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Glycerol Production and Transformation: A Critical Review with Particular Emphasis on Glycerol Reforming Reaction for Producing Hydrogen in Conventional and Membrane Reactors by Bagnato, Giuseppe, Iulianelli, Adolfo, Sanna, Aimaro, Basile, Angelo

“…Glycerol represents an emerging renewable bio-derived feedstock, which could be used as a source for producing hydrogen through steam reforming reaction. In…”
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Renewable Chemical Commodity Feedstocks from Integrated Catalytic Processing of Pyrolysis Oils by Vispute, Tushar P, Zhang, Huiyan, Sanna, Aimaro, Xiao, Rui, Huber, George W

“…Fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass produces a renewable liquid fuel called pyrolysis oil that is the cheapest liquid fuel produced from biomass today…”
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High Temperature CO2 Capture Performance and Kinetic Analysis of Novel Potassium Stannate by Baird, Ross, Chang, Ribooga, Cheung, Ocean, Sanna, Aimaro

“…For the first time, the use of stannate-based sorbents was investigated as high temperature CO2 sorption to evaluate their potential to contribute towards…”
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Recent Catalytic Advances in Hydrotreatment Processes of Pyrolysis Bio-Oil by Giuseppe Bagnato, Aimaro Sanna, Emilia Paone, Enrico Catizzone

“…Catalytic hydrotreatment (HT) is one of the most important refining steps in the actual petroleum-based refineries for the production of fuels and chemicals,…”
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Carbon dioxide capture and storage by pH swing aqueous mineralisation using a mixture of ammonium salts and antigorite source by Sanna, Aimaro, Dri, Marco, Maroto-Valer, Mercedes

“…Carbon Capture and Storage by mineralisation aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) by reacting CO2 with rocks rich in magnesium or calcium oxide and…”
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Encoding CO2 Adsorption in Sodium Zirconate by Neutron Diffraction by Gammie, Connor, Hesse, Fabian, Kennedy, Blair, Bos, Jan-Willem G., Sanna, Aimaro

“…Recent research into sodium zirconate as a high-temperature CO2 sorbent has been extensive, but detailed knowledge of the material’s crystal structure during…”
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Effect of Ceria Addition to Na2O-ZrO2 Catalytic Mixtures on Lignin Waste Ex-Situ Pyrolysis by Yeardley, Adam, Bagnato, Giuseppe, Sanna, Aimaro

“…Waste lignin is a potential source of renewable fuels and other chemical precursors under catalytic pyrolysis. For this purpose, four mixed metal oxide…”
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Dissolution of steel slag and recycled concrete aggregate in ammonium bisulphate for CO2 mineral carbonation by Dri, Marco, Sanna, Aimaro, Maroto-Valer, M. Mercedes

“…Recent research on mineral carbonation has focused attention on multi-step processes which appear more attractive than single-step processes due to the higher…”
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Stability of Li-LSX Zeolite in the Catalytic Pyrolysis of Non-Treated and Acid Pre-Treated Isochrysis sp. Microalgae by Abd Rahman, Nur Adilah, Fermoso, Javier, Sanna, Aimaro

“…This paper investigates the use of Li-LSX-zeolite catalyst over three regeneration cycles in presence of non-treated and acid pre-treated Isochrysis sp…”
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Lithium–Sodium Fly Ash-Derived Catalyst for the In Situ Partial Deoxygenation of Isochrysis sp. Microalgae Bio-Oil by Nur Adilah Abd Rahman, Fernando Cardenas-Lizana, Aimaro Sanna

“…The catalytic potential of Na and LiNa fly ash (FA) obtained through a simple solid-state synthesis was investigated for the pyrolysis of Isochrysis sp…”
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Development of sodium/lithium/fly ash sorbents for high temperature post-combustion CO 2 capture by Sanna, Aimaro, Ramli, Ili, Mercedes Maroto-Valer, M.

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Bio-coke from upgrading of pyrolysis bio-oil for co-firing by Sanna, Aimaro, Ogbuneke, Kingsley, Andrésen, John M.

“…Bio-cokes were formed by upgrading pyrolysis oils from wheat spent grain and rapeseed meal biomasses using a thermo-t vis-breaking technology. The bio-cokes…”
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Nannochloropsis algae pyrolysis with ceria-based catalysts for production of high-quality bio-oils by Aysu, Tevfik, Sanna, Aimaro

“…•Ceria-based catalysts were evaluated for the in-situ conversion of Nannochloropsis.•Ce/ZrO2 and Mg–Ce/ZrO2 were the most effective catalysts in terms of…”
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High-temperature CO2 capture by fly ash derived sorbents: Effect of scale-up on sorbents performance by Fermoso, Javier, Sanna, Aimaro

“…•The performance of the K-FA greatly depended on the reactor type and configuration.•A CO2 uptake of 2.07 mmol CO2/gsorbent was achieved by K-FA_20%Li in a…”
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Highly selective hydropyrolysis of lignin waste to benzene, toluene and xylene in presence of zirconia supported iron catalyst by Lonchay, William, Bagnato, Giuseppe, Sanna, Aimaro

“…[Display omitted] •Hydrolysis lignin was hydropyrolysed to BTX using metal doped zirconia catalysts.•Fe/ZrO2 was able to produce 67% BTX from lignin and…”
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Advanced Biofuels from Thermochemical Processing of Sustainable Biomass in Europe by Sanna, Aimaro

“…Biofuels can play an important role in decreasing the use of fossil fuels, in particular in the transport sector, which absorbs about 30 % of the EU energy…”
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Li-LSX-zeolite evaluation for post-combustion CO2 capture by Kodasma, Rasmus, Fermoso, Javier, Sanna, Aimaro

“…•Li-LSX presented high CO2/N2 selectivity in post-combustion conditions.•Limited presence of moisture (1.53 vol%) enhanced CO2/N2 selectivity.•Calcination…”
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Conceptual evaluation of an integrated CCU technology based on Na-salts pH swing mineral carbonation by Bagnato, Giuseppe, Sanna, Aimaro

“…This work proposes an alternative indirect pH swing CO2 Capture and Storage by Mineral Carbonation (CCSM) process in order to decrease the energy intensive…”
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CO2 Capture at High Temperature Using Fly Ash-Derived Sodium Silicates by Sanna, Aimaro, Maroto-Valer, M. Mercedes

“…Despite the fact that Na-silicates have been indicated as a good sorbent at ambient temperature, their potential as high temperature CO2 sorbent has not yet…”
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Effect of Li-LSX zeolite, NiCe/Al2O3 and NiCe/ZrO2 on the production of drop-in bio-fuels by pyrolysis and hydrotreating of Nannochloropsis and isochrysis microalgae by Bagnato, Giuseppe, Boulet, Florent, Sanna, Aimaro

“…The purpose of this work was to investigate the viability of a microalgae catalytic pyrolysis/hydrotreating plant to kerosene, diesel and gasoline using Aspen…”
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