Keynote Speaker
We proudly announce that outstanding professor Birol Kılkış will give a keynote speech on the first day of the event.
Dr. Birol I. Kilkis
Fellow ASHRAE
Distinguished Lecturer, Exceptional Service and Distinguished Service Awards, ASHRAE
Science Encouragement Award, TUBİTAK, 1981
Country Manager, World Alliance for De-Centralized Energy
Professor Baskent University and Chair of Energy Engineering Graduate Program
Dr. Kilkis received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering with high honors from the Middle East Technical University. He graduated in 1972 with an honors degree from von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium- a NATO Research Center. Dr. Kilkis has been working on heat transfer, unified heat transfer theory, high-performance buildings, quantum mechanics, fluid dynamics, heat pumps, energy strategies, aerodynamics, exergy analysis, combined heat and power, tri-generation, ORC, integrated solar PV systems, simulation, and computer aided design of green buildings.
He is a founder member of the Turkish Wind Energy Association and the past Country Coordinator of Wind Energy for CENTO. He has developed seven standards on Heat Pumps, three standards on Radiant Panel Heating and Cooling, and authored the revised Chapter 6 in ASHRAE Handbook on Radiant Panel Heating and Cooling and four other chapters at a capacity of principal reviewer.
He is the Engineering Track Member of USGBC and has developed several green energy bundles and equipment that can operate directly with low-temperature sources and waste heat.
Since 1972, he has been the principal investigator of several industrial projects, including a NATO Science for Stability project on a de-centralized 1.5 MW fluidized-bed power plant. He had been a contractor to DOE, Morgantown Energy Technology Center in West Virginia twice. Between 1998 and 1999, he acted as the project principal for snow melting systems for Air Force bases.
He has been working on several commercial projects too.He is the invited editor of UNESCO Int. Journal of Global Energy Issues and he is the editorial board member of International Journal of Green Energy, International Journal of Exergy, and COSSP Regional Editor. He is the North America Liaison of the Low-Exergy Buildings International Network and the founder of Exergy Analysis for Sustainable Buildings Technical Committee and vice-chair in ASHRAE. He was the Project Liaison of EU HEGEL Poly-generation project.
He is the co-author of Cogeneration with Renewable Energies book (in print), and the author of three chapters in Energy Engineering Encyclopedia. Dr. Kilkis has more than 400 publications (list available).
Recently, he has established a co-operation with TU Delft University in the Netherlands on Green Initiative Sustainable Campus Project and has authored the Ten-Year Green Campus Project and the Roadmap for Baskent University in collaboration with OSTİM and TU Delft (2012). Dr. Kilkis has been appointed to the Executive Committee membership of the European Union Solar Thermal Platfom is 2015.
