Energy: Hydrogen, ENEA leader of international conference on fuel cells

Viviana Cigolotti, head of the ENEA Laboratory of Energy Storage, Batteries and Technologies for Hydrogen Use and Production, has been appointed leader of the European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Piero Lunghi Conference (EFC23), organized by ATENA and ENEA, in collaboration with the Universities of Naples Parthenope and Perugia, which this year will take place in Italy, in Capri (Naples) on September 13-15, 2023.

The Conference wants to provide answers to the many open research issues on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, outlining the current state of affairs, perspectives, strategies, objectives and opportunities and promoting a systemic collaboration among industry, research institutions and institutions.

In this 10th edition of the event, scientists and representatives of institutions and industry from across the world will discuss technological progress, outcomes and challenges to be faced to make hydrogen a widespread energy vector, capable of contributing to decarbonisation, particularly in hard-to-abate industrial sectors, i.e. energy-intensive sectors, and in heavy road and iron transport.

The conference addresses numerous sectors: production, conversion and storage of hydrogen; biological processes in the green hydrogen value chain; hydrogen for industry and mobility; embedded systems. The focus of the poster session will be the dissemination of European projects on hydrogen technologies; it will be possible to participate by submitting the call for paper on research, development and application of hydrogen technologies, in particular fuel cells and electrolysers by June 30, 2023.

Viviana Cigolotti is a member of the board of Hydrogen Europe Research and leader of the Technical Committee TC4 "Heat&Power and Industry" of Hydrogen Europe Research. Furthermore, she is the Italian representative and vice chair of the Technology Collaboration Program Advanced Fuel Cell of the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Operating Agent of Task33 – Fuel Cell for Stationary Applications. Author of numerous scientific articles in international sector journals, the ENEA researcher also coordinates various national, European and international projects on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

"In recent years, growth prospects of the hydrogen economy and the various technologies involved are finding concrete applications at a national, European and global level, contributing to the achievement of the decarbonisation targets towards climate neutrality by 2050", pointed out Viviana Cigolotti . "In this context - she said- the EFC23 conference represents an extremely important forum to present the most recent technological advances in the field, sharing research findings and discussing with the political and industrial world to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and limit global warming.