Dear PRES’20 Family Member,

We have the pleasure to update you the PRES’20 Closing Ceremony information.

1. The program of Closing Ceremony - 17:00 (GMT+8), 21^st August 2020

• Chairperson: Prof Qiuwang Wang (PRES’20 Xi’an Conference Chair)
• PRES’20 Conclusion and PRES’21 invitation: Prof Jiří. J. Klemeš (PRES President)
• Award ceremony: Dr Petar S. Varbanov (PRES’20 Best Poster Award Committee Chair)
• Closing speech: Prof Qiuwang Wang (PRES’20 Xi’an Conference Chair)

2. The platform changed to VooV Meeting, for better interaction of all participants, and providing the Prize Winners with the opportunity to give their speech.

• For Non-China Mainland participants, please download the VooV Meeting download application from < https://voovmeeting.com/ >
• For China Mainland participants, please download 腾讯会议 from < https://meeting.tencent.com/ >

3. Please register with the platform (via the application) in advance and join the Closing Session by filling the following information:

• ID: 140 723 286
• Password: 817821

• Please mute your speaker (left click) during the meeting unless necessary for your individual answer.

We are looking forward to your participation.

With our best wishes

PRES Scientific and Organising Committees

Dear PRES Family Members,

This is the reminder for the PRES’20 conference Program and Platform. Please carefully read the following:

1. Program

• The conference program has been released on the conference website: < http://event.icrp.xjtu.edu.cn/103442809/index?pageId=104168194 >.
• Note: All orals and all posters are open for comments from 15:00 (GMT+8) on 17 August until 15:00 (GMT+8) on 22 August, with an extension for 24 more hours for the authors to respond to all questions.

2. The Opening Ceremony will be live.

• Opening ceremony, 15:00 (GMT+8) on 17 August: < https://zhibo.xjtu.edu.cn/live-show-detail/83 >, or scan the QR code by phone:

 

3. The Platform for the virtual PRES’20 conference, accessable from 15:00 (GMT+8) on 17 August:

• Please log into the COMET system < http://registration.sdewes.org/pres20 >. There will be pop-up window, which will guide you to access the conference platform. It will be available on 17th August 2020.

• Or you can directly click the link: < http://registration.sdewes.org/PRES20/virtcon/ >, which will be available at 15:00 (GMT+8) on 17th August 2020. Only fully registered participants for the PRES’20 conference have access.

Once again, we would like to thank you for the cooperation in organising a conference in these difficult times, and we hope that this event will meet your expectations.
With our best regards,

The Organising Committee of PRES’20 

Virtual PRES’20 Conference

Dear PRES family members,

Due to continuing the worldwide COVID-19 pandemics, the PRES’20 is going to be a Virtual Conference. The dates and arrangements remain the same.

• The new registration fee will be 300EUR/2,300CNY (Full Rate Registration) and 200EUR/1,500CNY (Student Rate Registration), which are less than half of the previous amount.
• All related publication as CET, PRES’20 Proceeding and Special Issues and relevant arrangements remain the same.
• Tested, verified by other conferences experience pre-recorded PowerPoint slide show with presenting voice. All presentations video must be uploaded to the database (the information follows) one week before the conference.
• The full text for the CET or PRES’20 proceedings is obligatory for the presentation selection and approval

Please follow the PRES’20 Website < pres20.icrp.xjtu.edu.cn>, where for more updates, including re-calculated lower conference fee, organisation information, etc.

We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for attendees of our upcoming events. The organisers of PRES’20 sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Hope this hard period would be over ASAP.

With our best wishes,

The Organising Committee of PRES’20               

1. Heat Integration and energy saving
2. Total Site Integration
3. Industrial process retrofit and improvement
4. Renewable energy and utility systems
5. Process simulation
6. Systems and product synthesis
7. Mathematical optimisation
8. Process analysis and modelling
9. Heat exchangers and heat transfer
10. Cleaner production
11. Footprint minimisation and mitigation
12. Circular Economy and integration
13. Power systems design and optimisation
14. Sustainable energy planning
15. Operations and supply chain management
16. Waste and wastewater management
17. Waste-to-energy
18. Process dynamics and control
19. Reactor and catalyst engineering
20. Fluid dynamics
21. Sustainable materials
22. Knowledge transfer
23. Energy Storage 

SPECIAL SESSIONS

1. SPIL Symposium
2. Transmission Enhancement and Energy Optimised Integration of Heat Exchangers in Petrochemical Industry Waste Heat Utilisation
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3. UMIST: Sustainable Process Integration Excellence Roots

** More Special Sessions are encouraged **

PRES President

Prof Jiří. J. Klemeš (CZ)

Vice-Presidents (previous organisers)

Prof Jiří Drahoš (CZ), Prof Ferenc Friedler (HU), Prof Hon Loong Lam (MY), Defang Li (CN), Prof Shiyu Li (CN), Prof Zhiyong Liu (CN), Prof Sauro Pierucci (IT), Prof Panos Seferlis (GR), Prof Petr Stehlik (CZ), Prof Sharifah Rafidah Wan Alwi (MY), Prof Xigang Yuan (CN)

Xi'an Conference Chairs

Prof Wenquan Tao (CN, Honorary), Qiuwang Wang (CN, Executive)

Conference Co-Chairs

Prof Min Zeng (CN), Prof Zaoxiao Zhang (CN), Prof Yongzhong Liu (CN), Dr Petar. S. Varbanov (CZ), Prof Panos Seferlis (GR), Prof Yuansheng Lin (CN)

Scientific Secretaries

Dr Ting Ma (CN), Dr Yee Van Fan (CZ), Xue-Chao Wang (CZ), Xuexiu Jia (CZ), Dr Hanbing Ke (CN)

Members

The history of the PRES Conferences.