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.…
Prof. Campanari on the radio about hydrogen storage technologies After the 2018 Italian Hydrogen Conference hosted at Politecnico di Milano on November 28th, Prof. Stefano Campanari – full professor at Politecnico di Milano and member of GECOS – was interviewed at the radio show SmartCity – Radio 24 to discuss about hydrogen storage options, with…
On November 28th, the Department of Energy of PoliMi hosted the Italian Hydrogen Conference “Stati Generali dell’Idrogeno e delle Celle a Combustibile” (H2FC2018), in collaboration with ENEA, H2IT, and HyLaw. The event was coordinated by Prof. Stefano Campanari (full professor at PoliMi and GECOS member) and Prof. Andrea Casalegno (full professor at PoliMi who collaborates…
The project started in November 2018 and during its 42 months lifetime will validate an innovative value chain for the production of green biodiesel from secondary biomass. Five innovative process units (Catalytic Cracking, BTX recovery, Sorption-Enhanced Reforming, Electrochemical Compression, Membrane MeOH synthesis Reactor) will be developed from TRL3 to TRL 5 and their integration will…
BIONICO project experience for the Energy Transition in the Po Valley Hydrogen replacing fossil fuels in transport The energy transition in the Po Valley (Italy): a shared infrastructure for hydrogen Emilia Romagna is one of the areas in Italy with the greatest number of economic activities and for this reason, as well as for a…
SolarTech Lab in the news Prof. Luca Molinaroli – co-founder and collaborator at SolarTech Lab – is interviewed at the radio show SmartCity – Radio 24, explaining the new concept made up of a hybrid (photo-voltaic and thermal) solar panel and a heat pump. The system is being developed and tested at SolarTech Lab and…