The 5th International Workshop on Heat/Mass Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT2019) was held in Technopark of Novosibirsk Akademgorodok and Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia) on August 13–16, 2019.

The IWHT2019 is a regular international conference which is held once every two years since 2011.This series of conferences has also provided a unique opportunity to facilitate innovative thinking and to explore new theoretical and practical approaches through the sharing of ideas, basic research, and technology.Previous conferences have been held in Las Vegas, NV (USA, 2017), Taipei (Taiwan, 2015), Xi’an (China, 2013), and Xi’an (China, 2011).

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for exchange of latest technological information as well as for dissemination of high-quality research and development on heat/mass transfer problems in the area pertinent to energy conservation and pollution control.The workshop will be of particular value and interest to researchers, scientists, and engineers who are working in heat/mass transfer field for energy conservation and pollution reduction.

Organizers of the conference were Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, and Novosibirsk State University.Supporting Organizations were Russian Foundation for Basic Research, International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, National Committee of Heat and Mass Transfer, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, and Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics.Distinguished plenary speakers included global leaders in the field, such as Global Energy Prize laureate Academician S.V. Alekseenko (Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Russia), Prof. Q.W. Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China), Prof. B. Sunden (Lund University, Sweden), Prof. H. Kuhlmann (TU Wien, Austria), Prof. R. Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), Prof. W. Lipinski (The Australian National University, Australia), Dr. Z. Guo (Rutgers University, USA), and Dr. L. Vasiliev (Huawei Technologies – Minsk Research Center, Belarus).

The conference topics covered areas, including clean energy and storage techniques, compact heat exchangers and advanced energy systems, multiphase flow and heat/mass transfer, transport phenomena in porous media, heat/mass transfer enhancement techniques, computational fluid dynamics and numerical heat/mass transfer, and nuclear energy.