PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

08.30 - 18.00:Site Visit "Pellets & Wood Chips"
A full-day trip by bus including technical Site Visits on the production of fuels & equipment and innovative applications for heating and electricity production

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

09.00 Changing market structures for pellets

• Opening & welcome
  Rudi Anschober, Regional Minister for Energy, Upper Austria
  Gerhard Dell, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
  
  
• Recent developments in European bioenergy policies
  Giulio Volpi, European Commission, DG Energy
  
  
• Global challenges and opportunities for bioenergy
  Adam Brown, International Energy Agency
  
  
• Analysis of pellet market structures
  Gabor Gafka, Pöyry Management Consulting, Germany
  
  
• Energy resilience through biomass in South America, Africa and Central Asia
  Francisco X. Aguilar, University of Missouri, USA

Round-table: How to make pellets more competitive

• Chairperson: Gordon Murray, Wood Pellet Association of Canada
  
  
• James Griffiths, Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Switzerland
• Gilles Gauthier, AEBIOM
• Tim Knoop, Viridis Energy, Canada
• Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
• Gregor Rinke, Seeger Engineering, Germany
  
  

12.30 Lunch break

14.00 Getting the message across - marketing & branding

• Promoting pellet stoves
  Marco Palazzetti, Gruppo Palazzetti, Italy
  
  
• Comprehensive communication strategy of a pellet manufacturer
  Markus Mann, Westerwälder Holzpellets, Germany
  
  
• Successfully marketing pellets
  Johan Granath, Ekman & Co, Sweden
  
  
• Branding ENplus
  Marcos Martín Larrañaga, AVEBIOM
  
  
• Communicating biomass heating
  Emanuel Wagner, Biomass Thermal Energy Council, USA
  
  

World Pellet Business & Technology Forum

• Torrefaction technologies - status update
  Jaap Koppejan, Procede Biomass, The Netherlands
  
  
• The new VDI pellet storage guideline
  Hans Martin Behr, German Pellet Institute (DEPI), Germany
  
  
• Worldwide examples of pellet production plants using ORC
  Alessandro Guercio, Turboden, Italy
  
  
• Challenges of transporting pellets to different markets
  Michael Christensen, CM Biomass Partners, Denmark
  
  
• Ceramic lubricants for pellet mills
  Holger Streetz, BVG Vertriebsgesellschaft AG, Switzerland
  
  

Pellet Networking Platform

• A platform for developing new co-operations among pellet actors across the value chain (in English only)
  
  

19.00 Evening programme

08.20 - 10.00 Pellet B2B-Meetings
Finding new business partners in bilateral meetings (pre-registration for meetings is required, see "B2B-Meetings")

09.30 Session: Pellet Market News Worldwide
09.30 Session: Pellet Technology Update

09.30 Pellet Market News Worldwide

Updates and outlook on different European and global pellet markets (in English only)

• European pellet market overview
  Christian Rakos, proPellets Austria
  
  
• UK: update on the renewable heat incentive
  Bruno Prior, Forever Fuels
  
  
• Germany: responding to weak markets
  Martin Bentele, DEPV
  
  
• Sweden: finding new markets for pellets
  Bengt-Erik Löfgren, ÄFAB
  
  
• Baltic States: production and markets
  Didzis Palejs, LatBio, Latvia
  
  
• Russia: new markets and opportunities
  Olga Rakitova, The Bioenergy International
  
  
• China: current situation and development trends
  Dou Kejun, China National Renewable Energy Center (CNREC)

12.30 End of the session

09.30 Pellet technology update

Pellet research and innovative technologies (in English only)

Latest results from research projects

• BioMaxEff: annual efficiency and emissions of pellet boilers - test stand and field results
  Christoph Schmidl, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  
  
• Smart residential heat: optimising annual efficiency of pellet boilers
  Ingwald Obernberger, Bios Bioenergiesysteme, Austria
  
  
• BioBoost: converting residual biomass to a high energy density carrier
  Nicolaus Dahmen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  
  
• AshMelT: an ash melting test for biomass fuels
  Josef Rathbauer, BLT Wieselburg, Francisco Josephinum, Austria
  
  
• SMELL: malodorous emissions from wood pellets
  Barbara Pöllinger-Zierler, Technical University Graz, Austria
  
  

Technology news from Upper Austrian network partners

• BioWIN 2 - low dust and high efficiency pellet boiler technology
  Jürgen Brandt, Windhager
  
  
• Electricity-producing pellet boiler - pilot phase results and next steps
  Stefan Ortner, ÖkoFEN
  
  
• Heat and power from wood pellets
  Werner Emhofer, Fröling
  
  
• Nano-PK - a highly compact pellet boiler
  Florian Haslinger, Hargassner
  
  

12.30 End of the European Pellet Conference

14.00 - 16.00 Project workshops (research projects)

• AshMelT
• Smart residential heat (in German only)
• BioBoost
  
  

17.00 -18.00 B2B Expo Visits

Please also see the related events:

• Young Researchers': Biomass
• B2B Meetings
• Technical Site Visit