Calendar 2010

The wind energy technologies can provide sources of unlimited, cheap and clean energy to the people in developing countries. Especially, communities in remote and dry regions, which do not have easy access to the hydro power, and can not afford the installation of long transmission lines or using solar photovoltaic power, could benefit from the wider use of wind energy.
The Workshop will bring together specialists in the area of small scale wind energiy from different countries, to discuss the application of wind energy technologies, reliability of wind turbines, strength of used materials, case studies and perspectives of application of wind energy in developing countries.
This Workshop is the follow- up to the international workshops on Natural and Low–Cost Materials in Wind Energy Technologies (Dhulikhel, Nepal, November 10-12, 2008), and on Small Scale Wind Energy for Developing Countries (Nairobi, Kenya, September 14-16, 2009).

Bent F. Sørensen, Afdelingen for Materialeforskning, forsvarer sin doktordisputats med titlen "Cohesive laws for assessment of materials failure: Theory, experimental methods and application" Forsvaret foregår på DTU, Bygning 101A, mødelokale 1, 2800 Lyngby.

The Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy offers a technical course in offshore wind energy.

The third annual summit on OPV stability, ISOS-3, will be held in Denmark and will comprise a 2 day experimental roll-to-roll manufacturing OPV workshop (limited number of attendants), 1 day scientific conference with poster session and the 2 day summit with scientific discussions and scientific talks of the latest developments within OPV stability. Read more.

The Meteorology Programme at Risø DTU offers courses in the use of the WAsP Engineering software and site assessment.
The standard WAsP Engineering course: Extreme wind, turbulence, wind shear, and flow inclination are important for turbine safety. This course demonstrates how to evaluate such wind conditions by WAsP Engineering.

The certification scheme applies to WAsP users. A WAsP certificate assures that the holder has reached a certain level in using WAsP.

Risø DTU is 13 - 15 September 2010 hosting the first annual meeting of the EU supported research project CARBO-Extreme. About 60 researchers from EU, USA and Switzerland will meet at Risø DTU to discuss their latest findings on how strongly extreme weather events affects the European CO2 balance. New evidence suggests that extreme weather influences the atmospheres CO2 balance dramatically, which in turn may exacerbate climate change.

The present day sees a global effort to develop new and advanced materials. As an integral part of this endeavor a range of new characterization techniques are becoming available, which have led to significant breakthroughs in materials science and engineering. Within this broad scientific field this Risø symposium will focus on metallic materials and on 3D and 4D characterization techniques using x-rays, neutrons and electrons. These techniques now allow characterization on a finer and finer scale and open up the analysis of dynamic behavior by real time in-situ investigations. This means that techniques are now available by which key challenges in materials science can be addressed. Such problems are for example evolution in structure and properties under: mechanical loading, thermal annealing, phase transformations and fracture/damage.

The international standards for radiation sterilization are published as EN ISO 11137, Sterilization of health care products

Part 1:2006: Requirements for development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices.
Part 2:2007: Establishing the sterilization dose
Part 3:2006: Guidance on dosimetric aspects
By following the requirements described in EN ISO 11137-1:2006 compliance with the essential requirements of the EU Directive for Medical Devices (93/42/EEC and amended 2007/47/EC) are presumed. This is one of the requirements for obtaining CE-marking of sterile medical devices that are marketed within the European Union.

Wind Turbine Dynamics and Aeroelasticity - Ph.D. / Advanced eng. course.
This course is aimed at graduate students interested in wind energy research and engineers in the wind turbine industry with the purpose to learn how to describe, analyze and optimize the modal dynamics and aeroelastic stability of wind turbines based on the commercial three-bladed concept.

During four days research school you will receive state-of-the-art information about SOFC degradation mechanisms and their mitigation.Throughout the course, lectures will be given by experts in the field.

Vær med til at skabe fremtidens test- og demonstrationscenter indenfor bæredygtige energiteknologier og deres indbyrdes samspil. Workshop på Risø DTU

In the EDISON project Danish and international competences will be utilised to develop optimal system solutions for EV system integration, including network issues, market solutions, and optimal interaction between different energy technologies. The workshop gives an overview of the project and shows some midterm results.

If you would like to know more about research and education opportunities at Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC) in Beijing (), please do attend the information meeting at Risø DTU: Wednesday September 18th from 8:30 – 10:30 a.m., Poul La Cour conference room, building 118 (VEA).

By way of introduction The Danish Director of SDC, Professor Hans Gregersen will present SDC and the possibility of sending out scientific employees, PhD candidates as well as graduate students to China within the frames of SDC.

Subsequently, Senior Scientist Volker Naulin, Risø DTU, will explain how the SDC co-operation is put into practice within the fusion research.

Lastly, Chief Consultant Lene Kyhse Bisgaard, DTU Department for Education and Students, will brief on the accreditation challenges related to master education at SDC in Beijing.

Please send this invitation to your respective SDC co-workers and other interested parties.

We would like any registration to the meeting sent to Diana Kiler (diki@risoe.dtu.dk ) and a copy sent to Birte Holst Jørgensen (bhjq@risoe.dtu.dk ).

The background is that we got funding for a project looking at the applicability of small UAVs (two small planes, a helicopter plus a tethered lighter-than-air system) to be used as wind sensors to be freely placed anywhere in a wind farm, and/or to fly on given trajectories in any specified height and direction through a wind farm. The main aim of this workshop is to come with input to plan flight week at (hopefully) the Danish Test Station for Large Wind Turbines at Høvsøre.
Which scientific or technical problems can we solve with the new tools? And how do we use them best for our purposes?

