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Looking back at the international scientific conference CONECT 2021

International Scientific Conference CONECT 2021, organized by RTU IESI has finished! This year in order to comply with COVID-19 restrictions, the conference was held online combined with on-site presentations from RTU scientists. Altogether we had participants from 24 countries, including South Korea, India, Mexico, also representing different universities from Latvia. During the first two days of the Conference, scientists gave their presentations on their latest research and results. Following they had the opportunity to test their strength of generating new ideas and use of their knowledge in the creative group event “Apple Garden” and tried to build models to solve institutional.

Looking back at the international scientific conference CONECT 2020

In the mid-May we had one of the most anticipated annual events – international scientific conference CONECT 2020, organized by RTU Institute of Energy Systems and Environment. This year it was a great challenge for participants and organisers because the conference was held online due to the worldwide Covid-19 outbreak. Nevertheless, CONECT 2020 conference was successful and fruitful. The conference was attended by 140 participants from Latvia and 19 foreign countries. For two days scientists presented their latest research at plenary sessions, panel sessions and poster sessions. On the third day the conference ended with a discussion on different scenarious.

Scientific articles in the project “Fog Unit”

The project “Individual Heat Supply with Integrated Fog Unit System (IFUS)” has published two publications on the results of a set of experiments submitted for publication in international journals indexed in the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases. Link Between Multivariables of Heat and Mass Transfer in a Scrubber. Case Study: Fog Unit Article summary - Combustion processes are one of the major sources of air pollution. The research uses a new, innovative flue-gas cleaning technology - a fog unit. Its purpose is to purify the flue gases produced by households. In the European Union, including Latvia, from 2020 a.

Experimental data of the fog unit

The project “Individual Heat Supply with Integrated Fog Unit System (IFUS)” collects experimental data at three boiler capacities (10 kW, 20 kW, 30 kW) and nozzles (MPL 1.51, MPL 1.12, MPL 0.77) used to obtain the data set to be analysed. The data analysis program Statgraphics XVII performed experimental data analysis to determine what parameters affect the capacity of the fog unit and the efficiency of particulate matter (PM). Regression analysis was performed to determine the parameters affecting the capacity of the fog unit, in which the dependent variables are: Flue gas temperature at inlet (tg1) and outlet (tg2); Water.

World famous professor in system dynamics David Wheat started his lectures in Riga Technical University

On the 3rd of September guest lectures led by world famous professor David Wheat on system dynamics started for students of “Environmental Science” programme in the Institute of Energy Systems and Environment of the Riga Technical University. David Wheat received his master’s degree at Harvard University and his PhD in System Dynamics at the University of Bergen in 2007. David Wheat is past-president of the economics chapter of the International System Dynamics Society, is a member of the Scientific Committees of the international journals (“System Dynamics Review”, “International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education”), and is a co-author of several.

Seminar “Sustainable and Flexible Energy Use”

Integrating renewable energy into existing systems; Multifaceted energy efficiency: different users, different options; Energy tariffs: from regulated tariffs to benchmark; These and many other questions will be answered in the seminar "Sustainable and Flexible Energy Use" on June 20 from 10:00-13:00, organised within EU Sustainable Energy Week. The seminar is organized by Institute of Energy Systems and Environment, Riga Technical University, Latvia. Lecturers have extensive experience in energy end-users (industry, municipalities, residential sector, etc.), as well as in integrating renewable energy into the Latvian energy sector. We are convinced that it is possible to reduce energy consumption by 5-15% without.

Looking back at the international scientific conference CONECT 2019

In the mid-May we had one of the most anticipated annual events - international scientific conference CONECT 2019, organized by RTU Institute of Energy Systems and Environment. The conference was attended by 110 participants from Latvia and 22 foreign countries. For two days, scientists presented their latest research at plenary sessions, panel sessions and poster sessions. On the third day the conference ended with a technical tour to the modern organic cosmetics factory of AS MADARA COSMETICS and a tour to Old Riga. Conference papers will be published in special issues of Journal of Environmental Management and Journal of Environmental.

Invitation to Conference of Environmental and Climate Technologies CONECT 2019

On behalf of the Conference Organising Committee, we invite you to the International Scientific Conference of Environmental and Climate Technologies – CONECT 2019! We welcome you to submit papers to the Conference through Paper Submission System (ect-journals.rtu.lv) or by contacting us via ect@rtu.lv All the Conference papers accepted for publishing will be published in the international scientific journal "Environmental and Climate Technologies" (current SNIP – 2.004), indexed by SCOPUS and Web of Science. The length of the paper should be at least 8 pages, but not longer than 25 (optimal length: 12–14 pages). Conference information: * CONECT website * Paper.

Online survey for SMEs

Within the project Test-4-SME an online survey for SMEs has been developed and launched to analyse the quality and capability of testing services and identify the gaps. The survey is conducted in all countries of the Baltic Sea region and its results will be used to improve the availability of laboratory collaborations and testing services. We kindly invite every SMEs which develops electronic products to fill in this survey. Survey is launched online in 6 languages: English Estonian Finnish German Latvian Lithuanian

Summer School “Latvian Biocapacity”

Successfully finished RTU IESE organized Summer School "Latvian Biocapacity" which was held in Riga, Latvia, August 13-22. 13 participants from 11 countries took part in this summer school. Under the guidance of RTU academic staff and experienced guides participants learned about Latvian culture and natural resources and learned how to produce high value-added products from local resources and how to use of resources without leaving any residue. Participants also had to create an innovative product from natural materials by themselves, develop a product concept and analyze the life-cycle of this product as well as make economic, social and environmental assessment..