18|19 june 2015
2nd International Conference on Energy and Environment:
bringing together Engineering and Economics
Choose your session
Day 1: 18th June
Day 2: 19th June
Day 1: 18th June
Session
9h45 - 11h15
A
Environmental Management and Technological Change
Employees’ perceptions about sustainability: a case study in an emerging market
Silvana Pintão, Cristina Chaves, Manuel Castelo Branco
Environmental strategies of a mining corporation
Wellington Alves, Ciliana Colombo, Claudio Ruy Portela de Vasconcelos; Paula Ferreira, Raíssa Dália Paulino
Responding to the underinvestment in environmental quality accompanying hydraulic fracturing
Terence J. Centner
The effects of different CCS technological scenarios on EU-low carbon generation mix
Paulino Martinez Fernandez; Fernando deLlano-Paz; Isabel Soares
Technological diffusion between different environmental countries
Mónica Meireles, Isabel Soares, Oscar Afonso
Are electricity ordinary and special regimes driving economic growth? The Spanish evidence
António Cardoso Marques; José Alberto Fuinhas; Sónia Almeida Neves
Optimal load management in households equipped with PV systems using genetic algorithm
Jelena Stojković, Dejan Miloševića, Darko Šošić
Sustainable development without economic growth: is it (im)possible?
Ângelo Barroso; Cristina Chaves; Francisco Vitorino Martins
A Transdisciplinary Approach for Increasing Efficiency and Environmental Performance in the Foundry Industry
Karin Tschiggerl, Stefano Coss, Milan Topic, Hubert Biedermann, Harald Raupenstrauch
Exploring patterns of the energy dimensions of the sustainable development in the European Union: A quantitative analysis
María Teresa García-Álvarez, Blanca Moreno, Isabel Soares
B
Economic Growth and Sustainability
Duality in Input-Output to Estimate the Cost of Deficit in a Production System of Electricity
Paulo Sérgio Vasconcelos; Lucio Guido Tapia Carpio
Analysing the impacts of electric vehicles in the electricity generation sectors in Europe
Cristiano Rodrigues, Mário Martins, Filipa Amorim, Patrícia Baptista, André Pina
Analysis of sources of risk and uncertainties in the electricity system
Maria João Santos; Paula Ferreira; Madalena Araújo
Markov chain modelling of household activity profiles based on user behaviour analysis: a Latvian case study.
Ilze Laicane, Aleksandrs Gehsbargs, Dagnija Blumberga, Andra Bluumberga
A user-friendly tool for electricity systems analysis
Sérgio Pereira, Paula Ferreira, A. Ismael F. Vaz
C
Energy Modelling
D
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
Cable transportation as a means of energy and environment transition in PARIS: A socio-economic assessment via COBAYE
Satya-Lekh Proag; Jonathan Bainee
Location decision of wind farms: Which environmental impacts most significantly affect general population welfare - A discrete choice experiment
Anabela Botelho, Lina Lourenço-Gomes, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Patrícia Sousa, Sara Sousa, Marieta Valente
Informal settlements as Socio-Ecological Systems: The metabolic pattern of the Vidigal slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Raul F. C. Miranda, Victoria E. N. Santos, Mario Giampietro
Assessing environmental impacts of dams in Portugal: an application of choice experiments
Anabela Botelho, Lina Lourenço-Gomes, Lígia Pinto, Patrícia Sousa, Sara Sousa, Marieta Valente
Genetically Modified food: An exploratory study on public perceptions and economic valuation
Marieta Valente, Cristina Chaves, Sara Costa
Session
14h30 - 16h00
Towards Sustainability in Brazilian Ethanol Production: Bagasse-derived ethanol
S. Palma-Rojas
Analysis to the energy sector in national plans to climate change: Portugal and Spain
Ana Matos
Future projections of offshore wind energy potentials in Portugal simulated by the COSMO-CLM regional model
Margarida L. R. Liberato, João A. Santos, Carolina Fernandes, Joaquim G. Pinto
Application of a recently developed geotechnical carbon calculator
Sara Rios; Nuno Cristelo; António Viana da Fonseca; Ivo Rosa; Catarina Ramos
Methodology for hubs placement analysis and an application to Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil
Isabella Vaz Leal da Costa, Alexandre Szklo and Roberto Schaeffer
E
Climate Change
Zero energy buildings review
Esperanza Mahecha, André Lucena, Alexandre Szklo, Jorge Cunha, Manuel Lopes Nunes
Electricity and natural gas prices impact in industrial energy intensity for the EU-28
Guillermo Ivan Pereira; Patrícia Pereira da Silva
Welfare impacts of cap and floor regulation on electricity markets
Joana Pinho, Joana Resende, Isabel Soares
Is a tax at the pump a good idea? Policy lessons from asymmetric responses to gasoline prices and taxes in Spain
Raúl Bajo-Buenestado
Improving buildings energy performance - Comparison between simple payback period and life cycle costs analysis
Marco Ferreira; Manuela Almeida; Ana Rodrigues
F
Energy Markets and Efficiency
Demand response on isolated island with solar forecast
Diana Neves; Miguel C. Brito; Carlos A. Silva
The economic impact of improving infrastructure resilience
Virendra Proag; Satya-Lekh Proag
A novel Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) for high temperature applications
Angad Panesar, Morgan Heikal, Marco Marengo, Nicolas Miché
Net Energy Analysis of Oil and Natural Gas production in Brazil – using the MuSIASEM approach
Amanda Aragão, Mario Giampietro
Integrated Energy Return on Investment calculation model. Case study of Oil Shale derived Motor Fuel production industry
Julija Gusca; Meelis Eldermann; Andres Siirde
G
Energy Systems Analysis
Energy use of greenhouse waste materials by methane fermentation
Janczak D., Dach J., Czekała W., Przybył J., Lewicki A., Bugała A., Boniecki P., Zaborowicz M., Rodríguez Carmona P.C.
