International Conference of SZE 2024

Grand Hotel Bernardin, Portorož, Slovenia
from 2 to 4 June 2024

Sunday, 2 June 2024

15.30-18.00 Setting up of exhibition booths
17.00-18.00 SEA general assembly
19.00-22.00 Reception: on the hill near the church of St. Jurij in Piran,  Ulica IX. korpusa 25, Piran 

Monday, 3 June 2024

09.00-10.00    Registration
10.00-10.20    Opening of the conference and welcome address

  • Bogdan Kronovšek, Director,Kronoterm
  • Alojz Poredoš, President, Slovenian Energy Association
  • Tina Seršen, State secretary, Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Energy


10.20-11.00    Plenary lectures

  • Alessia Del Vasto, European Heat Pump Association (EHPA)
    Heat pumps as protagonist of the EU Green Transition: what’s the state of the art?
  • David Batič, Energy Agency RS
    A new network fee billing methodology for an efficient and fair green transition


11.00-11.15    Coffee break

11.15-11.35     Presentation of the golden sponsors

11.35-13.00    Panel discussion Theme: Response of energy solutions to climate change
Moderators: Dejan Koletnik and Suzana Guček
Participants:

  • Duška Godina, Energy Agency RS
  • Marjan Eberlinc, Plinovodi
  • Iztok Gornjak, Borzen
  • Bogdan Kronovšek, Kronoterm
  • Uroš Salobir, ELES

13.00-14.00    Lunch

14.00-16.00    Parallel sessions

Section A1: Heat pumps and modern system solutions
Moderator: Dean Besednjak

  1. Benjamin Černoša,  Eva Lina Nava, Andrej Ljubenko: Addressing heating and cooling demands with large-scale heat pumps; Siemens Energy, Slovenia
  2. Franc Marovt: Shifting electrical power consumtion with heat pumps and heat storage; Kronoterm, Slovenia
  3. Aleksandar Jovanoski1, Tomislav Ćutić2: Enhancing energy efficiency in HVAC systems – air handling units with integrated heat pumps; 1PRO-KLIMA, Croatia, 2WOLF, Germany
  4. Daniel Large, Luka Rednak: Mobile energy plant with heat pumps, Solaris Energy, England, Kronoterm, Slovenia
  5. Uroš Orehek1, Domenico Mazzetti2: Air removal from user side hydraulic circuit with heat pump using high-efficiency deaerator (HED®);  1Caleffi Hidrotermika, Slovenia, 2Caleffi, Italy

Section B1: District heating and cooling
Moderator: Petar Vasiljević

  1. Amer Karabegović: THE PERFECT RETURN – Heat network return temperature The main pillar of the utilization of surplus electricity, waste heat and RES; Danfoss, Slovenia
  2. Oddgeir Gudmundsson: Comfort cooling module for low temperature district heating systems; Danfoss, Denmark
  3. Gregor Cvet: Energy renovation of multi-apartment buildings as a potential to lower the temperature regime of district heating of the Šaleška valley; Komunalno podjetje Velenje, Slovenia
  4. Tatjana Nušić, Dubravka Jovančić: Challenges of preparation and implementation of requests for the reconstruction of control systems in the district heating system of Belgrade du; DH “Beogradske elektrane“, Serbia
  5. Blaž Krajnc1, Gregor Makovec2, Alen Kolman2, Matija Meden2: Diversification of the district heating system – implementation of a heat pump powered by the Drava river; 1Energo plus d.o.o., 2Energetika Maribor d.o.o., Slovenia
  6. Dejan Jovišević1, Amer Karabegović2: Optimization of OPEX as a driver for CAPEX in DHS; Eko toplane Banja Luka, BiH, 2Danfoss, Slovenia

16.00-16.30    Coffee break


16.30-18.30    Parallel sessions

Section A2: Heating, cooling, ventilation
Moderator: Gregor Jeglič

  1. Gregor Jeglič: Efficient ensuring of indoor air quality; Bossplast, Slovenia
  2. Alexander Feichter: Electrostatic air filtration; EUROCLIMA, Italy
  3. Santos Bendicho: How to use carpark ventilation for daily ventilation while saving energy consumption; Sodeca, Spain
  4. Ljupka Vrteva1, Uroš Stritih2: A computer program for predicting the required heat for air reheating in a mechanical ventilation system; Petrol, University of Lljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Ingeneering,  Slovenia
  5. Oleh Bondarenko: Influence of system effects on axial fan efficiency; Ruck, Germany
  6. Babič, N. Petković, M. Radoš, S. Cvirn: Reducing the strain on the electricity grid with IR heating; Ekosen, Slovenia

