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…
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.…
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…
GECOS at EFC19 GECOS was present at the 8th European Fuel Cell Conference in Naples, Italy, from December 9th to December 11th. The conference gathered together academic and industrial experts in the field of hydrogen production and use, and offered stimulating discussions about the evolution of fuel cells, electrolysers, and hydrogen-based devices, as well as…
TP Lab: GECOS is part of a new inter-departmental laboratory On November 18th, 2019, the cross-departmental laboratory “PT lab” (Process Thermodynamics laboratory) was inaugurated. Its activities involve the GECOS group from the Department of Energy together with the GASP group (Group on Advanced Separation Processes & GAS Processing) from the Department of Chemistry, Materials and…
Event “Mobility: Technologies and emissions” On November 6th, 2019, Politecnico di Milano hosted the event “Mobility: Technologies and emissions” (officially held in Italian as “Mobilità: tecnologie ed emissioni”), which was primarily organised by Dr. Davide Bonalumi, Prof. Stefano Campanari, and Prof. Giovanni Lozza – members of the GECOS group. The first part of the event…
PhD Defense and Graduation – Paolo Colbertaldo, Sonia Laura Gómez Aláez, Riccardo Simonetti On Tuesday, Oct 15th, 2019, Paolo Colbertaldo, Sonia Laura Gómez Aláez, and Riccardo Simonetti 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…
Prof. Campanari at The Hydrogen Challenge On October 10th-11th, 2019, Prof. Stefano Campanari – full professor at PoliMi and member of the GECOS group – partecipated at the event The Hydrogen Challenge and acted as Round Table Manager for the round table “Hydrogen Use and Demand” during the second day of the event. The event…
