Dr. Paola Bombarda’s keynote at ORC21 On October 11th, 2021, Dr. Paola Bombarda (Assistant Professor with GECOS at the Dept. of Energy of PoliMI) held a keynote at the 6th International Seminar on ORC Power Systems (ORC21). Originally planned in Munich, the event took place online due to the ongoing pandemic. The title of her…
CO2OLHEAT: supercritical CO2 power cycles demonstration in Operational environment Locally valorising industrial waste HEAT CO2OLHEAT aims at demonstrating at TRL 7 the operation of a 2 MW Waste-Heat-to-Power (WH2P) system based on supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycle. This first-of-a-kind waste heat-sCO2 plant will be installed in the CEMEX cement manufacturing plant in Prachovice (CZ) and…
HIghly efficient POwer production by green Ammonia total oxidation in a membrane Reactor The HiPowAR (HIghly efficient POwer production by green Ammonia total oxidation in a membrane Reactor) project aims at developing a power generation system that adopts a novel membrane reactor where ammonia is oxidized at high pressure using oxygen separated from air through…
GECOS awarded a US-DOE-funded project on Hydrogen use in the steel industry (HYSTEEL) The GECOS group has been awarded a new and challenging project on Hydrogen use in the steel industry (HYSTEEL), funded by the United States Department of Energy (US-DOE). The project is led by University of California Irvine (UCI), with the participation of…
Geothermal energy will play a key role in the energy transition as part of mitigating climate change. But how to operate a geothermal system in the most efficient and safe manner? This is the most important and urgent question after a geothermal resource has been identified. EASYGO will answer that question from different perspectives, integrating…
Online seminar “Nuove sfide e scenari della transizione energetica“ On Thursday, October 15th, 2020, Prof. Ennio Macchi (emeritus professor at Politecnico di Milano and founder of the GECOS research group) will moderate an online seminar (in Italian) titled “Nuove sfide e scenari della transizione energetica“, featuring a conversation with Prof. Maurizio Delfanti (RSE) and Prof.…
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Paolo Colbertaldo – former PhD Student and current Post-Doc Fellow with GECOS – is one of three awardees of the AIMSEA PhD Thesis Award 2020, which is assigned annually by the Italian Association for Fluid Machinery and Energy and Environment Systems (AIMSEA) to recognize the three best PhD…
Kick-off for the EU research project HiPowAR: Ammonia as synthetic fuel without CO2 emissions A kick-off meeting at the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP) in Greifswald marked the start of the EU project HiPowAR. Aim of the project is to develop a groundbreaking technology for the direct conversion of energy from renewable…
Alessandro Poluzzi receives the EUBCE2020 Student Award We are pleased to announce that Alessandro Poluzzi – PhD Student with the GECOS group – received the Student Award for his contribution titled Techno-Economic Analysis of Flexible Power & Biomass-to-Methanol Plants, in occasion of the 28th EUBCE – European Biomass Conference & Exhibition on 6-9 July 2020. The…
The vision of the project is to support the rapid and large-scale delivery of CCUS technology in the refineries sector – by 2025 – with follow-on projects in place from 2030. We expect to achieve at least a 30% reduction in CO2 capture costs for refineries and a 90% increase in the overall rate of CO2 capture. We aim to do this…
