Keynote Forum
Khaild Abdulaziz AL-Shail
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia SpainTitle: Optimum design of PV-RO system for solar powered seawater desalination without storage in Saudi Arabia
Abstract:
Drinking water scarcity is a major problem in regions with law freshwater resources and frequent draughts, such as Saudi Arabia. Water desalination is an excellent solution to this problem; however, it is energy consuming and mainly depends on fossil fuels. Photovoltaics (PV) powered desalination represent a cleaner and cost-effective alternative, because the cost of PV has considerably dropped in the last five years as a result of the efforts to reduce climate change, phase out fossil fuels, and develop renewable energy sources. The objectives of this study were to investigate the feasibility of providing part of the energy required for reverse osmosis (RO) desalination plants with electricity from PVs without storage, determine the price of kWh, and calculate the maximum energy percentage that can be obtained from PV plants during daytime. Therefore, two RO plants located on the Red Sea and Gulf area, in Saudi Arabia were selected as case studies. The energy consumption data were based on a one-year operational data from the studied RO plants. The maximum and minimum mean energy demands among the plants were found to be 47.31 MWh/h and 2.28 MWh/h, respectively. Solar data was attained from the Renewable Resource Monitoring and Mapping (RRMM) program, and a solar PV plant was designed to calculate the energy production, percentage of electricity consumption that could be covered by PV, and price of kWh in each case. The results showed that the electric energy produced from the solar power plants ranged from 16,125.66 kWh to 386,459.92 kWh. In addition, by assuming the consumption of the total energy output, solar energy could cover up to 19.9% of the total energy demand.
Biography:
Khalid AL-Shail is an engineer by profession and works as Researcher in Desalination Technologies Research Institute (DTRI) in Saudi Arabia. He holds a BSc in Chemical engineer. As well a Master of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Engineering at the School of Mechanical engineer, University of Heriot-Watt in UK. Currently pursuing a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Renewable Energy Engineering at the School of civil engineer, University of Granada in Spain.
DrLouis Boisgibault
FranceTitle: Title: Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas and Deserts
Biography: Dr Louis Boisgibault is the co-founder and CEO of VALMERE, a Paris-based consulting firm specialized in Energy Transition and he teaches Management courses related to Energy Transition in graduate schools. His most recent book has just been published for a month with Sorbonne’s colleague Dr Fahad Al Kabbani. Its title is “Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas and Deserts”. Former Executive of BNP-Paribas, Electricité de France and Engie in France, Benelux and London, he is a graduate of Université Paris-Dauphine, HEC Paris (MBA with an exchange program at the Wharton School) and he obtained a PhD from Sorbonne University in Geography and Urban Planning.
Javier Menéndez Rodríguez
University of Oviedo SpainTitle: Willingness to participate in communityWillingness to participate in community Willingness to participate in community Willingness to participate in community
Biography: Javier Menéndez received his MSc degree in Mining Engineering in 2005 and his PhD degree in Mining and Energy in 2018 from the University of Oviedo, in Spain. He is Manager at HUNASER ENERGY, a company dedicated to renewable energy sources. Previously he worked for one year at EDP Energy and two years as Mine Manager at ESPATO DE VILLABNONA, S.A. in an underground coal mine in NW Spain. Later, Javier Menendez worked for 11 years as Project Manager in an Engineering company dedicated to energy and mining. His research covers the fields of hydropower, pumped-storage hydropower plants with underground reservoirs, solar photovoltaic power plants, geothermal energy with mine water and forest biomass power plants.
Speakers
Dr Eul-Bum Lee
Pohang University of Science and Technology KoreaTitle: A Study on the Application and Economic Analysis of the Distributed Generation System Using Environmentally Friendly Renewable Energy in Iron and Steel plant in Korea.
Biography: : Dr. Eul-Bum Lee has about 30years of experience in various disciplines in industry (heavy construction), academia & research. Currently, working as a full-professor in GIFT & Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea, Dr. Lee has focused his research on engineering project management, i.e., contract and risk management, financing and engineering economics, scheduling and cost estimate, and construction IT for engineering and industrial plants projects. He has advised about 70 graduate students (EM/PM) in the USA and Korea since 2000. He is actively involved in the academic and professional communities, serving as a committee member and a journal editor such as Sustainability and Energies. His research work has been published in a variety of professional engineering society and journals with about 50 peer-reviewed (SCI) journal papers and 50 conference proceedings. His graduate degree (ME and Ph.D) is from the University of California at Berkeley-Engineering Project Management. Since his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Lee has worked at U.C. Berkeley as a research faculty and principal investigator for about 10 years in developing various engineering management tools for infrastructure projects with funds from the USA federal government and several state governments
Anahita Rabii
Ryerson University CanadaTitle: Biogas Recovery from Municipal Waste by Anaerobic Co-digestion of Multi Feedstocks
Abstract:
Anaerobic digestion (AD) for producing biofuel from biomass offers dual benefits including waste reduction and biogas production. In many facilities, biogas contains a high fraction of methane (more than 60%) that can be utilized as an alternative to fossil fuels for heat and electricity production. AD technologies have shown sufficient adaptability to a range of different feedstocks. Various sources of waste such as organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW), agricultural and animal wastes, sewage sludge, and industrial waste can be utilized for this purpose. Anaerobic co-digestion (AnCoD), which entails the simultaneous digestion of two or more feedstocks has shown to be beneficial for its economic viability, increasing methane yields, and its capability to alleviate some of the problems emerging in mono-digestion. In areas with vast numbers of large-scale livestock farms, the development of a treatment process for manure is necessary to
properly handle the high amount of produced waste. Degradability of manure makes anaerobic digestion a good treatment option to minimize waste above and beyond bioenergy recovery. Co-digestion of manure with additional substrates provided that appropriate mixing ratios are applied can improve digestion process and increase biogas production. This study was conducted to investigate the influence of mixing ratio in anaerobic co-digestion of thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) and manure. The maximum ultimate cumulative methane yield was 378 mL CH4 / g VS Added attributed to the mixing ratio of 7:3 (V/V) while this value was 196 for TWAS and 325 for manure singly.
