IRSEC'19: 7th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference Sofitel Agadir Royal Bay Agadir, Morocco, November 27-30, 2019

Conference website	http://www.med-space.org/irsec19
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irsec19

The Seventh Edition of the International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference (IRSEC’19) aims to provide an international forum to facilitate discussion and knowledge exchange of the state-of-the-art research findings and current and future challenges and opportunities related with all facets and aspects of renewable and sustainable energy. The target public of IRSEC’19 includes all interested people from academia, industry and government, particularly, researchers, policy-makers, engineers, PhD and Masters students and other specialists interested in all issues related to renewable and sustainable energy.

The scope of IRSEC’19 covers a broad range of hot topics including renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency, green energy, sustainable energy systems, and smart grid. This Seventh Edition will focus on appropriate use of solar energy in the desalination technology of sea water, water supply, water treatment, and reuse, including the related sciences and technologies.

Submission deadline: August 31, 2019 (Submit now)

 

Keynotes - Workshops - Tutorials

• Renewable Energy and Energy Storage at Argonne National Lab
  
  By Dr. Kawtar Hafidi
  Associate Laboratory Director Physical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
• Climate change, Emerging Contaminants, a Challenge for the Water Industry
  By Dr. Saad Y. Jasim, P.Eng.
  SJ Environmental Consultants (Windsor) Inc., Canada.
• Battery Storage Systems for Mobility and Electrification at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
  Dr. Ilias Belharouak
  Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, USA.
• Artificial Intelligence Enabling the Future of Batteries
  By Prof. Rachid Yazami
  KVI PTE LTD, Singapore.

Workshop 1: Crystalline-Silicon Photovoltaics

Chairs:

Dr. Ivan Gordon, Manager of Silicon Photovoltaics Group, IMEC, Belgium.
Prof. Rasit Turan, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

• Overview of main Silicon PV technologies and trends
  By Dr. Ivan Gordon
  Manager of Silicon Photovoltaics Group, IMEC, Belgium &
  Editor-in-Chief – Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells – Elsevier Journal.
• Development of electron and hole selective layers for dopant-free c-Si solar cells
  By Prof. Rasit Turan
  Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
  Director of the Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GÜNAM), Turkey.
• High performance semi-transparent Si-based carrier-selective passivating contacts for c-Si solar cells manufactured at different thermal budgets
  By Dr Olindo Isabella
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
• Passivating contacts for silicon and perovskite solar cells
  By Prof. Stefaan De Wolf
  KAUST Solar Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

Workshop 2: Renewable energy and desalination sustainability

Chairs:

Prof. Mohamed Ali Darwish, Retired from Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar.
Dr. Hassan Kamal Mohamed Abdulrahim,
Kuwait University, Kuwait.

• Cogeneration power desalting plants
  By Prof. Mohamed Ali Darwish
  Retired from Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar.
• Desalination and Air Conditioning: "Two Birds One Stone"
  By Dr. Hassan Kamal Mohamed Abdulrahim (Workshop 2 Chair) Kuwait University, Kuwait.
• Membrane Distillation – A Sustainable and Renewable Energy Driven Water Reclamation Process
  By Dr. Lijo Francis
  Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar.
• Salinity Gradient Processes: FO and PRO – Are They Really the Answers to Desalination and Sustainable Energy Production?
  By Dr. Sarper Sarp
  Swansea University, UK.
  Editor-in-Chief of Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Elsevier)
  Editorial Board Member of Desalination (Elsevier).
• Surface Modified Membranes for Desalination by Membrane Distillation Technology
  By Prof. Mohamed Khayet
  Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.

Workshop 3: Energy Efficiency in Building and Industry

Chairs:

Prof. Moncef Krarti, University of Colorado, USA.
Prof. Mohammed Garoum, EST, Mohammed V University, Morocco.

