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International Conference on

Renewable Energy and Vacuum Insulation for

Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs)

28th August, 2019: London South Bank University, London, UK

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TAKING PLACE

August 28, 2019

Room K2-V114, K2 Building, Keyworth Street, London South Bank University, London, SE1 0AA, UK

Learn from world-changing thinkers and innovators in the Renewable Energy and Vacuum Insulation community

A global challenge of increasing carbon emissions are generally acceptable and by now reached at an alarming rate causing fluctuating impacts on temperature and sea, levels. The Japan and UK are at the forefront having agreements in minimising carbon emissions from 1990 levels to 80% by 2050. Also there is a serious challenge particularly in the energy field of balancing the gap between peak-demand and generating capacity. In order to reduce such security-of-supply risk, retrofitting the buildings with renewable energy and advanced smart insulation technologies are a particular focus by reason of its considerable energy consumption due to space-cooling in Japan and space-heating in the UK than in any other sector. In spite of having a number of retrofitting measures and insulation technologies that have already improved heating/cooling systems as retrofitting measures, there is a scope of significantly minimising energy consumption with intelligent renewable energy systems and smart window technologies, such as vacuum insulation, that have significant scope of controlling the solar heat gain, reducing the heating/cooling loads, generating electricity with integrated renewable energy systems whilst reducing the heat loss through windows and fabric leading our buildings nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs). The notion of NZEBs is to achieve an integrated approach of renewable energy, heat storage, intelligent energy systems and vacuum insulation technologies.

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Dr Saim Memon

Dr Memon is a Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, UK. His research focuses on solar thermal vacuum engineering, smart windows, vacuum insulated glazing and various aspects of renewable energy systems. He studied BEng(hons) in Electrical Engineering (Mehran UET, Pk), MSc in Mechatronics (Staffordshire University, UK), PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Loughborough University, UK) and PGCert in Teaching Qualification FE (University of Aberdeen, UK). He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of Higher Education Academy having a Qualified Teacher status by General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). He teaches BEng/MSc modules, supervises BEng/MSc/PhD students. He has over 25 research publications in the form of journals, book chapter, conferences, book editor and newsletter. He secured funding worth of over £64k as a lead from H2020, Innovate-UK, The IET EEGS, DAIWA Anglo-Japanese, RAEng participation and Newton-Fund participation grants. He was also a PhD Researcher in an EPSRC project EP/G000387/1 CALEBRE (Consumer Appealing Low Energy Technologies for Building Retrofitting) at Loughborough University. He is developing and presented his research findings in collaboration with leading scientists in the UK, Europe, USA, Abu Dhabi, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Kenya, Peru and Russia.

Dr Saim Memon has multi-disciplinary research and academic experiences in Electrical, Electronic, Solar Thermal Vacuum Systems and Solar Energy Materials Engineering. His research experiences are on the design, development and performance analysis of the energy materials for vacuum insulated smart windows, automation and development of renewable energy technologies for microplastics debris detection and capture. His primary research lies in the area of thermoelectric materials and magneto-thermoelectrics with vacuum insulation and heat-storage for the improvement of electric vehicles charging efficiency by harnessing the waste heat and light conversion to electrical power for sustainable low-carbon electrification of electric-vehicles.

Dr Takao Katsura

Dr Katsura is an Associate Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan. His research focuses on translucent vacuum insulation panel, heat pumps, HVAC, and thermal energy storage.

Dr Anna-Karin Axelsson

Dr Axelsson is an Associate Professor at London South Bank University, UK. Her research focuses on several aspects of analytic chemistry, functional materials and coating technologies.

Dr Ali Radwan

Dr Radwan is a Research Fellow at Hokkaido University, Japan. His research focuses on concentrated photovoltaic system, solar cells, vacuum insulation panels and thermal energy engineering.

Dr Yueping Fang

Dr Fang is a Senior Lecturer in Building Services Engineering at Coventry University. His research focuses on thermal evaluation of advanced vacuum glazing and vacuum insulation systems and technologies through experimental characterisation and theoretical evaluation.

Dr Harjit Singh

Dr Singh is a Senior Lecturer in Built Environment Engineering and Energy at Brunel University London. His research focuses on various aspects of solar energy use in built environment such as vacuum insulation panels, Solar Collectors and energy efficiency in buildings.

Dr Issa Chaer

Director of Enterprise, School of Built Environment and Architecture. He is an active research academic with interests in energy conversion and energy management including CHP and trigeneration systems, refrigeration, alternative and renewable technologies, life cycle assessment, heat transfer, and energy conversion, food processing and food manufacturing, and novel techniques to reduce energy demand and carbon emission within the engineering sector.

