Workshops, conferences

On February 3, 2005, in Minsk, a seminar was held under the UNDP/GEF Project (Project No. 00011748) "Biomass Energy for Heating and Hot Water Supply in the Republic of Belarus", organized by UNDP, the UN Economic Commission for Europe, the Committee on Energy Efficiency of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus.

The seminar focused on international and Belarusian experience in producing boiler plant equipment and building biomass-fired boiler plants and CHP plants, modern wood waste combustion processes for generating heat and electric energy, and cooperation between the Belarusian and international boiler plant equipment manufacturers.

Mrs Gihan Sultanoglu, UN Resident Coordinator and UN Representative in the Republic of Belarus, welcomed the seminar participants.
Mr. R.R. Shirma, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy Efficiency, opened and conducted the seminar.
Mr. E.V. Nadezhdin, Doctor of Technical Sciences, UN ECE Regional Adviser on Energy described the prospects for implementing the project "Biomass Energy" (the above-mentioned project's shortened title) in the Republic of Belarus. His presentation focused on the existing and new financial mechanisms that can be used to finance energy efficiency and biomass fuel projects.
The seminar programme included a series of presentations both by national and foreign manufacturers of biomass-fired (wood-fired) boiler plant equipment.
Ya.F. Ovsyanik, Deputy Director of the AP "Avtoremproject" of the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Belarus, presented information on the boiler equipment produced in the Republic of Belarus.

Presentations were also made by the national boiler plan equipment manufacturers, including V.A. Kravchenko, General Director of NPP Belkotlomash and V.S. Proskushkin, General Director of COOO "Komkont".

 

National manufacturers of boiler plant equipment

Estonian manufacturers of modern boiler plant equipment,

 

Marya Monte boiler plants

Latvian, Finnish boiler plant equipment,

 

Wartsila boiler plants (Finland)

Belgian and Austrian companies also presented their products.

 

Binder boiler plants

Pavel Bogdanov, Director of Marya Monte (Estonia)	The Representative of Comforts (Latvia)	Leonid Ostrovsky, Vyncke (Belgium)	Bernard Hoizler, Binder (Austria)

The topics discussed at the seminar also included the prospects for meeting the needs of the growing biomass market and cooperation between Belarusian enterprises and European manufacturers.

  

Seminar Presentations:

1. E.V. Nadezhdin, UN ECE Regional Adviser Energy.
Prospects for implementing the Project "Biomass energy for Heating and Hot Water Supply in the Republic of Belarus". "The Main Success Factor - Availability of Financial Investments." (ppt - file - 123 Kb)

2. V. Voitekhovich, Project Manager, "The Progress in Implementing the Project Demonstration Facilities." (ppt - file - 1737 Kb)

3. V.Ganzha, Project Expert, "The Experience of Operation of the First Demonstration Boiler Plant in Uzda" (Volat-1). Benefits and Problems." (ppt - file - 436 Kb)

4. N.Wildbaher, LEV (Austria), International Consultant, "International Experience in Using Biomass for Producing Heat and Electric Energy. Wood Combustion Processes and Equipment." (pdf - file - 2040 Kb)

5. P. Bogdanov, Director, Marya Monte (Estonia). "The Experience of Converting Small and Medium Boiler Plants to Biofuel in Estonia." (ppt - file - 1426 Kb)

6.A.G. Bolshakov, EnergoproGM (Belarus). "Presentation of Equipment Manufactured by Wartsila." (ppt - file - 1811 Kb)

7. I.Mahieu, V.Vien, Vyncke (Belgium). "Presentation of Equipment Manufactured by Vyncke." (ppt - file - 19 Mб)

8. V.Hoizler, Binder (Austria). "Presentation of Foreign Enterprise "Binder" Specializing in Hot Water Boilers." (ppt - file - 3895 Kb)

9. N.Wildbaher, LEV (Austria), International Consultant, Project "Benefits and Economic Feasibility of Cogeneration of Heat and Electric Energy Using Biomass. ORC CHP Plant: Benefits and Problems." (pdf - file - 1447 Kb)

10. "Heat Testing of Boiler Plants Using Local Fuels with Capacity of up to 1.0 MW." (ppt - file - 375 Kb)

Seminar Program

Seminar objectives:

• 1. Discuss international experience in wood fired boilers production and construction boiler houses and CHP.
• 2. Discuss modern technologies of wood waste combustion for heat and electricity production.
• 3. Discuss Belarus experience in wood waste utilization for heat and power production
• 4. Discuss possible cooperation between Belarus and foreign boiler manufacturers

9.00	Registration
9.30	Welcome address	Mrs. Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Resident Coordinator/ UNDP Representative in Belarus
9.45	Seminar opening Priorities to local fuels in energy sector of Belarus	Mr. Roman Shirma, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy Efficiency of Belarus
10.00	Prospectives of Belarus "Biomass energy" project	Dr. E. Nadezhdin, Regional energy advisor of the UN ECE
10.15	Project progress in demonstration sites implementation	Mr. V. Voitekhovitch, Project Manager
10.30	Experience in operation of the first project demonstration boiler house in Uzda (Volat-1). Benefits and problems	Prof. V. Ganzha (project expert), Boiler manufacturer (JSC Belkotlomash)
10.50	Break
11.20	Presentation of biomass fired boilers, produced by Joint Stock company Compte (Belarus). Plans for development of new biomass fired equipment. Potential market for Compte boilers in Belarus and Russia	Representative of JSC Compte (Belarus) Confirmed
11.50	Perfection of technologies of biomass fired boilers production in Belarus. Presentation of Belkotlomash. Potential market for biomass fired boilers in Belarus and Russia	Mr. Victor Kravchenko Director JSC Belkotlomash (Belarus)
12.10	International experience of wood waste use for heat and electricity production. Technologies and equipment for biomass combustion	Mr. Norbert Widbacher, LEV (Austria) Project International Consultant
12.45	Discussion
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Experience in conversion of small and medium size boiler houses in Estonia	Mr. Pavel Bogdanov Director "Maria Monte" (Estonia)
14.30	Presentation of boilers, produced by Wartsila Finland	Mr. Alexander Bolshakov EnergoproGM
15.00	Presentation of foreign company Vyncke (Belgium) specialized in production super heated steam boilers	Mr. Ignaas Mahieu Mr. Vincent Weyne Vyncke (Belgium)
15.30	Presentation of foreign company Binder (Austria), specialized in production biomass fired medium size water boilers	Mr. Bernhard Hausler Binder (Austria)
16.00	Break
16.15	Prospectives and advantages of Russian biomass fired boilers (Biysk plant) for Belarus market	Mr. Alexander Mashtakov Director Biysk boiler plant (Russia)
16.45	Advantages and economical feasibility of combined heat and power production based on biomass. ORC CHP cycle - benefits and problems	Mr. N. Wildbacher, LEV, Austria
17.15	Potential of Belarus manufacturers to cover growing market for biomass fired boilers. Views for cooperation with European manufacturers	Mr. J. Avsjanik Dep. Director of "Avtoremproject" Institute. The Ministry of Industry
17.45	Discussion of situation around production of modern automatically controlled biomass boilers in the Republic of Belarus	Round table
18.30	Summations and conclusions	Mr. Roman Shirma, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy Efficiency of Belarus