LUCA CIOCCOLANTI

Dr Luca Cioccolanti got his PhD in Energetics in 2014 at Università Politecnica delle Marche. He was Assistant Professor of “Energy systems” at Ecampus University in the period 2015-2020 and since May 2020 he is Associate Professor. He participated in setting up and development of structures and syllabuses for a number of modules on energy topics in overseas Universities within the EU funded Erasmus+ program. From 2019 to 2023 he was coordinator of the CBHE Erasmus+ project ‘Skybelt’ and he is currently involved in the CBHE Erasmus+ project ‘reZEB’.

His research activity is mainly focus on modelling distributed energy systems using renewable energy sources for residential applications. In the topic he was involved in the EU funded H2020 ‘Innova Microsolar’ project ended in April 2022. In particular, Organic Rankine Cycle systems for the recovery of medium-low temperature heat are investigated in detail. In this field, he is currently principal investigator of the national project REVER funded by the Italian MUR within the PRIN2022 program.

Email: luca.cioccolanti@uniecampus.it

Some recent publications are:

  1. Biancini G., Cioccolanti L., Chen H., Kyprianidis K., Dahlquist E., Moglie M., Integration of multiple energy systems for the valorisation of the residual municipal solid waste: a modelling study. (2025) ENERGY, vol. 318, ISSN: 0360-5442, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2025.134813.
  2. Lombardi G., Cioccolanti L., Del Zotto L., Tomassetti S., Campana P.E., The role of electric vehicles in hybrid solar-based small energy communities. (2024) ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, vol. 321, ISSN: 10.1016/j.enconman.2024.119074.
  3. Biancini G., Cioccolanti L., Moradi R., Moglie M., Comparative study of steam, organic Rankine cycle and supercritical CO2 power plants integrated with residual municipal solid waste gasification for district heating and cooling. (2024) APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, vol. 241, ISSN: 1359-4311, doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.122437.
  4. Moradi R., Cioccolanti L., Modelling approaches of micro and small-scale organic Rankine cycle systems: A critical review. (2024) APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, vol. 136, ISSN: 1359-4311, doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121505.
  5. Moradi R., Cioccolanti L., Del Zotto L., Renzi M., Comparative sensitivity analysis of micro-scale gas turbine and supercritical CO2 systems with bottoming organic Rankine cycles fed by the biomass gasification for decentralized trigeneration. ENERGY, vol. 266, ISSN: 0360-5442, doi: 10.1016/j.energy.2022.126491.
  6. La Picirelli de Souza L., Eduardo Silva Lora E., Rajabi Hamedani S., Escobar Palacio J.C., Cioccolanti, Luca, Villarini, Mauro, Comodi, Gabriele, Colantoni, Andrea. Life cycle assessment of prospective scenarios maximizing renewable resources in the Brazilian electricity matrix. RENEWABLE ENERGY FOCUS, vol. 44, p. 1-18, ISSN: 1755-0084, doi: 10.1016/j.ref.2022.11.002.
  7. Cioccolanti L., Tascioni R., Moradi R., Jurasz J. (2022). Investigating the hybridisation of microscale concentrated solar trigeneration systems and wind turbines for residential applications using a dynamic model. ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, vol. 269, ISSN: 0196-8904,doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2022.116159.
  8. Moradi R., Habib E., Villarini M., Cioccolanti L. (2021). Assumption-free modeling of a micro-scale organic Rankine cycle system based on a mass-sensitive method. ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, vol. 245, ISSN: 0196-8904, doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114554.
  9. Cioccolanti L., Renzi M., Comodi G., Rossi M. (2021). District heating potential in the case of low-grade waste heat recovery from energy intensive industries. APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, vol. 191, ISSN: 1359-4311, doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.116851.
  10. Moradi R., Villarini M., Cioccolanti L. (2021). Experimental modeling of a lubricated, open drive scroll expander for micro-scale organic Rankine cycle systems. APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, vol. 190, ISSN: 1359-4311, doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.116784.
  11. Moradi R., Villarini M., Habib E., Bocci E., Colantoni A., Cioccolanti L. (2021). Impact of the expander lubricant oil on the performance of the plate heat exchangers and the scroll expander in a micro-scale organic Rankine cycle system. APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING, vol. 189, ISSN: 1359-4311, doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.116714.