Transcript PCiTAL

The Lleida Science and Technology Park:
an example of sustainability for the territory
Jordi Carbonell, Counsellor; Xavier Ticó, Project manager
Lleida ( Spain )
Scheme of the presentation
 Introduction
 Main features of Lleida region
 The Lleida Science and Technology Park strategies
 New opportunities, new projects
 Conclusion
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Introduction
 The mitigation of the problem of climate change and the
adaptation processes must be also developed at local and regional
level to be truly effective.
 The agreements on climate change can be developed through
precise policies and a sustainable model.
 The Scientific and Technological Parks can collaborate to
promote this sustainable model and to generate new business
opportunities in this field.
 The creation of the Lleida Science and Technology Park, six
years ago, has meant a real impulse of the green or sustainable
green economy in our region.
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Introduction
The object of this presentation is to present:
 Some specific strategies and examples of contribution from
the Lleida Science and Technology Park to a Global Green
Growth
 New opportunities and new projects in Lleida
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Main features of Lleida region: Strategic location
 Located 160 km from Barcelona (Spain)
 Within 2 hours of a potential market with 20 M people.
Location map of Lleida
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Main features of Lleida region: Economic strengths
 One of Europe’s most fertile and productive areas, with a wide
irrigation area.
 Main economic sectors:
• Agro-food industry (especially fresh fruit, olive oil, wine, pigs,
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poultry, dairy, bovine meat, fodder)
Animal nutrition
Cluster of irrigation technology and industrial and farm
machinery
Cluster of building auxiliary enterprises
Logistics, cold-storage industry, refrigerated transport
Services
 Area under a transformation process towards services of
added value related to agro-food industry.
 Intensive sectors related to knowledge and high technologies
are increasing: Health (functional food), Environment, Material
engineering, Audiovisual and Bio-products.
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Main features of Lleida region: the activities of the
University and Local Council
The University of Lleida:
 Long tradition, from XIII Century (700 years)
 Technical Colleges offering degrees on agro-food,
processing industry, crop science, industrial
engineering, forest engineering and biotechnology.
 An active role in the economical promotion of its
region and in its relationship with companies.
The Local Council leadership on important citizen
projects:
 Lleida Local Agenda 21
 Lleida Environmental Forum
 Lleida Energy Agency.
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The Lleida Science and Technology Park (PCiTAL)
strategies: summary
 The PCiTAL main buildings: an example of bioclimatic design
 The Centre for Agricultural and Forestry resources: a place for
research, experimentation and social awareness
 Enterprise incubator - new companies based on technology
and University spin-off companies
 Evalparc Project. Current experiences and successful cases
 Support to applied R+D+i projects
 Developing networking strategies: Master Degree on bioconstruction
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The Lleida Science and Technology Park (PCiTAL)
strategies: summary
 The Lleida Science and Technology Park was founded by the Lleida Council
and the University of Lleida in 2005 (6 years of activity).
 With the financial support of:
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The PCiTAL main buildings: an example of
bioclimatic design
The Park has recycled and old military headquarters to locate its R+D+I
offices following sustainable criteria.
Aerial view of the Park
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The PCiTAL main buildings: an example of
bioclimatic design
BIOCLIMATIC DESIGN
The most outstanding aspects of environmental innovation have been:
 Taking advantage of the existing conditions of the buildings:
• “Greenhouse-shade” yards between buildings
• Protection of energy gains
• Modulation of energy gains
• Natural ventilation
• Natural lighting
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The PCiTAL main buildings: an example of
bioclimatic design
General view of PCiTAL main buildings
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The PCiTAL main buildings: an example of
bioclimatic design
 Control of energy demand:
• Thermal isolation
• Statistic monitoring and control of temperatures
Graphics showing external temperature and yard
temperatures: difference of 10 ºC
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The PCiTAL main buildings: an example of
bioclimatic design
 Energy efficiency:
• Lighting
• Heating / Cooling
 Materials with low environmental impact: natural materials
and recycled/recyclable materials.
 Collecting rainwater and water produced by external
condensation from winter fogs.
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The Centre for Agricultural and Forestry resources: a place
for research, experimentation and social awareness.
“Arboretum” – Botanical garden
 7 hectares
 400 tree species, ordered according to 4 biomes and 18 landscapes
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The Centre for Agricultural and Forestry resources: a place
for research, experimentation and social awareness
“Arboretum” – Botanical garden
 With advanced technological solutions which favour easy and
economical maintenance
 It will allow educational and recreational programmes
 Accessible to handicapped people.
 It includes research projects in the fields of Botany, fruit growing
techniques and urban agriculture
 It also features old and modern agriculture systems and technologies
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Enterprise incubator - new companies based on technology
and University spin-off companies.
Spin-off emerged out of the University of Lleida related to environment sector:
 Precision agricultural production
systems. Research and development
lines lead to a reduction in crop residues
and to a lesser waste of environmental
and financial resources.
