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GIANLUCA CARRARO
Position
Ricercatore a tempo det. art. 24 c. 3 lett. A L. 240/2010
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VIA VENEZIA, 1 - PADOVA
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Gianluca Carraro was born in Padova, Italy, in 1992. He received the M.S. degree in energy engineering at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering (curriculum Energy Engineering) at the University of Padova in March 2021 with a thesis entitled “Design, operation and control of power systems for low-to-medium temperature heat recovery: from organic Rankine cycle to supercritical CO2 systems”.
In 2021 he was a post-Doctoral researcher with a Research Grant on the project “Smart optimization of multi-energy systems, storages and interactions with energy networks”.
He is currently working with the University of Padova as an Assistant Professor (RTDa).
Research activities include two main topics:
1) experimental evaluation, study of theoretical aspects and of the dynamic behaviour of energy production and recovery systems powered by renewable, waste heat and fossil fuels
2) design and off-design modeling, and optimization of the design and operation of complex energy systems, which are composed of groups of generating units that convert fossil, renewable, and unconventional energy sources into different forms of energy required by users.
He is the author of several papers (18) published in both international journals and international conference proceedings.
Notices
Office hours
at at Ufficio (office): DII/Sede V, via Venezia 1, primo piano (first floor)
He receives by appointment by sending a message to: gianluca.carraro@unipd.it.
Publications
Here you find a list of the papers published in International Journals. For the complete list of publications visit https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=aqaAi0YAAAAJ.
Dal Cin E., Carraro G., Volpato G., Lazzaretto A., Danieli P. (2022). A multi-criteria approach to optimize the design-operation of Energy Communities considering economic-environmental objectives and demand side management, Energy Conv. & Manag. 263, 115677.
Volpato, G., Carraro, G., Cont, M., Danieli, P., Rech, S., & Lazzaretto, A. (2022). General guidelines for the optimal economic aggregation of prosumers in energy communities. Energy, 258, 124800.
Danieli, P., Lazzaretto, A., Al-Zaili, J., Sayma, A., Masi, M., & Carraro, G. (2022). The potential of the natural gas grid to accommodate hydrogen as an energy vector in transition towards a fully renewable energy system. Applied Energy, 313, 118843.
Danieli, P., Masi, M., Lazzaretto, A., Carraro, G., & Volpato, G. (2022). A Smart Energy Recovery System to Avoid Preheating in Gas Grid Pressure Reduction Stations. Energies, 15(1), 371.
Carraro, G., Pili, R., Lazzaretto, A., & Haglind, F. (2021). Effect of the evaporator design parameters on the dynamic response of organic Rankine cycle units for waste heat recovery on heavy-duty vehicles. Applied Thermal Engineering, 198, 117496.
Carraro, G., Danieli, P., Lazzaretto A., Boatto T. (2021). A common thread in the evolution of the configurations of supercritical CO2 power systems for waste heat recovery, Energy Conv. & Manag., 237, 114031.
Carraro G., Bori V., Lazzaretto A., Toniato G., Danieli P. (2020). Experimental investigation of an innovative biomass-fired micro-ORC system for cogeneration applications, Renewable Energy 161, 1226-1243.
Danieli, P., Carraro, G., & Lazzaretto, A. (2020). Thermodynamic and economic feasibility of energy recovery from pressure reduction stations in natural gas distribution networks. Energies, 13(17), 4453.
Carraro G., Rech S., Lazzaretto A., Toniato G., Danieli P. (2019). Dynamic simulation and experiments of a low-cost small ORC unit for market applications, Energy Conv. & Manag., 197, 111863.
Carraro, G., Pallis, P., Leontaritis, A. D., Karellas, S., Vourliotis, P., Rech, S., & Lazzaretto, A. (2017). Experimental performance evaluation of a multi-diaphragm pump of a micro-ORC system. Energy Procedia, 129, 1018-1025.
Research Area
- Analysis of the design and off-design behavior of innovative energy conversion systems with different layouts powered by fossil and renewable sources. These include ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) and supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Brayton Cycle power systems.
- Dynamic modeling and control system development of thermos-hydraulic systems.
- Experimental investigation of micro-scale (below 10 kW) ORC systems coupled with different thermal energy generation units (e.g., gas boiler, biomass boiler).
- Systems that integrate one or more energy conversion and storage systems. These systems are usually referred to as "multi-energy systems" or "smart energy systems." The goal is to study larger or smaller portions of geographic areas where a variety of these conversion systems can be installed, the design and operation of which must be optimized along with that of the networks that transport the different types of energy produced.
- Energy communities and optimal coupling between energy generation and consumption.
Thesis proposals
1) Dynamic modeling and simulation of a supercritical CO2 power system for waste heat recovery.
2) Design and operation optimization of multi-energy systems and associated energy networks.
3) Experimental evaluation of an innovative prototype of Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system at the Laboratory of Thermal and Aeraulic Machines of the Industrial Engineering Department. The prototype integrates a biomass boiler and a micro-scale ORC unit by means of a direct evaporation of the working fluid of the ORC system (i.e., no need of an intermediate oil loop to transfer heat from biomass combustion to the working fluid). --> In collaboration with a company