Integrated solid waste management landfill LARA looking for energy recovery
Alcântara, K. D. S., Antonio, G. C.
Effects of different binding materials on the properties of biofuel pellets produced from MDF and pine wood sawdust waste
Faruk KÖSE, Mehmet Numan KAYA, Muharrem Hilmi Aksoy, Ali Tüplek
Use of swine manure to generate renewable energy in brazil: a financial feasibility analysis.
Anderson Catapan; Isabel Soares; Edilson Antonio Catapan; Maria Lúcia Meza
Use of MDF (medium density fiberboard) waste structured in PVC (polyvinyl chloride) matrix for the production of a new composite
Fabiano André Trein, Alexandre Silva de Vargas, Marco Antônio Siqueira Rodrigues
H
Waste Management
16h15 - 17h30
Session
Wind, hydropower and solar photovoltaic: Do people have preferences over them? A discrete choice experiment
Anabela Botelho, Lina Lourenço-Gomes, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Patrícia Sousa, Sara Sousa, Marieta Valente
Characterizing extreme drought events in Portugal on different timescales – Contribution for an optimum energy management
Margarida L. R. Liberato, Irene Montero and Célia Gouveia
A cross-country assessment of energy and CO2 emissions: An index decomposition approach
Fátima Lima, Manuel Lopes Nunes, Jorge Cunha, André Lucena
Overview on energy trends and cogeneration potential in Europe
Ana C. Ferreira, Manuel L. Nunes, Senhorinha F. Teixeira, Luís B. Martins, José C. Teixeira, Silvia A. Nebra
I
Energy and Environmental Policy
Energy and environmental rating methodology for light-duty vehicles: Portuguese context
Sara Marques, João L. Afonso, Carla Silva
Exploring the nexus between water and energy in Brazil with a focus on the quantitative analysis of electricity production
Eveline Vásquez Arroyo , Cristina Madrid Lopez, François Diaz-Maurin, Mario Giampietro
Multiplicative vs arithmetic stochastic processes: Real Options Analysis based on the case of an energy project
Piotr W. Saługa, Krzysztof Zamasz, Jacek Kamiński
Performance and economic analysis of concentrated solar power plants in Libya
Ismael A.S. Ehtiwesh; Fernando José Neto da Silva; Antonio C.M. Sousa
J
Energy and Environmental Projects Analysis
Overlooked impacts of power generation: The life cycle side of the story
Joana Portugal Pereira; Alexandre Koberle; André Lucena; Alexandre Szklo; Roberto Schaefer
Economic and environmental viability of beef production in different feed management systems in the PAMPA BIOME, southern BRAZIL
Clandio Ruviaro, Jaqueline Costa, Whanderson Rodrigues, Thiago Florindo,1 Giovanna Medeiros, Paulo Vasconcelos
Estimation of carbon storage in harvested wood products in the next 200 years: A sensitivity analysis of different life cycle scenarios
Anindita Bhattacharyya, Anasua Sarkar, Pankaj Kumar Roy, Asis Mazumdar
K
Life Cycle Analysis
Day 2: 19th June
Session
9h00 - 10h30
Conditions for the development of Anaerobic Digestion technologies using the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste. Perspectives for Poland
Oniszk-Popławska A.; Rolewicz-Kalińska A; Wesołowska J; Ryńska E. D
Neural modelling of temperature distribution in the stone heat energy accumulator
Boniecki P., Zaborowicz M., Miller W., Dach J., Lewicki A., Czekała W., Janczak D.
