8th International Conference on

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Protection “SEEP 2015”

August 11-14, 2015 University of the West of Scotland Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

Introduction The Sustainable Energy and Environmental Protection conference provides a forum for both researchers and practitioners around the world to present papers on recent developments in this field. The organising committee of the conference invites papers from researchers and practitioners from academic as well as industry within the scope of the conference subjects.

Scope The conference particularly welcome papers related to industrial based projects. Papers dealing with one or more of the following topics will be considered for the conference: • Biomass Conversion • Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology • Hydrogen Economic & Investments • Photovoltaic Technology • Solar Thermal Applications • Marine/Ocean Energy • Wind Energy & Applications • Hydro Power • Technical Developments in Vehicles, Engines and Equipment • Fuelling Technology (Diesel, CNG, LPG) • Modelling and Simulation. • New Concepts including LNG, Biogas Hydrogen, Electrical & Hybrid Drive Systems • Energy Storage • Supercapacitors and Applications • Policies & Regulations • Economic Aspects • Road Management • Marketing Strategies • Environment Management • Environmental Issues including: Air Pollution, Water and Water Management • Waste Management • Climate Change • Health and Environment • Customer and Society Satisfaction • Materials and Fuel Developments, Including: Nano-technologies, Light Weight Structures, Bio-composite Materials, Fuel Cell Materials, Membranes, Sensor Technologies, Combustion.

Prizes Sponsored prizes, will be awarded for the best papers presented by graduate students. Judges will decide on the awards based on the quality of both the written paper, and the presentation.

The venue The conference will be held at UWS Paisley Campus, Paisley forms part of a contiguous urban area with Glasgow, the distance is around 11Km from Glasgow city centre. Glasgow International Airport is located around Paisley (4 km to UWS Paisley Campus), Prestwick Airport is located to south paisley (45 km, 35 min by train from the airport to UWS Paisley Campus).

Publication Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the following Elsevier Journals: / Energy / Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews / Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology

Submission of Abstracts Interested contributors are requested to submit abstract(s) of up to 200 words to: [email protected] SEEP2015 Organising Committee Prof. A.G. Olabi (Conference Chair) Dr A Alaswad (Conference Secratary) Dr T Prescott Dr M Mirzean Dr H Wu Mr B Cross Dr S Karazi Dr A Albadawi Mr C Onumaegbu Mr A Al Makky Dr J Mooney Dr H Achour Dr K Benyounis Mrs L Dymond Dr A Baroutaji Ms C Rodriguez Ms R.K. Sambi

SEEP 2015

International Advisory Committee Prof. Abdul Ghani Olabi (UK) Prof. David Smyth (UK) Prof. B. AbuHijleh (UAE) Prof. Henrik Lund (Denmark) Prof. M.S.J. Hashmi (Ireland) Prof. Noam Lior (USA) Prof. Brian Norton (Ireland) Prof. Jinyue Yan (Sweden) Prof. Savvas Tassou (UK) Prof. Soteris kalogirou (Cyprus) Prof. Dieter Meissner (Austria) Prof. George Tsatsaronis (Germany) Prof. Zeljko Knez (Slovenia) Prof. Michele Dassisti (Italy) Prof. Roy Douglas (UK) Prof. Peter Goethals (Belgium) Prof. A.M.Hamoda (Qatar) Dr. F. Al-Mansour (Slovenia) Prof. Jurij Krope (Slovenia) Prof. Darko Goricanec (Slovenia) Prof. I.S. Jawahir (USA) Prof. Philippe Knauth (France) Dr. William Smith (Ireland) Dr. Brid Quilty (Ireland) Dr. David Timoney (Ireland) Prof. Jim McGovern (Ireland) Dr. H. Taleb (UAE) Prof. Khaled Al-Sallal (UAE) Dr Stephen Glover (UK) Dr Aoife Foley (UK) Prof. Qi Zhang (China) Prof. Mihael Drofenik (Slovenia) Prof. Antonio Valero (Spain) Prof. Saud Ghani (Qatar) Prof. Oleksandr Zaporozhets (Ukraine) Prof. Bekir Sami Yilbas (Saudi Arabia) Prof David Kennedy (Ireland) Prof. Socrates kaplanis (Greece) Prof. Umberto Desideri (Italy) Prof. Aristide F. Massardo (Italy) Prof. Yunus Ali Çengel (Turkey) Prof. Erik Dahlquist (Sweden) Prof. Ashwani Gupta (USA) Prof. Stefano Cordiner (Italy) Prof. Nafiz Kahraman (Turkey) Prof. Daniel Favrat (Switzerland) Prof. Signe Kjelstrup (Norway) Prof. T. Hikmet Karakoç (Turkey) Prof. Bekir Zühtü Uysal (Turkey)

