Preface

Abstract

2021 International Conference on New Energy Research and Applications (ICNERA 2021) was held in Sanya, China during July 8-10, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 and travel restrictions, the conference was held in a hybrid format, including both on-site and cloud meetings, which was organized by Hong Kong Society of Mechanical Engineers.This conference aims to provide a platform for researchers and engineers to share their ideas, recent developments, and successful practices in energy engineering. The participants of the conference were from almost every part of the world, with various background such as academia, industry, and well-known entrepreneurs. More than 30 participants attended the conference online and offline, they were from China, Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Malaysia, Japan, UK and more. Four renowned speakers given speeches about their latest research and reports. They are: Prof. Dennis Y.C. Leung from Hong Kong University, HKSAR, China; Prof. Xiaojun Wang from Beijing Jiaotong University, China; Prof. S M Muyeen from Curtin University, Australia and Dr. Chen Qi from Renewable Eenergy Research Center, China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), China. The conference also had 2 technical session and 1 poster sessions.Each keynote speech lasted 40 minutes, invited speech 30 minutes and authors presentation 15 minutes. Each presentation was included with questions and answers. ICNERA 2021 became an effective communication platform for all the participants over the world and unlike some that claim international reach this conference was truly international.The conference proceeding is a compilation of the accepted papers and represent an interesting outcome of the conference. This book covers 2 chapters: 1. Electrical and Power Engineering; 2. Solar\\Thermal\\Hydrogen Energy.We would like to acknowledge all of those who supported ICNERA 2021. Each individual and institutional help were very important for the success of this conference. Especially we would like to thank the committee chairs, committee members and reviewers, for their tremendous contribution in conference organization and peer review of the papers.We sincerely hope that ICNERA 2021 will be a forum for excellent discussions that will put forward new ideas and promote collaborative research and support researchers as they take their work forward. We are sure that the proceedings will serve as an important research source of references and the knowledge, which will lead to not only scientific and engineering progress but also other new products and processes.List of Committees List are available in this pdf.