Chemical Reaction Engineering and Chemical Kinetics Group

• subjectSkills

  Since the late 1960’s, the CRECK group as steadily grown its competence, impact and international recognition. The multiscale research methodology characterizing the research activity covers from fundamental principles at the molecular level (chemical kinetics, ab initio transition state theory, thermodynamics, mass and heat transport phenomena, turbulence-kinetics interaction) to the related impact at the real-world application level (industrial reactors and burners design, minimization of pollutant emissions, recycle of solid fuels and plastics, biomass conversion). This multiscale approach is successfully applied through the in-house development of:

  • A detailed kinetic mechanism describing the pyrolysis and the oxidation of a wide fuel palette, both conventional and renewable, and the related pollutants formation
  • Efficient, innovative and fit-on-purpose numerical methods for the management and the application of detailed kinetic mechanisms
  • Software and post-processing tools for modeling complex reacting systems

• subjectResearch activities

  Energy and transports

  • Cool flames and multi-stage ignitions
  • Kinetic characterization of liquid fuels and anti knocking additives
  • Auto-ignition and knocking in internal combustion engines
  • Evaporation and auto-ignition of fuel droplets

  Energy and environment

  • Design of domestic and industrial burners
  • CFD of laminar and turbulent flames with complex kinetics
  • Pollutant formation (NOx, SOx, PAHs, and soot) from combustion

  Renewable fuels

  • Kinetics of pyrolysis, partial oxidation and gasification of plastics, coal, biomasses
  • By-products and pollutant emissions

  Char formation and composition

• peoplePhD

  EDOARDO CIPRIANO

  FRANCESCO SERSE

• linkKeywords

  Biofuels

  Biomass Transformation

  Bio-Plastics

  Carbon Capture and Storage

  Carbon Nanomaterials

  Catalysis

  Chemical Kinetics

  Chemical Reaction Engineering

  Chemical Vapour Deposition

  Clean Combustion

  Energy, Safety & Environment

  Fire & Explosions Safety

  Fuel flexibility

  Graphene and graphene related materials

  Green Chemistry

  Heterogeneous catalysis

  Industrial Safety

  Industry 4.0

  MILD Combustion

  Molecular dynamics simulations

  Multi-component Reactions

  Multi-Scale Modeling

  Nanoparticles

  Natural Gas and Biogas Processing

  Pollutant Reduction

  Polymer Chemistry

  Polymers

  Process Simulation/Modeling

  Renewable Fuels

  Renewable Sources

  Risk Analysis

  Risk Engineering

  Sustainable Chemistry

  Sustainable Energy

  Thermodynamics

  Waste to Energy