Due to the tragic after-effects of the earthquake on March 11 the 10th IEA Heat Pump Conference scheduled for Tokyo, Japan could not be held as planned. Instead the organizing committees decided that the conference will take place online between June 27 and August 31.
When the devastating news of the catastrophe in Japan reached the world the preparation of the10th IEA Heat Pump Conference was at full speed.
In order to publish the many full papers received and give participants the opportunities to communicate with authors, both organizing committees, the National Organizing Committee of Japan (NOC) and the International Organizing Committee (IOC), decided to hold a virtual conference instead.
The agenda of the conference, to help reduce energy consumption and CO2-emissions for heating, cooling and air-conditioning, remains an important focus of the conference.
“The subtitle of the 10th IEA Heat Pump Conference 2011 is ‘Heat Pumps – The Solution for a Low Carbon World’, says Mr Momoki Katakura, Chairman, NOC. We look forward to finding a better way to further promote the use and improvements of heat pumps through a variety of discussions on heat pumps, which are a core technology in reducing CO2 emissions.”
The web conference is open from June 27 to August 31, 2011
According to Prof. Dr. Thomas Kopp, chairman IOC, the conference program consists of more than 200 uploaded full papers and some recorded speeches and messages on the conference website. He also stresses the Q&A section on the website which gives participants the possibility to discuss the papers with authors.
“There are two primary objectives for these conferences. The first is to give the audience an overview of international developments within the field of heat pumping technologies. The second is to offer a meeting place for exchanging new thoughts and ideas for international cooperation and more widespread deployment of heat pumps”, says Thomas Kopp and continues: “We hope and believe that although participants will not be able to meet each other, we will still be able to fertilize thoughts and inspire new progress.”
The conference has so far 370 registered participants, but the conference secretariat thinks that the number will increase before close of the registration on July 15.
Registration:
The registration has re-opened since June 27 at www.hpc2011.org/registration.html. Please note that the registration will close on July 15.
All paying participants can log in with an ID and Password on www.hpc2011web.org.
For details please visit www.hpc2011.org/web_conf.html.
Registered participants will receive a CD including all the conference papers that are presented in the web conference, as well as a booklet of abstracts.
For further information, please contact the conference secretariat, telephone: +81-3-3508-1202 or by e-mail: hp2...@convention.jp
The International Heat Pump Conference
Every three years the IEA Heat Pump Programme stages the IEA Heat Pump Conference. It is an international Heat Pump Conference that was held for the first time in 1984.
The HP conference offers a unique meeting place where advances and prospects in technology, applications and markets for heat pumps, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment and systems for residential, commercial and industrial applications are shared.
Previous conferences were held in Graz, Austria (1984), Orlando, Florida, USA (1987), Tokyo, Japan (1990), Maastricht, Netherlands (1993), Toronto, Canada (1996), Berlin, Germany (1999), Beijing, China (2002), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (2005) and Zürich, Switzerland (2008).
IEA Heat Pump Programme and IEA Heat Pump Centre
The IEA Heat Pump Programme (HPP) is a non-profit organisation under which the participants cooperate in projects in the field of heat pumps and related heat pumping technologies such as air conditioning, refrigeration and working fluids (refrigerants).
The IEA Heat Pump Programme operates under the International Energy Agency (IEA) and was founded in 1978. The current member countries are Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.
HPP carries out a strategy to accelerate the use of heat pumps in all applications where they can reduce energy consumption for the benefit of the environment. The IEA Heat Pump Centre (HPC) is the international information service of the HPP. HPC links people and organisations worldwide in support of heat pump technology. Read more: www.heatpumpcentre.org
