5^th World Congress and Expo on Green Energy June 14-16, 2018 London, UK

Biography:

Samuel Hassid is in the Environmental, Water Resources and Agricultural Engineering Unit, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel. teaches and works on Climatology of Buildings. He is author and co-author of 45 scientific papers in Scientific Journals and 6 chapters  of books. He is a member of scientific committee on Energy in Buildings in the Israel Standards Institution.

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Energy (or Desert) towers are a renewable energy producing device suitable for hot and dry climates. They are based on spraying sea water from the top of a tower 500 m high. The sprayed droplets evaporate and thus cool the surrounding air creating a downdraft which moves electricity-generating turbines located at the basis of the tower. The air is subsequently delivered through a diffuser to the surrounding environment where the salt containing water precipitate to the ground. The Energy tower generates electricity without producing greenhouse gasses. It has been estimated that approximately 1/3rd of the gross power delivered by the turbines is necessary for pumping the sea water to the tower site and up the tower, whereas another 2/9th is lost to aerodynamic friction, leaving 4/9th as net power. The electricity is generated 24 hours a day (although at a much smaller power during the night) CFD calculations indicate that an energy tower with a 200 m diameter and a 600 m height may deliver a 250 MWe net electrical power and 250 GWh a year. In addition a by-product is desalinated water that can be derived from the cold humid air. The estimated cost of the generated electricity is estimated to 2-3 cents/kWh – which makes it competitive and clean, without green-house gasses. The major environmental effect is the precipitation of salt. Energy towers are suited for latitudes between 20 and 30° which are usually hot and dry.

Biography:

Michael Burt, BA. Architecture & Amp; T.P. – 1963; D.Sc. -1967. Teaching and research at the Technion, 1963- 2006. 8 years Dean of the Architecture. & Amp; T.P. Faculty. Research: Structural Morphology; Marine Development. Books (Technion Publications) ‘Spatial Arrangements and Polyhedra with Curved Surfaces’…. (D.Sc. Thesis) -1966. ‘Infinite Polyhedra’ - 1974; 2005 ‘The Periodic Table of the Polyhedral Universe’ – 1996. ‘The Israeli Marine Option’….-2012 Dozens of Exhibitions in Israel & Amp; abroad. MUAR –Moscow – 2003 Arch. Biennale –Paris, 1969; representing Israel. AWARDS: Minerva Grant (1985). Japan Foundation Fellowship (1992). Pioneers Award, IASS, G.B. (2002). Israeli Architects Association Honorary Fellowship (2014), Synergy Collaborative Honors, USA – RISD, (2016).

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The dramatic growth of energy world consumption and the evolving sustainability awareness and demand, go ‘hand in hand’ and already have considerable impact on world politics and it’s economics. Wind turbine farms strive ever higher, consume ever larger space, with more complex and costlier logistics for their delivery, erection, maintenance and ‘energy crop’ distribution. This paper reports about research and development results concerning a new design- implementation paradigm of Wind and Renewable Energy Harvesting Complex, situated in the Marine Environment on floating mega-platforms. The essence of the new approach may be summarized as follows: 1. compact (wing to wing) wind turbine arrangement on floating mega-platforms, capable of auto-rotating into the wind, with 30÷60 turbines, each. 2. the platform will support additional wave-turbine rows, solar panels, sea-current activated turbines and marine bio-energy farm. 3. the whole complex facility is produced –constructed-assembled in a coastal industrial fabrication plant and sea-transported-towed and moored in its site of function. 4. the platform, a semi –submersible mega-structure array, will be solved to support all energy storage, guide instrumentation, maintenance and energy crop handling. 5. agglomeration of 4÷6 energy generating platforms, when combined, will constitute massive marine power station. 6. the compact, multi-modal, marine renewable ‘blue energy’ power station is solved for stage-completion, rearrangement and relocation, if and when desired. In conclusion: all logistics of the power station, namely: construction, erection, transportation, mooring-anchorage, maintenance, supervision, energy harvesting and its delivery, are highly industrialized, thus raising dramatically its cost-effectiveness and economic attraction.

Biography:

Yuan Liu is a joint PhD candidate from City University of Hong Kong and University of Science and Technology of China.  She has published five papers in reputed journals.

