How to make a country fossil fuel free. Plans for sweden and northern europe.
Erik Dhalquist (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Professor Erik Dahlquist Started work at ASEA/ABB Research Sept 1975 in Nuclear power. Technical PM for development of Cross Flow Membrane filter and ABBs Black Liquor Gasification project. 1992-1995 Department manager at ABB Corporate Research. 1996-2002 General Manger for the Product Responsible Unit “Advanced Control, Diagnostics, Optimization, Process Simulation in Pulp and paper” globally within ABB. Adjunct professor KTH. Chair professor at Malardalen University since 2000. Have built the research profile Future Energy with focus on process development and energy efficiency improvements including AI technology. Dean of faculty 2004- 2007. Member of editorial board for Journal of Applied Energy since 2007. Member of Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering (IVA), since 2011. Chairman IVA department Electrical Engineering 2023- . Coordinator EU Horizon 2020 project FUDIPO on learning systems for process industries. 20+ patents and 300+ Scientific publications.
World-wide concern of the safety of energy critical infrastructure Shan-Dong Tu (East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai) 
Shan-Dong Tu, received his B.Eng degree in 1982 and Ph.D degree in 1988 from Nanjing Tech University. He is a Chair professor of Mechanical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, and the Adjunct Professor of WIT and Zhengzhou University, Honorary Professor of University of Nottingham(UoN). Prior to this, he has worked in Nanjing Tech University and East China University of Science and Technology as a professor and vice present, and a guest scientist to Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering in 2019. Driven by the safety concern of the process and energy equipment, Professor Tu has been trying to develop knowledge in the area of high temperature structural integrity and engineering, including creep, fatigue fracture, structural integrity monitoring and design of high temperature equipment. He is an author of more than 400 papers and received a number of distinguished awards, including China National Science and Technology Progress Award, National Technology Invention Award, China Youth Science and Technology Award, ASME Best Paper Award and so on. He has been the honorary president of Chinese Pressure Vessel Institution (since 2010) and the honorary president of Chinese Materials Institution (since 2015) of China Mechanical Engineering Society, Chairman of China Structural Integrity Consortium, and Chairman of Asian Oceanic Regional Committee of International Council for Pressure Vessel Technology, a member of reliability committee of IFToMM. He is also serving a number of journals as an associate editor or editorial board member, including Int J Pres Ves and Piping, Applied Energy, J of Materials Science and Technology, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures and so on.
Laibin Zhang (Petroleum University, Beijing)
Professor Laibin Zhang is an expert in oil and gas safety science and engineering and a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Zhang graduated from East China Petroleum Institute in 1982, majoring in oilfield machinery. In 1991, he received Doctorate in mechanical engineering from Petroleum University (Beijing). He is currently the vice chairman of the Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Production Safety and Emergency Technology, Ministry of Emergency Management. He has been engaged in the research of oil and gas production system and equipment safety science and engineering theory, method and technology for a long time, and created the first safety science and engineering discipline in petroleum universities. Innovative achievements have been made in oil well pipe damage detection, fault detection and diagnosis of large power units for oil and gas production, risk assessment and early warning of oil and gas production systems, and have promoted my country's technological progress in this field. He presided over the completion of a number of major projects commissioned by the state, provincial and ministerial levels, and enterprises, and won 4 second prizes of national scientific and technological achievements, among which he won 2 second prizes of national technological invention as the first completer, and the special prize of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress 1 award and multiple first prizes, published several monographs and textbooks, authorized more than 50 invention patents, and published more than 200 academic papers
Jinyang Zheng (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)
Professor Jinyang Zheng is an expert in high pressure vessel and piping and an member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Zhang graduated from Zhejiang University in 1987, majoring in chemical Engineering. In 1992, he received Doctorate in chemical process machinery from Zhejiang University. He has been engaged in the research of high-pressure vessels and pipelines for a long time. Won 1 first prize and 2 second prizes of National Science and Technology Progress Award, 6 first prizes of provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, 2 first prizes of provincial and ministerial teaching achievements, 2 China Excellent Patent Awards, and China Standard Innovation Contribution Award 3 items. Facing the country's major needs, systematic innovations have been achieved from theory, technology, standards, testing to product development and application in hydrogen storage high-pressure vessels, cryogenic pressure vessels, and flexible high-pressure composite pipes. Leading the establishment of the International Hydrogen Energy Association Specification and Standard Committee and the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education for "High Pressure Process Equipment and Safety"; the three major series of products presided over by the research and development have achieved industrialized mass production, and the key technical indicators have reached new highs in the world. Applied in energy, chemical and other fields, the social and economic benefits are remarkable, and it has made outstanding contributions to the development of high-voltage storage and transportation equipment in my country. He took the lead in drafting 2 national technical specifications and 11 national standards; published 9 Chinese and English books (including 2 monographs) as the first author; obtained 58 authorized invention patents as the first inventor; published SCI as the first or corresponding author 120 papers.
