Milano
The first edition takes place in the lively University of Milano-Bicocca Campus, located ten minutes by subway from the city centre.
(Italy)
8 to 13
September 2024
University of Milano- Bicocca
Building U6, Room 40
Programme
Sunday
Sunday
8 September 2024
18:30
Monday
Monday
Raw Materials
9 September 2024
Registration
Raw materials issues
(Benjamin Maloney, EIT Raw Materials)
General introduction on the classification of raw materials into essential, critical, and strategic categories, focusing on the importance of raw material availability, supply chains, and geopolitical considerations.
10:00
Coffee break
10:30
The role of critical and strategic materials in current and future PV technologies
(Vanni Lughi, UNITS)
12:00
Raw materials in PV power processing systems
(Giovanni Spagnuolo, UNISA)
12:30
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in electronics
(Luca Ragusa, BITRON)
13:00
Lunch
14:30
Why the LFP Battery is a Safe Choice for Solar Energy Storage
(Bernardo Barbiellini, ELMO-LION Summer School)
15:30
Presentation of the Work Project: work organisation and working group formation
(led by ERION)
16:30
Working group Projects
kick-off
Tuesday
Tuesday
Manufacturing
10 September 2024
09:30
Introduction to manufacturing process of PV cells and modules
(Torsten Büchner, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences)
10:30
Coffee break
10:45
Industry lectures about cell and module manufacturing
(Hamed Hanifi, Director of Research and Development AE Solar – Nicola Baggio, Project Director of FuturaSun srl)
12:00
Lunch
13:30
Introduction to PV system modeling and diagnostics
(Carlos Meza, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences – Stephanie Malik, Fraunhofer CSP/IMWS – Kai Kaufmann, COO DenkWeit – Dominik Lausch, CEO DenkWeit)
15:00
HANDS on TRAINING: PV system modeling and diagnostics
(Hochschule Anhalt)
Identification of PV faults using Visual inspection, UV-fluorescence, Magnetic field imaging and Thermal imaging; tutorial on how to model and analyse a PV system for diagnosis using Python libraries such as Pandas, PVLib, and other data-science libraries.
17:00
Working group Projects
development
Wednesday
Wednesday
Recycling
11 September 2024
Photovoltaic panel circular value chain: “end-of-life” focus
(Emiliano Tolusso, Erion)
09:00
The PV landscape in Italy, a forecasting of PV waste generation in the future decades, the status of the photovoltaic panels collection, and Italian/EU Regulations (Policy and Regulatory Frameworks)
(Emiliano Tolusso and Francesca Fattori, Erion)
10:00
Coffee break
10:30
The pretreating and recycling phase: assessing currently available methodologies and technologies
(Pietro Giovanni Cerchier, 9-TECH)
11:30
The “closing the loop” phase: reintroduction on the market of output secondary raw materials. Ongoing European projects on the topic
(Emiliano Tolusso and Giulia di Mari, Erion)
12:00
Lunch
Visit to WEEE management plant and PV modules (Feragame S.r.l., Broni) + cultural trip (guided visit to Certosa di Pavia)
Thursday
Thursday
Technology
12 September 2024
Sustainability of the materials for DSSC
(Matteo Bonomo, UNITO)
09:30
Sustainable implementation of DSSC on the industrial scale
(Pauline Chotard, G-LYTE France)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Raw material in Chalcogenide-based solar cells
(Philip Dale, University of Luxemburg)
12:00
Sustainability of the materials in Perovskite solar cells
(Aldo Di Carlo, University of Tor Vergata)
13:00
Lunch
14:00
LCA of emerging solar cells
(Maria Laura Parisi, Università di Siena)
15:00
Coffee break
15:30
Working group Projects
production of graphic works
Friday
Friday
Lab-to-market
13 September 2024
The support of EIT RawMaterials to business creation: Jumpstarter and Lab2Market programmes
(Benjamin Maloney, EIT Raw materials)
11:00
The journey from PhD research into a deep technology startup: insights, discussions, and case studies
(Riam Kanso, ConceptionX)
12:00
Testimonial from Startup in solar value chain: Bright Futures, the path to solar panel sustainability
(Matteo Stoppa, KeepTheSun and COESA srl)
13:00
Lunch, poster presentation of the projects realized by the students and award ceremony
17:00
Closing of the school
Where
University of Milano-Bicocca
Building U6, Room 40
Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1,
