Associate Professors

Associate Professor in Energy and Environment Systems at the University of Calabria (UNICAL). She qualified as a Full Professor on 22/12/2014. Fuel Cells have occupied an increasingly important position in her research activities. She is head of a research team, with Research Fellows, PhD Students and Research Collaborators. She supervises numerical-experimental research activities in the field of Fuel Cells and Hydrogen with her research group, with particular attention to stationary power generation and terrestrial and marine propulsion systems. She cooperates with national and international Research Centres such as ENEA, CNR and Esslingen, Warsaw and Los Angeles Universities. Scientific Director for research activities within some projects, the most recent: PON ComESto.

P. Fragiacomo, G. De Lorenzo, O. Corigliano, Performance Analysis of an Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Test Bench under a CO2- H2O Feed Stream, Energies 11(9), (2018),2276.
P. Fragiacomo, O. Corigliano, G. De Lorenzo, F.A Mirandola, Experimental Activity on a 100-W IT-SOFC Test Bench Fed by Simulated Syngas, Journal of Energy Engineering 144(2), (2018).
M. Genovese, D. Blekhman, C. Xie, M. Dray, P. Fragiacomo, Assuring pulsationfree flow in a directly pressurized fuel delivery at a retail hydrogen station, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 43(34), (2018), 16623-16637.
P. Fragiacomo, F. Piraino, Numerical modelling of a PEFC powertrain system controlled by a hybrid strategy for rail urban transport, Journal of Energy Storage 17 (2018), 474-484.
P. Arcuri, P. Beraldi, G. Florio, P. Fragiacomo, (2015). Optimal design of a small size trigeneration plant in civil users: A MINLP (Mixed Integer Non Linear Programming Model), Energy 80 (2015), 628-641.

Experimental activity on a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell/Electrolyzer (SOFC/SOE) test station:
1. Electrical performance testing of SOFC stack fed by H2 rich stream gases or by syngas, and possibility of fueling it with gas rich in methane.;
2. Testing of H2 and CO production by working in co-electrolysis modality, by fueling with steam and CO2 .

Numerical modeling activity on high temperature fuel cells:
1. For hybrid terrestrial and marine propulsion;
2. For stationary power generation using conventional and non-conventional fuels, such as biogas and syngas;
3. In Hybrid systems with turbines and biogas plants.

Gas Turbine and Hydroelectric Plants.

Several topics are currently available. Interested students are suggested to drop by during office hours.