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The properties and performance of all major types
of heating fuels are studied under the fundamental and practical
aspects.
Combustion modelling, carried out both with a thermo-fluodynamic
and a chemical kinetics approach, is utilised in order to evaluate
different combustion systems and to predict the behaviour of fuels
when conditions of utilisation are modified. To this purpose,
Fluent and Chemkin programs are employed.
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The use of traditional (natural
gas, gasoil, fuel oil) and alternative fuels (water-gasoil, water-fuel
oil emulsions, and biodiesel) is extensively investigated with an
array of experimental thermal plants allowing accurate evaluation
of the combustion properties, thermal yield, and stack emissions.
In addition, various catalytic systems for pollutant control are
studied on different scales, from microreactor to the real thermal
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In the field of catalysis,
materials and processes for the petroleum and petrochemical industry
are investigated. The lab instrumentation includes low pressure
microreactors and a high pressure unit for the study of catalytic
processes. Both traditional methods and innovative techniques
such as infrared thermography for the study of thermal effects
inside catalytic reactors;
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also visible imaging and UV-Vis-NIR imaging spectrometry can be applied.
Surface and textural properties of solid materials and catalysts are
studied by physisorption and chemisorption techniques.
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