Current position
Full Professor (Academic discipline: ING-IND/08 Fluid Machinery) at the Department of Industrial Engineering - University of Bologna, since 2011.
Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Programme in “Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Sciences (DIMSAI)”, University of Bologna.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Regional Energy Plan 2030” (the Plan sets the strategy and targets of Emilia-Romagna Region for energy and climate up to 2030, dealing with the enhancing of green economy, energy saving and efficiency, renewable energy development, transport, research, innovation and training).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Framework Agreement between University of Bologna and ENI S.p.A. (Italian multinational oil and gas company).
Representative of the University of Bologna in the Shareholders’ Meeting of “Centro Ceramico” (Research and Experimentation Centre for the Ceramic Industry managed by an University Consortium).
Coordinator of the "Cogeneration and polygeneration" Working Group (SC04-GL405) of the Italian Thermotechnical Committee (CTI) (a private non-profit association federated to the Italian National Unification UNI – association recognized by the Italian State and by the European Union, and represents Italian legislative activity at the International Standards Organization (ISO) and European Committee for Standardization (CEN) - that performs regulatory activities in Italy across industrial, commercial, and service sectors).
Research activity
Author of more than 200 scientific publications in international Journals and Congresses, he is currently coordinating the Energy System Group of the Department of Industrial Engineering, which carries out both numerical and experimental research activities. His scientific activity deals with thermodynamics of advanced energy systems, complex cycles and power augmentation technologies for gas turbine applications, cogeneration, micro-generation systems (Organic Rankine Cycles), renewable and alternative fuels for power production and waste heat recovery technologies.
Awards
Awarded with the “2015 - John P. Davis Award” by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) for a study on gas turbine, selected among 1051 papers of that year, “in recognition of the technical paper that most significantly describes new or continuing gas turbine applications; identifies planning, installation, operating and/or maintenance problems and their solutions; and exemplifies candid exposure of real-world problems and solutions and is judged, therefore, to be of exceptional value to others supplying or using gas turbines and their support systems”.
Awarded with the “2015 Best Paper Award” by the Industrial and Cogeneration Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) for the ASME paper GT2015-42292 regarding the Organic Rankine Cycle in offshore applications.
Awarded with the “2008 Best Paper Award” by the Industrial and Cogeneration Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) for the ASME paper GT2008-51277 regarding high efficiency gas turbine-based power cycles.
Awarded with the “2006 Best Technical Paper Award” by the Industrial and Cogeneration Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) for the ASME paper GT 2006–90342 regarding the wet compression simulation of gas turbines.
Awarded with the “2005 Best Application Paper Award” by the Industrial and Cogeneration Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) for the ASME paper GT 2006–90342 regarding the repowering of a micro gas turbine with an Inverted Brayton Cycle.
Awarded with the “2000 Best Paper Award” by the Industrial and Cogeneration Committee of the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) for the ASME paper 2000-GT-0316 regarding a thermo-economic analysis of an intercooled, reheat and recuperated gas turbine for cogeneration applications.
