Two AURIGA doctoral students — Vitor Regert and Djamel Eddine Aissaoui — took part in the 21st UIT Summer School, Pushing the frontiers of thermal-fluid simulations, held at the Certosa di Pontignano near Siena from 31 August to 4 September 2026, and presented their work alongside the other doctoral students attending. The school is organised […]
At the 2026 Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) in Gran Canaria, Alberto Arici presented an oral contribution on the use of ionic liquids for CO₂ capture, with a particular focus on their application in bubble columns. The work was also published as an archival conference paper. Ionic Liquids for […]
Three AURIGA doctoral students — Alberto Arici, Vitor Regert and Djamel Eddine Aissaoui — presented their work at CHISA 2026, the 28th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, held in Prague from 23 to 28 August 2026. Djamel Eddine Aissaoui’s contribution to the congress poster competition won the best poster award. Best poster award […]
On 31st of July 2026 Khaled Sayed Gad joined the AURIGA team as a contracted researcher, bringing to the project a specialisation in energy system modelling and decision-making under deep uncertainty. Khaled is a researcher in the SESAM (Sustainable Energy System Analysis and Modelling) group at the Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano. He holds […]
Stefanie Rauchenzauner, postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Kepler University Linz, spent a visiting period at the Department of Energy from 6 July to 30 September 2026, working on the project Model development for numerical simulations of bubble columns based on experimental data. She works on the multi-scale modelling of multi-phase flows, with a focus on the […]
Within AURIGA’s bubble-scale work package, Djamel Eddine Aissaoui is characterising the lift force on single bubbles in linear shear flow, using Particle Shadow Velocimetry at HZDR. Single-bubble dynamics are targeted as a key building block for the project’s broader theoretical aim of modelling flow regime transitions in multi-phase fluid dynamics. Accurate closure models for the […]
On 1 July 2026 Stefano Puricelli joined the AURIGA team as a contracted researcher, bringing to the project a specialisation in Life Cycle Assessment. Stefano is a postdoctoral researcher with extensive experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). He holds a master’s degree in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering and a European joint doctorate in Environmental […]
At the 43rd UIT International Heat Transfer Conference in Turin, Nicolò Varallo presented the project’s first measurements of the drag coefficient of single bubbles rising in a water–ionic liquid mixture. Preliminary assessment of the drag coefficient of single bubbles rising in a water–ionic liquid mixtureN. Varallo, D. E. Aissaoui, A. Ferrario, H. Hessenkemper, G. Besagni43rd […]
The small-scale experimental facilities of the project have been designed, built and commissioned — closing tasks C.1 and C.2 and opening the measurement campaigns of the bubble-scale work package. The bubble-scale rig is a rectangular-section bubble column operated at ambient conditions, with liquid recirculation to renew the liquid depleted by CO₂ absorption. Its purpose is […]
On the 4th of February Dr. Hessenkemper started a three week visiting period to share his expertise on experimental techniques for bubble-image analysis and give a seminar on AI methods for optical multiphase-flow experiments. Why the technique matters here Particle Shadow Velocimetry is a direct in-line illumination method: the bubbles and the tracer particles are […]