Michele MICCIO | Curriculum

Michele Miccio is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Industrial Engineering of University of Salerno since 1999. His teaching subjects are Processes Instrumentation and Control, Modeling and control for process industries, both in English. He had been at Engineering Faculty of University of Parma in 1992-99, with Unit Operations in Food Technology as main teaching subject.

Miccio’s main research expertise is on bubbling Fluidized Bed Combustion (FBC) since 1985. Beside to research on coal combustion, he prepared his PhD thesis on FBC of Coal-Water Slurries, he investigated FBC of water-containing liquid fuels (e.g., ORIMULSION®) and wastes, finally conventional petroleum fuels at low temperature, he had privileged cooperation with the R&D Dept. of ENEL (the former national utility in Italy). Recently, he expanded his R&D interests to other thermal technologies based on Fluidized Beds, i.e., Torrefaction, Pyrolysis and Gasification for renewable energy production from solids (e.g., wood pellets), liquid-like biomass (e.g., coal-olive husk-water slurry) and agro-industrial residues (e.g., tomato skins, citrus peels).

Another research area concerns mathematical modeling, process intensification and automatic control of selected food and biotechnological industrial processes, such as de-hydration and ripening of meat-derived products at industrial scale; growth of Saccharomices Cerevisiae in a chemostat or turbidostat as non-linear dynamical systems; enzymatic hydrolysis of pectin-based food byproducts (e.g., citrus peels); bio-digestion of industrial watery wastes (e.g., olive mill waste waters); flowsheeting, simulation and control of processes aimed at material recovery and energy valorization of agro-industrial residues. He had privileged cooperation with Prodal SCARL and Experimental Station for the Industry of Food Preservation (Parma/Angri).

He is (co-)author of more than 220 papers and conference presentations. He was appointed to review scientific papers for international conferences and journals, to co-chair international conferences (e.g., Fluidization XI in 2004 and 21FBC in 2012) or to coordinate Topical Areas, to represent Italy in International Energy Agency - TCP on Fluidized Bed Conversion and in the Steering Committee of International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion. He is involved in consulting, teaching and research programs with foreign Universities. Finally, he is a referee of the PhD program in Industrial Engineering at University of Salerno.