Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Enviromental Technologies

  • Research Group: Hvac Technologies and Indoor Air Quality - Airlab  (HVAC - AIRLAB)

Commercial HVAC – Solution to support the OEM manufacturer  to achieve optimized performance
Supervisor: Luca Molinaroli

Study of an adsorption cold storage system for mobile applications
Responsible: Stefano De Antonellis

Sviluppo di un umidificatore planare a membrana per applicazione automotive
Responsible: Andrea Baricci - Stefano De Antonellis - Amedeo Grimaldi

Analisi numerico-sperimentale di una cappa da laboratorio con lama d’aria
Title: Numerical and experimental study of an air-blade laboratory fume hood

Supervisor: Luca Marocco

Aerosol emission from an opera singer: a numerical and experimental study
Responsible: Luca Marocco


Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Enviromental Technologies

  • Research Group: End-use Efficiency (eERG)

Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality simulation for the Built Environment
Responsible: Francesco Causone

On the mean radiant temperature measurement for outdoor comfort assessment
Responsible: Francesco Causone

Modelling and analysis of an energy community in Chiaravalle (Milano)
Responsible: Francesco Causone

Building stock performance assessment via actual energy data analysis
Responsible: Francesco Causone

Thermal comfort performance assessment of a retrofitted multi-family building
Responsible: Francesco Causone


Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Enviromental Technologies

  • Research Group: MRT Fuel Cell & Battery

Experimental and modelling theses on vanadium redox flow batteries for energy storage
Supervisor: Claudio Rabissi

Experimental and Modelling Theses on Hydrogen Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells for Sustainable Mobility and Transport

Supervisor: Andrea Casalegno - Andrea Baricci

Experimental and modelling theses on vanadium redox flow batteries for energy storage

Supervisor: Matteo Zago

Experimental and modelling investigation of advanced alkaline membrane fuel cells

Responsible: Andrea Casalegno - Andrea Baricci

Sviluppo di un umidificatore planare a membrana per applicazione automotive
Responsible: Andrea Baricci - Stefano De Antonellis - Amedeo Grimaldi -

Experimental and modelling analysis of cross-over phenomena in vanadium redox flow batteries for the design and manufacturing of innovative barrier layers
Responsible: Matteo Zago - Marco Cecchetti

Experimental and modelling study of water transport phenomena in vanadium redox flow batteries and development of mitigation strategies
Responsible: Matteo Zago - Francesco Toja


Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Environmental Technologies

  • Research Group: Buildings’ Environment and Energy Systems (BEES)

Shallow geothermal energy potential for heating and cooling of cities
Supervisor: Adriana Angelotti

Building and HVAC energy system modelling using the Modelica language
Responsible: Rossano Scoccia

Investigation on convection phenomena related to the adoption of globe/cylindre thermometers for outdoor comfort assessment
Responsible: Manfredo Guilizzoni - Adriana Angelotti

Adaptive facades (DSF, BIPV etc. ) modelling and simulation in Modelica
Responsible: Alessandro Dama

Measuring the thermal conductivity of recycled textile based insulation materials with low environmental impact:  development of the Hot Disk Transient Plane Source method

Supervisor: Alessandro Dama


Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Enviromental Technologies

  • Research Group: Single and multi-phase Thermo-fluid Dynamic

CFD simulation of multiple drop impact onto deep pools
Responsible: Manfredo Guilizzoni

Development and validation of a CFD solver for multiphase fluid dynamics in presence of significant capillary forces, using the phase field model
Responsible: Manfredo Guilizzoni - Augusto Della Torre

Hybrid LES/DNS of turbulent mixed convection to a liquid metal flowing in a concentric annulus
Responsible: Luca Marocco

Simulazione DES della convezione forzata e mista turbolenta di un metallo liquido (Detached-Eddy Simulation of turbulent forced and mixed convection to a liquid metal flow)
Responsible: Luca Marocco - Luigi Pietro Maria Colombo

Numerical analysis of temperature dependent turbulent forced convection heat transfer in a heated tube
Responsible: Luca Marocco - Manfredo Guilizzoni

Conjugate Heat Transfer simulation of a household radiator
Responsible: Luca Marocco - Fabio Rinaldi

CFD modelling of a high flux solar receiver using liquid sodium
Responsible: Luca Marocco - Andrea Giostri - Marco Binotti


Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Enviromental Technologie

  • Research Group: RELAB - Renewable Heating and Cooling Lab

Analysis, design and performance assessment of building services for offices
Relatore (Supervisor): Rossano Scoccia

The usage of deep learning for fault detection and diagnosis in HVAC systems in buildings
Relatore (Supervisor): Rossano Scoccia

Uso di macchine frigorifere ad assorbimento alimentate da calore di scarto nella rete di telefraffrescamento di Göteborg.
Use of waste heat driven absorption chillers in the district cooling network in Göteborg.

Relatore (Supervisor): Tommaso Toppi

Modellazione, simulazione e controllo ottimo di un sistema di teleriscaldamento di nuova generazione a fonte rinnovabile
Responsabili (responsible): Marcello Aprile - Alice Dénarié

Valutazione del potenziale di diffusione del teleriscaldamento di nuova generazione a fonti rinnovabili
Responsabili (responsible): Mario Motta - Alice Dénarié

Simulazione dinamica delle prestazioni energetiche di una pompa di calore a compressione di vapore
Responsabili (responsible): Marcello Aprile - Tommaso Toppi

Progettazione e ottimizzazione di un sistema di accumulo termico a stratificazione, integrato in impianto a vapore alimentato da caldaia a tubi di fumo
Design and optimization of a heat accumulation system (stratified tank) to be integrated in a steam production process with fire tube boiler

Responsabili (responsible): Marcello Aprile - Tommaso Toppi


Department Division: Thermal Engineering and Enviromental Technologies

  • Research Group: Sustainable Energy System Analysis and Modelling (SESAM)

List of the Group's thesis

Sezione: Ingegneria Termica e Tecnologie Ambientali
Tesi proposte dal dipartimento di Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (ABC)
Studio di soluzioni impiantistiche avanzate per la climatizzazione estiva ed invernale degli edifici, basate sullo sfruttamento di fonti rinnovabili
Advanced technical solutions for heating and cooling in buildings, exploiting renewable energy sources

Responsible: Claudio Del Pero - Fabrizio Leonforte

Studio delle performance di lungo periodo e dei fenomeni di degrado di impianti solari fotovoltaici  
Study of the long-term performance and degradation phenomena of solar photovoltaic systems

Responsible: Claudio Del Pero - Fabrizio Leonforte