Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

from Monday, August 23, 2010 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 27, 2010 (6:00 PM)
Veli Lošinj (Croatia)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 23, 2010
Aug 24, 2010
Aug 25, 2010
Aug 26, 2010
AM
9:30 AM
Energy Planning (until 12:30 PM) ()
9:30 AM Welcome Address - A. Baldini, S. Fantoni, G. Ghirardi, G. Cappelli, C. Tuniz, D. Treleani, N. Zovko, S. Pallua, B. Frankovic   ()
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10:00 AM Nuclear Energy and Sustainable Development - Hans-Holger Rogner (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))   ()
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8:30 AM
Hydrogen and Solar (until 1:00 PM) ()
8:30 AM Spectroscopy for the study of Hydrogen storage in polyconjugated systems. What we have learned for future developments - Giuseppe Zerbi (Plitecnico di Milano)   ()
9:30 AM Covalent Functionalization of Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) and their Application to Catalytic Water Splitting (Energy Storage) - Giacinto Scoles (SISSA)   ()
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10:30 AM --- Cofee Break ---
11:00 AM PV vs. CSP: alternative technologies? - Giovanni Battista Zorzoli (ISES)   ()
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12:00 PM Electricity from the Sun: A Bright Future Shines on PV - Uroš Desnica (R. Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)   ()
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8:30 AM
Photovoltaics (until 1:00 PM) ()
8:30 AM Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mechanism, Efficiency and Open Issues - Filippo De Angelis (ISTM-CNR & Università di Perugia, Italy)   ()
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9:30 AM Plastic solar cells - Nadia Camaioni (CNR-ISOF, Bologna (Italy))   ()
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics - Vanni Lughi (University of Trieste, Italy)   ()
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12:00 PM Solid State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Possible Low-Cost Alternatives to Silicon - Hristina Spasevska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)   ()
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8:30 AM
Energy and Environment (until 1:00 PM) ()
8:30 AM Energy from biomass: opportunities and risks - Stanislav Miertus (ICS-UNIDO, AREA Science Park, Trieste Italy)   ()
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9:30 AM Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mechanism, Efficiency and Open Issues - Nikola Čavlina (University of Zagreb, Croatia)   ()
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM Geothermal energy for sustainable development: recent advances in exploration and exploitation of resources - Michele Pipan (Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy)   ()
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12:00 PM Effects of the Adriatic-Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) on the biogeochemistry and biology of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas - Miroslav Gacic (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale)   ()
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PM
4:00 PM
Energy Planning (until 7:30 PM) ()
4:00 PM Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Adriatic Region - Bernard Franković (Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia)   ()
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5:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:30 PM Technology acceleration towards a low carbon society: The role fo the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) in the framework of the SET Plan - Carlo Tricoli (ENEA)   ()
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6:30 PM Water Heating (market, barrierrs and European standard) and Electricity Generation - Dr Vinod Kumar Sharma (ENEA Research Centre Trisaia)   ()
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4:00 PM
Nuclear (until 7:30 PM) ()
4:00 PM Thermonuclear fusion: the need for a rapid research effort in science and technology - Francesco Pegoraro (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa)   ()
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5:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
5:30 PM The Neutral Beam test facility for ITER and the IFMIF project for the material study for the fusion - Gabriele Puglierin (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)   ()
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6:30 PM Sustainable nuclear energy; large scale production with proliferation safety? - Vladimir Knapp (University of Zagreb)   ()
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3:00 PM
Student Workshop on Case Studies and Concluding Remarks (until 7:50 PM) ()
3:00 PM Sustainable Solar Housing in the Adriatic Region - Paolo Blecich (University of Rijeka, Croatia)   ()
3:30 PM Innovative Latent Heat Thermal Storage Elements Design Based on Nanotechnologies - G. Sciuto (Università degli Studi di Trieste)   ()
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3:50 PM Hydrogen Storage in Nanostructured Materials for Automotive Applications - Isabella Mazza (Università degli Studi di Trieste)   ()
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6:50 PM --- Coffee Break ---
7:20 PM Concluding Remarks   ()