• Towards Designing and retrofitting Sustainable and Intelligent Buildings
  Prof. Moncef Krarti (Session Convener and Keynote Speaker)
  University of Colorado, USA.
• On the measurement of thermal diffusivity of building materials by “flash” technique – Modelling, sensitivity analysis and inverse estimation based approaches
  Prof. Mohammed Garoum (Session Convener and Invited Speaker)
  EST, Mohammed V University, Morocco
• Inverse Heat Transfer Problems
  Prof. Helcio R. B. Orlande (Keynote Speaker)
  Escola Politécnica, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Workshop 4: Next generation of Solar Devices

Chairs:

Prof. Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Prof. Ahmed Ennaoui, Retired from HZB-Germany & Actually President of the Scientific Council of IRESEN.

• Stable perovskite solar cells by compositional and interface engineering
  by Prof. Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Water Splitting for Energy: The Challenge of Irreversibility and Self-Organization
  by Prof. Helmut Tributsch
  Retired from: Free University Berlin, Institute for physical and theoretical Chemistry, &Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy, Germany.
• Photoelectrochemical tandem cells for highly efficient, unassisted solar fuels production
  By Prof. Thomas Hannappel
  Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.
• Nanomaterials for Energy Applications
  By Dr. Abdelhafed Taleb
  Sorbonne University, France.
• Surface and Interface Characterization by X-ray and Electron Spectroscopies – Insights into Chalcopyrite and Perovskite-based Thin Film Solar Cell Structures
  By Prof. Marcus Bär
  Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, GmbH, Germany &
  Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN), Berlin, Germany

The associated Tutorial: Photoelectrochemical (PEC) vs. Photovoltaic (PV) devices: Fundamental similarities for solar energy conversion

Presenter: Prof. Ahmed Ennaoui
Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles, Morocco.

Workshop 5: Future Battery for e-Mobility & Stationary Storage Applications: Lithium-ion Technology and Beyond

Chairs
Dr. Khalil Amine, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
Prof. Ismael Saadoune, FST, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.

• Advances in lithium ion battery and beyond toward mass electrification and grid scale storage
  Dr. Khalil Amine
  distinguished Fellow and manager of the Advanced Lithium Battery Technology program at Argonne National Laboratory, IL, USA.
• Next Generation Zinc Batteries for Wide Integration of Energy Storage
  By Prof. Zhongwei Chen
  Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Cobalt Free Cathode Material of Li(Li_0.16Ni_0.19Fe_0.18Mn_0.46)O₂ for Lithium-ion Batteries
  Prof. Xinping Qiu
  Tsinghua University, China.
• Taking a Closer Look at SEI Chemistry
  By Dr. Kang Xu
  U. S. Army Research Laboratory, USA.
• New and non distractive Diagnostic system to probe battery failure
  Prof. Tetsuya Osaka
  Institute for Research Organization for Nano & Life Innovation, Japan
• Recent advances in energy storage technologies for higher power and large scale applications
  Prof. Dominique Guyomard
  Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel at Nantes, France.

The associated Tutorial: Energy Storage Tutorial.

Presenter: Dr. Mouad Dahbi
Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Med VI Polytechnic University, Benguerir, Morocco.

Special Sessions:

Special Session 1: Biomass and Biogas Energy

• Assessment of different biomass potential as bioenergy sources
  By Prof. Hassan El Bari (Session Convener and Inviter Speaker)
  Moroccan Association of Solid Waste, President
  Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco, Full Professor
• Policies for the 22nd century- climate, food, waste and energy
  Dr. David-Newman (Keynote Speaker)
  President of World Biogas Association, UK
• Microalgae-Microbial Fuel Cell (MMFC) for Bioelectricity Generation and Domestic Wastewater Treatments
  Prof. Hadiyanto (Keynote Speaker)
  Center of Biomass and Renewable Energy (CBIORE), Diponegoro University, Indonesia.

