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SUMMARY:Prof. Gary Rosengarten : What’s hot and what’s not: From cooli
 ng to powering the future
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gary Rosengarten\,\nRMIT University\,\nMelbourne\, Austr
 alia\nAbstract : As we strive to decarbonise our energy systems\, the bigg
 est and -as yet- unsolved challenge lies in efficiently managing\, utilisi
 ng and delivering heat and cooling. Heating and cooling accounts for about
  half of the global final energy consumption\, and more than 40% of global
  energy-related carbon dioxide emissions.  I will cover some of the techn
 ology we have worked on to create renewable and reliable thermal energy fo
 r domestic and industrial applications. These include cheap and safe therm
 al batteries coupled to heat pumps for residential and commercial applicat
 ions\, and solar PV driven sustainable high temperature thermal storage fo
 r industrial heat. Finally in order to help address the skyrocketing energ
 y demand of data centres and local computer chip heat flow\, I will showca
 se some of our work on how surfaces can be tailored  for enhanced spray c
 ooling heat transfer rates to efficiently extract heat with minimal liquid
  use.\n\nBio : Professor Gary Rosengarten is Director of the Sustainable T
 echnologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform at RMIT University\, and 
 leader of the Laboratory for Innovative Fluid Thermal Systems in Mechanica
 l Engineering. He completed a double honours degree in Physics and Mechani
 cal Engineering at Monash University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering a
 t the University of New South Wales Before deciding on an academic career\
 , he spent 3 years at Australia’s National research laboratory\, CSIRO\,
  and 2 years as an Engineering consultant in sustainable building design. 
 He applies his research expertise in thermofluids and energy systems\, to 
 help solve a wide variety of problems\, particularly in energy storage\, s
 olar energy\, thermal control\, energy efficiency\, and biosystems\, worki
 ng closely with interdisciplinary teams from academia and industry. He has
  developed solar absorbers using radiative selective surfaces and is one o
 f the pioneers of solar spectral splitting using volumetric absorbers. His
  current research project focus includes collaborating with industry to de
 velop distributed thermal batteries coupled to heat pumps for domestic the
 rmal loads\,  large scale thermal storage for industrial heat\, and dropl
 et/surface interactions for high heat flux applications. He has attracted 
 over 20 million dollars of research funding\, published over 200 refereed 
 journal articles\, and has 6 patents.\n\n\n\n 
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