Room -1Mc15; phone +39-081-674028 Email marco.balsamo@unina.it;

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Prof. Fabio Montagnaro

Room -1Mc05; phone +39-081-674029 Email fabio.montagnaro@unina.it;

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Phd Student: Francesca Di Lauro, Email francesca.dilauro2@unina.it

Research:

The main investigation pathways of the research group are:

1) gas–solid chemical processes in fluidised bed reactors, also through the use of solar energy (example: removal of CO₂/SO₂, solar reactors for calcium looping and thermochemical energy storage; sorption-enhanced gasification);

2) solids thermoconversion processes for energy production (example: entrained-flow gasification of biomass under slagging conditions);

3) synthesis of non-traditional binders (through reuse of industrial wastes);

4) adsorption processes in fixed beds (example: removal of CO₂/H₂S from flue gas through adsorbents of new generation);

5) fractal dynamics in heterogeneous processes (example: application to liquid–solid and gas–solid adsorption processes);

6) reuse of civil and industrial wastes (example: oxy-pyrolysis, gasification and hydrothermal liquefaction of civil and industrial sludges for the production of energy vectors);

7) design of chemical reactors and plants.

The full list of projects/collaborations/publications and more detailed information about the research & teaching activity are retrievable at www.docenti.unina.it/fabio.montagnaro and www.docenti.unina.it/marco.balsamo (section "curriculum"; the information is constantly updated). Main ongoing projects are: 1) Italian Project Programma Nazionale per la Ricerca MIUR "Biofeedstock – Development of Integrated Technological Platforms for the Valorisation of Residual Biomasses"; 2) Project funded by the University of Naples "Development and characterisation of porous sorbent materials functionalised with ionic liquid for CO₂ capture", 3) Research contract between the Department and the Italian Leather Research Institute on "Energetic valorisation of tannery sludges".