Prof. Luis M. Serra (Spain) Prof. Na Zhang (China) Prof. S. Orhan Akansu (Turkey) Prof. Mahmut Dursun Mat (Turkey) Prof. Mustafa İlbas (Turkey) Dr. Sumsun Naher (UK) Dr. Ing. Sisto DeMatthaeis (Italy) Prof. Michele Gambino (Italy) Prof. Marco Spinedi (Italy) Prof. Luigi Alloca (Italy) Prof. Paul Borza (Romania) Prof. Francesco Di Maria (Italy) Prof. Michael Seal (USA) Prof. Eric Leonhardt (USA) Dr. Danijela Dobersek (Slovenia) LL.M Tina Krope (Slovenia) Dr Athanasios Megartis (UK) Prof. D. Bradley (UK) Dr Hussam Jouhara (UK) Prof. Kadir Aydin (Turkey) Prof. Tahir Yavuz (Turkey) Prof. Masahiro Ishida (Japan) Dr. Salah Ibrahim (UK) Prof Aref Wazwaz (Oman) Dr Vincent Lawlor (Austria) Dr James Carton (Ireland) Prof. Sebahattin Unalan (Turkey) Prof. Sabah Abdul-Wahab Sulaiman (Oman) Prof. Gu Hongchen (China) Prof. Dr. Bilge Albayrak Çeper (Turkey) Prof. Osama Al-Hawaj (Kuwait) Prof. Sven Andersson (Sweden) Prof. Ibrahim Ashour (Oman) Prof. Rik Baert (The Netherlands) Dr Brendan Connolly (Ireland) Prof. Somrat Kerdsuwan (Thailand) Dr Artur Grunwald (Germany) Prof. J. Dawson (USA) Prof. Rolf Ritz (USA) Prof Yonghua Cheng (Belgium) Prof. Abdelakder Outzourhit (Morocco) Prof. Naotake Fujita (Japan) Prof. Yasufumi Yoshimoto (Japan) Prof. Michio Kitano (Japan) Prof. Faek Diko (Germany) Dr. Khaled Benyounis (Ireland) Dr. Eivind Johannes (Norway) Dr Josè Simoes (Portugal) Prof. D.G.Simeonov (Bulgaria) Dr. Hussam Achour (Ireland) Dr. Valentin Ivanov (Germany)

Important Dates: 30/04/2015 .................................................Receipt of abstracts 10/05/2015..................................................Notification of abstract acceptance 05/07/2015..................................................Receipt full paper 12/07/2015...................................................Notification of full paper acceptance 11-14/08/2015..............................................Conference

Registration Fees Before 15/07/2015

After 15/07/2015

Author/ Delegate

£450

£500

Committee Member

£400

£450

Session Organiser

£350

£400

Student

£350

£400

Accompanied Partner

£250

£300

Registration fees cover participation in all sessions of the conference, a copy of the proceedings, lunches, refreshments and conference dinner.

All Correspondence: SEEP-2015 Team Dr Abed Alaswad Email: [email protected] Tel: +44(0)141 848 3977 Prof. Abdul Ghani Olabi Tel: +44(0)141 848 3450 +44(0)141 848 3101 Skype name: olabia1 Email: [email protected] Web: www.uws.ac.uk/SEEP2015 or www.seepconference.co.uk