Scientific description

 

 

B.1    Overview – Description of project in general terms
B.2    Comprehensive scientific description of project suitable for             peer review
B.3    Work schedule and time schedule

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

B.1     Overview – Description of project in general terms

Title: ENVIRONMENTALLY USAGE OF POWER

Subject area:

Energy: zero emission power generation, effect of energy usage on the environment and ecosystems, comparison of the application of National Programs and Strategies of energy usage and the use of the environmentally friendly sources of energy in the five countries.

Main objectives and aims

  1. Exchange of scientific ideas and establishing future research collaboration between participating Universities. This collaboration is the base for establishing teams and networks for future participation in projects, financed by FP7 or by other funds.
  2. Approval of new know-how and scientific achievements between the teams and between the teams and the firms, in the context of the FP7 capacity: ”Industry-Academia”
  3. Comparison between the methods of adoption and implementation of the European standards and best practices in the five countries. Finding the differences, benefits and disadvantages of different practices. Discussing ideas, emphasizing on the differences between the countries (mainly in legal background, in signed National Programs, accepted stages of development in the National Strategies, etc).
  4. Identification of common strategies meant to help the integration in the EU policies concerning the use of environmentally friendly sources of energy.

Brief description of the activities:

It is planned to organize 2 joint workshops – at the beginning (for establishment of initial contacts) and in the end of the project (for reporting the achieved results and final signing of agreements). One intermediate meeting with representatives of all team is also planned. Here non-formal discussions and presentation of the first results of mutual activities will take place. Thus three of the participating teams have to organize one communicative event. The basic, discussed on each scientific event topics are:

  1. Introducing Workshop. Concomitant discussed topic: On the zero emission power generation - proposed date of the Workshop - 15.10.2008, start of the project
  2. Basic discussed topic: Effect of energy use on environment and ecosystems.- proposed date of the Intermediate meeting - 4.02.2009
  3. Final Workshop. Concomitant discussed topic: Solid Waste Management - proposed date of the Final Workshop - 11.3.2009

Each scientific event shall consist of 5 following one after another discussing sections:

  1. The first one is strongly specialized on the announced topic scientific discussion.
  2. The second part is a short time visit round the University.
  3. The third part is dedicated to the problem of implementation of European standards and practices in the field of scientific topic of the event.
  4. The fourth part is a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department.
  5. The fifth part is a round table discussion with representatives of firms, non-formal organizations and consultants in relevant to the project field.

Milestones:
There are three scientific meetings planned. According to that we can point the following milestones:

  1. Presentation of the scientific achievements of the partners, depending on the research background of each team and finding fields of mutual interest.
  2. Exchange of newly found ideas and performing of intermediate reports on the assigned on the first Workshop tasks.
  3. Comparison of the research level in the involved Universities.
  4. Proposing a scientific idea for mutual work in relevant to the project field by each team and adoption of the most interesting for future development during the project and mainly afterwards. Generation of schedule of research activities.
  5. Definition of the newly formed international research groups and their future collaborative activities.
  6. Organization of international teams for participating in projects, financed by FP7 or by other funds.
  7. Presentation of the participating Universities to all partners.
  8. Establishing contacts between national companies and international research teams. A way of adopting “the needs of industry” by the scientists can be found. Laying down the foundations of mutual projects, corresponding to the requirements of the firms and sponsored by them.

 

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B.2     Comprehensive scientific description of project suitable for peer review


Problem definition and core questions

The main problems discussed in the project treat the friendly usage of energy. They are classified in three main subareas, coinciding with the declared topics of the scientific events: On the zero emission power generation; Effect of energy use on environment and ecosystems and Solid Waste Management.
The problems in each of these subareas treat the possibilities of exchange of new scientific ideas, comparison of the research level in all participating countries, approval of new know-how and scientific achievements, establishing relationship between science and industry. Some of the basic activities for finding a solution of the declared problems are:

  1. Establishing new scientific relations, based on mutual research interests;
  2. Finding new ideas, methods and ways of financing common scientific projects - FP7, other European funds, financing at National level, etc.
  3. Finding ways of presenting the scientific achievements in comprehensive style to the representatives of industry;
  4. Identification of national conditions and strategies to the aspects of EU policies.
  5. Working on integration of the countries of the partners to EU policies. 

State-of-the-art in the related field of the partners

State – of – the - art of the Austrian team:

Scientific background of the Austrian team, respecting the scientific field of the project:
The Institute for Thermodynamic und Thermal Engineering (ITE) has achieved know-how in many fields of thermal engineering such as:

  1. Stationary and non-stationary heat transfer (lay out design of plants): This part of work is done by all members of the team, typical fields of application are the simulation of start up and load change at steam generators, the dynamic simulation of industrial furnaces and components of steel plants but even advanced energy coversion systems.
  2. Heat transfer in single- and multiphase flows (steam generators, fluidized bed), research in that field creates the basis for simulation programs developed at the institute. For instance a stationary simulation program for circulating fluidized bed boilers (CFBB) has been created and experiments concerning solids distribution and heat transfer have been carried out at a semi-industrial CFBB test rig at the laboratory of ITE.
  3. Numerical methods in thermal engineering (CFD-calculations, user based solutions) Great efforts were invested into the the field of model development for the dynamic simulation of heated tube networks, including processes of phase change (evaporation and condensation). The code developed is based on the finite volume concept. Different methods for the coupling of pressure and velocity (SIMPLE, SIMPLER, PISO) were compared and evaluated. Another field of research is the simulation of thermal systems using commercial CFD-code.

