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This page contains minutes and presentations from ThermalNet meetings which are accessible by login and password only. Minutes from individual Pyne, GasNet and CombNet meetings can be found on the individual technology websites. Please contact Emma Wylde if you should have any difficulty in accessing any of the documents contained in these pages.

 

Vienna Meeting April 2008

Presentation Title Presented by

 

Thursday 24/04/08

Agenda Introduction & Welcome Tony Bridgwater
Feedstocks & Standards Michael Doran
Non-technical Barriers Tony Bridgwater (prepared by Patricia Thornley and Wolter Prins)
Combustion Update Sjaak van Loo
Fouling, Corrosion, Erosion Bill Livingston
Co-firing and Co-processing of Biomass with Coal Jaap Koppejan
Gasification Technology Overview Hermann Hofbauer
Gas Treatment Eva Larsson
Technology Strategies and Policy Tony Bridgwater, Sjaak van Loo, Hermann Hofbauer

 

Friday 25/04/08

Economics Max Lauer
Environment, Health & Safety Laurent van de Steene (prepared by Francois Broust)
Education & Training Leonardo Nibbi
Fast Pyrolysis Barriers Tony Bridgwater
Characterisation & Analysis Dietrich Meier (prepared by Anja Oasmaa)
Transport Fuels Herman den Uil
Biorefineries Doug Elliott

Vicenza Meeting October 2007

Presentation Title Presented By
Welcome and project update (including agenda) Tony Bridgwater
WP2A Progress report and CEN activity Anja Oasmaa
WP2F Progress report and questionnaire Antonio Galgano
WP2E High Temperature Gas Treatment Lead by Eva Larsson
Gas upgrading: reforming and water gas shift Francesco Basile & Ferruccio Trifiro
Biomass gasification research at the Gas Technology Institute Larry Felix
Removal of particles in flue gas from combustion of biomass Kurt Carlsson
WP3A Barriers: Public perception Lead by Patricia Thornley
Global Bioenergy Partnership Project Pierpaulo Garibaldi
IEA Task 29: Socio-economic impacts of bioenergy Keith Richards
Improving the Public Perception of Bioenergy in Europe Patricia Thornley on behalf of IFZ, Wilma Mert
NIMBY exercise Patricia Thornley
Bioenergy Project and Dissemination Michael Doran
Project Development in Partnership with Local Communities Keith Richards
WP3B Biomass Potentials Max Lauer
WP2C Suitability of Feedstocks for Conversion Technologies

Lead by Michael Doran

Feedstocks and Standards work package Michael Doran
Variations in Biomass Composition Ioannis Eleftheriadis
Fuel requirements for biomass combustion and co-firing Jaap Koppejan
Suitability of biomass feedstocks for co-firing in large pulverised coal power plant boilers Bill Livingston
CFB Combustion -Experience with Mixtures of Secondary Fuels Claus Greil
WP3C Report on Education and Training David Chiaramonti and Leonardo Nibbi
Report on Gasification Health & Safety Project Harrie Knoef
WP3B & WP3D EHS and Economics
Influence of EHS measures on economic performance of bioenergy conversion processes Max Lauer
Strategic Aspects of the Biofuel Market and the Supply of Agrarian Wood Eberhard Oettel

Glasgow Meeting September 2006

FULL REPORT OF GLASGOW MEETING
  • The agenda for the Glasgow meeting is contained within the "Welcome" presentation below.
  • All presentations from Glasgow can be accessed below by clicking on the relevant link in the table.

Presentation Title Presented By
Welcome and introdution (including meeting agenda) Tony Bridgwater
Workshop- Technology Challenges: Corrosion and Ash in Boilers Led by Sjaak van Loo
Biomass Ash Characteristics and Behaviour in Combustion Systems Bill Livingston
Ash related problems in co-firing biomass with coal Rob Korbee
Characterisation of CTF deposits from coal-biomass combustion Fraser Wigley
Biomass ash deposition, erosion and corrosion processes Bill Livingston
Ash related problems in wood-fired boilers and the effect of additives Hakan Kassman
Operational experience with high fouling biomass fuel David Bowie
Experiences with waste wood/ sludge co-firing in Sweden Claes Tullin
Workshop- Feedstocks and Standards WP2C Led by Michael Doran
Feedstocks and Standards Work Package Michael Doran
New Feedstocks- Perennial Energy Crops (see above presentation) Popi Panoutsou
Workshop- Environment, Health & Safety Led by Philippe Girard
Health Relevance of Particles from Wood Combustion in Comparison to Diesel Soot Thomas Nussbaumer
Guideline for safety and eco-friendly biomass gasification (Gasification Guide) Harrie Knoef
Co-operation between ThermalNet and Gasification Guide WP5 Hermann Hofbauer
Workshop- Transport Fuels WP2G Led by Hermann den Uil
The Question of Scale Revisited- Options for Small FT-Synthesis Plants Stefan Fuernsinn
Transport Fuels Work Package Hermann den Uil
Workshop- Barriers Led by Patricia Thornley
European Energy Policy Patricia Thornley
Public Perceptions of Bioenergy Patricia Thornley
European Policy Barriers to Bioenergy Deborah Cooper
Workshop- Dissemination and Interaction Led by Tony Bridgwater
Dissemination and Interaction in ThermalNet Tony Bridgwater

Lille Meeting April 2006

FULL REPORT OF LILLE MEETING
  • The agenda for the Lille meeting can be accessed here.
  • All other presentations from the ThermalNet meeting can be accessed below. Click on the presentation title to access a pdf version of the presentation.

