Keynote Speakers
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ERIK DAHLQUIST
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Professor and Research Director
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School of Sustainable Society and Technology Development
Malardalen University (MDU) Box 883, SE-721 23 Vasteras, SWEDEN
Tel: +46-21-151768 Fax: +46-21-101370 E-mail: erik.dahlquist@mdh.se
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How To Make A Region Fossil Fuel Free – Energy Conservation Combined With Biogas Production From Crops And Waste
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In Malardalen Sweden the cities, many companies, authorities and universities have joined a work to drive the region towards becoming fossil fuel free. In Vasteras, the capital of the county Vastmanland, this has led to a decision to get rid of coal that is still used to a large extent in an old coal fired boiler. A decision has been made to build a waste gasification plant where the gas will primarily be used in the coal fired boiler, at least for some 10-20 years. To make this possible the CFB gasifier will be complemented with a gas cooler and hot gas filtration at 400oC. The plant will have a fuel capacity of 200 MW thermal, which is one of the largest waste gasification plants in the world. Earlier Lahti have been operating a smaller gasifier of the same type, but without the gas cleaning, which will be the most challenging part of the system. Long term tests are now being performed at a pulp mill to get experience of gas filtration at 400oC, before the start up of the plant 2012. Negotiations are ongoing with possible suppliers, primarily Foster Wheeler and Metso power. Long term we see a potential to separate the methane from the produced gas. This actually contains 1/3 of the heating value of the gas, which corresponds to some 50 MW HHV. This can be a good complement to other fuels for vehicles like biogas, ethanol and similar.
Aside of this large scale plant in the county of Vastmanland we also have a number of biogas plants. One is recycling all the organic waste in the region, and combining with crop residues from the farmers. Today the production is 4 million Nm3/y including gas from the municipal waste water treatment plant. And expansion is planned through optimization of the existing plant and building a new fermentor. With these expansions we will have some 7 million Nm3/y, corresponding to some 9-10 MW HHV. This would make a total of some 500 GWh/y. Today the total consumption of fuels for vehicles is 2 TWh. With new technologies for cars and other vehicles we could take the consumption down to at least some 1 TWh/y. The methane then would cover 50% of the need. To this we have to add some 0.25 TWh extra electricity for the cars used primarily in the city.
Concerning energy efficiency improvements one focus is on low energy buildings. Here we work with many of the construction companies. Vasteras city has made an investment of 10 M€ for building 240 houses/apartments with this new technology. We also include “smart houses” with a lot of IT solutions here. The IT solutions also are implemented in process industries like pulp and paper and roll mills to increase production efficiency by using on-line applications of simulation models. This also includes power plants and manufacturing industries.
We also have made an overall balance over the region to see if the resources are enough to be long term self sustainable. The conclusion is that it is in the county of Vastmanland, but also in the whole Malardalen region including Stockholm, and with a total of 3 million people.
These balances as well as more details around the activities mentioned will be presented.
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PhD at KTH in 1991 in Chemical Engineering (in parallel to the work at ASEA/ABB). Adjunct professor at KTH, Royal inst of Technology 1997-2000. Full professor at Malardalen University, Vasteras, from May, 2000. Started at ASEA 1975. Development of cross flow membrane filter and Black Liquor Gasification. From 1992 member of board of directors at ABB Corporate Research. 1996- 2000 General Manger for “Pulp Applications” world-wide within ABB Automation Systems: Advanced Control, Diagnostics, Optimization, Process Simulation and Special Sensors. Deputy dean faculty of Natural Science and Technology 2001-2004. Dean 2005- 2007. Deputy head and research director of School for Sustainable Society and Technology development since 2008. 21 patents. 150 Scientific publications in refereed Journals or conference proceedings. Special interests Process efficiency improvement and Process development: Biogas production, waste gasification and process modelling for advanced control and optimization in Power and Pulp and paper industry. Area editor SIMPAT Journal (Elsevier), member of board of SIMS and deputy member board of EUROSIM. Best scientific paper award 2005 in TAPPI Journal (Atlanta). ABB Corporate research award for entrepreneurial achievements 1989.
