Dr Edward Halawa

Dr. Edward Halawa finished his PhD research project titled: “Thermal Performance Analysis of a Roof Integrated Solar Heating System Incorporating Phase Change Thermal Storage” at the Sustainable Energy Centre, Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies – The University of South Australia in 2006 under the supervision of Professor Wasim Saman.

Before joining the UniSA's SEC-ISST as a postdoctoral Research Assistant in 2006, he had worked as an energy researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) for over 10 years, and has knowledge and practical experience in solar energy, thermal storage, collector design, thermal comfort and energy in buildings. He was the energy specialist at the ASEAN-Canada Project on Solar Energy in Drying Processes from 1994-1996 where he was directly involved in the implementation and evaluation of the solar drying projects in ASEAN countries.

During his PhD research, he developed considerable expertise in modelling and simulation of solar heating incorporating phase change thermal storage.

Dr. Edward Halawa is currently working as a Research Associate in the project: Intelligent Grid in New Housing Development. This is part of a national CSIRO Flagship Clusters program.

• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer
• Thermodynamics
• Thermal Systems Design
• Computer Programming (FORTRAN, Visual Basic, C/C++)

Member, Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating (AIRAH)

Member, The Australian Institute of Energy (AIE)

B.Eng. (Mech.), M. Eng. (Mech.), Ph.D. (Mech.)

• Modelling & Simulation of Energy Systems
• Solar Thermal Engineering
• Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage
• Thermal Comfort

Hyde, R. A., Yeang, K., Groenhout, N., Barram, F., Webster-Mannison, M., Healey, K., Halawa, E., 2009: Exploring Synergies with Innovative Green Technologies for Advanced Renovation using a Bioclimatic Approach, Architectural Science Review, Volume 52, Number 3, pp. 229-236(8).

Saman, W., Halawa, E., 2009: The impact of passive design and solar energy use in a housing development on the electrical grid, presented at ISES Solar World Congress, 11-14 October 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Halawa, E., Saman, W., 2009: Thermal Performance of Liquid Desiccant Solar Air Conditioning in Hot / Humid Climatic Region of South East Asia, The 3rd Int. Solar Air Conditioning Conference, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. (awarded 3rd prize for the best poster presentation)

Saman, W., Halawa, E., Chanprasopchai, T., 2009: Experimental study of the regenerator in a liquid desiccant cooling system, Presented at the World Renewable Energy Congress 2009 – Asia, 18 – 23 May, Bangkok, Thailand.

Saman, W., Halawa, E., Krause, M., 2008: An Integrated Thermal System for the Provision of Hot Water, Space Heating and Cooling, Eurosun 2008 – 1st International Conference on Solar Heating, Cooling and Buildings, Lisbon, Portugal, 7 – 10 October.

Saman W, Halawa E and Krause M, 2007: Residential application of solar liquid desiccant cooling system in tropical countries of South-East Asia. Proceedings of Solar Air-Conditioning Conference, Tarragona, Spain, October

Krause M, Saman W, Halawa E, Heizen R, Jordan U and Vajen K, 2007: Absorber and regenerator models for liquid desiccant air conditioning systems: validation and comparison using experimental data. Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007: Solar Energy and Human Settlement, September, Beijing, pp.770-774 (CD-ROM)

Krause M, Saman W, Halawa E, Heizen R, Jordan U and Vajen K, 2007: Absorber and regenerator models for liquid desiccant air conditioning systems: validation and comparison using experimental data. Proceedings of ISES Solar World Congress 2007: Solar Energy and Human Settlement, September, Beijing, pp.770-774 (CD-ROM)

Saman W., Bruno F. & Halawa E., 2005: Thermal Performance of PCM Thermal Storage Unit for a Roof Integrated Solar Heating System. Solar Energy, Vol. 78(2), pp. 341-349.

Halawa E., Bruno F. & Saman W., 2005: Numerical Analysis of a PCM Thermal Storage System with Varying Wall Temperature. Energy Conv Mgmt, Vol. 46(15-16), pp. 2592-2604.

2005 Halawa, E., Saman, W., Bruno, W.: Simulation of a Roof Integrated Heating System with PCM Thermal Storage, Proc. ISES Solar World Congress, Orlando, Florida, August 6-12.

Halawa, E., Sugiyatno., 2001: Estimation of global solar radiation in the Indonesian climatic region, Renewable Energy, Vol. 24(2), October, pp. 197-206.

Halawa, E., 2001: Simulation worksheet (LKS) for development of steady-state simulation system of equations, Int. J. Mech. Eng. Educ., Vol. 29(1), pp 1-11.

Halawa, E., Brojonegoro, A., Davies, R., 1997: An overview of the ASEAN-Canada project on solar energy in drying processes, Drying Tech.; Vol. 15 (5), pp. 1585-1592.

Halawa, E. & Brojonegoro, A., 1996: Economic Competitiveness of a Solar Dryer, Proc. Workshop on Monitoring, Evaluation and Adoption Strategy – ASEAN-Canada Project on Solar Energy in Drying Processes, Cebu, Philippines edited by E. Halawa & A. Brojonegoro.

Halawa, E., Marquand, C. J., 1994: Improving thermal comfort conditions by accounting for the mean radiant temperature, Int. J. Ambient Energy, vol. 15, no2, pp. 87-90.

Halawa, E., Marquand, C.J. & Luxton, R.E., 1993: Integrating Human Comfort into Air Conditioning Controls, The 4th Australasian Heat and Mass Transfer Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Dec.