In this era of doom and gloom, it is important to make a daily effort to embrace, live, and savour life to the fullest. But how do we do so? Martin Luther King Jr. asserted, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” This complements Maya Angelou’s exhortation, “Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.” Accordingly, we strive to nurture humanity, and do so in a sustainable manner. Nurturing Humanity Sustainably 2025 aims at bringing optimists around the world together to catalyse the nurturing of humanity, especially via potent cross-discipline synergetic energies. We endeavour to invoke the latest know-how and technologies to engineering a more wholesome humanity. This symposium is part of the pragmatic means for fulfilling the Turbulence and Energy Laboratory Mission, Bettering Tomorrow. We invite like-minded fellow earthlings to join us in exchanging ideas and forging sustainable actions to better tomorrow together. Topics of interest include eco-friendly living, green engineering, pollution and waste management, and of course, nurturing, humanity, and sustainability.
March 7, 2025: Abstract Deadline
March 28, 2025: Notification of Abstract Acceptance
April 25, 2025: Final Paper Submission Deadline
Early Bird Registration
Standard Package: $315;
Student/Special Package: $275;
Companion Package: $465
https://www.uwindsor.ca/engineering/research/495/turbulence-and-energy-lab-annual-conference
Sustain What? For Who?
From harnessing the power of human and animal muscles and burning wood, to steam driven and nuclear energy, ingenious people continue to find ways to produce more power for their communities’ needs and activities. However, to save the planet and all living things from potentially calamitous ecological harm, there are legislative decisions being made to stop generating power from environmentally unsound energy sources. These include, but are not limited to, sources that can damage the geological structure of the Earth, involve the formation of hazardous radioactive wastes, or whose use produces carbon emissions. Moreover, in many cases, such sources cannot be renewed and so, as their availability diminishes, alternatives will be needed to meet the energy demands of future generations. Energy and power play crucial roles in the provision of the basic necessities of life such as breathable air, nutritious food, clean water, and adequate housing. If these essentials are to be enjoyed by all people, they need to be affordable. Can all these needs be met and sustained in the near-future and for subsequent generations? A modest goal may be the adoption of the Haudenosaunee principle by which decisions made today should result in a sustainable future for the next seven generations. But it appears that the decisions made seven generations ago, at the start of the modern industrial period have led, probably inadvertently, to the ostensibly grim environmental and climate issues of today. Can the drastic mistakes made then, be corrected now, for future generations by using power generated from sustainable external energy sources and celestial phenomenon over which we have no direct influence, other than the methods of conversion?
Resilient Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems
This talk will present the integration of nuclear-renewable integrated systems to support energy infrastructure. Different coupling mechanisms will be presented to support different installations and user requirements. Design and operation strategies and various technologies will be illustrated to deploy nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems and their use for different applications in city, urban, and remote communities. Performance measures are proposed to evaluate different strategies. The talk will include techno-economic evaluation of interconnected nuclear-renewable micro hybrid energy systems with combined heat and power, and their impact on a number of implementation strategies. Stratgies will be illustrated to deploy nuclear- renewable hybrid energy system (N-R HES), with considerations on scalability, capital cost, project lifetime, and other implementation parameters. Nuclear technologies will be presented, including Small Modular Reactor (SMR) or Micro Modular Reactor (MMR), as integrated within micro energy grids. Resiliency and performance measures will be discussed in view of a number of operation and control strategies to meet user requirements.
Honorary Chair: Rupp Carriveau, University of Windsor
Conference Chair: David S-K. Ting, University of Windsor
Technical Program Chair: Ahmadreza Vasel-Be-Hagh, University of South Florida
Energy & Food: William David Lubitz, University of Guelph
Humanity: Paul G. O’Brien, York University
Nurturing: Himanshu Tyagi, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Sustainability: Yulin Hu, University of Prince Edward Island
Logistics Chairs: Marissa E. Hatt, Jacqueline A. Stagner, Turbulence & Energy Laboratory
Conference Overseer: Jo Asuncion, University of Windsor
Sponsorship: Katie Mazzuca, University of Windsor
Media & IT: Naomi Pelkey, Mark Gryn, Srabanti Chitte, Lionel Beaudoin, University of Windsor