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PETER LUND
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Affiliation
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Professor
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Faculty of Information and Natural Sciences
Department of Applied Physics Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)
P.O.Box 4100, FI-02015 TKK (Espoo), FINLAND Tel: +358 9 4513197
Fax:+358 9 4513195 E-mail:peter.lund@tkk.fi
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Nanotechnologies for emerging energy applications
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Nanotechnologies could in theory open up tremendous opportunities in emerging energy applications but their practical potential for large scale has not yet been fully demonstrated. Can novel nanomaterials be relevant in the bulk energy context, or does nanotechnology remain a niche? What criteria need to be fulfilled to reach major energy impacts?
Nanotechnology can be important for energy processes, in particular due to the new functionalities created. These may result from new intrinsic properties, optimal shape, large surface area, connectivity, etc. New nano-functionalities can provide e.g. improved conductivity, field emission, catalyst support or sorptive properties. Functional nanomaterials may thus offer unique opportunities to make revolutionary developments which could lead to disruptive technology solutions.
Electrochemical or photonic processes are obvious immediate energy applications for nanotechnology, but advanced materials could lead to large energy savings in a whole range of end-use energy applications such as buildings or lighting systems, or even in the carbon capture context.
There are a few important criteria that need to be considered in the energy context, namely costs and scale. Nanomaterials even if being superior in mesoscopic scale would be irrelevant if not lending to scaling up – the required scaling factor from a lab sample to a power plant scale is typically 106-1012. Clearly manufacturability and durability will be critical sub-criteria for the overall success. But not just the material or manufacturing, but also the device physics becomes extremely important. Nanomaterials as such have seldom adequate functionality to produce final energy, but need to be integrated into a range of other materials and components in order to produce a technology solution, which is turned into an energy application when incorporating different balance of system components. When applied as coatings, nanomaterials may also provide important indirect performance or cost improvements in energy applications, e.g. heat exchanger fouling, corrosion resistance, photo oxidation, etc.
A few examples highlighting the energy relevance are given emphasizing the chain from novel materials through to energy technology. A nanostructured TiO2 dye solar cell and a nanocomposite fuel cell (LT solid oxide fuel cell) are discussed, both representing radical new innovations in energy technology. The nano-photoelectrode based dye solar cell mimics biological processes and it can be further enhanced through different nano-measures (e.g. CNT in ionic liquids, passivation of halogen bonding). The LT-SOFC makes use of O2- and H+ superionic transport along a nano-interface yielding good charge transfer at relatively low temperatures. Both technologies employ sandwiched structures, lend themselves to roll-to-roll processes, can be integrated into existing manufacturing facilities, and don’t have any moving parts. Ideally these could be candidates for mass production. If assuming that stable and cheap dye solar cells could one day be produced as easily as coated metal sheets, then devoting around 20% of the yearly global steel sheet production to solar cells would correspond in 10 years to all world energy demand. This would not only mean entering the big energy business but also leading the way to a sustainable energy revolution.
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Dr. Peter Lund is full professor (engineering physics/advanced energy systems) at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). He has worked in different advisory roles for the European Commission and he was chairman of the Advisory Group on Energy from 2003 to 2006.
Through the 1990s Dr. Lund coordinated national R&D activities in new energy technologies for the National Technology Agency. He has consulted industries, the European Commission, IEA, the Parliament, and Nordic Ministries and Agencies on strategic issues, evaluations and planning in energy. He has chaired governmental cooperation in energy technology and he has been board member in several European energy programmes. He is a frequently asked energy commentator in Finnish media.
Dr. Lund he has worked with energy issues, energy efficiency, new and renewable energy technologies since 1980. His work has covered multidisciplinary energy technology and systems, innovation and policy issues as well as materials and systems research. The present interest covers global energy issues and future solutions but also advanced technologies such as sustainable buildings and communities, solar energy, hydrogen energy and nanotechnology.
Peter Lund holds a Doctor of Science in Technology (1984) from TKK and he has supplementary education from London Business School (1989). Dr. Lund has published widely with over 400 publications, and he has given numerous invited lectures and talks. He is Editor-in-Chief for Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, Editor-Europe for the Int. J of Energy Research, and editorial board member in several other journals. He received the ISES Löf-Duffie award in 1991, the 2004 Environmental Award of the Finnish Nature Conservation Foundation, and the Fortum Prize in 2008.
