Aula Amaldi (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi)
Aula Amaldi
Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. G. Marconi
Description
15:00 Introduzione (Organizzatori)
15:10 - 15:40
G. Hubler : Director of SKINR University of Missouri Department of Physics and Astronomy
Columbia, Missouri USA
Status of Research on Anomalous Heat at Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKNIR)
Abstract
The history of the foundation of the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance, some previous results, and an overview of the goals and objectives of the Institute will be presented. This will include details of an international collaboration that attempts to speed progress in the field and new diagnostic methods aimed at elucidating the anomalous heat mechanism.
15:40-16:10
M.McKubre: Ph.D. SRI International Stanford (CA) USA
Anomalous Effects in Deuterium-Palladium Electrolysis and Gas Systems under near ambient conditions.
Abstract
In over 24 years of research on excess of power production during deuterium loading of palladium, an extended review of the excess has been performed by SRI, NRL, University of Missouri, ENEA and Energetics. All the collaborating institutions do not question the existence of this very strong isotope effect. Initially the evidence was simply evolved heat orders of magnitude larger than can be accounted for by chemical reactions or lattice storage effects. Some evidences are pointing in the direction that nuclear effects occur in solid media, under unexpected conditions near room temperature, in a manner different from the well-studied conditions of free space and hot dense matter. Some of the clearest experimental results leading with 4He, 3He and Tritium measurements, will be reviewed in order to highlight the importance of enhancing the scientific effort to define the effect .
16:10-16:40
V. Violante: Ph.D. ENEA LENR Research Coordinator
Material Science for Understanding the Fleischmann and Pons Effect
Abstract.
Statistical data on excess power production during the electrochemical deuterium loading
of palladium cathodes reveal a fundamental role of the metal state in producing the effect. The metallurgy affects the threshold loading necessary to observe the excess. The crystallography orientation of Pd is also correlated with the occurrence of the phenomenon as well as the surface status of the electrodes. The effect of the contaminants on the electrodes features is presented.
The research strategy is the study of the status of the electrodes to define the effect since some material characteristics are able to sustain some phenomena rather than others.
