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2nd Conference Thermoelectrics goes Automotive

The demand for energy is increasing and fossil energy sources will continue to cover the lion's share of world energy consumption in the future too. Yet supplies are limited. This is why the focus of attention must move to renewable energies in the medium term. Energy efficiency, environmental compatibility and safety have progressed in leaps and bounds over the last few decades in the automotive industry. But development must go on. However, there are technical and economic limits to the avenues pursued to date – lower energy requirement, greater efficiency in converting energy, distributing energy more in line with demand. New approaches are now needed. The chemical energy bound up in fuel cannot be fully converted into useful mechanical energy. As a result of the systems and operating strategies in place, the greater part of energy supplied will continue to be dissipated as unused thermal energy. 

This is where thermoelectrics (TE) and other technologies come in. TE systems, in particular, are capable of converting thermal energy directly into electrical energy and vice versa. It took until the end of the last century to realize their huge significance to industry and transportation. Against the backdrop of conditions continuing to deteriorate dramatically for mobility and transportation, there is now interest in the enormous potential of harnessing waste heat and TE technologies in the automotive industry as well. Their advantages are significant: They have no moving parts and are flexibly adaptable, robust as well as maintenance-free. TE systems come with minimal complexity, providing benefits in terms of space required, weight, integration effort and costs. 

The first conference staged by IAV in 2008 at Berlin confirmed amid experts that thermoelectrics is on the move and may be an opportunity for the automotive industry. This is also shown by EU and German-based incentive schemes now under way. Over the next few years, TE must prove it can help provide an answer to satisfying the CO²standards automobiles will be required to meet in 2020 in Europe. The course must now be set for lifting the technology from the research laboratories and getting it into industrialization. To this end, the second conference places the focus on the technology's worldwide progress. Summary and themed presentations are to provide the framework for reporting on the current state of research, development, industrialization, system integration and application. Although the spotlight will be on automotive use in keeping with the event's "Thermoelectrics Goes Automotive" banner, synergies relating to other fields of application will be expressly welcome. For this reason, IAV invites international experts from industry and research to demonstrate and discuss the perspectives, trends, risks and demands that are associated with target systems from a wide range of fields in industry and transportation. Oral contributions, posters or exhibits are requested from the fields of:

• Energy-Harvesting

• Storing, transporting and converting thermal energy

• Developing TE materials, modules and systems

• TEG heat exchangers, components, systems and their integration

• Empirical reports on TEG applications

Presentation time including discussion is 30 minutes. The conference languages are English and German. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.

Director
Daniel Jänsch, IAV GmbH

Programm Committee
Dr. Johannes Liebl, BMW Group
Dr. Tilmann Haug, Daimler AG
Dr. Andreas Schamel, FORD Forschungszentrum Aachen
Roger Deckers, Renault AG
Dr. Georg Degen, BASF SE
Dr. Thomas Heckenberger, Behr GmbH & Co. KG
Oliver Lang, Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
Rolf Brück, Emitec GmbH
Dr. Rüdiger Schütte, Evonik Degussa GmbH
Dr. Rolf Jebasinski, J. Eberspächer GmbH & Co. KG
Prof. Karl-Ernst Noreikat, NorCon Scientific Consulting
Prof. Horst Friedrich, DLR e. V.
Dr. Eckhard Müller, DLR e. V.
Prof. Anke Weidenkaff, EMPA
Dr. Harald Böttner, Fraunhofer IPM
Prof. Frank Behrendt, TU Berlin
Prof. Peter Steinberg, TU Cottbus
Prof. Hans Zellbeck, TU Dresden
Mike Laudien, IAV GmbH

Deadlines
Interested parties are requested to submit an abstract (3000 characters), including title, authors/co-authors with company address, phone no., fax no. and e-mail address, by e-mail to the following address:

Daniel Jänsch
IAV GmbH, Carnotstrasse 1, 10587 Berlin
Phone +49 30 39978-9633
Fax +49 30 39978-9798
E-mail: thermoelektrik@iav.de

Closing date for abstracts:
June 30, 2010

In Memory of E.K. Iordanishvili

Submitted by Marat Vedernikov on Tue, 2010-05-04 11:09

Professor Evgeniy Konstantinovich Iordanishvili died January, 20, 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia in the age 81. For thermoelectric community he is known first of all as a close collaborator of Professor A.F. Ioffe on the early stage of development of thermoelectric refrigerators in Institute of Semiconductors in St. Petersburg. He was a coauthor of the pioneer generalizing publication on this subject: A.F. Ioffe “Semiconductor thermoelements and thermoelectric cooling. Part 2: A.F. Ioffe, L.S. Stil’bans, E.K. Iordanishvili and T.S. Stavitskaya Thermoelectric cooling”, 1957, Infosearch, London. E.K. Iordanishvili graduated from Department of Physics of Leningrad State University. After scientific carrier in Institute of Semiconductors he was a top-manager in thermoelectric industry. About 20 last years he was a Professor of physics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Polytechnical Institute). E.K. Iordanishvili – the author of several scientific, technical and popular books in thermoelectricity field.

            A hobby of the whole E.K. Iordanishvili life was extremal sporting tourism. He was widely known in Russia as an organizer and leader of many difficult and dangerous sporting expeditions.