Programme

Day 1: 9 December 2003
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Opening Session
Round table presentation of attendees
Presentation of the JRC-Institute for Energy activities relevant to
the meeting theme
15:15 Presentations from participating experts
15:15 Ivan Ivanov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Some existing and state-of-the–art R&D activities in biofuels production from waste and biomass in Bulgaria
16:00 Gabriel Laslu & Nicolae Sdrula, AIM SRL, Romania New Device for biomass fast pyrolysis and gas cleaning
16:45 Peter Horbaj, Technical University, Košice, Slovak Republic The present state of preparation of bio-fuels from waste and biomass in the Slovak Republic
17:30 Robert Edwards, EC-JRC-IES What's important in well-to-wheels biofuels studies
17:50 Discussions on presentations
18:30 End of day 1

Day 2: 10 December 2003
09:00 Presentations from participating experts
09:00 Tansel Şener, TÜBİTAK MRC, Gebze İZMİT, Turkey Biofuel production from waste and biomass and associated research projects in Turkey
09:45 Kornel Kovacs, University of Szeged, Hungary Microbiological intensification of biogas production
10:30 Pause
10:45 Iosif Tripsa & Rodica Buzdugan, Association of Biofuels into Romania Energy cycle analysis of biomass co-gasification technology for fuels
11:30 Stanko Hočevar, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia PEMFC-grade hydrogen production from waste and biomass
12:15 Mary Grace Micallef, Wasteserv Malta Ltd., Malta Waste Management in Malta
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Round table discussion and conclusion session
15:00 End of the workshop