Prof. Dr. Luca Baldini

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Lecturer / Research in Building Energy Systems and Technologies
Co-head Centre of Building Technologies and Processes

www.zhaw.ch/de/archbau/institute/zbp

Expertise and research interests

Energy in buildings
Renewable energies
Building energy systems / building technologies
Thermal energy storage
Simulations

Educational background

Dr. sc. ETH
Dipl. Masch.-Ing. ETH

CAS Leadership in Science, FHNW

Professional milestones

Lecturer in Master of Integrated Building Systems MIBS, ETH Zurich

Head of research group - Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Innovation manager - NEST, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

CEO / Head Development and Distribution of Buidling Technology Components - BS2 AG

Membership of networks

AEE Suisse - member of the scientific council/board/working group thermal storage

Projects

• MetaSim – From high-fidelity to data-driven building energy performance simulation / Project leader / Project ongoing
• “Humans-in-the-loop” – An occupant-centric digital framework for sustainable building operation / Team member / Project ongoing
• CarNe – Carbon Negative Biochar-based Building Insulation Materials / Project leader / Project ongoing
• MoCool - Occupant-centric, mobile, radiant panel cooling for increasing summer comfort in offices / Project leader / Project ongoing
• TCology - Thermo-Chemical Network Ecology / Project leader / Project ongoing
• SWEET DeCarbCH – Decarbonisation of Cooling and Heating in Switzerland / Project leader / Project ongoing

Publications

• Fumey, Benjamin; Weber, Robert; Baldini, Luca,

  2023.

  Heat transfer constraints and performance mapping of a closed liquid sorption heat storage process.

  Applied Energy.

  335(120755).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.120755

• Fiorentini, Massimo; Heer, Philipp; Baldini, Luca,

  2022.

  Design optimization of a district heating and cooling system with a borehole seasonal thermal energy storage.

  Energy.

  262, Part B(125464).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.125464

• Fumey, Benjamin; Borgschulte, Andreas; Stoller, Sascha; Fricker, Reto; Knechtle, Ralf; Kaestner, Anders; Trtik, Pavel; Baldini, Luca,

  2022.

  Enhanced gas-liquid absorption through natural convection studied by neutron imaging.

  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

  182(121967).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121967

• Hadengue, Bruno; Morgenroth, Eberhard; Larsen, Tove A.; Baldini, Luca,

  2022.

  Performance and dynamics of active greywater heat recovery in buildings.

  Applied Energy.

  305(117677).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117677

• Fiorentini, Massimo; Baldini, Luca,

  2021.

  Control-oriented modelling and operational optimization of a borehole thermal energy storage.

  Applied Thermal Engineering.

  199(117518).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117518

• Tzinnis, Efstratios; Baldini, Luca,

  2021.

  Combining sorption storage and electric heat pumps to foster integration of solar in buildings.

  Applied Energy.

  301(117455).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117455

• Silva, Ricardo; Eggimann, Sven; Fierz, Léonie; Fiorentini, Massimo; Orehounig, Kristina; Baldini, Luca,

  2021.

  Opportunities for passive cooling to mitigate the impact of climate change in Switzerland.

  Building and Environment.

  208(108574).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108574

• Fumey, Benjamin; Baldini, Luca,

  2021.

  Static temperature guideline for comparative testing of sorption heat storage systems for building application.

  Energies.

  14(13), pp. 3754.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14133754

• Fiorentini, Massimo; Vivian, Jacopo; Heer, Philipp; Baldini, Luca,

  2022.

  Design and optimal integration of seasonal borehole thermal energy storage in district heating and cooling networks [paper].

  In:

  CLIMA 2022 The 14th REHVA HVAC World Congress.

  14th RHEVA HVAC World Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 22-25 May 2022.

  TU Delft OPEN.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.34641/clima.2022.64

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

orcid.org/0000-0001-9513-4877

www.researchgate.net/profile/Luca-Baldini-2

scholar.google.ch/citations

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