Prof. Haider is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of VGB. He has fifteen years of international Industry experience in responsible positions, with companies like CNIM, Babcock Entreprise, Foster Wheeler and General Electric. Prof. Haider’s expertise ranges from numerical modelling to Combustion Systems, Steam Generator design, Waste Incineration and Combined Cycle Plants. Ass. Prof. Walter is member at ASME and WSEAS as well as member of the editorial board and reviewer of international journals in the field of thermal engineering and heat transfer. Furthermore he is and was a member of the scientific commettee of international conferences in the field of fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
Prof. Werner is member of VDI and was referee for energy efficiency and savings within two plant extension projects for an international steel company. He was also involved in a project concerning the use of geothermal energy for heating and power generation. Dr. Werner was in a leading position at a national funded research project on pressurized fluidized bed combustion. The members of the Austrian team have about 40 publications in international journals and at conferences concerning heat transfer, flow stability of steam generators, dynamic and stationary simulation of energy systems.

Teaching background of the Austrian team, respecting the scientific field of the project:
The courses of ITE cover the wide field of energy conversion technology. The basic courses start with (applied) thermodynamics followed by lectures and exercises about thermal power technology (construction of components, design of facilities and plants), thermodynamics in power engineering (advanced cycles for power generation, multi-component systems, problems of combined heat and power production, seewater desalting in combination to power production...). A further field are alternative concepts for power generation and energy conversion (lectures, exercises, seminaries and laboratory tutorials are offered to the students to deepen their knowledge). These courses are supplemented by special lectures about environmental protection at thermal systems, refrigeration engineering, air condition technology, central heating, modelling of thermal systems as well as courses about selected problems in thermal engineering.

Laboratory base of the Austrian team, respecting the scientific field of the project:
The currently mainly used facilities at ITE are: Department of Thermodynamics:

  1. a test rig for finned tube heat exchangers
  2. a pressurized fluidized bed combustion reactor
  3. a test facility for turbulators
  4. an atmospheric circulating fluidized bed test rig in semi-industrial scale Department of fluid flow machinery:
  5. a directly wood-particle fired gas turbine
  6. a free jet wind tunnel
  7. a linear cascade wind tunnel
  8. a labyrinth test rig
  9. a micro gas turbine
  10. a univeral test rig for hydraulic machines
  11. a test rig for pelton turbines
  12. a test facility for valves The measuring equipment consists of a gas analyser, a TOC-analyser and facilities for measuring of mass flows (e. g. anemometers), pressure and temperatures including necessary devices for calibration.

State – of – the - art of the Bulgarian team:

Scientific background of the Bulgarian team, respecting the scientific field of the project:
The members of the team have more than 30 scientific publications in the following fields of investigation:

  1. Reducing the NOx emissions in industrial steam generators, using gaseous fuel;
  2. Reducing of the alkali water properties of slag lake in coil stuff thermo electrical power plant;
  3. Studying the working process in a co-generator, using pyrolyzed gas of wood waste products;
  4. Variants of thermal purifying of technological gas pollutant;
  5. National policy in solid waste management. They are published in referred scientific journals in Bulgaria and abroad, presented to scientific forums in Bulgaria and abroad.
  6. The Department “Mechanics, Machine-building and Heat Techniques”, with the support of the ”Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy-Sliven, TU – Sofia, National Science-Technical Society of Theory of mechanisms and machines, Central Laboratory of Mechatronics and instrument-building – Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS), Institute of Mechanics and Biomechanics – BAS and Union of Scientists-Bulgarian organizes a national scientific conference with International Participants “Technical Systems And Technologies”, whose section ”Section “Applied fluid dynamics, heat- and mass-transfer” is highly attended by Bulgarian scientists. It unites the following scientific fields: Hydraulic machines, Thermodynamics and heat-transfer, Combustion equipment and technology, Industrial heating technology. The presented to the Conference works are published in a special volume, dedicated to the Conference, in referred scientific journal in Bulgaria.
  7. Members of the team are members of Program Committees of Scientific events in Bulgaria and abroad in the field of the proposed project. For example: Prof. Dr. P. Kostov is a member of the Program Committee of the Section “Applied fluid dynamics, heat- and mass-transfer” of national scientific conference with International Participants “Technical Systems And Technologies”, Assoc Prof. Dr. Radostina Petrova is a member of the Scientific Committee of The International Workshop „Trends and Research in Composite Materials Recycling”, organized by Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, CNCPST-OPTIMUM (Bucharest) and Romanian Plastics Processors Employers’ Association (ASPAPLAST) as well of some other scientific Comitties in the field of Computational Mechanics and Virtual Engineering.
  8. Members of the team were participants in 3 research projects: Experimental study of nitrogen oxide formation at gas fuel burning, possibilities for increasing efficiency of gas fuel use of industrial and burning device and experimental investigation of cо-generators for shared yield to the electrical and thermal energy of the internal combustion engine base with the variable manner of the work.

