He is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Mechanics (SSD AGR09) at the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences (SAFE) at the University of Foggia.<\/p>\n
He teaches courses in “Agricultural Engineering,” “Machinery and Plants for the Agri-Food Industry,” “Plants and Equipment for the Catering Industry,” and “Safety on Machinery and in the Workplace.”<\/p>\n
He conducts multidisciplinary research, collaborating with national and international research institutes and companies for: (a) optimization of machinery for the food and olive oil industries in particular, and for the recovery of by-products and wastewater; (b) evaluation of machine\/product\/process interactions, with particular attention to the quality and physical-mechanical properties of products and by-products in the fruit and vegetable sector; (c) development of elevating work platforms for pruning and facilitated harvesting of tall trees; (d) development of olive harvesting shakers and analysis of vibration transmission; (e) precision agriculture machinery; (f) safety assessment of agricultural machinery pursuant to Directive 2006\/42\/EC and workplace safety pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 81 of April 9, 2008.<\/p>\n
In the olive oil extraction sector, he has developed, studied, and optimized: 2F, 3F, and 2.5F water-saving decanters, destoning machines, crushing machines, malaxing machines, and heat exchangers. He has conducted studies on the use of microwave, ultrasound, and pulsed electric field technologies in the olive oil extraction cycle, examining quantitative and qualitative aspects in depth.<\/p>\n
He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in national and international journals and conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6021,"template":"","format":"standard","nazione":[79],"class_list":["post-6824","docenti","type-docenti","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nazione-italy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docenti"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/6824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12606,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/6824\/revisions\/12606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"nazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onaoo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nazione?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}