BEST-Jahreskonferenz 2025

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!

Wir freuen uns, Sie zu unserer jährlichen BEST-Konferenz einzuladen.

Ort: Hotel „Das Weitzer“, Grieskai 12-14, 8020 Graz, T +43 316 703 0, hotel@weitzer.com
Zeit: 17. September 2025; 10:00 - 18:00 Uhr

Im Rahmen der Jahreskonferenz geben wir Ihnen einen Überblick über aktuelle Projektergebnisse und bieten im Rahmen von Posterpräsentationen ausreichend Raum für wissenschaftlichen Austausch und zum Netzwerken.

Wir freuen uns auf Ihr Kommen!

BEST-Team


Program (draft, still subject to modifications)

10:00 – 10:30: Arrival and registration

10:30 - 10:40

Opening

10:40 - 11:00

Sub-Area Thermochemical Technologies

 

2 years GreenCarbon Lab, key findings from feedstock testing and method developments - Michael Fahrngruber / Konstantin Moser

 

pyro4PPC - Biochar product and process control - Markus Schwarz / Manuel Schwabl

11:00 - 11:20

Sub-Area Biochemical Technologies

 

Acidification of heterogeneous waste from pulp and paper industry - Richard Pummer

 

AQUACYCLE - Reducing emissions in aquaculture through the sustainable use of run-off water and nutrients - Lisa Bauer / Emily Ruttner

11:20 - 11:50

Sub-Area Syngas Platform Technologies

 

From Waste to Value – Unlocking the Chemical Recycling Potential of Biogenic Residues and Waste Resources via DFB Gasification - Thomas Hannl

 

From Waste to Value – Why gas cleaning makes or breaks biofuels via gasification - Katharina Fürsatz

 

From Waste to Value – Development and Scaleup of Synthesis Processes for the Utilization of Renewable and Recyclable Carbon Sources - Philipp Graefe

11:50 - 12:00

Area Sustainable Supply and Value Cycles

 

From biogenic residues to advanced biofuels and green gases: A life cycle perspective on gasification pathways - Doris Matschegg

12:00 - 12:30

Presentation by Wien Energie on the topic of circular economy

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch break

 

 

13:30 - 14:00

Innovative approaches to eFuel - Richard Schauperl (AVL)

14:00 - 14:20

Sub-Area Process Analysis and Simulation

 

Char formation modelling - Thomas Steiner

 

Essential requirements for blast furnace injection reductants and biomass preparation strategies to meet these within economic constraints - Richard Deutsch

14:20 - 14:50

Sub-Area Automation and Control

 

Model-based online-estimation of product gas properties in a dual fluidized bed steam gasification plant using measurements from the coarse gas cleaning section – Michael Kolm

 

Optimization-based, predictive control of multi-energy and -resource systems – Daniel Muschick

 

Simulation-based software development, testing and commissioning – Sandra Staudt

14:50 - 15:10

Sub-Area Microgrids and Smart Energy Communities

 

Reallabor RESET - Renewable Energy Solutions for Efficiency and Transition - Christian Oberbauer

 

IMPETUS – Identifying Mobility Aspects of Daily Traffic using Citizen Science in Lower Austria - Laurin Zillner

15:10 - 15:20

Sustainable Supply and Value Cycles

 

From Research to Market - Dina Bacovsky

 

 

15:20 - 15:40

Concluding remarks

 

 

15:40 - 18:00

Poster session and networking / coffee and afternoon snack


How do I get to the venue?

Whether by plane, train or car – you can get there easily. Link: https://hotelweitzer.com/en/service/location/






Follow us on LinkedIn