The projects: Experimental study of nitrogen oxide formation at gas fuel burning, possibilities for increasing efficiency of gas fuel use of industrial and burning device and experimental investigation of cо-generator for shared yield to the electrical and thermal energy of the internal combustion engine base with the variable manner of the work are being financed by Fund for Scientific and Research Activities of TU – Sofia. The leader of the scientific team of the two projects was Prof. Dr. Eng. P. Kostov. The two projects ended successfully and were highly evaluated by the Final Commission.

  1. There is a long lasting cooperation between the specialists of heat engineering on the faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy and representatives of local firms, having similar working fields, such as production of heating equipment, design of heating, air-conditioning and ventilation systems, work projects connected with the full use of restorable energy sources.
  2. There is a collaboration between members of the proposed team and participants in the ongoing project, financed by EC: EuropeAid/120600/D/SV/BG: Strengthening of administrative capacity for implementation of environmental legislation. The mutual activity resulted in a work, presented and published abroad.
  3. There are relations between members of the proposed team and the local representatives of BAMEE.

Teaching background of the Bulgarian team, respecting the scientific field of the project:

  1. Agency of the staff of the Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy – Sliven, TU – Sofia, has been teaching students in Thermal Technics for more than 10 years. The Faculty is evaluated by the National Accreditation of the High Schools and Universities and can educate Bachelor and Master Engineers, as well as can provide Doctorate Programs in the field of Thermo Engineering.
  2. We can say that there is a strong teaching activity in fields relevent to the topic of the proposed project.

There are two doctorate workers, members of the proposed team, who have successfully graduated their doctorate degrees and whose basic scientific works are in the proposed field. They continue their successfull research and teaching activity in that field, like Professors in TU – Sofia.. They are:

  1. Head Assist. Dr. Eng. Neven Krystev, topic of the doctorate: An influence of operating and constructive parameters of burning device on nitric oxide formation at gaseous fuel combustion, graduated 2006
  2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. K. Atanasov, topic of the doctorate: Numerical modeling of a burning process in a limited turned gas stream, graduated 2002.

Their scientific supervisor was Prof. Dr. Eng. Petar Kostov, who is also a member of the proposed team. He is among the well known Bulgarian specialists in the field of Thermo Engineering. His basic scientific contributions are in studying the influence of constructive and regime parametres of burning devices, using gasseous fuel, on the concentration of NOx in burned gasses.
•    The members of the team have written:
4 textbooks, 3 manuals for laboratory exercises and tutorials.
Three of them are in the field of the proposed project and two of them are used for teaching purposes in TU – Vienna.
•    In coordination with the Agency for Energy Efficiency the above mentioned scientists are among ther participants of the staff, performing the education of teams, who can make energy analysis of buildings and industrial systems. All firm dealing with such activity obey to license regime.

Laboratory base of the Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy, respecting the scientific field of the project:

  1. There are some large laboratories in the Faculty of Engineering and Pedagogy, used for scientific, as well as for teaching, purposes. There are specialized laboratories for performing laboratory exercises with the students, studying Heating techniques (Bachelor and Master degree) in the following fields of study: Burning Processes and Technologies, Refrigerating Techniques and Installations, Air-Conditioning and Drying Techniques, Heat Exchange and Cogeneration, Thermodynamical Analysis, Heating Techniques and Renewable Energy Sources, etc.
  2. The following specific laboratory devices and apparatus can be found: Gas Analyzer TESTO, Thermoanemometers TESTO, Non-contact thermometers, Laboratory Co generator, Boilers using solid fuel (pyrolitic) and biomasss, software program for modeling of gas burning processes, laboratory solar system for heating. The students and the doctors can work with them under the professors’ supervision. These apparatus are used, also, for making experiments in cooperation with the companies, working in the field of thermo energy and heat transfer.

State – of – the - art of the Romanian team:

Scientific background of the Romanian team
The members of the team published around 70 papers in the following fields of research,
connected with the one of the project:

