Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Systems

Prof. Mohan Kolhe is with the University of Agder (Norway) as full professor in electrical power engineering with focus in smart grid and renewable energy in the Faculty of Engineering and Science. He has also received the offer of full professorship in smart grid from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is a leading renewable energy technologist and has previously held academic positions at the world's prestigious universities e.g. University College London (UK/Australia), University of Dundee (UK); University of Jyvaskyla (Finland); Hydrogen Research Institute, QC (Canada); etc. He has been successful in winning competitive research funding from the prestigious research councils (e.g. Norwegian Research Council, EU, EPSRC, BBSRC, NRP, etc.) for his work on sustainable energy systems. He has published extensively in the energy systems engineering. Dr. Muhammad Aziz is currently an associate professor at Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University (2004), master’s degree and Doctor’s degree from Engineering, Department of Intelligent Machinery and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University. His major areas of research interests include Energy systems, Process design, Power generation, Carbon capture and storage, Hydrogen production, Renewable Energy, Energy conservation, Energy and exergy analysis, Exergy recovery, Electric vehicle, Batteries, and Smart grid. Dr Abdel El Kharbachi, DEA, Ph.D. is currently an associate professor at the Electrochemical Energy Storage of Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), Germany. He obtained his M.Sc. (Chemistry) and DEA (Chemistry) from the University of Liège, and also his PhD. From Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. Abdel El Kharbachi, DEA, PhD. Has served as a research associate in france at both the CEA-Saclay (for ITER project) and LRCS Lab-Amiens (Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides). He has a panoply of research experiences in materials characterization and thermodynamics, and inorganic analytical (electro)chemistry. In 2015-2018, he worked at IFE-Norway as a researcher and project leader for battery-related activities based on hydrides. Late 2018, Abdel joined the Fichtner Group HIU/KIT in the framework of CELEST (Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm & Karlsruhe) as a senior scientist working and supervising the research on novel oxy-fluoride materials for Li/Na ion and solid-state batteries. Since 2019, he serves as Guest Editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Editorial Board member of MDPI journals (Sustainability, Crystals etc.). Professor Tri Yogi Yuwono is currently at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology-Indonesia, the university where he obtained his bachelor's degree and was the president (2011-2015). He obtained his master's (DEA) and PhD degrees in 1990 and 1993 respectively from the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. He has published more than 55 international papers. He is a reviewer in several respected international journals. His main research interests are fluid flow, wind turbines, and hydrokinetic turbines.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Study of a Steam Re-former Unit Performance to Produce Hydrogen Fuel for PEM Fuel Cell Applications.- Fuel cell power pack with integrated metal hydride hydrogen storage for powering electric forklift.- Testing an In-House CFD Code for Solving Gas-Solid Flow with Different Simulation Parameters.