Work together with

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Work together with
Harness the full power of sustainable energy

• Energy Experts from Finland

Network of business, research and education
www.sentre.fi
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Cluster of Sustainable Energy Solutions
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• Expertise of effective, economical and
  sustainable energy solutions
• Covers the entire value chain from design and
  manufacture to end of products
• A significant business cluster in the Tampere
  Region

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Sustainable Business with Sustainable Energy
Solutions
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• Modern biomass harvesting technologies
• Worlds largest biomass power plant
• Power plant modernization
• Effective heat recovery
• Replacing oil with wood gas in heating
• Power quality saves money and environment

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Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster
Future Research Centre
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Multidisciplinary Expertise in the Tampere
Regions Energy Cluster
Research Education
Harness the power of expertise

• Institutes of research and education cooperate
  with companies and are involved in project
  development
• Versatile research and education activities
  support the growth of expertise and business to
  attract new professionals
• Tampere University of Technology
• University of Tampere
• Pirkanmaa Polytechnic University of Applied
  Sciences
• Tampere Polytechnic University of Applied
  Sciences
• Tampere College, Kuru Institute of Forestry
• Technical Research Centre of Finland, VTT
• Future Research Centre

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Highlights of the Research
Research Education
Harness the power of expertise

• Utilization of solid biomass in energy systems
  with different technologies
• Remote operation for fusion reactor
• The Centre of Remote Operation and Virtual
  Technologies, ROViR
• Technology for the gas economy
• being studied in several projects, the Äetsä
  Hydrogen Village is a new test site for research
  groups and companies
• Organic solar cells
• The Photo- and Nanochemistry research group in
  the Institute of Materials Chemistry at Tampere
  University of Technology (TUT)

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Tampere University of Technology - Competence for
the Energy Industry
Research Education
Harness the power of expertise

• Produces high-standard research and education in
  active collaboration with industry
• Provides product development and consultation
  services that flexible combine expertise from
  various fields of technology and economics

• Emission control
• Heat pumps
• Machine building
• Material technology
• Environmental technologies
• Superconductivity
• Organic photocells

• Power plant technologies
• Energy economics
• Power engineering
• Automation and controls
• Fluid dynamics
• CFD modelling
• Combustion

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Finnish Innovation System
Innovation
Network with energy innovation

• Based on the guidelines formulated by the Finnish
  Science and Technology Policy Council
• Cooperation between companies, public
  organizations, universities and other
  establishments of research and education plays an
  important role
• The Tampere Region is living proof of a well
  functioning innovation system where new ideas
  quickly become products

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Sentre - the Network for Sustainable Energy
Solutions
Innovation
Network with energy innovation

• Network of business, research and education that
  develops solutions for sustainable energy
• Offers private businesses a chance to network
  with other companies as well as with educational
  and research organizations
• Mission is to closely link the Tampere energy
  cluster with other European and global competence
  clusters operating in the field of energy

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Competitive and clean
Innovation
Network with energy innovation

• Finland is ranked first in the world in
  environmental sustainability
• Finland has consecutive three times identified as
  the worlds most competitive economy
• Sustainable energy solutions are playing an
  important role in securing environmentally sound
  economic growth for the future

Bioenergy is proven technology

• 19,5 of the total primary energy and 12 of
  all electricity produced in Finland is bioenergy

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The world hungers for sustainable energy solutions
We are facing a greater challenge than ever
before. Lets network and face it together.
Technology Centre Hermia LtdHermiankatu 1,
FIN-33720 Tampere, Finlandwww.sentre.fi
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Modern biomass harvesting technologies
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• Biomass bundling method for cost-effective
  harvesting, transport and processing of forest
  residues.
• Enables even 200 km supply radius for forest
  residues
• Enables large scale utilization at power plants

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Worlds largest biomass power plant
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster
Alholmens Kraft, Pietarsaari, Finland

• 550 MWth / 194 kg/s / 165 bar / 545 C
• Wood, peat, coal
• Multifuel power plant with Finnish fluidized
• Bed boiler plant and novel fuel feeding system
• 200 MW Electricity
• 350 MW Heat for indutry and community

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Power plant modernization
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• Coal-fired power boilers are gradually being
  converted to combust renewable fuels in an effort
  to meet challenging targets set for renewables
  and carbon dioxide emissions.
• The Pannon Thermal Power Plant in Pécs, Hungary,
  has switched from coal to gas and biomass.
• One boiler was converted into biomass-fired unit
  and another for gas firing. As a result, emission
  levels have fallen and are now within new
  stricter limits

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Effective heat recovery
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• Heat recovery is a significant source of energy
  and an excellent opportunity to combine savings
  with environmental benefits. Up to 90 percent of
  the heat in the exhaust air can be recovered to
  heat supply air.
• The heat recovery system of the printing machine
  has paid for itself five times over in just nine
  years of operation.

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Replacing oil with wood gas in heating
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• Fully automated standalone wood gasifiers can be
  used to replace oil in industries where heat is
  required either for production or heating.
• The gas is produced from wood chips or pellets
  and burned in existing heat boilers. Heating
  costs are reduced immediately, and the
  environment benefits from CO2-free fuels.

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Power quality saves money and environment
Business
Take advantage of the leading Finnish energy
cluster

• High voltage capacitors and
• compensation systems to
• reduce power consumption
• avoid oversized power systems
• Eliminate disturbancies

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Innovation
Network with energy innovation
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Innovation
Network with energy innovation
Worlds most competitive economy. Growth
Competitiveness Index rankings 2005
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Innovation
Network with energy innovation
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Innovation
Network with energy innovation
Electricity production
Wind power
Solid biofuels
Waste
Peat
Hydro power
Nuclear power
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
Net electricity import
Year 2004