Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities
from
Monday 23 August 2010 (08:00)
to
Friday 27 August 2010 (18:00)
Monday 23 August 2010
09:30
Morning Session
Morning Session
09:30 - 12:30
Contributions
09:30
Welcome Address
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A. Baldini, S. Fantoni, G. Ghirardi, G. Cappelli, C. Tuniz, D. Treleani, N. Zovko, S. Pallua, B. Frankovic
10:00
Nuclear Energy and Sustainable Development
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Hans-Holger Rogner
(
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
)
16:00
Afternoon Session
Afternoon Session
16:00 - 19:30
Contributions
16:00
Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Adriatic Region
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Bernard Franković
(
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia
)
17:30
Technology acceleration towards a low carbon society: The role fo the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) in the framework of the SET Plan
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Carlo Tricoli
(
ENEA
)
18:30
Water Heating (market, barrierrs and European standard) and Electricity Generation
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Vinod Kumar Sharma
(
ENEA Research Centre Trisaia
)
Tuesday 24 August 2010
08:30
08:30 - 13:00
Contributions
08:30
Spectroscopy for the study of Hydrogen storage in polyconjugated systems. What we have learned for future developments
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Giuseppe Zerbi
(
Plitecnico di Milano
)
09:30
Covalent Functionalization of Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) and their Application to Catalytic Water Splitting (Energy Storage)
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Giacinto Scoles
(
SISSA
)
11:00
PV vs. CSP: alternative technologies?
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Giovanni Battista Zorzoli
(
ISES
)
12:00
Electricity from the Sun: A Bright Future Shines on PV
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Uroš Desnica
(
R. Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
)
16:00
16:00 - 19:30
Contributions
16:00
Thermonuclear fusion: the need for a rapid research effort in science and technology
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Francesco Pegoraro
(
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa
)
17:30
The Neutral Beam test facility for ITER and the IFMIF project for the material study for the fusion
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Gabriele Puglierin
(
INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
)
18:30
Sustainable nuclear energy; large scale production with proliferation safety?
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Vladimir Knapp
(
University of Zagreb
)
Wednesday 25 August 2010
08:30
08:30 - 13:00
Contributions
08:30
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mechanism, Efficiency and Open Issues
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Filippo De Angelis
(
ISTM-CNR & Università di Perugia, Italy
)
09:30
Plastic solar cells
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Nadia Camaioni
(
CNR-ISOF, Bologna (Italy)
)
11:00
Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics
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Vanni Lughi
(
University of Trieste, Italy
)
12:00
Solid State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Possible Low-Cost Alternatives to Silicon
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Hristina Spasevska
(
Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
)
Thursday 26 August 2010
08:30
08:30 - 13:00
Contributions
08:30
Energy from biomass: opportunities and risks
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Stanislav Miertus
(
ICS-UNIDO, AREA Science Park, Trieste Italy
)
09:30
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mechanism, Efficiency and Open Issues
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Nikola Čavlina
(
University of Zagreb, Croatia
)
11:00
Geothermal energy for sustainable development: recent advances in exploration and exploitation of resources
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Michele Pipan
(
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
)
12:00
Effects of the Adriatic-Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) on the biogeochemistry and biology of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas
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Miroslav Gacic
(
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
)
15:00
15:00 - 19:50
Contributions
15:00
Sustainable Solar Housing in the Adriatic Region
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Paolo Blecich
(
University of Rijeka, Croatia
)
15:30
Innovative Latent Heat Thermal Storage Elements Design Based on Nanotechnologies
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G. Sciuto
(
Università degli Studi di Trieste
)
15:50
Hydrogen Storage in Nanostructured Materials for Automotive Applications
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Isabella Mazza
(
Università degli Studi di Trieste
)
19:20
Concluding Remarks
Friday 27 August 2010