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Professor Riccardo Amirante, PhD, was born in Bari (Italy) on June 26, 1969. He received the first degree (five years) with honors in Civil Engineering during Academic Years 1991/1992 and the PhD in “Ingegneria delle Macchine” in 1997, both from the Polytechnic of Bari. He has been an Assistant Professor at the Università del Molise since from 1996 to 2000. He is successfully an Assistant Professor of “Macchine a Fluido” (Internal Combustion Engines and Turbomachinery): at the Politecnico di Bari from 2000. He has been an Associate Professor from 2012. Initially his research interests are in the field of fluid dynamic design problems applied to horizontal centrifugal separators and with their applications to industrial process. During this period he obtained the first national prize for the better scientific paper about olive oil industry. Afterwards, his research interests have been in the field of Hydraulic transmissions, and now he is first manager of Hydraulic and pneumatic laboratory of the Department. He strongly cooperated in many national research projects. During the last years he teaches many courses in the University of Molise and Politecnico di Bari: Fluid Automation, Hydraulic transmissions, Agro alimentary machineries and plants, Mathematics and so on. He is the Co-Author of about 40 papers, most of which presented at international conferences or published in international journals.

Paolo Tamburrano, PhD, was born in Mesagne (Br, Italy) on May 20, 1980. He holds a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering (PhD thesis titled “Fluid dynamic design optimization of mechanical and energy systems”) and a Master degree (five years) in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari. He has six years of research experience and currently is a researcher at the Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management (DMMM) of Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy). His research interests are mainly concerned with CFD and optimization methods, hydraulics and pneumatics, cyclone separators, fluid machinery, gas to gas heat exchangers, heat transfer, thermodynamics, renewable energy, control systems, internal combustion engines. He has published more than 20 papers, with 13 papers been indexed by Scopus.