Elisa Carlon

• PhD in Sustalinable Energy and Technologies
• Senior Researcher at BIOENERGY 2020+ GmbH

Phytoremediation is the use of vegetation for the in situ treatment of contaminated environments. After plants have been used for phytoremediation of soils, their biomass can be used for example as value-added products or converted by thermochemical processes. Large-scale application of pyrolysis technology for phytoremediation biomass requires acc...

Biomass combustion is a major contributor to ambient air pollution. Thus, knowing the real life emissions of biomass heating systems is crucial. Within the project Clean Air by biomass a field measurement campaign was conducted. 15 biomass heating appliances were tested in households at the end user according to their usual operation. Emission fact...

Residential wood combustion is linked with a significant extent of emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which represent highly toxic, semi-volatile pollutants. The use of catalysts reveals an effective measure to reduce emissions, especially gaseous flue gas compounds (carbon monoxide - CO and organic gaseous compounds - OGC). Thei...

The quality of emission inventories substantially bases on the reliability of used emission factors (EFs). In this work EFs were studied according to recently published characterization methods, called “beReal” reflecting real life operating conditions in Europe. EFs for four pellet stoves and nine firewood appliances (roomheaters and cookers) of c...

This study analyses the emission factors of two firewood room heaters under testing conditions which emulate real life operation. A 6.5 kW stove with low heat storage capacity and high leakage rate (stove A) is compared with an 8 kW air-tight stove with high heat storage capacity (stove B). Thermal efficiency, carbon monoxide (CO) and organic gaseo...

In 2013 the residential sector was responsible of 27% of the total energy consumption in the European Union. The recent European policies encourage energy efficiency and promote the use of energy from renewable sources. In this framework small scale pellet boilers, which represent a renewable-based alternative to fossil fuel boilers, are considered...

Prefabricated low energy houses are becoming increasingly popular thanks to their low cost and high energy performance. Heating systems installed in these houses should be optimally designed and controlled, to ensure thermal comfort for the whole heating season. This study presents the on-site monitoring and dynamic simulation of a low energy house...

The variety of available technical building equipment leads to increasingly complex heating systems with various requirements for efficient operation. Furthermore, in existing buildings the heating system is often historically evolved and contains parts having different ages. Those systems have limited capacity to suit the requirements of replaced...

The objective of this work is to analyze the heat demand of a low-energy house and to optimize the heating system control strategy. Low-energy houses minimize their heat losses by means of a highly insulated envelope. The considered heating system is composed of a pellet boiler supplying hot water to a floor heating system. The annual heat demand h...

Biomass-based heating and domestic hot water supply systems in residential buildings need optimised system design to maximise the boiler’s efficiency. Although the efficiency of pellet boilers is certified through standard laboratory tests, there is only little information available in the literature about their performance in field conditions. The...

This study focuses on the environmental impact assessment through Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of two innovative 10 kW pellet boilers. In particular, the second boiler represents a technological evolution of the first one developed to improve its performance in terms of efficiency and environmental impact. For both boilers, emission factors measured d...

Abstract Nowadays dynamic building simulation is an essential tool for the design of heating systems for residential buildings. The simulation of buildings heated by biomass systems, first of all needs detailed boiler models, capable of simulating the boiler both as a stand-alone appliance and as a system component. This paper presents the calibrat...

Abstract The introduction of the EN 303-5 as reference for certification tests of small scale biomass boilers has lead to a tremendous improvement of the tested performance indicators over the last decades. However, today results obtained from EN 303-5 testing, which is done under full load and part load operating conditions only, does not allow su...