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The First International Conference on Advances in Renewable and Sustainable Energies BIOGREEN 2010 March 7-13, 2010 - Cancun, Mexico |
| Call for Papers |
Replacing the classical energy with alternative renewable energy (green energy), such as bioenergy, eolian energy, or solar energy is an ecological and economic trend that suggests important socio-economic advantages: using native renewable resources, increasing of self-sufficiency rate of energy and promoting use of clean energy, and that way, polluting emissions to the air will be reduced.
Bioenergy is renewable energy derived from biological sources, to be used for heat, electricity, or vehicle fuel. Biofuel derived from plant materials is among the most rapidly growing renewable energy technologies. In several countries corn-based ethanol is currently the largest source of biofuel as a gasoline substitute or additive. Recent energy legislation mandates further growth of both corn-based and advanced biofuels from other sources. Growing biofuel demand has implications for U.S. and world agriculture.
Eolian energy is currently used throughout the world on a large scale. In the past decade, its evolution shows its acceptance as a source of generation, with expressive growth trends in the energy matrices in the countries where this source is used Eolian energy is renewable and has very low environmental impact. To generate it, there are no gas emissions, no effluent refuse, and no other natural resources, such as water, are consumed.
Photovoltaic technology makes use of the energy in the sun, and it has little impact on the environment. Photovoltaics can be used in a wide range of products, from small consumer items to large commercial solar electric systems.
BIOGREEN 2010, The First International Conference on Advances in Renewable and Sustainable Energies, bring together the challenging technical and regulation aspects for supporting and producing renewable energy with less or no impact on the ecosystems. There are several technical integration barriers and steps for social adoption and governmental legislation to favor and encourage this kind of energy.
The conference deals with technical papers presenting research and practical results, industrial small- and large-scale systems, challenging applications, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific topics on renewable energy, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the topics, short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Energy sustainability
- Big consumers
- Small consumers
- Active consumers
- Passive consumers
- Energy-intensive technologies
- Energy-intensive devices
- Energy-intensive services and applications
- Energy-intensive mission-critical applications
- Energy-intensive safety applications
- Home appliance consumption
- Smart grid solutions
- Telecommunications energy efficient solutions
- Energy control and optimization in data centers
- Interfaces for energy interchange
- Alternative energy sources
Energy bioscience
- Bioenergy, biopower, biofuels
- Bioprocessing solutions
- Physical biosciences
- Photosynthetic systems
- Energy transduction systems
- Ultrasonic technologies
- Geothermal energy
- Ocean thermal energy
- Ocean waves energy
- Ocean tides energy
- Vibration based, piezoelectric, and nanogenerators
- Body pulse
- Hybrid energy
Eolian Energy
- Wind energy turbines
- Wind farms
- Eolian production systems
- Storage for eolian energy
- Integration between eolian systems and classical energy systems
- Independent and corporate producers
- Feed-in tariffs
Photovoltaic solar energy
- Solar energy
- Solar collector
- Collector systems
- Solar energy utilization
- Solar Photochemistry
- Energetic potential
- Storage for eolian energy
Biomass energy
- Plant and non-medical microbial systems
- Thermo-chemical conversion of biomass fuels
- Feedstock development (switchgrass, miscanthus, etc.)
- Biomass depolymerization
- Biofuels production
- Fossil fuel bioprocessing
- Cleaner energy from renewable plant materials
- Ethanol plants and bio-refineries
Green energy technologies and economic models
- Chemistry and nanotechnology to improve biodiesel production
- Potential of mitigation of atmospheric change through the development of herbaceous energy crop
- Development of accessible mechanistic mathematical models
- Environmental effects on photosynthesis to plant productivity
- Social acceptability of energy crops
- Legislation and standards
- Economic, environmental, and social challenges for renewable energy
INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.
Publisher: CPS (see: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/)
Archived: IEEE CSDL (Computer Science Digital Library) and IEEE Xplore
Submitted for indexing: Elsevier's EI Compendex Database, EI’s Engineering Information Index
Other indexes are being considered: INSPEC, DBLP, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Important deadlines:
Extension till November 4 to accommodate EU Project deadlines| Submission (full paper) | |
| Notification | November 26, 2009 |
| Registration | December 13, 2009 |
| Camera ready | December 18, 2009 |
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.
Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.
Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.
Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the Conference Publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.
Posters
Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as poster. Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.
For more details, see the Posters explanation page.
Work in Progress
Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.
For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page
Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to [email protected].
Tutorials
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to [email protected]
Panel proposals:
The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.
For more information, [email protected]
Workshop proposals
We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to [email protected].
