Day 3 :
Keynote Forum
Hector M Guevara
President & C.T.O, NuEnergy Technologies Corp., USA
Keynote: NuEnergy’s power house generator & clean water system: a game changing disruptive technology which will revolutionize the sustainable energy industry
Time : 09:30-10:30
Biography:
Dr. Hector M. Guevara is the founder, chairman of the board, and president of various corporations, including NuEnergy Group, Inc., previously a public company trading on the OTC in OTC and now being held inactive (operations/trading stopped). Dr. Guevara has devoted the past 35 years to the research and development of renewable energy systems. Dr. Guevara’s companies designed and or produced many of the most notable solar, wind, and hydroelectric systems deployed throughout the world. The results of his research and development have been assigned to his new Florida Corporation; NuEnergy Technologies Corp. Dr. Guevara is a patent and co-patent holder in various sustainable energy and propulsion technologies. Dr. Guevara has also been the recipient of various grants from Federal Govt. Agencies, e.g., NASA/SATOP, DOE (SBIR), United Nation’s UNICEF, and others.
Abstract:
Statement of the Problem: Our dependence on fossil fuels as the source for the world’s current primary energy production methods has led to the increasing environmental degradation of our living planet through global warming, and to a growing systemic mentality of scarcity, lack, fear, aggression and imperialism. I believe this fossil fuel source of energy has now begun to peak as the world’s main source of energy. Regrettably, therefore, in the name of our “National Interest”, invading other countries, for control of their oil and gas, and the killing of a large number of earth’s inhabitants is justified under the “cloak” of combating world-wide terrorism by force. Too few of us have learned that force simply begets more force…
As above noted, respectively, an increase in the world’s population and its multiple industrial endeavors, combined with climate change, has resulted in an inevitable shortage of fresh, clean water in our world. Our demands on the Earth’s fresh water resources are exceeding the rate at which they can be replenished through Mother Nature’s natural mechanisms. As a result, aquifers and surface water sources that were once thought to be able to supply an unending source of fresh water are drying up at an alarming rate. Water shortages, which were also once thought to be only an issue in under-developed countries, are now a reality being faced by most of the world. The extent of potable water shortage is expected to increase as the world’s population continues to grow, and our demand on this precious resource continues to increase. NuEnergy Technologies’ Power House Generator presents a solution to this multi-faceted problem.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: It is not broadly known that free energy technology along with the production of gargantuan volumes of potable water has been developed and suppressed for over a century and we need not be dependent on non-renewable energy for a moment longer in order to produce power or invest in multi-billion dollar desalinization and water treatment plants to satisfy our world’s collective need for the elixir of life, POTABLE WATER. NuEnergy Technologies’ Power House Generator presents a solution to this multi-faceted problem through the cavitation of water to produce the high pressure steam which turns our high efficiency Boundary Layer Turbine to produce POWER and the distillation and UV hydrogenation of our water recovery system to produce CLEAN POTABLE WATER.
Findings: It seems almost insidious that we would not have come up with, by now, an affordable way of desalinating sea water. Those with a vested interest in the use of fossil fuels for meeting our energy dependence may have indirectly, or directly, suppressed such a development. Moreover, as you, the reader, probably know, the use of Reverse Osmosis, Forward Osmosis, Electrocoagulation, and other technologies used for the removal of those sodium chloride atoms and brine from sea water are relatively quite expensive. Till now!
NuEnergy’s Powerhouse Generator & Pure Water System will do this separation and the input power will be at a fraction of the cost compared to any other known system. Besides, as previously noted, the process of producing the voluminous pure water from sea water will be a byproduct of producing electricity from our Powerhouse Generator
- Track 4: Energy conservation Track 5: Green Economy Nano Environmental Technologies
Session Introduction
Marcoaurelio Almenara Rodrigues
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Title: Evaluation of chlorella sorokiniana mixotrophic growth using xylose as a carbon source
Biography:
Prof. Dr. Marcoaurelio Almenara Rodrigues has Bachelor Degree in Industrial Chemistry from Catholic Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, Master’s and Doctorate degrees at Biochemistry (Photosynthesis) from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and King’s College London (Sandwich Doctorate). Has experience in Biochemistry, Photosynthesis and Photoinhibition, Plant Biotechnology, acting on the following subjects: Chemical Education, Biochemistry, Green algae, Photosynthesis of Chlorella, Biomass processing, Biorefinery, Ethanol of third generation. Recently was engaged in a post-doctoral training in algal and lignocellulosic biomass processing at the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, Lisbon, Portugal..
