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Mondragón Components and its I+D+i center – CS Centro Stirling- organizes the 16th International Stirling Engine Conference
Published on 2014-09-03
Energy efficiency meets in Bilbao
The Euskalduna Conference Center will host the 16th International Stirling Engine Conference, three days to share knowledge and applications of energy efficiency and "green" technologies. The city of Bilbao will bring together the Stirling world's elite applied to energy efficiency and renewable energy, in an event that will take place on 24, 25 and 26 September in the Euskalduna Conference Center.
Several personalities of the Basque Government and Provincial Council, will attend the event, together with Mr. Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit of New and Renewable Energy Sources DG Research and Innovation and Carlo M. Bartollini, President of Stirling International, and many people from the academic, scientific and industrial world.
80 speakers from 30 different countries
As pointed out by the Director of Centro Stirling, Dr. Javier Aranceta, "during 3 days we will have between us over 80 speakers from 30 different countries on 5 continents." The conference topics range from renewable applications, such as biomass, biogas, geothermal, solar… up to cogeneration, refrigeration and heat pumps, and also markets and industrial applications, new stirling designs, burners, … Today’s need for cleaner, more efficient forms of energy has given new momentum to the concept of distributed energy generation. External combustion technologies such as Stirling technology have taken on a new dimension.