PROGRAMME

Young Researchers Conference: Energy Efficiency
Young Researchers Conference: Biomass

Young Researchers Conference: Energy Efficiency

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

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

14.00 Opening & welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband

Oral presentation

Chairperson: Reinhold Priewasser, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

• High heat storage concrete with shape-stabilised phase change materials
  Su-Gwang Jeong / Sumin Kim, Soongsil University, Republic of Korea
  
  
• Quality analysis of indoor illumination in office buildings
  Norbert Harmathy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  
  
• Achieving buildings transition and energy savings by 2050 through NZEB standards
  Agne Toleikyte, Energy Economics Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  
  
• Improving thermal conductivity of phase change materials in building applications
  Mohammed Ouikhalfan, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
  
  
• Hybrid systems validation based on H₂O
  Luis Rodríguez / Victor Mora / Edgar Miranda, Galileo University, Guatemala
  
  
• Minimum-cost and buoyancy-forced vacuum tube collectors for large-scale solar thermal plants
  Harald Stadlbauer, Sunlumo Technology / University of Applied Sciences Wels, Austria
  
  
• Do "effort sharing decision" targets drive energy efficiency in buildings?
  Filippos Anagnostopoulos, Buildings Performance Institute Europe; Robert Harmsen, Utrecht University, NL
  
  
• Identifying design criteria for energy efficient office buildings
  Serena Miceli, Institute for Building Services and Energy Design, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany
  
  
• Energy modelling and performance assessment of solar heating and cooling systems
  Igor Shesho, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Skopje, FYR of Macedonia
  
  
• Modelling optimal paths to reach NZEB standards for new construction in Europe
  Delia D'Agostino, Joint Research Centre - European Commission, Italy
  
  
• A climate neutral building stock in Germany by 2050
  Tilman Hesse / Veit Bürger, Öko-Institut, Germany
  
  
• Energy efficiency at Tarachand hospital, India
  Ar. Priyanka Kulkarni / Ar. Neha Kode, Srujan Research & Planning Foundation; Ar. Ashwini Bhosale, B.N.C.A. College of Architecture, Pune University, India
  
  
• An integrated energy concept for business parks in Slovenia
  Boris Sučić / Matevž Pušnik, Jozef Stefan Institute – Energy Efficiency Centre, Slovenia
  
  
• Automated building energy performance simulation at different resolutions
  Aurelien Bres, Austrian Institute of Technology / Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  
  
• Retrofit solutions for the Irish building stock: the impact of human behaviour
  Paul Moran / Jamie Goggins / Magdalena Hajdukiewicz, National University of Ireland; Henrike Rau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
  
  
• Social aspects of multi-family building renovation in Latvia
  Māra Laizāne / Ilze Vardanjana, Building and Energy Conservation Bureau / University of Latvia
  
  
• The first energy efficient public building in Turkey
  Asli Karabacak, United Nations Development Programme; Oguz Kursat Kabakci, Directorate-General for Renewable Energy, Turkey
  
  

19.00 End of the conference day, Evening programme

• The ZEBRA2020 Project: Nearly Zero Energy Building Strategy 2020
  Eleni Kontonasiou / Maarten De Groote, Buildings Performance Institute Europe
  
  
• Challenges and solutions for energy efficiency in buildings in Nigeria
  Ene Sandra Macharm, German Agency for International Cooperation, Nigeria
  
  
• "Solar lanes" to replace fossil fuel in electricity generation
  Mihirsinh Chauhan, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India
  
  
• Growth characteristics of the UK's energy efficiency retrofitting services sector
  Luke Gooding / Mehreen Gul, Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom
  
  
• Step-by-step refurbishment plan to EnerPHit standard
  Dragos Arnautu / Eva Vahalova / Jan Steiger, Passive House Institute, Germany
  
  
• Local solutions for complex residential retrofitting
  Sonia-Iulia Raeţchi / Radu Catalin Andone / Alexandru Ioan Nichifor, UAUIM, Romania
  
  
• Decision support tool for the renovation of historic buildings
  Daniela Bachner, e7 Energie Markt Analyse, Austria
  
  
• Building modelling to predict space heating energy consumption
  Wathsala Perera / Nils-Olav Skeie, Telemark University College, Norway
  
  
• Energy-efficient urban planning for a sustainable city quarter
  Roland Kloss, TU Wien, Austria
  
  
• Developing an energy efficiency knowledge management system
  Aristeidis Tsakiris, Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency, Denmark
  
  
• Recognising the benefits of building retrofit - a motivation for energy efficiency policies
  Niall Kerr, University of Leeds, UK
  
