Energy and Sustainability 2015

6th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability

2 - 4 September, 2015

Medellin, Colombia

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

Overview

The 6th International conference on Energy and Sustainability will be reconvened at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin. The University is named in honour of the South American Liberator Simon Bolivar.

The meeting follows the success of previous conferences started in the New Forest, UK, home of the Wessex Institute (2007); followed by a second in Bologna (2009); the third in Alicante (2011); the fourth in Budapest (2013) and the fifth in Kuala Lumpur (2014).

The choice of Medellin responded to existing contacts between the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and the Wessex Institute, and the dynamism and rapid growth of research in Colombia. A significant part of that research focuses on energy matters and the need to respond to the modern world’s dependency on conventional fuels. The world economy is fuelled by energy. Resources depletion and severe environmental effect resulting from the continuous use of fossil fuels has motivated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources and the search for sustainable energy policies.

The changes required to progress from an economy mainly focused on hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable energy resources require considerable scientific research as well as new engineering systems. Energy policies and management are of primary importance to achieve the development of sustainability and need to be consistent with recent advances in energy production and distribution.

In many cases, the challenges lie as much in the conversion from renewable energies (wind, solar, etc) to useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) at an acceptable cost (including damage to the environment), as in the integration of those resources into an existing infrastructure.

The conference will also discuss the energy use of industrial processes and focus in particular in the imbedded energy of materials, including those used in the built environment.

The diverse topics covered by the conference involve collaboration between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions, including materials, energy networks, new energy resources, storage solutions, waste to energy systems, smart grids and many others.

Conference Topics

• Sustainable energy production
• Energy in the built environment
• Energy production
• Energy networks
• Smart grids and metering
• Energy storage
• Energy policies
• Shale oil and gas
• Oil sands processes
• CO2 capturing and management
• Energy management
• Imbedded energy in manufacturing
• Energy and transportation
• Energy efficiency
• Renewable energy resources
• Biomass and biofuels
• Waste to energy
• The future of nuclear energy
• Environmental risk
• Greener power plant technologies
• Optimization of conventional energy resources
• Advances in energy production
• Case studies

Webpage

View the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/15-conferences/energy-and-sustainability-2015.html