International Conference on Material Science & Smart Materials

📕 NEW PUBLICATION!!! "A #CFD Study on Different Configurations of Spacer-Filled #MembraneDistillation System Using #OpenFOAM" Our partners from Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) have made the chapter from #SimHydro2023 conference proceedings accessible. Here what it is about: #CircularEconomy initiatives like the EC funded #iWAYS project promote the reuse of #WasteHeat in industrial sites. This presents opportunities and challenges for technological adaptation. Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally driven process for #WaterTreatment that can use waste heat. However, effectively treating complex industrial #wastewater requires adapting MD units to achieve reliable and efficient performance. Filament #spacers within the MD units play a key role in structural maintenance and flow mixing. CFD simulations can help to characterize filament spacer configuration impacts on the hydrodynamic of feed and permeate channels, which affects both trans-membrane temperature gradient and membrane fouling control. Here, we performed a CFD study on a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) sub-unit with the goal of evaluating impact on robustness and performance of a set of designed filament spacer configurations. The modeled membrane distillation system has an overall length of 200 mm, width of 10 mm and height of 4.1 mm, containing two layers of filaments in each of the feed and permeate channels. The diameter of the filaments was 1 mm, and they had a 45° degree angle to the flow direction in the channels. Variations of this standard filament configuration were also tested and simulated to optimize their mixing performance. The numerical simulations to approximate in a 3D solution of Navier-stokes equations for steady state conditions were performed using OpenFOAM code. The computational domains were meshed using OpenFOAM snappyHexMesh utility, and finite-volume based simulation relying on the chtMultiRegionFoam solver was executed in parallel over 40 CPU cores. Comparing the CFD analysis of different filaments' configurations lead to an assessment of an improved spacer structure. The selected configuration is to be #3D printed for laboratory-scale experimental confirmation of the validity of the CFD model and the optimal configuration finding. Find this and all other #iWAYSpublication.s here 📚 https://lnkd.in/eKa_w76P Authors: Atefeh Tizchang Morgan ABILY Olivier Delestre Wolfgang Gernjak

Want to know more about "Radiative Heat Pipe Ceiling for #WasteHeatRecovery and Uniform Cooling in the #ceramics #industry"? Don't miss Bertrand Delpech PhD from Brunel University London holding his presentation at International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (#SEEP2024) in #Vienna! 🇦🇹 📆 Monday, 9. September, 12:45-13:00 🎫 https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)

Don't miss Jurgita Malinauskaite, Prof of Law at Brunel University London, putting a focus on "The Water-Energy-Materials nexus in an industrial setting: #legal and practical peripheries." She will present at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (#SEEP2024) during the #iWAYS Symposium. Agenda and booking options 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D #industry #circulareconomy #conference

👀 Curious to know more about "Performance of a Heat Pipe Condensing Heat Exchanger in an Aggressive Gas Stream"? Listen to the presentation of Robertas Poškas from Lithuanian Energy Institute at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (#SEEP2024) next Monday, 📆 9. September 2024 in #Vienna 🇦🇹. Aagenda and booking options 👉 https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D #watertreatment #circulareconomy #conference #industry #energysaving #decabonisation #wasteheatrecovery

Our next #iWAYS #Symposium will take place, next week at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection (#SEEP2024) in #Vienna! 🇦🇹 Kicking off right away on Monday, 9.9. at 11:30 with Luca MONTORSI from Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia talking about "Progress on #Water closed loops in #industrial processes". Find agenda and booking options here: https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D #watertreatment #circulareconomy #conference

Want to know what exactly you will miss if not coming to #Vienna to #SEEP2024 #Conference? Have a look at our full agenda! 🗓 https://lnkd.in/dJmSBD27 Tickets available here: 🎫 https://lnkd.in/dg-EpjG7 #SustainableEnergy #industry #CircularEconomy #environment #decarbonisation #wasteheatrecovery #watertreatment

We are honoured to have Dr. Ibrahim Dincer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ontario Tech University 🇨🇦, as one of our speakers at #SEEP2024. He will present "#SustainableEnergy and Environmental Protection with #Hydrogen and #EnergyStorage Options". Renowned for his pioneering works in the area of #SustainableEnergy technologies he has authored/co-authored many books and book chapters, along with many refereed journal and conference papers. Dr. Dincer has chaired many national and international conferences, symposia, workshops and technical meetings. He has delivered many keynotes and invited lectures and is an active member of various international scientific organizations and societies. Dr. Dincer serves as editor-in-chief, associate editor, regional editor, and editorial board member on various prestigious international journals. He currently serves as President for Hydrogen Technologies Association in Turkey and Chair for Energy Working Group in Turkish Academy Of Sciences. Dr. Dincer is a recipient of several research, teaching and service awards, including the Premier’s research excellence award in Ontario, Canada. During the past nine years he has been recognized by Thomson Reuters as one of the Most Influential Scientific Minds in #Engineering and one of the most highly cited researchers. During the past 25 years Dr. Dincer’s research and activities have been diverse and primarily focussed on sustainable energy solutions, sustainable communities and cities, #DistrictEnergy systems, green buildings, #RenewableEnergy technologies, energy storage technologies, hydrogen energy technologies, and waste to energy technologies. His group has developed various novel #technologies for commercialization. He is known for his engineering education related talks as a committed educator. Don't miss his presentation and book your ticket now https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D

