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An overview of the The Italian National Agency
for New technologies, Energy and the Environment
Andrea Quintiliani Andrea.quintiliani_at_enea.it
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Role of ENEA

• ENEA is a public Agency operating in the fields
  of Energy, the Environment and New Technologies
  to support the Countrys competitiveness and
  sustainable development.
• ENEA is one of the main research organisations in
  Italy
• 3,000 employees
• 12 Research centres
• 4 branch offices (Genoa, Venice, Pisa, Palermo)
  and 13 Energy and Innovation Consulting Centres
  (CCEI) functioning as local "advisory points"
• 1 EU Liasion Office in Brussels.

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Mission of ENEA

• To promote and carry out basic and applied
  research and innovation technology activities
• To disseminate and transfer technologies,
  encouraging their use in productive and social
  sectors
• To provide high-tech services, studies, tests and
  evaluations to both public and private bodies.
• To these aims ENEA
• carries out complex research, development and
  demonstration projects
• assesses the level of advanced technologies
  development, as well as their economic and social
  impacts
• promotes collaboration with foreign bodies and
  institutions
• promotes, fosters and supports innovation
  technology processes in the national production
  system, especially in small and medium sized
  enterprises
• collaborates with regions and local
  administrations
• promotes technical and professional training and
  competency of researchers.

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Research Centres
Total staff 2750 (yr. 2007)
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Departments

• Environment, Global Change and Sustainable
  Development (ACS)
• Biotechnologies, Agro-industry and Health
  Protection (BAS)
• Nuclear Fusion and Fission and Related
  Technologies (FPN)
• Advanced Physical Technologies and New Materials
  (FIM)
• Energy Technologies, Renewable Energy Sources and
  Energy Saving (TER)

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Major Projects

• Clean energy
• Distributed Energy and renewable energy sources
• Clean Coal/Zero emission
• Biofuels
• Thermodynamic Solar Energy
• Energy, the Environment and Territory
• Sustainable use of Energy and territory
• Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change
• Technologies for Sustainable Waste Management
• Energy Efficiency and Ecobuilding
• Management and Safety of Technology and Energy
  Infrastructures
• Sustainable Mobility and Transportation

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Major Projects /2

• Emerging Technologies
• New-generation Photovoltaics
• New Materials for the Energy Sector
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
• FT3 The Italian Experiment for Nuclear Fusion
• Superconductivity
• Technology Spin-offs
• Technologies for the Safeguard of the Cultural
  Heritage
• Technologies for Human Health
• Technologies for Quality and Safety of Food

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International activities

• The Agencys main initiatives are undertaken in
  the following fields
• EUROPEAN UNION ACTIVITIES EURATOM Projects
  financed by EU Programmes European Technological
  Platforms Committees and Groups Associations
  and networks
• BILATERAL COOPERATION
• MULTILATERAL COOPERATION IEA IAEA OECD NEA
• INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES EUREKA EUROSTARS
  ITER ITPA CSLF GIF IPHE VAMAS

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International activities/2

• In particular, the Agency
• participates in projects financed chiefly by
  European Union Programmes, as well as European
  technological Platforms and international
  networks, associations and initiatives
• supports the participation of its
  delegates/experts in international committees and
  groups
• maintains relations with the Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs, Italian scientific officers overseas,
  scientific attachés of foreign embassies in
  Italy, Italys permanent Office of Representation
  with the EU and, through its Liaison Office in
  Brussels, promotes the Agencys visibility
• hosts, in its research Centres, official
  delegations of European and non-European
  countries
• takes part in the planning and organisation of
  international events of particular relevance
• finances and promotes hospitality at its
  laboratories for foreign grant holders operating
  in programme sectors of interest to the Agency.

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Consortia and companies

• ENEA has a participation in 31 Consortia and
  Companies.
• This is consistent with ENEAs general strategy,
  aimed at the development of programmes and
  project in strong interaction with other public
  RD organisations, Universities, local
  authorities, SMEs.
• Consortia and Companies are distributed
  throughout the country, with a strong
  concentration in those districts where a high
  concentration of SMEs and a strong demand for
  innovation occur.
• The following objectives are pursuedset-up and
  carrying out of innovation and technology
  transfer projects
• synergy of all relevant stakeholder on common
  objectives and results
• provision of specialised training on new and/or
  highly qualified skills.