  1. Methods of recycling and reusing composite materials products; 
  2. Biomechanics of implants;
  3. Biochemical processes for recycling biomass/biomass wastes to biofuels/compost;
  4. National policies concerning energy and water pollution management. The papers were published in the proceedings of several national and international conferences and also in scientific journals.
  5. The department of Mechanics and also the other departments involved in the project by their members organized several scientific events during the last years. Thus, Cotoros Diana, Baritz Mihaela and Teodorescu Horatiu are the main organizers of the International Workshop on „Trends and Researches in Composite Materials Recycling“, Brasov 2007, Romania and also of the International conference on Advanced Engineering of Composite Materials, Brasov, 2006, COMEFIM’6 Conference on Fine Mechanics and Mechatronics, Brasov, Romania, 2002, Participation for co-organization of COMEFIM’7 Conference on Fine Mechanics and Mechatronics, Bucharest, Romania 2004, Participation for co-organization COMEFIM’8 Conference on Fine Mechanics and Mechatronics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2006; Organization of COPTOMIM’1 – First Conference of Optometry and Medical Engineering Brasov, Romania, 2006.
  6. The team members were and still are involved in over 10 research projects at national level, some of them successfully finalized and 3 still ongoing. Some of the team members are involved in 3 national projects financed by the Environmental Romanian Agency concerning the effects of global climate changes upon the human and biological factor and also about the negative effects of sound pollution. Some of the finalized projects concern:
    • Studies on the multi-variator design for an eolian turbine – research project for LUEV – Laboratory for using the energy of wind, Brasov, Romania;
    • Studies and design of the multiplicator for the eolian turbine- research project for LUEV – Laboratory for using the energy of wind, Brasov, Romania;
    • Studies about the human behavior affected by the climate changes – studies for Environment and durable development Ministry Romania;
    • Studies about the human behavior in interdependence with environment, automotive and traffic, Interdisciplinary Project “SAVAT”, Brasov, Romania;

The university is coordinating yearly around fourty research projects at national and international level and is partner in many more.

Laboratory base of the Romanian team
The university has several computer networks, research labs and develops collaborations with European universities and companies. The laboratories offer collaborations for the following areas of interest: Integrated design of high-tech products in mechatronics field using composite materials; simulation of interaction of the human body with composite structure of different devices and machine using LifeMod and ADAMS; simulation and numerical modelling of bio-structures using MIMIC’S for prosthesis and orthesies, engineering composite bio-structures, fibre reinforced, national and international project management.

Teaching background of the Romanian team
The team consists of several teaching staff from different departments working together within the Mechanical Engineering Faculty. They teach for more than 15 years: mechanics, programming, mechatronics, biomechanics, chemistry, thermodynamics and energy management. Within the faculty there are 7 master programs ongoing like Computational Mechanics, Automobile and Environment, Advanced Transport Systems.
They published during the last 5 years 12 books, 70 papers in international conferences... Laboratory resources
Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania can use through the departments involved, at least three computer networks each consisting of around 24 computers of last generation, with suitable licensed software. Also, they have access to seven laboratories specialized in simulation, modelling, numerical methods applications, mechanical tests for composite materials, virtual engineering and computational methods in engineering, mechatronic devices. In order to organize scientific meetings the university, by the departments involved in the project provide high technology multimedia equipment, ensuring thus a thorough and competitive tool for dissemination, which is the main goal of the project.


State – of – the - art of the Croatian team:

Scientific background of the Croatian team 
The members of the team published more than 30 papers in the following fields of research,
connected with the one of the project:

  1. Mechanical safety of machines;
  2. Nonlinear dynamics of rotating machinery
  3. Vibration and safety of machines
  4. Parameter optimization for the operating life extending of the machinery
  5. Mechatronic Approach to the Reduction of Machinery Vibration and Noise All projects were partly or fully financed by Croatian Ministry of Education Science and Sport. Some of them were partly financed by Croatian industry and one of them was collaborative between University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and our University of Rijeka. The last project is still ongoing and is mainly concerned about research on Active Magnetic Bearing and their application in Croatian industry as a representative of environmentally friendly technology. The papers were published in the Proceedings of several national and international conferences and also in scientific journals.
  1. The department of Engineering Mechanics organized several scientific events during the last years e.g. Pannonian Applied Mathematical Meetings and National meeting of Croatian Society of Mechanics. Sanjin Braut is a member of Editorial board of scientific journal “Engineering Review” which publishes scientific, professional and review papers in the field of Mechanical Engineering, Naval Architecture, Electrical Engineering and other Engineering Sciences. Roberto Žigulić is a member of Scientific Committee of „Youth Symposium on Experimental Solid Mechanics“. Roberto Žigulić is also a member of National Standardization Organization in the fields of Acoustics as well as in Vibrations and Impacts.
  2. Members of the team are members of the National - Croatian Society of Mechanics and National organization CroFToMM – member of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science – IFToMM.

Laboratory base of the Croatian team
The Department of Engineering Mechanics consists of several Laboratories, but the team members are directly involved in the work of Laboratory for Machine Dynamics and Laboratory for Mechatronics in Mechanical Engineering. These two laboratories have successful collaboration with local industry and other similar laboratories in Croatia and abroad. Laboratories have licenses for Visual Nastran 4 Windows 2003, LabVIEW 7.1, Sound and Vibration Toolkit for LabVIEW, Order analysis Toolset for LabVIEW and Mathematica for Windows. Laboratories also have several measuring instruments e.g.: Vibroport 41 – portable measuring instrument for use in machine diagnostics and predictive machine maintenance with appropriate accessories produced by Schenck GmbH (nowadays Bruel & Kjær Vibro), many different sensors for vibration and microphones for acoustics measurement, 1D -Electromagnetic vibration exciter for modal testing, 3 rotor-dynamic test rigs and one in preparation based on Active Magnetic Bearings, Special 8 channel measuring instrument based on National Instruments NI 4472 PCI card.