The Role of Rare Earths Supply Risk in Low Carbon Technologies Innovation
Eva Barteková
Metals emissions from a diesel/biodiesel engine
Luiz Diego Silva Rocha e Sergio Machado Corrêa
Operational possibilities of a biogas plant at the brewery under polish conditions
Wojciech Czekała, Dach Jacek, Czekała Jacek
L
Energy Technology
A Review of Approaches to the Coordinated Control of Residential Demand Side Resources
Trevor Sweetnam, Catalina Spataru, Mark Barrett
Welfare implications of capacity markets in the electricity sector
Raúl Bajo-Buenestado
Measuring competition and market power of the Iberian Electricity Market using concentration and market power estimators
Sérgio França, Tiago Andrade
The Impact of Regulation on Investments and Costs of Natural Gas Distributors in Portugal
Ana Rita Relvas; Paula Sarmento
Switching Response to Power Prices: Evidence from German Households
Manuel Frondel; Gerhard Kussel
M
Energy Markets
Key obstacles to wind energy development: A study with the top 10 countries in new installed capacity
Jamil Diógenes; Diogo Martins; António Vieira; Fernanda Pereira Queiroz; Jamerson Viegas Queiroz
Hybridizing Renewable Energy Systems in Nigeria: Will they be sustainable?
Israel Dunmade
Mapping of the global wind energy potential using open source GIS data
Stefano Grassi, Fabio Veronesi, Roland Schenkel, Christian Peier, Jonatan Neukom, Stephan Volkwein,Martin Raubal, Lorenz Hurni
Multifunctional Converter to Interface Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicles with the Power Grid in Smart Grids Context
Vítor Monteiro, J. G. Pinto, Bruno Exposto, Delfim Pedrosa, João L. Afonso
Energetic balance of mesophilic and thermophilic sewage sludge fermentation with addition of different co-substrates
Pablo Carmona, Jacek Dach, Piotr Boniecki, Damian Janczak, Wojciech Czekała, Andrzej Lewicki
N
Renewables Energies
Session
11h00 - 12h30
Valuing Preferences towards the Environmental Impacts of Forest Biomass Power Plants in Portugal: A Choice Experiment Approach
Anabela Botelho, Lina Lourenço-Gomes, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Patrícia Sousa, Sara Sousa, Marieta Valente
Urban energy sustainability & building typology in European historical city centres
Diana Apró, Ida Kiss, Stefáni Radnai, Viktória Sugár, Attila Talamon, András Reith
Valuing Photovoltaic Environmental Impacts on Economic Welfare: A Discrete Choice Experiment Approach
Anabela Botelho, Lina Lourenço-Gomes, Lígia M. Costa Pinto, Patrícia Sousa, Sara Sousa, Marieta Valente
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance of Brazilian companies in the energy sector
Denison Murilo de Oliveira, Carlos Alano Soares de Almeida, Wesley Vieira da Silva, Leonardo Andrade Rocha, Ubiratã Tortato
Adaptation to Climate Change - Evidence from German Households
Gerhard Kussel
O
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
New materials and products from synthetic textile waste: Proposal of a model for a design-oriented R&D process
Cláudio Pereira de Sampaio, Suzana Barreto Martins, Rita Assoreira Almendra, Fernando José Carneiro Moreira da Silva
Determinants of municipal solid waste management in Portugal
Ana Mota Freitas, Francisco Vitorino Martins, Elizabeth Real de Oliveira
Sack collection of recyclable municipal waste: less distance, more separation?
Michal Struk
Energetic and economic efficiency of maize straw silage in mesophilic and thermophilic methane fermentation
Marta Cieślik, Jacek Dach, Piotr Boniecki, Damian Janczak, Wojciech Czekała, Andrzej Lewicki, Pablo Cesar Rodríguez Carmona, Joanna Pawlicka
Emulsification of waste cooking oils and fatty acid distillates as diesel engine fuel
Eliezer Ahmed Melo-Espinosa, Ramón Piloto-Rodríguez, Leonardo Goyos-Pérez, Sebastian Verhelst
P
Waste Management
The Environmental Kuznets Curve in Bulgaria
Georgi Kalchev
Addressing 2030 EU Policy framework for Energy and Climate: Cost, risk and energy security issues
Fernando deLlano-Paz; Paulino Martinez Fernandez; Isabel Soares
Identification and Valuation of Economic Externalities in Electricity generation: the Brazilian case
Rodrigo Pimentel, Paula Ferreira, Lígia Pinto
Effectiveness of Dutch Energy Policy in 2007-2012
Bert Hof, Viktória Kocsis
Energy intensity and environmental performance in the gulf cooperation council region: a heterogeneous panel approach
Amany A. El Anshasy
Q
Energy and Environmental Policy
14h30 - 16h00
Session
Experimental features of a direct helical-coil evaporator for an micro-cogeneration organic rankine cycle based system
João Pereira, Jorge André, Ricardo Mendes, Eduardo Costa and José Baranda
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in diesel emission, diesel fuel and lubricant oil
Carolina Vieira de Souza and Sergio Machado Corrêa
Application of an open modelling architecture for micro-CHP systems based on rankine technology
Márcio Santos Jorge André, Sara Francisco and José M. Baranda
The energetic efficiency of solid fraction of digestate pulp from biogas plant in production of solid and gaseous biofuels - a case study of 1 MWel biogas plant in Poland
Wojciech Czekała, Dach Jacek, Boniecki Piotr, Janczak Damian, Rodriguez Carmona P. C. , Waliszewska Hanna
Photovoltaic solar energy in Brazil and the contribution of Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN)
Augusto Wanderley and João L. Afonso
R
Energy Technology
On the future development of electricity markets: sustainable competition or frozen planned economies?
