Conference Outline
This international symposium welcomes participants of professionals dedicated to theories, experiments, simulations, on the development of functional materials for fuel cells, heat pumps, sorption systems and their applied aspects. Attendees will include consulting engineers, design engineers, contractors, architects, manufacturers, researchers and academics. The IMPRES held in every three years and this is the second international conference after the successful completion of IMPRES2007 at Kyoto, Japan. We hope to have stimulating and lively discussions in the heart of the city state Singapore.
SCOPE
The conference is concerned with the application of novel materials in the field of energy systems with special focus on the gas-solid reaction processes in various energy conversion systems.
Materials for fuel cells, heat pumps, sorption systems and other energy conversion and storage devices will be discussed.
Common concerns include material reactivity, heat and mass transfer characteristics, durability, stability under high-temperature and severe conditions and cost. This conference aims to bring workers focusing on different aspects of gas-solid reactions in energy conversion and promote an interchange of ideas across subjects.
Topics
The following list of topics illustrates the scope of the conference.
- Materials application
- Materials for electric energy conversion and storage
- Solid oxide fuel cells
- Polymer electrolyte membrane and direct methanol fuel cells
- Thermoelectric devices
- Hydrogen production, storage and carrier systems
- Batteries and materials for thermal energy conversion and storage
- Chemical heat pumps
- Sorption heat pumps
- Phase change material heat storage
- Desiccant systems
- Materials performance
- Improved performance of materials
- Reactivity
- Heat and mass transfer
- Energy storage and conversion density
- Durability in repetitive operation including high temperatures and severe conditions
- Materials design
- Composite materials
- Membrane reactors
- System reliability (corrosion, reactor sealing, reaction selectivity, etc.)
- Others
Call for Papers
The conference will be conducted in English. Extended abstract(s) related to the above topics are invited by May 28, 2010.
Organizer
- IMPRES2010 Organizing Committee
c/o Prof. Bidyut Baran Saha, Kyushu University, Japan
E-mail: saha@mech.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Co-organizers
- Division of Energy Engineering, Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
- Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore
- Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan
- School of Mechanical &Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
