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Electrification of the Cement Industry: Outcomes from Sebastian Quevedo’s PhD Thesis Presented at GCCA Spring Week 2025

The results of Sebastian Quevedo’s PhD research on the electrification of the cement industry were presented during the 2025 Innovandi ...

Dario Alfani awarded by Fondazione NEST for excellence in research and innovation

— English news below — Il 12 marzo 2025, presso Palazzo Mezzanotte a Milano, si è tenuto l’evento “Inspire Leadership 2025”, ...

Prof. Manzolini on Il Sole 24 Ore: ACOE, the New Index Redefining Renewable Energy Costs

— english news below— La Fondazione NEST ha introdotto l’ACOE (“Actual Cost of Electricity”), un nuovo indice economico ideato dal ...

Professor Romano again on Radio24: Decarbonization in Transport and Methanol from Biomass

— english news below— Dopo essere stato ospite di un recente episodio del podcast “Energia in Evoluzione”, il Professor Matteo ...

Hydrogen water heater wins the Italian Hydrogen Technology Award and spotlight in “Il Sole 24 Ore”

The Hydrogen water heater co-developed by GECOS wins the Italian Hydrogen Technology Award and spotlight in “Il Sole 24 Ore” ...

Prof. Romano’s contribution for the podcast “Energy in Evolution”

Prof. Romano’s contribution on CO₂ Capture and Storage for the podcast “Energy in Evolution” by Il Sole 24 Ore — ...

PhD Defense and Graduation – Tristan Merbecks

PhD Defense and Graduation – Tristan Merbecks On Monday, October 28th, Tristan Merbecks defended his Doctoral Thesis in front of ...

First Powder2Power results at ASME Turbo Expo 2024

On June 24, 2024, Dario Alfani from Politecnico di Milano showcased key findings from the Powder2Power – Horizon Europe Project at the ...

Dr. Ettore Morosini receives the Gustavo Sclocchi Prize for Best PhD Thesis of the Year

Dr. Ettore Morosini receives the Gustavo Sclocchi Prize for Best PhD Thesis of the Year Ettore Morosini, who earned his ...

Dr. Paola Bombarda’s keynote at ORC21

Dr. Paola Bombarda’s keynote at ORC21 On October 11th, 2021, Dr. Paola Bombarda (Assistant Professor with GECOS at the Dept ...

GECOS awarded US-DOE-funded project HySteel

GECOS awarded a US-DOE-funded project on Hydrogen use in the steel industry (HYSTEEL) The GECOS group has been awarded a ...

Nuove sfide e scenari della transizione energetica

Online seminar “Nuove sfide e scenari della transizione energetica“ On Thursday, October 15th, 2020, Prof. Ennio Macchi (emeritus professor at ...

Paolo Colbertaldo receives AIMSEA PhD Award 2020

Dr. Paolo Colbertaldo receives the AIMSEA PhD Thesis Award 2020 We are pleased to announce that Dr. Paolo Colbertaldo – ...

HiPowAR kick-off meeting

Kick-off for the EU research project HiPowAR: Ammonia as synthetic fuel without CO2 emissions A kick-off meeting at the Leibniz ...

Alessandro Poluzzi receives EUBCE2020 Student Award

Alessandro Poluzzi receives the EUBCE2020 Student Award We are pleased to announce that Alessandro Poluzzi – PhD Student with the ...

GECOS at EFC19

GECOS at EFC19 GECOS was present at the 8th European Fuel Cell Conference in Naples, Italy, from December 9th to ...

GECOS is partner of a new chemical lab

TP Lab: GECOS is part of a new inter-departmental laboratory On November 18th, 2019, the cross-departmental laboratory “PT lab” (Process ...

Event “Mobility: Technologies and emissions”

Event “Mobility: Technologies and emissions” On November 6th, 2019, Politecnico di Milano hosted the event “Mobility: Technologies and emissions” (officially ...

PhD Graduation Colbertaldo Gómez-Aláez Simonetti

PhD Defense and Graduation – Paolo Colbertaldo, Sonia Laura Gómez Aláez, Riccardo Simonetti On Tuesday, Oct 15th, 2019, Paolo Colbertaldo, ...

Prof Campanari at The Hydrogen Challenge

Prof. Campanari at The Hydrogen Challenge On October 10th-11th, 2019, Prof. Stefano Campanari – full professor at PoliMi and member ...

GECOS at SDEWES2019

GECOS at 14th SDEWES 2019 Paolo Colbertaldo and Matteo Giacomo Prina – members of the GECOS group – participated at ...

GECOS at sCO2 Europe

GECOS at sCO2 Europe The GECOS group was present at the 3rd European conference on supercritical CO2 in Paris on ...

PhD Graduation Elsido Moretti Prina

PhD Defense and Graduation – Cristina Elsido, Luca Moretti, Matteo Giacomo Prina On Tuesday, Sept 17th, 2019, Cristina Elsido, Luca ...

PhD Graduation Lillia and Zatti

PhD Defense and Graduation – Stefano Lillia and Matteo Zatti On Friday, Sept 6th, 2019, Stefano Lillia and Matteo Zatti ...

GECOS labs on TV

GECOS labs on national television On 15th June 2019, the newscast TGR-Lombardia talked about research laboratories at the Department of ...

CONVERGE in the news

CONVERGE in the news Prof. Giampaolo Manzolini – associate professor at Politecnico di Milano and member of GECOS – was ...

GECOS coordinates the CONVERGE project

Sustainable and affordable biodiesel production GECOS is the coordinator of a new European H2020 Project that was recently awarded a ...

Prof. Macchi about MIT research “Sun in a Box”

Prof. Macchi on the radio about “Sun in a Box” Prof. Ennio Macchi – emeritus professor at Politecnico di Milano ...

Hydrogen storage in the news

Prof. Campanari on the radio about hydrogen storage technologies After the 2018 Italian Hydrogen Conference hosted at Politecnico di Milano ...

Hydrogen for the Energy Transition

On November 28th, the Department of Energy of PoliMi hosted the Italian Hydrogen Conference "Stati Generali dell'Idrogeno e delle Celle ...

BIONICO (H2020): the Energy Transition

BIONICO project experience for the Energy Transition in the Po Valley Hydrogen replacing fossil fuels in transport The energy transition ...

SolarTech Lab in the news

SolarTech Lab in the news Prof. Luca Molinaroli – co-founder and collaborator at SolarTech Lab – is interviewed at the ...

GECOS group wins DOE-funded project to develop CO2-Capture demonstration plant

Engineering-Scale Demonstration of Mixed-Salt Process for CO2 Capture Politecnico di Milano will participate in the DOE-funded project FE0031588 SRI International ...

CHP-DESIGN

CHP-DESIGN An innovative web-tool to support the design of CHP and CCHP plants. Ready to use and expressly developed for ...

G-Educational

G-Educational #1 The GECOS group presents the first appointment with the G-Educational Series!! In this occasion Prof. Paolo Chiesa and ...

FresMe Workshop

FReSMe Workshop Carbon capture and Utilization for CO2 emissions reduction The FReSMe workshop will introduce the participants to the motivations ...

GRASSHOPPER Press release

GRASSHOPPER: Next generation of flexible and cost-effective MW-size Fuel Cell Power Plant The GRASSHOPPER (GRid ASsiSting modular HydrOgen Pem PowER ...