Mar 07, 2019
Innovative technologies at reduced costs to quickly identify degradation elements on bridges and viaducts. These are some of the proposals that ENEA launched at the conference "Monitoring and evaluation of bridges and viaducts – Current situation and perspectives", several months after the collapse of the Polcevera viaduct in Genoa. Some of the top experts in the sector participated in the event in Rome, which aimed at identifying solutions for the protection and preventive maintenance of these strategic infrastructures.
Mar 07, 2019
Hi-tech systems for dynamic wireless charging, experimental investigations to increase battery safety, IT tools and studies to promote diffusion of electric mobility and support local administrations, public transport companies and charging infrastructure managers. These are some of the innovative technologies and activities conducted by ENEA and several universities as part of the 2015-2017 Electrical System Research Program approved by the Ministry of Economic Development, Involving over 50 researchers with a total investment of about 5 million euro. The results were presented in Rome during the conference "New scenarios of electric mobility: technological upgrading, potentials and impacts of electric mobility", attended by experts, operators of the sector and members of the institutions and the academic world.
Mar 07, 2019
An innovative system of Earth observation from space for the assessment of volumes and the analysis of rubble, the evaluation of safety of cultural assets and hydro-geological criticalities, "macroseismic" investigations for the study of the effects of earthquakes on buildings, territorial planning with seismic microzonation. But also a remedy patented by ENEA for the treatment of wounds, with healing, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. These are the ENEA interventions conducted as a member of the Operational Committee of the Civil Protection Department, following the earthquakes which hit central Italy in 2016-2017
Mar 07, 2019
Four SMEs from across Italy received the "Confindustria-AISEM Innovation Award" during the 20th edition of the National Conference of the Italian Sensors and Microsystems Association (AISEM), organized by ENEA, University of Naples "Federico II" and Confindustria Campania.
Mar 07, 2019
Minister Trivan's trip to Rome was an opportunity to seal the collaboration on environmental protection between the two governments, Serbian and Italian, and the research institutions of the two countries, primarily with ENEA of which he visited some plants.
Mar 07, 2019
The 34th Summer Campaign of the National Research Program in Antarctica (PNRA9), during which more than 50 scientific projects were conducted thanks to the participation of 212 researchers and technicians from institutions across Italy, ended today. After having performed the safety operations for plants and infrastructures, the last group left the "Mario Zucchelli" base to return to New Zealand aboard the "Happy Delta" Dutch cargo ship
Feb 21, 2019
A multidisciplinary team of ENEA researchers has developed an innovative methodology to predict the intensity and path of "rivers of mud", a type of landslide with particularly catastrophic effects, and identify areas and infrastructures at risk. The novelty of the methodology lies in an approach based on cross-checking geographical, historical and territorial data, as well as field studies conducted during the landslides of Messina and on risk mitigation tests conducted in Afghanistan (1) with World Bank funds.
Feb 21, 2019
A system that makes it possible to separate, classify and reuse waste, turning it from problem to resource and preserving the Antarctic ecosystem. It’s the circular economy model that ENEA has applied to the Italian "Mario Zucchelli" base in Antarctica, based on the separate collection of plastic, tetrapak, glass, cardboard, copper, steel and organic residues in order to minimize the use of incinerator.
Feb 21, 2019
Creating an innovative and low-cost medical device for increasingly precocious, accurate and rapid diagnosis of tumors, through a simple blood or urine analysis: this is the objective of the project ADVISER, funded by Regione Lazio with approximately 400 thousand euro, and coordinated by the computer engineering company Kell srl in collaboration with ENEA, the ARES Consortium of Rome and the National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems.
Feb 21, 2019
At the start a survey targeted at the operators of the construction sector on the use of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) to improve the energy performance of buildings throughout their life cycle. BIM is a digital model of the physical and functional characteristics of a building during its entire life cycle, enabling experts and technicians to dialogue and share the various processes relating to construction, management, maintenance and demolition of buildings, reducing costs and 'the environmental impact.
Feb 21, 2019
Promoting the requalification of Italian real estate assets by presenting to the professional and business world how tax deductions such as ‘ecobonus’ and ‘sismabonus’ work and the opportunities they provide, in the light of the last Budget Law.