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Evalparc Project. Current experiences and successful cases
New intelligent feeding system to decrease environmental impact
and production costs in pig farms
 To significantly reduce (between 20 and
30%) the current environmental impact of pig
meat production by reducing polluting waste
 To increase feeding efficiency and to
reduce production costs by a precise
adjustment of supplied food according to
individual animal needs. That would mean
savings of 18-30% in protein consumption.
 To implement product traceability in order
to improve food security.
 To improve animal welfare.
 This system has been developed by the research group in precision
agriculture, agro-robotics and agro-technology of the University of Lleida, in
collaboration with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada.
With the support of:
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Evalparc Project. Current experiences and successful cases
High heat flux heat sink with adaptable profile of temperature
 The proposed system is a heat sink allowing the extraction of high
temperature flux density combining the heat extraction techniques through
impact jets and micro-channels.
 The problem solved by this system is the distribution control of local
extraction of temperature flux along the route of cooling fluids and therefore
that of the temperature distribution in the cooled object.
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Support to applied R+D+i projects
Technological Centre for the Bread Sector
The Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida
Functional food, nutrition and health
Catalan Wood Institute
Research fields focus on product
mechanical and physical properties
(especially of those used in building)
and the improvement of durability
against xylophages.
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Support to applied R+D+i projects
Forest fire digital prevention service
A daily fire occurrence prediction system is currently under
development. The system should predict a number of fires, daily, in the
10 x 10 km2 cells operationally used by the Ministry of Environment in
Spain for prevention and suppression purposes.
With the financial support of:
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Developing networking strategies: Master degree on
bio-construction
Master degree on bio-construction, pioneer in Spain
Promoted by ITL, University of Lleida in collaboration
with PCiTAL, in accordance with the German Institut
für Baubiologie + Oekologie Neubeuern (IBN)
Bio-construction is a discipline that promotes healthy construction, being
concerned about the relationships between buildings, environment and the
health of people living, working or studying in them.
There are some harmful factors to our health, often invisible, which must be
studied so that we can achieve more harmonious and healthy spaces:
• Artificial factors: electrical and electromagnetic pollution, ventilation,
atmospheric and acoustic pollution, substances coming from building
materials.
• Natural factors: telluric and geophysical alterations, presence of
gases from subsoil and radiations.
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New opportunities, new projects
 Lleida biotech
 Museum of Science, Environment and Climate
 The Kyoto House for demonstration (bioclimatic and
domotics)
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New opportunities, new projects: Lleida Biotech
The Lleida region possesses several conditions to become a pole of green biotechnology
industry (eco-product industry).
A cluster of white biotechnology industries is being encouraged, this is, the application
of biotechnology within the industrial field. Through biochemical processes several products
are manufactured: chemicals, energy products, materials, etc., all of them from natural
resources (non-food crops).
This noteworthy knowledge and economic potential, together with the new technological
infrastructures, have led to the creation of a new economic sector: the bio-product
industries, which convert biomass (non-food crops, forest biomass, urban plant waste, etc.)
by means of industrial and biotechnological processes, into bio-products like: bio-plastics,
bio-paints, bio-energy, bio-fuel and bio-construction materials.
www.lleidabiotech.com
Lleida Biotech is the leading name and trade mark used by the region to promote, within its
sphere of influence, the bio-product industries and to convert Lleida into a region determined
to promote eco-innovation.
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New opportunities, new projects: Lleida Biotech
What are Bio-products? One example: Bio-construction materials
Biomaterial research is being done in association with building material
manufacturers and crop growers.
House building and public infrastructures can also benefit from nature and the
properties of plant fibres. Raw materials of plant origin can give physical
properties to:
• Materials for isolation
• Light structural walls
• Finishing of floors, walls and concrete
• Eco-composites (biopolymers) that give lightness, mechanical
resistance and thermal isolation
• And for a near future, we are already talking about bio-metals
Raw materials: fibres such as flax, hemp, jute, agave, biopolymers.
Advantages: environmental, biodegradable, recyclable.
Technological and market challenges: development of alternative fibres
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New opportunities, new projects: Museum of climate
Museum of Science, Environment and Climate
Promoted by Lleida Council, Fundació “la Caixa” and Lleida Science and
Technology Park
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New opportunities, new projects: The Kyoto house
The Kyoto House for demonstration (bioclimatic and home automatics)
Promoted by Prefabricats Pujol, Asimelec (Spanish TIC and electronics
enterprises Association) and Lleida Science and Technology Park.
www.casakyoto.com
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Conclusion
The Lleida Science and Technology Park aims at exploring:
new innovative technologies in order to achieve more sustainable
areas and to develop new business through clusters of biomaterial
industry.
Its values are:
 Innovation
 Sustainability
 Commitment to the territory
We have endeavoured to present some specific strategies and
some examples of successful collaboration.
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Here you have some examples of
the contribution from Lleida
(Spain) to a Global Green Growth!
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Thank you
for your time
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