💡 Want to learn more about "Sector coupling in the heavy industries" and "The upcoming role of renewable #electricity in energy intensive processes"? Listen to Prof Jürgen Karl at #SEEP2024 (9.-12.9., #Vienna)! The #defossilization of #EnergyIntensive industrial processes is one of the unresolved tasks of the energy transition. In the #chemical, #glass, #lime, #cement and #steel industries in particular, huge quantities of #FossilFuels such as #gas and #coal will continue to be used worldwide for the time being to provide process temperatures around or above 800°C. While #HeatPumps are gaining increasing acceptance for the provision of process heat in lower temperature ranges, solutions for the use of volatile electricity from wind and PV are not yet foreseeable. The contribution will present the options for electrical heating of high-temperature processes using the example of steam reforming and calcination in the cement industry and will discuss the technical implementation and economic potentials. Prof. Karl holds the Chair of Energy Process Engineering at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg’s EnergyCampus Nuremberg (EnCN) since 2011 and works intensively on the combustion and gasification of solid fuels, the synthesis of energy sources from #RenewableEnergies, storage technologies and the economic evaluation of new energy technologies. In 2007, he founded the start-up company agnion Inc. with investors from California and Munich, which was rated as one of the 30 most promising greentech start-ups in Germany by Wirtschaftswoche and strategy consultants Roland Berger in early 2012. Book your ticket for the event here https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D

We are thrilled to announce Prof. Maricruz Sanchez-Sanchez as one of the #SEEP2024 speakers, presenting "#Nanostructured catalysts for sustainable production of #fuels and #chemicals". Sánchez-Sánchez studied #ChemicalEngineering in Granada. She moved to the Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry in Madrid for her PhD studies. In 2010 she joined as postdoctoral fellow the department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, and in 2012 she became Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Munich. There she completed her Habilitation in Technical Chemistry in 2020. In October 2021 she joined @Technische Universität Wien Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering as Full Professor of Chemical Engineering. Sánchez’ research in the field of heterogeneous catalysis includes studies of mixed metal oxides, acid zeolites and the combination of metal ions hosted in zeolites. She received the Jochen Block Prize from the German Catalysis Society in 2017 for her outstanding career as young researcher in the field of #catalysis. The research fields of the Catalysis Design and Reaction Engineering group are: - Sustainable catalytic processes for the production of fuels and essential chemical building blocks - Novel nano-tailored materials with catalytic functions - Reaction kinetics and in situ spectroscopic characterization of solid catalysts - Alternative energy inputs and designs for catalytic reactors CSIC

📢 We are delighted to announce that Prof Ian Reaney FIMMM FRMS will be joining us as one of the esteemed speakers at the #SEEP2024 #conference! Ian M. Reaney (IMR, PI) is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and the IOM3 (Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining), and Dyson Chair in Ceramics at University of Sharjah (UoS). He is European Site Director for the US National Science Foundation Centre for #Dielectrics and #Piezoelectrics. At the 16th international Conference on #SustainableEnergy and Environmental Protection he will be talking about high energy density capacitors that can operate at high voltage and temperature. These are currently needed to meet the growing demand in the #battery management systems of #ElectricVehicles and large-scale #EnergyStorage devices. Polymer dielectric capacitors offer high power/energy density for applications at room temperature, but above 100°C they are unreliable and suffer from dielectric breakdown. For high-temperature applications, therefore, dielectric ceramics are the only feasible alternative. Lead-based ceramics such as La-doped lead zirconate titanate exhibit good energy storage properties, but their toxicity raises concern over their use in consumer applications, where capacitors are exclusively lead free. Lead-free compositions with superior power density are thus required. Key factors to improve energy storage properties include control of local structure, phase assemblage, dielectric layer thickness, microstructure, conductivity, and electrical homogeneity through the choice of base systems, dopants, and alloying additions. The current and future requirements for materials in high energy density capacitor applications are discussed. Learn more about SEEP Conference and all speakers https://lnkd.in/eP3-7J-D