Rresearcher

PhD in Agricultural Chemistry

CNR e-mail

Skype: roberto.altieri.cnr

Tel:+39 075.5014540

Activities

• Development and evaluation of innovative environmentally friendly and economically sustainable processes for the management of agro-industrial waste, with particular reference to that generated by oil mills equipped with modern 'two-phase' continuous cycle extraction systems (decanters), which are considered environmentally friendly due to the associated process water and energy savings. With the aid of bioremediation techniques, the activities are aimed at the production of quality organic soil conditioners/fertilisers to be used in soil fertilisation, as a substitute for peat in nurseries or for the creation of specific growth substrates for the industrial cultivation of edible fungi (e.g.Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus spp., etc..).
• Development of automated laboratory prototypes for the study and evaluation of parameters related to the biological stability of compost (SOUR and DRI Analyser), temperature evolution in composting units (Thermal Analyser), the evolution of the main parameters (weight, temperature, CO₂, O₂, pressure, RH) of interest for composting (Compost Analyser), the evolution of the main parameters related to the measurement of biodegradability and/or compostability of biopolymers (Biodegradability Analyser)

Integrated control of the efficiency of the bio-processing processes and the quality of the products obtained is carried out.

This is in fact the case:

• the evaluation of analytical parameters related to the agronomic quality of the soil improvers/fertilisers produced; in particular, in addition to elemental analysis (using CHNS analyser, ICP OES), the quality of organic carbon (humification indices) and biological stability (static and dynamic respirometric indices, phytotoxicity) are determined, studying in particular the fate of biophenols, known to be recalcitrant to degradation, in controlled storage tests;
• the evaluation of the agronomic performance in open field, nursery and agro-industrial applications of organic mixtures containing olive oil mill wastes;
• the characterisation and subsequent selection of microbial strains capable of degrading biophenols in olive oil wastes;
• to the study of the evolution of natural microbial communities of soils amended with products from the biological oxidative transformation of olive oil mill effluents;
• the study of the suppressiveness of compost from olive oil wastes against phytopathogens of agricultural interest;
• the evaluation of the interaction with xenobiotics of the soluble organic component in compost from olive oil wastes. 

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 Citations 232 196

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  Documents: 14

  Citations:168 total citations by 137 documents

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  Co-authors: 35

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  Total Articles in Publication List:                      14

  Articles With Citation Data: 14

  Sum of the Times Cited: 146

  Average Citations per Article: 10.43

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