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Università degli Studi eCampus
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- Professor (Associate)
November 2010 - May 2015
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- PostDoc Position
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- R&D on biofuels field, mainly on biodiesel from vegetables oil and microalgae. Modeling and optimization of real biodiesel production processes using statistical methods.
November 2007 - October 2010
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The liquid-liquid equilibria (LLE) of the biodiesel + glycerol and biodiesel + water binary systems are experimentally measured at atmospheric pressure and in the temperature range from 310.35 K to 338.15 K, conditions relevant to the industrial process, solving the experimental challenges related to their direct measurement. The LLE data of these...
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Olive mill wastewater raises environmental concerns due to the presence of pollutants and phytotoxic compounds. This study aims to evaluate the environmental performance of an integrated process that recycles olive mill wastewater while concurrently producing Arthrospira platensis for food applications.
Methods
The quantific...
Among the different waste-to-energy solutions, gasification is considered a promising option and an alternative to landfilling of residual municipal solid waste (RMSW). Therefore, the potential of RMSW air gasification in combination with three different power cycles for district cooling and heating applications is investigated. The model of a flui...
Despite recycling is largely adopted in Europe, the amount of disposed municipal solid waste (MSW) from mechanical-biological treatment is increasing. At the same time, more environmentally friendly waste-to-energy (WtE) solutions are needed to promote sustainable management of residual MSW (RMSW) compared to incineration, which is the most common...
Sustainable management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is crucial due to its huge volume and cash flow. Among the different waste-to-energy solutions, gasification is considered an interesting option compared to incineration, which is the most common technology to valorise MSW, because of higher efficiency, lower environmental impacts, and producing...
The present paper aims to investigate the environmental impacts of a real municipal solid waste management facility operating in Italy including two power units, i.e., a combined heat and power system and an internal combustion engine, fed by the biogas produced from anaerobic digestion and waste disposal in sanitary landfill. The Life Cycle Assess...
In recent years, municipal waste collection and treatment plants have introduced substantial innovations to minimize the related environmental impacts while producing energy and new materials as by-products. Municipal solid waste (MSW), indeed, is usually valorized in incinerators, landfills or anaerobic digestion plants for for final combined heat...
Despite the rapid growth in the uptake of renewable energy technologies, the educational profile and the skills gained at University level do not always comply with the practical needs of the organisations working in the field. Furthermore, even though the residential sector has very high potential in curbing its CO2 emissions worldwide thus meetin...
In recent years, the cultivation of algae has achieved attention of scientists and practicioniers due to the great variety of products that can be obtained, among which biofuels. The aim of this work is twofold. The first is to perform a profitability analysis of food and biofuel production from microalgae, in a small-scale setting. The second is t...
This paper presents an investigation on the impact that e- tivities can have on students’ performance. The context of the study is an e-Learnig higher education institution, with 4 years of data collected from various courses on First and Master cycle Degrees in Industrial Engineering and Computer and Automation Engineering; before and after the in...
This study presents a new formula for the surface tension prediction of refrigerants. As a first step, an analysis of the
available experimental surface tension data for refrigerants was performed. The experimental data were collected, after a
careful literature survey, for the following pure fluids: R11, R12, R13, R13B1, R14, R21, R22, R23, R32, R...
One of the most promising renewable fuels proposed as an alternative to fossil diesel is biodiesel. The competitive potential of biodiesel is limited by the price of vegetable oils, which strongly influences the final price of this biofuel. On the other hand, extensive use of vegetable oils may cause other significant problems such as starvation in...
To evaluate the Solid-Liquid Equilibria (SLE) of alternative refrigerants systems, an experimental set-up was employed. The behaviour of the nitrous oxide + fluoromethane (N2O + R41) binary system was measured down to temperatures of 126.5 K. The triple point temperature of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and of seven of the most widely applied alter...
In this paper the ECLIPSE process simulation package is used to model and make a techno-economic analysis of a range of systems that combine biomass gasification with SOFC stacks.
Two forms of the SOFC are considered: the intermediate temperature (IT) solid oxide fuel cell and the standard high-temperature solid oxide fuel cell. The biomass gasific...
This work presents a literature survey of the available data of the experimental surface tension data for refrigerants. The experimental data were collected for the following pure fluids: R11, R12, R13, R13B1, R14, R21, R22, R23, R32, R113, R114, R115, R123, R123a, R124, R125, R134, R134a, R141b, R143a, R152a, R218, R225ca, R225cb, R227ea, R236ea,...
This study presents a new formula for the surface tension prediction of alkenes. As a first step, an analysis of the available data of the experimental surface tension data for alkenes was performed. The experimental data were collected, after a careful literature survey, for the following pure fluids: propene, 1-hexene, 1-heptene, 1-octene, 1-dece...
A recently built experimental setup was employed for the estimation of the solid-liquid equilibria (SLE) of alternative refrigerant systems. The behavior of two binaries, that is, carbon dioxide + fluoromethane (CO(2) + R41) and nitrous oxide + fluoromethane (N(2)O + R41), was measured down to temperatures of 126.5 K. To confirm the reliability of...
A recently built experimental setup was employed for the estimation of the solid-liquid equilibria of alternative refrigerants systems. The behavior of dimethyl ether (DME) + carbon dioxide was measured down to temperatures of 131.6 K. To confirm the reliability of the apparatus, the triple point of the DME was measured. The triple point data measu...
This paper focuses on the development of a dynamic model in Matlab/Simulink® for simulating the operation
of an adsorption system for solar air conditioning. Solar-assisted adsorption chillers can be thermally driven by
low-temperature heat sources, they use safe and non-polluting materials. Adsorption machines for use in air
conditioning are curre...
This study presents the experimental results for the dimethyl ether (DME) + propane system obtained using the Burnett method.
The apparatus was calibrated using helium. PVTx measurements were taken for four isotherms (344, 354, 364, and 375 K), performing 16 Burnett expansions in pressures ranging
from about 3,000 to 70 kPa. The second and third vi...
Export Date: 30 August 2011, Source: Scopus, Art. No.: A16
Export Date: 30 August 2011, Source: Scopus
Dimethyl ether is an important chemical material and it has many engineering applications. It is a clean and economical alternative fuel and an ozone-friendly refrigerant. In this work, its PVT properties have been object of study. In particular, the experimental work was performed both in the two-phase region and in the superheated vapor region ph...
A recently built experimental setup for determination of solid–liquid equilibria was slightly modified. The action taken on
the existing system focused on correcting the drawbacks of the cooling system. In this version of the setup, a direct liquid
nitrogen supply was preferred. By means of the modified apparatus, solid–liquid equilibria of the CO2...
The homogeneous alkaline-catalyzed transesterification reaction of triacylglycerols with methanol is the chemical conversion option that has met with the greatest favor in industrial biodiesel production plants. Two liquid immiscibility phases coexist at chemical equilibrium. i.e., a biodiesel-rich upper phase and a glycerol-rich lower phase. The a...
