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European Pellets Conference
Pellets are a clean, CO2-neutral and conventient fuel with rapidly growing market shares in many European countries. The European Pellets Conference in Wels/Austria aims to provide in-depth information on wood pellets and pellet technology, innovation and market trends. It will also offer an exciting platform to discuss new co-operation projects. The international pellets conferences held in Wels in 2004 and 2005 and the European Pellets Forum 2006 were a big success: each event attracted more than 600 participants from all over the world.
| Date: | 28 February - 1 March 2007 |
| Venue: | Stadthalle Wels, A-4600 Wels, Upper Austria/Austria |
| Conference fee: | 150 Euro (plus 10% VAT) |
| Conference language: | English, German, French, Italian, Spanish |
| Organisation and conference office: | O.Ă. Energiesparverband LandstraĂe 45, 4020 Linz, Austria Tel. +43/732/7720-14386 Fax +43/732/7720-14383 office [AT] esv.or [DOT] at |
Programme:
28 February 20079.00 | Opening & welcome |
9.20 | Challenges & opportunities in a rapidly growing market |
9.40 | Global trade with biomass? |
10.00 | The perspectives of the European heating market |
10.20 | The European Biomass Action Plan |
10.40 | Discussion/Coffee break |
Entrepreneurs Round-table: The future of pellets markets & technologies | |
11.20 | Herbert Ortner, Managing Director, ĂkoFEN, Austria |
13.00 | Discussion/Lunch Break |
Heating markets around the globe | |
14.30 | Pellet "pains", a US perspective on international cooperation |
14.50 | Domestic heating in Japan |
| 15.10 | Biomass resources in and from Brasil |
| 15.30 | Challenges in the expanding French market Frédéric Douard, ITEBE, France |
| 15.50 | Wood energy in Europe and North America: a new estimate of volumes and flows |
| 16.10 | Discussion / Coffee break |
Production & technology | |
16.50 | Fine dust emissions: recent research results |
17.10 | The quality of pellets made from alternative biomass Klaus Hjuler, FORCE Technology, Denmark |
17.30 | A field test of combusting pellets from energy crops |
17.50 | From untreated wood to pellets |
18.10 | Examples for pellet production plants and technologies Markus Kratzer, BĂŒhler AG, Switzerland |
18.30 | End |
| 19.30 | Evening Programm |
1 March 2007
Presentation of innovative pellets technologies from Austria (in English only) | |
10.00 | GĂŒnther Huemer, Managing Director, Guntamatic Heiztechnik GmbH |
12.00 | End |
| Pellets-Workshop "Current developments on European pellets markets" (in English only) | |
| 14.00 | Enough biomass to supply Austrian households with heat, power and fuel on pellet basis to 100% and renewable August Raggam, Austria |
| Pellet market development in Austria & Italy Christian Rakos, ProPellets Austria | |
| Pellet market development in Germany Cornelis Hemmer, DEPV, Germany | |
Discussion / Coffee break | |
Pellet market development in Spain | |
| Pellet market development in Belgium Didier Marchal, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W), Belgium | |
| Pellet market development in Sweden Johan VinterbÀck, SVEBIO, Sweden | |
| Pellet market development in Denmark Jonas Dahl, FORCE Technology, Denmark | |
| Pellet market development in Canada John Swaan, Wood Pellet Association of Canada | |
17.30 | Discussion / End |
This event was organised in the frame of the IEE-Project "PROPELLETS".
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