1: Soumik Banerjee, Washington State University
Track Chair 2: Jun Xu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Description: The diffuse nature of sustainable energy supply and demand requires the development of flexible and scalable energy storage and conversion technology. Electrochemical systems are increasingly meeting this requirement in mobile and stationary applications. Researchers are encouraged to contribute papers addressing the science, design, and application of electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Contributions are encouraged in areas including, but not limited to: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers, Materials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Modeling and Analysis of Electrochemical Systems, and Advanced Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Technology.

 

Technical Program Chair: Heejin Cho
Track Chair 1: Ben Xu, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Description: The biofuel and alternative fuel track aims to provide insights into the fuel conversion and processing technologies, including biofuel and alternative fuel, topics related to the integration of biofuel and alternative fuel system into sustainable energy system are also welcome. This track welcomes all research areas related to alternative fuel conversion and processing techniques, including but not limited to, thermochemical/biochemical conversion, biomass liquefaction and gasification, biofuel upgrading and stabilization, and biofuel/alternative fuel resource, policy and economy analysis. Experimental study, mathematical modeling, numerical simulation, systematic analysis, verification and validation are particularly welcome.

 

Technical Program Chair: Heejin Cho
Track Chair 1: Wahiba Yaici, CanmetENERGY Research Centre
Track Chair 2: Ali Alili, Khalifa University

Description: The distributed energy system track aims to provide insights into the energy, exergy and thermo-economic analysis of conventional and non-conventional refrigeration and distributed power cycles. This track welcomes contributions in all areas related to thermal and electrical refrigeration cycles, Cogeneration/CHP, Trigeneration/CCHP, Organic Rankine cycles, and other low temperature power cycles. Contributions that include field studies, experimentation, computational modeling, optimization, verification or validation are particularly welcome.

 

Technical Program Chair: Heejin Cho
Track Chair 1: Jian Zhang, Mississippi State University
Track Chair 2: Thomas D. Tran, Indiana Tech

Description: This track covers all analytical, numerical, surveys, and experimental works in promoting sustainability in the society. In particular, this Track welcomes manuscripts on curriculum innovations, learning methodologies towards globalization of sustainability, data collection and surveys, sustainable engineering education in different disciplines such as dynamic systems and control, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and energy systems, online sustainability education, sustainability education and enabling technologies for pre-college (K-12) STEM, University-School-and Industry Alliance (USIA) teaching laboratories, machine shops and technology aided lecture societal and ethical dimensions of sustainability in engineering for undergraduate and graduate students.

 

Technical Program Chair: Mike Wagner
Track Chair 1: Michael Lawson, NREL

Description: This track covers analytical, numerical, and experimental works within the marine and hydrokinetic technologies including marine current energy, tidal energy, ocean thermal energy, wave energy, as well as different hydropower types including conventional hydroelectric, river in-stream, micro hydro, small hydro, and pumped storage hydroelectricity. We welcome manuscripts focused on (1) fluid mechanics principles, (2) computational fluid dynamics, (3) fluid applications and systems, (4) fluid measurement and instrumentation, (5) multiphase flow, (6) micro/nano fluid dynamics, (7) integration of renewable energy systems, (8) PTO developments, (9) resource assessment analysis, (10) cost-benefit analysis, (11) reliability analysis, (12) innovative machine learning-based data analytics, (13) operation and maintenance, (14) environment impacts, and other areas that can be beneficiary to the field and the community.

 

Technical Program Chair: Mike Wagner
Track Chair 1: Amanda Kolker, NREL

Description: This track covers latest progresses in geothermal energy technologies.

 

Technical Program Chair: Mike Wagner
Track Chair 1: Jen King, NREL
Track Chair 2: Mike Wagner, NREL

Description: This track covers hybridization of two more energy resources, such as PV, wind, geothermal, nuclear, biofuel, fossil fuel. It also covers hybridizaiton of two or more end-user products, such as electricity, heating & cooling, water and fuel.

 

Technical Program Chair: Mike Wagner
Track Chair 1: Pei Dong, George Mason University

Description: Emerging technologies covers topics on unconventional advanced energy technologies, hybridized systems with multiple energy resources, future grid energy portfolio analysis, energy resource analysis, and any emerging concepts related to energy sustainability.

 

Technical Program Chair: Heejin Cho / Justin Lapp / Mike Wagner
Track Chair 1: HeeJin Cho, Mississippi State University

 

Technical Program Chairs: Guangdong Zhu / Eric Koepf
Track Chair 1: Guangdong Zhu, NREL
Track Chair 2: Erik Koepf, Dupont

 

Technical Program Chairs: Guangdong Zhu / Eric Koepf
Track Chair 1: Moncef Krarti, University of Colorado Boulder