Abstract:
Microalgae are photosynthetic microorganisms that may grow mixo or heterotrophically with higher biomass yield be used for the production of biofuels and high value compounds such as pigments and polyunsaturated fatty acids without direct competition for land, water and crop production. Cheap organic compounds, such as glycerol, acetate and xylose, a byproduct of the sugar cane bagasse pretreatments, can be used as carbon source. In this work it was evaluated the ability of Chlorella sorokiniana to grow mixotrophically using xylose as organic carbon source. Cells were grown in orbital shaker for 13 days under 50 µmol photons·m-2·s-1 irradiance at 30ËšC in Bold’s Basal Medium containing 25 mg/mL chloramphenicol, 100 mg/mL penicillin and 20 mg/mL sodium acetate to control contamination by bacteria and fungi respectively. Cell growth was followed by cell counting and xylose was added at the medium culture at the beginning (single batch) at the sixth day of growth (fed batch). Xylose consumption was determined by measuring the residual reducing sugar by the DNS method. As control, cells were grown photoautotrophically under the same conditions. Cells under mixotrophic growth showed two exponential phases. The first showed the same specific rate of growth of 0.9 d-1 observed for the photoautotrophic growth. However, the second phase showed respectively specific rate of growth of 0.6 d-1 and 0.4 d-1 for single and fed batches, and their final biomass yields were 3.2 and 4.0 fold higher than that obtained for the photoautotrophic growth. The influence of acetate on the growth is being investigated.
Juan Carlos Arteaga-Arcos
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Title: Thermal performance of a concrete-metamaterial added with micro-sized carbon particles for thermal insulation purposes
Biography:
Juan Carlos Arteaga-Arcos is a Civil Engineer and got his PhD with major in material sciences in 2010. Since February 2011 he is an assistant professor at the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in the School of Sciences. His expertise areas and interests are regarding cementitious and ceramic materials and topics related with sustainability, energy savings, optimization of process, reutilization of industrial by-products, biomaterials, and rheology behavior of fluids. He is member of the CONACyT-National Research System in México.
Abstract:
Buildings and houses are designed to provide comfortable environments to human beings; in extreme climates, this comfort is strongly related to the thermal performance in closed rooms which can be controlled either by mechanical heating, or air-conditioning systems as needed. All these systems are associated with energy consumption. Thermal insulation is one of the most feasible strategies used worldwide in order to achieve improved energy efficiency and specific comfort levels, especially in buildings and dwellings; these kind of buildings are responsible of the consumption of about 49% of primary energy and the emission of approximately 57% of the greenhouse gases into the USA territory. In China, the percentage of energy spent by dwellings ranges 25- 40% of the total consumption of the country. A metamaterial can be defined as a tailoring designed engineering material not found in nature with specific performance. In this research work we present the thermal characterization of a concrete-metamaterial modified with carbon micro-sized particles in order to control the thermal performance of concrete plates. We replaced cement by carbon at different percentages (10%, 15% and 20%), were a nonlinear behavior of the thermal performance was observed. The results presented herein are intended for increase the efficiency of heat transportation into the concrete for thermal insulation purposes.
Fernando Júnior Resende Mascarenhas
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Title: Green growth: a path for a more sustainable word
Biography:
Fernando Júnior Resende Mascarenhas is Civil Engineering Undergraduate Student at Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), in Brazil. He was exchange student twice with scholarship. The first time he participated of the Brazilian Scholarship Program “Science Without Bordes” (SwB), and he studied at the University of Toronto, in Canada, during 16 months, from September of 2013 until December of 2014. The second time, he participated of the Canadian Scholarship “Emerging Leaders in America Program” (ELAP), and he made research at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, during 4 months, from January until May of 2016.
Abstract:
The Industrial Revolution raised the world to a new economic and consuming development model. Although it has created beneficial consequences to the society, this economic standard is currently saturated because it has caused unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation. The current world demands a more suitable and efficient model that addresses its requirements and limitations. Overcoming these challenges can be possible through green growth. Green growth is basically an economic tool whose main objectives are to integrate a technological, economic and social development with the most adequate use of natural resources. Strategies and policies are fundamental to make that greener growth occurs, and public and private sectors of the society must work together. Public policies, educational campaigns, investments in innovation and technology and the adoption of the most appropriate strategy for each country’s development standard is crucial. Three countries with green growth programs and initiatives need to be highline: Chile, Korea and Germany. Furthermore, qualified professionals are required to lead the necessary transformations and to, indeed, build more sustainable cities, and those professionals are the Civil Engineers. They are fundamental in leading these transformations. They are the professionals who will design and build more economic and environmental efficient buildings and cities paying special attention in areas such as transportation, energy resources and water and wastewater treatment plants. Thus, green growth is necessary to modernize the local and worldwide economy raising sustainable policies and business based on the financial commitment of public and private sectors on the creation and application of legislations. Moreover, the international cooperation such as the exchange of knowledge and information will produce more innovations and technologies.