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JOHN MCMULLAN
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Emeritus Professor
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University of Ulster
Centre for Sustainable Technologies
Jordanstown Campus, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim
BT37 0QB, UK
Tel: +44-1394-385565
E-mail: jj.mcmullan@btinternet.com
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Climate Data in the Aftermath of ClimateGate
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The turmoil that has followed the publication of the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit ClimateGate e-mails in November 2009 has had major consequences for the public acceptance of climate science and for public confidence in the reality of global warming. This paper looks at several of the revelations of the Climate-Gate e-mails and the related NASA FOIA disclosures. The disclosures suggest that there are serious quality assurance and other issues inherent in the existing records which render them highly suspect for the purposes of climate policy formulation. Some of the implications for the instrumental terrestrial temperature record are discussed.
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John McMullan is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, and former Director of its Energy Research Centre.
He has worked in energy R&D, technology and policy for over 30 years, and his main research interests lie in the technical and economic assessment and optimisation of advanced power generation and fuel conversion systems, including the analysis of their environmental impacts.
He has been closely involved in the formulation of energy R&D strategy and policy at European and national levels. He was Deputy Chairman of the UK DTI Advisory Committee on Carbon Abatement Technologies, and Chairman of the EC PowerClean Fossil Fuel R&D Thematic Network. He was Chairman of the European Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS) Technical Guidance Committee TGC2 (Coal preparation and conversion) and acts as a Programme Assessor for a number of national energy R&D programmes throughout the world. He has published widely, and was the founding Editor of Int. J. Energy Research.
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HANS MÜLLER-STEINHAGEN
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Director and Professor
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Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering, University of Stuttgart
D-70569 Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40
GERMANY
Tel: +49-711-6862-358
Fax: +49-711-6862-712 E-mail: hans.mueller-steinhagen@dlr.de
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Multi-Functional Fuel Cell Systems for Aircraft Applications
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Fuel cell systems are highly efficient converters from chemical to electrical energy, which will play a significant role in a future, sustainable energy technology mix. Depending on the type of fuel cell, they can be operated with hydrogen, methanol, ethanol or natural as fuel – or with reformates from liquid hydrocarbons. First applications of fuel cell systems were in the US Apollo space program, and today this is still the technology of choice for space applications. For the past 20 years, fuel cell systems have been investigated and demonstrated for a wide range of stationary and mobile applications, such as automotive, submarines, combined heat and power, portable power and many others. More recently, both AIRBUS and BOEING have initiated substantial R&D programs to qualify fuel cell systems for commercial air transport. Here, the main application is the generation of on-board electricity rather than propulsion. The technological and economic benefits of fuel systems are that they can provide a range of duties in addition to electricity on-ground and in-air. They can serve as emergency power systems replacing the presently used ram air turbine, provide water by condensation of the exhaust vapor, inert gas for an tank inerting, heat for air-conditioning and power for taxiing on-ground. Thus, completely new on-board energy architecture can be envisaged, with increased safety and comfort, and reduced emissions, fuel consumption and weight. The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) is the strategic partner of AIRBUS in the development and qualification of multi-functional fuel cell systems for aircraft applications. During the past 5 years, this consortium has developed and successfully tested a fuel cell based emergency power system in the DLR´s experimental aircraft ATRA A320. Preliminary to this, numerous tests have been performed in a specifically designed laboratory infrastructure to qualify the systems for the demanding conditions in flight, i.e. vibration, acceleration down to zero gravity, low ambient temperatures and pressure, and all this with extremely high reliability. For the first time, all legal and statutory requirements have been completed to transport hydrogen and oxygen at pressures up to 400 bar in commercial aircraft. The fuel cell systems have operated beyond expectation and are now further developed to demonstrate other applications as well. In the spring of 2010, the DLR airbus A320 will be able to taxi on an airport powered by a fuel cell system in conjunction with a novel in-wheel electrical motor. Replacing the conventional auxiliary gas turbine by a fuel cell system will avoid up to 25% of NOx and SOx emissions at airports and significantly reduce noise.
