Responsabile: Prof. Guido Ardizzon, PO, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

Composizione del GRE:

• Guido Ardizzon, PO
• Alberto Benato, RTdA
• Giovanna Cavazzini, PA
• Giorgio Pavesi, PA
• Anna Stoppato, PA

Aree di ricerca di afferenza:
Scenari energetici e Politiche energetico/ambientali
Sistemi di accumulo energetico
Smart Grid
Tecnologie per il risparmio energetico
Valutazione economica delle risorse ambientali ed energetiche

 

Laboratori:

LABORATORY OF FLUID MACHINES AND ENERGY SYSTEMS

 

Attività:

The Turbomachinery & Energy Systems (TES) Group ’s main research activities are in the following fields:

1. Design, optimisation, CFD analysis and experimental tests of fluid machines (pumps, hydraulic turbines, compressors, fans, wind turbines, etc.);
2. Optimisation of design and management of hybrid energy systems with consolidate and innovative methods;
3. Design and optimisation of Waste Heat Recovery Units (e.g. Organic Rankine Cycle), Waste Heat to Power Conversion Generators and Waste Heat to Thermal Conversion Systems;
4. Pumped Hydro Energy Storage units: configuration and management strategy optimisation;
5. Conceptualisation and optimisation of innovative Energy Storage Units: Pumped Thermal Energy Storage Systems;
6. Development and test of reliable and low-cost systems to cool Photovoltaic Panels;
7. Energy systems dynamic analysis
8. Life Cycle Assessment;
9. Assessment of power plants environmental impact;
10. Consulting, innovation and R&D activities for Italian and International companie

The group members are also involved in teaching activities in the following courses:

1. Applied Energy – MSc in Energy Engineering;
2. Cogeneration and Combined Plants – MSc in Energy Engineering;
3. Energy Conversion Systems and Machines – BSc in Energy Engineering;
4. Energy Conversion Systems and Machines 1 – BSc in Mechanical Engineering;
5. Energy Conversion Systems and Machines 2 – MSc in Mechanical Engineering;
6. Internal combustion engines – MSc in Mechanical Engineering;
7.  Thermofluidodynamics of Machines – BSc in Mechanical Engineering;
8. Wind and hydraulic turbines – MSc in Energy Engineering;

 

L’elenco delle ultime cinque pubblicazioni

1. Benato A., Stoppato A. (2018), “Energy and cost analysis of an Air Cycle used as prime mover of a Thermal Electricity Storage”, Journal of Energy Storage, Volume 17, June 2018, Pages 29–46, DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2018.02.007
2. Benato A. (2018), “Improving the efficiency of a cataphoresis oven with a cogenerative organic Rankine cycle unit”, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Volume 5, March 2018, Pages 182-194, DOI: 10.1016/j.tsep.2017.11.003
3. Schiro F., Stoppato A., Benato A., Destro N. (2017), “Improving Photovoltaics Efficiency by Water Cooling: Modelling and Experimental Approach”, Energy, Volume 137, 15 October 2017, Pages 798-810, ISSN: 03605442, eISSN: 1873-6785, DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.04.164
4. Benato, A. (2017), “Performance and Cost Evaluation of an Innovative Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage Power System”, Energy, Volume 138, 1 November 2017, Pages 419-436, ISSN: 03605442, eISSN: 1873-6785, DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2017.07.066
5. Rossetti Antonio, Alarico Macor, Alberto Benato (2017), “Impact of control strategies on the emissions in a city bus equipped with power-split transmission”, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 50, January 2017, Pages 357-371, ISSN: 13619209, DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2016.11.025

 

Contatti:

• Sede: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Sede V, Via Venezia, 1 – 35131, Padova.
• Telefono: 049 827 6752
• Mail: alberto.benato@unipd.it
• Sito web del Gruppo: http://tes.dii.unipd.it
• Sito web del Gruppo: http://www.dii.unipd.it/macchine-fluido-e-sistemi-energetici