International Conference on Power and Energy Engineering September 29-30, 2016 London, UK

Goran Strbac is a Professor of Energy Systems, with extensive experience in advanced modelling and analysis of operation, planning, security and economics of energy systems. He led the development of novel advanced analysis approaches and methodologies that have been extensively used to inform industry, governments and regulatory bodies abut the role and value of emerging new technologies and systems in supporting cost effective evolution to smart low carbon future. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the SmartGrids European Technology Platform, co-chair of EU WG on Sustainable Districts and Built Environment of Smart Cities,Director of the UK Centre for Grid Scale Energy Storage,participates in working groups and committees within CIGRE, CIRED IET, IEEE and IEA. He co-authored 4 books and published over 180 technical papers.

My research focuses on the advanced electricity system modelling, that has been widely applied to comprehensively assess cost, carbon and security performance of future low-carbon electricity systems, covering all sectors of the electricity system. Our novel whole-system analysis approaches and modelling methodologies have been extensively used to inform electricity industry, governments and regulatory bodies abut the technical, economic and market challenges associated with future low carbon electricity systems including analysis of the role and value of emerging technologies, such storage, demand side response and a range of advanced transmission and distribution network technologies.

Bin Wu is a professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at the University of Missouri, and director of the Missouri Industrial Assessment Center. Wu is an internationally-recognized expert in the design and management of manufacturing and supply systems, and he has written a number of books on the subject that have been adopted as standard undergraduate and postgraduate texts worldwide. He is the recipient of numerous awards and established the International Journal of Manufacturing System Design, acting as its editor in chief since 1996. His research has been funded by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, the Kauffman Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Wu is a Royal Chartered Engineer (U.K.).

 Manufacturing and supply systems design  Health care systems engineering  Industrial energy efficiency

Jian Wang is the Professor of Aircraft Technology and research director in the school of Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering. He received the B Eng in solid mechanics at the National University of Defence Technology, China, in 1982. After working in the industry in China for nearly 10 years, He came to the UK in 1993 and completed his Ph.D. in 1998 at Cardiff University, where he worked as a research associate before moving to Cambridge University in a similar role. He was then a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast before joining Kingston University In September 2009. Jian’s main research areas include renewable energy, structural design, vibro-acoustic and noise control, structure & flow interactions, and aircraft anti-icing. He has secured research funding from EPSRC, TSB, and Industry. He was awarded the 2010 Kenneth Harris James Prize by the Aerospace Division of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and the George Stephenson Prize from the IMechE. He is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Member of the Editorial Board for three international journals as well as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Aeronautical Engineering, Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aerospace Engineering, CFD Simulation, Computational Fluid Mechanics Design Engineering, Engineering Thermodynamics Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics. Finite Element Analysis Finite Element Method Fluid Mechanics Heat Transfer Industrial Engineering Mechanical Design Mechanical Engineering Renewable Energy and Space Power Solid Mechanics Systems Engineering Thermal Engineering

Bing Wang received a doctor degree in engineering from Tsinghua University and completed a visiting research from Technological University of Munich as a Humboldt Fellow. He is the vice deputy director of School of Aerospace Engineering Tsinghua University. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Engineering. His research interests are included fundamentals of turbulent combustion and multiphase flows, combustion instabilities and new conception propulsion, combined cycle power (RDBCC, RBCC, TBCC), Scramjet, green-propellant LRE and engine cooling and dry gas sealing technologies.

Fundamentals of turbulent combustion and multiphase flows, combustion instabilities and new conception propulsion, combined cycle power (RDBCC, RBCC, TBCC), Scramjet, green-propellant LRE and engine cooling and dry gas sealing technologies

NI Mingjiang is now the professor and director of Institute for Sustainable Energy, Zhejiang University. He is also the vice-president of Chinese Society of Power Engineering and chairman of its International Committee. He served as executive vice-president of Zhejiang University before 2009. His research area is on energy and power engineering, focus on clean coal technology, solar energy, biomass energy, and waste to energy, etc.

Clean Coal Technology, Solar Energy, Biomass Energy, and Waste to Energy, etc.

Professor Ding joined the University of Birmingham in October 2013. Prior to his appointment at the University, he was Professor and Director of Institute of Particle Science and Engineering at the University of Leeds. His previous roles have included Imperial College London [1997 – 1999], University of Birmingham [1999 – 2001], and University of Science and Technology, Beijing [1988 – 1994]. He was the founding Director of the Joint Institute for Energy Storage Research between the University of Leeds and Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• energy storage research particularly on thermal (heat and cold) energy storage, compressed air energy storage and cryogenic energy storage, covering composite thermal energy storage materials, components/devices and systems. • structured particles, covering formulation, scale up of manufacturing and dissolution • suspension of nanoparticles for heat transfer at medium to high temperature applications and lubrication • energy saving technologies for process industry

Wenping Cao (M’05-SM’11) received the B.Eng in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical machines and drives from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004. He is currently a Chair Professor of Electrical Power Engineering with Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., and also a Marie Curie Fellow with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. His research interests include fault analysis and condition monitoring of electric machines and power electronics. Prof. Cao was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2013 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA), the Innovator of the Year Award from Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., in 2013, and the Dragon’s Den Competition Award from Queen’s University Belfast in 2014. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine and IET Power Electronics; he is also the Chief Editor for three Special Issues and one book, an Editor for Electric Power Components and Systems Journal as well as nine other International Journals. Prof. Cao is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA).

