PROGRAMME

Young Researchers' Conference: Energy Efficiency

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

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

14.00 Opening & welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband , Austria

Oral presentation

Chairperson: Reinhold Priewasser, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

• Quality assurance of Energy Performance Certificates across EU-28
  Francesco Mariottini/Filippos Anagnostopoulos, Buildings Performance Institute Europe
  
  
• Using smart meter data for energy efficiency policies of buildings
  Erica Marshall, University of Leeds, UK
  
  
• How climate change affects the Dutch housing stock
  Mady Olonscheck, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
  
  
• The savings potential of green leases in the US commercial sector
  Andrew Feierman, Institute for Market Transformation, USA
  
  
• Cost-optimality of an office building with small-scale biomass cogeneration
  Ayman Mohamed/Ala Hasan/Kai Sirén, Aalto University, Finland
  
  
• Improvements for current energy balance calculation methods for industrial buildings
  Pascal Brinks, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany/Lindab, Luxembourg
  
  
• Energy-saving strategies in a manufacturing organisation in Sri Lanka
  Akila Fernando/Iresha Somarathne/Ashan Asmone, Brandix Lanka, Sri Lanka
  
  
• Industrial power study on power profiles
  Maria-Jose Rivas Duarte, ACORN Research Centre, Ireland; Angela Rolfe/Neil J. Hewitt/Ye Huang, CST,University of Ulster, UK
  
  
• Defining the energy performance gap for non-domestic buildings
  Joanne Robinson/Timothy Foxon/Peter Taylor, University of Leeds, UK
  
  
• Energy efficiency in data centres: moving beyond PUE
  Nathaniel Horner/Inês Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  
  
• Analyses of the extra cost of NZEB and low energy apartment buildings
  Martin Thalfeldt/Ergo Pikas/Jarek Kurnitski, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
  
  
• Thermally activated floor slabs as energy storage
  Tobias Schilly/Conrad Völker, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany
  
  
• Passive solar greenhouses: a model for Armenia
  Gohar Shahinyan, Researchers for Bio Heating Solutions, Armenia
  
  
• The refurbishment of Krapina-Zagorje county schools
  Martina Krizmanić, North-West Croatia Regional Agency (REGEA), Croatia
  
  
• Domestic hot water profiles and energy calculations in Finnish residential buildings
  Kaiser Ahmed, Aalto University, Finland
  
  

19.00 End of the conference day


19.30 Evening programme

• A road towards building energy efficiency in China
  Jiayu Wang/Chunni Yao, Global Buildings Performance Network, China
  
  
• Fuel poverty mitigation through energy efficiency in buildings
  Eleni Kontonasiou/Bogdan Atanasiu/Francesco Mariottini, Buildings Performance Institute Europe
  
  
• Energy efficiency in buildings in the Ukraine
  Ievgeniia Morozova, The Institute of Bioenergy Crops and Sugar Beet, Ukraine
  
  
• Think global - act global
  Philipp Knöfler/Arne Diedrich, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany
  
  
• Assessing uncertainty in building energy performance: a review
  Fally Titikpina, Universite d'Angers/Laboratoire Laris, France
  
  
• Stochastic and artificial neural network modelling of building energy performance
  Andreas Chari/Xanthos Savvas/Christodoulou Symeon, University of Cyprus
  
  
• Zero energy buildings in China: an innovation system analysis
  Jingjing Zhang, Lund University, Sweden; Adam Hinge, Sustainable Energy Partnerships, USA; Nan Zhou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA; Lars Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden
  
  
• Informal knowledge strategies while designing non-domestic buildings
  Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster, Cardiff University - Welsh School of Architecture, UK
  
  
• Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Swedish newspapers (1989-2013)
  Johan Niskanen, Linköpings University, Sweden
  
  
• Reducing Europe's energy import dependency through deep renovation
  Kjell Bettgenhäuser, Ecofys, Germany
  
  
• Investigating possible mismatches in deep retrofit projects
  Luc van Summeren, Duneworks, The Netherlands
  
  
• Energy efficiency and the principal-agent problem
  Daniel Hill, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
  
  
• Impact of different predictors on domestic energy consumption
  Gesche Margarethe Huebner, University College London, UK
  
  
• Analysis of solar-assisted air conditioning systems in Macedonia
  Igor Shesho, SS. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Macedonia
  
  
• Energy efficiency in schools through new requirements for mechanical ventilation
  Luisa Dias Pereira/Carlos Diogo Costa da Silva/Nuno Correia, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  
  
• An energy-efficient, healthy and comfortable school design for tropical regions
  Sahar Sojoudi, University Putra Malaysia
  
