Describe the coordinating institution/group:
The Austrian Partner Institution is the Institute for Thermodynamics and Energy Conversion (ITE). The Institute is within the faculty for mechanical and industrial engineering the centre of competence for the mechanical and process engineering aspects of energy technology.
ITE aims at offering high quality education both in fundamentals and application aspects of energy technology. Content and methods are guided by research and innovation context.
In research the ITE concentrates on selected topics which have a high relevance in the field of energy technology, while having a specific importance for the industrial and energy context in Austria.
ITE is interested in an intensive collaboration with the industry and maintains specific competences and know-how in the fields of analysis, simulation and testing methods (CFD, thermal simulation, circulation calculations, shock pressure calculations, …)
The staff consists of 12 people for research and teaching (7 professors and 4 research assistants and one external teacher).
There are two scientific departments in the institute: the Department for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering as well as the Department of Fluid-Flow Machinery. The three participants (Univ. Prof. Dr. M. Haider, Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. A. Werner and Assist. Prof. Dr. H. Walter) in our team are from the Department for Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering.

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Name, Affiliation

Scientific interests and qualification

1.

o. Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Haider Markus

Power technology; combined cycles; fluidized bed technology; advanced concepts for energy conversion

2.

Ao. Univ. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Werner Andreas

Fluidized Bed Technology; CFD-Simulation of combustion processes, Analysis of complex energy systems

3.

Assist. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Walter Heimo

Flow Stability of Boilers; Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Heat and Mass Transfer of Dynamical Systems; Fluidized Bed Technology

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Name, Affiliation

Scientific interests and qualification

1.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Radostina Vasileva Petrova

Modeling and Simulation of Processes in Dynamical Systems; Dynamics and Vibration of Machines, Aerial Ropeway Transport; Solid and Demolished Waste Management; Building Materials

2.

Prof. Eng. Petar Stefanov Kostov

Theoretical Heating Technology, Renewable Energy Sources, Co-generators, Usage of bio-fuels;

3.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Kojcho Tonchev Atanasov

Industrial Heating Technology; Numerical Modeling of Burning Processes; Energy Efficiency of Buildings;

4.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Eng. Neven Yordanov Krystev

Burning Processes and Technologies; Air Pollutions at Gas Fuel Burning Process; Energy Efficiency of Industrial Systems

Third partner
The Romanian partner is the Transilvania University of Brasov one of the most important higher education institution in Romania, with a long tradition especially in various engineering specializations and also a large expertise in research field, participating with a team consisting of members from several departments in order to achieve an interdisciplinary input to the project. The departments involved are: Mechanics, Precision Mechanics and Mechatronics, Thermodynamics and thermal machines, Strength of materials and Chemistry, involving high qualified specialists both in academic and research area.
This way, the project can benefit of the infrastructure from all the important departments in the university, whose engineering departments are training specialists for more than 50 years, in mechanical, industrial, materials sciences and wood engineering with various specializations. The university is coordinating yearly around forty research projects at national and international level and is partner in many more. The university has several computer networks, research labs and develops collaborations with European universities and companies. The staff involved in the project consists of the following persons:

1.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Diana
Cotoros
(Department of Mechanics)

Computational Mechanics, Composite Materials Wastes Management, Aircraft Equipments

2.

Prof. Dr. Eng. Bacanu Gheorghe (Department of Thermodynamics and Thermal Machines)

Heating Technology, Renewable Sources of Energy, Solar and Wind Energy

3.

Prof. Dr. Eng. Baritz Mihaela Ioana (Department of Precision Mechanics and Mechatronics)

Ecologic Materials and Biocompatibility of Materials used in Implants, Precision Devices in Aircraft and Automobiles

4.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Teodorescu Horatiu (Department of Mechanics)

Manufacturing, Design and Recycling of Composite Materials, Composites Based on Thermosetting Resins

5.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Ulea Mihai (Department of Strength of Materials)

Modeling and Simulation of Materials Properties, Finite Element Methods

6.

Prof. Dr. ch. Dumitrescu Lucia (Department of Chemistry)

Biochemical processes for recycling biomass/biomass wastes to biofuels/compost, synthesis and characterization of composites (based on wood/wood wastes and acrylic copolymers)

Fourth Partner:
The Croatian Partner Institution: Department of Engineering Mechanics – Dynamics of Machines Chair. It is a part of the Faculty of Engineering.
Our Faculty is among the biggest Faculties of University of Rijeka. It celebrated its 45-th anniversary in year 2005. According to Bologna process our faculty performs undergraduate and graduate studies of mechanical, naval architecture and electrical engineering as well as doctoral studies of mechanical engineering and naval architecture.
The teaching staff of our department consists of 12 persons. There are 2 Professors, 2 Associate professors, 2 Assistant professors and 6 Assistants. The averaged age of the teaching staff is 35 years.