Teaching background of the Croatian team
The Team is working in the Department of Engineering Mechanics having teaching experience for more than 10 years in: Kinematics, Dynamics, Theory of Vibration, Dynamics of Machinery, Mechatronics and Protection against Noise and Vibrations. They published a one book and over 30 papers in international conferences and scientific journals.
Within the faculty there are 7 doctor programs ongoing like Computational Mechanics, Thermoenergetics, Ecological Engineering and Environmental Protection, Productional Mechanical Engineering, Design and Building of Floating Objects, Construction in Mechanical Engineering, Quality Assurance and Technical System Management.

State – of – the - art of the Slovenian team:

Scientific background of the Slovenian team
All members of the Laboratory for Heat and Power are involved in research activities. These are closely connected with expert activities. The problems being studied typically arise from practice. The research results were published in many renowned journals or were presented at conferences and seminars all over the world. Many results find their way back to the application where they originated in order to contribute to performance improvement. Research is performed both theoretically and experimentally. State of the art computer programs are used for various numerical simulations of actual processes. The experimental work takes place in laboratory or in various utility and industrial plants. Postgraduate and also undergraduate students are also encouraged to cooperate in the research activities. The main areas of scientific and research work of the members of Laboratory for Heat and Power are:

  1. Combustion, flue gases and environment
  2. Environment-friendy use of local energy resources
  3. Improvement of biomass combustion
  4. Turbine engines
  5. Gas and steam power cycles
  6. Alternative power cycles
  7. Hydrogen generation analysis and fuel cell systems
  8. Cogeneration
  9. Operational reliability of thermal power plants Results of the research work were published in 14 scientific papers in the last five years as well as several papers presented at various international conferences and numerous research and expert reports.

Currently the laboratory members are involved in one international and several research projects at national level, including:

  1. Analysis and Validation of Theoretical Optimisation Potentials of Steam Boiler Efficiency Optimisation
  2. Slovenia and transition into hydrogen economy 2006 - 2008
  3. Optimization of energy- and environmental parameters of coal fired thermal power plants
  4. Fuel cell system as supplemental energy source for providing autonomy of military vehicles

Ass. Prof. Sekavčnik is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of VGB. He is also member of European Gas Turbine - ETN network and active within the Cycle Efficiency Group. He is founder-member and technical advisor of Slovenian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform - SIHFC. He coordinated and cooperated in many industrial projects in the energy conversion field. His expertise ranges from Energy Conversion Systems (Thermodynamic Cycles and Fuel Cell Based Systems), Numerical simulations of mass and heat flows thermal turbomachinery, Numerical simulations of energy conversion systems, Life Cycle Assesment studies.

Laboratory base of the Slovenian team
The Laboratory for Heat and Power is equipped with computer supported state-of-the art measuring equipment as well as professional and custom-made software for quality thermal testing of large and complex energy systems. The measurements enable reliable determination of operating characteristics such as energy losses, specific heat consumption, boiler efficiency, overall efficiency of a plant or evaluation of performance of particular thermal plant components, such as turbines, condensers, heat exchangers etc. The data acquisition system is capable of simultaneous measuring and recording of a large number of parameters and on-line data processing. The measuring equipment enables the measurements of the following parameters:

  1. Temperature (contact measurements up to 1200 °C, optically up to 1600 °C)
  2. Humidity of gases
  3. Coal dust particles size distribution and air and coal flow rate in coal pipes leading
  4. from coal mills to burners
  5. Pressure (overpressure up to 400 bar, differential pressure up to 5 bar at absolute
  6. pressure up to 420 bar, absolute pressure from 0.13 to 1.13 bar)
  7. Flow rate of liquids (state-of-the-art measurements based on ultrasound, no fittings for
  8. installation on the pipeline required, temperature of the liquid up to 230 °C, pipeline
  9. outer diameter up to 3m)
  10. Flow rate of gases and liquids with pressure differece methods (probe, orifice, nozzle)
  11. O2, CO2, COand NOx fractions in flue gases
  12. Ambient parameters (air pressure, temperature, air humidity) The acquired data enable partial or global analysis of the observed thermal process and form the basis for performance improvement. Most of the measuring equipment is portable and easy to use and assemble. Pressure and temperature sensors and flow meters are all calibrated by a certified laboratory. Special attention is paid to measuring accuracy which in most cases surpasses the industrial standards.

Teaching background of the Slovenian team

Primary activity of the Laboratory is education, both undergraduate and postgraduate. The Laboratory boasts modern equipment for education and research purposes. Various power and process engineering related models enable students to get familiar with many processes, machines and devices. Also state of the art software packages are available to the students for undergraduate studies as well as for postgraduate research. Lectures cover issues concerned with power engineering in utility and industrial power and thermal plants. They include gas and steam turbines, heat generators, fuel and combustion processes, utility and industrial energy systems, planning, operation, maintenance and reliability of various power and thermal plants, etc. The subjects taught by the members of the laboratory are

  1. polytechnic programme: Methods of rational energy use, Industrial energy engineering, Thermal power plants, Industrial boilers, Operational reliability of energy systems, Planning and maintenance of power plants
  2. university programme: Energy management, Turbo- and displacement machines, Energy systems, Heat generators, Fuels and combustion, Gas and steam Turbines
  3. postgraduate university programme: Theory of combustion, Theory of turbine engines, Thermal power systems, Energy auditing of thermal power processes

Besides theoretical lectures there is also a lot of experimental work, especially at postgraduate studies.

