Track D: Research & Innovation for Environment and Climate Change

Nanotechnologies and innovative materials have a lot of potential in terms of reducing emissions, reducing material consumption, energy consumption and increasing the recycling of materials, renewable energy etc. European manufacturers are furthermore taking up the challenge of designing and deploying sustainable production systems that have a minimal unfriendly effect on environment and society. Sustainability is now at the centre of industrial R&D. Environmental challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity are the source of both constraints and opportunities for technological development.

Session D.1: Towards Environmentally Sustainable Production

Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 11:30 – 13:00 

To preserve our environment and our scarce natural resources we need to increase the sustainability of industrial production.

In this session, the following questions will be addressed :

What are the latest research trends from coal and steel production, and the use of renewable resources and industrial water management ? 

What is the state of the art in industrial technologies to reduce environmental emissions ?

How can renewable resources improve sustainability of industrial production, while keeping pollution and energy use to a minimum?

How can production plants be integrated to maximise energy efficiency while reducing the overall waste? What are the technological bottlenecks to overcome ?

Is a goal of zero pollution realistic even with a long term vision?

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Speakers

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All slides - Session D14.04 MB
Slides - Martina Bianchini200.51 KB
Slides - Niels Peter Christensen835.91 KB
Slides - Bertrand de Lamberterie490.19 KB
Slides - Charles Nielsen3.05 MB

Session D.2: Sustainable resources for a green and more competitive economy

Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 15:45 – 17:15  

Reflecting the new European 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth (COM(2010) 2020) and the EC Raw Materials Initiative (COM(2008) 699) the session should target innovative technological solutions for reducing Europe's dependency on foreign sources of raw materials and commodities, including solutions for more resource efficient economy giving Europe a competitive advantage.

Questions:

- What are the challenges related to raw materials resources for Europe?
- How to decouple the economic growth from the use of resources
- Which are the strategies to secure access of the EU industries to the necessary raw materials?
- Where research and innovation is the right tool to implement those strategies?
- R&D success stories resulting in more efficient use of and securing the access to raw materials resources for Europe

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Speakers

  • Derk Bol, Program Manager, Materials innovation institute M2i (Netherlands)
  • Henryk Karas , advisor of KGHM Management Board on R&D and European Cooperation and Chairman of the European Technology Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources (Poland)
  • Göran Bäckblom, Chairman of Steering Committe,  ETP Sustainable Mineral Resources (Sweden)
  • Michael Heine, SGL Carbon Group and EuMaT ETP on "Advanced materials and technologies - a key element for green and competitive economy"
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All Slides - Session D22.74 MB
Slides - Abraao Carvalho184.32 KB
Slides - Goran Backblom1.25 MB
Slides - Michael Heine863.16 KB
Slides - Derk Bol1009.81 KB

Session D.3: Life cycle approach and eco-design of products

Tuesday September 7th, 2010: 17:45 – 19:15

The focus is on the application of an integrated preventive environmental strategy to processes and products to increase the overall efficiency by conservation of resources and energy, and progress towards the elimination of emissions and wastes by point source treatment and recycling. 

- Can a life cycle approach help to avoid risks?

- How to measure eco-efficiency of a product?

- Where to find the best performing set of materials?

- Does eco-design always mean design for an easier dismantling in view of recovery and reuse at the end of life ?

- Is Eco-design compatible with higher quality in low-cost production?

- "Made in the EU" : what does it mean?

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Speakers

  • Arnold Tukker, TNO Build Environment and Geosciences (The Netherlands)
  • Ramani Narayan, Michigan State University in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (USA)
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All Slides - Session D31.49 MB
Slides - Martin Charter253.04 KB
Slides - Daniel Brissaud284.65 KB
Slides - Arnold Tukker730.17 KB
Slides - Prof Narayan555.05 KB

Session D.4: Energy-efficient production

Wednesday September 8th, 2010: 11:30 – 13:00

Making the production process more energy efficient is a challenge which the European industry takes seriously. An energy-efficient production not only reduces environmental impacts but can also lead to considerable cost savings and to competitive advantages. In this session, strategies, methodologies and technologies are introduced from an applied academic angle and they are illustrated with showcase examples from energy intensive industries. The first example outlines how a substantial increase in energy efficiency can be achieved in new ecological melting furnaces. The second example shows how changing paper manufacturing concepts could lead to significant reductions in wood-fibre raw material and energy use without compromising the quality of the end product. Finally, the benefits of new nanomaterals and nanotechnologies in the production of cheap sources of green energy are presented.

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Speakers

  • Ane Irazustabarrena, Programmes Department INASMET-TECNALIA (Spain)
  • Daniel Söderberg, Deputy Director Innventia (Sweden) on ' BoostEff – Boosting raw material and energy efficiency in papermaking using advanced sheet structure design and fibre modifications'
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All Slides - Session D42.95 MB
Slides - Prof Rahimifard547.57 KB
Slides - Ane Irasustabarrena1.12 MB
Slides - Daniel Soderberg332.07 KB
Slides - L Federzoni.pdf1.44 MB