Michael Melchionda

Driving growth through identifying new business opportunities, and forging strategic partnerships. Develop and execute strategic plans to achieve revenue goals.

Energy Division - Power to X Definition of sales strategy, offer preparation and negotiation. Business Development. Project execution

Drawing decarbonization pathways with Steel & Metals industry through the use of green hydrogen and PEM electrolyzer.Development and implementation of strategy towards green metals market, origination of leads and partnerships with clients and suppliers. Business Development, Customer relation

Development, design and integration of innovative hydrogen solutions for the industry (Hard to Abate Sectors) to enable decarbonizaton and the energy transition. Leading strategic partnerships with Technologies provider. Feasibilities, testing and demonstration of hydrogen solutions. New business development, Public fundings, CAPEX/OPEX optimization for the hard to abate industries decarbonization roadmaps.

Project Manager, Engineering & Investments (Coke Making Plants, Pickling Line, Plate Mill and O2 production) Responsible for projects to improve environmental performances, revamp industrial installations, and build new ones in the Taranto plant. Responsible for the project proposal in the approbation process. Lead and coordination of activities: safety, budget, planning, execution, commissioning. Managed a multidisciplinary team of 6 people.

Coke oven battery gas treatment and by-products plants reconstruction project. Project Manager of the new plant's fire fighting system Planning & Monitoring support. Budget and investments control. Equipment Supply (Technical Specification, Technical final report for bidding process).

Support of the Project Manager on the development of generic and advanced R&D projects. Experiments planning and execution: Components procurement, Component characterization, Metrology measurement. Cost product reduction activities: New process analysis and validation, Supervision and assembly of prototypes, Product validation, Engineering reports.

Researching on advanced technics of Hydrogen storage and delivery at high density in order to use it as vehicle's fuel. Modeled by Fortran a compressor-less thermal compression refueling station for cryogenic hydrogen. Design and optimization of the overall system in order to minimize operational costs through sensitivity analysis. Design the cryogenic vessels in the cascade to estimate and minimize the capital cost of the station. This project has been used to write the master dissertation of my univers

Main Modules: Control Engineering, Electric power stations, Thermal Engines Projects: "Rating effect of incentives on the sustainability of renewable energy plants for the power production, and economic effect due to the size in Italian economic system"

Main Modules: System Design Electrical & Mechanical main Components, Aerodynamics & Control, Load & Power Components, Main Components Design Project: "Looking to the future, the economic and politic evaluation of feasibility and social impact of the application of a small wind turbine in a develop

Main Modules: Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics, CFD, Design of Turbo-Machinery, Renewable Energy, Industrial and Civil Energy Saving, Structural Machine Design, Control Engineering, Combustion Pollutants Formation and Control Technology, Instrumentation Laboratory, Electric Power and Distribution Equ

Main Modules: Theoretical and Applied Thermodynamics, Fundamental of Mechanics and Machinery, Industrial Chemistry System, Energy Conversion System, Electrical Grid Management Project: "Fuel consumption and core heat exchange analysis in nuclear Main Yankee power plant" Dissertation Title: "Analy