Awardees of the 8th International Symposium on Feedstock
Recycling of Polymeric Materials (2015)
Oral presentation awardees
1, Aitziber Adrados,“Comparison of the biomass waste pyrolysis process in continuous screw and semibatch reactors”, University ofthe Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
I was really surprised when Dr. M.
Lehner said my name. I am very
grateful to the Scientific Committee
for selecting my presentation to beawarded.
I would like to thank the Organizing
Committee for the excellent organization ofthe 8th ISFR 2015 held in Leoben, and for theinteresting technical tour and enjoyable socialactivities; and especially to Dr. M. Lehner,
chairman of my session and of the whole
symposium, and to Dr. M. Bauer, ourcompanion over the gala dinner. This award
also belongs to Isabel de Marco and Blanca
M. Caballero, my colleagues at thesymposium, and to the rest of our research team, the Pyrolysis Group of the Environmental and ChemicalEngineering Department of Bilbao (Basque Country University).
Our Pyrolysis Group has been working over the last 25 years in pyrolysis of different waste materials likepolymeric materials (plastics, rubbers, resins, fiber reinforced polymers or composites), complex mixtures (urbansolid wastes, electrical and electronic wastes, end-of-life vehicles wastes, packet and packaging wastes, etc.) andbiomass.
The ISFR symposium is a very interesting opportunity to share information and experiences, and to make newcontacts with researchers working in our field. That is why our group tries to never miss this event which we havebeen attending since it came to our knowledge in 2005.

2, Amal S. Al-Rahbi,“Tar reduction from biomass gasification using waste derived pyrolysis chars”,
University of Leeds, UK.
I am greatly honoured to receive the best oralpresentation award at the 8th International
Symposium of Feedstock Recycling ofPolymeric Materials, Austria. My research isabout using chars produced from thepyrolysis of different waste materials as
catalyst for the catalytic cracking of biomass
pyrolysis gases during the two-stage
pyrolysis-gasification of biomass. The
degradation of the high molecular weighthydrocarbons and oxygenated hydrocarbons
from the pyrolysis of biomass over waste
derived chars has been investigated inrelation to the characteristics of the productpyrolysis chars.

I would like to thank the scientific committee and all the participants who showed a great interest in our research
work and I was really pleased with the encouraging feedback that I got. I am immensely grateful to my supervisor
Prof. Paul Williams for his outstanding support and continuous guidance. On behalf of my research team, I would
like to thank all the conference organizers who worked so hard towards making the 8th ISFR conference such asuccess. The conference was very useful, informative and enjoyable which helped me to get a profoundknowledge and have informal discussions with other researchers with a common interest.

3, Suguru Hirahashi,“Development of a recycling method for composite materials consisting of poly(ethyleneterephthalate) and poly(vinyl chloride)”,Tohoku University, Japan.
This time I feel very honored to participate
in the 8th ISFR and receive the ISFR Award
2015. I also appreciate teachers who provide
my research directions and the members ofISFR committee. As this was my firstinternational conference, I worried if I could
express my research. But I extended myknowledge through presentations withresearchers who study other fields and I
could have precious experience in thisconference. Since recycling of plastics is very
important agendas at the social level, I will
exert effort and make my researchcontributory to these solutions. Finally, I
would like to close my comments byappreciating all the participants and thisconference.

Poster presentation awardee
4, Joseba Andoni Salbidegoitia,“Preliminary studies on catalytic ABS hydrocracking”,
The University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
It is a huge pleasure for me to take part in 8th
ISFR in Leoben, Austria and receive with agreat honor this award for the poster“Preliminary studies of ABS hydrocracking”. I
wish to deeply thank Scientific Committee thatmy participation was selected for the poster
award and also thank all the people who havetaken part in this contribution. Many efforts
have been made to carry out this work and I
feel really happy that all those hard work hours
were successfully spent.
I also want to congrats to the other researchers
who were also awarded or have been
participated with their work. All thecontributions were very interesting and real advances for feedstock recycling of polymeric wastes. Finally, I would
like to appreciate the symposium organization for the preparation of this great environment for the congress. It was
really a useful time to learn and discuss about a common concern with many important researchers from all over
the world.