Section B2: Gases and hydrogen, digitization, energy regulation
Moderator: Dejan Koletnik

  1. Marko Ileršič: European hydrogen backbone – from planning to implementation; Plinovodi, Slovenia
  2. Marko Kogovšek: Carrying out interventions in the space near the gas pipeline systems – prevention and elimination of damage; Plinovodi, Slovenia
  3. Oton Gortnar: Operation of the gas transmission system in changed conditions; Plinovodi, Slovenia
  4. Tadej Fajfar: Compensation of heat distributors from district heating systems and regulation of the heat price; Energy Agency, Slovenia
  5. Roman Truden: Digitalization of energy systems – district heating; GIA-S, SAMSON, Slovenia
  6. Jan Skomina: Smart pressure independent control as enabler for energy source efficiency; Danfoss Trata, Slovenia


20.00-24.00    Gala dinner

Tuesday 4 June 2024

10.00-12.00    Parallel sessions

Section A3: Renewable resources, green transition
Moderator: Franc Žlahtič

  1. Lars Gullev: Increasing efficiency of existing biomass fired CHP in Koege; VEKS, Denmark
  2. Petar Vasiljević: Fast,intelligent and profitable green conversion of the CITY – Phase III,  KGH Društvo, Serbia
  3. Primož Poredoš1, He Shan2, Ruzhu Wang2, Eva Zavrl1, Tej Žižak1, Sašo Medved1, Ciril Arkar1: Outer space as a source of renewable cooling energy; Laboratory for Sustainable Technologies in Buildings, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  4. Drago Pavlič, Boštjan Meža: Inspection and maintenance of photovoltaic systems according to regulations and standards in Slovenia; ESOTECH, Slovenia
  5. Domen Hojkar, Rok Stropnik, Mitja Mori: Minimising the environmental impact of electricity consumption through a dynamic model of the carbon footprint; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia
  6. Rok Stropnik, Jure Gramc, Mitja Mori: Economic potential of PT recycling as EU critical raw material from proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack for recycling industry; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia

Section B3: Heat pumps, Heating, cooling and ventilation
Moderator: Franc Marovt

  1. Matjaž Ramšak, Jure Ravnik, Matjaž Hriberšek: Open source computational fluid dynamics for engineering simulations in HVAC; University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia
  2. Luka Rednak, Dean Besednjak: Utilising surface water heat for heating of buidings; Kronoterm, Slovenia
  3. David Krevs: Air heating and cooling (AHC) in nearly zero energy buildings (NZEB); Remty-R, Slovenia
  4. Janez Kovač Myint: Determining the costs of investment, operation and maintenance of modular air conditioners EVENTO, Slovenia
  5. Nejc Kosednar, Franc Marovt: Heat pumps and noise; Kronoterm, Slovenia


12.00-12.30    Coffee break


12.30-14.30    Sessions

Section A4: Energy efficiency, LCA
Moderator: Primož Poredoš

  1. Jure Gramc, Franci Pušavec, Mitja Mori: The importance of the LCA modelling approach in the manufacturing phase of PEM fuel cells; University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovenia
  2. Jelena Topić Božič1,2, Simon Muhič1,2,3: Use of life cycle assessment (LCA) for environmental impact assessment of energy system decarbonization; 1Rudolfovo – Science and Technology Centre Novo mesto, 2Faculty of Industrial engineering Novo mesto, 2INOVEKS, d.o.o., Slovenia
  3. Katja Klinar1, Marko Keber1, Tine Seljak1, Janez Ramšak2, Gregor Cvet2, Miha Bobič3, Andrej Kitanovski1: Analysing the influence of stable and lower consumer return temperature on heat losses in an isolated branch of a district heating system; 1Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, 2Komunalno podjetje Velenje, 3Danfoss Trata, Slovenia
  4. Rok Stropnik, Domen Hojkar, Mihael Sekavčnik, Mitja Mori: Environmental life cycle assessment of air source heat pump and condensing gas boilerfor singlefamily households; Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  5. Bor Levičnik1, Žiga Debevec1, Andrej Papež2, Mirko Smolič2 waste heat recovery from cleaning plant for the hot water production with a water-water heat PUMP; 1Valmor, 2Ensi, Slovenia
  6. Luigi Rossettini; Key factors to design heat pumps and multipurpose systems; Aermec, Italy

14.30-15.00    Conference closing