Anticipated benefits and relevance of the project

Anticipated benefits can be summarized in the following way:
Establishment of a transnational net in the field of environmentally friendly usage of energy. Starting new scientific relationships in the zero emission power generation and effects of energy used on the environment and ecosystems.
Some of the expected benefits that will be the direct results of the consortium actions are:

  1. a powerful instrument of communication that will create a communication channel between production, research and educational activity, in order to ensure their harmoniously joint development;
  2. a reliable and rich source of information at all levels concerning the responsible management of wastes;
  3. a wise and focused coordination of the joint research efforts towards the most involved areas;
  4. an easy way of exchange expertise and information among the interested scientists;
  5. a possibility of finding suitable and interested partners to start complex joint research projects that will be beneficial for an expanded geographic area, even for the entire Europe;
  6. an impressive enhancement of all partners knowledge in the area by achieving a common research agenda
  7. facilitation of high level technological transfer;
  8. an important possibility of dissemination by means of scientific meetings, publications and web-sites;
  9. influencing the regional policies concerning the management of wastes and producing environmentally friendly energy.

Contribution to EU policies and EU integration

Our proposal aims at concentrating the efforts of the partner countries, in an interactive communication network, that will act like an interface with the other European countries in order to help achieving a common goal. This way the newer members of the European Union will have the opportunity of integrating faster and successfully.
Due to the rising of global and European preoccupation for preserving and protecting the environment, for identifying new and more suitable materials, for energy efficient processes, the newer members of EU are starting to obtain impressive results, as their scientists are very well trained, have multiple contacts throughout Europe and even the entire world. Their expertise, together with the impressive experience of the strongly industrialized countries will complement themselves and permit the global understanding of the issues to be studied at all levels.
We expect that due to the enhancement of communication possibilities the researchers will be aware of their colleagues’ preoccupations in the field avoiding thus redundant efforts and travelling the same paths of research activities. Besides, this way they will become acquainted with the infrastructure used across Europe and might offer help or require assistance in case they need the logistics provided by a certain laboratory. Thus, a lot of frustrating obstacles could be removed and allow researchers to deal exactly with the problems that challenge them at a considerably improved level.
We also count on a flexible approach of the project objectives, as each partner has multiple expertise in design, technology, research, tests, media technology and so on. Their expertise is harmoniously interconnected and the proposed network will work like a flexible and coherent structure, meant to gather and disseminate information. This way, the research agendas of European scientists can be continuously updated and oriented toward the real demands of the community, concerning environmentally friendly usage of energy, zero emission power generation and effect of energy used on the environment and ecosystems. These are main issues of the EU policies that require a joint effort of the participating countries for new and challenging approaches in order to be able to better integrate in the European research efforts.  

 

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B.3     Work schedule and time schedule

Projected starting date: 1.10.2008

End of project: 31.03.2009 (not later than March 2009)

Anticipated duration of project (months): 6 months

 

Activities and implementation strategies:

Activities: 2 joint workshops and one intermediate meeting. They are :

  1. Introducing Workshop. Concomitant discussed topic: On the zero emission power generation - proposed date of the Workshop - 15.10.2008, place: Bulgaria, organizer: partner N2 – team of Technical University of Sofia
  2. Intermediate meeting. Basic discussed topic: Effect of energy use on environment and ecosystems - proposed date of the Intermediate meeting - 4.02.2009, place: Romania, organizer: partner N3 – team of Transilvania University of Brasov
  3. Final Workshop. Concomitant discussed topic: Solid Waste Management - proposed date of the Final Workshop - 11.3.2009, place: Austria, organizer: coordinator N1 – team of Technical University of Vienna.

Each scientific event shall consist of 5 sections:

  1. The first one is strongly specialized scientific discussion on the announced topic.
  2. The second part is a short time visit round the University.
  3. The third part is dedicated to the problem of implementation of European standards and practices in the field of scientific topic of the event.
  4. The fourth part is a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department.
  5. The fifth part is a round table discussion with representatives of firms, non-formal organizations and consultants in relevant to the project field.

Implemented strategies:

  1. Presentations of scientific achievements, of theoretical and experimental results; formal and non-formal discussions; round table discussions; exchange of research and advertising materials;
  2. Showing the laboratory data base of each partner that can be used in future mutual research works
  3. Publishing of the Workshop papers; creating a CD with all papers and discussions;
  4. Constant Internet communication; constantly supported web- side of the project.
  5. Digital library with all presented to scientific discussions papers.

Defined work packages and milestones:

It is planned to organize 2 joint workshops and one intermediate meeting. The basic, discussed on each workshop or meeting, scientific topics are:

  1. Austria: Solid Waste management
  2. Bulgaria: On the zero emission power generation
  3. Romania: Effect of energy use on environment and ecosystems.

