Michele Bolognese is a researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Energy of FBK and, last 27 October 2022, he has been nominated the best European Researcher of the Year 2022 in the field of hydrogen production by Hydrogen Europe Research.
Michele is involved in numerous EU projects where the work he is doing consists mainly in what is called dynamic modelling.
As explained by the researcher, “Modellazione dinamica significa replicare l’intero sistema del test bench, con tutti i suoi componenti, tramite la creazione di modelli dinamici con softwares, che principalmente sono basati sul linguaggio Modelica ad oggetti orientati […]” (Dynamic modeling means replicating the entire test-bench system, with all its components, by creating dynamic models through softwares that are mainly based on the object-oriented language Modelica).
The final objective is the comparison of the model results with those obtained through the lab experiments, and for Michele the team work is fundamental to achieve this goal.
On one side the model, on the other the experiments and the analysis of a phenomena representative data. Closer is the trend of the curves, more robust and flexible is the model.
What are the advantages of dynamic modelling? Among others, this activity allows researchers to make the best possible choice in the design of the system and its implementation in a pilot, thanks to the possibility to foresee and verify the behaviour of a system of different dimensions and under diverse conditions.
His wish for the future? Michele intends to improve the potential of the dynamic modelling through the use of the digital twins, which would allow a constant and concurrent communication among the test bench and the model.