Enrico Da Riva

Enrico Da Riva is an Associate HES Professor at the School of Engineering and Management of the Canton of Vaud within the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO). His expertise spans heat pump systems, refrigeration, heat transfer, and two-phase flow modeling, with a focus on natural refrigerants like CO2 and propane.

• Current Role: Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Management of the Canton of Vaud
• Location: Office R02, Route de Cheseaux 1, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Research Interests: Da Riva's work centers on advancing thermal systems for energy efficiency in buildings, including:

• Transcritical CO2 heat pump technology
• Low-refrigerant charge heat exchangers
• Two-phase flow dynamics in minichannels
• Thermal plume-induced aerosol behavior in nuclear applications

Selected Projects: As principal investigator, he led projects on:

• 2018-2020: High-efficiency natural refrigerant heat pumps
• 2020: CO2-based anergy grid demonstrators
• 2018-2020: Transcritical CO2 heat pump performance in low-energy buildings
• 2017: Aluminum die-casting chill-block optimization
• 2016: Propane tank evaporation efficiency

Labs & Teams: Active in the Energy Institute (IE), collaborating with institutions like IGT, HES-SO Valais, and Page Jessen. His work bridges academic research and industrial applications in refrigeration, thermodynamics, and sustainable energy systems.