First REYST MSc graduation

1.2.2010 District heating to fight fuel poverty and profitability of CO2 sequestration in basalt

Last Friday the first MSc students graduated from the international programme REYST – a cooperation
between Reykjavik Energy, the University of Iceland and Reykjavik University. A total of nine students
from five different countries finished MSc degrees in the fields of sustainable energy in either
engineering, geological sciences or business.

The event is historical as this was the first time the two universities graduate students with a
master’s degree. The graduation ceremony was held at the Reykjavik Energy headquarters and was attended number of people, including the student´s families.

The graduating students started their studies at REYST in August 2008 and four of the first group
finish this spring. The MSc project topics are very diverse and address themes such as the potential to use district heating in the UK to fight fuel poverty to a profitability study on sequestrating CO2 in basalt in Iceland. The table below contains information on the graduating students and the titles of their projects.

Árni Vignir Pálmason	Iceland	Wind power pumped storage system for hydropower plants.
Elísabet V. Ragnheiðardóttir	Iceland	Costs, Profitability and Potential Gains of the CarbFix Program.
Houssein Osman Guelleh	Djibouti	Automation of a geothermal power plant in Djibouti-type of suitable control equipment and degree of automation for Djibouti.
Indra Budi Suryata	Indonesia	Carbon Footprint Assessment and Its Reduction Efforts: The Case of Blue Lagoon Company.
Ingrid Michelle Austin	Scotland	Potential for District Heating as a solution to Fuel Poverty in the UK.
Jón Örn Jónsson	Iceland	A Commercial Feasibility Study of Renewable Methanol Production from Biomass Gasification in Iceland.
Martin Fleer	Germany	Heat recovery from the exhaust gas of aluminum reduction cells.
Rifqa Agung Wicaksono	Indonesia	Comparison of conductive and seismic properties in a geothermal area with emphasis on application of MT
Rut Bjarnadóttir	Iceland	Sustainability evaluation of geothermal systems in Iceland. Indicators for sustainable production.