Authors: Duilio Curcio, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Mirabelli, Piero Giordano
The focus of this paper is an hazelnuts industrial plant located in Calabria (Italy). The objective is to implement a support tool (a simulator) to be used for carrying out specific analyses in order to test system performance under different operative scenarios improving and/or optimizing, if required, system design. After the modeling phase, the simulation model has been verified and validated. Four different performance parameters are introduced to evaluate system behavior in correspondence of different operative scenarios.