China: Shanghai - Graduate Course in Energy System Analysis
May 15 - 29, 2010
ENME 635
This course is for graduate students only.
Buildings are responsible for 40% of GHG emissions, in the US. To reduce the environmental impact of the building, the energy efficiency of the buildings should be significantly enhanced.
The course will address major topics to achieve energy efficient green buildings. The course discusses psychrometric processes; vapor compression cycles, and single and multi-stage absorption cycles to provide cooling and heating; various prime movers including Rankine cycle; solar systems and geothermal heat pumps as renewable technologies; and integration of the cooling, heating, and power systems.
Accommodation:
Students will stay in guest house in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Sites visited as part of academic program:
The course includes a visit to the laboratories of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University on May 22 and Shanghai World Expo’2010 on May 23. Cultural visit is planned on May 29.
Faculty Directors
Dr. Reinhard Radermacher is a Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, U.S.A. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics. He is an internationally recognized expert in working fluids for energy conversion systems; in particular heat pumps, air-conditioners and refrigeration systems. His work has resulted in over 150 publications, including 3 books he co-authored, numerous invention records and 9 patents. He was a visiting scientist and NATO scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology before joining the University of Maryland. He currently serves as the Editor for the ASHRAE HVAC&R Research Journal.
Dr. Yunho Hwang is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, U.S.A. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and has 25 years of research experience in air conditioning and refrigeration, including ten years of industrial R&D experience. His research focuses on developing alternative refrigerants, transport processes, and innovative components and systems.
Dr. Ruzhu Wang is a Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 1992, and appointed as the director of Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 1993. Prof. Wang has published about 300 journal papers and 5 books. He is an internationally recognized expert in adsorption refrigeration, heat transfer to superfluid helium, heat pumps, CCHPs and solar energy systems. Currently he is the president of Shanghai Society of Refrigeration, the vice chairman of Chinese Society of Heat Transfer.
Dr. Ursula Eicker is a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, who carries out international research projects on solar cooling, heating, electricity production and building energy efficiency since 1993. She heads the Institute of Applied Research of the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, where building physicists, geoinformation scientists, mathematicians, civil engineers and architects cooperate.
Dr. Jae-Keun Lee is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University since 1993 and a Director of the Center for Advanced Air-conditioning Refrigeration & Energy since 2005. His research is focused on heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration systems, energy saving technologies, new refrigeration cycles, fuel cell/s, geothermal heat pumps, nanofluids, nano-lubricants, nanoparticles, heat exchangers, environmental thermal and fluid technologies.
Dr. Tianshu Ge is a Post-Doctor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University after earned her PhD degree from the same institution in 2009 in the field of Refrigeration and Cryogenics. During the PhD study period, she was sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council to have one year cooperative study in Technical University of Berlin with Prof. Felix. Ziegler. She has been active in research work on hybrid solid desiccant material, rotary desiccant wheel and solid desiccant cooling system.
For questions about the application, registration and pre-departure logistics, please contact the Study Abroad Office.