Il Politecnico di Milano is coordinating the project ACE-STES Increasing the autonomy of electric vehicles in winter through advanced thermal energy storage technology that reduces the amount of energy used for air conditioning in the passenger compartment during colder months: this is the main objective of the PRIN project “Air Conditioning of Electric Vehicles by Sorption Thermal Energy Storage technology” (ACE-STES),…
Research funded by the Kavli Foundation and Carbon Hub investigates the potential of carbon nanotubes in the energy transition An international team, which includes researchers from Politecnico di Milano, Rice University, University of Cambridge, Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara and other U.S. and European universities, has received $4 millions in funding from Kavli Foundation and the Carbon Hub of the Rice…
ReLab is leading the development and demonstration of advanced industrial energy efficiency solutions in the European PUSH2HEAT project The General Assembly of the European PUSH2HEAT project has just finished in Valencia. It was attended by Tommaso Toppi and Gianluca Abrami from ReLab, a research group at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano. The…
Objective: decarbonise the district heating and cooling sector The actions of the Support DHC project, co-financed by the European Union under the LIFE programme, the financial instrument for the environment and climate action, have officially started. The 3-year project aims to support the transformation of the District Heating and Cooling (DHC) sector – i.e. the…
PYSOLO will develop a biomass pyrolysis process using concentrated solar power. Politecnico di Milano is coordinating a consortium of nine partners from four European countries who will work on the four-year PYSOLO (PYrolysis of biomass by concentrated SOLar pOwer) project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme with around 5 million euros.…
Glide4Heat research will promote the transformation of heat pump and chiller technologies Under the coordination of Prof. Luca Molinaroli, the Glide4Heat research project, funded by the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) within the framework of Projects of Significant National Interest (PRIN), has officially started. The project aims to revolutionise the use of ecological refrigerants…
Energy management systems for intelligent islands Kick-off meeting of the MESSI project at the Department of Energy, with lecturers and researchers from Politecnico of Milan and the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. The MESSI (Management Energy Systems for Smart Islands) project aims to integrate and develop innovative devices and algorithms for efficient energy management in…
The URBEM project (Urban Reference Buildings for Energy Modelling) funded by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR) as a Project of Outstanding National Interest (PRIN) was presented by Francesco Causone, its coordinator, and Martina Ferrando in September at the Buidling Simulation 2023 in Shanghai and at Tongji University. Francesco Causone and Martina Ferrando at…
Integrated multi-sector platform for national energy transition planning The MIMO (Multi-sectoral Integrated Modelling platform for planning national energy transition pathways) project aims to develop a new multi-disciplinary modelling platform based on the integration of energy, micro- and macro-economic models. This platform will make it possible to determine how and where economic resources should be allocated…
The study is the cover story of the Journal of the American Chemical Society A study resulting from a collaboration between the Department of Energy and the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano and the Department of Chemistry at University of Bologna has been published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society as…