An event for young researchers in the fields of biomass and energy efficiency. 

A conference presenting the work and achievements of young researchers in the fields of biomass and energy efficieny.

PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

14.00 Opening and welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, O.Ö. Energiesparverband, Austria

14.15 Biomass Session

Chairperson: Walter Haslinger, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria

• Harvesting alternatives and transport logistics for wood from young stands
  Juha Laitila/Kari Väätäinen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland
  
  
• Transporting biomass materials by pipeline to a large-scale biorefinery
  Mahdi Vaezi, University of Alberta, Canada
  
  
• Promotion of short rotation coppice for district heating systems in Eastern Europe
  Pilar Zapata Aranda, Bioazul, Spain
  
  
• Technical and economic feasibility of wood pellet production in Brazil
  Nelson Brancalhão Neto, University of São Paulo State (UNESP), Brazil
  
  
• Mathematical modelling of a biomass pellet boiler
  Rosemarie Schnetzinger/Babette Hebenstreit/Ernst Höftberger, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  
  
• Discrimination between wood pellet blends using hyperspectral imaging
  Gary Gillespie, University College Dublin, Ireland
  
  
• Physical and chemical property changes of three biomass fuels by torrefication
  Lei Shang/Lars Stougaard Bach, Risø Technical University of Denmark
  
  
• Stratification of off-gases in stored wood pellets
  Fahimeh Yazdanpanah, University of British Columbia, Canada
  
  
• Increasing energy efficiency: biomass gasification with CHP production
  Marta Trninić, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  
  
• Biogas from food waste and sludge through high-solids anaerobic co-fermentation
  Yunfei Zhao, Tsinghua University, China
  
  
• Algal biomass - a renewable energy source for Austria?
  Maria Hingsamer, Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria
  
  
• Sugarcane ethanol production in Malawi: optimising the greenhouse gas balance
  Elisa Dunkelberg, Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung, Germany
  
  
• Techno-economic analysis of renewable diesel production from canola and camelina
  Patrick Miller, University of Alberta, Canada
  
  
• Supercritical transesterification reaction for biodiesel synthesis
  Jiuxu Liu, Syracuse University, USA
  
  
• Biomass in disaster-relief activities after the earthquake
  Kosuke Ohno, Japan Wood Energy, Japan
  
  

> Selected posters: Biomass

18.00 End of the conference

19.00 Evening programme

14.15 Energy Efficiency Session

Chairperson: Reinhold Priewasser, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

• Energy performance of the existing building stock in Europe
  Marina Economidou, Buildings Performance Institute Europe, Belgium
  
  
• Renewable resources as raw materials for energy saving thermal insulation
  Mikelis Kirpluks/Anda Fridrihsone/Aiga Paberza/Peteris Cabulis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
  
  
• Building renovation from the perspective of "eco-marketing"
  Michaela Kloiber, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
  
  
• Taking a service life approach in building refurbishment
  Máté Orosz, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  
  
• Analysis to reduce the energy consumption of residential buildings by 50 %
  Sunghye Min/Jihyun Kim, Daewoo E&C, South Korea
  
  
• Principles for nearly zero buildings in Belgium
  Shady Attia, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  
  
• BEAM: The "Built-Environment-Analysis-Model"
  Kjell Bettgenhäuser, Darmstadt University of Technology/Ecofys, Germany
  
  
• I can have solar collectors, too!
  Karlo Rajic, North-West Croatia Regional Energy Agency, Croatia
  
  
• Sustainable stand-alone photovoltaic container house for remote areas
  Khaled Ahmed Saleh/Basel H Madi/Ahmad SH.H Abdelrahman, The Petroleum Institute, United Arab Emirates
  
  
• Understanding policy change: Energy savings obligations in the UK
  Jan Rosenow, University of Oxford, UK
  
  
• Designing an optimal energy efficiency policy for China's service sector
  Lin Zhang, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  
  
• Fuel poverty and energy efficiency
  Louise Sunderland, The Association for the Conservation of Energy, UK
  
  
• A town-planning concept for an ecological mountain zone
  Natalia Romanova, North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Russia
  
  
• Power scaling in proportion to data processing in today's multimedia devices
  Jeffrey Swofford, Ecos, USA
  
  

> Selected posters: Energy Efficiency

18.00 End of the conference

Biomass

• Biogas from biomass - forecasting legislative changes for agriculture
  Wolfgang Stauss, Fachhochschule Südwestfalen, Germany
  
  
• Modelling the consequences of increased use of forest harvest residues for bioenergy production
  Silje Skar, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
  
  
• Perspectives for the use of wood biomass as a biofuel in the Russian Federation
  Anastasiya Shtineva, Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Forestry, Russia
  
  
• Using consortium for cellulosic ethanol production in combination biology mode
  Ran Du, Tsinghua University, China
  
  
• Fuel pellets from torrefied wheat straw
  Wolfgang Stelte, Technical University of Denmark, Risø Danish National Laboratory/Lei Shang, Technical University of Denmark, Risø - Danish National Laboratory
  
