PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
08.30 - 19.00 Technical Site Visits: Pellets & Wood Chips
A full-day trip by bus with technical site visits on fuels and installations
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
09.00 Pellet policies and markets
- Opening and welcome
Michael Strugl, Deputy Governor of Upper Austria
Andreas Rabl, Mayor, City of Wels, Austria
Gerhard Dell, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
- Bioenergy markets and technology outlook
Ute Collier, International Energy Agency
- Policy update: biomass in the EU "Clean Energy Package"
Nathalie Hemeleers, AEBIOM
- Mapping the European heating sector
Jan Steinbach, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
- "Nearly zero emission" heating with wood and non-wood pellets
Ingwald Obernberger, BIOS Bioenergiesysteme, Austria
Let's make pellets cool again
- Home-grown renewable heat
Maura Adams, Northern Forest Center, USA
- Success for the pellet industry
Manfred Faustmann, Windhager, Austria
- What customers want
Sabine Froning, Communication Works, Germany
Lunch break
14.00 New business for bioenergy
- Thinking outside the box: sector-coupling for bioenergy
Lukas Kranzl, Technical University Vienna, Austria
- Digitising sales – illusion or real opportunity?
Rainer Elste, Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Vertriebs- und Marketinginstitut, Germany
- The off-grid house
Stefan Ortner, ÖkoFEN, Austria
- Start-ups in the heating and renewable energy sector
David Wortmann, DWR eco, Germany
World Pellet Business & Technology Forum
- Update CHP-innovation from Upper Austria
Werner Emhofer, Fröling
Anton Hofer, Hargassner
- A paradigm shift for pellet plants
Scott Bax, Pinnacle Renewable Energy, Canada
- How to improve efficiency in pelletising
Holger Streetz, Bathan AG, Switzerland
- A new cost-effective additive for pelletisation
Javier Gil, Cener, Spain
- Reducing emissions of agricultural pellets
Robert Mack, Technology and Support Centre (TFZ), Germany
- Trading 1.2 million tons of bioenergy – logistics and storage
René Hyde, CM Biomass Partners, Denmark
- Cost reductions in the pellet supply chain
Lotte Visser, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- Multi channel branding and marketing of wood pellets
Emil Sopper, BayWa AG Energie, Germany
- Nitrogen reduction and small-scale biomass combustion
Christoph Schmidl, Bioenergy2020+, Austria
19.00 Evening programme
Thursday, 1 March 2018
09.30 Pellet Market News Worldwide (in English only)
- Opening
Gordon Murray on behalf of the European Pellet Council
- The Global Wood Pellet Industry and Trade Study 2017
Kay Schaubach, DBFZ, Germany
- US: what is happening and not happening in the US pellet market
Stan Elliot, PFI Chairman, Pacific Coast Pellets
- Finland: unfulfilled dreams of pellet energy
Hannes Tuohiniitty, The Bioenergy Association of Finland
- Germany: pellets in times of political changes
Martin Bentele, DEPV
- Austria: update on the Austrian pellet market
Christian Rakos, proPellets Austria
- UK: biomass suppliers list
Helen Bentley-Fox, Woodsure
- Hungary: raw material quality as a crucial factor
Zsolt Janos Viharos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Spain: certification of mediterranean solid biofuels
Pablo Rodero Masdemont, AVEBIOM
- Chile: pellet production and consumption
Felipe Salazar, Promasa
- India: trends in the solid biofuel industry
Suhas Patel, Saurashtra Agro Briquettes
Chairperson: Gordon Murray, Wood Pellet Association of Canada
13.00 End of the session
09.30 Control strategies for the integration of biomass in future energy systems (in English only)
- Welcome and introduction
Markus Gölles, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
Control strategies for biomass heating appliances
- Novel control methods for existing heating appliances
Daniel Büchner, DBFZ, Germany
- Meeting future requirements for biomass combustion systems with modern control strategies
Christopher Zemann, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
Integration concepts for biomass conversion appliances
- Control concepts for increasing benefits of small CHP systems
Christian Schraube, EIFER, Germany
- Modular energy management of future cross-sectoral energy systems
Daniel Muschick, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
Chairperson: Markus Gölles, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
This session is organised in cooperation with DBFZ and EIFER.
12.30 End of the session
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