Abstract:

Heat pumps can efficiently convert electricity and low temperature heat into high temperature heat, and research has shown that comprehensive application can achieve a 15-22% reduction in carbon emissions for the entire society. Due to its characteristic of "pumping heat", heat pumps can conveniently improve the thermal energy grade, greatly reducing the dependence on the phase change temperature of thermal storage materials, and thus finding suitable low-cost, high safety, and high-density optimal thermal storage configuration schemes. "Heat pump and heat storage" can not only achieve incremental heat storage of electrical energy, but also improve the quality of heat storage for on-demand heating. China has a world leading heat pump industry, and the heat storage industry has also begun to rise. The combination of the two can play an important supporting role in the reconstruction of carbon neutral energy.

Biography:

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 currently Editor-in-chief of Energy, Associate editor of International Journal of Refrigeration.

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