Search Results - "Sabrina Copelli"
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Influence of Ground on Jet Fire Extension
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-11-2023)“…A common accident in the industrial process industry is the puncturing of storage tanks or rupture of process pipelines containing gases. In these scenarios,…”
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Integrating Recursive Operability Analysis with Different Risk Assessment Methods: Analysis of the Historical Bp American Refinery Explosion
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-11-2023)“…The British Petroleum (BP) American Refinery accident, back in 2005, was one of the most severe explosions recorded in any industrial accident database…”
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Analysis of the Common Ignition Sources in the Milling Industry
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-11-2023)“…In the summer of 2007, in Fossano, Italy, one of the most catastrophic and famous dust explosions in Italy, caused by flour dust, occurred in Molino Cordero, a…”
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Intensification of Processes for the Production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Increase in Safety and Sustainability
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-06-2023)“…Fine chemical compounds and so-called "specialties" are generally synthesized through batch or semi-continuous processes. This is largely because such…”
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Investigation of the PI Control Parameters on the Low Temperature Synthesis of 2-octanone
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-05-2023)“…Temperature control is probably the most important factor that influences a chemical reaction yield, in particular when working with strongly exothermic…”
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Predictive Models for the Estimation of the Minimum Ignition Energy of Polydisperse Organic Dusts
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-11-2023)“…The process industry is a sector characterized by the sale of 50 % of its products in the form of powder and in which 80 % of the goods generated are made…”
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Study of the Interaction Between a High-pressure Jet and Horizontal Tanks Using CFD
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-11-2023)“…Accidental high-pressure flammable gas releases are among the most relevant hazards in the process safety, and consequences could be severe. In the recent…”
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Study of the Electric Spark and Combustion Characteristic Times in a Mike 3 Apparatus
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-11-2023)“…Understanding how dust can ignite and explode in an industrial contest is an important and complex task, and much of the work around this is mainly performed…”
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Heavy Metals Separation in Wastewater Comparing Different Types of Nanostructured Adsorbents
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-06-2023)“…In the framework of sustainability, proposing new technologies to improve the current linear economy system is one of the most challenging aspects for both…”
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Process Intensification for the Production of Cyclic Macrolactones: Identification of Safe Operating Conditions in Tubular Reactors
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-06-2023)“…In this work, the possibility to shift from a batch to a continuous production of 16-hexadecanolide, one of the main components of the white musk essence, was…”
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Recursive Operability Analysis as a Tool for Risk Assessment in Plants Managing Metal Dusts
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-10-2020)“…In industrial processes, it is not uncommon to replace regular processes and procedures with temporary ones, due to factors such as maintenance operations,…”
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Magnetically Separable Nanoparticles for Wastewater Treatment
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-06-2021)“…Water is a vital source for both human life and environment, with 10% of the water globally available for domestic use. World Health Organization and UNICEF…”
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Application of a gaussian model to simulate contaminants dispersion in industrial accidents
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-09-2019)“…The increase of the industrial production and the development of new processes led to the necessity of better regulations of activities concerning potential…”
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Study of the performance of disinfection with sodium hypochlorite on a full-scale sewage treatment plant
Published in Revista ambiente & água (2020)“…A full-scale sewage treatment plant was investigated to assess the performance of the disinfection stage. Sodium hypochlorite was used as a disinfectant agent…”
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Importance of Experimental Tests for the Determination of Modeling Parameters in Fire Safety Engineering
Published in MATEC Web of Conferences (01-01-2019)“…In the field of Fire Safety Engineering, the application of mathematical models is crucial in order to properly estimate the severity of eventual fires…”
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Fibers Explosion Severity: a Parametric Study on the Fiber Geometry
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-10-2024)“…Even though explosive incidents involving organic fibrous materials have happened in a number of industries, the literature has very few research about the…”
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Safety Challenges on Runaway Reactions: the Esterification of Acetic Anhydride with Methanol
Published in Chemical engineering transactions (01-06-2022)“…Esterification reactions are commonly used in industrial practice. These reactions are fast and moderately exothermic thus they are prone to exhibit a runaway…”
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Chemical-Physical Mechanisms of Adsorption for Blood Purification
Published in Contributions to nephrology (2023)“…The removal of soluble toxins from blood is necessary in patients with severe kidney failure. The majority of blood purification techniques are based on the…”
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Kinetic-free discontinuous to continuous transformation of fine chemical reactions: A general experimental procedure
Published in Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) (01-09-2020)“…[Display omitted] •Continuous processes provide advantages in terms of productivity and safety.•A new approach, the Multiple Feed Semibatch Reactor (MSBR) is…”
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A Practical Tool for Predicting the Minimum Ignition Energy of Organic Dusts
Published in Industrial & engineering chemistry research (28-07-2021)“…In the last decades, protection and prevention in the workplace has assumed great relevance. In this context, organic dust explosions represent one of the…”
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