Research on hydrogen (but not only) combined with artificial intelligence to create steel furnaces and combustion processes that are increasingly sustainable from an environmental point of view. Briefly, this is the objective of the agreement signed by the University of Genoa and Danieli Centro Combustion, for the development of training and research activities in the direction of decarbonisation.
Danieli is an Italian multinational active in the design and construction of iron and steel plants and for the production of metals, with more than 10 thousand employees worldwide and over 25 divisions specialized in the transformation chain.
Research center in Savona
The Combustion division has its operational headquarters in Genoa and a research laboratory within the University Campus of Savona, which is the place where the high energy efficiency and low impact burners designed by the company are tested on a semi-industrial scale.
The collaboration agreement just signed provides for the coordination of joint research and training activities and aims above all, explains a note, “at a collaboration towards environmental sustainability, with the aim of developing knowledge of industrial combustion processes in order to reduce emissions. In particular, attention will be focused on the study of combustion processes fueled by natural gas with very low polluting emissions, hydrogen and the application of digital technologies and artificial intelligence ».
Experimentation on the use of hydrogen
The agreement, which was presented under the aegis of the Liguria Region, “seals a significant business-university collaboration – explains Federico Delfino, rector of Unige – aimed at conducting joint research in an increasingly strategic sector for today’s world, such as that of the energy transition. In particular, the study on the use of hydrogen for applications in the reconversion, with a view to environmental sustainability, of steel furnaces will be studied in depth ».