NEVIANI , Matteo

The amount of solid and liquid organic waste and wastewater is continuously increasing all over the world. The necessity of their reuse and recycling is, therefore, becoming more and more pressing. Furthermore, the limited fossil fuel resources, in conjunction with the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advocate the production of...

This study aims to set up the operating conditions of a battery of airlift photo-bioreactors (AL-PBRs) for Chlorella vulgaris cultivation integrated into a pilot-scale Biowaste-to-Biofuels (BtB) production plant, producing both biodiesel by transesterification of waste frying oils and syngas by wood chips gasification. Microalgae are fed with...

Robust microalgae cultivation at industrial scale needs complex scale-up of photobioreactors since the same yields obtained at lab-scale are hardly reached during pilot or industrial production. In this paper we propose a procedure based on Buckingham π-theorem to perform the scale-up of photobioreactors used to cultivate Chlorella Vulgaris fed...

The use of completely automated systems for collecting sensor data with the aim of monitoring and controlling the quality of small-scale food processes is not widespread. Small and micro-enterprises usually do not carry out their own precompetitive research or prototype development as regards to automation technologies. This study proposes a...

A procedure to evaluate the technological feasibility at pilot scale of the extraction process of polyphenols from olive pomace is presented in this work. The proposed approach takes into consideration the extended kinetic route coupled with mathematical simulation. Detailed physically-based dynamic mathematical models, taking into account mass...

The growth of population and the diversification of its activities have resulted in an exponential increase in the generation of liquid and solid wastes in recent years. In view of the new scenario, the role of novel technologies intended to reduce these wastes, transform them into new sources, and reincorporate them to different processes is...

This chapter focuses on the use of different modeling approaches for the study of the dynamic behavior of environmental interfaces. It provides an overview of the main recent simulation schemes to deal with multiscale physically based models, with particular reference to both moving interfaces and moving environmental compartments. The chapter...