RESEARCH

The research activity during these years has been divided into the following fields of interest:

• Study of the flow in porous media, characterization and petrophysical description of porous media for the evaluation of the production properties of deposits of endogenous fluids; study and modeling of the phenomenon of invasion of drilling muds in mineralized hydrocarbon formations; integrated study for the characterization of porous media with image analysis techniques.
• Study of the flow of multiphase mixtures, study and development of innovative systems for measuring the flow of multiphase effluents; in the study of phenomena related to the outflow of two-phase mixtures through control and safety valves; in the study of an air-lift pumping system and development of a fluid-dynamic model for system control.
• Study of the management of water resources, use of water balance techniques distributed in the anthropic impact assessment; development of multi-criteria management models to optimize the use of water resources in the presence of different uses; integration of satellite information in the assessment of renewable water resources and geographic information systems (GIS).
• Study of Geothermal systems, assessment of the sustainability and renewability of these energy sources through the modeling of mass and thermal flow in the subsoil; study of open systems aimed at creating ATES type plants; study of heat recovery systems from oil wells; integration of geophysical measures in order to characterize the subsystem in a distributed form in petrophysical and thermal terms.

He has been responsible for numerous research projects funded by MIUR (ex 40% and 60% funds) and numerous research projects financed by public and private bodies (ENEA, Enterprise Oil (today Shell), Eni, Mokveld BV, etc.) . He was in charge of technical research: "Monitoring and Diagnostic system, based on an EU-funded OG / 143/94 / IT contract.