2nd HyWay Workshop and Training School

The 2nd HyWay (Hydrogen from Waste) Training School took place on 21–23 January 2026 at the Energy Center of Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy), hosted by the Energy Department & Energy Center. The event was chaired by Prof. Andrea Lanzini, with Prof. Davide Papurello and Dr. Francesco Demetrio Minuto as co-chairs, and combined a focused training programme with opportunities for technical exchange and networking. 

The school opened with registration and a welcome reception at the Energy Center Hall, creating an informal setting for participants to connect across disciplines before the technical sessions began. The programme then addressed key challenges and opportunities in waste-to-hydrogen systems, including sustainability assessment, conversion pathways, gas cleaning and separation, hydrogen storage, regulation, and techno-economic analysis. 

On 22 January, invited and keynote contributions covered methodological approaches for assessing the sustainability of advanced biofuels and e-fuels, pyrolysis-based waste-to-hydrogen pathways (including gas composition and char evolution), and solid-based materials for integrated CO₂ capture and utilisation. Prof. Bradley Paul Ladewig (University of Luxembourg) delivered a lecture on “Hydrogen separation from gas mixtures – fundamental technological approaches and recent research developments,” linking core separation principles to emerging research directions relevant to waste-derived hydrogen streams. The day also included a keynote on hydrogen storage with a focus on solid-state systems, sessions on electrochemical and thermochemical valorisation of wastes, and an overview of hydrogen regulation in the EU, followed by a campus and laboratory tour. 

The final day expanded the perspective toward end-use and system integration, featuring lectures on hydrogen-enabled decarbonisation case studies, high-value products from waste via thermochemical conversion, modelling-based techno-economic and environmental analysis of advanced energy plants, and purification strategies for waste-derived hydrogen alongside skills development initiatives.

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