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(15 min for the presentation + 5 min for questions).
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Keynotes
Daniel Carbonell –
«Grid flexible thermal energy storage for process heat»
Daniel Carbonell is a thermo‑mechanical engineer trained at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), where he also obtained his master’s degree and PhD in thermal engineering. After four years working at a UPC spin‑off, he joined the Institute for Solar Technology SPF, from the University of Applied Sciences in Eastern Switzerland (OST), one of Europe’s leading centers in solar thermal energy. There, he led a research team specializing in thermal energy storage and in the integration, modeling, and optimization of renewable‑energy‑based systems.
After 12 years as a researcher at SPF, he returned to Barcelona to found DCarbo Energy Consulting, with the vision of driving the decarbonization of industrial heating and cooling processes through renewable solutions and thermal storage, covering a wide temperature range—from 0 °C to 1000 °C.
Fabrizia Giordano is a Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna. She holds a B.Sc. in Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin and a M.Sc. in Engineering in Sustainable Energy with a specialization in Energy Savings from the Technical University of Denmark. Her research focuses on the development of sustainable thermal energy systems for the decarbonization of the building sector, with particular emphasis on thermal energy storage technologies, namely sensible and latent heat storage, and their integration with heat pumps. Prior to joining AIT, she worked at Fraunhofer ISE on the fabrication, characterization, and testing of phase change emulsion (PCME) systems. She is an active contributor to the IEA Energy Storage TCP Task 48, where she supports the development and expansion of the “Thermal Materials Database”, designed to deliver high-quality, standards-compliant thermophysical data for PCMs, sorption materials, and TCMs. In addition, she is curating the numerical database “solid-liquid phase change materials library slPCMlib” from AIT.
Fabrizia Giordano –
«Toward a Taxonomy of TES Materials Databases: Insights from the IEA ES TCP Task 48 Thermal Materials Database and AIT slPCMlib»
Dominic Groulx –
«Working Towards Design Rules for PCM-based Thermal Storage Systems»
Dominic Groulx is a professor and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada). He obtained his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and B.Sc in Physics in 1999, both from l’Université de Sherbooke (Québec, Canada). From working on close contact melting through his PhD, to working on phase change heat transfer fundamentals and applications of PCMs to energy storage and thermal management at the Laboratory of Applied Multiphase Thermal Engineering (LAMTE) he founded in 2007, Dr. Groulx is a recognized expert on thermal problems involving phase change materials. He is currently the Storage Design subtask leader of IEA Task 48, as well as associate editor of both the Journal of Energy Storage and the International Journal of Thermal Sciences. Dr. Groulx is a fellow of both CSME and ASME, as well as the latest winner of the Jules Stachiewicz Medal, the highest award for excellence and impact in heat transfer in Canada.