Alessandro Lampasi

International Workshop on

Supercapacitors and Energy Storage 2018

"New roots for new plants"

Date and location

The Workshop was held in Salerno, Italy, on 31 May and 1 June 2018.

Introduction

Energy storage is a key topic for research, industry and business, gaining more and more interest.

Supercapacitors (also known as ultracapacitors, electrochemical capacitors or double-layer capacitors) feature exceptional capacitance values reaching hundreds or even thousands of farads. This is several orders of magnitude higher than traditional devices.

Developments in supercapacitor technology and supporting electronics, combined with reductions in cost, have created extraordinary new opportunities for electrical and electronic systems in both research and industrial applications. The number of manufacturers grows every day as performance potential increases, costs fall and estimated business turnover rises.

This workshop provides an overview of the exciting applications and advances made possible by supercapacitor technology. It will also provide a forum to discuss and compare other energy storage solutions.

The workshop program is conceived to be more than a simple overview: this will offer a way for people in related fields to meet and share ideas.

The tagline for this edition "New roots for new plants" is a word play to stress that the roots of electrochemistry can lead to new applications and new performances. The path from the roots to the large power plants is followed in the workshop program.

Workshop speakers were selected by the Scientific Committee. Workshop participation was free with mandatory registration.

Acknowledgements

Sponsors' and speakers' institutions.

Program and presentations

Please, consider that some contents were confidential or not yet published. Therefore, some presentations are not available for download or were adapted for distribution on the web.

Title	Speaker
Greetings and workshop introduction	Paolo Ciambelli, University of Salerno & NARRANDO SRL, Italy Alessandro Lampasi, ENEA Frascati, Italy
Session 1: Workshop Background	Chair: Pier Paolo Prosini, ENEA Casaccia, Italy
Survey of energy storage applications and potential market	Damiano Cavallaro, Energy & Strategy Group, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Supercapacitors: key systems for energy sustainability	Francesca Soavi, University of Bologna, Italy
Review on supercapacitors: matching materials and electrolytes for high-rate energy delivery	Roman Mysyk, CIC Energigune, Spain
New graphene based electrode for supercapacitor applications	Maria Sarno, University of Salerno & NARRANDO, Italy
ENEA's test facilities and activities on batteries and supercapacitors	Francesco Vellucci, ENEA Casaccia, Italy
Session 2: Advanced Electrochemistry for Energy Storage	Chair: Maria Federica De Riccardis, ENEA Brindisi, Italy
Towards industrialization of a new supercap generation	Giancarlo Abbate, University of Naples Federico II & CapTop, Italy
Lightweight flexible CNT supercapacitors for hybrid systems and morphing materials	Giulia Lanzara, Roma Tre University, Italy
Graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid supercapacitors	Alberto Ansaldo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy
Hybrid materials as cathode and carbon based materials as anode for asymmetric supercapacitor applications	Ncholu Manyala, University of Pretoria, South Africa
BETTERY: an Italian startup for the design of novel redox flow batteries	Francesca De Giorgio, University of Bologna & BETTERY, Italy
Molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics study on/of ions conductivity of polyelectrolytes	Javier Luque Di Salvo, University of Palermo, Italy
Session 3: State of the Art of Commercial Supercapacitors	Chair: Paolo Ciambelli, University of Salerno, Italy
State of the art and future trends of supercapacitor technology	Jan Ernst, Maxwell Technologies & Nesscap Energy, USA & South Korea
State of the art and comparative test results of the current state-of-the art supercapacitors	Egert Valmra, Skeleton Technologies, Estonia
Supercapacitors for high temperatures and harsh environments	Fabrizio Martini, FastCap Systems, USA
Manufacturing and functionalization of VACNTs as electrodes for supercapacitors and advanced lithium batteries	Pascal Boulanger, NAWATechnologies, France
Lithium-ion capacitor (LIC) modules to combine energy and power performances	Massimo Miotti, EAS, Italy
Session 4: Power Applications	Chair: Alessandro Lampasi, ENEA Frascati, Italy
Compact power supplies with integrated energy storage and recovery capabilities	Sandro Tenconi, OCEM Power Electronics, Italy
Keep the evaluation of a battery state of charge updated	Luigi Pellegrino, Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico (RSE), Italy
Supercapacitor-assisted starting and peak load shaving in heavy-duty vehicles	Alon Kuperman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Laboratory research on the application of supercapacitor-based storage systems for electric mobility	Clemente Capasso, CNR Istituto Motori, Italy
Technical and economical evaluation of hybrid flash-charging stations for electric public transport	Fernando Ortenzi, ENEA Casaccia, Italy
Session 5: Smart Grids and Renewable Sources	Chair: Giuseppe Taddia, OCEM Power Electronics, Italy
Energy storage projects for smart distribution grids	Laura Pimpinella, Enel Distribuzione, Italy
Supercapacitors as backup for industrial production processes	Gregor Scheppelmann, FREQCON, Germany
Supercapacitor application for reduction of power oscillations	Marcos Lafoz, CIEMAT, Spain
Battery systems for residential energy storage	Vincenzo Ferreri, Sonnen, Germany
Mitigation of power modulation impact in the MITICA project using supercapacitors: a feasibility study	Mattia Dan, RFX Consortium, Italy