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2022 Solar Energy Systems Conference Technical Program

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Start (EST) End (EST) Day 1 Live Program - Wednesday, May 18, 9 AM - 2:05 PM EST
9:00 AM 9:10 AM Opening and Welcome
    Konstantinos Kakosimos (Texas A&M University at Qatar) and Wojciech Lipinski
9:10 AM 10:20 AM Technical Session 1: Solar Thermal Power and Fuels 1
    Session Chair: Wojciech Lipinski
9:10 AM 9:35 AM Invited Talk - Athanasios Konstandopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
9:35 AM 10:00 AM Invited Talk - Gregory Jackson, Colorado School of Mines. Narrow-Channel Fluidized Beds for Particle-Based Capture and Release of Solar Energy
10:00 AM 10:20 AM 648184: Tayseir Mohammed, Texas A&M University at Qatar. Methane Dry Reforming on a Directly Irradiated Reactor Under Simulated Concentrated Solar Light
10:20 AM 10:35 AM Short Break
10:35 AM 11:35 AM Technical Session 2: Materials for Solar Energy
    Session Chair: Alexandre Yokochi (Baylor University)
10:35 AM 10:55 AM 642296: Mona Gulied, Qatar University. Fertilizer-Drawn Forward Osmosis (FDFO) and Photoelectrochemical (PEC) Combined System for Sustainable Water-Energy-Food Nexus Security
10:55 AM 11:15 AM 642294: Tasneem Sayedahmed, Qatar University. Mechanistic Insight into Photocatalyzed Electroless NON-Ferrous Fenton Type Dye Degradation
11:15 AM 11:35 AM 646146: Taha Kubbar, Texas A&M University at Qatar. Modeling and Fabrication of Photoreactors for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
11:35 AM 11:50 AM Short Break
11:50 AM 12:50 PM Keynote Session 1
    Session Chair: Konstantinos Kakosimos (Texas A&M University at Qatar)
11:50 AM 12:20 PM Keynote Talk - Avi Shultz, U.S. Department of Energy
12:20 PM 12:50 PM Keynote Talk - Oana D. Jurchescu, Wake Forest University
12:50 PM 1:05 PM Short Break
1:05 PM 2:05 PM Technical Session 3: Thermal Energy Storage
    Session Chair: Konstantinos Kakosimos (Texas A&M University at Qatar)
1:05 PM 1:25 PM 642043: Charles Forsberg, Massachusetts Institue of Technology. Oil-Based CSP with Incremental Crushed-Rock Heat-Storage Capital-Cost Goals $2-4/Kwh of Heat
1:25 PM 1:45 PM 642498: Benjamin Phillips, Baylor University. An Evaluation of the Exergetic Efficiency of Thermal Energy Storage Using the Sorption-Assisted Boudouard Process
1:45 PM 2:05 PM 645450: Juvenal Ortiz-Ulloa, Oregon State University. Combined Moving-Fluidized Bed Oxidation Reactor for High Temperature Solid-State Thermochemical Energy Storage: A Design Update

Start (EST) End (EST) Day 2 Live Program - Thursday May 19, 9 AM - 1:30 PM EST
9:00 AM 9:10 AM Welcome and Last Day's Takeaway
    Konstantinos Kakosimos (Texas A&M University at Qatar) and Wojciech Lipinski
9:10 AM 10:10 AM Keynote Session 2
    Session Chair: Wojciech Lipinski
9:10 AM 9:40 AM Keynote Talk - Shuai Deng, Tianjing University, China
9:40 AM 10:10 AM Keynote Talk - Ellen Stechel, Arizona State University
10:10 AM 10:25 AM Short Break
10:25 AM 12:10 PM Technical Session 4: Solar Thermal Power and Fuels 2
    Session Chair: Shang Zhai (Ohio State University)
10:25 AM 10:50 AM Invited Talk - Zhiwen Ma, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
10:50 AM 11:10 AM 642431: Siddharth Iyer, Australian National University. Mechanistic Modelling of Isolated Bubble Growth in Sodium Pool Boiling
11:10 AM 11:30 AM 641988: Jingjing Chen, Australian National University. Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for Directly-Irradiated High-Temperature Solid–Gas Flows Laden with Polydisperse Particles for Solar Particle Receiver Applications
11:30 AM 11:50 AM 642440: Bo Wang, National Unversity of Singapore. A Trochoidal Rotary Reactor for Solar Fuel Production
11:50 AM 12:10 PM 642417: Aniket Patankar, MIT. Efficient Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production in a Reactor Train System with Thermochemical Oxygen Pumping
12:10 PM 12:35 PM Networking Break
12:35 PM 1:20 PM Technical Session 5: Solar Energy Systems Modeling
    Session Chair: Shang Zhai (Ohio State University)
12:35 PM 1:00 PM Invited Talk - Jake Edie, CEA. U.S. Solar Project Development and Policy
1:00 PM 1:20 PM 642462: Isaac Holmes-Gentle, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Solarfuelsdb: An Open Database of Experimentally Demonstrated Solar Photo-Electrochemical Water Splitting
1:20 PM 1:30 PM Conclusions and Next Steps