2nd International Workshop on Heat/Mass Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT-2013),, October 18-21, 2013， Xi'an, China

Following the 1st International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT2011), the 2nd International Workshop on Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT2013) was again hosted by the Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Held at Tanghua Hotel in Xi’an from October 18 to 21, the workshop gathered nearly 180 experts, scholars and delegates in the field of heat transfer from 15 countries and regions, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Russia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The event focused on academic exchanges and discussions regarding the scientific issues of heat and mass transfer in energy conservation and pollution control.

Professor Wang Qiuwang, Vice Dean of the School of Energy and Power Engineering and Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, presided over the opening ceremony. Academician Tao Wenquan of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Vice President Lu Tianjian of the university, Director Liu Tao of the Third Department of Engineering of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Professor Zhang Xing, Director of the Heat and Mass Transfer Division of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, delivered speeches at the opening ceremony respectively.

Invited keynote speakers included Professor T.W. Simon from the University of Minnesota (ASME Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of ASME Journal of Heat Transfer), Professor Zhang Xing from Tsinghua University (Regional Editor of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science), Professor S. Acharya from Louisiana State University (ASME Fellow and Director of the Heat Transfer Program of the U.S. National Science Foundation), and Professor J.J. Klemes from the University of Pannonia in Hungary (Chair of the PRES Series of International Conferences and Regional Editor of Energy). More than 20 renowned scholars in heat transfer from home and abroad also presented theme reports at the workshop. Professor Feng Zhenping, Dean of the School of Energy and Power Engineering, and Professor He Yaling, Director of the Key Laboratory of Thermo-Fluid Science and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Xi’an Jiaotong University, were present at the opening ceremony as well.

Parallel group discussions and exchanges were conducted on topics including clean energy and energy storage technologies, heat exchangers and advanced energy systems, energy-saving equipment efficiency, multiphase heat and mass transfer, energy and mass transfer in porous media, enhancement of heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer technologies. The themes covered by this international workshop reflected the latest research trends in the global field of heat transfer for energy conservation and pollution control, and aligned with China’s energy policy development strategies as well as the critical demands of national economic development for disciplines in the energy sector.

This workshop received generous support from the Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, the K.C. Wong Education Foundation, and Xi’an Jiaotong University.