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Integrating DERs in Wholesale Markets and Creating Distribution Markets

Professor Nazar (Chemistry) discussed “Electrochemical energy storage using lithium sulphur conversion chemistry with liquid and solid state electrolytes” at the meeting.

The Molecular Foundry is a nanoscience research facility that provides visiting researchers (“users”) with access to cutting-edge expertise and instrumentation in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. The Molecular Foundry’s 2021 Annual User Meeting will be hosted virtually with free registration to bring our scientific community together in a safe and accessible format. This annual conference focuses on frontier research topics of interest to that community of users, providing a forum to share results and exchange ideas, and bringing together leading researchers, junior scientists, postdocs, and students.

Professor Li (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering) served as the President of the Fuel Cell Division, International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), and the Fuel Cell Division that organized the 2021 World Fuel Cell Conference (WFCC).

The WFCC is a multidisciplinary conference on the latest development and advancement of hydrogen and fuel cells, and provides a forum for the exchange of the latest scientific and technical information, for the dissemination of high-quality research results, and for the debate and shaping of future directions and priorities in hydrogen fuel cell science, technology, engineering, application and commercialization. This conference targets technical issues and interconnections between fuel cells and hydrogen.

Plotting the path to a hydrogen economy

Professor. Ghaddar (Management Sciences) gave a keynote talk on “Polynomial optimization in power and water network operations”. She discussed several challenging optimization problems in power and water networks involving both operational decisions and non-linear models of the underlying physics described by the network. However, these networks exhibit a nice sparse structure. This talk provided an overview of approaches that combined recent advances in conic relaxation of polynomial optimization problems along with exploiting the underlying problem. These approaches were demonstrated in applications arising in power and water networks.

Professor Li (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering) gave a talk on “Development of advanced MEAs for next-generation PEM fuel cells”.

This workshop was held in collaboration with the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran and the Engineering Skills Development Centre (ESDC).