Main research topics:
1) Sustainability implementation in plant and process
design
- Development of indicators (KPI) and metrics, based
on flow-sheet analysis, for the assessment of the sustainability
profile of industrial processes
- Development of advanced methods for normalization
and aggregation of indicators, aimed at the integrated
implementation of sustainability strategies in process and plant
design
- Sustainability assessment of suppy chains for bio-fuels from
vegetable biomasses
2) quantitative risk assessment and implementation of inherent safety strategies in process plants
- Development of quantitative methods for the
assessment of inherent safety profile in process and plant design
(“conceptual” and “basic design”), based on the analysis of
expected consequences of potential accidents
- Development of strategies and methods for the
implementation of inherent safety in plant layout design
- Safety analysis for land-use planning in major risk
areas
- Safety analysis of hazardous substances, with
particular reference to hazardous product formation in runaway
reactions and out-of-control conditions
- Analysis and modelling of the performance of
passive fire protection (fireproofing) materials in preventing
escalation chains (domino effect)
- Identification of hazards from malicious attacks (security and cyber-security) to process plants
See also: Laboratory of Industrial Safety and Environmental Sustainability — LISES
Participation in ongoing and completed research grants
2004 - 2005 MIUR (Italian Ministry of
Education and Research), PRIN 2004, National research project (6
partners): "Development of an integrated approach to safety,
sustainability and environmental impact assessment of brominated
flame retardants"
2008 - 2009 MIUR (Italian Ministry of
Education and Research), PRIN 2007, National research project (4
partners): "Development of Key Performance Indicators for the
introduction of safety and sustainability drivers in process
design"
2009 European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
IPSC: “Description of accident scenarios, failure frequencies, risk
assessment data and separation distances for Land-Use Planning
evaluations around Seveso plants”.
2008 -2013 European Community , VII
Framework Program, Large-scale research project (80 partners):
"Integ-Risk: Early Recognition, Monitoring and Integrated
Management of Emerging, New Technology Related Risks". Sub-Project
2: "Emerging Risk Management Framework"
2012-2016 European
Commission, 7th Framework Programme - Nanoscience,
Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies. Small
or medium scale focused research project: “TOSCA – Total Operations
Management for Safety Critical Activities”,
FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6
2012-2016 European Commission, 7th
Framework Programme – SEC-2012.1.5-1 Chemical, Biological,
Radioactive, Nuclear and Explosive Demo Phase II,
FP7-SEC-2012.1.5-1 SEC-2012.1.5-1: “EDEN – End-user driven DEmo for
cbrNe”, 2013-15, Grant agreement no: 313077
2016-2017 Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico (MISE) – DGS-UMIG - «Progetto Indicatori »
2018-2020 INAIL - Integrated Management of Safety and Security Synergies in Seveso Plants (SAF€RA 4STER)
2020-2021 Italian Ministry of Economic Developement (MISE), «Security in offshore O&G plants»