  
• Indoor climate in a passive house made of natural materials
  Barbora Lišková/Petr Jelínek/Milan Ostrý, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
  
  
• Energy-saving technologies in an apartment building
  Nadezhda Ermolova/Chermen Aidarov, North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Russia
  
  
• Lessons from the "MIL D Home" & "EcoGreen Village" Competition
  Sonia Iulia Raetchi/Radu Catalin Andone, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Romania
  
  
• Rural electrification in the Ecuadorian jungle using prepaid systems
  Robert Peñaranda Loayza, Empresa Electrica Quito, Ecuador
  
  
• Organic PV inkjet inks for energy harvesting in smart windows
  Anita Fuchsbauer/Barbara Unterauer, Profactor, Austria; Michael Wagner/Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, Belectric OPV, Germany

• Heat pipe based solar systems for building facades
  Andrii Rassamakin/Dmytro Kozak, National Technical University of Ukraine
  
  

Please also see the related conferences:

• Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Conference
• European Energy Efficiency Watch Conference
• Energy-Efficient Commercial Buildings Conference
• European Smart Windows Conference
• Technical Site Visits "Nearly Zero Energy Buildings"
• B2B Meetings
  
  

Young Researchers' Conference: Biomass

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

Thursday, 26 February 2015

14.00 Opening & welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband

Oral presentation

Chairperson: Walter Haslinger, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria

• A policy-making tool for the domestic use of biomass technologies
  Agorasti-Eri Toka, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  
  
• Initiatives to support renewable heat New York
  Rebecca Trojanowski/T. Butcher, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
  
  
• Evaluation of two biomass harvesting systems in Chile
  Rodrigo Labbé, Universidad Austral de Chile
  
  
• Scenarios for selected bio-based materials
  Fabian Schipfer/Lukas Kranzl, Technical University Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Opportunities and challenges for sustainable wood pellet production in Brazil
  Javier F. Escobar/Suani T. Coelho, University of São Paulo, Brazil
  
  
• Development of a wood pellet durability tester for small samples
  Marius Wöhler, University of Applied Forest Sciences Rottenburg, Germany
  
  
• Natural ventilation measures for CO off-gassing in small pellet storages
  Waltraud Emhofer/Klaus Lichtenegger/Walter Haslinger/Irene Sedlmayer, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria; Hermann Hofbauer, Technical University Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Experimental and theoretical investigation of the combustion of wood pellets
  Julia Behling, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany; Jens Wiese, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
  
  
• Reduction of emissions of firewood stoves by integrated honeycomb catalysts
  Gabriel Reichert, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  
  
• Ablative flash-pyrolysis of lignocellulose rich biomass
  Stefan Conrad, Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT, Germany
  
  
• A case study for the utilization of straw-to-energy in Ukraine
  Oleksii Epik, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
  
  
• Properties determination of straw biomass after combustion
  Josef Farták/Tomáš Hásl/Ivo Jiříček, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic
  
  
• A case study for delivering biomass installations in schools
  Chiara Cervigni/Cindy Carrillo Quijano, Northamptonshire County Council, UK
  
  
• A case study for the use of biogas on Botana Farm, Colombia
  Nadia Rosero/Mauricio Villota/Oscar Barco, University of Nariño, Colombia
  
  
• Towards sustainable biomass-for-bioenergy supply chains
  Annelies De Meyer/Catheline Ottevaere/Jos Van Orshoven/Dirk Cattrysse, KU Leuven, Belgium
  
  

19.00 End of the conference day


19.30 Evening programme

• From biomass potential to sustainable energy projects in South America
  Diego Jair Rodríguez Obando/Alvaro Andrés Jiménez Ocaña/Claudia Vivian Zambrano Pantoja, University of Nariño, Colombia
  
  
• Land use change emissions and bioenergy supply chain optimisation
  Joana Almeida/Annelies De Meyer/Dirk Cattrysse/ Jos Van Orshoven/Wouter MJ Achten/Bart Muys, KU Leuven, Belgium
  
  
• Development of silver nanoparticles by a facile green chemistry approach
  Renu Geetha Bai, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia
  
  
• Catalytic energy extraction routes from biomass of municipal solid waste in Malaysia
  Obid Tursunov, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
  
  
• The effect of the flow rate over Pd-three different types supported catalysts obtained from douple-FSP on the chemoselective hydrogenation of acetophenone
  Kyungduk Kim, University of Sydney, Australia
  
  
• Production of y-valerolactone from biomass-derived levulinic acid
  Miha Grilc/Blaž Likozar/Janez Levec, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
  
  

Please also see the related conferences:

• European Pellets Conference 2015
• B2B Meetings
• Technical Site Visits "Pellets & wood chips"
  
  

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