Green your mind - mind your green

Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT)

Lappeenranta University of Technology | Strategia 2015 Yhdess

research | education | business and industry

GREEN CAMPUS
Skinnarila - Campus LUT + Saimia + Technopolis + LOAS
SkinnWind: windmill -30 m, 20 kW SkinnSolar: solar panels -200 m2 , 20 kW Smart Energy Grid System

Business and industry

SAMMIO

Joulella pisimmlle
Competition for electric vehicles CampusCar: electric cars, CamBus: electricbus CamBike: electric bicyles

Lappeenranta city and South-Karelia

Windmill & Schwbisch Hall -park

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20 kW 30 m tall 5,5 m blades Produces enough electricity for 3-8 domestic houses

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Solar park (as originally planned)

20 kW Will be on the roofs and parking lot Some of it has been installed and rest are going to be on spring Similar power to wind mill, so the comparison is valid

Weather station

www.saapalvelu.fi/lappeenranta We need weather information to compare energy production figures

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SmartGrid

Market players; TSO, DSO, supplier, aggregator

Grid
Active monitoring, optimisation and control of energy use and power flows

Information systems
Action signals based on optimization against different targets of system players

Actions at the customer gateway

Generation Solar, wind, fuel cell, biogas

ENERGY STORAGE
Loads; controllable, non-controllable

CampusCar

Two cars being part of SmartGrid-research Modified Toyota Prius hybrid ja Fully converted to electric vehicle VW Passat 3 charging stations coming, one for public.

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Electric bikes for students

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Sammio
Learning environment Brings different faculties together Students can build electric vehicles and other Green Campus- stuff

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Green Office

Environmental management program made during 2012 finished in september Constant improvement in sustainability issues Upcoming things: Improving metering of our buildings Improving control of lights Improving air conditioning and heating systems We also joined Kyyti.Net rideshare system
Also finding out possibilities to increase working from home

LUT Green Office :

Reducing electricity consumption by 10 % (almost 100 000 euros) Reducing use of paper by 10 % Reducing use of heat energy by 10 %

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Happenings

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CAMBUS - project

One example of research : Packaging line of the future

Whats happening next

Environmental manager started in February Goal is to get succesfully audited for ISO 14001 Solar plans expanded; We are building the biggest solar plant in Finland 220 kW 100-150 kW during this year and the rest during 2014

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Lappeenranta vs. Frankfurt solar power capacity

7 6 5

kWh/m2/d

4 3

Frankfurt, Saksa
2 1 0

Lappeenranta, Suomi

Kuukausi

Conclusion

Research environment

Education environment

Demonstration

Renewable energy and sustainable campus

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