National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

Performance of Al₂O₃ hydrogen isotopes permeation barriers deposited on AISI 316L by Pulsed Laser Deposition

Hydrogen isotope permeation through structural alloys represents a critical challenge for tritium management in fusion systems. In this work, the performance of a 1 μm thick Al₂O₃ coating deposited by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) on AISI 316L stainless steel is quantitatively as...

Is compliance with the 3-30-300 rule associated with subjective citizens' well-being?

To address urban challenges and climate change, sustainable urban planning is essential for creating resilient and livable cities. The 3-30-300 rule proposes that every resident should see at least three mature trees from home, live in an area with at least 30% tree canopy cover,...

Comparative framework of solvent-assisted delamination for direct regeneration of NMC cathodes

Direct regeneration of lithium-ion battery cathodes offers a pathway to retain the embedded value of complex materials yet remains limited by inefficient separation and poorly understood surface transformations. Here, we establish a comparative framework for solvent-assisted dela...

Thermodynamic Optimization of a Triple Combined Cycle Power Plant: Integrating a Bottoming Organic Rankine Cycle into a 500 MWe Natural-Gas Combined Cycle

Combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) are the most efficient fossil-fuelled technology available today, yet a significant fraction of the fuel energy still leaves the plant with the heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) exhaust gases at temperatures too low to be exploited by a conv...

Adaptive Structural Productivity Modeling and Analytics for Software Projects

Productivity evaluation in industrial software projects is still predominantly based on aggregate Function Point-to-effort ratios. Such an approach overlooks the internal structural and functional heterogeneity of software projects, potentially leading to misleading comparisons b...

Thermalassessment of the operational conditions for the determination of the pre-heating strategy for the DONES Target Assembly

The European Roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy foresees the construction of the DEMO Oriented NEutron Source (DONES). It is a 5 MW accelerator-based neutron source capable of producing, by Li(d,n) stripping reactions, a neutron flux of ∼ 5 ∙ 10 14 neutrons/(cm 2 s) with...

Dust radiative effects and impact on energy production over the Mediterranean Basin

Abstract. Atmospheric aerosols are among the key factors affecting the Earth’s radiation budget, playing a fundamental role in understanding climate forcing, feedback mechanisms, and their impact on future climate projections and on solar energy systems. More specifically, dust a...

The role of controllable household appliances for effective uptake of digital services by consumers and communities in the energy transition

Digitalisation is transforming modern energy systems into complex socio-technical ecosystems where interconnected devices, user practices and governance structures must be considered together. To analyse this landscape and address relevant research questions concerning controllab...

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of energy storage and intermediate heat transfer systems for tokamak fusion reactors

The pursuit of sustainable and clean energy has intensified global interest in nuclear fusion, particularly through tokamak reactors, which are seen as promising candidates for safe and efficient energy generation. A crucial aspect of their development is the study of the Balance...

Fusion at scale: Critical enablers in global energy transitions

Fusion is a promising sustainable energy source that can potentially contribute to achieving the most ambitious climate goals with firm carbon-free baseload electricity. Due to recent advancements, fusion is transitioning from a purely research stage to a pre-commercialisation ph...

Detailed study of non-equilibrium characteristics of quasi-neutral TNSA plasmas

In an experiment performed in November 2022 at the petawatt (PW) laser facility at Vega III located in Salamanca-Spain, we have studied the successful production of several radioisotopes using protons accelerated by the Target Normal Sheath Acceleration (TNSA) mechanism (Rodrigue...

Development of a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach for monitoring marine port environments

Monitoring is an essential tool to understand the environment, periodically check processes in place, and highlight the occurrence of natural or human-induced changes, especially in case of anthropic environments, such as ports and their water bodies. To ensure that as much infor...