Corrado Giannantoni (born 1950) is an Italian

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Early life and education

Giannantoni was born at

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(Central

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) in 1950. He attended

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in that little village and

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at St. Mary's College in

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. He graduated with honors in nuclear engineering at ''

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'' University of Rome in 1977. After a short period of teaching atomic physics and nuclear plants at

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(Rome), he began working for the ENEA (''Italian Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment'') in 1978 in the field of Fast Reactor Safety (the French ''Superphenix'' and Italian ''PEC'' Reactors).

Professional life

He was responsible for "out-of pile experiments" in the four-party agreement (

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), from 1984 to 1990 and, subsequently, was Director of the "energetic Norms" Section, in the "Energy Saving" Division up to June 1995. In this latter period, as Consultant for the Italian Ministry of Industry for Energy Saving in Italy, he promoted the introduction (in ENEA) of advanced evaluation methodologies of Power Plants based on the physical quantities of

Exergy Exergy, often referred to as "available energy" or "useful work potential", is a fundamental concept in the field of thermodynamics and engineering. It plays a crucial role in understanding and quantifying the quality of energy within a system and ...

and

Emergy Emergy is the amount of energy consumed in direct and indirect transformations to make a product or service. Emergy is a measure of quality differences between different forms of energy. Emergy is an expression of all the energy used in the work pr ...

, and their corresponding micro and macro-economic Theories (Exergoeconomics and Emergoeconomics respectively). From June 1995 he worked in the "Engineering Division and Experimental Plants" as Project Manager of the so-called Integrated Multicriteria (Energetic-Exergetic-Emergetic-Economic) Approach. Since December 2001, as a member of the Technical-Scientific Unit termed as "Renewable Sources and Innovative Energetic Cycles", he has been dealing with evaluation methods of strategic options concerning both traditional and new alternative energy sources of "equipollent", such as

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, for example. In the last two years he has progressively intensified his activity of diffusion of new Mathematical Methods (''Intensive'' and ''Incipient''

Fractional Calculus Fractional calculus is a branch of mathematical analysis that studies the several different possibilities of defining real number powers or complex number powers of the differentiation operator D D f(x) = \frac f(x)\,, and of the integration ...

) for the solution to

non-linear differential equation In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system (or a non-linear system) is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input. Nonlinear problems are of interest to engineers, biologists, physicists, mathem ...

s and their direct applications in several fields (from Quantum Mechanics to Electrical Mechanics, from Thermodynamics to Electromagnetism, etc.), in addition to their advantages when dealing with multi-phase Policy Models based on any number of Thermodynamic, Economic, Environmental and Juridical Indicators.

References

*C.Giannantoni (2000) 'Toward a Mathematical Formulation of the Maximum Em-Power Principle', in M.T.Brown (ed.) Emergy Synthesis: Theory and applications of the emergy methodology, Proceedings from the first biennial emergy analysis research conference, The Center for Environmental Policy, Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. *C.Giannantoni (2002) The Maximum Em-Power Principle as the basis for Thermodynamics of Quality, Servizi Grafici Editoriali, Padova. *C.Giannantoni (2006) 'Mathematics for generative processes: Living and non-living systems' Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 189, pp. 324–340 *C.Giannantoni, C. Cialanib and A. Mansueti (2002) Analysis of investments based on the trilateral externality approach (firm, citizen, state), Ecological Indicators, Volume 2, Issues 1-2, November 2002, Pages 27–38. {{DEFAULTSORT:Giannantoni, Corrado 1950 births Living people 20th-century Italian physicists 21st-century Italian physicists