Valentina Pusateri

Technical University of Denmark | DTU · Department of Environmental Engineering

The industry sector has high carbon emissions with a large contribution stemming from metals manufacturing. There is an increasing interest in additive manufacturing (AM) as a manufacturing technique for lean manufacturing and circular economy (CE), but can it become environmentally sustainable?We propose a holistic framework to investigate future...

Through additive manufacturing (AM), it is now possible to produce functionally gradient materials (FGM) by depositing different metal alloys at a specific location to locally improve mechanical properties and enhance product performance. Despite recent developments, however, there are still some important trade-offs to consider and inherent challe...

Additive manufacturing was initially employed to create models and to prototype parts that engineers had envisioned in shorter times to provide enhanced product design flexibility. Currently, it is fully accessible to different industrial sectors. In particular, it has the potentials to be employed in the metal sector, which is a significant contri...

Carbon and nitrogen present in residual water streams can be converted into microbial protein and used as animal feed in aquaculture. While microbial protein is thought to be more environmentally sustainable when compared to proteins made from fish residues or plants, nothing is known about how it performs in an absolute sustainability perspective,...