Each scientific event shall consist of 3 following one after another sections:

  1. The first one is strongly specialized scientific discussion on the announced topic of the scientific event. Here can be presented scientific investigations of all participants. Participants, not included in the teams, but interested in the discussed problems can be invited. The team members of all countries can compare studies and establish new scientific collaborations, resulting in future mutual scientific projects and joint publications.
  2. The second part is: a short time visit round the University for the participants in the project and the invited scientists. Special attention has to be paid to the laboratory devices and apparatus, that are used for fulfilling the experiments and are going to be a very important material provision for future scientific collaboration.
  3. The third part is dedicated to one common for all scientific events topic: Implementation of European standards and practices, relevant to the basic topic of the entire project, but emphasizing on the best practices, in the field of the scientific topic of the event. Participants of the 3 teams can present obtained results and planning future activities for adapting the existing methods, practices, etc. in their own countries. The presentations are opened and representatives of organizations and firms working on implementation of European standards and practices and their adoption to the national conditions can also present their achievements and ideas.
  4. The fourth part is a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department. Here the foundations of the new collaboration have to be laid. Here will be discussed the common interests of the partners, the principle conditions for signing agreements for collaborations, etc.
  5. The fifth activity is a round table discussion at which representatives of firms, non-profit organizations and consultants, realizing projects in relevant fields companies are going to be invited. The participants of the project can introduce their scientific ideas, Know-how and obtained results in a more practical view and to search for new mutually profitable collaboration. The arisen discussions will help participants to find “common” language: the scientists can hear the requirements of the firms and the firms can learn more about the new achievements of the science. Probably the non-formal exchange of ideas between “industry” and “academia”, with the mediation of specialists of non-profit organizations and consultants, will open new working fields.
  6. Finally there is going to be a small concomitant social program, organized by the host. The idea is: The participants in the project to obtain a brief idea of the culture, traditions and life in the region and of the host country.

The presented in the first and the third sections works will be published in workshop proceedings and the discussions, from the third part, shall be summarized in a paper written by the organizing team and will also be published in the proceedings. An advertizing CD-ROM with all paper presented to the three scientific events, some of the most interesting presentations, photos on the meetings, etc. will be created. This CD is going to summarize all project activities and is aiming to be used like an advertizing material of the partners and the project. It is going to be sent to relevant firms and interested organizations.


Proposed mode of operation and methodology

The following methods and techniques of communication are going to be used:

  1. During the specialized and more common discussions: power point presentations of the works, animations of some of the results, especially on the experimentally obtained results.
  2. During the visit round the University: presenting the most important apparatus and devices, existing laboratory base, etc. Dialog between the guests and the host is planned. Discussions, exchange of opinions, etc. on better more extensive usage of the material base or suggestions on buying new one or developing new specialized laboratory machines.
  3. During the round table: Discussion on the laid down questions, multimedia presentations, exchange of advertising materials and visit cards, etc.
  4. During the meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department: Official conversations and preparation on signing basic documents, laying the foundation of future collaboration between partners or between partners and other participants (representatives of firms, consultants, non-profit organizations, etc.).
  5. During the social program and the trip round the city: non-formal contacts between the participants (not only scientists involved in the project team). Introduction of the most important cultural traditions, industrial achievements and touristic sightseeing for each region.
  6. During the entire project: an Internet communication, short messages about the on going activities on the web-site of the University (Faculty), a link on the web-side of the three Universities (Faculties) to a special web-site of the project.
  7. After each workshop and meeting: publication of all scientific papers in the proceeding of the workshop, of the most interesting firm and organization presentations, and a brief summary of round table discussion and of the results of the meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and the Head of the Department. Creating a contaminant CD.
  8. After the last workshop: creating the advertizing CD of the project, aiming to presenting the activities and obtained results to other relevant Universities, scientists, firms, EU organizations, etc. This CD is going to present the project in the background of all participants.

•     Constantly supported (during the period of the project) website of the project where we can present all our achievements, including a digital library with the workshops proceedings.
Describe tasks and time commitment of the involved personnel within the framework of the project in relation to the work schedule
The tasks of all involved personnel and schedule of all organized scientific events are:

Bulgarian Team:
1.   Introducing Workshop. Concomitant discussed topic: On the zero emission power
generation -
proposed date of the workshop 15.10.2008, start of the project
•     Responsibilities of the organizing team:
Responsible for welcoming the participants:
Coordinator of the Bulgarian team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Radostina Petrova Responsible for scientific editing of the Workshop Proceedings and Chairman of the Program Committee and of the scientific discussion:
Prof. Dr. Eng. Petar Kostov Responsible for organizing discussion and Chairman of the section discussing the Implementation of European standards and practices:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Radostina Petrova Responsible for inviting representatives of firms, non-profit organization, consultants and Chairman of the Round table discussion:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Kojcho Atanasov Responsible for collecting the presented scientific papers, Power Point presentation, advertising materials of the firms and secretary of the Workshop:
Head Ass. Dr. Eng. Neven Krystev Responsible for publishing the Workshop Proceedings and burning the CD:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Kojcho Atanasov and Head Ass. Dr. Eng. Neven Krystev Responsible for Internet communication, website of the Bulgarian team and contemporary news, during the entire period of the project:
Head Ass. Dr. Eng. Neven Krystev, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Radostina Petrova, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng.
Kojcho Atanasov Responsible the trip round the city:
Head Ass. Dr. Eng. Neven Krystev and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Kojcho Atanasov
•     Schedule of the Workshop:
Duration of Workshop – 3 days:

