MEET CONFERENCE
Keynote Speakers
- All
- Prof. David Wood
- Prof. Veera Gnaneswar Gude
- Prof. Soteris Kalogirou
- Prof. Sushil Kumar Kansal
Prof. David Wood
Areas of Research: Renewable energy, primarily wind turbine aerodynamics, wind resource assessment, wind farm condition monitoring and renewable energy integration
Prof. David Wood graduated from Sydney University with bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering and holds a PhD in aeronautics from Imperial College, London. He spent over 20 years as an academic at the University of Newcastle, Australia, with a one-year break working at NASA Ames Research Center, California. In 2005, he left the university to set up his own business in wind energy and continued in this until 2010, when he became the NSERC/ENMAX Industrial Research Chair in Renewable Energy at Calgary. That position lasted until 2017. He is currently the Schulich Chair in Renewable Energy and a director of the Wind Energy Institute of Canada. He is also an editor for three research journals in renewable energy. Awards: He is awarded by Environment and Sustainability Award, APEGA in 2015 and Peak Scholar, University of Calgary in 2015.
Keynote Speech Title: Advances in Distributed Wind Energy Most wind turbines are large and are grouped in wind farms, both offshore and onshore. As an alternative, a small number of turbines, sometimes only one, of any size can be part of a distributed energy system, either grid-connected or in stand-alone microgrids. This talk will highlight the author’s experience as part of a US National Renewable Energy laboratory team working to improve the technology level of small horizontal- and vertical-axis wind turbines. My role has been to (a) improve the methodology of loads assessment for the upcoming revision of the IEC standard for small wind turbines and (b) to develop the theory of tail fin yaw response which has now been included as a module in the well-known aeroelastic software OpenFAST. This project has involved researchers from the US, Canada, Italy, and Egypt, and covers theory development and wind tunnel experimentation. Field testing of several small turbines is about to start. The loads and fin projects will be described along with a brief outline of the overall project.
Prof. Veera Gnaneswar Gude
Areas of Research: Nexus of water, energy and the environment
Prof. Veera Gnaneswar Gude is NiSource-Meyer Charitable Foundation Professor of Energy and the Environment and Director of Purdue University Northwest Water Institute (PWI). He is a professional engineer and a board-certified environmental engineer.He has completed the Ph.D. from Environmental Engineering, New Mexico State University and M.S. from Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. His research focus is on the understanding of the issues at the nexus of water, energy and the environment. He conducts both experimental investigation and theoretical assessment of various intertwined environmental problems. Water-energy nexus has been his core area of expertise which encompasses water desalination and energy-positive wastewater treatment through electrochemical and biological processes, resource recovery from waste streams, and waste to energy technologies. He also strives to develop resource-efficient water and energy technologies for sustainable development. He holds two U.S. patents in these technologies. His recent research efforts focus on evaluation of the design and development of resilient and sustainable renewable (biomass in particular) energy systems for remote and isolated communities considering extreme events and disasters.He is awarded by ASEE Early Career Award | National James M Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award | ASEE Outstanding Faculty Research Award | MSU Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. He is also honored as ASCE Fellow and EWRI Fellow | Specialty Chief Editor – Electrochemical Environmental Engineering, Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry | Editor – ASCE’s Journal of Environmental Engineering, WEF’s Water Environment Research, and Renewable Energy journals | ABET Program Evaluator (PEV).
Prof. Soteris Kalogirou
Areas of Research: Solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination and absorption cooling
Professor Soteris Kalogirou, DSc (Cyprus) is at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences and Engineering of the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus. He is a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and Member of Academia Europaea. For more than 35 years, he is actively involved in research in the area of solar energy and particularly in flat plate and concentrating collectors, solar water heating, solar steam generating systems, desalination and absorption cooling. He has a large number of publications as books, book chapters, international scientific journals and refereed conference proceedings. His current h-index in Google Scholar is 94 with more than 45,850 citations. He is Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy and Honorary Editor of Energy, and Editorial Board Member of another twenty journals. He is the editor of the book Artificial Intelligence in Energy and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Nova Science Inc., co-editor of the book Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, published by Springer, editor of the book McEvoy’s Handbook of Photovoltaics, published by Academic Press of Elsevier and author of the books Solar Energy Engineering: Processes and Systems, and Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems, published by Academic Press of Elsevier. He has been a member of World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) since 1992 and is a member of the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
Keynote Speech Title: Renewable Energy Systems: Current status in the world and prospects This presentation examines the current status of renewables in the world. The presentation starts with some facts about the climate change, global warming and the effects of human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels on the climate problem. It then examines the current status of conventional resources of energy such as oil, coal and natural gas and their reserves based on current consumption and known resources, followed by a general outline of the status of renewables in the world, which includes the shares with respect to conventional fuel use for electricity and power and jobs created. Then the basic forms of renewables are examined in some detail, which include solar thermal, both for low and high temperature applications, photovoltaics, hydro power, onshore and offshore wind energy systems and biomass/biofuels. In all these the basic technology is presented followed by the current status as well as the prospects of the technology and new research findings.
Prof. Sushil Kumar Kansal
Areas of Research: Wastewater Treatment, Material Chemistry, Photocatalysis, Sensors/Smart Materials
Dr. Sushil Kumar Kansal is a distinguished Professor at the Dr. S S Bhatnagar University Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Also he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Institution of Engineers (FIE) Dr. Kansal’s research interests span Wastewater Treatment, Material Chemistry, Photocatalysis, and Sensors/Smart Materials. He specializes in advanced methods such as adsorption and oxidation processes for industrial wastewater, metal oxide and graphene nanostructures, UV/Visible light-active photocatalysts, and carbon-based sensors for pollutant detection. Recognized as one of the Top 2% Scientists in 2020 and 2021, Dr. Kansal has authored 166 publications, garnering over 9,200 citations and achieving an h-index of 53 on Google Scholar. He has been awarded multiple international fellowships, including the DAAD fellowship in Germany and visiting scientist positions in China and Canada. His accolades include the Smt. Prem Lata Jain Best Researcher Award (2017, 2019) and the Hiyoshi The Think of Ecology Award (2019). Dr. Kansal has also successfully mentored a start-up and played a key role in organizing numerous academic and industry workshops, conferences, and development courses.