Author: Marcello De Falco, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description   Well integrity is defined in the NORSOK D-010[1] (a functional standard which fixes minimum requirements for equipments of the oil and gas production wells) as “application of technical, operational and organizational solutions to reduce risk of uncontrolled release of formation […]

Author: Vincenzo Piemonte, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)    1.Theme description   The purpose of a solar refinery is to enable an energy transition from today’s ‘fossil fuel economy’ with its associated risks of climate change caused by CO2 emissions, to a new and sustainable ‘carbon dioxide economy’ that instead uses the CO2 […]

Author: Vincenzo Piemonte, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme description  The average $3 million drilling and fracturing process required for each well uses an average of 4.2 million gallons of water, much of which has traditionally been freshwater. The volume of water can vary significantly and is highly dependent on the […]

Author: Marcello De Falco, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1. Theme description Natural gas (NG) treatments are the processes needed to sweeten and purify the extracted NG before feeding it to the grid. Such processes are crucial to reach the gas purity targets and constitute a large fixed and operative costs for […]

Author: Mauro Capocelli, Researcher, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1. Theme description Energy recovery and process integration is the most direct solution if for the increasing of process efficiency. In the industrial processes (in in particular in the chemical and petrochemical sector) the performance improvement is mandatory in order to face the climate change […]

 Author: Vincenzo Piemonte, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description The large increase in the past century of industrial development, population growth and urbanization favoured the release of hazardous chemicals in the environment and a general global pollution. Several chemicals, including heavy metals and radionuclides, but also organic compounds such as pesticides, […]

Author: Vincenzo Piemonte, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)       1.Theme description The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows to evaluate the interactions that a product or service has with the environment, considering its whole life cycle that includes the preproduction points (extraction and production of raw materials), production, distribution, use (including reuse […]

 Author: Marcello De Falco, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)     1.Theme description Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is used for transporting natural gas (NG) to distant markets, not supplied by NG grid connecting the extraction/production point to the users. Basically the LNG process is composed by the following steps[1]: Extracted natural gas is […]

Author: Marcello De Falco, Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)   1.Theme description The effects on the human health and the impact on the environment due to the exposure to and the presence of heavy metals as lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic have been extensively studied by international bodies as WHO, attesting clearly a […]

Author: Marcello De Falco , Associate Professor, University UCBM – Rome (Italy)    1.Theme description DME (Dimethyl Ether) is an organic compound mainly used as aerosol propellant and as a reagent for the production of widely applied compounds as the dimethyl sulfate (a methylating agent) and the acetic acid[1]. Recently, companies as Topsoe, Mitsubishi Co. […]