  1. day: Welcoming of the participants and non-formal presentations. A short visit round the University for the participants. Meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department
  2. day: Specialized scientific discussion in the morning. A working lunch, organized by the host team. After lunch specialized discussion dedicated to: Implementation of European standards and practices, relevant to the basic topic of the entire project. An official non-formal dinner for the participants, organized by the hosts.
  3. day: Round table discussion with representatives of firms, non-profit organization, consultants, etc. A trip round the city. Bidding Good-bye to the guests.

Romanian Team:
2.   Intermediate meeting: Basic discussed topic: Effect of energy use on environment and
ecosystems.-
proposed date of the intermediate meeting-4.02.2009
•     Responsible for welcoming the participants:
Coordinator of the Romanian team: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Cotoros Diana Responsible for scientific editing of the Workshop Proceedings and Chairman of the Program Committee and of the scientific discussion:
Prof. Dr. Eng. Baritz Mihaela
Responsible for organizing discussion and Chairman of the section discussing the Implementation of European standards and practices:
Prof. Dr. Eng. Bacanu Gheorghe Responsible for inviting representatives of firms, non-profit organization, consultants and Chairman of the Round table discussion:
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Eng. Ulea Mihai Responsible for collecting the presented scientific papers, Power Point presentation, advertising materials of the firms and secretary of the Workshop:
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Eng. Teodorescu Horatiu Responsible for publishing the Workshop Proceedings and burning the CD:
Prof. Dr. Eng. Baritz Mihaela, Prof. Dr. ch. Dumitrescu Lucia Responsible for Internet communication, website of the Bulgarian team and contemporary news, during the entire period of the project:
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Eng. Cotoros Diana, Prof. Dr. Eng. Baritz Mihaela Responsible for the trip around the city:
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Eng. Ulea Mihai
•     Schedule of the Meeting:
Duration of Meeting – 3 days:
1st day: Welcoming and registration of the participants. A short visit round the University for the
participants. Meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department
2nd day: Specialized scientific discussion in the morning. A working lunch, organized by the host
team. After lunch specialized discussion dedicated to: Effect of energy use on environment and
ecosystems. An official non-formal dinner for the participants, organized by the hosts.
3rd day: Round table discussion with representatives of firms, non-profit organization, administrative
authorities, consultants, etc. Trip around the city.

Austrian Team:
3.   Final Workshop. Concomitant discussed topic: Solid waste managment - proposed date of the workshop 11.03.2009, final workshop of the project
•     Responsibilities of the organizing team:
Responsible for welcoming the participants:
Coordinator of the Austrian team: Univ. Prof. Dr. Haider Markus Responsible for scientific editing of the Workshop Proceedings and Chairman of the Program Committee and of the scientific discussion:
Univ. Prof. Dr. Haider Markus Responsible for organizing discussion and Chairman of the section discussing the Implementation of European standards and practices:
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Werner Andreas Responsible for inviting representatives of firms, non-profit organization, consultants and Chairman of the Round table discussion:
Univ. Prof. Dr. Haider Markus, Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Werner Andreas, Ass. Prof. Dr. Walter Heimo Responsible for collecting the presented scientific papers, Power Point presentation, advertising materials of the firms and secretary of the Workshop:
Ass. Prof. Dr. Walter Heimo Responsible for publishing the Workshop Proceedings and burning the CD:
Ass. Prof. Dr. Walter Heimo Responsible for Internet communication, website of the Bulgarian team and contemporary news, during the entire period of the project:
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Werner Andreas, Ass. Prof. Dr. Walter Heimo Responsible the trip round the city:
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Werner Andreas, Ass. Prof. Dr. Walter Heimo
•     Schedule of the Workshop:
Duration of Workshop – 3 days:
1 day: Reception of the representatives of the partner institutes. A short visit round the University and the laboratory of the Institute for Thermodynamics and Energy Conversion for the participants.  Meeting with the Dean of the Faculty and Head of the Department as well as a meeting with the gender representative from Vienna University of Technology to inform about special funding programs about female researchers.

  1. day: Specialized scientific discussion concerning waste management (combustion, grading, slag/ash disposal) in the morning. After working lunch discussions about possibilities for future common projects in the field of waste management and treatment. Overview about European standards (Best available technologies, BAT) concerning the topic of the workshop.
  2. day: Round table discussion with representatives from companies, public authorities, non-profit organizations and consultants about modern strategies for future structures of waste management. A technical tour to different Viennese waste treatment facilities.

 

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