Pyrolysis and Gasification of a Real Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF): The Potential Use of the Products under a Circular Economy Vision.

Refuse-Derived Fuels (RDFs) are segregated forms of wastes obtained by a combined mechanical-biological processing of municipal solid wastes (MSWs). The narrower characteristics, e.g.

Production of Q10+B2 nanostructured lipid carriers and optimization of their entrapment capacities.

Lipidic carriers are efficient vehicles preserving drugs during cell administration. Several production processes of lipidic nanoparticles were developed to reduce mean size at nanometric level, enhancing homogeneity and process replicability. However, lipidic aggregation has always been considered a huge drawback in terms of high polidispersity and instability.

Particulate and gaseous emissions during fluidized bed combustion of semi-dried sewage sludge: effect of bed ash accumulation on NOx formation.

Combustion of two semi-dried sewage sludges in a 110 mm has been characterized in terms of particulate and gaseous emissions. Sludges differed in that they had been conditioned - at the flocculation stage of wastewater treatment - either with Ca-based inorganics or with polyelectrolytes. Combustion was efficient for both sewage sludges under all the operating conditions tested.

Combined effect of Bond and capillary numbers on hydrocarbon mobility in water saturated porous media.

The mobilization of an oil bank under the combined effect of Bond (N(B)) and capillary (N(C)) numbers, in a packed bed column of glass beads saturated with water, has been investigated. In order to reach the irreducible saturation the experiments have been run with sweeping water velocities outside the range of validity of the Darcy's law. The size of the glass beads was varied in the range between 2 mm and 5 mm.

The containment of oil spills in unconsolidated granular porous media using xanthan/Cr(III) and xanthan/Al(III) gels.

The gelation in situ of aqueous solutions of the biopolymer xanthan gum may be a method for temporarily containing oil spills in soil whilst the remediation procedure is planned and accomplished. The gelling reaction has been carried out using as crosslinking agents either Cr(III) or Al(III) cations. By using Cr(III) the gelation time, which has been measured for a range of xanthan and/or Cr(III) concentrations, is of the order of the hour.