Experience

Università degli Studi di Bergamo

• Italy
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Full Professor

  • Mar 1990 - Present

  RESEARCH ACTIVITY Solar Energy and RE Technologies - Concentrated Solar Power Plants, CSP : design, modeling and optimization - Solar Cooling systems Building Energy Efficiency - Zero Energy Building and Passive House design - High efficiency energy systems and advanced HCVAC to get best comfort - Transient simulations to predict building cooling load and energy system behavior Power Plants and Energy Efficiency in Industry - Gas Turbine plants: Combined Cycles optimization (efficiency and environmental impact) - Combined Cycle Power Augmentation through GT inlet air cooling systems - Industrial Cogeneration Plant design: - Trigeneration plants - Power production from industrial processes heat recovery - Waste to Energy plant design and modeling Gas Turbine Aerodynamics and Film Cooling - Secondary Flows analysis in turbine cascades - Film cooled turbine nozzle tests: aerodynamic performance - Turbine Endwall Film Cooling: thermal and aerodynamic performance RECENT PROJECTS Renewable Energy and Power Plants - K.A.CARE (Saudi Arabia): Concentrated Solar Power Plants Modelling and Techno-Economic Analysis for Solar Cooling Systems in Saudi Arabia - ENI POWER: Gas Turbine Inlet Cooling System for Combined Cycle (400 MW) Through Thermal Storage - A2A: Modelling and Performance Test for a 800 MW Combined Cycle - ITALCEMENTI: Power Production from Heat Recovery of cement process in Tailand cement factory Gas Turbines - ALSTOM POWER: Aero-thermal Investigation of Combustor-Turbine Interface in a Linear Nozzle Vane Cascade. - ALSTOM POWER: Inlet flow angle influence on Leading edge cooling in a Linear Nozzle Vane Cascade - ANSALDO ENERGIA: Aero-Thermal Investigation on Rotor Blade Film Cooled Endwall - ANSALDO ENERGIA: Upstream Slot Influence on Rotor Blade Endwall Film Cooling Effectiveness Show less