North Europe Business Development Manager, RINA
Patrizio Di Francesco, RINA North Europe Business Development Manager, Principal Engineer for alternative fuels and for decarbonization initiatives as well RINA representative at IACS Safe Decarbonization Panel. For over 15 years he has been dealing with the classification of ships as surveyor and pressure vessel, piping and automation approval engineer being involved in LNG fueled ships new construction as well retrofit of energy efficiency technologies.
Today he is in charge for the classification of innovative projects for the integration of LNG, LPG, Methanol, Ammonia, Hydrogen as fuel and for fuel cell on new and existing ships as well research projects aimed to develop novel technologies like reforming/cracking and storage systems.
Moreover he is giving technical advice to the owners for the development of the right sustainable strategy in order to comply with the IMO emissions target, ETS and FuelEU Maritime regulations through the use of alternative fuels.
