Luisa Di Francesco

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☘️ PhD Candidate in Energetics at Politecnico di Torino, specializing in hydrogen integration in the gas grid to enhance European energy resilience and decarbonization efforts. My research explores how hydrogen can be leveraged within existing gas infrastructure to optimize renewable energy utilization and support the energy transition. I am currently contributing to two European projects, SHIMMER and SH2AMROCK, focused on advancing hydrogen technologies.

• PhD Candidate in Energetics

  Politecnico di Torino - Full-time From November 2023 to Present

  Relevant Courses: Global energy trends, Model for life-cycle impact assessment, Project Management.rnResearch Focus: Actively contributing to the European projects SHIMMER and SH2AMROCK, focusing on hydrogenrnintegration into the gas network for energy resilience and decarbonization efforts.rn• Enabled the utilization of 29% of the renewable energy that would otherwise be curtailed by injecting it in thernnatural gas infrastructure in a sector coupling scenario for the German gas transmission grid.

• IEK-10 Employee

  Forschungszentrum Juelich - Internship From October 2022 to July 2023

  • Performed feasibility studies on the German gas transmission network by modeling it using open-source datasetsrnand tools, highlighting how 3% of the pipelines are overloaded for the worst-case scenario.rn• Investigated power and gas sector coupling to provide up to 9% of the German energy demand with renewablernhydrogen by analyzing renewable energy production and curtailment in the country.

• Master's Degree in Energy Engineering - Renewable Energy Systems

  Polytechnic Institute of Turin From March 2021 to October 2023

Balancing (gas) Climate policy Engineering Environmental policy Gas Gas distribution Gas transmission Hydrogen LNG Power-to-gas/electrolysis

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