PAGLIERO M.

Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation technology that is gaining increasing importance for desalination because of its optimal separation performance and its ability to treat highly concentrated saline solutions. Among all membrane morphological structures, hollow fibre (HF) exhibits some peculiar advantages, does not require any support...

In recent years, hydrothermal treatment has been considered as among the most promising option for sludge solubilisation and carbon recovery in terms of sludge management. In this study, the effect of different individual hydrothermal operating conditions like temperature (110–250 °C), sludge pH (6–13) and reaction time (0.5–3 h) were varied to...

An experimental study of hydrogen sulfide adsorption on a fixed bed for biogas purification is proposed. The adsorbent investigated was powdered hematite, synthesized by a wet-chemical precipitation method and further activated with copper (II) oxide, used both as produced and after pelletization with polyvinyl alcohol as a binder. The...

Flat sheet membranes made of polyvinyldene fluoride (PVDF) were prepared via nonsolvent induced phase separation (NIPS). The focus of this work was concentrated on the effect of the support structure and material on the morphology and on the distillation performance of the final membranes. To this end, various membranes were prepared casting a...

Featured Application: A potential application of the methodologies employed within the present work may be related to an easier and cheaper characterization of new materials developed for filtering purposes (specifically concerning the development of face masks for health issues). The possibility to employ a fast characterization technique as...

The production of olive oil generates olive mill wastewater (OMW) which essentially derives from the processing, treatment and pressing of olives in mills. Traditional milling processes require a quantity of water varying between 40 and 120 L per quintal of pressed olives, generating a considerable amount of wastewater. It is thus necessary to...