Università di Pisa

Organisation name

Università di Pisa

Department(s)/Unit(s)

Department of Energy and Systems Engineering

Location

Largo Lucio Lazzarino, 1, I-56122, Pisa, Italy

Total number of employees

49 professors and assistant professors (around 15 in RE)

24 PhD students and post doc (around 5 in RE)

24 technicians administration and logistic staff

Mission

Research and teaching in the areas of

-Energy (conversion, efficiency, transportation, etc.)

-Electrical engineering (power systems, EMC, etc.)

-Systems Engineering (control, automation and robotics, etc.)

-Managerial Engineering (economics, management, etc.)

Objectives

Laboratories/Facilities

-Energy from biomass (CRIBE: Research Centre for Energy Biomasses)

-Electric machines and drives

-Electromagnetic compatibility

-Electrochemical batteries

-Managerial engineering lab

-Automation

-Land vehicles

Technology expertise

Renewable energy related expertise:

-biomass fired plants

-grid interfacing of generation system

-storage and compensation systems

-energy markets

Main research topics

Renewable energy related research:

-Externally fired micro gas turbine (biomass fired)

-Control of inverter interfaced plants

-Battery systems (Pb and Li systems)

-SmartGrids

-Hydrogen and fuel cells

-Electric and hybrid vehicles

-Distributed generation