The one day symposium is part of an international workshop on the topic. A series of invited presentations will be given, focusing primarily on the use of focused ion beam (FIB) tomography for collecting 3D microstructural datasets of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and the reconstruction and quantitative analysis of electrode structures with a view to predictive modelling. Although most results will pertain to SOFCs, the scope of the meeting is general to porous electrode structures. The bulk of work on 3D electrode structure that exists today has been performed by FIB tomography, however x-ray nanotomography is also emerging in the field and thus is also within the scope of the meeting. Presentations will be given by the leading academics in the field, FIB-SEM manufacturers and simulation software suppliers.

Ph.D. student Peter Stanley Jørgensen defends his Ph.D. entitled: Quantitative Data Analysis Methods for 3D Microstructure Characterization of Solid Oxide Cells. The defense takes place at 13.00 in Niels Bohr Auditorium at Risø DTU, Roskilde

Rozenn Wagner from Wind Engery Division will defend her PhD thesis "Accounting for the speed shear in wind turbine power performance measurement " on Monday 21st of June 2010 at 13:00 in the HH Koch Auditorium at Risø DTU.

The Wind Power Day from the Danish Research Consortium for Wind Energy is an annual event, where the consortium presents a selection of the latest results from Danish research institutions within wind energy. Participation in the Wind Power Day will give you an updated insight in the expertise of Danish research institutions, activities within wind energy and the latest results from their research. This year the theme is offshore.

The Risø DTU course "Medical Radiation Dosimetry" provides the theoretical and metrological background for measurement of radiation doses in radiotherapy, diagnostic radiology, and nuclear medicine. The five-day intensive course is based on the classic textbook by F.H. Attix and supplementary material. Course web page: mrdc.risoe.dk

This 5-day school will focus on advances in remote sensing techniques useful in wind energy. The themes to be covered are development, instrument configuration, signal processing, data analysis and applications of various remote sensing instruments covering LIDAR, SAR, ceilometers and SODAR among others both ground- and satellite-based instruments. Applied use includes wind resource mapping, wind profiling, power curve, wind loads and wind turbine control. Theoretical aspects on scattering and atmospheric boundary layer characteristics relevant in remote sensing for wind energy will be covered. Practical experiments will demonstrate remote sensing methodologies, and advantages and limitations will be discussed.
Charlotte Hasager cbha@risoe.dtu.dk

Dr. Lawrence Buja director for the National Center for Atmospheric Research will discuss exciting breakthroughs in climate research and new modeling capabilities aimed at providing improved information to decision makers. You are invited to join the seminar that takes place on June 4th here on Risø DTU at 1 p.m.
 
Climate change science for the IPCC AR5 has an increased focus on quantifying the effects of change on coupled human and natural systems to identify and evaluate strategies for managing change and its impacts.

This new research emphasis is designed to directly support policy and decision makers struggling to manage finite food, water and energy resources in the context of rising global population and GNP coupled with climate change and other environmental stresses.

Climate change scientists are developing new classes of climate models, scenarios and data distribution systems relevant for a much larger, more diverse community to enable the next round of IPCC assessments to tackle these societal questions.

Included in the discussion on the seminar will be:
• an overview of the new scenarios
• some preliminary results of the current IPCC AR5 climate simulations
• the enhancements made to the newest version of the U.S. Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
• development of a new Nested Regional Climate Model
• continuing improvements in the Earth System Grid (ESG),a global virtual data center designed to ensure open sharing of climate data among the global research community

Facts: 
Everybody is welcome

Place: Niels Bohr Auditorium, Risø DTU, 4000 Roskilde
Time: June 4^th 1-2 p.m.

Read more about the fifth Assessment Report from IPCC (IPCC AR5)

NCAR climate change activities are sponsored by the National Science Foundation and other U.S. federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
 
Read more about NCAR here 

Subtitle: IPCC AR5 and U.S. NCAR Climate Modeling Activities
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Buja, Director for Climate Science and Applications Program on the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder, Colorado, USA

Wind Energy Systems Workshop no. 3, held at Risø DTU.

Peter Bjørn Andersen, Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU, defends his Ph.D. entitled "Advanced Load Alleviation for Wind Turbines using Adaptive Trailing Edge Flaps: Sensoring and Control". It takes place at 1 p.m. in H.H. Koch auditorium at Risø DTU.

The international standards for radiation sterilization are published as EN ISO 11137, Sterilization of health care products

Part 1:2006: Requirements for development, validation and routine control of a sterilization process for medical devices.
Part 2:2007: Establishing the sterilization dose
Part 3:2006: Guidance on dosimetric aspects
By following the requirements described in EN ISO 11137-1:2006 compliance with the essential requirements of the EU Directive for Medical Devices (93/42/EEC and amended 2007/47/EC) are presumed. This is one of the requirements for obtaining CE-marking of sterile medical devices that are marketed within the European Union.

On the 10th of May at 1 PM, PhD student Suren Gevorgyan will give a lecture entitled Production, Characterization and Stability of Organic Solar Cell Devices in the Niels Bohr auditorium, building 113 at Risø DTU. The research has been carried out at Risø DTU with Professor Frederik C. Krebs as principal supervisor.

Irradiation with electron beams in the energy range lower than 300 keV is used in the polymer industry for curing and crosslinking. Lately these beams have also been used in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries for sterilization of surfaces. This application emphasizes the need for validation of low energy electron beam processes.

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