Journal of Energy and Power Technology (JEPT) is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. This periodical is dedicated to providing a unique, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary platform for researchers, scientists and engineers in academia, research institutions, government agencies and industry. The journal is also of interest to technology developers, planners, policy makers and technical, economic and policy advisers to present their research results and findings.

Journal of Energy and Power Technology focuses on all aspects of energy and power. It publishes original research and review articles and also publishes Survey, Comments, Perspectives, Reviews, News & Views, Tutorial and Discussion Papers from experts in these fields to promote intuitive understanding of the state-of-the-art and technology trends. 

Main research areas include (but are not limited to):
Renewable energies (e.g. geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, tidal, wave, biomass) and grid connection impact
Energy harvesting devices
Energy storage
Hybrid/combined/integrated energy systems for multi-generation
Hydrogen energy 
Fuel cells
Nuclear energy
Energy economics and finance
Energy policy
Energy and environment
Energy conversion, conservation and management
Smart energy system

Power Generation - Conventional and Renewable
Power System Management
Power Transmission and Distribution
Smart Grid Technologies
Micro- and nano-energy systems and technologies
Power electronic
Biofuels and alternatives
High voltage and pulse power
Organic and inorganic photovoltaics
Batteries and supercapacitors

Archiving: full-text archived in CLOCKSS.

Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 6.1 weeks after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 8.9 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2021, 1-2 days of FREE language polishing time is also included in this period).

Current Issue: 2023  Archive: 2022 2021 2020 2019

Editorial Board (55)

Editor-in-Chief

Zhao Yang Dong, PhD (Biography)

1. Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, Sydney, Australia
2. Director, UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute
3. Director, ARC Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions
4. previously as Head, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney
5. previously as Director, Faculty of Engineering and IT research cluster on Clean Intelligent Energy Networks
6. previously as Ausgrid Chair and Director, Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN), the University of Newcastle

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Research Interests: power system planning and stability, smart grid/micro-grid, load modeling, renewable energy grid connection, electricity market, data mining, artificial intelligence and computational methods

Associate Editor

Islam Md Rizwanul Fattah, PhD, Research Fellow (Biography)

Centre for Green Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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Research interests: alternative fuel; IC engine combustion; biofuel; biodiesel; biomass; air pollution; energy conversion; vehicle emissions

Editorial Board Members

Suresh Aggarwal, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA

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Research Interests: combustion and emissions, droplets and sprays, renewable fuels, energy and nanoflow systems

Kyoung Kwan Ahn, PhD

Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan University, Ulsan, South Korea

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Research Interests: ocean energy, wave energy converter, hydrostatic transmission (HST), fluid power control, energy harvesting system and mechatronics

Michele Aresta, PhD, Professor
  1. Innovative Catalysis for Carbon Recycling-IC2R srl, via Camillo Rosalba 49, 70124 Bari-Italy
  2. Interuniversity Consortium on Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis-CIRCC, Via C. Ulpiani, 27, 70126 Bari, Italy

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Research interests: Solar chemistry; Carbon Circular Economy; Synfuels; Biofuels; Coprocessing of CO2 and H2O under solar irradiation; Reduction of fossil-C; Net-zero-C-emission energy; Valorization of biomass; LCA applied to synfuels

Sukhvinder Badwal, PhD, FTSE

Retd Chief Research Scientist and CSIRO Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia

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Research Interests: fuel cells, gas sensors, hydrogen–renewable energy systems, batteries, hybrid energy systems, and materials for emerging energy technologies

Mark Balas, PhD

1. Professor, Center for Laser Applications, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, USA
2. Director, Center for Autonomous and Evolving Systems

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Research Interests: wind turbine power generation dynamics and control, evolving systems in aerospace applications, quantum information systems and quantum control

Wahidul K. Biswas, PhD, Associate Professor

Sustainable Engineering Group, Curtin University, Australia

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Research interests: sustainable engineering; life cycle assessment; waste management; sustainable energy; renewable energy technologies; energy conservation and management

Kiari Goni Boulama, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada

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Research Interests: energy systems; low temperature heat recovery; renewable energy; exergy analysis; mixed convection heat and mass transfer; computational fluid dynamics.

