Dear Colleagues,

The IPCC report "Global Warming of 1.5°C" issued a dire warning that unless CO2 emissions are halved by 2030, devastating changes, which will be sooner than expected and irreversible, will occur in the ocean and on land. Time is running out for globally transitioning to new energy systems. Logic and numbers show that the world must take a two-step approach: (A) deploy existing, industrially proven technologies, namely solar, wind and nuclear baseload at an unprecedented scale and pace, from now to 2050 -- when a house catches fire, firemen must run to the closest hydrants and stop disputing which water stream would be purer; and (B) develop new concepts and technologies that may replace the dirtier parts of (A) post-2050, at terawatt scale. The MIT "A+B" (MITAB) is dedicated to the accelerated deployment of (A), and new concepts and emerging technologies for (B).

MITAB2022 is the 4th annual conference co-organized by MIT, Harvard, and Applied Energy Innovation Institute, being held on July 5-8, 2022, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. In addition, Applied Energy (Impact factor (IF) 9.7) and Engineering Journal (IF 7.5) are partner journals of the conference. Due to international travel policy restrictions and MIT event policy, MITAB2022 will be a virtual conference. Please submit your paper, abstract, video or PPT on or before May 15, 2022, to the following link: https://applied-energy.org/mitab2022/paper%20submission

The organizing committee will select approximately 20 keynote speakers from authors of all submissions to present their papers or research. Also, outstanding papers will be recommended for further consideration for publication in a special issue of Applied Energy (Journal Impact Factor 9.7). In addition, we will select approximately ten of the best papers and posters.

1st - 3rd "MIT A+B"’ conference programs (including keynote speeches and oral presentation videos) are available at: https://applied-energy.org/mitab2022/pastmit

Partial List of past conference Keynote Speakers
Prof. Jerry Woodall, National Medal of Technology Laureate, University of California, Davis
Dr. Marcia McNutt, President, US. National Academy of Science
Prof. Daniel Kammen, Former US. Science Envoy, University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Robert Armstrong, Director of MIT Energy Initiative
Prof. Harry Atwater, Caltech
Prof. Daniel Nocera, Harvard University
Prof. Sally Benson, Former Director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy
Prof. Yi Cui, Director of Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy
Prof. T. Alan Hatton, MIT
Dr. Ralph Izzo, Chairman and CEO of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.
Dr. Birol Dindoruk, Chief Scientist, Shell
Dr. Ian Scott, CEO, Moltex Energy
Prof. Jacopo Buongiorno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Mark Zoback, Stanford University
Prof. Alexander Slocum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Robert Kleinberg, Columbia University
Prof. Kaushik Rajashekara, University of Houston
Dr. Said Al-Hallaj, CEO, All Cell Technologies LLC

Examples of topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Renewable energy: Clean energy conversion technologies: fuel cells and electrolyzers (A or B), conversion of petroleum/gas/coal to high-valued materials and chemicals (A), hybrid energy systems, such as the combination of intermittent renewable energies and nuclear heat storage for load following, chemicals/materials/fuel production (A or B), multi-energy carrier energy systems (A or B).
• Energy storage: grid-scale batteries (A), battery management systems (A), fuel cell/ electrolyzer management systems (A), pumped hydro/compressed air (A), thermal energy storage (A or B), distributed energy storage (A).
• Nuclear energy: innovative concrete solutions and civil constructions (A), application of robotics and AI (A), shipyard constructed floating reactors (A), small modular reactors and micro-reactors (A or B), fast neutron reactors (B), fusion reactors (B).
• Mitigation technologies: Carbon capture and sequestration (B), nuclear waste (A), solar waste (A), battery waste (A), reduced-CO2 production of cement, bulk metals and chemicals (A or B).
• Intelligent energy systems: smart grids (A), ultra-efficient/superconducting power transmission (B), wireless power transmission (B); electrification of transportation and industrial production, such as electric cars/trucks (A or B), electrified air flight (A or B), microwave/plasma/electrochemical processing (A or B).
• Sustainability of energy systems: Environmental monitoring (A), social mobilization (A), consensus building (A), governmental policy-making (A), international coordination (A).
• Sustainable geoenergy: geothermal (A or B), gas hydrate (A), unconventional natural gas (A), LNG, reducing methane and CO2 emission (A) of oil and gas sector, sustainable geoenergy development and management (A).
• Energy, food, water and air: water and air treatment (A), reduced-CO2 production of food (A), Water-Food-Energy Nexus (A).
Given the grave urgency of our mission, we ask authors to be earnest, practical and in a problem-solving mode in their presentations. Creativity will be highly valued.

If you have questions regarding this conference or submission, please contact Conference Co-Founder and Organization Chair Dr. Ray (Zhenhua) Rui (mitab2022@applied-energy.org).

Important Dates

Submission starts: March 10, 2022
Submission deadline: May 15, 2022
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2022
Conference datae: July 5-8, 2022
We look forward to meeting you at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts USA.

Chairs of MIT A+B 2022
Prof. Ju Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. Michael J. Aziz, Harvard University
Prof. Jinyue Yan, Editor-In-Chief of Applied Energy
https://applied-energy.org/mitab2022/index 

会议网址： https://applied-energy.org/mitab2022/paper%20submission