Full professor of Chemical Plants and Processes

Expertise valuable to the project: Adsorption; Leaching of Pt, Pd, Au, Rh from spent catalyst and WEEE; Unit operation and plant design; Multiphase flow; Exhaust gas cleaning; Water treatment.

Role in the project: Principal Investigator;  Responsible for Activity 1;  Researcher involved in Activities 2, 4 and 5; Responsible for project management (Activity 6).

Personal Website: https://www.docenti.unina.it/francesco.dinatale 

Group Website: STEEL - DICMaPI

Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry

Expertise valuable to the project: Studies on the application of AOP for pollutants removal from water and wastewater; Application of photocatalytic processes to solar hydrogen production and metal removal from aqueous solutions; Chemical Process Safety.

Role in the project: Associated Investigator.  Researcher involved in the Activities 1, 2, 3 and 5.

Personal Website: https://www.docenti.unina.it/roberto.andreozzi 

Group Website: SPHERE - DICMaPI

Associate Professor of Principles of Chemistry for Applied Technologies

Expertise valuable to the project: Green chemistry approaches for valorization of bio-wastes and their conversion into added value functional materials; Design of catalysts for H2 production through thermocatalytic and photocatalytic processes; Thermoanalytic methodologies for materials characterization (reactions, phase transitions). 

Role in the project: Associate Investigator;   Responsible for Activity 2;  Researcher involved in Activities 3 and 5.

Personal Website: https://www.docenti.unina.it/giuseppina.luciani 

Group Website: MACHELAB - DICMaPI

Associate professor of Metallurgy 

Expertise valuable to the project: Electrochemical processes, use of Deep Eutectic Solvents to dissolve selectively precious metals and their recovery.

Role in the project: Associated Investigator;  Researcher involved in Activities 1and 5.

Personal Website: https://www.docenti.unina.it/tullio.monetta 

Group Website:  SEMS - DICMaPI 

Senior Researcher 

Expertise valuable to the project: Catalysts design and preparation; catalysts characterization; catalytic (multiphase) reactors; multiphase flow; pollutants abatement. 

Role in the project: Substituted Principal Investigator, Head of the STEMS unit; Responsible for Activity 3;  Researcher involved in Activities 2, 5 and 6.

Personal Website: Landi Gianluca - STEMS

Group Website:  https://www.stems.cnr.it/ 

Senior Researcher 

Expertise valuable to the project: Thermal conversion process (torrefaction, pyrolysis, gasification, combustion) for biomass and waste valorization, fixed and fluidized bed reactor development, catalyst development and characterization. 

Role in the project: Associate investigator;  Responsible for Activity 4;  Researcher involved in activities 3 and 5.

Personal Website: Ruoppolo Giovanna - STEMS

Group Website:  https://www.stems.cnr.it/ 

Researcher 

Expertise valuable to the project: Methodologies for assessing sustainability and circularity of conventional and emerging technologies/ products. He is an expert in applying Life Cycle methodologies (LCA, LCC, and social LCA). 

Role in the project: Associate Investigator;    Responsible for Activity 5;  Researcher involved in Activity 4. 

Personal Website: Chirone Roberto - STEMS

Group Website:  https://www.stems.cnr.it/ 

Researcher 

Expertise valuable to the project: Experimental analysis and kinetic modelling of: AOP for the removal of organic pollutants from water and wastewater, photocatalytic processes for recovery of metals from wastes and scraps, leaching process of platinum group metals in mild conditions. 

Role in the project: Associated Investigator;   Researcher involved in Activities 1, 3 and 4.  

Personal Website: Di Somma Ilaria - STEMS

Group Website:  https://www.stems.cnr.it/