GECOS at sCO2 Europe The GECOS group was present at the 3rd European conference on supercritical CO2 in Paris on September 19th-20th, 2019. A stimulating discussion with the sCO2 community and a lot of curiosity about the scarabeus and sco2flex projects! Prof. Giampaolo Manzolini talked about CO2 mixtures: “Supercritical carbon dioxide/alternative fluid blends for efficiency…
PhD Defense and Graduation – Cristina Elsido, Luca Moretti, Matteo Giacomo Prina On Tuesday, Sept 17th, 2019, Cristina Elsido, Luca Moretti, and Matteo Giacomo Prina defended their Doctoral Theses in front of an international Committee and were awarded a PhD in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology, in conclusion of their PhD Programme at Politecnico…
Social Energy research project The Social Energy research project (co-funded by Regione Lombardia, CUP number: E59J18000000009, June 2017 – November 2019) focuses on the sustainable production of biomethane from the anaerobic digestion of chicken manure, agricultural residues and other types of residual biomass. The primary objective of the POLIMI team is to make the biogas-to-biomethane…
PhD Defense and Graduation – Stefano Lillia and Matteo Zatti On Friday, Sept 6th, 2019, Stefano Lillia and Matteo Zatti concluded their PhD Programme in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology, defending their PhD Thesis in front of an international committee and achieving the PhD Title. Congratulations! Stefano Lillia, “Techno-economic analysis of aqueous ammonia based…
GECOS labs on national television On 15th June 2019, the newscast TGR-Lombardia talked about research laboratories at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano and focused on GECOS micro-cogeneration and microgrid labs. Sonia Leva, full professor at Politecnico di Milano who colaborates with GECOS in the Prophet Project, described the aim of optimising scheduling…
SCARABEUS: Supercritical CARbon dioxide/Alternative fluids Blends for Efficiency Upgrade of Solar power plants The aim of the SCARABEUS project is to demonstrate the capability of transcritical cycles, working with CO2-based binary mixtures in CSP plants, to reduce CAPEX (the target of the project is -30%) and OPEX (target -35%) with respect to state-of-the-art steam cycles, thus exceeding…
CONVERGE in the news Prof. Giampaolo Manzolini – associate professor at Politecnico di Milano and member of GECOS – was interviewed at the radio show SmartCity – Radio 24 to talk about the research project CONVERGE, which was recently awarded a 5-million-euro funding grant under the EU Programme H2020. The project studies a new process…
Sustainable and affordable biodiesel production GECOS is the coordinator of a new European H2020 Project that was recently awarded a € 5 million grant within the EU H2020 Program. The aim of CONVERGE (CarbON Valorisation in Energy-efficient Green fuels) is to develop a biodiesel production method that combines biomass gasification and carbon capture for negative…
Prof. Macchi on the radio about “Sun in a Box” Prof. Ennio Macchi – emeritus professor at Politecnico di Milano and founder of GECOS – was interviewed at the radio show SmartCity – Radio 24 to discuss about a recent research outcome on energy storage developed at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Boston, USA).…
Demonstration of a combined heat and power 2 MWe PEM fuel cell generator and integration into an existing chlorine production plant. The project started in January 2015 and was completed in December 2018. The project developed a CHP PEM fuel cell power plant to generate 2 MWel, recovering by-product hydrogen from a chlor-alkali industrial process.…
