Research GroupsSERG - Sustainable Energy Research Group

SERG - Sustainable Energy Research Group

Scientific coordinator: Daniele Fiaschi

For over two decades, the SERG (Sustainable Energy Research Group)  has been studying the optimisation of energy systems and related components powered by renewable, conventional and hybrid energy sources, applying methodologies to minimise costs and environmental impacts and developing technologies for the sustainable use of natural resources. The main areas of research of the SERG group concern:

• Development and application of life cycle–based methodologies, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), as well as exergo-economic (ExEc) and exergo-environmental (ExEnv) approaches, aimed at the evaluation of environmental, economic, and social impacts, and the eco-design of renewable and hybrid energy systems. Link 3ET App 
• Low environmental impact geothermal systems (total reinjection and closed circuit) for the production of electricity, heat and cooling: from the resource model to the search for the best engineering solution in the local context of use, through meta-optimisation models. Economic and environmental assessment.
• Use of CO2 and its mixtures for the extraction, distribution and conversion of geothermal heat in a flexible and optimised manner depending on the resource and surface utilities. Link CO2Hub laboratory.
• Energy recovery (heat, electricity and cooling) in industry, utilities and on board vehicles: LNGsmarTruck patent, LNG regasification plants, microexpanders for reverse cycles, supersonic mixture separators.
• Use of innovative fluids in renewable energy networks and systems for the production of heat, electricity and cooling. Advanced modelling of mixtures using molecular identity methodologies for effective screening of components and dosages in relation to specific applications.