Equipment
Double Climatic Chamber
By regulating temperature, wind, and humidity, it becomes possible to replicate the specific internal and external environmental conditions to which building envelope components are subjected. This allows for analysis focused on evaluating the thermal performance and thermal properties of non-uniform components and innovative materials.
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Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing Line for Thermal Energy Systems
Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) testing enables real-time simulation of building energy systems by integrating a hydronic circuit, a climatic chamber, and a software-driven model, ensuring accurate performance evaluation under dynamic conditions.
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Hot-Disk Transient Plane Source (TPS) Method
The Hot-Disk measures thermal properties of materials at microscopic level in an accurate and efficient way. It provides data about thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and specific heat per unit volume.
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Sensors Calibration
Sensor calibration is a crucial procedure that ensures that sensors provide accurate and reliable measurements by adjusting their readings to known reference standards. In the Sustainable Energy Lab, sensors calibration procedures are made through a temperature-controlled bath and a climatic chamber.
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Real Buildings Monitoring
The monitoring of real buildings is an essential step in understanding energy behavior and optiminizing the performance of buildings and their HVAC systems. This strategy is used to calibrate dynamic energy simulation models and to optimize and develop new control strategies for buildings' use.
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