ELENA CRESPI WINS THE 2023 YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD IN THE HYDROGEN SECTOR

The award was given by Hydrogen Europe Research, an international organization comprising 150 Universities and Research Centers from 29 countries. Elena Crespi, a researcher with Fondazione Bruno Kessler‘s  Center for Sustainable Energy (SE), was awarded the 2023 Young Scientist Award by Hydrogen Europe Research, an international organisation that includes 150 universities and research centers from 29 countries. The award ceremony took place […]

SWITCH is at the EU Hydrogen Week!

The European Hydrogen Week is the biggest annual event dedicated to hydrogen, and SWITCH could not miss it! The project is represented by the Project Coordinator Matteo Testi and the researcher Elena Crespi from the Center for Sustainable Energy of Fondazione Bruno Kessler.  Are you interested to know more about the project? Do not miss the opportunity: join […]

Seventh project meeting

The SWITCH Consortium met again online for the 7th project meeting. Another set of activities finished as the project is quickly entering in its final stage. In fact, both Work Package 4 and 5 respectively related to the Design and Construction of Components and the LSM Design and Testing have been concluded. The system has been […]

EPFL presented a poster at ECOS 2023

Wei Xinyi – researcher from EPFL – presented a poster at the 36th International Conference on efficiency, cost, optimisation, simulation and environmental impact of energy systems, in short ECOS 2023. The event took place in the week June 25-30, 2023, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and had the purpose to provide a forum for participants […]

SWITCH flies to Boston, US!

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, through the Group of Energy Materials unit, is Partner to the SWITCH project and is responsible for the system design activity (WP3), using its multi-objective and multi-period optimization tool to design the heat exchanger network capable of covering all loads and internal exchanges for switching the SOC between the operating […]

SolydEra brings SWITCH to the Hannover Fair!

SolydEra SA is Partner to the SWITCH project and is responsible for the design and construction of Balance of Plant components operating at high temperature. The company develops the Large Stack Module design for reversible operation, continuous hydrogen production, and is involved in the overall system design, construction and testing. Zacharie Wuillemin presented the SWITCH […]

Sixth project meeting

This last wee of March ends with the 6th project meeting of SWITCH, which took place online but saw the proactive involvement of all Partners. The WP Leaders presented their activities: a good number of tasks are coming to an end such as the LCA and techno-economic analysis and the design and selection of BoP […]

<strong>SWITCH and the annual date with the EFCF</strong>

The European SOFC & SOE Forum is a high-level international fuel cell & electrolyser event that every year offers a presentation of the state-of-the-art technology. In 2022, Switzerland hosted the 15th edition of EFCF and focused on “science, engineering, materials, systems, applications and markets for all types of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), Solid Oxide […]

<strong>SWITCH presented at Modelon Innovate 2022</strong>

The researcher Michele Bolognese, from Fondazione Bruno Kessler – FBK, participated in the Conference Modelon Innovate 2022 in Stockholm, last 19th of October.  With the presentation “rSOC System: Modeling and Control Development With Modelica-Based Language“, the researcher wished to present the model developed for the H2020 Projects PROMETEO and SWITCH.  The model enables the evaluation of a […]

SWITCH – CH2P Joint Workshop

On July 7, 2022 the SWITCH project presented the future exploitation during the final event of the CH2P Project. The CH2P project designed, constructed and tested a novel 20 kg/day SOFC prototype for flexible and multimodal co-generation of hydrogen, heat and power using bio-methane. The SWITCH project exploits and upscales the CH2P prototype by adding […]