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…
Progetto H2020 LEILAC2: LOW EMISSIONS INTENSITY LIME AND CEMENT 2: DEMONSTRATION SCALE
C4U: Advanced Carbon Capture for steel industries integrated in CCUS Clusters Funded by the European Union H2020 programme, C4U is a holistic interdisciplinary project addressing all the essential elements required for the optimal integration of CO2 capture in the iron and steel industry as part of the CCUS chain. This spans demonstration of two highly…
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…
MACBETH – Membranes And Catalysts Beyond Economic and Technological Hurdles The MACBETH poject (Membranes And Catalysts Beyond Economic and Technological Hurdles) was funded within the H2020 European research platform. The project started in November 2019 and during its 54 months lifetime will validate industrial applicability of the Catalytic Membrane Reactor Technology through long-term operation of demo…