Presentation Title Presented by

Introduction to ThermalNet

Tony Bridgwater

Combustion: Review of Work Packages

Sjaak van Loo

Gasification: Review of Work Packages

Hermann Hofbauer

Pyrolysis: Review of Work Packages

Tony Bridgwater

WP2A: Characterisation & Analysis

Anja Oasmaa

Characterisation of Pyrolytic Lignin

Dietrich Meier

Characterisation of bio-oils

Nadége Revellin

Science & Modelling

Colomba di Blasi

Biomass modelling, Norway

Morten Gronli

Duration Test of Gas Cleaning at ECN

Sander van Paasen

PyRos Technology for Flash Pyrolysis

Gerrit Brem

Gas Cleaning at the Gussing Plant

Hermann Hofbauer

Barriers Informal Task Meeting

Patricia Thornley

Notes from Informal Barriers task meeting

Patricia Thornley

Economics & LCA of Renewable Transport Fuels

H Boerrigter & M Lauer

Transportation Fuels

Harold Boerrigter

Design & Economics of the Bioslurry Gasification Process

Edmund Henrich

The Environmental and Economic Performance of Biofuels

Gerfried Jungmeier

Industry Conditions for Making Investments/ Adpoting New Technologies

Max Lauer

Biomass conversion technologies, Mondi

Florian Eder

Innovation Management

Claus Greil

Plant Portrait: Allington Quarry, UK

Claus Greil

Plant Portrait: Nordweststadt, Germany

Claus Greil

Plant Portrait: Southampton, UK

Claus Greil

Bioenergy Project Risk

Patricia Thornley

Biomass Co-processing Discussion Workshop

G Brem & J Koppejan

Biomass Co-firing

Bill Livingston

Biomass Gasification Ruien

Frans van Dijen

Biomass Trends within Electrabel

Frans van Dijen

Biomass Pre-treatment by Torrefaction

Harold Boerrigter


Innsbruck Meeting September 2005

FULL REPORT OF INNSBRUCK MEETING
  • The agenda for the Innsbruck Meeting can be accessed here.
  • The Introduction to ThermalNet meeting can be accessed by clicking here.
  • All other presentations from the ThermalNet meeting can be found below. Click on the presentation title to access a pdf copy of this presentation.

Presentation Title Presented by

Work Package 2C: Feedstocks and Standards

Michael Doran

Work Package 2A: Characterisation & Analysis (overlaps with WP2C)

Anja Oasmaa

List of new feedstocks (Myrsini Christou)

Michael Doran

Feedstocks and Standards in the Netherlands

Jaap Koppejan

Biomass: An Operator's View (Willow)

Michael Doran

Work Package 3C: Education & Training

David Chiaramonti

Nordic Graduate School of Biofuel Science and Technology

Morten Gronli

ENGAS presentation

Morten Gronli

Bioenergy NoE activities in Education & Training

Crystal Luxmore

UK Bioenergy Education & Training Activities

Crystal Luxmore

Work Package 3A: Barriers

Patricia Thornley

Upgrading pyrolysis liquids to transport fuels

Tony Bridgwater

Liquid Fuels and Biorefinery Workshop

Harold Boerrigter

Bioenergy Network of Excellence (NoE)

Josef Spitzer

CombNet Technology Co-ordination

Jaap Koppejan

Heidelberg (Kick-off) Meeting May 2005

  • Minutes and actions from the Heidelberg Kick-off Meeting can be accessed by clicking here.
  • The presentation Introduction to ThermalNet from the Kick-off meeting can be accessed by clicking here.
  • The presentation made by Eija Alakangas on the Eubionet II EC project can be accessed by clicking here.

The work package presentations from the Heidelberg Kick-off meeting can be found below in work package order. Just click on the work package title to access the presentation in pdf format.

Work package no.

Work package title

Work package leader/ presenter

WP1A Combustion Co-ordination Sjaak van Loo
WP1B Gasification Co-ordination Hermann Hofbauer
WP1C Pyrolysis Co-ordination Tony Bridgwater
WP2A Characterisation and analysis Anja Oasmaa/ Vesa Arpiainen
WP2B Co-processing and Co-firing Gerrit Brem/Jaap Koppejan
WP2C Feedstocks and standards Michael Doran
WP2D Fouling, corrosion, erosion Bill Livingston
WP2E Gas Treatment Nader Padban
WP2F Science and Modelling Colomba di Blasi
WP2G Transport Fuel Harold Boerrigter
WP2H Biorefinery Doug Elliott/ Don Stevens
WP3A Barriers- technical and non-technical Patricia Thornley/ Wolter Prins
WP3B Economics Max Lauer
WP3C Education and Training David Chiaramonti

(NB. Where somebody other than the task leader presented in Heidelberg, their name appears after the WP leader's)


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