The results confirmed that co-digestion of manure with TWAS is beneficial in terms of biogas improvement and system stability in comparison with conventional digestion of TWAS and manure individually.
Biography:
Anahita Rabii is 4th year PhD candidate in civil engineering at Ryerson University. Anahita has her proficiency in water and wastewater sectors including water and wastewater treatment technologies, pollution control and monitoring, and resource recovery through working in both industry and academia. Anahita is currently conducting her research on developing a model for anaerobic co-digestion of multi feedstocks. A range of waste materials can be utilized as feedstocks for digesters. Anaerobic digestion is able to convert waste to biogas comprised mostly of biomethane which delivers a 100 % renewable source of energy for heat and power generation.
Dr Kathleen Meisel
Leipzig, GermanyTitle: The future biofuel market in Germany under RED II – Using a deterministic, bottom-up foresight optimization model
Biography: Dr. Kathleen Meisel joined DBFZ (Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH, Leipzig, Germany) as a research scientist in 2010. She holds a Diploma in Geography and obtained a doctorate in the field of environmental assessments at the chair of spatial and environmental planning at Martin-Luther-University in Halle. At DBFZ she primarily conducts life cycle assessments of different bioenergy and biomaterial supply chains. Thereby the focus is to identify optimization potentials along the entire process chain in terms of reducing emissions and other environmental impacts and to compare the investigated options with other renewable and fossil references as a basis for decision-makers. Her activities range from preparing greenhouse gas balances of biofuels, assessing the sustainability of bioenergy and bioeconomy options to developing environmental sustainability criteria.
Mr. Zhenbin Guo
Hong KongTitle: Improving electrochemical performance of Si-based electrode via gradient Si concentration
Biography: Mr. Zhenbin Guo is a year-three Ph.D. candidate from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is focused on the studies on bioinspired mechanics and materials and has published 7 papers in this field during his Ph.D. study. Recently, his research interest has been extended to the mechanical behavior of anode materials for LIBs. The idea of using gradient strategies to improve the performance of LIBs is inspired by previous studies in both areas. A cost-effective, user-friendly and reliable method on the fabrication of advanced electrode materials, which can further benefit on the downstream applications, is expected.
Title: Energy Sustainability to Remote Part of Country
Biography: Pankaj Kumar was engaged with some of the historic Rural and Renewable Energy developments in Nepal’s far flung landscape over the last 18 years. For about decade, Pankaj worked as Electrical Engineer cum Renewable Energy Expert in executing large-scale RE infrastructure projects, which presented varied challenges. He jointly worked with government executing agency, AEPC and various development partners i.e. EU, GIZ, SNV and NRREP. As a RE expert, he assisted the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC) to modernize and reform the RE policy, development, delivery mechanism and promotion throughout the country. Given his technical expertise, he was deputed by the EU and SNV as an Project Coordinator and Expert to the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), where he worked on Renewable Energy Technical, Monitoring, Evaluation and Capacity Development. He spent more than decade for renewable energy development to the poor people of Karnali (far-flung) and Far- western districts of Nepal. Pankaj holds a Masters’ in Rural Development from Tribhuvan University. He received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (formerly REC), Durgapur, India. He recently awarded to short course: 76th UNEP/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship Award “Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency”, from Dresden, Germany in Dec 2018.
Keynote Forum
Yelena Vardanyan
Danish Technical University DenmarkTitle: Optimal Coordinated Bidding of a Profit Maximizing, Risk-Averse EV Aggregator in Three-Settlement Markets Under Uncertainty
Abstract:
Due to the growing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), including photovoltaic panels (PVs), electric vehicles (EVs), and thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs), power systems are benefiting an increasing control flexibility, not only from the supply but also from the demand side.
