Author: Marcello De Falco – Associate Professor –University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme Description The use of software for the solution of complex problems is dating in 1960s. Since then, computational chemistry grew up quickly by means of increasingly powerful computers:[1] in 1966 Simulation Science launched PROCESS a program for simulating distillation columns; […]

Author: Giovanni Franchi-Chemical Engineer- Cooperation Contract -University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme Description Corrosion is the destructive attack of a metal by chemical or electrochemical reaction with its environment. It’s called “anti-metallurgy” because it tends to bring the metals back to their state of being in nature, mixed with other elements (especially with […]

 Author: Giovanni Franchi-Chemical Engineer- Cooperation Contract -University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme description The European Commission since 2007 with the “Strategic Technology Plan” (Set-Plan) promotes the development of new technologies that allow to improve sustainability and efficiency, reducing costs. It can be achieved by coordinating the national research of European Countries and by […]

Author: Vincenzo Piemonte, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description Nowadays, CO2 recycling is one of the possible contributions to CO2 mitigation and an opportunity to use a low-cost (or even negative-cost, when considering taxes on emissions) carbon source. CO2 recycling introduces a shorter path (in terms of time) to close the carbon […]

Author: Mauro Capocelli, Researcher, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description Electrocoagulation (EC) combines conventional treatment as coagulation and flotation with electrochemistry. The process destabilizes soluble organic pollutants and emulsified oils from aqueous media by introducing highly charged species that neutralize the electrostatic charges on particles and oil/emulsions droplets to facilitate agglomeration/coagulation (and the […]

Author: Vincenzo Piemonte, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme description Worldwide economic growth continues to drive demand for transportation fuels, and in part There are several processes presently able to meet individual refinery needs and project objectives[2]. In particular, UOP LLC Company is one of the most active society in this […]

Author: Mauro Capocelli, Researcher, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description The growing concerns about climate change as well as the management of ever increasing liquid and solid wasters highly pushed the R&D in waste-to-fuel conversion[1]. The transformation of wastes into fuels can be realized by the different processes represented in Fig. 1 (extending […]

Author: Mauro Capocelli, Researcher, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Introduction Waste heat recovery is a process that involves capturing of heat exhausted by an existing industrial process for other heating applications, including power generation. Technavio forecasted the global waste heat recovery market in oil and gas industry to grow at a CAGR of 7.6% […]

Author: Mauro Capocelli, Researcher, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme description   Highly polluted sites are present all over the world and particularly in countries that, in the last years, have seen uncontrolled and unplanned economic development. They are the result of earlier industrializationand poor environmental management practices that caused the alteration of […]

Author: Marcello De Falco, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description The change in the average crude oil quality due to the scarcity of light oil reserves and to the increase of the use of shale oil, oil sand and bitumen is causing significant troubles to refineries, which are obliged to accept […]