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Poster Competition at 2nd Annual WCGEC's Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference

Riverside, Ca –

One of the highlights at the 2nd Annual Winston Chung Global Energy Center's Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference held at Bourns Technology Center on April 11-12, 2019 was the poster exhibition and competition. The poster sessions included the exhibition of posters from sixteen projects that was carried out by the teams from UC Riverside, UC Los Angeles, California State University at Long Beach, UC Berkeley, and Andromeda Power, LLC.

The topics of the projects included developing and enhancing materials of battery storage, new approaches for hydrogen production, advanced methods for solar thermal energy storage and applications in concentrated solar plants, operation and management of flow battery energy storage, operation modeling of energy storage for ancillary services, case studies from operating microgrids, advanced methods for EV charging management and vehicle to grid interfaces,  smart building and internet-of-things energy management, application of data analytics for remote monitoring and detection of grid-tied energy storage, and impact of state policies on batter energy storage adoption.

The posters received much attention from the audience and the poster exhibition sessions witnessed an active participation from the conference attendees and close discussions going on during poster presentations. The participating teams elaborated on some of their past and on-going projects. The competition this year spanned both academic and industry institutions. It provided valuable opportunity for the teams to expose their work to outside academia and receive feedback and comments from the industry professionals.

The poster evaluation committee with more than 10 referees and subject experts, reviewed all projects as well as many evaluations received from the attendees, in order to select the contest awards. Three awards and five honorable mentions were granted to the contest winners during the Poster Awardees Announcement. The committee selected a team of students from UCR as awardee for the first place poster of this year who also received a $1000 cash prize, to for their project titled as “Stabilizing High Energy Structures & Improve Performance in Water Splitting”.  The second and third place poster awards with $500 and $200 cash prizes also went to the posters titled as “Sulfur-based Thermal Energy Storage: System Performance and Cost” and  “Remote Monitoring of Energy Storage System Operation” from UCLA and UCR respectively.

 

1st Place Pegah Mirabedini,  Taehoon Lim,  Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales, P. Alex Greaney (UC Riverside)

Stabilizing High Energy Structures & Improve Performance in Water Splitting

2nd Place Yide Wang, Richard E. Wirz (UC Los Angeles) Sulfur-based Thermal Energy Storage: System Performance and Cost
3rd Place Mohammad Farajollahi, Alireza Shahsavari, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (UC Riverside) Remote Monitoring of Energy Storage System Operation
Honorable Mention Yun Xue, Miroslav Penchev, Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales (UC Riverside) Microgrid Performance Under the New Proposed Time of Use (TOU) Rate Period  A Case Study: Chemehuevi Community Center (CCC) Microgrid
Honorable Mention Sara Mulhauser (UC Berkeley) Adoption Rates and Electric Industry Restructuring
Honorable Mention Kaiyuan Jin, Richard E. Wirz (UC Los Angeles)

Sulfur Heat Transfer Behavior in Vertically-Oriented Isochoric Thermal Energy Storage Systems

Honorable Mention Alireza Shahsavari, Mohammad Farajollahi, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (UC Riverside) PHEVs Charging Optimization Under Adequacy Assessment of Power Distribution Network
Honorable Mention Rumana Binte FaruqueASM Jahid Hasan, Jubair Yusuf (UC Riverside) Electricity Cost Optimization for Large Load Through Energy Storage and Renewable Energy