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Raffaele Spinelli

Raffaele Spinelli

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
7874
World Ranking
4913
National Ranking
146

Overview

Raffaele Spinelli is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, notably Mechanics of Materials, Global and Planetary Change, Agronomy and Crop Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, including Forest Biomass Utilization and Management, Forest Management and Policy, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, Tree Root and Stability Studies, Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Spinelli has published research in several academic journals. They have a notable record in the following publication venues:

  • Forests
  • Croatian journal of forest engineering
  • International Journal of Forest Engineering
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Current Forestry Reports

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Can nature conservation and wood production be reconciled in managed forests? A review of driving factors for integrated forest management in Europe," 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "The Management Response to Wind Disturbances in European Forests," 2021, Current Forestry Reports
  • "The Effect of New Silvicultural Trends on Mental Workload of Harvester Operators," 2020, Croatian journal of forest engineering
  • "From Industry 5.0 to Forestry 5.0: Bridging the gap with Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence," 2024, Current Forestry Reports
  • "Multi-tree cut-to-length harvesting of short-rotation poplar plantations," 2020, European Journal of Forest Research

Spinelli frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Natascia Magagnotti, Rien Visser, Gernot Erber, Patrik Heger, and Muedanyi Ramantswana. Their collaborative work reflects multidisciplinary interactions within forest engineering and management.

Best Publications

  • Analyzing and estimating delays in wood chipping operations.

    Raffaele Spinelli;Rien J.M. Visser

  • Past, present and future of industrial plantation forestry and implication on future timber harvesting technology.

    Andrew McEwan;Andrew McEwan;Enrico Marchi;Raffaele Spinelli;Michal Brink

  • A survey of Italian chipping operations

    Raffaele Spinelli;Bruce Hartsough

  • Wood chips size distribution in relation to blade wear and screen use

    Carla Nati;Raffaele Spinelli;Piergiorgio Fabbri

  • Using modified foragers to harvest short-rotation poplar plantations

    Raffaele Spinelli;Carla Nati;Natascia Magagnotti

  • Industrial harvesting of olive tree pruning residue for energy biomass.

    Raffaele Spinelli;Gianni Picchi

  • Analyzing and Estimating Delays in Harvester Operations

    Raffaele Spinelli;Rien Visser

  • A GIS decision support system for regional forest management to assess biomass availability for renewable energy production

    Pietro Zambelli;Chiara Lora;Raffaele Spinelli;Clara Tattoni

  • LCA of environmental and socio-economic impacts related to wood energy production in alpine conditions: Valle di Fiemme (Italy)

    Clara Valente;Clara Valente;Raffaele Spinelli;Bengt Gunnar Hillring

  • Determining the shape of the productivity function for mechanized felling and felling-processing

    Rien Visser;Raffaele Spinelli

  • Storage dynamics and fuel quality of poplar chips.

    Maurizio Barontini;Antonio Scarfone;Raffaele Spinelli;Francesco Gallucci

  • Determining the impact of some wood characteristics on the performance of a mobile chipper

    Raffaele Spinelli;Natascia Magagnotti;Giuseppe Paletto;Christian Preti

  • Environmental impact assessment of different logging methods in pine forests thinning

    Enrico Marchi;Rodolfo Picchio;Raffaele Spinelli;Stefano Verani

  • Benchmarking the impact of traditional small-scale logging systems used in Mediterranean forestry

    Raffaele Spinelli;Natascia Magagnotti;Carla Nati

  • Production and quality of biomass fuels from mechanized collection and processing of vineyard pruning residues

    Raffaele Spinelli;Carla Nati;Luigi Pari;Enzo Mescalchin

  • Physical characterization of commercial woodchips on the Italian energy market

    Raffaele Spinelli;Carla Nati;Lorena Sozzi;Natascia Magagnotti

  • Comparison of two harvesting systems for the production of forest biomass from the thinning of Picea abies plantations

    Raffaele Spinelli;Natascia Magagnotti

  • Relating safety, productivity and company type for motor-manual logging operations in the Italian Alps.

    Niccolò Brachetti Montorselli;Carolina Lombardini;Natascia Magagnotti;Enrico Marchi

  • An international review of the most productive and cost effective forest biomass recovery technologies and supply chains

    Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan;Mark Brown;Mauricio Acuna;John Sessions

  • Recovering logging residue: experiences from the Italian Eastern Alps

    Raffaele Spinelli;Carla Nati;Natascia Magagnotti

  • Performance of a logging residue bundler in the temperate forests of France

    E. Cuchet;P. Roux;R. Spinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodolfo Picchio
Rodolfo Picchio Tuscia University
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp
Blas Mola-Yudego
Blas Mola-Yudego University of Eastern Finland
Marcus Lindner
Marcus Lindner European Forest Institute
Birger Solberg
Birger Solberg Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Marc Hanewinkel
Marc Hanewinkel University of Freiburg
Giacomo Certini
Giacomo Certini University of Florence
Manfred J. Lexer
Manfred J. Lexer BOKU University
Rupert Seidl
Rupert Seidl Technical University of Munich

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