Making Urban Ecological Infrastructure: the Sustainability Trilemma
Xiaoling Zhang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Professor Zhang is Clarivate Global Top 1% Highly Cited Scholars in 2022. Global associate editor of npi:urban sustainability (Nature partner), global associate editor of DIBE journals, and concurrently serves on the editorial board of several other top international journals. In recent years, with the support of a number of national and local scientific research projects (such as the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China), she has mainly devoted herself to research with lasting influence and great significance, such as energy and environmental constraints. Sustainability and smart cities, fossil energy conversion/system optimal model from the perspective of climate change, regional sustainable built environment from the perspective of carbon neutrality, she tries to enrich the theoretical system of sustainable development science, and tries to build a modular environment- engineering-Geographic information and remote sensing-economics-management and other multidisciplinary comprehensive evaluation models, it is planned to use cutting-edge technologies such as satellite remote sensing and machine learning analysis methods, and integrate natural and environmental mechanisms and interactive process models, geographic information system models, economic technology Model, life cycle input-output model, forming a sustainable development methodology system for whole-process analysis. So far, he has published more than 200 international journal papers, with a total of 15,809 Google Scholar citations and an H-factor of 69. He has been stimulated to give keynote speeches in important international conferences many times. Ranked among the top 2% scientists in the field of environmental engineering research selected by Stanford University for three consecutive years since 2020, has won the City University of Hong Kong President's Award twice, and won the 2018 WCC Special Recognition Award (World Federation of Cultures)
Functionality and Risk Based Design and Operation of Critical Infrastructure Max Wang (Managing Director and CEO of Atrum Coal Ltd, Canada)
Dr. Max Wang professional career spans management of Engineering, safety, major projects and companies. In his last two executive roles he was President and CEO of Grande Cache Coal in Alberta and Managing Director and CEO of Atrum Coal Ltd - a publically traded company in Australia with assets in Canada. Prior to that, Max was the Director of Engineering, Major Projects, at Suncor Energy where he was also leading the effort of revamping the safety management systems, and Engineering Manager of Oil Sands Projects at Petro-Canada. Max was the former Chairman of the Board for the Coal Association of Canada, and Technical Committee Member of 21 years for 3 Canadian National Standards. He has also been a board member of private and public energy companies in Canada and Hong Kong.
Very low cycle fatigue assessment of nuclear piping components and experimental validation Yun-jae Kim(Korea University,South Korea)
Professor Yun-Jae Kim earned his PhD from Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, in 1993. He was a Research Scientist in GKSS Research Centre, Institute of Materials Research, Germany, from 1994-1998; an Assessment technologist in British Energy Generation Ltd, UK, since 1998; a Research Professor in Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, from 2000-2004; a Professor in Korea University, Korea, since 2004. He is a director of Advanced Research Center for Nuclear Excellence (ARCNEX) funded by Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. He has been heavily involved in structural integrity assessment of Light Water and High Temperature Nuclear Plant Components based on solid and fracture mechanics analyses. His recent interest lies in development of efficient numerical modeling methods to simulate fatigue and fracture in large-scale pressurized components under monotonic and cyclic loading. He is a member of The National Academy of Engineering of Korea since 2016. He is also a member of Editorial Board in International Journal of Fatigue, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Nuclear Engineering & Technology, International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping.
Miniature Specimen Test Methods for Applications in high temperature plants Wei Sun (University of Nottingham, UK)
Wei Sun is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham who retired in August 2020. Prof. Sun has been working in the areas of high temperature material behavior and structural integrity for ~ 30 years. His research interests cover creep, thermal-mechanical fatigue and cyclic plasticity, high temperature miniaturized test methods etc. Research into fretting wear, coatings behavior, welding process modelling, fracture of nuclear graphite, has also been carried out. His most recent work includes mechanisms and optimization design of bio-inspired metamaterials, and mechanics and bio-mimicking of marine mussel plaques. Prof. Wei Sun has supervised 40 PhD students, 15 post-doc fellows and 20 external visiting researchers, and is an author of 260 journal articles, 180 conference contributions and one book (Applied Creep Mechanics). Prof. Wei Sun was awarded Doctor of Science, DSc, in 2012 by the University of Nottingham. He became a Charted Engineer in 1998, Fellow of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2002, and Fellow of The Institute of Materials in 2009. He is a member of the UK High Temperature Material Committee and member of the European CEN Impression Creep Test Standard Work Group.
High Temperature Thermal Storage Ronggui Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan)
Dr. Ronggui Yang is currently a Professor of Energy and Power Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. He was a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder (2006-2019). His research interests are on the fundamentals of transport phenomena (thermal conduction, thermal radiation, thermoelectrics, phase-change, and thermal storage) and the applications of micro/nanotechnologies for thermal, energy, and information system. Dr. Ronggui Yang has published > 200 journal papers, with more than 26000 citations and an H-index of 80. His innovative research has won him numerous awards including the 2020 Nukiyama Memorial Award in Thermal Science and Engineering, the 2017 Top 10 Physics Breakthrough by PhysicsWorld, the 2010 ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer, an NSF CAREER Award in 2009, the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Award in 2008.
Green Methanol & Amonia as the Energy Carrier for Carbon Neutral Energy System Ke Liu (the Southern University of Science & Technology, Shenzhen)
Dr. Ke Liu is a world-renowned energy expert and an industry leader with an MBA, currently the Dean of School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Dean of Clean Energy Institute and chair professor of the Southern Univ. of Science & Technology. Dr. Liu was elected as the only one Foreign Fellow of the Australia Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) for the year of 2015, and received a variety of national and international awards, including “The Minorities in Research Award” (2006 Emerald Honors Special Recognition Award), 2013 PITT Award from International Pittsburgh Coal Conference Organization, 2021 Low Carbon Person of the year of China, 2021 "Carbon Neutral Typical Case", and the first prize of the 9th "Overseas Chinese Contribution National Award". He has more than 120 invention patents in the United States and China, published many papers in world-class journals and conferences. And his book H2 & Syngas Production & Purification Technologies was published in 2009 by Jon Wiley-one of the largest publishing house in the United States. Dr. Ke Liu also funded the Revelation Technology Group, he was also a former partner of the Enverra Capital LLC., which was funded by the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, and 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate General Wesley Clark et.al, He and his partners in both US & China combines their global leadership to promote clean and sustainable energy technologies to reduce emissions globally. Dr. Liu was also elected as the board member of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in 2015, Together with his team and partners globally, Dr. Liu works diligently on promoting the international collaboration on Clean Energy and Environmental Protection especially in China. |