Elton Cairns, PhD

1. Professor, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2. Honorary Member, International Society of Electrochemistry
3. Fellow, The Electrochemical Society

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Research Interests: electrochemistry, fuel cells, and rechargeable cells

Andrea Capodaglio, PhD, Professor

BCEE, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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Research interests: sustainable development; energy and materials recovery from waste streams; innovative water and wastewater treatment; groundwater contamination; bioelectrochemical systems

Jacqueline Chen, PhD

1. Distinguished Member, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, USA
2. PI, Department of Energy (DOE) Exascale Project on Transforming Combustion Science and Technology with Exascale Simulations

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Research Interests: the development and application of massively parallel petascale direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent combustion with complex chemistry

Wei-Hsin Chen, PhD

Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, China

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Research Interests: bioenergy, hydrogen energy and clean energy

Alfonso Chinnici, PhD

Senior Research Fellow and Research Manager, Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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Research Interests: renewable energy, solar thermal energy, combustion, CFD, hybrid systems, reactor development, chemical reactors, heat & mass transfer, aerodynamic, multi-phase flows, renewable fuels, laser diagnostics

Mo-Yuen Chow, PhD

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

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Research Interests: micro/smart grids energy management, collaborative distributed control, battery modeling and SoC/SoH/SoF estimation, mechatronics and automation, computational intelligence, energy systems, mobile robots and unmanned vehicles

Gavin Conibeer, PhD

1. Professor, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
2. Deputy Head, School (Education)
3. Executive Research Director, ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence

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Research Interests: the third generation photovoltaics, phonon dispersion modulation in nanostructures, high efficiency thermoelectric devices, photoelectrochemical generation of hydrogen, solar fuels, photovoltaics for use in space

Shuguang Deng, PhD, Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, 551 E. Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.

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Research interests: adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications.

Rodolfo Dufo-López, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

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Research Interests: generation of electricity through renewable sources (off-grid systems and grid-connected systems), advanced optimization techniques and storage of electrical energy (advanced battery models)

Yong Fu, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, USA

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Research Interests: power system operation and control, power system reliability and economics, microgrid and smart grid, renewable energy integration, and energy infrastructure interdependencies

Aritra Ghosh, PhD

Lecturer, Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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Research Interests: building integrated wind and PV, LCA of PV and wind system, prediction of wind and solar energy, maintenance and monitoring of PV and wind system, power electronic reliability

Pluvinage Guy, PhD, Professor Emeritus

Laboratoire de Fiabilite Mecanique, Université de Lorraine, 57045 Moselle Metz, France

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Research interests: Fatigue, fracture, reliability, hydrogen embrittlement

Gregorio Iglesias, PhD

1. Professor, Marine Renewable Energy, MaREI, Environmental Research Institute & School of Engineering, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2. Honorary Professor, Coastal Engineering Research Group, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

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Research Interests: wave energy, tidal energy, offshore wind energy and coastal engineering

I M. Tariq Iqbal, PhD, Professor

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Canada

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Research interests: Hybrid Power Systems; Renewable Energy Systems; Passive Houses; Electronics and control systems

Brian Johnson, PhD

1. Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
2. Chair endowed by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Power Engineering

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Research Interests: power electronic applications for the control of power transmission and distribution systems, power system protection, power quality, energy storage systems, superconductivity applications in transmission and distribution

John Kaldellis, PhD

1. Professor, University of West Attica, Piraeus, Greece
2. Head, Soft Energy Applications and Environmental Protection Laboratory (SEALAB)
3. Chief-Director, Center of Technological Research for Piraeus and Islands
4. Scientific Responsible (Coordinator) for TILOS-Horizon 2020 Project

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Research Interests: feasibility analysis of energy sector applications and projects, technological progress in wind, hydro and solar energy market, hybrid energy systems, energy storage issues, integrated solutions for islands, social attitude towards renewable energy applications, and environmental technology-air pollution

Arunachalanadar Mada Kannan, PhD

Professor, Fuel Cell Laboratory, Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, USA

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Research Interests: fuel cells (PEMFC, DMFC, AFC), batteries (SLA, Li-ion) and solar (DSSC, CSP)

Bryan Karney, PhD

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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Research Interests: design, analysis, operation and optimization of various water resource and water-relate energy systems; pipe networks, water supply systems, hydroelectric systems, including prediction of their physical and economic characteristics

Jang Kyo Kim, PhD

Tenured Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

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Research Interests: the development, synthesis, characterisation of structure-property relationships and fracture of advanced materials, including nano-scale reinforcements such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphite nanoplates, nanoclay; polymer-based nanocomposites; fibre-reinforced composites; thin films/coatings; transparent conducting thin films; nanostructured materials for Li ion battery electrodes and supercapacitors; and adhesion and debonding in multi-phase materials

Shah Kwok Wei, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Building, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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Research Interests: nanotechnology and nanomaterials for green building applications and energy efficiency, green building

Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, PhD, Teaching and Research Associate, Senior researcher

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

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Research interests: Engineering, Environment, Energy, Renewable Energy Sources, Low Carbon Economy, Waste Management from Organic Pollutants, Properties of Polymer Materials, Business Administration, Education, Culture, Human Resource Management, Psychology, Urban and Regional Development, Forest Resources Management, Extroversion and Internationalization of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Development Economics, Environmental Systems, Circular Economy, Behavioral Ecology

Antonio Lecuona, PhD, Professor

Grupo ITEA, Departamento de Ingeniería Térmica, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain

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Research interests: Innovative tools for sustainable development; solar energy and energy storage; Modeling of energy systems dynamics; Management of research projects. Experimental characterization of thermal systems.

Shou-Heng Liu, PhD, Professor

Department of Environmental Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan

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Research Interests: Hydrogen energy; Carbon capture; CO2 utilization; Sustainable resources

Andrés Elías Feijóo Lorenzo, PhD, Professor

Departamento de Enxeñería Eléctrica, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

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Research interests: wind energy; wind speed simulation; wind turbines

Assaad Rachid Masri, PhD

1. Professor, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2. Chairman, Australia and New Zealand section of the Combustion Institute

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Research Interests: both of fossil fuels and of renewable fuels such as biofuels and biodiesels

Elsa Merle, PhD

Professor and Researcher, IN2P3 National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics of CNRS, Grenoble, France

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Research Interests: aspects of modelling and simulation and safety research and design of nuclear reactors, and the reactor fission, such as fourth generation fuel in molten salt; nuclear development scenarios

Badie Morsi, PhD, ScD, Professor

Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Research interests: CO2 capture from flue gas, fuel gas and natural gas streams using chemical and physical solvents; Direct Air Capture (DAC); Modeling, simulation and optimization of industrial processes; Design and scaleup of multiphase reactors; Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer in multi-phase reactors; Fisher-Tropsch synthesis; Enhanced oil recovery using CO2 and alcohols

Aidyn Mouradov, PhD

Professor, School of Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia

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Research Interests: advanced renewable bioenergy and environmental biotechnology

Kapil Narula, PhD

Senior Researcher, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Research Interests: heat decarbonization; energy policy assessment; techno economic assessment of heating system; district heating systems; modelling of thermal energy storage; energy efficiency indicators;  energy system transition; energy security.

Meng Ni, PhD

Professor, Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

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Research Interests: solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide electrolyzer cells, energy recovery from waste treatment, flow batteries and microfluidics

Abdul Ghani Olabi, PhD

1. Director and Professor, Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies, University of the West of Scotland, Ayr, United Kingdom
2. Chair and Head, Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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Research Interests: sustainable energy and alternative fuel systems, energy storage systems, prototype developments for tidal energy, hydrogen cell developments, algal solutions for a local energy economy

George Papadakis, PhD

Professor, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Research Interests: photovoltaic and hybrid renewable energy systems (and microgrids), biomass for energy such as investigation of energy production technologies utilizing liquid and solid biofuels

Anjanapura V Raghu, PhD, Professor

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jain University, 562112, Karnataka, India

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Research interests: development of novel polymeric nano materials for Super-capacitor; Photo-catalytic; fuel cell, battery storage & separation applications; energy & environment management; water treatment; polymeric drug delivery system; food & microbial/biotech chemistry; solar energy; micro electronic device, etc.

Saffa Riffat, DPhil (Oxon), DSc

Professor, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Research Interests: sustainable HVAC systems, renewable energy and energy storage

Gerasimos Rigatos, PhD, Professor

Research Director, Industrial Systems Institute, Patra, Greece

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Research Interests:

1) Electric Power Generators and Power Electronics: synchronous generators, permanent magnet synchronous generators, doubly-fed induction generators, doubly-fed reluctance generators, gas-turbine electric power units, hybrid-excited synchronous generators, steam-turbine electric power units, wind-turbine electric power units, hydropower generators, multi-phase generators, distributed electric power transmission and distribution systems. Applications to power electronics, such as DC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters, AC-DC converters, DC-AC inverters and active power filters, power transformers, batteries and capacitors, VSC-HVDC transmission systems, components of the smart grid, photovoltaic units, fuel cells units.

 

2)  Electric motors: permanent magnet synchronous motors, brushless DC motors, permanent magnet linear motors, synchronous reluctance motors, induction motors, induction linear motors doubly-fed reluctance machines and multi-phase machines, switched reluctance motors.

Manuel Andres Rodrigo, PhD

Professor, University of Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

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Research Interests: the development of electrochemical processes for a cleaner environment, electrosynthesis of oxidants and fuel cell technology

Diogo M. F. Santos, PhD, Assistant Professor

Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials, Laboratory for Physics of Materials and Emerging Technologies, Chemical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal

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Research interests: electrochemical energy conversion and storage, green hydrogen production, direct liquid fuel cells

Pei-Chen Su, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore City, Singapore

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Research Interests: micro/nano fabrication, electrochemistry, fuel cells, solar cells, and renewable energy

Cher Ming Tan, PhD, Professor

Center for Reliability Sciences and Technologies, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan.

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Research interests: Reliability Physics; Reliability statistics; finite element methods; material sciences; materials reliability; components reliability; system reliability; Battery reliability; LED reliability

Theocharis Tsoutsos, PhD, Professor

Founder and Director, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Lab (ReSEL)

Technical University of Crete, Greece

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Research interests: Sustainability, Environmental Engineering, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Mobility, Smart Cities, Environmental Economics, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Environmental Impact Assessment

Alfredo Vaccaro, PhD

Associate Professor, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

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Research Interests: optimal power system, energy systems with multiple energy carriers, power systems, smart grids optimization, and Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Xiaolin Wang, PhD, Professor

School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia

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Research interests: energy storage and conversion; thermodynamics; ORC power system; renewable energy; heat pump

Richard A. Williams, PhD

1. Principal & Vice-Chancellor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2. Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom, and Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Australia and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland
3. Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), Tianjin University of Finance & Economics and Southeast University (Nanjing), China

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Research Interests: energy storage technology and policy, radical innovation technologies, mineral resources engineering, nuclear waste management and particle science and engineering

Osamu Yamamoto, Professor Emeritus

Mie University. Tsu, Japan. Visiting Professor Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai, China

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Research interests: solid electrolyte; lithium-air battery; lithium metal anode; solid state battery

Aibing Yu, PhD

1. Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2. Vice Chancellor's Professorial Fellow, Pro Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash Suzhou
3. Founding Director, ARC Research Hub for Computational Particle Technology

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Research Interests: powder technology, nano-particles and application, simulation of particulate systems, inter-facial engineering in multi-phase processes, physical and mathematical modelling of particulate and multiphase processes, industrial application, and fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in packed and fluidised beds

Sohrab Zendehboudi, PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Process Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada

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Research interests: Energy and Environment, Transport Phenomena, Process Systems Engineering, Carbon Management, Multi-Scale Modeling and Optimization, Machine Learning

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