In parallel to the work on multifunctional fuel cell systems for on-board electricity generation, DLR and its partners Lange Aviation, BASF Fuel Cells and SERENERGY have designed and constructed the world’s first piloted aircraft capable of starting, flying and landing with fuel cell power only. The ANTARES DLR-H2 is a motor glider capable of covering a distance of 750 km in up to 4000 m height. Using the BASF high temperature (180°C) polymer electrolyte fuel cell, this aircraft has successfully completed several world record flights since mid 2009. While its main purpose is to serve as a flyable test bed for new fuel cell concepts and components, it will now be further developed to realize the first trans- Atlantic flight of a fuel cell powered aircraft, in about 2012.
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Prof. D.Eng. Dr.-Ing. (habil) Hans Müller-Steinhagen is the director of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (200 staff) of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the director of the Institute for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering (40 staff) of the University of Stuttgart. His research work coverers a wide range of topics related to heat and mass transfer, multi-phase flow, fuel cells, solar technology, process thermodynamics and systems analysis. For example, the recently initiated DESERTEC project to import 15% of European electricity from North Africa by 2050 is based on concepts and technologies originating from his institutes. Prof. Müller-Steinhagen is the author of more than 550 books and articles, and is the recipient of the 1992 and 1993 TMS Bauxite Processing Awards, the 1994 Light Metals Award, the Beilby Medal and Prize, the UK Heat Transfer Society Mike Akrill Trophy, the 2000 Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Best Paper Award and the 2009 D.Q. Kern Award of the AIChE. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of IChemE, President of EUROTHERM and of the IMDEA Board of Trustees, member of the Executive Boards of EUREC and ICHMT, and a member of the Innovation Council and the Sustainability Council of the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg / Germany.
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T. NEJAT VEZIROGLU
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President, International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE)
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5794 SW 40 St. #303
Miami, Fl 33155, USA Tel: 1-305-442-4540
Fax: 1-305-442-4540 Email: veziroglu@iahe.org
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Peace and Prosperity through Hydrogen Economy, Sustainability & World Federation
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Dr. Veziroglu, a native of Turkey, graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., B.Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.).
In 1962 – after doing his military service in the Ordnance Section, serving in some Turkish government agencies and heading a private company – Dr. Veziroglu joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty. In 1965, he became the Director of Graduate Studies and initiated the first Ph.D. Program in the School of Engineering and Architecture. He served as Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering 1971 through 1975, in 1973 established the Clean Energy Research Institute, and was the Associate Dean for Research 1975 through 1979. He took a three years Leave of Absence (2004 through 2007) and founded UNIDO-ICHET (United Nations Industrial Development Organization – International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies) in Istanbul, Turkey. On 15 May 2009, he attained the status of Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami.
Dr. Veziroglu organized the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy: The Hydrogen Economy Miami Energy (THEME) Conference, Miami Beach, 18-20 March 1974. At the opening of this conference, Dr. Veziroglu proposed the Hydrogen Energy System as a permanent solution for the depletion of the fossil fuels and the environmental problems caused by their utilization. Soon after, the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) was established, and Dr. Veziroglu was elected president. As President of IAHE, in 1976 he initiated the biennial World Hydrogen Energy Conferences (WHECs), and in 2005 the biennial World Hydrogen Technologies Conventions (WHTCs).
In 1976, Dr. Veziroglu started publication of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) as its Editor-in-Chief, in order to publish and disseminate Hydrogen Energy related research and development results from around the world. IJHE has continuously grew; now it publishes twenty-four issues a year. He has published some 350 papers and scientific reports, edited 160 volumes of books and proceedings, and has co-authored the book “Solar Hydrogen Energy: The Power to Save the Earth”.
Dr. Veziroglu has memberships in eighteen scientific organizations, has been elected to the Grade of Fellow in the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.
Dr. Veziroglu has been the recipient of several international awards. He was presented the Turkish Presidential Science Award in 1974, made an Honorary Professor in Xian Jiaotong University of China in 1981, awarded the I. V. Kurchatov Medal by the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy of U.S.S.R. in 1982, the Energy for Mankind Award by the Global Energy Society in 1986, and elected to the Argentinean Academy of Sciences in 1988. In 2000, he was nominated for Nobel Prize in Economics, for conceiving the Hydrogen Economy and striving towards its establishment.
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