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National Agency for Energy Efficiency

• The EC adopted a directive aimed to achieve an
  overall national indicative energy savings target
  of 9 within year 2015, to be reached by way of
  energy services and other energy efficiency
  improvement measures.
• The National Government recently assigned to ENEA
  the overall control and responsibility for
  overseeing the framework set up in relation to
  the target.
• In order to comply with this assignment, the
  National Agency for Energy Efficiency is
  currently being set up.
• The Agency will
• give support to the Ministry of Economy and local
  governments on the overall management and
  supervision of the plan
• monitor and collect relevant data on projects and
  adopted measures
• prepare technical proposals for the measurement
  and monitoring of energy saving
• give support to the Central and local Governments
  in the set-up of information programmes for
  citizens, companies and other stakeholders.

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Department of Environment, Global Change and
Sustainable Development

• Main strategic areas of the Department, based on
  the environmental priorities set by the European
  Union and the Italian national Agenda
• Innovative methodologies, methods and numerical
  models to describe the environment and to
  evaluate possible future scenarios
• Innovative technological systems, instruments,
  devices, networks to monitor the environment,
  characterize the territory, reduce and control
  air and liquid emissions
• Technologies and methodologies for the industrial
  sectors - particularly SMEs
• Scientific and technical support to the central
  and local Public Authorities
• Promotion of appropriate information and
  governance tools, as a support to the Public
  Authorities.

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Department of Biotechnologies, Agro-industry and
Health Protection

• Basic and applied research and technological
  development with specific reference to
• Bio-fuels
• Technologies for food, health and ecological
  bio-safety
• Technologies for food quality and safety
• Biomedicine environmental and occupational
  health, radioprotection and therapeutic use of
  radiation
• Evaluation of the impact on human health and
  ecosystems of chemical, physical and biological
  agents
• Genomic and post-genomic research applied to
  pharmaceutical and agricultural applications
• Integrated tools for agro-ecosystem management
• Metrology of ionizing radiations

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Department of Nuclear Fusion and Fission and
Related Technologies

• Research and development of applied technologies
  in the following sectors
• FT3 The Italian Experiment for Nuclear Fusion
• Superconductivity
• Magnetic Confinement Fusion (ITER Tokamak
  machine, IGNITOR programme)
• Inertial Confinement Fusion
• Particle and radiation beam sources for matter
  analysis, biomedical applications
• Nuclear Fission
• Nuclear waste disposal
• These activities are carried out mainly
• in the Frascati Research Centre.

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Department of Energy Technologies, Renewable
Energy Sources and Energy Saving

• Main fields of RD activities include
• Clean coal/zero emission
• Biofuels/biomasses
• Thermodynamic Solar Energy
• Ecobuilding
• Distributed generation
• Sustainable urban transport, logistics
• Next-generation Photovoltaics
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
• Energy efficiency

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Renewable energies Progetto Archimede
Concentrating Solar Power
Solar Collector test facility (ENEA Casaccia)
Receiver Tube
Solar Collector
ENEA-ENEL Priolo (SR) Sicily (computer
simulation)
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Renewable energies PhoCUS Photovoltaic
Concentrators to Utility Scale
Technical development of photovoltaic
concentrator technologies
PhoCus project pilot plant (ENEA C.R. Portici
Naples)
PhoCUS PV module
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Renewable energies innovative thin film cells
for building integrated photovoltaic applications
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Renewable energies Biomass conversion in liquid
fuel (ethanol) by steam explosion pre-treatment
Steam Explosion Plant - ENEA Trisaia (South Italy)
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Department of Advanced Technologies and New
Materials

• Enabling technologies" to achieve ENEA's
  strategic objectives energy, environment and
  competitiveness of manufacturing industry in
  the following areas
• New functional materials (Composite materials,
  Nanomaterials)
• Materials characterization
• Materials engineering
• Non-ionising radiation technologies
• Ionising radiation technologies
• Autonomous robotics
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Modelling and simulation
• Advanced technology services

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New materials for energy applications

• Development of materials, components and
  processes for innovative applications in the
  energy sector, both for energy production and
  high-efficiency end uses.
• Composite materials for high temperature / high
  power energy cycles
• Materials for hydrogen generation, storage and
  fuel cells
• Cellular, metallic and polymeric components for
  structural lightening, mainly in vehicles
• Materials and processes for thermal and acoustic
  insulation in the building industry
• Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies carbon-based
  nanomaterials, ceramics, nanomaterials for energy
  conversion processes, surface treatments
• Sensors and RFID devices and applications
• Solid-state lighting devices

