I. ROSSETTI

The photoreduction of CO2 is an unconventional process to regenerate fuels and chemicals storing solar radiation. A new photoreactor has been designed recently to achieve high productivity during the process, i.e. up to 39 mol/h kgcat of HCOOH or 1.4 mol/h kgcat of CH3OH, which are unprecedented results with respect to literature, especially...

Co- and Cu-based catalysts prepared by means of a flame pyrolysis (FP) technique are proposed as possible substitutes for Ni-based catalysts, very active for the Ethanol Steam Reforming reaction, but showing poor stability towards coke formation when operating at relatively low temperature. The FP method allowed to achieve a partial...

One of the limitations for CO2photoreduction in the liquid phase is due to its low solubility in water. This point has been here addressed by designing a fully innovative concept of pressurised photoreactor, allowing operation up to 20 bar and applied for thefirst time to improve the productivity of this very challenging process

Ethylene production from renewable bio-ethanol has been recently proposed as sustainable alternative to fossil sources. The possibility to exploit diluted bioethanol as less expensive feedstock was studied both experimentally, using different catalysts at lab-level, and through preliminary process design. In this work, a full-scale plant...