Reinhard Haas, Hans Auer
Determinants and development of electricity consumption of German households over time
Dragana Nikodinoska
Calculation of Available Transfer Capability Using Black Hole Algorithm
Darko Šošić, Ivan Škokljev
Electricity price determinants and varying sample sizes: Evidence from EU-27
Gyanendra Singh Sisodia, Isabel Soares, Paula Ferreira, Sanjay Banerji
It is windy in Denmark: does market integration suffer?
Nuno Carvalho Figueiredo, Patrícia Pereira da Silva, Pedro Cerqueira
S
Energy Markets
Evaluating the use of open data to estimate the global solar energy potential
Fabio Veronesi, Stefano Grassi, Roland Schenkel, Athina Korfiati, Charalampos Gkonos, Ariadni Gaki, Stephan Volkwein, Martin Raubal, Lorenz Hurni
The Impact of Poor Power Quality in Solar Photovoltaic Microgeneration: Technical Problems and Losses of Revenue
Bruno Exposto, J. G. Pinto, Vítor Monteiro, Delfim Pedrosa, João L. Afonso
Methane fermentation as a way of managing t waste from the grain coffee production
Pablo César Rodríguez Carmona, Mazur R., Czekała W., Janczak D., Lewicki A. Dach J.
Knowledge and social acceptance of renewable energy in the Brazilian energy matrix: the case of an academic institution
Lunardo Alves de Sena; Paula Ferreira; Manoel Raimundo de Sena; José Henrique de Souza
Solar Photovoltaic investments and Economic Growth in EU: Are we able to evaluate the nexus?
Teresa Grijó; Isabel Soares
T
Renewable Energies
An example to being researched of urban transformation in sustainability context in turkey Eskisehir Karapinar urban transformation and prevention of squatter project
Gamze ŞENSOY; Güler KOCA
Forest activity in Portugal in the context of the European Union: A cluster in the agricultural economics for the sustainable development
Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho
Cost of water distribution in Mauritius and Rodrigues
Virendra PROAG
Surf and environmental preservation - a contribution for the sustainable development of the Portuguese coastline?
Pedro Ramos, Nuno Formigo, Cristina Chaves
Workers’ Awareness and Risk Management Effectiveness in Integrated Management Systems: Lessons from a case study in an intermunicipal waste company
Delfina Ramos, Paulo Afonso, Ana Costa, Gilberto Santos
U
Sustainable Development
16h15 - 17h30
Session
Study of novel oxide materials for Fuel Cells application
T. Petkova, O. Koleva, D. Kochnitcharova, E. Lefterova, M. Shipochka, P.Petkov
Energetic aspects of food waste used as alternative substrates for biogas plant
Lewicki A. , Dach J. , Czekała W. , Janczak D., Cyplik P. , Rodríguez Carmona P.C.
Mathematical modelling of solar radiation for photovoltaics conversion
Artur Bugała, Grażyna Frydrychowicz – Jastrzębska, Damian Janczak, Wojciech Czekała, Jacek Dach, Maciej Zaborowicz
World state ranking for wind energy and photovoltaics
Stephan Volkwein, Fabio Veronesi, Stefano Grassi, Roland Schenkel, Ariadni Gaki, Charalampos Gkonos, Athina Korfiati, Martin Raubal, Lorenz Hurni
Optimization of two dimensional interdigitated lithium ion batteries by computer simulations
Daniel Miranda
V
Renewable Energies
Dissemination of electric cars in urban areas: major factors for success
Amela Ajanovic, Reinhard Haas
Analyzing the Benefits of Electric Buses Regarding GHG Emissions
Deborah Perrotta, Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti, João Luiz Afonso
Using Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries for the Electricity Storage towards the Electric Vehicles Fast Charging
Álvaro Cunha, Jorge Martins, Nuno Rodrigues, Vitor Monteiro, João Luiz Afonso and F. P. Brito
Does the investment in an electric car pay-off?
José Fontainhas; Jorge Cunha; Paula Ferreira
W
Sustainable Mobility Solutions