  
• Life cycle analysis of pellet production from miscanthus crops
  Fionnuala Murphy, Bioresources Research Centre, Ireland
  
  
• The effect of additives for production costs and parameters of wood pellets
  Radovan Harant/Peter Albert, Biomasa, Slovakia
  
  
• An evaluation of the production and combustion of fuel pellets from oilseed rape
  Leticia Chico-Santamarta, Harper Adams University College, UK
  
  
• Analysis of an active flue gas condensation device for domestic biomass boilers
  Babette Hebenstreit/Rosemarie Schnetzinger/Ernst Höftberger, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  
  
• Dynamic model for calculating storage tank work
  Ivanin Oleg, United Institute of High Temperatures, Russia
  
  
• Biomass and renewable energy programmes in the Ukraine
  Epik Oleksii, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Ukraine
  
  
• Biomass carbon footprint
  Clarke Lind, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  

Energy Efficiency

• Energy Refurbishments - A long way from pilot projects to common practice
  Antti Kurvinen/Jaakko Vihola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
  
  
• PCM-based walls and insulation for energy-efficient commercial buildings
  Edward J. Naimaster IV/Louremy V. Peña, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
  
  
• Avoiding the elephant: the net and nearly zero energy building target in Belgium
  Shady Attia, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  
  
• Modelling energy use in the EU building stock to 2050
  Eoin Ó Broin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  
  
• Simulation toolbox supporting energy efficiency in industry and academia
  Giusi Quartarone, University of Pavia, Italy
  
  
• SERVE project: socio-economic analysis
  Hrvoje Maras, North-West Croatia Regional Energy Agency, Croatia
  
  
• Online tool for analysing energy demand of buildings and settlements
  Hermine Mitter/Georg Neugebauer, BOKU Wien, Austria
  
  
• Microclimatic effect on the simulated load of a ZEB
  Pittakaras Paris, University of Manchester, UK
  
  
• Energy efficiency investment for retirement
  Jack Carrington, The Association for the Conservation of Energy, UK
  
  
• Using auto-regression techniques to predict energy demand profiles
  Sandhya Patidar, Heriot-Watt University, UK
  
  
  

The conference "WSED next!" will offer a platform both for presenting the work of young researchers and professionals as well as for interaction with experts and decision makers from industry and institutions. It will be held in the framework of the World Sustainable Energy Days 2012 (WSED12) conference.

Senior students, young researchers and young professionals were invited to submit contributions using the online submission form. Linked to the main topics of the WSED12, WSED next! will focus on the two topics: (1) biomass as well as (2) energy efficiency in buildings. 

A scientific committee selected papers for oral or poster presentation.

The organiser of the WSED, the O.Ö. Energiesparverband, will cover the costs for accommodation, meals, participation and local transport for up to 60 selected participants for 3 conference days (arrival: 28 February, departure: 2 March).

The "WSED Next Award" will be presented to the "best contribution". The prize money will be 500 Euro.

A special issue of the international scientific journal "Biomass & Bioenergy" (Elsevier) with selected scientific papers presented at the WSED next! conference will be published!
Further details

FAQs - Frequently asked questions

What are the "WSED"?

The World Sustainable Energy Days (WSED) are an annual conference held at the beginning of March in Wels/Austria. With more than 800 participants every year, it is one of the largest annual conferences on sustainable energy in Europe. In the last 10 years, the conference attracted more than 10,000 participants from 99 countries!

Who is the target group?

The initiative targets at:

• young researchers
• students working on advanced degrees (e.g. master's degrees, PhD etc.)
• young professionals

In addition to individuals, also groups from universities or research organisations can submit papers. In case of selection of papers, the organiser will support the participation of max. 3 students/young researchers & 1 R&D professional per selected paper. Papers submitted by groups should mainly be based on work carried out by senior students and/or young researchers.

How is the submission process organised?

Deadline for submission was 5 October 2011.

The submitted papers were selected by a scientific committee. Selected participants were notified by the conference organisers (in November/December 2011).

For those not selected, student fees for participation are available - see www.wsed.at -> Registration & Info

How much will it cost? How many will be selected?

The organiser of the WSED, the O.Ö. Energiesparverband, will cover the costs for accommodation, meals, participation and local transport for the selected participants for 3 conference days. The participants must cover their travel costs.

What is included in the participation for selected papers?

• oral or poster presentation of their paper
• participation in all events of the WSED12 conference:
  • the European Pellet Conference
  • the conference "Nearly zero energy buildings"
  • the conference "Energy Efficiency Watch"
  • the conference "Biomass partnerships"
  • the "WSED next" conference
  • the site-visits
  • the evening events
  • free entry to the "Energiesparmesse" trade show, one of the largest trade shows on energy efficiency and renewable energy sources in Europe (100,000 visitors, 1,600 exhibitors)
    interaction with decision makers and experts from industry and institutions

Where and when is it and how to get there?

The conference will be held in Wels/Austria, the accommodation for the selected participants will be in a hotel in the nearby city of Linz (a shuttle service between the hotel and conference venue will be available).

The conference website www.wsed.at -> Travel & accommodation provides comprehensive travel information.