Ankündigung

Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 17-21, 2002

Introduction

The forthcoming European Biomass Conference and Technology Exhibition on Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate Protection in Amsterdam will be the outstanding European event in this sector for the year 2002. It comes as the 12^th in a series which the European Commission has started 20 years ago. The preceding one (Sevilla 2000) was - with 1000 participants and a large industry Exhibition - an overwhelming success. Since then, under guidance of the European Commission, the Biomass sector is ever more booming.

Programme

The five-day programme for this Conference will comprise: 

• Plenary lectures describing the state-of-the-art in biomass technology
• Oral and poster presentations of specific research, development, demonstration and commercial projects
• Exhibition of biomass products, utilisation and conversion technologies
• Scientific tours and a social programme
• Political and strategical workshops.

The conference ist jointly organised by ETA-Florence and WIP-Munich and supported by the European Commission, the Government of the Netherlands, World Bank (RPTES Program), NOVEM The Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment, IEA Bioenergy, EUBIA European Biomass Industry Association and EUROSOLAR.

Topics

Papers are invited on the following topics: 

• Biomass resources:
  production, pre-treatment, supply and logistics for feedstock from forestry, agriculture, animal residues and processing industry 
• Research and development of bioenergy conversion technology systems:
  combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, biological conversion and liquid fuels production (biodiesel, ethanol, direct/indirect liquefaction) 
• Demonstration and market implementation of bioenergy in the heat and electricity sector 
• Demonstration and market implementation of bioenergy in the transportation sector 
• Combined application of biomass for energy, products and climate protection:
  chemicals, timber, afforestation, Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects, international biofuels trade, carbon trading. 
• Strategy and policy issues:
  challenges and opportunities to support the EU Policies and Directives, the Kyoto Protocol, certificates, national and local regulations, globalisation and liberalisation, industry policies, security of energy supply 
• Biomass in the developing world:
  sustainable biomass use, poverty alleviation, rural development, education and capacity building.

Papers will be presented in oral and poster sessions and all accepted papers will be published in the Book of Proceedings.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: October 15, 2001. If you have any enquiries concerning abstracts please contact ETA:
e-mail: biomass.conf∂etaflorence.it
or use the tel. / fax numbers given below.

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