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Coal is the major energy source in China. The release of Cr, Pb, V and Zn during coal mining and utilization is considered to have prominent environmental impacts. Soil samples were collected from four representative coal mines of Huaibei (BS, RL, ZXZ and WG). The study aims to investigate the accumulation, transfer behavior and potential sources of Cr, Pb, V and Zn. The concentration of Cr, Pb, V and Zn was analyzed using ICP-MS, and sequential extraction procedure was used to find the four chemical forms. The mean concentration of Pb (22 μg/g) and V (78 μg/g) in soil samples was lower than the global soil background, while the mean concentration of Cr (82 μg/g) and Zn (72 μg/g) was higher than the global soil background. The concentrations of Pb, V and Zn were high in the oldest coal mine (BS), while Cr was high in the youngest coal mine (WG). The concentration of Cr from BS coal mine and Pb from RL coal mine decreased with increasing distance from the coal gangue. The concentration of V from BS and RL coal mine increased first and then decreased with increasing distance. Chromium, Pb and V were observed in the residual form, while Zn was observed to be in reducible form. The potential ecological risk assessment method showed that Cr, Pb, V and Zn contamination level near the coal gangue was very low.

Biography:

Rujing Wang has completed her PhD from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is the Professor at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Science. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals as the first and other authors, and has some patent for invention.

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Soil environmental chemistry is a hot topic at present. In view of the long period, high cost and low precision in soil testing, we developed a high throughput soil rapid detection system. The testing system consists of four sets: fast drying soil, automatic grinding and screening, automatic extraction of soil and automatic monitoring of soil nutrients. The system realizes the detection of short period soil (less than half a day), bulk, low cost, the traditional 300 yuan/soil fertility index sample testing costs reduced to less than 20 yuan. The corresponding equipments are in accordance with the standards of the agricultural industry of the People’s Republic of China (NY/T 2011-2016). The current system can quickly detect 12 elements including soil texture, soil pH, soil lime requirement, soil organic matter, soil total nitrogen, soil nitrogen, soil available phosphorus, soil potassium, soil available potassium, exchangeable calcium and magnesium in soil, soil available sulphur, and soil available Fe Mn Cu Zn boron. The detection precision is over 95%, and the detection speed is 400 Test/h.

Biography:

Zafer Aslan has completed her PhD in 1987 and Professor Degree at KU in 1994. She visited University of Washington, USA; IFAand International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy as part of her Postdoctoral studies. She has been working at the Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul Aydin University since 2005. She is the Director of IRD and General Coordinator of EUA (European University Association) IEP (Institutional Evaluiation Programme). She is Member of Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World - The World Academy of Sciences is and the Board Member of OSTIV FAI. She received Paul Tissandier Award, Geneva in 2013, and Simons Associate Award, ICTP, Italy in 2014. She is the Editor of nine international journals. She has more than 100 national/international papers and 23 papers pubhlished in SCI journals.

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This paper covers definition of local, meso and large-scale factors and climate changing role on wind and solar energy potential. Hourly and daily wind speed and solar radiation data define monthly and seasonal variations of wind and solar energy potential. The main aim of the paper is to define wind and solar energy potential variations at two study areas in Istanbul, (Asian Side: Kandilli and European Side: Maslak). Wind speed, solar radiation data cover the interval of 1911-2017. The paper presents some results on descriptive statistics, Wavelet applications, Speedy Model estimates and ANN (Artificial Neural Networks) simulations. Wind data makes use of the Weibull Distribution Function as a tool to represent the frequency distribution of wind speed. Solar energy potential analyses based on Wavelet shows the role of small, meso and large-scale factors on energy potential variations. Extreme winds are associated with large-scale events with periodicities between 5-20 hrs, 5-30 hrs, 30-45 hrs or 20-60 hrs in winter. Small scale and meso scale factors is associated with lower wind speed with periodicities changing up to 35 hrs. A Speedy Model approach was applied when estimating wind – solar energy potential at the site was assessed using a historical data for every 30 year period. As a conclusion available wind speed and solar radiation by using Speedy Model and ANN simulation approach realistic estimate of energy potential. This paper is dedicated to researching the potential wind-solar energy production in Istanbul. They show the role of climate changing on energy policy.

Biography:

Anthony Amoah obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK. He has since then been working with the Department of Economics, Central University in Ghana. His current research focuses on Environmental and Development Economics related issues. Apart from having several peer reviewed published papers to his credit, he is also a reviewer for some of these journals. Currently, he serves on some academic Editorial Boards as well as on non-academic boards in industry.

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Most countries in the world especially those in Asia and Africa despite undertaking policies meant to help meet Sustainable Development Goal 7, there are still a sizable number of households who have not yet fully embraced energy saving technologies. This study provides highlights on the economic and environmental benefits for investing in energy saving light-bulbs. Using a survey and a multistage random sampling approach, we administered questionnaires to 1,650 households in Ghana. The relevant diagnostic tests associated with cross-sectional data were undertaken. We estimated a maximum-likelihood probit model with its associated marginal effects to find out how choice is influenced by environmental consciousness and other demographic factors. Our results are consistent with economic theory as well as what earlier empirical evidence found in literature. That is, environmental consciousness (both local knowledge and global knowledge), education, income etc. are very important in explaining the choice of buying energy saving light-bulbs in Ghana. Besides advocating for information that will make society more environmentally conscious, we further recommend the use of fiscal policies (i.e. subsidies) to support lower income brackets who are predominant in developing countries.

