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…
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…
GECOS at 14th SDEWES 2019 Paolo Colbertaldo and Matteo Giacomo Prina – members of the GECOS group – participated at the 14th SDEWES Conference, held in Dubrovnik on October 1st-6th, 2019.The conference gathered together scientists and researchers from all over the world to discuss about all aspects of sustainability. A relevant research effort is acknowledged…
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…
