PROGRAMME

Young Researchers Conference: Energy Efficiency
Young Researchers Conference: Biomass

Young Researchers Conference: Energy Efficiency

A conference to present the work of young researchers in the field of energy efficiency (in English only)

Wednesday, 1 March 2017

14.00 Opening & welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband

Oral presentation

Chairperson: Reinhold Priewasser, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

• Cooling performance of phase change material systems
  Modar Yasin / Helmut Weinläder / Felix Klinker, ZAE Bayern, Germany
  
  
• Building envelope optimisation towards overall energy performance improvements
  Norbert Harmathy, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
  
  
• Designing zero net energy residential buildings for different Iranian climate zones
  Ahmadreza Armaninia, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
  
  
• Model predictive control for efficient house heating
  Pierre Vogler-Finck, Aalborg University, Denmark
  
  
• Flink – a central management system for smart homes
  Almin Hasandic, International Burch University in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
  
• Mathematical models for analysing the lighting system in a room with blinds
  Marek Balsky / Zuzana Panska / Jan Zalesak / Jiri Pavlousek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• Multiperiod model for the optimal production planning for technical gases
  David Fernández Linares / Laureano Jiménez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain; Rubén Folgado, Messer Ibérica de Gases, Spain
  
  
• Improved desalination using solar multi-effect distillation in Mediterranean regions
  Roshan Chandwankar, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
  
  
• Heat pipe heat exchanger for heat recovery applications
  Maksym Lozovyi, National Technical University of Ukraine
  
  
• Heat recovery from sewage water: system design and analysis
  Danijela Kardaš, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
  
• Methodology for quality checks for efficient buildings
  Magdalena Hajdukiewicz / Jamie Goggins / Marcus Keane, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
  
  
• Mapping tools on energy efficiency in buildings for policy-making support
  Ksenia Petrichenko, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, Denmark
  
  
• Mapping of energy efficiency indicators
  Aristeidis Tsakiris, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, Denmark
  
  
• Boosting the NZEB market transition
  Jonathan Volt, Building Performance Institute Europe
  
  
• Energy efficient home refurbishment: survey on influencing factors
  Robert Baumhof / Thomas Decker / Klaus Menrad, Straubing Center of Science, Germany
  
  
• Assessing the role of digital grids in empowering an energy efficient culture
  Shu Xian Toh, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  
  
• Demand side infrastructure for energy security
  Filippos Anagnostopoulos / Dan Staniaszek, Building Performance Institute Europe
  
  

19.00 End of the conference day, Evening programme

Poster presentation: Energy Efficiency

• Energy efficiency in municipal buildings in Turkey
  Elif Esra Aydin, Yasar University, Turkey
  
  
• Importing BIM data into the passive house planning package
  Johan Cristol, Passive House Institute, Germany
  
  
• Methods to prevent the stack effect in high rise residential buildings
  Ilari Ranta-aho, Aalto University, Finland
  
  
• A new methodology to evaluate the sequence of stepwise refurbishment
  Sina Büttner / Markus Gratzl / Thomas Reiter, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria
  
  
• Integrated sustainable design of a municipal government building in Beijing
  Luka Francesko / Vladislav Živanović / Gábor Berec / Dragan Botić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  
  
• Field trials for residential CHP systems to reduce CO₂ emissions in a German district
  Mustafa Flayyih, Maren Wenzel, Manfred Lange, Gas- und Wärme Institut Essen, Germany
  
  
• Productivity and multiple impact analysis for policy decision-making
  Souran Chatterjee, Central European University, Hungary
  
  
• VERDI - An open source energy efficient envelope system for residential buildings
  Andrei Toma, Tekpod, Romania
  
  
• Solar minigrids in the mountains of Chin and Shan State, Myanmar
  Robert Peñaranda Loayza, Sunlabob Renewable Energy, France
  
  
• Energy-efficient urban planning for a sustainable city quarter in Wels
  Roland Kloss, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  
  
• Solutions for increasing the energy efficiency of buildings
  Vlaicu Luminita Ioana, Transilvanya University Brasov, Romania
  
  

Please also see the related conferences:

• European Energy Efficiency Conference
• Nearly Zero Energy Buildings
• Energy Efficiency Services and Business Conference
• E-Mobility & Smart Buildings Conference
• European Research Conference: Buildings
• Energy Efficiency Watch Conference
• Technical Site Visits "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings"
• Cooperation Platform
  
  

Young Researchers Conference: Biomass

A conference to present the work of young researchers in the field of biomass (in English only)

