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CEG Annual Meeting 2014• President overview : CEG 2013-14

--Hao Chen

• CEG Award 2013-14

• CEG Invited talk

• Poster session and social hour

1. Toward US/China Collaboration in Getting the Faltering Global CO2 Capture and Storage Enterprise Back on Track

-- Dr. Robert Williams

2. Prospect applications of CO2-heat pump in China

-- Youhua Tian

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Princeton University China Energy Group(Annual meeting 2014)

Hao Chen, Yuan HuBin Guo, Hang Deng, Sili Deng, Bo Guo, Xinwo Huang, Wei Peng, Sheng Yang, Peng Zhao

Contact: PUCEG@Princeton.EDU

Princeton University

http://www.princeton.edu/puceg/

April 24th, 2014

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Who are we?

• Princeton University China Energy Group (CEG) is a student-operating research-focused organization based at Princeton University.

• Our ultimate objective is to help educate our members to be the future leaders and thinkers on China’s energy and environmental issues.

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Current board

• CEG is run by its board members.

Current Board Members:

Hao Chen (co-president)

Yuan Hu (co-president)

Bin Guo, Hang Deng(treasurer), Wei Peng, Xinwo Huang, Bo Guo, Sheng Yang, Sili Deng, Peng Zhao

Who are we? CEG Members!

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CEG members• 46 members from 11

department/institute

What do we do?

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We encourage the sharing of perspectives on ENERGY!

• China’s energy situation

• Energy implications of our members’ research

List of events in 2013-2014

Date Event9/27/2013 Lunch with recruiter from Chevron

10/01/2013 New CEG board members election10/01/2013 Lunch with Professor Cong from Tsinghua University11/08/2013 Lunch discussion lead by Phil Hannam10/20/2013 CEG Students Seminar Series No.111/04/2013 Career Services Workshop11/26/2013 CEG Newsletter No. 103/14/2014 CEG 1st panel discussion03/25/2014 Lunch discussion lead by Carole Dalin03/26/2014 CEG Student Seminar 204/14/2014 CEG Newsletter No. 204/24/2014 Annual Member Meeting 2014

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Highlight: 1st CEG panel discussion

• Tackling air pollution issue in China

Tackling China's air pollution - Is it driving us to a clean energy future?

CEG Students Seminar Series No.1

Hao Chen: Photovoltaic and outlook for the strategic development of China PV industry

Zhong Zheng: a novel solution of resolving the technology selection dominated by scale in utilization of biomass by employing a mathematical model

Wei Peng: China’s Wind Industry, challenges in the market and domestic policies for fostering the exploitation of Wind Power

10/20/2013

Renewable Energy

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CEG Students Seminar Series No.203/26/2014

CEG lunch discussion series• Phillip Hannam - China’s coal power sector: from international

reliance to leading global supplier• Carole Dalin - China's Inter-provincial and Foreign Virtual Water

Trade

CEG Newsletter

Edited by Wei Peng

• News in various energy sector

• CEG latest news and coming events

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CEG Website• Add 6 CEG Perspectives• CEG news and events• CEG Selections

Organized by Bin Guo

Lunch with recruiter from Chevron9/27/2013

Career service workshop 11/04/2013

--finding professional and career development resources

CEG career

Organized by Sheng Yang

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Princeton is small, but everyone is special !

Be proud of CEG, and make CEG work for you!

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New members since last annual meeting

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Baoguo Wu

Department of Chemistry

VSRC in Princeton

Research interests

• Environment and energy science, engineering and policy issues

Current Research Project

1) Bioelectrochemistry or microbial fuel cell 2) Electrochemistry regarding to the CO2

reduction to fuels catalyzed by homogeneous organic catalyst.

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Peichao Li

Department of Civil and Environment Engineering

Visiting research fellow

Research interests

• Analytical poroelasticity (Fluid-solid interaction in porous media), Transport phenomena in porous media, Geomechanics with applications to civil and petroleum engineering

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An Dai

Department of Electrical Engineering

4th-year PhD student

Research interests

• Material and electronics devices, and policy issues. An is also interested in China issues.

Current Research Project

• Enhanced Charge-Carrier Injection and Collection Via Lamination of Doped Polymer Layers p-Doped with a Solution-Processible Molybdenum Complex

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Eric Mills

Department of Electrical Engineering

4th-year PhD student

Research Projects

• Enhancement of photocatalytic TiO2 structures through the use of plasmonic nanoparticles and top-down nanopatterning

• Creating novel, conductive transparent electrodes for improving photovoltaic technologies.

• Creating robust next-generation battery electrodes through the use of novel nanostructures and encapsulation techniques

Research Interests

• Experimental Photovoltaics, Batteries, and Photocatalysis

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Jiaying Pan

Department of Mechanical &Aerospace Engineering

VSRC in Princeton

Research interests

• Engine combustion and advanced engine technology

Current Research Project

1) Low temperature combustion and chemistry in advanced combustion systems;

2) Knocking combustion and pre-ignition phenomenon issues in internal combustion engines;

3) Interaction of flame propagation and pressure waves in engine combustion.

Yanhua Yuan Geosciences Department Email: yanhuay@princeton.edu

Jiabao Li

Mechanical & Aerospace EngineeringVisiting student

3th year PH.D. student from Tsinghua University

Research Field: Optical engineering, especially fiber optics

and lasersCurrent Research Project: A new method for remote measurement:

Optical fiber comb with tunable frequency space based on fiber four-wave-mixing;

Evan Leister M.S. student in Civil and

Environmental Engineering Research interests:

Flow in porous media Water sustainability Energy

Research project: Evaluating simplified models

for geologic CO2 storage

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Xuhai Tang唐旭海

Research Interests:• Advanced numerical methods in engineering• Mining engineering• Petroleum engineering• Fracture mechanics

B.S. in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering;Sichuan University, China

M.Eng. Geotechnical Engineering;Sichuan University, China

PhD. Rock Mechanics;Imperial College London, UK

Research Assistant; Petroleum Engineering, Princeton University, USA

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YOUHUA TIAN2011– PRESENTUrban and Environmental Sciences

2013 SPRINGGEOSCIENCES

General interest in machine design, energy and ecology, especially issues related to China

Research Focus:

• Phenological response of herbs to climate change in Northern China

• CO2 heat-pump

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Yuxing Yun

B.S. Nanjing University

PhD. University of Michigan

2013~present: Postdoc at AOS/GFDL (climate modeling center)

Research focus on modeling the effect of fossil fuel combustion aerosols on climate through acting as cloud forming particles.

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We would like to thank the GSG for funding this event.

We would like to thank PEI and CMI for supporting some previous CEG events.

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CEG Annual Meeting 2014• President overview : CEG 2013-14

--Hao Chen

• CEG Award 2013-14

• CEG Invited talk

• Poster session and social hour

1. Toward US/China Collaboration in Getting the Faltering Global CO2 Capture and Storage Enterprise Back on Track

-- Dr. Robert Williams

2. Prospect applications of CO2-heat pump in China

-- Youhua Tian

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CEG Award

Civil & Environmental Eng.

Research interest:CO2 Capture and Storage

Hang Deng

• CEG treasurer

• Initiated and organized CEG

panel discussion

• Won funding support from GSG

• Active contributor to CEG

newsletter, website, …