Prof.Marc A. Rosen
Ontario Tech University
Biography: Dr. Marc A. Rosen is a Professor of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at Ontario Tech University (formerly University of Ontario Institute of Technology) in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Rosen has served as President of the Engineering Institute of Canada and of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering. He has acted in many professional capacities, including Editor-in-Chief of various journals and a Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. With over 70 research grants and contracts and 900 technical publications, including numerous books, Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in sustainable energy, sustainability, and environmental impact. Much of his research has been carried out for industry. Dr. Rosen has other areas of expertise, including the following: exergy analysis, heat transfer, thermodynamics, integrated energy systems, modelling and simulation of energy systems, renewable energy, thermal energy storage, and phase change materials for battery cooling. Dr. Rosen has worked for such organizations as Imatra Power Company in Finland, Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, the Institute for Hydrogen Systems near Toronto, and Ryerson University in Toronto, where he served as Chair the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Industrial Engineering. Dr. Rosen has received numerous awards and honors, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the International Energy Foundation.
Title:
Exergy Analysis to Enhance Efficiency and Environmental Stewardship
Abstract:
The use of exergy analysis is described in the context of its applicability and usefulness for efficiency improvement as well as environmental impact mitigation. By addressing efficiency and environmental impacts, the talk aims to explain and illustrate the benefits of exergy in practice, and to allow these benefits to be appreciated more fully and realized by engineers and other practitioners. As a thermodynamic method and tool, exergy analysis allows efficiencies to be pinpointed that are always meaningful and rational. Exergy analysis also allows thermodynamic losses to be identified that truly measure deviation from ideality. Exergy analysis thereby allows rational statements of the potential for improvement of any system, based on the laws of thermodynamics. Exergy can be used to understand environmental impacts, and can provide measures and methods to assess and improve energy systems in terms of their environmental performances and behaviors. More broadly, exergy analysis also can help better understand the benefits of sustainable energy by providing more useful and meaningful information than energy methods provide. By addressing all of these points, this talk explains how and why exergy analysis should be applied in addressing efficiency improvement and environmental impact mitigation, alone or as a complement to conventional methods.
Prof. Guangsuo Yu
East China University of Science and Technology
Biography: Guangsuo Yu, professor, doctoral supervisor, director of the Institute of Clean Coal Technology, East China University of Science and Technology. Distinguished Professor of the Yangtze River Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education, winner of the China Youth Science and Technology Award, New Century Excellent Talent of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Shuguang Scholar, Shanghai Science and Technology Rising Star, and Shanghai Yucai Award. He has been engaged in applied basic research and engineering development of coal gasification technology for a long time. He has been authorized with more than 120 Chinese invention patents and 3 US invention patents. He has published more than 470 SCI papers in journals such as AIChE J., Chem. Eng. Sci., Chem. Eng. J., Combustion & Flame, Applied Energy, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, etc., which have been cited more than 10,300 times, and 13 of them have been selected as ESI highly cited/hot papers. He was selected as a highly cited scholar in China by Elsevier in 2020 and 2022~2024. He serves as an editorial board member or guest editor of academic journals such as International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, Applied Energy, Fuel, and Scientific Reports.
Prof. Mingming Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Biography: As a leading talent of ten thousand people, a national outstanding youth, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hundred Talents Program, and a Class A talent of the Shenzhen "Peacock Plan", an expert in the National Key Science and Technology Special Expert Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology, deputy director of the Wind Energy Special Committee of the China Renewable Energy Society, vice chairman of the IEEE PES New Energy Technology Subcommittee, and deputy editor in chief of "Renewable Energy", we conduct applied basic research on flow control and innovative design of large wind turbine blades, design of highly reliable wind turbines, and smart wind farms. Hosted the Ministry of Science and Technology's 863 Program, Key R&D Program, International Cooperation Projects, National Natural Science Foundation's Excellent Youth Fund, Key Fund, General Fund Projects, Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Hundred Talents Program", Leading Special Projects, etc. Published over 210 academic papers both domestically and internationally, including nearly 60 SCI indexed papers; More than 40 academic invitation reports at home and abroad; Close to 50 invention patents have been applied for or authorized. Received more than 10 awards, including the AIAA Young Scholar Science and Technology Honor Award, the Outstanding Award for the Final Evaluation of the Hundred Talents Program, the Second Prize for National Energy Science and Technology Progress, the Second Prize for Science and Technology Contribution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the First Prize for China Energy Innovation, the Second Prize for Science and Technology in Beijing, the Second Prize for China Electric Power Science and Technology Progress, and the Wu Zhonghua Outstanding Young Scholar Award.
Prof. Meirong Dong
South China University of Technology
Biography: Meirong Dong, Professor, School of Electric Power Engineering, South China University of Technology. Selected as a Guangdong Provincial Young Talent in 2024, she has led 3 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 1 sub-project under a National Key R&D Program, 5 provincial-level projects, 5 enterprise collaborative projects, and 2 university-level central funding projects, while also participating in multiple national, provincial, and enterprise cooperative projects. As first author or corresponding author, she has published 55 SCI papers in authoritative journals such as Energy Conversion and Management, Fuel Processing Technology, Analytical Chemistry, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and Journal of the Energy Institute (including 5 SCI cover articles), contributed to one English monograph, and holds over 10 authorized invention patents. She has frequently participated in domestic and international conferences for academic exchange and delivered invited presentations at major forums.
