Seminário Científico sobre Energias Renováveis

Seminar Program

Morning Session: Solar Energy

9:00 Khamid Mahkamov, Northumbria University, United Kingdom; “The Crux project and Northumbria EU Project on Micro  Solar Thermal Plant”

9:20 Electo Eduardo Silva Lora, UNIFEI, Brazil: “20 years of NEST: A long and widing road”

9:40 Ivan David Serna Suarez, Universidad de Santander – UDES, Colombia: “Research at UDES – a quick overview”.

10:00 Vladimir Melian Cobas, UNIFEI, Brazil: “Tests and Modeling of a 1-kWe Solar Dish installation”

10:20 Luca Cioccolanti: “Development of small-scale Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plant”

10:40 Coffee Break

11:00 Maria Isabel Fernandez Parra, Universidad de Oriente, Cuba: “The chaos theory utilization for the design of solar energy generation systems”

11:20 Josue Imbert Gonzalez, Universidad de Oriente – UO, Cuba: “The Cuban experience in solar refrigeration and climatization using absorption systems”.

Evening Session: “Biomass, residues and biorefineries”

14:00 Jose Carlos Escobar Palacio, UNIFEI, Brazil: “Biorefineries products optimization”.

14:20 Vyacheslav Kafarov, Universidad Industrial de Santander – UIS, Colombia: “Ways to achieve sustainability of biorefineries”.

14:40 Juan Jose Hernandez Adrover, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain: “Potential of gas from biomass gasification to be used in dual fuel diesel engines”.

15:00 Rene Lesme Jaen: “An environmental assessment of the maize crop residues (corncobs) and energy utilization: a case study of the Equator provinces of Los Ríos and Guayas”.

15:20 Deny Oliva Merencio, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana Jose Antonio Echeverria – CUJAE: “Energy utilization of residues as a mandatory element of sustainability”.

15:40 Jorge Luis Chacon Velazco, Universidad Industrial de Santander – UIS, Colombia: “Using biogas for energy generation in rural areas in Colombia: The preliminary results”.

16:00 Final remarks