Lecture title: The research and application prospect of fire safety and new energy system
Lecture time: 14:15-16:15, November 18, 2020
Location: Online, Tencent Conference No. 942 436 720
Content summary:
Air conditioning systems consume more than 40 percent of all energy used in existing buildings. The average three-person Australian home, for example, bills an annual electricity bill of A $2,090, with A $4,000 spent on the air-conditioning system. Realizing an economical, efficient and reliable ventilation system is imminent and has important practical significance. The solar chimney is a kind of new energy system of cavity in the building, which uses the solar energy to enhance the natural ventilation inside the building, so as to achieve the purpose of energy saving. As a reliable new energy system, it usually consists of glass curtain walls and heat-absorbing walls. Because of its simple structure and high efficiency, it has the potential to be the most cost-effective and reliable energy solution for buildings. It is also possible to avoid casualties from building fires. For example, the Grenfell Tower fire in London in June 2017, which killed 71 people, was mainly due to the failure of its smoke exhaust system eight days before the fire, thus failing to exhaust smoke in time to provide sufficient time for safe evacuation. Solar chimneys can effectively extend the safe evacuation time for occupants and avoid fire casualties by expelling harmful smoke from a fire in a building. To realize the natural ventilation and smoke exhaust function of solar chimneys is of great significance to achieve low cost energy saving and fire safety.
Prof. Shi Long is currently a senior lecturer and doctoral supervisor at RMIT University, Australia, and an Australian DECRA Fellow(equivalent to a national Excellent Youth). His main research interests include building fire risk analysis and building solar energy conservation. He has published more than 80 SCI papers in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and other international journals. The research results have been recognized by more than 30 national research organizations, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Fire Protection Association. Based on his innovative ideas, he has successfully presided over more than 600,000 Australian dollars (about 3 million yuan) funded projects in recent years, such as projects of the Australian Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. He presided over and completed the design of the solar chimney energy saving and fire prevention system for the Kingston City Council office building in Melbourne. The solar chimney can be used for building energy saving and fire prevention at the same time, which is the world's first practical architectural case. He is the founder and current president of the Future City Forum (www.urbanfutures.org.au). Since 2010, he has been a guest reviewer for more than 180 papers in more than 20 SCI journals. Since 2014, he has been a guest reviewer for more than 15 projects of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. He was awarded the USTC Outstanding Graduate in 2009, the Third Outstanding Master's Thesis of Anhui Province in 2011, the UVic Chancellor's Fund Award in 2015, the RMIT University Distinguished Teaching Award in 2017 and 2019, and the USTC's only Chancellor's Distinguished Youth Research Award in 2019.
Sponsor:
Department of Safety Science and Engineering, College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University
Institute of Safety Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University