UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering conducts basic and applied research in all areas of mechanical engineering, while in the topical area of the MORELife project it contributes expertise in advanced modelling of electrochemical devices, i.e. fuel cells and batteries.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
UL ranks among the largest HEI with more than 40.000 students. It covers all ISCED areas in the first and second cycle study programs and leads the way in new developments in technology and research. UL fosters basic, applied and developmental research, and strives to achieve excellence and the highest quality as well as to fulfil the highest ethical criteria in all areas of the sciences and arts. By number of employees UL ranks as medium-sized HEI and employs approximately 5.700 employees, with more than 3.500 academic staff (teachers and researchers).
UL is very active in national and international R&D and educational programmes and creates almost half of the research results of Slovenia. In 2020, UL was involved in 621 European projects. UL researchers also worked in 294 research groups on 165 national research programmes, 191 national research projects and 41 projects of CRP national targeted research programme with more than 3.000 certified researchers.
The work within the project will be performed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME), which employs more than 400 employees. It ranks among 150-200 top faculties in the area of mechanical engineering according to the ARWU Shanghai ranking. In the field of modelling and simulation, where UL FME will work in this project, we have a long track record in development of advanced mechanistically-based models for coupled performance, design and degradation analyses, which are aimed for transient analyses of electrochemical systems under realistic boundary conditions. Based on this expertise, UL FME has a long-standing cooperation with leading international research partners, while it also cooperates with industrial partners on development of professional commercial modelling tools.
ROLE & KEY CONTRIBUTION
University of Ljubljana will focus on developing innovative degradation models of SoA and newly developed materials and their integration into advanced multi-scale and multi-domain modelling framework for virtual MEA analyses. This methodology will significantly contribute to understanding of the prevailing degradation mechanisms in HD applications and to elaboration of recommendations for material selection and degradation mitigation strategies as well as definitions of ASTs. Developed virtual tools will also be applied in evaluation of diagnostics for degradation analysis.
CONTACT
Prof. Dr. Tomaž Katrašnik
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FME)
Laboratory for Internal Combustion Engines and Electromobility
Aškerčeva 6
SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia