Overview
The 2nd i-TREC 2017 topics are covered by three symposia, namely:
Symposium 1: Renewable Energy System and Regulation
The following topics will be included in this symposium (but will not be limited to):
- Renewable energy business and economics
- Smart grid and smart city
- Low energy building and eco-architecture
- Innovative and ecologically sensible design
- Wind energy
- Solar energy and solar cells
- Hydrogen and fuel cell
- Energy efficiency and storage
- Hydropower energy
- Modeling and simulation for energy storage and conversion devices
- Electrochemical process and supercapacitors
- Sustainability and regulation
- Marine renewable energy conversion
Symposium 2: Biomass and Biotechnology
The following topics will be included in this symposium (but will not be limited to):
- Advanced thermal and chemical processes
- Waste to energy
- Biomass industries and application
- Process chemistry and technology
- Recent advances in petrochemistry and engineering
- Life-cycles analysis
- Biomass conversion technologies for liquid and gaseous fuels, chemicals and materials
- Biomass conversion technologies for heating, cooling and electricity
- Biomass Policies, Markets and Sustainability
- Bioenergy in integrated energy system
- Biogas and landfill gas
- Greenhouse gas balances of biomass and bioenergy system
- Advanced biofuels technology
Symposium 3: Multifunctional and Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy Applications
The following topics will be included in this symposium (but will not be limited to):
- Carbon, graphene, oxides, composites/nanocomposites and mesostructured materials
- Catalyst and intelligent/smart materials
- Advanced superconducting, magnetic and material technologies
- Lithium, sodium, magnesium and potassium ion batteries
- Photocatalytic and electrochemical water splitting
- Electrolyte and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices