Vljudno vabljeni na predavanje, ki bo v petek, 3. 10. 2025, ob 10.00 v Leskovarjevi sobi.
Energy-water-air-food: a nexus approach
Prof. Dr. Ruzhu Wang
Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Abstract: ITEWA (Innovative Team for Energy, Water & Air) is a cutting-edge scientific research team founded and led by Professor Ruzhu Wang in June 2018, focusing on cutting-edge basic scientific and technological issues in the fields of energy conversion and efficiency, water and air treatment, thermal management, etc. By crossing disciplines and proposing comprehensive solutions from the perspectives of materials, devices, and systems, the Team aims to promote rapid breakthroughs in related technological fields. It involves atmospheric water harvesting, biomimetic thermal and humidity control, thermal management of electronic devices, ultra-high density thermal energy storage, ultra-high energy efficiency desiccant integrated heat pumps, thermal and humidity management and crop yield increase for solar greenhouse or artificial climate environment, heat pump incremental thermal storage, energy quality control, and solar seawater desalination. This lecture features interdisciplinary exploration, which has sparked numerous research stories and formed a series of interest driven research cases on energy-water-air-food nexus, promoting principal innovation and technological transformation breakthroughs.
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Bio: Ruzhu WANG, born in Dec.1964, he received his PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 1990 and was promoted as a full professor in 1994. He has served as the director-Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics for 30 years at SJTU.
Prof. Wang has published 12 Books and over 600 co-authored international journal papers and more than 150 patents, his ISI H-index is 92 with a citation over 40,000. He is a well-known leading scientist in heat pumps, solar heating and cooling, green building energy systems, and energy-water-air nexus.
His achievements have won Chinese National Research Awards in 2010, 2014 and 2023 respectively, and also HLHL honored research award in 2022. Prof. Wang has received various prestigious international academic awards including the J & E Hall International Gold Medal from the Institute of Refrigeration (UK), the Nukiyama Memorial Award from the Japanese Society of Heat Transfer, the IIR-Gustav Lorentzen Medal from the International Institute of Refrigeration and the Peter Ritter von Rittinger International Heat Pump Award from the International Energy Agency. He became the laureate of the Global Energy Prize in 2023.
Prof. Wang is Editor-in-chief of Energy, Associate editor of International Journal of Refrigeration.