POLITO, Politecnico di Torino (Italy, http://www.polito.it)
POLITO was founded 150 years ago and represents a leading public university, in Italy and in Europe, in technical-scientific teaching and research. There are currently 26000 students on more than 115 courses. Staff members are more than 900 (professors and researchers), plus about 1000 administrative and technical staff. Politecnico di Torino is strictly connected with the enterprise system, and has a long experience as partner in common research projects with other European and international centres. Almost 700 research project contracts in collaboration with industries and government-funded institutions provide an income of around 400 million Euros each year.
In particular, the connected Lab is the IN.TE.S.E. (Innovation Technologies for Sustainable Energy) Laboratory – where several test stations are already available for activities related to DEMOSOFC (e.g. test stations for SOFC cells and stacks). Also, several cluster for numerical computing and simulation of energy related processes and systems, through in-house and commercial software, are available.
Another Lab is the Smart Energy Grid Lab of Politecnico di Torino, which collects skills and personnel from 3 departments (Energy, Applied Science, Electronics and Telecommunications) in order to address, with a multidisciplinary approach, the technological and scientific research topics related to smart distribution grids, in which several technologies and players interact. The emphasis is centered in particular to new technologies based on electrochemical and thermo-chemical systems. Also, the test lab provides a physical emulator of electric power profiles (both in input and output) in order to test integrated systems.
Coordination of FCH JU Projects:
· SOFCOM (Prof. Santarelli): total budget 6.2 M€
· ARTIPHYCTION: (Prof. Saracco): total budget 4.0 M€
· BIOROBUR: (Prof. Fino): total budget 4.7 M€
· DEMOSOFC: (Prof. Santarelli): total budget 5.9 M€ (NEW PROJECT call 2014)
Partners of FCH JU Projects:
· ARTEMIS (Prof. Asinari): total budget 2.9 M€
· HELMET: (Prof. Pirone): total budget 4.0 M€
· DURAMET: (Prof. Specchia): total budget 2.9 M€
· ENEFIELD: (Prof. Santarelli): total budget 53.0 M€