GFN-led EU project crossCert selected for funding
The EU has selected for funding our crossCert project on Cross Assessment of Energy Certificates in Europe. The proposal was submitted to calls H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020 / H2020-LC-SC3-EE-2020-2, and the project will run as project number 101033778 [...]
Ingeniería anti-COVID en la Academia de Ingeniería
Norberto Fueyo presentará en la Academia de Ingeniería los modelos que ha desarrollado el GFN para la predicción del riesgo de transmisión de la COVID-19 por aerosoles en espacios cerrados. La breve presentación será el [...]
GFN will present 3Gsol results at SDEWES 2021
The GFN Research Group will present the experimental results of the #3GSol #solar #pilotplant at the #SDEWES2021 Conference, organised by the SDEWES Centre. #3GSol project is a collaborative #research project between the GFN Research Group of Aragon Institute of Engineering Research (I3A) and EndeF, which aims at developing a #costcompetitive solution for the simultaneous [...]
COVID-19: Ventilation in camping tents
In collaboration with YMCA in Spain, we have carried out a study on the ventilation of camping tents as a means of assessing the risks of aerosol transmission of COVID-19. Our conclusion is that properly [...]
New Interreg MED project for GFN
The GFN Research Group will continue helping municipalities to be more energy efficient through a new European project: the PrioritEE PLUS Project was among the 8 projects approved by the Interreg MED Programme. This is [...]
GFN’s María Herrando is award finalist!
GFN's Dr María Herrando has been selected by regional newspaper Heraldo de Aragon as one of the three candidates to the newspaper's Tercer Milenio (Third Millennium) award as a Young Researcher Talent. More info (in [...]
Meeting to celebrate Professor D B Spalding’s life
GFN's Norberto Fueyo will attend a meeting to celebrate the life and achievements of Professor Brian Spalding FRS. Norberto will evoke Brian's visionary approaches to turbulent combustion modelling, in his talk "Few Painters Invent New [...]
GFN at 6th OpenFOAM Workshop, Penn State
GFN will present at the 6th OpenFOAM workshop their work on the development of Eulerian-Eulerian multiphase solvers for OpenFOAM. The contribution Development of a consistent and conservative Eulerian-Eulerian algorithm for multiphase flows by Ana Cubero, [...]
Fluidized Bed Simulation at SPEIC14
GFN's Dr Ana Cubero will present the group's latest developments in the field of numerical simulation of Fluidized Bed Combustors at SPEIC14. SPEIC14 is an international meeting on sustainable combustion jointly organized by the Portuguese [...]
Meet us at the 5th Latin-American Energy Economics Conference, Medellin, March 2015
GFN's Antonio Gómez will present our work on the energy system of El Salvador at the 5th Latin-American Energy Economics Conference in Medellín, Colombia. The Plan for the Expansion of power Generation 2014-2024 of the [...]
GFN to advise BSH on clean and safe combustion
The Numerical Fluid Dynamics group, together with BSH Electrodomésticos and other research groups, has obtained funding from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad to advise BSH on clean and safe combustion technologies for domestic, [...]
GFN to advise the Ministry of Economy of El Salvador on energy issues
GFN researchers will be advising the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of El Salvador on the likely impact on the electricity tariff of alternative, future options for power generation in El Salvador. As a [...]
GFN at 4th Spring Colloquium on Forest Ecophysiology
The GFN will be present at 4th Spring Colloquium on Forest Ecophysiology in Añón del Moncayo, Zaragoza, Spain, where Norberto Fueyo will deliver the talk Trichomes, ambient moisture and transpiration: a fluid-dynamics study co-authored with [...]
GFN at IEAA 2013, Daegu, Korea
GFN will be attending the 36th IAEE International Conference that will be held in Daegu, Korea on June 16–20, 2013. The conference theme is Energy Transition and Policy Challenges, and GFN's Norberto Fueyo will be [...]
GFN at the NETL Small Scale Challenge Problem for fluidized bed models
GFN will participate at the NETL Small Scale Challenge Problem (SSCP-I), a blind test for fluidized beds models released by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The purpose of SSCP-I [...]
GFN at FLEXI BURN Workshop, Ponferrada, 6 Feb 2013
GFN will be present at the FLEXI BURN CFB Workshop in Ponferrada, Spain on Feb 6th. The FLEXI BURN CFB project aims to develop and demonstrate a power plant concept based on the Circulating Fluidized [...]
GFN to advise the Asian Development Bank on energy in Central Asia
GFN has been contracted by the Manila-based Asian Development Bank to conduct an assessment of the energy sectors in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Download here the executive summary of the final reports: Kazakhstan Uzbekistan
GFN presence at the 7th OpenFOAM® Workshop
GFN will participate in the 7th OpenFOAM® Workshop that will be held on 25–28 June 2012, in Darmstadt, Germany. OpenFOAM® is the leading open source solution for Computational Fluid Dynamics. Dr María García-Camprubí will present [...]
10th EUROPEAN SOFC FORUM, 26-29 June 2012 Lucerne, Switzerland
GFN is back to Lucerne! In 2010 GFN presented at the European SOFC Forum the first results of an emerging research line on the numerical simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). Two years later, [...]
PhD Thesis on Renewable Energy and Energy Scenarios for Spain
GFN's Antonio Gómez will present his PhD thesis on the quantification of the power sector in Spain. In his work, Antonio has estimated the potential, and costs, of most renewable energies in Spain (including on-shore [...]
PhD Thesis on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
GFN's María Garcia will present her work on the development of an OpenFOAM-based Computational-Fluid-Dynamics model for solid-oxide fuel-cells (SOFCs). The model uses a multi-domain approach to address the several physical processes in the channels, the [...]
GFN’s Antonio Gomez wins PhD Award
GFN's Dr Antonio Gómez has been granted the University of Zaragoza's award to an outstanding PhD thesis (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado) for his work on Renewable Energy and Energy Scenarios for Spain. The thesis, a [...]
GFN at the conference “Generating the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Society”
Norberto Fueyo will deliver a presentation entitled Sustainable Hydrogen: Cost and Impacts at the 7th Annual International Conference, Exhibition and Partnering Event "Generating the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Society", Birmingham, 30 March 2011. Invited by Professors [...]
Towards Sustainable Combustion 2010
The GFN was the main organizer of the conference SPEIC10: Towards Sustainable Combustion. SPEIC10 is a scientific conference on Combustion and related fields, jointly organised by the Portuguese and Spanish Sections of the Combustion Institute. [...]
El GFN en el ateneo del CPS
Norberto Fueyo participará en el Ateneo del CPS el 26/05/2010 a las 18:00 con la conferencia: Energías renovables: cuántas, cuánto y cuentos Lugar: Sala de Grados del Edificio Torres Quevedo del CPS Ponente: Norberto Fueyo [...]
El potencial y coste de las energías renovables en España. Ciclo de conferencias Ibercaja
Norberto Fueyo participó el 12 de noviembre de 2009, en el ciclo de conferencias “Alternativas energéticas a debate”, organizado por Ibercaja con la dirección técnica de César Dopazo, con la conferencia Potencial e impacto de [...]
GFN at 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
Norberto Fueyo will attend the 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems in September 2009 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he will deliver the presentation Spanish Energy Roadmap to 2020: Socio-economic [...]
GFN at 10th Conference on Energy for a Clean Environment in Lisbon
Carlos Montañés will deliver at the 10th Conference on Energy for a Clean Environment in Lisbon, Portugal, the presentation Computational evaluation of wall rings in wet flue-gas desulfurization plants