Maurizio Bevilacqua, is a full professor in Industrial Plants at the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Marche. He graduated with a distinction in 1986 in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ancona. His research activity mainly deals with multiphase flow transport and separation analysis, the environmental analysis of process plants, and maintenance management. He is the author of more than 180 papers that have been published in national and international journals, including the Journal of Food Engineering, SPE Production Engineering, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Quality & Reliability Engineering International, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, International Journal of Logistics, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, The Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Technology Law and Insurance, and the Journal of Cleaner Production, as well as conference proceedings.