Workshop Series on Thermal Issues in Climate Change

气候变化中的热问题研讨会系列

• 批准号: 2137067
• 负责人: Laura Schaefer
• 金额: $ 2.53万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137067&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Series; Thermal; Issues; Climate

Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time. The consequences of a changing climate have implications on local and global economies and human health and can exacerbate existing inequalities. Researchers in the thermal community have contributed significantly to providing engineering solutions to climate change, including improved heat transfer mechanisms for higher efficiencies, the food-energy-water nexus, and advanced material and flow behavior for renewable energy. This award is to support a series of virtual mini-workshops on thermal issues in climate change that bring together researchers from the thermal community to nucleate and promote interdisciplinary collaborations and to collectively tackle this grand challenge. The outcome of the mini-workshops includes a roadmap for how the thermal community can work to address climate change and its societal impacts, with both short- and long-term items for implementation. The series will strengthen a community of researchers that collaborate across institutions and fields, and will provide professional development opportunities, particularly for junior colleagues, with a focus on including members of historically under-represented groups.The goal of this virtual series on thermal issues in climate change is to facilitate collaboration through biweekly discussion sessions that bring together multidisciplinary researchers to find intersectional areas for advancement. Each session will revolve a topic central to the impact or prevention of climate change, and feature four to six speed talks of no more than three minutes apiece, followed by a brief general discussion and breakout rooms to delve more deeply into both potential collaborations and specific topics of interest that might evolve into future funding opportunities. For each session, there are fundamental questions underpinning the ability of the research community to address these focus areas. For example, thermal-electrical energy storage is a crucial technology in decarbonizing the current grid, as well as addressing space conditioning needs, but the underlying thermophysical phase change mechanisms of the advanced materials that can accelerate its adoption are still not well understood, including the conjugate modes of heat transfer in an active bed and the dynamic controls needed for precise operation. Beyond the advancements in discrete topics in science and engineering, the discussion series will also aid in communication between researchers at different institutions and fields, which will contribute to the thorough identification of key research and development needs for addressing climate change. The published outcomes of the discussion series will further this goal beyond the bounds of the series itself as well.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

气候变化是我们时代最重要的问题之一。气候变化的后果对地方和全球经济和人类健康产生影响，并可能加剧现有的不平等现象。热社区的研究人员为为气候变化提供工程解决方案做出了重大贡献，包括提高较高效率的传热机制，食品能量 - 水连接以及可再生能源的先进材料和流动行为。该奖项旨在支持一系列有关气候变化热问题的虚拟迷你工作坊，这些工厂将研究人员从热社区组合在一起，以核定并促进跨学科的合作，并集体解决这一巨大挑战。迷你工作坊的结果包括一个路线图，以使用短期和长期实施项目来解决气候变化及其社会影响的方法。 The series will strengthen a community of researchers that collaborate across institutions and fields, and will provide professional development opportunities, particularly for junior colleagues, with a focus on including members of historically under-represented groups.The goal of this virtual series on thermal issues in climate change is to facilitate collaboration through biweekly discussion sessions that bring together multidisciplinary researchers to find intersectional areas for advancement.每个会议将使一个主题围绕着影响或预防气候变化的核心，并以不超过三分钟的时间进行四到六个速度谈判，然后进行简短的一般讨论和突破室，以更深入地研究潜在的合作和特定的兴趣主题，这些主题可能会发展为未来的资金机会。对于每个会议，都有基本的问题基于研究社区解决这些重点领域的能力。例如，热电能量存储是一种脱碳化的至关重要技术，以及满足太空调节需求，但是先进材料的基本嗜热相变机制可以加速其采用，但仍未对其采用，包括在现有床和动态控制中进行的热传递模式。除了科学和工程学的离散主题的进步之外，讨论系列还将有助于不同机构和领域的研究人员之间的沟通，这将有助于彻底确定解决气候变化的关键研发需求。讨论系列的已发表结果将进一步超出该系列本身的范围。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来支持的。