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Mrs. Alexandra-Roxana Vrinceanu

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Changes in climate suitability of Romanian vineyards Call name: P 5.1 - Proiecte de Cercetare Exploratorie - Competiția 2023
PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-1875 2025 - 2027

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Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE GEOGRAFIE

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE GEOGRAFIE (RO)

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Abstract:

The proposal “Changes in climate suitability for Romanian Vineyards (CARVE)” focuses on the impact of climate change on viticulture, an important and evolving economic activity in Romania, the 6th largest wine producer of the European Union and the 12th in the world.

Recent and projected climate change in Romania will be assessed using high-resolution (1 km²) observational datasets and climate scenarios, for periods ranging from 1951 to 2100, in order to provide the spatial distribution of climatic suitability for vineyards for current and projected conditions at country level.

A network of autonomous weather stations will be installed in selected vineyards for an improved monitoring of local climatic conditions.

The project results will be published in an open-access digital atlas. Considering that the last comprehensive study on viticultural zoning in Romania dates from the 1990s, and drastic climatic changes occurred in Romania over the last decades, CARVE will provide a necessary, updated climate zoning of vineyards at national level.

CARVE represents an innovative attempt to connect the applications of climate downscaling techniques to viticulture in Romania, characterizing the current and past state of climate in relation to vineyards and wine grape demands, and depicting how viticulture could cope when exposed to possible future climate scenarios.

HOLISTICS OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES ON ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE Call name: P 1 - SP 1.2 - Proiecte complexe realizate in consorții CDI
PN-III-P1-1.2-PCCDI-2017-0404 2018 - 2021

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA MARITIMA DIN CONSTANTA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA MARITIMA DIN CONSTANTA (RO); INSTITUTUL DE GEOGRAFIE (RO); UNIVERSITATEA "ŞTEFAN CEL MARE" DIN SUCEAVA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU ELECTROCHIMIE SI MATERIE CONDENSATA - INCEMC TIMISOARA (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU INGINERIE ELECTRICA ICPE - CA BUCURESTI (RO); UNIVERSITATEA TEHNICA DIN CLUJ - NAPOCA (RO)

Affiliation: INSTITUTUL DE GEOGRAFIE (RO)

Project website: https://cmu-edu.eu/horesec/

Abstract:

The HORESEC project supports intelligent specialization in the energy field through a holistic analysis of renewable energy sources impact on climate change and on each other, fulfilling the objectives of sustainable development as well as advanced and progressive knowledge. Accelerate integration of RES set a new world record regarding grid’s capacity to absorb intermittent energy, which is specific to renewable energy production, was driven by a fast reduction of related technologies expenses. Increased share of RES in energy production greatly complicates the operation of current systems requiring new long-term storage solutions, developed in the HORESEC project. It will be carried out on a pilot plant test solutions for dynamic adaptation of the system to increase RES share in the energy production, including long-term storage solutions. The objectives are: Establishing the main climatological and environmental parameters with impact on RES and reciprocally. By realizing the mathematical model of the analyzed factors evolution, will be identified the climatological, environmental and social indicators associated with the RES dynamics, which will be subsequently verified on the developed pilot installation; Efficiency of energy production through new technologies and algorithms to optimize the RES response by developing new methods and measurement models; By analyzing complex compounds of biofuels, will be defined a matrix of biofuels, which shall be tested on a pilot combustion plant and on a diesel engine with the aim of obtaining new patentable technologies. The use of biomass will take place in an integrated stream with the production and storage of hydrogen and methanisation and ultimately sustainable reduction of CO2 emissions; Finding innovative storage solutions for medium and long term; Demonstration of project feasibility through experimental determinations on a pilot plant, facilitating the acquisition of research results by the industrial environment.

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