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SONIA LONGO

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Active Research fields

The main research topics of the research group are mainly oriented towards energy-environmental themes, in particular: energy efficiency in the building sector and thermo-physical building modeling, renewable energy technologies, net zero energy buildings, the Life Cycle Assessment methodology, ecodesign and decarbonization strategies in systems and processes.

Research projects of the last 5 years

Collaborations

  • Collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione INRAN. Project Nutritional and organoleptic quality and environmental impact of biologic productions BIOQUALIA, funded by the Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali (MIPAF) (2010-2012) http://www.sinab.it/ricerca/bioqualia-qualita-nutrizionale-e-organolettica-e-impatto-ambientale-di-produzioni-bio-un
  • Agreement with CNR Dipartimento Ingegneria, ICT e tecnologie per l’energia e i trasporti (DIITET) for the following research activities: Sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis applied to the assessment of the energy and environmental performances of V-Redox batteries,Comparative analysis of the energy and environmental performances of V-Redox batteries with other kind of batteries, Analysis of the life-cycle energy and environmental performances of Iron-Air and Grafene Vanadio Redox batteries through the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology, Analysis of the energy and environmental performances of the anode materials to be used in lithium ions batteries through the LCA methodology: graphite and Li4Ti5012 (2014–2016). Project “Electrochemical systems for generation and storage of energy”
  • Agreement with CNR Dipartimento Ingegneria, ICT e tecnologie per l’energia e i trasporti (DIITET) for the following research activities: L2.1 Development of innovative components for high temperature batteries, L2.1 Development of innovative components for redox batteries (2012-2014). Project “Electrochemical systems for generation and storage of energy”
  • Agreement with the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) for the following research activity: Development of innovative tools for the assessment of embodied energy in buildings and of models to quantify the potential of ventilative cooling in buildings”(2015-2016). Project C.2 “Development of models for energy retrofit actions of public buildings”
  • Collaboration with the Joint Research Center for the development of LCA datasets compliant to the ILCD standard, included in the European reference Life Cycle Database, in the context of the CRIM-SAFRI project
  • Agreement with the Consiglio per la ricerca e sperimentazione in agricoltura (CRA) for the activities of the project “Terravita: Biodiversity, territory and nourishment. The sustainability of the Italian agro-food sector (2014- 2016)
  • Agreement with the Dipartimento all'Urbanistica dell'Assessorato al Territorio e Ambiente Regione Siciliana for the following activity: State of the art on energy and environmental policies on smart materials “Cool Roof”. Project “MED, Priority-Objective 2.2 Axe 2:Protection de l’environnement et promotion d’un dèveloppement territorial durable - Objectif 2.2: Promotion des ènergies renouvelables et amèlioration de l’efficacité énérgetique, MAtèriaux INtèlligents” (2013-2015)
  • Agreement with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Dipartimento Energia e Trasporti (CNR-DET) for the following activity: Sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis in the assessment of the energy and environmental performances of high temperature batteries (ZEBRA) (2011-2012)
  • Agreement with the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) for the following activity: Life Cycle Assessment of electric car systems. Project “Electricity savings in the means of transport: new materials and innovative components for the means of transport” (2010-2012)
  • Agreement with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Dipartimento Energia e Trasporti (CNR-DET) for the following activity: Comparison of different micro-storage technologies – Life Cycle assessment as support to the assessment of different micro-storage technologies (2010-2011)
  • Participation to the International Energy Agency workgroup SHC Task 40 – EBC Annex 52 “Towards Net Zero Energy Buildings” (2008–2013)
  • Participation to the International Energy Agency workgroup SHC Task 48 – “Quality Assurance and Support Measures for Solar Cooling” (2011–2015)
  • Participation to the International Energy Agency workgroup SHC Task 53 “New generation Solar Cooling and Heating” (2014-2016)
  • Participation to the International Energy Agency workgroup EBC Annex 57 “Evaluation of Embodied Energy and CO2eq. for building construction” (2014-2016),
  • Participation to the International Energy Agency workgroup EBC Annex 62 “Ventilative Cooling” (2014-2016)

Active research

Laboratory of LCA and ecodesign: it supports enterprise networks and public bodies to implement sustainable production and use strategies. In detail: application of LCA, eco-design, eco-innovation, industrial symbiosis, GPP, sustainable buildings and NZEBs design, environmental certification, environmental and energy management systems.

 

Tools: LCA software and databases, building simulation software and tools.

Services delivered under the right of third parties

Support to Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Public Administrations (PA) for the implementation of sustainable production and product use practices and to the improvement of the local supply chains. In detail:

 

  • Life Cycle Assessment studies, to assess the energy-environmental perfromances of products and services, as application of the EU Directive on Energy related Products and definition of eco-design criteria to be introduced in the productive processes, aiming to a reduction of specific  raw material use, of non renewable resources and to an increase of the use of low environmental impact products, etc.;
  • Achievement of environmental product (and organization) declarations, in particular Product Environmental Footprint, Ecolabel, Product Environmental Footprint and Organization Environmental Footprint;
  • Implementation of environmental and energy management systems,
  • Definition of industrial symbiosis potential for SMEs,
  • Definition of Green public procurement strategies for PA,
  • Design of building energy retrofit solutions in the field of historical buildings aiming to the ‘Net Zero Energy Building’ target.