Topics for BS and MS graduating theses

Prof. Ilenia ROSSETTI

 

KINETICS AND PROCESS SIMULATION

• Development of kinetic and thermodynamic models.
• Simulation of chemical processes and plants of industrial interest: optimisatio, integration, intensification and sustainability.

STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY

 

• Development of nanostructured catalysts and photocatalysts through flame pyrolysis and advanced techniques.
• Kinetic modelling of complex reactions (steam reforming of bioethanol and glycerol, ammonia synthesis, degradation/gasification/pyrolysis of plastic materials, flameless combustion of methane)
• Process simulation to optimise the reactivity of catalytic and non-catalytic processes.
• Characterisation of innovative materials for industrial, energetic and environmental application.

 

ENERGY

 

• • Catalytic flameless combustion of methane (natural gas and biogas).
  • Production of hydrogen from renewable sources and waste materials
  • Regeneration of fuels from CO₂ 
  • Materials and devices for the storage of hydrogen and small molecules.

 

ENVIRONMENT 

 

• Innovative technologies for wastewater treatment and their energy valorization.
• Innovative technologies for CO₂ capture and valorisation.
• Catalytic processes for waste gas treatment.
• Innovative technologies for the valorisation of waste compounds in WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment).

 

CATALYSIS, PHOTOCATALYSIS AND INDUSTRIAL CATALYTIC PROCESSES

 

• Preparation and characterisation of advanced multifunctional materials.

• Optimisation and scale-up of reactors and catalytic processes of industrial interest.
• Simulation of processes of industrial interest.

• Development of kinetic models for catalytic reactors and processes.

• Development and scale up of photoreactors and photocatalytic processes for energy and enviroment.  

 

LIFE SCIENCE

 

• Design and optimisation of reactors and innovative integrated continuous processes for the production of fine chemicals and pharmaceutical active ingredients.