His research interests include fault analysis and condition monitoring of electric machines and power electronics.

Meihong was trained as Process Engineer in China, moved to the UK in 1999 to join Imperial College London as Research Assistant (also part-time PhD at University College London), and then Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2002. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as Senior Engineer in Alstom Power, UK. From 2006 to 2012, he worked at Cranfield University as Lecturer and MSc Course Director. He joined the University of Hull in 2012 as Reader in Process and Energy Systems Engineering, was promoted to Professor in Aug. 2014. Meihong is a Chartered Engineer. He has published over 100 technical papers and industrial reports. One of his publications (Lazic et al., 2014) was awarded SAGE Best Paper Prize 2014 and also Ludwig Mond Prize 2014 by IMechE. Another paper (Wang et al., 2011) is the most cited paper in Chemical Engineering Research and Design since 2010. He has been involved in 14 research projects worth around £8.84 million from Research Councils, European Union and Industry as investigators. Meihong leads the Process and Energy Systems Engineering Research Group at the University of Hull with 12 researchers.

 Process Modelling, Simulation, Control and Optimisation  Power Plant, Carbon Carbon and Transport (CCT), and Energy Storage  Bio-fuel Production  Refinery Planning and Scheduling  Process Condition Monitoring and System Identification

AbuBakr Bahaj leads the 55-strong Energy and Climate Change Division at the University of Southampton, where he completed his PhD, progressing from a researcher to a Personal Chair in Sustainable Energy. For more than 25 years, Professor Bahaj has pioneered sustainable energy research and established the energy theme within the University. His major research programmes can be found at www.energy.soton.ac.uk. These include Cities and Infrastructure, Data and Modelling, Energy and Behaviour, Energy and Buildings, Energy for Development, Environmental Impacts, Microgeneration Technologies and Renewable Energy (Solar Photovoltaics and Marine Energy). Professor Bahaj’s work has resulted in over 270 articles, published in academic refereed journals and conference series of international standing. He founded the International Journal of Marine Energy (IJOME) which he is the Editor-in-Chief. In 2012, Prof Bahaj was appointed Chief Scientific Advisor to Southampton City Council—believed to be the first such appointment in the UK and in 2014, the UK’s Science Council named him as one of the UK’s 100 leading practising scientists.

Cities and Infrastructure, Data and Modelling, Energy and Behaviour, Energy and Buildings, Energy for Development, Environmental Impacts, Microgeneration Technologies and Renewable Energy (Solar Photovoltaics and Marine Energy)

Prof. Tapas Kumar Mallick received his M.Tech and PhD in solar energy engineering from Jadavpur University, India (1998) and University of Ulster, UK (2003) respectively. He has over seventeen years of research experience in solar energy technologies. He is currently the Chair in Clean Technologies (Renewables) within the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Academic Lead, Renewable Energy, University of Exeter, UK. He has published over 150 research articles and holds two patents on solar technology and has been serving Editorial board of Advances of Solar Thermal Technology Journal. Recently his group has demonstrated biomimicry of white periodic butterfly wings into concentrating solar photovoltaics. Prof. Mallick successfully supervised six PhD candidates to completion and currently primary supervisor of fourteen PhD students.

Renewable energy, Concentrating solar photovoltaics, Heat transfer, optics and electrical modelling

Suna Bolat was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1979. She received B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in Electrical and Electronics Faculty in Istanbul, Turkey. She is presently working as an assistant professor at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU). Her research interests are in the areas of discharge phenomena, generation and measurement of high voltages, and numerical methods for electrostatic field analysis

discharge phenomena, generation and measurement of high voltages, and numerical methods for electrostatic field analysis.

Ahmad M. Harb receive his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech., Virginia, USA, in 1996. Currently, he is an a Professor at German Jordanian University (GJU). Dr. Harb is IEEE senior member. Dr. Harb served as dean for the school of natural resources engineering at GJU (Sept. 2011 – Sept. 2013). Dr. Harb is the Editor-in-Chief for two international journals, IJMNTA and IJPRES. Dr. Harb has published more than 65 journal articles and conference proceedings.

His research interests include power system, renewable energy, modern nonlinear theory (bifurcation & chaos).