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
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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