[Ajda Carcani]

BIRD (Barleti Institute for Research and Development) located in Tirana, Albania, provides the necessary infrastructure to foster and support the multi and interdisciplinary research and scientific activities of Barleti University to enable the development of standards and the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competences on different fields to exploit the full potential of young people, and of the wider community, by involving them directly in contributing to diverse projects for the social and economic benefit of the community.
Our field of activities include:
• Sustainable and Integrated Development;
• Sustainable Tourism;
• Environment and Natural Resources;
• Energy Efficiency and Transport;
• Farming and the Food Value Chain;
• Knowledge Economy and Technology Transfer;
• Health and Welfare;
• Climate Change, Emergencies and Disaster Management;
• Technologies, Innovation and Mobility.
For further information please contact: a.carcani@bird.al.

[Davide Papurello]

I am an energy eng., assistant prof. at Politecnico di Torino (Energy Dept.) working mainly on the New Energy Carriers, such as Battery Electric Vehicles and Hydrogen. The topics that we are covering here in our lab. are related to:
– Lithium-ion battery, characterization under normal operation and abuse conditions, such as stressing the battery to cause thermal runaway with electrical, thermal and mechanical abuse/characterization in terms of temperature, pressure, gas analysis, etc.
– possibility of testing other types of batteries, such as solid-state batteries, etc.
– suppression of fires in a test bench using spray water mist system
– Testing and modeling of hydrogen safety in compressed gas storage tanks
– Modeling of NEC in tunnel and study of ventilation strategy
Here my contacts
davide.papurello@polito.it

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