The 52nd International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University
Environmental and Climate Technologies: Energy Resources
Recent trends and technology in utilization of biomass as energy and heating source
12.-13. October, Riga
On 12th of October representatives of all the Ecohousing project partners were invited to “The 52nd International Scientific Conference of Riga Technical University”, specifically the section “Environmental and Climate Technologies” in regard to the theme of “Energy Resources”. A specific session related to the Ecohousing project was included in reference to the main topic of “Recent trends and technology in utilization of biomass as energy and heating source”.
Within the first day of the conference a registered audience of around 60 people participate to the event, only 18 people of the participants were strictly related to Ecohousing project. This can be considered a really positive result in terms of visibility and dissemination of the projects results.
One of the main themes presented in this conference was in connection to research of traditional boiler house operation. A research on energy recovery by the use of flue gas condenser was presented in paper “Climate Technology in a Wood Chips Boiler House” by E. Vīgants, D. Blumberga and I. Veidenbergs. Other aspects of the use of boiler houses and other combustion installations were presented in papers „Modeling of Operation of District Heating System” by Ģ. Vīgants and D. Blumberga and „Application of CO2 Taxes for Combustion Installations in Latvia Until 2020” by I. Laicāne, M. Rošā and I.Dzene.
Typical processes taking place within the process of biomass combustion were investigated in research by K. Siliņš, V. Kirsanovs and A.Žandeckis in paper „Air Supply and Fuel Composition Control to Reduce NOx Emissions in Small Capacity Pellet Boilers”.
Another main theme of the conference was innovations and new directions in the field of renewable energy resource use. The benefits and limitations of first real life installation of solar and pellet combisystem for heat energy generation were presented in ”Possibilities of Utilization Solar Thermal Energy for Multi-Family Buildings in Latvia” by A. Žandeckis, L. Timma, D. Blumberga and C. Rochas. Novel flue gas treatment method was researched within “Non-thermal Plasma for VOC Treatment in Flue Gases” by J. Ikaunieks, L. Mežmale, A. Žandeckis and I. Veidenbergs.
In the second day of the conference (13th of October) the session was dedicated to the “Energy sources”. Items and subjects covered different research fields, among the others: Life Cycle Assessment and Impact Assessment, Ecodesign, Clean Technologies, Biofuels, Energy Efficiency, Heat Pumps, Wind Energy, Numerical Simulation, GIS and EU emission trading.
Together 30 scientific papers were presented; 23 researches were conducted in Latvia, including 17 carried out Riga Technical University, one at Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, one at Latvian University of Agriculture, three at Ventspils University College and in collaboration with Lulea University of Technology and one at University of Latvia. In total seven papers were presented by international guests: 5 presenters were from Vilnius (Gediminas Technical University in Lithuania) and 2 from Greece Technical (University of Crete).
The conference has provided a good opportunity for the understanding of the last developments and trends within the use of biomass and other renewable sources in the heating sector. Moreover within the conference has been given visibility to the main items related to the project milestones favouring a cross consultation with different sector experts.
Photos from conference can be downloaded from http://failiem.lv/u/ttrcess
Presentations from the conference are available in our home page: -http://www.videszinatne.lv/index.php/lv/articles/jaunumi/rtu-52nd-scientific-conference-succesfully-passed
Francesco Romagnoli
Riga Technical University
Institute of Energy Systems and Environment
Kronvalda bulv. 1, LV-1010, Rīga
Tel.: +371 67089908
francesco.romagnoli@rtu.lv
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