Thursday, 2 March 2017

14.00 Opening & welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband

Oral presentation

Chairperson: Walter Haslinger, bioenergy2020+, Austria

• Retrofit of gas-fuelled boilers and engines with biomass gasifiers
  Federica Carnicelli, European Institute for Energy Research, Germany
  
  
• Technical potential of biomass-derived synthetic natural gas production in Ireland
  Alessandro Singlitico / Jamie Goggins / Rory F.D. Monaghan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
  
  
• Investigation of real life operation of biomass room heating appliances
  Marius Wöhler, University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg, Germany
  
  
• Design operability and retrofit analysis framework for biomass energy systems
  Viknesh Andiappan Murugappan, Taylor's University Malaysia
  
  
• Assessing the sustainability of agricultural biomass flows for bioenergy
  Oludunsin Tunrayo Arodudu, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany
  
  
• Repeatability in particulate and gaseous emissions from pellet stoves
  Rebecca Trojanowski, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
  
  
• Reproduction of Fe/MgO and Co/Fe catalysts for the production of light alkenes
  Jens Schneider, Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, Germany
  
  
• Catalytic activity and selectivity of noble metals for HDO of eugenol
  Ana Bjelic, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
  
  
• Microalgae as a feedstock for bioenergy and carotenoids: a biorefinery approach
  Nadia Berrejeb / Issam Smaali, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Carthage University, Tunisia
  
  
• Two strategies for sustainable biomass valorisation with ionic liquids
  Andre M. da Costa Lopes / Rafal Lukasik, National Laboratory for Energy and Geology, Portugal
  
  
• Using heavy metal contaminated wastewater in bioethanol production
  Alica Bartošová / Lenka Blinová, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
  
  
• Wood pellet export from Russia to its six main importing countries
  Svetlana Proskurina, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
  
  
• Comparative analysis of biomass promotion measures of the EU and the Russian Federation
  Yana Palkina / Irina Malaykina / Anastasiya Kupriyanova, Saint-Petersburg State Economic University, Russia
  
  

Poster presentation: Biomass

• Removal of inorganics from lignocellulosic biomass to obtain ash-free fuel (BiAR process)
  Miha Grilc, Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
  
  
• The effect of carboxymethyl cellulose binder on the quality of biomass pellets
  Iman Nazari Haghighi, University of Tabriz, Iran; Milad Vaezi, Islamic Azad University, Iran
  
  
• Methods for measuring unburnt carbon in biomass ashes
  Josef Farták, University of Chemical Technology Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• Pre-treatment analysis in ethanol and xylitol production from sugarcane bagasse
  Yessica Chacón Pérez / Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate, Campus Manizales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  
  
• The importance of anaerobic digestion of microalgae biomass
  Laura Vargas, Instituto de Energías Renovables, Mexico
  
  
• Analysis of criteria for the sustainable development of bioenergy
  Oleksandra Tryboi, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  
  
• Using synthesis gas from oil palm rachis gasification for bioethanol production
  Juan Camilo Solarte Toro / Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate, Manizales Campus, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  
  
• Obtaining bio-oil from solid biomass through ablative fast pyrolysis
  Vitalii Zubenko / Alex Epik, Scientific Engineering Centre "Biomass", Ukraine
  
  
• Assessment of ligno-cellulosic residues as fuels for energy recovery
  Yarima Torreiro Villarino, CIEMAT, Spain
  
  
• Isolation and identification of extractives from spruce bark
  Petra Strižincová / Aleš Ház / Veronika Majová, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
  
  
• Delignification of wheat straw with deep eutectic solvents
  Veronika Majová / Petra Strižincová / Michal Jablonský / Andrea Škulcová, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia; Ana Malvis Romero, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
  
  
• Ionic liquids as potential green solvents of the future
  Magaret Sivapragasam / Mohammad Moniruzzaman / Cecilia Wilfred, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia
  
  
• Analysis of the use of cocoyam in a small-scale biorefinery
  Sebastián Serna Loaiza / Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate, Campus Manizales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  
  
• Using terrestrial laser scanning to estimate urban tree biomass for bioenergy production
  Magdalena Sajdak, Wood Technology Institute, Poland; Giuseppe Colangelo, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
  
  
• Implementation of biomass boilers in district heating systems in Ukraine
  Viacheslav Antonenko, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine
  
  
• Application of air curtain burners
  Eunjai Lee, Humboldt State University, USA
  
  
• Challenges and realities for the establishment of bioenergy villages in Ukraine
  Ievgeniia Morozova, Institute of Bioenergy Crops and Sugar Beet of Ukraine
  
  

Please also see the related conferences:

• European Pellets Conference 2017
• Cooperation Platform
• Technical Site Visits "Pellets & wood chips"