Feb 07, 2019
A laboratory 25.5 meter below sea level in the icy Antarctic waters of the Ross Sea to study climate by analyzing the growth of calcium carbonate skeletons of coralline algae and marine invertebrates like bryozoans. This is the objective of the two-year project "Ice-ClimaLizers", coordinated by ENEA as part of the 34th Italian expedition to Antarctica, in collaboration with two CNR institutes (Marine Sciences of Bologna and Engineering of the Sea of Genoa), the Institute of Oceanology of Sopot (Poland), the University of Portsmouth and the Museum of Natural History of London (United Kingdom) and the University of Burgundy (France). Funded by the National Program for Research in Antarctica (PNRA), Ice-ClimaLizers (Antarctic biomineralizers as proxies of climate change) is the first Italian climate project focusing on the role of Antarctic biomineralizers as indicators of climate change and in particular of ocean acidification.
Feb 07, 2019
ENEA will provide technical assistance to Algeria on energy efficiency and renewables, as a member of the partnership which won the tender launched in 2017 by EuropeAid, in which took part 15 participants .
Feb 07, 2019
An ENEA study, published in the international journal BMC Genomics, opens new perspectives for the production of natural rubber in Europe. Natural rubber, a raw material of particular technological and commercial importance, cannot be replaced with artificial rubber in many applications. In recent years, interest has grown for the identification and the study of new plant species capable of producing this material. Researchers from the Genomics team of the ENEA Trisaia Research Center have found interesting potentials in the Russian dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz) as an alternative to the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), which cannot be grown at our latitudes and is greatly at risk due to phytopathological problems.
Feb 07, 2019
ROTH₂O is the first roundabout improving urban traffic by avoiding sudden flooding from extreme weather events, thanks to an underground reservoir holding up to 70 cubic meters of water[1]. Designed by an all-female team, ROTH₂O won the 1st edition of Climathon-Rome, the marathon of ideas against climate change organized by ENEA and Roma Capitale. "We are closely following the work of these young researchers, supporting them in the design of each single part of the roundabout with a detailed analysis of the implementation costs. The objective is submitting the project to companies as soon as possible, and some companies in the building sector have already shown some interest", Gabriele Zanini, Head of the ENEA Division" Models and Technologies for the Reduction of Anthropic Impacts and Natural Hazards ", explained.
Jan 24, 2019
A GPS navigator both in Italian and in English, a website and an App, 9 cultural itineraries and over 50 tales to enrich the cultural offer of the southern Italian city Matera, the 2019 European Capital of Culture, known to most as the city of the Sassi. These are the features of "Smart Culture and Tourism", a project for sustainable tourism development and enhancement of urban, cultural and landscape heritage in the Basilicata Region, also awarded by the PA Forum among the 25 best travel Apps promoting the regions of Southern Italy.
Jan 24, 2019
Creating a scientific international hub of excellence on fusion and production of radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of tumors at the ENEA Brasimone Research Center, halfway between Florence and Bologna. It’s one of the keypoints of the Memorandum of Understanding signed by ENEA and the regional administrations of Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany to promote and valorize the expertise and large experimental equipment of the Center, dedicated to safe and sustainable nuclear technologies.
Jan 24, 2019
ENEA has patented a method to purify biogas and use it as fuel for transport and electricity production. It’s a time and cost competitive process providing for the elimination of a harmful compound like hydrogen sulphide by turning it into sulfur, thanks to particular bacteria, made more efficient by the wavelengths of LED illumination.
Jan 24, 2019
Identifying innovative manufacturing processes with reduced environmental impact in the tanning industry, with a circular economy approach. It’s the goal of the three-year partnership agreement between ENEA and the Experimental Station for the Leather Industry (SSIP), signed by their Presidents Federico Testa and Graziano Balducci.
Jan 10, 2019
In the third quarter of 2018, electricity prices for Italian households reached the peak of the decade, while there were double-digit increases (+ 10%) for medium-sized companies. In addition, energy consumption slowed down: + 1% as compared with + 3.2% in the first half of the year. This is according to data provided by the ENEA Energy System Quarterly Analysis , which reports a 5% decline in the index ISPRED [1], the eighth consecutive quarterly deterioration.