There are three scientific groups in the Department: research group in Structural Analysis, research group in Dynamics of Machines and research group in Solid Mechanics. All participants in our team are from research group in Dynamics of Machines.

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Name, Affiliation

Scientific interests and qualification

1.

Assist. Prof. Sanjin Braut, PhD

Dynamics of machines and mechanisms, Rotor dynamics, Numerical and experimental investigation of rotor-stator contact, Mechatronics

2.

Assoc. Prof. Roberto Žigulić, PhD

Linear and nonlinear dynamics of mechanical systems, Numerical and experimental investigation of rotor-stator contact, Robotics, Acoustics

3.

Assist. M. Sc. Ante Skoblar

Structure-Borne Sound, Vibroacoustics; Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers

Fifth Partner:
The Slovenia Partner Institution: Laboratory for Heat and Power at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
University of Ljubljana is an institution with a very rich tradition. With its 56 000 undergraduate and post-graduate students participating in more  than 130  undergraduate and 110 post-graduate programs, it ranks among the largest universities in the world scale. The University of Ljubljana was established in 1919 on the foundations of a long- established pedagogical tradition.
Laboratory for Heat and Power cooperates with all Slovene thermal power plants, energy-intensive branches of industry, research institutes and government institutions. The main fields of research are strongly connected with problems inspired by the contemporary energy conversion systems, such as entropy generation identification, numerical modelling and analyses and optimization of complex energy systems, identification of fluid- and thermodynamic characteristics of complex flows by means of CFD calculations and development of thermo-economic methods for cogeneration systems.
The staff of our laboratory consists of one professor, two assistant professors, three assistants and two researchers.

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Name, Affiliation

Scientific interests and qualification

1.

Ass. Prof. Dr. Mihael Sekavčnik

Advanced energy conversion systems, thermal turbomachinery, numerical flow and process analysis

2.

Prof. Dr. Janez Oman

Heat generators, thermodynamic optimization of energy conversion systems, experimental investigations on large scale plants

3.

Ass. Prof. Dr. Andre Senegačnik

Fuels, combustion, entropy generation, heat generators

Please give an overview on the personnel in the following table (add more lines if necessary) – CVs of all persons stated here shall be added as an Annex:

Name

Partner

Position in the project

Male / Female

Age

o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Haider Markus

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Project coordinator

Male

43

Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Werner Andreas

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Participant

Male

45

Ass. Prof. Dr. Walter Heimo

Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Participant

Male

43

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Radostina Vasileva Petrova

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Partner coordinator

Female

41

Prof. Eng. Petar Stefanov Kostov

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Participant

Male

60

Assoc. Prof. Dr.. Eng. Kojcho Tonchev Atanasov

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Participant

Male

44

Assist. Prof. Dr. Eng. Neven Yordanov Krastev

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Participant

Male

32

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Cotoros Laura Diana

Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania

Partner coordinator

Female

45

Prof. Dr.. Eng. Bacanu Gheorghe

Transilvania University of Brasov,

Participant

Male

55

Prof. Dr.. Eng. Baritz Mihaela Ioana

Transilvania University of Brasov,

Participant

Female

52

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Teodorescu Horatiu

Transilvania University of Brasov,

Participant

Male

47

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Ulea Mihai

Transilvania University of Brasov,

Participant

Male

55

Prof. Dr. ch. Dunitrescu Lucia

Transilvania University of Brasov,

Participant

Female

52

Assist. Prof. Sanjin Braut, PhD

University of Rijeka, Croatia

Partner coordinator

Male

35

Assoc. Prof. Roberto Žigulić, PhD

University of Rijeka, Croatia

Participant

Male

41

Assist. M. Sc. Ante Skoblar

University of Rijeka, Croatia

Participant

Male

34

Ass. Prof. Dr. Mihael Sekavčnik

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Partner coordinator

Male

39

Prof. Dr. Janez Oman

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Participant

Male

60

Ass. Prof. Dr. Andrej Senegačnik

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Participant

Male

47