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Robotics

• Development of technologies and applications in
  autonomous robotics and intelligent systems in
  close collaboration with research and industrial
  international partners.
• Neural networks applications to Intelligent
  systems capable of navigating the environment and
  interacting with it
• Swarms, collective intelligence and cooperating
  robot systems for the exploration of uncharted or
  dangerous environments (disaster areas, polluted
  or mined environments), and of extended highly
  detailed environments (e.g. cultivation
  monitoring)
• Multichannel man-machine communication systems
  for real time understanding of operator
  intentions, also with application of
  interpretation correctors taking into account
  effects of physical stress, tiredness, etc.
• 2 main application areas
• Security
• Personal Care

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Launching the SARA AUV in Antarctica
TECSIS project platforms blimp and autonomous
land robot
RAS Antarctica land robot
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Non-ionising radiation technologies

• Synthesis, characterisation, local modification
  of innovative materials at micro- and nanoscale,
  and functional applications in devices for
  optoelectronics, photonics, sensors for
  environmental, space and industrial applications.
• Technology transfer to industry (in particular,
  Italian SMEs) of design and construction of laser
  sources, devices, miniaturized components.
• 2 main research areas
• Technologies for the preparation of materials,
  also through use of non-ionising e.m. radiation
  (commercial or custom-made lasers), that have
  innovative properties related to their micro- or
  nanoscale structure (nanopowders with
  luminescence properties, thin film optical
  coatings, multistrate light emitting devices).
  Applications in photonics, telecommunications,
  optical storage of information, biosensors
• Diagnostic technologies, mainly based on the use
  of laser radiation for the development of in situ
  or remote spectroscopic sensors. Applications to
  environment characterisation, trace analyses in
  gaseous, liquid or solid phases, surface
  technologies.

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LIDAR Laboratory

• The LIDAR (Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging)
  laboratory designs and produces laser systems and
  applications mainly devoted to environmental
  monitoring. Recent realizations include
• Mobile lidar atmospheric laboratory, equipped
  with 2 lidar/DIAL systems (IR and UV) for
  atmospheric analyses
• Mobile fluorosensor lidar laboratory, for use on
  board an oceanographic ship (physical, chemical,
  biological characterization of surface waters)
• LIF (Laser Induced Fluorescence) laboratory
  movable multichannel system for the revelation of
  impurities/contamination (characterization of
  surfaces of interest for Cultural Heritage
  preservation, water quality certification,
  pigment content determination in vegetable cells)

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Ionising radiation technologies

• Development of ionising radiation sources and use
  of these facilities on organic and inorganic
  materials for various applications
  nanolithography, optoelectronics, image
  revelation, radiometry, biology, environmental
  protection, materials characterization,
  sterilization in food industry, medical
  applications.
• Some examples of activities
• Development and implementation of the
  laser-plasma soft X-ray source EGERIA
• Studies and applications of dielectrics with wide
  emission bands such as lithium fluoride (LiF) and
  Tris(8-hydroxyquinolinate)aluminum (Alq3).
  Applications can be sought for light-emitting
  devices, displays, waveguides, optical storage of
  information, advanced optical microscopy,
  biological and environmental dignostics
• Effects of gamma ray irradiation on materials for
  special applications
• Development of innovative accelerator machines,
  and study of the transition radiation of charged
  relativistic particle beams
• Development of the SPARX source. Currently
  working in the VUV region, this fourth generation
  FEL source will reach the X-ray spectral region.

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Information and Communication Technologies

• Development and maintenance of a high performance
  computing environment, based on GRID
  technologies, in order to comply with the
  requirements of the various research groups in
  ENEA and to offer high-level computing services
  to the international scientific community and the
  industrial system.
• Activities are mainly focused on
• High performance systems for scientific computing
  and modelling
• Computational GRIDs
• 3D visualisation systems
• High-bandwidth low-latency connectivity
• Technologies for networking and remote operation
  of complex scientific instruments
• Technologies for the management of large,
  geographically distributed databases
• Adaptation/porting of computational codes to
  innovative platforms.

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