Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

from Monday 23 August 2010 (08:00) to Friday 27 August 2010 (18:00)
Veli Lošinj (Croatia)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Aug 2010
24 Aug 2010
25 Aug 2010
26 Aug 2010
AM
09:30
Energy Planning (until 12:30)
09:30 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 Nuclear Energy and Sustainable Development - Hans-Holger Rogner (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))  
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08:30
Hydrogen and Solar (until 13:00)
08:30 Spectroscopy for the study of Hydrogen storage in polyconjugated systems. What we have learned for future developments - Giuseppe Zerbi (Plitecnico di Milano)  
09:30 Covalent Functionalization of Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) and their Application to Catalytic Water Splitting (Energy Storage) - Giacinto Scoles (SISSA)  
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10:30 --- Cofee Break ---
11:00 PV vs. CSP: alternative technologies? - Giovanni Battista Zorzoli (ISES)  
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12:00 Electricity from the Sun: A Bright Future Shines on PV - Uroš Desnica (R. Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia)  
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08:30
Photovoltaics (until 13:00)
08:30 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mechanism, Efficiency and Open Issues - Filippo De Angelis (ISTM-CNR & Università di Perugia, Italy)  
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09:30 Plastic solar cells - Nadia Camaioni (CNR-ISOF, Bologna (Italy))  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics - Vanni Lughi (University of Trieste, Italy)  
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12:00 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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08:30
Energy and Environment (until 13:00)
08:30 Energy from biomass: opportunities and risks - Stanislav Miertus (ICS-UNIDO, AREA Science Park, Trieste Italy)  
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09:30 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Mechanism, Efficiency and Open Issues - Nikola Čavlina (University of Zagreb, Croatia)  
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 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 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
16:00
Energy Planning (until 19:30)
16:00 Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Adriatic Region - Bernard Franković (Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia)  
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17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
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 - Carlo Tricoli (ENEA)  
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18:30 Water Heating (market, barrierrs and European standard) and Electricity Generation - Dr Vinod Kumar Sharma (ENEA Research Centre Trisaia)  
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16:00
Nuclear (until 19:30)
16:00 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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17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
17:30 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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18:30 Sustainable nuclear energy; large scale production with proliferation safety? - Vladimir Knapp (University of Zagreb)  
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15:00
Student Workshop on Case Studies and Concluding Remarks (until 19:50)
15:00 Sustainable Solar Housing in the Adriatic Region - Paolo Blecich (University of Rijeka, Croatia)  
15:30 Innovative Latent Heat Thermal Storage Elements Design Based on Nanotechnologies - G. Sciuto (Università degli Studi di Trieste)  
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15:50 Hydrogen Storage in Nanostructured Materials for Automotive Applications - Isabella Mazza (Università degli Studi di Trieste)  
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18:50 --- Coffee Break ---
19:20 Concluding Remarks