• Thermodynamic design, components selection, main control logic: fan coil, chiller, heat pumps• Project management: team-working, resources, phases, time scheduling…• Codesign with suppliers• New technologies prototyping and test• Special request technical management• OEM technical management

• Development and management of company’s products, such as hydronic terminals, chillers, heat pumps, multifunction units• Technical support aimed at the customer and professionals regarding the design of HVAC systems with company’s products• Product management: benchmarking, design, development, industrialization, market positioning. Collaboration with the specific company’s department during each product step• Specialization in regulation: microprocessor controls for fan coils, electronic control of heat pumps, plant managers and supervision software

• Training at technical, R&D, product management departments:theoretical study and coaching with laboratory technicians, designers and testers in order to acquire skills related to company’s products (components, heat transfer, refrigerant circuit, logic control)• Operative research within the technical department (unit control area): debugging and improving a fan coil microprocessor control, laboratory testing, product presentation for consignment. Study of networks of controls. Development and dynamic simulation of a control algorithm• Analysis and development tasks performed within the PM Dept:Study of the state of the art and development of presentations related to the adjustment controls of hydronic terminals and heat pumps. Feasibility study and dynamic simulation of a multi-function unit and DHW tank

• Study of heat pumps technological landscape• Study of UNI 11300-4• Development of a mathematical model capable of reproducing the physical operation of a system with heat pump, back-up, thermal storage, simple building, external environment and terminal units through dynamic approach (the time variation of functions instant by instant)• Study of possible adjustments in a heat pump heating system• Development of a code (in Simulink environment) able to run dynamic simulations and perform evaluations of transient power and instantaneous changes of variables with different adjustment logic• Optimization, through realistic simulations, of a heat pump system with choice of bivalent temperature (and therefore size of the unit), volume of heat storage and the best logic control• Calculation of SCOP by means of dynamic simulations for monthly typical days

• Study of advanced technologies in the field of small and micro CHP (combined heat and power): ORC, Styrling engines, microturbines• Analysis of the problem of not simultaneity between required heat and electricity in co-generation systems• Development of a physical-mathematical model of a co-generation system with heat storage and cost evaluation• Operating simulation of the system for different units actually on the market• Optimization of the heat storage volume• Energy analysis and assessment of the best co-generator between simulated ones• Economic analysis and evaluation of the payback time for installation of a co-generator system by comparison with a conventional system with low temperature boilerApril 2010 Internship at DIEM (Engineering Department, University of Bolonia)• Study of the technology landscape and rules relating to cogeneration• Analysis of a tri-generation computer code, software testing and drafting of a user manual