“Waste to Hydrogen system dynamic modelling” wins the Best Application Paper Award

The paper titled Waste to Hydrogen system dynamic modelling and written by Michele Bolognese with colleagues Emanuele Martinelli, Michele Urbani, Matteo Testi and the Nextchem collaborators Annarita Salladini, Alessia Borgogna and Maria Rosaria Pepe was selected by the Program Committee as the recipient of the Award.

The paper was awarded as it demonstrates outstanding academic originality, technical depth, and practical value, and has made a distinguished contribution to the scholarly exchange at the conference. 

The Award demonstrates that the Centre for Sustainable Energy is not only up-to-date with modelling tools, but is actually a pioneer in exploring and experimenting with them. Michele Bolognese is specialised in dynamic modeling which aims at replicating a system, with all its components, by creating dynamic models through softwares based on object-oriented language. The HyRES Unit has a strong experience in dynamic modelling and elaboration of scenarios, and offers the opportunity to improve and optimize systems and industrial processes through numerical modeling by using software such as Modelica and proprietary code.

The Asian Modelica & FMI Conference 2026 took place from 20 to 22 September in Hangzhou (China) and was organized by the Beihang University (at Hangzhou campus) and Nanjing Yuansi SimTek Co., Ltd. in cooperation with the Modelica Association.

During the event, the HyRES researcher had the opportunity to make two presentations:

• 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗣𝗘𝗠 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 showcased how Modelica supports the Centre researchers in capturing the full dynamic interplay between PEM electrolysis and metal hydride storage. The presentation is part of the work implemented within the REMEDHYS project.
• 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 focused on turning waste into a clean hydrogen stream and Michele presented the dynamic modelling of the gasification and purification train we developed within the IPCEI Hy2Rome project.

The event is an important occasion for people working with modeling, simulation, and control applications such as Modelica language designers, tool vendors and library developers, and that use Modelica and/or other Modelica Association standards and it provides users with the opportunity to stay informed about the latest language, library, and tool developments, and to exchange best practices and lessons learnt on similar modeling problems.