The Organizing Committee, Professor Wolfgang Leuckel - University of Karlsruhe,  Professor John Ward - University of Glamorgan and Professor Albino Reis invite potential delegates to visit the conference website http://www.cenertec.pt/infub/ for current information about the 9TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL FURNACES AND BOILERS (INFUB-9) which will be held at the Palacio Estoril Hotel, in Estoril, Portugal, from the 26th to the 29th of April 2011 (the week after Easter).
 
Deadline for submission of Abstracts: 10 August 2010.

Keynote Lectures confirmed:
 
TECHNICAL SYSTEMS FOR BIOMASS GASIFICATION – CHALLENGES AND POTENTIAL
Prof. Thomas Kolb
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
 
FLUIDISED BED COMBUSTION OF BIOMASS
Prof. Bo Leckner
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
 
LABORATORY TECHNIQUES IN SUPPORT OF THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF FURNACES AND BOILERS: ACQUISITION OF FUNDAMENTAL DATA
Prof. Denis Dugwell
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
 
GAS TURBINES IN COMBINED CYCLE PLANTS
Dr. Klaus Doebbeling
ALSTOM Switzerland Ltd, Switzerland
 
SLAGGING AND FOULING IN UTILITY BOILERS
Dr. Flemming Frandsen
Denmark Technical University, Denmark
 
ADVANCED MONITORING TECHNIQUES FOR COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS
Prof. Yong Yan
University of Kent, United Kingdom

CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION AND REFORMING
Dr. Tobias Pröll
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON THE OPERATION OF CEMENT KILNS
Dr. Morten Boberg Larsen
FLSmidth A/S, Denmark
 
OXY-COAL COMBUSTION FOR POWER GENERATION
Prof. Hartmut Spliethoff
Technical University of Munich, Germany