Chairs

General Chairs

Mohamed Essaaidi
ENSIAS, Rabat, Morocco
essaaidi@ieee.org

Youssef Zaz
Mediterranean Space of Technology and Innovation, President
Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Asso. Prof.
zaz@med-space.org

Keynotes

HQ Li-ion and Solid State Lithium Metal Batteries: from atoms to system

Dr. Karim Zaghib, General Director at CETEES, CEG at SCE France, CTG at InnovHQ and HQES. LiFePO4 has emerged as the ...

CFD modeling of Active Magnetic Regenerator in magnetocaloric refrigeration: a comprehensive review

By Prof. Sébastien Poncet, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. Magnetocaloric refrigeration is a cooling technology based on the magnetocaloric effect. This technique ...

Magnetocalorics of frustrated Fe₂P type-compounds. Two examples: MnRh_1-xRu_xAs with intricate fundamentals and Mn_2-xFexP_1-ySi_y, for promising cooling applications

By Prof. Daniel Fruchart, Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble France. The increasing demand for refrigeration (industry and domestic applications) concern with up ...

Integrated energy systems, nano and micro grids and smart neighborhoods

Prof. Mohammad (Moe) A. Khaleel, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Laboratory Director Energy and Environmental Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This talk will ...

Metal Hydrides as Hydrogen Carriers

By Prof. Marcello Baricco, Department of Chemistry and NIS, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. Renewable energies, such as photovoltaic and wind ...

Passivating contacts for silicon and perovskite solar cells

By Prof. Stefaan De Wolf, KAUST Solar Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia. In silicon and perovskite ...

Artificial Intelligence Enabling the Future of Batteries

Plenary Lecture. By Prof. Rachid Yazami, KVI PTE LTD, Singapore. Since their commercialization in 1991 lithium ion batteries has experienced an unprecedented ...

Inverse Heat Transfer Problems

By Prof. Helcio R. B. Orlande, Escola Politécnica, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Technological advancements often require the use ...

Metal hydrides for H2 storage, heat storage, and anode for Li-ion batteries

By Prof. Takayuki Ichikawa, Hiroshima University, Japan. For hydrogen storage, heat storage and anode of Li ion batteries, various metal hydrides ...

Surface Modified Membranes for Desalination by Membrane Distillation Technology

by Prof. Mohamed Khayet, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Membrane Distillation (MD) is a non-isothermal separation technology used ...

High performance semi-transparent Si-based carrier-selective passivating contacts for c-Si solar cells manufactured at different thermal budgets

Silicon solar cells based on PERC architecture [1][2] have become the new industrial standard beyond the Al-BSF architecture [3]. To ...

Battery Storage Systems for Mobility and Electrification at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

By Dr Ilias Belharouak, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, USA. This talk will focus on the energy storage systems designated ...

Towards Designing and retrofitting Sustainable and Intelligent Buildings

By Prof. Moncef Krarti, University of Colorado, USA. The presentation overviews the needs and the benefits for designing and retrofitting buildings ...

Recent advances in energy storage technologies for higher power and large scale applications

By Prof. Dominique Guyomard, Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel at Nantes, France. After a short review of present developments in the ...

Salinity Gradient Processes: FO and PRO – Are They Really the Answers to Desalination and Sustainable Energy Production?

By Dr. Sarper Sarp, Swansea University, UK. Editor-in-Chief of Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering (Elsevier) Editorial Board Member of Desalination ...

Microalgae-Microbial Fuel Cell (MMFC) for Bioelectricity Generation and Domestic Wastewater Treatments

By Prof. H. Hadiyanto, Center of Biomass and Renewable Energy (CBIORE), Diponegoro University, Indonesia. A microbial fuel cells (MFC) is a ...

Membrane Distillation – A Sustainable and Renewable Energy Driven Water Reclamation Process

Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally driven membrane-based separation process, considered as one of the technologies that are emerging as ...

Surface and Interface Characterization by X-ray and Electron Spectroscopies – Insights into Chalcopyrite and Perovskite-based Thin Film Solar Cell Structures

by Prof. Marcus Bär, HZB & HI ERN, Berlin, Germany. The complexity of thin film solar cell structures, which are often ...

Submission Deadline :	September 10, 2019
Notification to authors :	October 05, 2019
Final version due :	October 31, 2019
Registration deadline :	October 31, 2019
IRSEC'19 Conference :	Nov., 27-30, 2019