Program: MEI Symposium 22

Program

• 8:00 am - 9:35 am : Opening and plenary

  PLENARY Lecture Theatre - B117
  8:00am – 8:30am	REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
  8:30am – 8:40am	Welcome and opening of MEI Symposium 22 Prof. Michael Brear, Director, Melbourne Energy Institute
  8:40am – 9:35am	Opening plenary: Paving the way to Australia’s net-zero future  Mr. Daniel Westerman, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) As Australia moves rapidly away from its dependency on coal generation, our energy future will be built on four pillars: low-cost renewable energy, taking advantage of the abundant wind, solar and hydro resources that Australia has to offer; firming technology like pumped hydro, batteries, and gas generation, to smooth out the peaks and fill in the gaps from that variable renewable energy; new transmission to connect these new and diverse low-cost sources of generation to our towns and cities; and grids capable of running, at times, entirely on renewable energy. In a keynote address, AEMO CEO Mr Daniel Westerman explores the changes that need to occur to enable a smooth transition to a net-zero energy system, drawing from unique insights from AEMO’s latest reports into Australia’s energy system.

• 9:35 am - 12:50 pm : Morning sessions

  	STREAM 1 (MORNING) Singapore Theatre - B120 Energy Systems  Chair: Prof. Pierluigi Mancarella, Program Leader	STREAM 2 (MORNING) Malaysian Theatre - B121 Energy Materials  Chair: Dr. Christian Brandl on behalf of  A/Prof. Wallace Wong, Program Leader
  9:35am – 10:25am	Keynote: Operational challenges of high renewable dominated grids and some perspectives Prof. Tapan Saha, Professor, Leader of Power, Energy & Control Engineering, Leader of UQ Solar, Leader of UQ Industry 4.0 Energy TestLab, University of Queensland	Keynote: Promising top cell candidates for Si-based tandem cells Prof. Xiaojing Hao, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney.
  10:25am – 10:50am	MORNING TEA
  10:50am – 11:20am	The role of hydrogen in decarbonising a coupled energy system Mr. Yimin Zhang, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne	The synergy of automated fabrication, testing and machine learning: Open access materials discovery platform Dr. Maciej Adam Surmiak, Platform Engineer, Research Fellow, Monash University
  11:20am – 11:50am	Thermo-mechanical energy storage options to decarbonise the Australian energy system Dr. Andrea Vecchi, Research Fellow in Clean Energy and Clean Transport, Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne	New strategies in sustainable molecular assembly with flow chemistry and catalysis Dr. Anastasios Polyzos, Senior Lecturer, Flow Chemistry and Catalysis, Chemistry, University of Melbourne
  11:50am – 12:20pm	Facilitating DER Services using Operating Envelopes Dr. Michael Liu, Research Fellow in Smart Grids, University of Melbourne	Cross-scale modelling of ion transport in nanoporous electrodes towards digital design of high-efficiency ionic devices Dr. Peiyao Wang, Research Fellow in Nanoionics, Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne
  12:20pm – 12:50pm	Feasibility of energy community projects in Victoria: towards capturing their whole system value Ms. Carmen Bas, PhD candidate in electric power systems, University of Melbourne	Computational materials engineering for selective electrochemical CO2 reduction Dr. Xing Zhi, Research Fellow in molecular modelling of carbon dioxide reduction, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne

• 12:50 pm - 1:30 pm : Lunch and poster competition

  12:50pm – 1:30pm	LUNCH & POSTER COMPETITION
  	View entries in our student poster competition.

• 1:30 pm - 4:40 pm : Afternoon sessions

  	STREAM 1 (AFTERNOON) Singapore Theatre - B120 Power Generation and Transport  Chair: Prof. Richard Sandberg, Program Leader	STREAM 2 (AFTERNOON) Malaysian Theatre - B121 Hydrogen and Clean Fuels  Chair: Dr. Joe Berry on behalf of A/Prof. Kathryn Mumford, Program Leader
  1:30pm – 2:20pm	Keynote: Carbon-neutral fuels for decarbonising combustion A/Prof Yi Yang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne	Keynote: Tailoring multifunctional catalysts for clean fuel synthesis Prof. Karen Wilson, Professor of Catalysis, Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry, RMIT University
  2:20pm – 2:50pm	Rapid soil-structure interaction in sand for offshore energy applications Dr. Shiaohuey Chow, Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Melbourne	Use of water injection to control autoignition and knock in a heavy-duty, hydrogen-fuelled, reciprocating engine Mr. Joel Mortimer, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne
  2:50pm – 3:20pm	Air pollution from fossil fuels: A public health policy gap Ms. Clare Walter, Honorary Research Fellow in Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of Melbourne	Nitrogen and oxygen nucleation in cryogenic hydrogen mixtures Dr. Eirini Goudeli, Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne
  3:20pm – 3.40pm	AFTERNOON TEA
  3:40pm – 4:10pm	The role of high-fidelity simulations in designing more efficient compressors Mr. Pawel Przytarski, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne	Ultra-high-performance solar water splitting with earth-abundant cocatalyst foils Dr. Joshua Butson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Carbelec Project, Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne
  4:10pm – 4:40pm	High performance computation of hydrogen-fuelled engines Dr. Reza Yosri, Research Fellow in Clean Energy and Clean Transport, Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne	A greener pathway to CO2 capture Dr. Rebecca McQuillan, Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne

• 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm : Close

  4.45pm – 5:00pm

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