Biography:

Jiamei Zhang has completed her PhD from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and City University of Hong Kong, and Postdoctoral studies from USTC. She is the Assistant Professor at the Hefei institutes of Physical science, Chinese Academy of Science. She has published more than 10 papers in reputed journals as the first and other authors.

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The distribution of 16 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water, sediment and soil samples from the middle reach of Huai River were analyzed by a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS). The total concentration of Σ16PAHs ranged from 783.83 to 1475 ng/L in water, 552.48 to 1199.57 ng/g dw. (dry weight) in sediment, and from 498.85 to 1322.83 ng/g dw. in soil. The spatial distributions of Σ16PAHs revealed that PAHs contamination in water, sediment, and soil from the middle reach of Huai River were at the midpoint of the global ranges. Along the vertical profiles of water column, higher Σ16PAHs levels were seen in surface and bottom layers. The PAHs distribution in each depth of water column is found to be controlled by organic carbon, but the correlations between PAHs and organic carbon were not observed in sediment and soil. We observed that no correlations existed between particulate-water partition coefficient (Kow) and organic carbon between water and sediment system. The principal component analysis suggests that coal combustion and refined petroleum products combustion were the primary PAHs contributors in the studied water, sediment, and soil. The risk assessment of PAHs indicated that PAHs contamination in sediment-soil system might list as middle levels, but high ecological risk of PAHs in water column.

Biography:

Mario González - Graduated in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Engineering in Peru, specialist in Management of Technological Innovation, Open Innovation approach, master and PhD in Production Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos. Research topics: Product and process innovation in wind and solar power chains. He has published articles with the themes: Open innovation applied in the wind energy supply chain; Impacts for the implementation of wind farms; Technological prospecting for wind power generation; Management of projects in the construction of wind farms and Technological prospecting for photovoltaic cells. Prof. Dr. González is the current editor of Product Magazine of the Brazilian Institute for Innovation and Product Development Management and leader of the Cri-Ação (Creation) research group at UFRN. Marllen Santos - Graduated in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and Master in Production Engineering at the same institution. She currently develops research focused on the development of the supply chain of the offshore wind energy industry in Brazil. She has published articles with the themes: Performance measurement in the prospecting stage of wind farms; Key Performance Indicators for wind farm's operation and maintenance; Environmental impacts in the installation of wind farms; Wind farm’s operation and maintenance: challenges for increasing competitiveness; and Condition monitoring systems in wind farms. She has experience in Integrated Management Systems, Project Management and Performance Management of Wind Farms. MsC. Santos is technical coordinator of the Cri-Ação Research Group.

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Biography:

Jens Peder Ulfkjær has completed his PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark and Postdoctoral studies at the Joint Research Center in Ispra Italy. He is an associate Professor at Aarhus University and is working with fracture of materials especially ultra high performance concretes. He has published more than 40 papers.

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Recently there has been an increasing interest in concrete towers for wind turbines primarily due to the fact that there is a larger demand for bigger wind turbines and higher towers, resulting in larger base diameters for these towers. Production of such towers in steel is complicated and expensive and so is transportation and erection of the towers on site. Instead smaller segments of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC) can be transported to the site by trucks and assembled on site. UHPFRC is characterized by high and compressive strength combined with an extreme high fracture energy makes it possible to make wind turbine towers of heights of over 200 m. The two main concerns are the eigenfrequencies of the tower and the fatigue resistance. This study is on the dynamic behavior of an 31.2 m high experimental UHPFRC post-tensioned wind turbine tower. The dynamic stiffness of the whole system and the soil-foundation-structure interaction is determined using Operational Modal Analysis (OMA). In addition a series of low-cycle fatigue experiments have been performed. Experiments on beams in three point bending have been performed in a newly developed test set-up. Both static and fatigue loading were carried out. Due to the high fatigue resistance of the material, focus has been on low cycle fatigue. In the tests, it is seen that the descending branch of the static experiments can be correlated to the fatigue life, indicating static tests can be used for quality control of the fatigue life.

Biography:

Jin Wei Kocsis received PhD Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 2014, MS Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii, USA at Manoa in 2008 and BE Degree at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 2004. She is an Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Akron, USA and the Director of the Cyber-Physical-Social System Design Lab. She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) from April to July 2014. Her research interests include the smart energy systems, cyber-physical systems security and privacy, renewable energy integration, social networks, and cognitive wired/wireless communication networks.

