Prof. Gary Rosengarten : What’s hot and what’s not: From cooling to powering the future
Abstract : As we strive to decarbonise our energy systems, the biggest and -as yet- unsolved challenge lies in efficiently managing, utilising 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 technology we have worked on to create renewable and reliable thermal energy for domestic and industrial applications. These include cheap and safe thermal batteries coupled to heat pumps for residential and commercial applications, and solar PV driven sustainable high temperature thermal storage for industrial heat. Finally in order to help address the skyrocketing energy demand of data centres and local computer chip heat flow, I will showcase some of our work on how surfaces can be tailored for enhanced spray cooling heat transfer rates to efficiently extract heat with minimal liquid use.
Bio : Professor Gary Rosengarten is Director of the Sustainable Technologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform at RMIT University, and leader of the Laboratory for Innovative Fluid Thermal Systems in Mechanical Engineering. He completed a double honours degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Monash University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at 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, solar energy, thermal control, energy efficiency, and biosystems, working closely with interdisciplinary teams from academia and industry. He has developed solar absorbers using radiative selective surfaces and is one of the pioneers of solar spectral splitting using volumetric absorbers. His current research project focus includes collaborating with industry to develop distributed thermal batteries coupled to heat pumps for domestic thermal loads, large scale thermal storage for industrial heat, and droplet/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.
Bio : Professor Gary Rosengarten is Director of the Sustainable Technologies and Systems Enabling Impact Platform at RMIT University, and leader of the Laboratory for Innovative Fluid Thermal Systems in Mechanical Engineering. He completed a double honours degree in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Monash University and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at 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, solar energy, thermal control, energy efficiency, and biosystems, working closely with interdisciplinary teams from academia and industry. He has developed solar absorbers using radiative selective surfaces and is one of the pioneers of solar spectral splitting using volumetric absorbers. His current research project focus includes collaborating with industry to develop distributed thermal batteries coupled to heat pumps for domestic thermal loads, large scale thermal storage for industrial heat, and droplet/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.
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