About this presentation

related to ATMOsphere Australia 2018
published on 7 May 2018
18 pages

Aliakbar Akbarzadeh from the School of Aerospace Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and Peter O’Neill from Mayekawa Australia discussed a case study of a Mayekawa heat pump being used in an industrial salt drying process in Australia.

About the speaker(s)

Aliakbar Akbarzadeh

 

Aliakbar Akbarzadeh received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wyoming in USA(1975). He has worked as an academic at Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, University of Melbourne, UC Berkeley, and RMIT University in Melbourne Australia.
At present Aliakbar is a Professor in the School of Engineering and also the Leader of the Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Group. He has been the first supervisor of about 40 PhD candidates to completion by research. He has over 100 refereed publications and three books.
Aliakbar who is a thermodynamicist has been working for the last 40 years on salinity gradient solar ponds as a source of industrial process heat and at present his research team is world leader on industrial applications of solar ponds.

In the past 10 years he has been working on applications of thermoelectric generators for power generation from waste heat and renewable sources, as well as thermal energy storage systems. Aliakbar’s current research concentrates on sustainable water desalination using renewable energy.
As part of his community activities, he is board members of not for profit organisations of Migrant Information Centre (MIC) as well as House of Persia Community and Cultural Centre(HOPE).
Aliakbar as a volunteer looks after isolated elderly people through Wesley Mission DO CARE.

Peter O’Neill

 

Peter has been involved in the refrigeration industry for over thirty years, having previously worked for another major international organisation. He is currently responsible for the sales and marketing of Mayekawa products in Australia and has held this role for just over two years. He is an ardent supporter of natural refrigerants in his role with Mayekawa and is interested in developments within the refrigeration sector that encompass natural refrigerants.