Dr Carlos Jimenez-Bescos

Dr Jimenez-Bescos is Assistant Professor in Building Services and Environmental Design at University of Nottingham. research activities focused at international, National and regional level, with participation on projects at all levels with a focus on engaging stakeholders to adapt to climate change and understand the best low carbon technology solutions. Carlos has participated in over 10 projects for funders such as the National Environment Research Council (NERC), European Framework 7 Programme, European Regional Development Programme and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Carlos has research interest in Indoor Air Quality and energy monitoring dealing with issues in health and well-being due to low energy approaches to construction, with a great interest on big data analytics and the use of a mixed methods approach to generate a deeper understanding in energy use, energy efficiency and the impact of policy. Application of building simulation to assess the performance of low carbon technology, retrofitting solutions and low energy design, such as Passivhaus and deep renovations. Collaborating and informing stakeholders are my interest due to the multidisciplinary approach and challenges of issues in future cities and smart cities.

Prof. Hari M. Upadhyaya

He is a Professor and Head
Advanced Materials Centre
School Of Engineering. Prof. Hari Upadhyaya joined London South Bank University recently, where he would be leading as Head of the Advanced Materials Centre at the school of Engineering. Prior to a Chair in Solar Energy position at Brunel University, he was Deputy Director of the Institute of Mechanical Process and Energy Engineering and Head of Energy Engineering Division at Heriot-Watt University (2011-14). Prof. Upadhyaya was instrumental in establishing the world class PV laboratory at CREST, Loughborough University (2005-2011), where he led the Thin Film and Excitonic Solar Cell group.
With a first in BSc (Hons) and MSc in Physics (Electronics major) and a PhD from BHU, Varanasi (India), he is an expert in thin-film deposition using vacuum and non-vacuum based techniques towards photovoltaic device processing research and characterization; and pioneered the research in semiconducting junction memory devices (MEMRISTER) during doctoral and post-doctoral program before starting his academic career as Lecturer/ Sr. Lecturer from 1996 -2003 at NERIST, Itanagar, India. His research experience spans over 25 years in Renewable Energy involving activities on Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCOs), Dye-sensitized Solar Cell (DSC), Perovskite solar cells, CdTe and CIGS thin film solar cell technologies. Besides, he had also carried out DST (India) sponsored projects on Na- rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors using conducting polymers. His recent activities on Laser Lights and Diesel Particle Filter (British patent pending) links his efforts directly in C-emission reduction in the transport sector, with an established relationship with Tata motors.
Prof. Upadhyaya came to the UK as academic visitor from India through a prestigious INSA- Royal Society Fellowship to work at Imperial College (2002-05) with Prof. James Durrant, where he established himself quickly as an expert in flexible Dye-sensitized Solar Cells. In collaboration with Prof. Michael Gratzel, the inventor of the DSC technology (EPFL, Switzerland) and Prof. Ayodhya Tiwari (EMPA, Switzerland) he had established over ~15% efficient record Dye/CIGS Tandem Solar Cells in 2006, which was highest for thin film based tandem solar cells at that time. With a reputation in innovation, Prof. Upadhyaya had been involved in managing several Innovate UK/TSB and EPSRC sponsored programs such as Excitonic Supergen consortium involving top Universities in UK, and the flagship EPSRC-DST funded APEX project between India and UK worth £5 Million, extended now to APEX-II with additional £3M, as coordinator from UK, which involved top UK and Indian Institutions. The success of this bilateral (Indo-UK) program has earned him the first ‘Newton Prize ’ and formed the basis of winning the GCRF sponsored SUNRISE program worth ~£8M led by Swansea University, where he is one of the Co-investigators (Pl. see. http://www.sunrisenetwork.org). Prof. Upadhyaya has established strong links with industries in the UK and abroad viz. Solaronix SA, Scientific Vacuum Systems,, NSG-Pilkington, BIPVCo, NanoCo, G-24 Power, DuPont Teijin Films, Johnson Matthey, BHEL, Tata steel, Moserbaer, Energy For You (E4U), Power on Demand, Milman, etc.
Prof. Upadhyaya’s research being applied and industry focused has led his vision in seeing the impact of technology reaching to common and deprived mass. In this pursuit, he is joining hands with E4U, (the French holding company) and SVS Ltd (UK) in setting up a New company, NanoGigaSolar “NGS” (an R&D and Consultancy entity) in the UK with a focus on the development of flexible CIGS on steel foil for BIPV application along with other elements connected with Renewable Energy generation, storage, energy transport, and distribution.

This international conference is a multidisciplinary forum of sharing the expertise and presenting the state-of-the-art research work in the form of presentations for the following themes.