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Dear Sir or Madam,
the Gas- und Wärme-Institut Essen e.V. and the EnergieAgentur.NRW would like to invite you to the
3rd Workshop “LNG Roadmap – LNG as a driving force for cross-border cooperation within Europe”
on the 7th of June 2016 at the MARITIM-Hotel in Düsseldorf
Maritim-Platz 1, 40474 Düsseldorf, Germany
The event will highlight the development of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel for
inland navigation and for heavy-duty commercial vehicles as well as an energy carrier for industrial
applications.
This year, the event will experience its third performance. The 3rd Workshop “LNG Roadmap” is a
follow-up event, which gathered in 2014 and 2015 more than 100 guests each year from Germany,
Austria, Belgium, France, Norway, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Also in this year,
we expect national and international experts on LNG as a fuel gas and transportation fuel. The
experience exchange and open discussion about technical and regulatory aspects, safety standards,
funding opportunities and the infrastructure development options are the focus of the event.
Besides, practical examples and project progresses will be presented.
The workshop will be held in English. Additional information and registration here:
http://www.energieagentur.nrw/3._lng_roadmap_
The 3rd Workshop “LNG Roadmap” offers to you:
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Discussion platform with the leading manufacturers and suppliers of the LNG complete
solutions,
Experience exchange with the branch pioneers: LNG applications for the transportation and
industry,
Practical examples and reports about the project progresses,
Discussion about technical and regulatory aspects, safety standards as well as infrastructure
development,
Successful examples of solutions for energy supply of municipalities and industry,
LNG potential for climate and environment protection, especially LNG generated from
renewables/ bio-LNG,
Answers to the following questions:
o How has the LNG to be handled safely?
o What financing options and funding programs are available for the LNG introduction
in the logistic and energy branches?
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What does a decentralized energy supply mean and how the operational costs of the
energy consumers can be reduced using the LNG?
LNG-information box
LNG is nothing else than a natural gas converted to a liquid form at approx. -160 °C, which only takes
1/600 of the volume of a gaseous natural gas. This characteristic makes possible a cost reduction for
both natural gas transportation and storage. The liquefaction of the fuel gas offers end-users the
option in the mobile and decentralized energy utilization. Thereby, delivery trucks, municipal
vehicles, public transportation, heavy-duty vehicles, inland water vessels and industrial sites, off-grid
and network-connected power generation and many others are the target group for LNG usage.
Requirement-orientated market solutions make possible an economically efficient usage of LNG in
both transportation sector and industry. Sustainability and energy supply decentralization are for
many end consumers the decision criteria for switching to LNG as an energy source.
LNG as a transportation fuel offers many advantages for climate and environment protection in
comparison with conventional diesel fuel. Usage of LNG means: no fine dust emissions, no SO2
emissions, 80-90% lower NOx emissions and 10%-20% CO2 emissions. A regional utilization of
liquefied bio gas as a source to power delivery vehicles, agricultural machines and public transport
makes use of the locally produced CO2 in a cyclic manner. Hence, instead of releasing the CO2 back to
the environment as combustion gases like the conventional fuel utilization method, bio-LNG on the
other hand feedbacks CO2 as a source for energy carrier production process. Thus, the regionally
produced bio-LNG can reduce up to 80% of the CO2 emissions compared to the diesel fuel.
Gas- und Wärme-Institut Essen e.V. is known since more than 75 years as a well-recognized research
institute with a reputation reaching far beyond its home region of North Rhine-Westphalia. To its
member companies belong enterprises such as gas suppliers, equipment manufacturers, public
utilities and associations. The both R&D departments of industrial combustion technology and fuel
and appliance technology address the core issues of research and technology in order to develop
innovative solutions for the efficient and sustainable energy supply and utilization. The accredited
testing laboratory is one of the largest and most important in the gas industry in Germany. The
training and education centre conveys its practitioners in seminars and training courses new
techniques and methods.
Die EnergieAgentur.NRW arbeitet im Auftrag der Landesregierung von Nordrhein-Westfalen als
operative Plattform mit breiter Kompetenz im Energiebereich: von der Energieforschung,
technischen Entwicklung, Demonstration und Markteinführung über die Energieberatung bis hin zur
beruflichen Weiterbildung. In Zeiten hoher Energiepreise gilt es mehr denn je, die Entwicklung von
innovativen Energietechnologien in NRW zu forcieren und von neutraler Seite Wege aufzuzeigen, wie
Unternehmen, Kommunen und Privatleute ökonomischer mit Energie umgehen oder erneuerbare
Energien sinnvoll einsetzen können. Das Netzwerk Mobilität/Kraftstoffe und Antriebe der Zukunft
bietet eine Plattform für klima- und umweltfreundliche Mobilität und vernetzt u.a. Akteure aus
Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Kommunen.

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