Special Session 2: Magnetocaloric refrigeration

• Past, Present and Future Challenges of Magnetocalorics
  By Prof. Mohamed Balli (Session Convener and Inviter Speaker)
  International University of Rabat, Morocco.

Special Session 3: Harnessing Local Resources for sustainable development

• Some examples of using local resources in adsorption and catalytic processes involved in sustainable development technologies
  By Prof. Tarik Chafik (Session Convener and Inviter Speaker)
  Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Tangier, Morocco.
• Few examples in valorizing natural local resources in electrochemical storage
  by Dr. Fouad-Ghamouss (Inviter Speaker)
  University of Tours, France.

Special Session 4: Predicting materials and device structure by Materials Theory tools, Computation, & Design

• Prof. Abdelilah Benyoussef (Session Convener)
  Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques, Morocco
• Prof. Mohammed Hamedoun (Session Convener)
  MAScIR, Rabat, Morocco
• First-principle Vs Experimental Design of Nanomaterials
  By Prof. Omar Mounkachi (Session Convener and Inviter Speaker)
  Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

The associated Tutorial: Predicting materials and device structure by Materials Theory tools, Computation, & Design.

• Prof. El Mehdi Salmani
  Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
• Prof. Omar Mounkachi
  Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.

Special Session 5: Metal hydrides’ Energy

• Optimization of metal hydride anodes and LiBH₄ -based electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium ion batteries
  By Dr. Abdelouahab El Kharbachi (Session Convener and Invited Speaker)
  Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), Germany
• Metal hydrides for H2 storage, heat storage, and anode for Li-ion batteries
  By Prof. Takayuki Ichikawa (Keynote Speaker)
  Hiroshima University, Japan
• Metal Hydrides as Hydrogen Carriers
  Prof. Marcello Baricco (Keynote Speaker)
  Department of Chemistry and NIS, University of Torino, Italy
• Hydrogen storage properties of Mn and Cu substituted TiFe intermetallic compounds
  By Dr. Erika Michela Dematteis (Invited Speaker)
  Researcher at CNRS, Thiais, France
• Dynamics and Structural Evolution in a Solid-state Mg-ion Conductor
  By Dr. Michael Heere (Invited Speaker)
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein, Germany.

Special Session 6: Metal–halide perovskites the "wonder semiconducting material"

• Prof. Shahzada Ahmad (Session Convener and Keynote Speaker)
  BCMaterials-Basque center for materials, applications & nanostructures, Leioa, Spain
• Prof. Samrana Kazim (Keynote Speaker)
  BCMaterials-Basque center for materials, applications & nanostructures, Leioa, Spain
• Dr. Morten Madsen (Invited Speaker)
  University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Submission Guidelines

We invite Research Paper submissions to the conference using the IEEE Standard template. The full papers should be submitted in PDF format using the online Submission System.

List of Topics

• Solar Energy
• Wind Energy
• Sea Power
• Hydroelectric Power
• Thermal and Recycling
• Biomass
• Command and control systems for RE
• Eco-Design
• Transportation generation
• Distribution Power System
• Batteries and energy storage
• Energy harvesting
• Renewable energy for IT equipment
• Green technology
• Hydrogen energy storage
• Energy efficiency
• Smart Grid
• Water, food, and energy nexus
• PV and Water pumping
• desalination and advanced water treatment

Publication

IRSEC’19 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference. All papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers will be invited to prepare the extended version to high scored journals:

• International Journal of Hydrogen Energy - Elsevier  (IF:  4.08)
• Sustainable Cities and Society - Elsevier (IF: 4,62)
• ACS journal Energy & Fuels  (IF: 3,02)
• Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. (Elsevier Journal)
• ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
• International Journal of Renewable Energy Development.
   

Exhibition in IRSEC'19:

A large exhibition space will be set upped to accommodate national and international industrialists.

More information, please visit:www.med-space.org/irsec19/exhibition

Contact

Youssef Zaz
irsec@med-space.org
Phone: +212-662-102-167