Thermal Energy Storage for Clean Cooling - Challenges & Recent Progress

Prof. Yulong Ding, University of Birmingham

Professor Ding holds founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering and is the founder of the University of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) and Birmingham Industrial Decarbonisation Taskforce (BIDT). He has published 500+ papers in peer-reviewed journals (GS H-Index >100) and filed ~100 patents, with ~50% related to energy storage. He is an inventor of liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of technology developments (commercialised by Highview). He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacturing technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with total installations exceeding ~1000MW / ~8GWh so far. His work on passively cooled container technology has led to large scale commercial demonstration for cold chain applications. His work on perovskite-based CO2 splitting led to the creation of PeroCycle Ltd. His work has been recognised by the election by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to receive a Humboldt Research Award (2023); Institute of Refrigeration J&E Hall Gold Medal (2023), IChemE Clean Energy Medal (2021), election to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020); IChemE Global Awards in three categories of Energy, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement (2019). 

The Role of Latent Thermal Energy Storage in the Decarbonization: from Lab to Market

 Assoc. Prof. Simone Mancin，University of Padova 

Simone Mancin is an Associate Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and the Director of the Thermal Energy Innovation research group at the University of Padova, Italy.  He is also member of the Centre for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Technologies of Brunel University London. His research mainly focuses on single- and two- phase heat transfer in enhanced solutions for air conditioning and refrigeration, waste thermal energy management, electronics cooling; Phase Change Materials (PCMs) and Thermochemical Material (TCM) for advanced latent thermal energy storages, and additive manufacturing for Thermal Science. He is the author or co-author of about 250 papers, most published in the international scientific journals. He is associate editor of HEDH, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Journal of Energy Storage, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Heat Transfer Research and he is member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Thermofluids and Energies.

Prospects for the development of thermal energy storage with ice slurry adapting to new electricity system

Prof. Xianting Li，Tsinghua University

Prof. Xianting Li got his PhD and started his career in Tsinghua University in 1995. He is now a full professor at Dept. of Building Science, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), and Head of Dept. of Building Science. He also serves as the President of Section E, International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR), Vice-President of Chinese Association of Refrigeration (CAR); editorial board member of Energy and Buildings, Indoor and Built Environment, Journal of Building Engineering, International Journal of Ventilation etc.; a fellow of International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) and fellow of International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA).

His research interests include demand-oriented non-uniform indoor environment, high temperature cooling and low temperature heating, air conditioning with natural energies and thermal energy storage, energy-efficient air handling unit and heat pump systems. He has published 10+ books or chapters in book, 260+ journal papers in English, 100+ journal papers in Chinese, 60+ conference papers in English, 100+ Chinese patents.

Study on efficient heating method by solar coupled air source heat pump system with phase change heat storage

 Prof. Xuejun Zhang，Zhejiang University

Dr. Professor Xuejun Zhang is Director of the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics of Zhejiang University. His current research interests focus on energy recovery, utilization and control in HVAC systems, mainly including thermal-moisture decoupling theory, energy storage AC system, dehumidification AC system, air separation and purification technology, and cultural relic’s environment control technology etc. In recent years, he has obtained 50 authorized Chinese invention patents, and published over 100 SCI papers, and by the leading research achievement named “Research and application of the control technology of museum thermal-moisture environment”, he won the second prize of the Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Award.

Thermal Energy Storage: Highly-efficient Mechanisms and Dynamic Regulation Methods

Prof. Ming-Jia Li，Beijing Institute of Technology 

Professor Ming-Jia Li is a tenured professor and vice dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering in Beijing Institute of Technology. She is deputy director of Non-silicon Micro-nano Manufacturing Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. She has been selected for the National High-Level Talent Program, appointed as a Ministry of Education Changjiang Distinguished Professor, and serves as a core member of the MOE Breakthrough Program. Her research focuses on Frontiers of Energy and Power Engineering, Energy Storage and Development & Utilization of New Energy. As a Chief Scientist, she hosted national research programs including the Key Basic Research Projects of the Science and Technology Commission of China and the National Key R&D Program of China. She also served as the principal investigator for multiple projects. Over 100 SCI papers are published as the first/corresponding author in world-renowned journals. Among these, 14 papers are ranked as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers, and 12 papers are selected as Research Fronts in the ESI database. She holds an H-index of 59 with over 11,000 citations. She consistently appears on the Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researchers list and the World’s Top 2% Scientists list. She delivered 31 plenary reports and invited keynotes at international and domestic conferences, and served as a session chair 16 times.

Honors and awards received include the Hewitt-Goldstein Young Investigator Award, Asian Young Scientist Award, National High-level Talents Program, National Outstanding Young Talents Program, First Prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, etc.

She serves as associate editor for 2 international journals, on the editorial boards for 6 other international journals. She is the Junior Commission Member of B2 Professional Committee of Intl. Institute of Refrigeration, the director of Working Committee of New Energy Storage Technology and Comprehensive Energy System of Chinese Association of Refrigeration, and the deputy director of Youth Committee of Heat and Mass Transfer of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, among others.