Pr. Slimane GABSI

National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia.

Pr. Abdallah MHIMID

National School of Engineers of Monastir, Tunisia.

The symposium Refrigeration, Cooling and Air Conditioning Conference covers a wide range of topics of interest to researchers and engineers involved in the development of technology improvements and/or assessments of cooling, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment.

The topics ranging from fundamental to applied, including modeling of components and systems, heat exchanger enhancements and characterizations, domestic, commercial and industrial refrigeration, heat pumps, cooling, refrigeration and air conditioning using any form energy : renowelable energy, geothermal.

Pr. Slimane GABSI : Doctorat d’Etat PHYSICAL SCIENCES Mention "Process Engineering Dec. 3, 1987" Thermodynamics of irreversible processes applied to process engineering: Simulation of unit operations in dynamic mode fluctuation (National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, National School of Chemical Engineering Engineers TOULOUSE). Professor of Chemical Engineering and Process at the National School of Engineers of GABES and Sfax, Director of the Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Sfax (1999-2006), Director of the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax (2006 -2011). Research Axes a) solar refrigeration by absorption and adsorption, b) solar desalination with the technique solar pond coupled with a heat pump, the humidification-dehumidification technique, the technique of membrane distillation, c) cooling technologies, 09 Research projects in the field of chemical engineering and automation. 03 Federating research projects PRF energy air conditioning with natural gas, solar refrigeration, water heating, 02 European project on solar membranes desalination, international cooperation projects France, CNRS, Spain, Morocco, Syria. Director of twenty PhD and Master and 10 PhD in progress. 02 Patents, Authors and co author of more than 300 publications.

Pr. Abdallah MHIMID : Doctorate of PHYSICAL SCIENCES specialty "energetic" obtained in July 1991 and University Habilitation in physics untilled “heat and mass transfers in porous media” in 2001 at the faculty of science of Tunis. Professor of Energetic Engineering at the National School of Engineers of Monastir, Director of ENIM's Department of Energetic Engineering (2005-2008), and Director of the Graduate School of Engineering Sciences and Technology (since 2014). Research topics a) Adsorption solar refrigeration, b) heat and mass transfer in porous media: application to drying and adsorption phenomena c) combustion. Member of an International cooperation project in France, CNRS (Rouen) on the combustion of olive cake and a National project on the characterization of insulating bricks. Director of 21 masters, 10 doctorates and 06 doctorates in progress. Authors and co-author of more than 45 articles in international journals and 70 papers.