Chemical Engineering Group @ University of Sannio

Our group works since some years on Chemical Looping Processes, a key technology in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, that involves cycling a solid between two reactors to selectively transport a chemical such as oxygen (for combustion) or carbon dioxide (for CO2 removal). Our research effort is aiming at numerically studying Chemical Looping systems, based on a number of fixed or fluidized beds, in order to help experimentalists in understanding their behavior and overcoming the main criticalities of such systems. Through the experimental support from both Italian (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale – Università Federico II di Napoli) and U.K. (Centre for Power Engineering – Cranfield University) research centers, we focused our work on Chemical Looping Reforming, Chemical Looping Combustion of gaseous and solid (biomass and fossil) fuels and, more recently, on CO2 methanation by means of hydrogen from Power-to-Gas systems. Additionally, in order to help optimizing specific process layouts, our group carries out techno-economic analyses. Our background is typical of Chemical and Energy Engineering.

The student will contribute to this work by taking part, under the supervision of Unisannio researchers, in the ongoing modelling efforts, using either appropriate commercial software, or custom–built codes.

Further references: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Chemical-Looping-processes (with a list of our most recent publications).