CERN, ESS, and ERF organise the first international workshop on better energy management for Big Science
Lund, 13th October 2011
For the first time, international experts on energy and representatives from large-scale laboratories get together to explore new ideas on energy management, identify best practices and implement ways of effective collaboration.
This community meets today in Lund, Sweden, at the European Spallation Source for a 2-day workshop co-organised by CERN, ESS and by ERF, the European Association of National Research Facilities.
- This workshop places the questions of better energy management in Big Science definitively on the international science agenda, said Thomas Parker, ESS Energy Manager. We are honoured that the entire European large-scale laboratory community, as well as overseas guests, have come to Lund and we see this as a sign that the ideas that we have promoted are catching on.
- The idea of promoting this workshop came from our commitment to share and improve energy management’s policies with other large-scale Laboratories and Organisations, said Frédérick Bordry, Head of CERN’s Technology Department. The energy management is and will be more and more a mandatory key criteria in the design and operation of accelerators, and more generally for scientific facilities. It should not be seen as a constraint but more as an opportunity to get more efficient installations and to give a concrete contribution to energy and environmental issues. The workshop is also an opportunity for presenting CERN’s technologies which can play a role in the improvement of energy efficiency and quality.
The workshop will focus on efficiency and optimisation of energy supply, energy recovery, storage and stability, challenges for heat recycling systems and water saving (energy conversion, heat recovery, high-temperature cooling loops). The discussion will also explore current and future strategic and financial challenges.
- Large-scale European research laboratories attract the best researchers through the quality of their cutting-edge technical support, so the technical and managerial staff are continuously developing the best relevant technologies. Many of these are of interest to society and are connected to big challenges, such as improving the production and use of energy, said Carlo Rizzuto, Chair of ERF and President of Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. The idea of the conference is to make the most of the laboratories' capabilities in this context - whether the large analytical laboratories such as ERF and ESS or the large physics laboratories such as CERN. We aim to improve the capability to introduce and demonstrate techniques and approaches that save energy and minimize the carbon footprint.
Further information:
Event website: www.esss.se/energyworkshop
CERN website: www.cern.ch
ESS website: www.esss.se
ERF website: http://erf.desy.de/
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ESS IN SHORT:
The European Spallation Source – the next generation facility for materials research and life science
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a multi-disciplinary research laboratory based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. ESS can be likened to a large microscope, where neutrons are used instead of light to study materials – ranging from polymers and pharmaceuticals to membranes and molecules – to gain knowledge about their structure and function. ESS will be up to 100 times better than existing facilities, opening up new possibilities for researchers in for example health, environment, climate, energy, transport sciences and cultural heritage.
ESS is an intergovernmental research infrastructure project, and it will be built in Lund in southern Scandinavia. At least 17 European countries will take part in the construction, financing and operation of the ESS. Sweden and Denmark will co-host the ESS and cover 50 percent of the 1,4 B€ investment costs and 20 percent of the operating costs together with the Nordic and Baltic states.
The European Spallation Source ESS AB is a public limited company, today owned by the Swedish and the Danish states. ESS AB is currently working on finalizing the ESS technical design, planning the future research at ESS, preparing for construction, and planning the future international ESS organisation. This is done in collaboration with a large number of international research institutes and laboratories. Construction is expected to start in 2013, the first neutrons to be produced in 2019 and the facility to be fully operational around 2025.
ESS is expected to support a user community of at least 5000 European researchers and will have great strategic importance for the development of the European Research Area. Near by there will be complementary laboratories, such as the synchrotron MAX IV in Lund and XFEL and PETRAIII in Hamburg.
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