Greenhouse gases emission of power generation plants will be continuously tightened to achieve European targets in terms of CO2 emissions. In particular, the switching to a sustainable power generation using fossil fuels will be strongly encouraged in the future. In this context,...

Fuel cell-based CHP systems for distributed residential power generation represent an interesting alternative to traditional thermoelectric plants. This is mainly due to the high efficiency obtainable in the production of electricity and heat in a decentralised, quiet and environmental friendly way.

The use of fuel cell systems for distributed residential power generation represents an interesting alternative to traditional thermoelectric plants due to their high efficiency and the potential recovering of the heat generated by the internal electrochemical reactions. In this paper the study...

The development of a sustainable power generation using fossil fuels will be strongly encouraged in the future in order to achieve European targets in terms of CO2 emissions. In this context, sorption-enhanced steam reforming (SE-SR) is a promising process that can be implemented as a CCS...

In the last years the interest in hydrogen as an energy carrier is significantly increased both for vehicle fuelling and stationary energy production by fuel cells. The benefits of a hydrogen energy policy are the reduction of the greenhouse effect and the centralization of the emission sources....

The production of hydrogen combined with carbon capture represents a possible option for reducing CO2 emissions in atmosphere and anthropogenic greenhouse effect. Nowadays the worldwide hydrogen production is based mainly on natural gas reforming, but the attention of the scientific community is...

The present work deals with the problem of monitoring and diagnosis, through non-intrusive methodologies, of stationary internal combustion engine, with particular attention to the cogenerative 1MW unit installed at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Perugia. Specifically, acoustic and...

In the present study an innovative diagnostic system of the combustion process, developed especially for cogenerative reciprocating engines, is introduced. This work is part of a more wide research activity, dedicated to the development of diagnostic systems for energy plants. This system is...

This paper contributes to the development of a thermo-dynamic model of the 1 MW cogenerative internal combustion engine (I.C.E.), including also an artificial neural network simulator of the electronic control module. Such a study is part of a more wide research activity, concerning the...