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 - 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
18.00 End of the conference
19.00 Evening programme
> Selected posters: Biomass
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
18.00 End of the conference
> Selected posters: Energy Efficiency
Selected posters
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
The conference "WSED next!" offered 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 was 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! focused 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, covered 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" was presented to the "best contribution". Mahdi Vaezi, Mariana Economidou and Jan Rosenow shared the prize money of 500 Euro as they received the same nomber of votes.
A special issue of the international scientific journal "Biomass & Bioenergy" (Elsevier) with selected scientific papers presented at the WSED next! conference will be published!
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