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In recent years, the increasing penetration of Renewable Energy Systems (RESs) has made an impact on the operation of the electric power systems. In the grid integration of RESs, data acquisition systems and communications infrastructure are crucial technologies to maintain system economic efficiency and reliability. Since most of these generators are relatively small, dedicated communications investments for every generator are capital cost prohibitive. Combining real-time attack-resilient communications middleware with Internet of Things (IoTs) technologies allows for the use of existing infrastructure. In this talk, I will present our work in developing an intelligent communication middleware that utilizes the Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics to complement the conventional Quality of Service (QoS) evaluation. Furthermore, our middleware employs deep learning techniques to detect and defend against congestion attacks.

Biography:

Wei Peng Sheng received PhD in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, USA in 1984. He has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan, since 1989. He has contributed to application of heat transfer in manufacturing and materials processing, and atmospheric phenomena. He has published more than 90 SCI journal papers, given keynote or invited speeches in international conferences more than 120 times. He is a Fellow of American Welding Society (AWS) in 2007 and a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (2000). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from National Science Council (2008), the Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), the Warren F Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012) and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS (2014). He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009 and was an invited Distinguished Professor at the Beijing University of Technology, China (2015-2017).

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Absorption coefficient of emission gases of carbon dioxide responsible for temperature in the troposphere layer, which is less than the altitude of 10 km in the atmosphere, is presented in this work. It has been well known that the solar irradiation within short wavelength range near the visible range can be absorbed, scattered and transmitted by the atmosphere and absorbed and reflected by the earth ground. The ground emits radiation in the ranges of long wavelengths. In the presence of carbon dioxide and other emission gases, the atmosphere acting as the glass of a greenhouse increases temperature of the atmosphere. Even though global warming strongly affects the life of the human being, the cause of global warming is still controversial. This work thus establishes a fundamental, systematical and quantitative analysis of absorption coefficient of carbon dioxide in the troposphere layer. Absorptions of carbon dioxide are considered in bands centered at 15, 10.4, 9.4, 4.3, 2.7 and 2 micro meters. The predicted absorptions agree with experimental and theoretical results in exponential wide band model.

Biography:

Dr. Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from Basque Country University. He got 3 investigation grants and worked in a company 4 years. Since 2004 he worked as full time Lecturer and since 2012 as Assoc. Prof. He has been involved in 24 competitive projects and published more than 150 papers, 38 on Educational Innovation and the remaining in specific research areas. He has 35 ISI JCR publications, more than 32 other journals and more than 85 conferences. He has belonged to more than 10 organizing committees of international conferences and to more than 15 scientific committees.

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Photovoltaic energy is one of the most disseminated green energy sources. Its operation is based on the photovoltaic effect that takes place in photovoltaic cells, which are arranged in regular formations giving place to photovoltaic panels or modules (the commercial elements that can be acquired in a normal way). The performance of the photovoltaic panels is subject to ambient conditions as temperature and irradiance, and can be predicted using the datasheets provided by the manufacturing companies. The problem is that those parameters are generic and not adapted to a specific device. In this plenary talk the practical problem of designing an empirical and data-based model of photovoltaic panels will be addressed in a generic fashion. Besides, an instance of the faced problem will be posed and solved using a commercial photovoltaic panel, more specifically a Mitsubishi PV-TD1185MF5 device placed at the Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain).

Biography:

Flavio Jose Simioni is a Professor, Environmental Economics and Management, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC) – Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He has published about 60 papers. Currently, his research is based on renewable energy, forest biomass energy, circular economy, eco-efficiency indicators and life cycle assessment.  
 

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The use of renewable energy sources is expressive in Brazil. The main categories are hydropower, biomass from sugarcane, firewood and charcoal. Firewood and charcoal are produced from eucalyptus forestry and represent 8.0% of gross domestic supply. The production of forest biomass has a great potential to increase in Brazil, due to land availability and high productivity of forest. However, there are still many challenges to the advance of forest biomass use for energy purposes. Therefore, the aim to present this study was to characterize three production systems of eucalyptus most typically used in Brazil, focusing on an analysis of the potential and the challenges for energy use. In two cases, this study analyzed the production chain of firewood, both for agricultural and industrial use. In the third case, the forest production for charcoal produce was considered. The research strategy involved data collection through visits and interviews with different agents that represent the productive chain. The results present that the chain segments characterization: inputs, forestry production, harvest and transport of firewood, and consumers. Costs and financial viability indicators for eucalyptus cultivation for firewood production are considered. Based on the results, potential and challenges are discussed.