  

Young Researchers Conference: Biomass

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

Thursday, 25 February 2016

14.00 Opening & welcome

• Gerhard Dell/Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband

Oral presentation

Chairperson: Walter Haslinger, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria

• Variation in the wood quality of small-diameter trees
  Mika Aalto, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
  
  
• Key elements for sustainable fruitful biomass production on marginal soils
  Moritz Nabel / Hendrik Poorter / Andreas Lücke / Nicolai Jablonowski, Forschungszentrum Jülich; Vicky Temperton, University of Lüneburg, Germany
  
  
• Influence of gas-solid interactions in a circulating fluidised bed reactor
  Paula Blanco / Xi Yu, Aston University, UK
  
  
• Lignin processing toward renewable platform chemicals and their further upgrade
  Ana Bjelic, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
  
  
• Production of clean and durable pellets from empty fruit bunches
  Ilman Nuran Zaini, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  
  
• Co-production of hydrogen and nano-carbon from methane
  U.P.M. Ashik / W.M.A. Daud, University of Malaya, Malaysia
  
  
• Viability of biogas production from nopal
  Laura Vargas, Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas, Mexico
  
  
• Removing impurities with chemically activated carbon from biomass gasification
  Sari Tuomikoski, University of Oulu, Finland
  
  
• Biofuel production through catalytic conversion of lignin
  Aleš Ház, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
  
  
• Complex analysis of solid biomass combustion for thermal energy production
  Olha Haidai, National Academy of Science, Ukraine
  
  
• Impact of the ignition mode and draught conditions on batch-wise wood combustion
  Gabriel Reichert, Bioenergy 2020+, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  
  
• A polygeneration plant offering reserves for the electricity grid
  Jens Schneider, Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, Germany
  
  
• Kinetic analysis and modelling of three types of biomass under torrefaction conditions
  Marco Brighenti, University of Trento, Italy
  
  
• Compositional and thermogravimetric characterisation of treated wood
  Maïté Huron / Capucine Dupont, CEA Grenoble, France
  
  
• Review of policies for renewable energy integration & best practices
  Zeineb Abdmouleh, University of Qatar
  
  
• Whole systems analysis and optimisation of bioenergy value chains
  Miao Guo, Imperial College London, UK
  
  
• Fiscal costs and regional energy benefits of bioheat technology deployment policies
  Derek Wolf, University of Toronto, Canada
  
  

Poster presentation: Biomass

• Biomass gasification: a bi-functional material for effective H₂ production without CO₂ emissions
  Yarima Torreiro Villarino, CIEMAT, Spain
  
  
• Simultaneous and two-step biomass liquefaction and hydrodeoxygenation
  Miha Grilc, National Institute of Chemistry Ljubljana, Slovenia
  
  
• Operating characteristics of a pellet boiler in low loads
  Rebecca Trojanowski, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
  
  
• Determining unburned carbon in ash from biomass
  Josef Farták / Ivo Jiříček, UCT Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• Corrosion and abrasion resistant protective coatings for biomass combustion
  Kamila Armatys, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
  
  
• Co-digestion of glycerin pitch with oleo chemical effluent
  Weiling Chow / Yijing Chan / Meifong Chong, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
  
  
• Conversion of cellulose-derived components into added-value chemicals by hydrodeoxygenation
  Brigita Hočevar, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
  
  
• Current state and perspectives of bioenergy development in Ukraine
  Alex Epik, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine
  
  
• Flow and physical properties of fractionated ground loblolly pine
  Oluwatosin Oginni, West Virginia University; Oladiran Fasina / Sushil Adhikari, Auburn University; John Fulton, Ohio State University, USA
  
  
• Fractionation of wheat straw with deep eutectic solvents
  Andrea Škulcová / Aleš Ház / Alexandra Sládková / Michael Jablonský / Igor Šurina, University of Technology, Slovakia
  
  
• Flexible energy production with a charcoal-based micro-CHP system
  Dennis Krüger / Andreas Ortwein, Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, Germany
  
  
• Perennial energy crops as a resource for bioenergy production
  Yasir Iqbal, University Hohenheim, Germany
  
  
• Miscanthus to biofuels in Ukraine and worldwide
  Ievgeniia Morozova / Volodymyr Kwak, Institute of Bioenergy Crops and Sugar Beet, Ukraine
  
  
• Thermal efficiency of firewood room heaters
  Rita Sturmlechner, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  
  
• Numerical simulation of self-heating behaviour of stored biomass fuels
  Tengku Noor Arbaee, University of Sheffield, UK