This work develops a two-stage stochastic and dynamically updated multi-period mixed integer linear program (SD-MILP) for optimal coordinated bidding of an EV aggregator to maximize its profit from participating in competitive day-ahead, intra-day and real-time markets. The hourly conditional value at risk (T-CVaR) is applied to model the risk of trading in different markets. The objective of two-stage SD-MILP is modeled as a convex combination of the expected profit and the T-CVaR hourly risk measure. When day-ahead, intra-day and real-time market prices and fleet mobility are uncertain, the proposed two-stage SD-MILP model yields optimal EV charging/discharging plans for day-ahead, intra-day and real-time markets at per device level. The degradation costs of EV batteries are precisely modeled. To reflect the continuous clearing nature of the intra-day and real-time markets, rolling planning is applied, which allows re-forecasting and re-dispatching. The proposed two-stage SD-MILP is used to derive a bidding curve of an aggregator managing 1000 EVs. Furthermore, the model statistics and computation time are recorded while simulating the developed algorithm with 5000 EVs.
Biography:
Yelena Vardanyan is a Post Doctoral researcher at DTU Compute, DTU (Danish Technical University). She received her Master degree from the department of Industrial Engineering & Systems Management, at the American University of Armenia (2007). Yelena holds a PhD in Electric Power Systems division, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), (2016). Her research interests include renewable energy planning, electricity markets and its economics, distributed energy resources and its integration of power systems, application of stochastic and bi-level optimization as mathematical tools to solve current and future smart grid challenges.
ProfIgor Nikolaevich Burmistrov
Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov RussiaTitle: Nickel based electrodes for high-performance thermogalvanic cells for waste heat harvesting
Abstract:
An important direction in the development of energy saving policy is the harvesting and conversion of low-grade waste heat into electricity. One of the simplest and cheapest ways to solve this problem is the development of thermogalvanic cells (TGC) [1]. In recent years, research efforts have resulted in significantly improved power and conversion efficiencies for TGC. However, the problems of stability and scalability for manufacturing are investigated very poorly. Nowadays nickel oxide is widely used electrode material for energy storage application due to its thermal stability, high chemical stability, low price, naturally abundant and environment friendliness [1].
Nickel oxide based electrodes for TGC cells were first investigated in [2] and their high efficiency in was shown. It was found that nickel based electrode ensures double power output in comparison with previously studied copper one and significantly higher output voltage is compared with the system based on ferri/ferrocyanide ([Fe(CN)6]3-/[Fe(CN)6]4-). That is supposed to the effect obtained with Ni electrodes characterized with well-developed surface area allows producing the commercial thermo-electrochemical cells for waste heat harvesting. Currently, systematic studies in the field of TGC based on nickel electrodes have not been published.
Biography:
Igor Nikolaevich Burmistrov is a PhD professor in material and works with Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov and Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials of NUST “MISiS”. PhD habilitation was defended in 2015. The subject of PhD theses "Development of scientific bases of synthesis and modification of potassium titanate and technology of polymer composites based on them". Experience in managing research staff: State assignment of the Ministry of Education and Science, design part, project "Development of new technologies for thermoelectric conversion of low potential heat into electricity"; RFBR project “The influence of architecture and modification of carbon nanomaterials with halogens on the transport of charge carriers in polymer chains”; Grant of the President of the Russian Federation “Development of a new type of thermoelectric generator based on potassium titanates decorated with nanosized oxide heterostructures”; RFBR project “Theoretical and experimental foundations of the formation of highly homogeneous superconcentrates of nanostructural additives for thermoplastic polymers”.
Speakers
Title: AMPHORA COFFEAEFORMIS RR03, A NOVEL MARINE DIATOM, CULTIVATED IN AN OPEN RACEWAY POND FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION
Ral Cascajo
Polithecnic University of Madrid SpainTitle: Renewable marine energy generators and integration in commercial ports’ infrastructure
Abstract:
Seaports are major energy consumers. The demand for energy in ports is currently covered using a variety of sources, depending on the type of consumer. For example, the existing yard machinery, involved in the handling of goods passing through the port terminals, generally uses fossil fuels such as gasoil or petrol; while the remaining port consumers are mostly powered by electricity supplied by the corresponding distribution company.
Energy demand at ports is mainly produced by goods and passenger terminals, since these terminals, especially those dedicated to the handling of containers, use a great deal of electrical machinery (ship-to-shore cranes, refrigerated container connections, etc.). However, energy demand also occurs in other places, such as the common areas of the ports (roads, public docks, and so on).
Biography:
Raúl Cascajo is a Naval Architect and Marine Engineer by profession and works with the Port Authority of Valencia as Head of Environmental Policies. He holds a MSc in Naval Architecture and and currently pursuing a PhD in Naval Architecture at the Polithecnic University of Madrid. Raúl is the coordinator of the Corporate-University committee at the PAT18 Group (A group of Spanish Association of Naval Architects, whose aim is to promote the use of marine renewable energies). He is also holding the chair of the Sustainable Committee at Medports Association (Mediterranean Ports Association with over 30 members from Mediterranean countries) and he is member of several committees both from the Spanish Institute of Engineering (Maritime Affairs and Sustainable Development) and the European Commission (Sustainable Ports, sub-group of European Ports Forum).