The STEMS research unit involved in this project is composed of 6 structured personnel (information on CVs with research interests can be found under “partners” and at the provided links):
- Roberto Solimene (RU responsible and project principal investigator)
- Michela Alfè
- Valentina Gargiulo
- Paola Giudicianni
- Massimo Urciuolo
- Antonio Coppola
Other staff:
- Giovanna Ruoppolo
- Valeria Di Sarli
- Francesco Saverio Marra
- Luciana Cimino
- Francesco Cammarota
- Ernesto Marinò
- Antonio Cante
- Tammaro Bencivenga
- Stefano Padula
- Roberta Russo
- Vincenzo Romano
- Claudio Tregambi
- Francesca Di Lauro
The STEMS RU, in a broader sense and in collaboration with other colleagues, deals with a range of topics, some of which are:
- Production of energy from renewable sources, residual biomasses and wastes
- Characterization of the flammability and explosivity parameters of materials
- Energy production
- Environmental sustainability
- Safety
- Design and modelling of chemical reactors and plants
- Fluidized beds pyrolysis and gasification of plastics and residual biomasses
- Thermochemical energy storage from renewable sources
An example list of equipment available at STEMS follows:
- 3 MW fluidized bed combustor
- 50 kW fluidized bed gasifier
- Compartmented deep pseudo two-dimensional fluidized bed (1.2 cubic meters)
- Megaris bubbling fluidized beds combustor
- Directly irradiated fluidized bed reactor equipped with both a conventional thermal heating systems full power of 5 kW, and a concentrated solar simulator that irradiates the upper fluidized bed surface with a peak flux of 3 MW m−2 and a total power of 3 kWth.
- STR cylindrical steel reactor, 5 L, 400 bar and 350°C ATEX/PED certified
- 4 L tubular steel PFR reactor, 400 bar and 350°C ATEX/PED certified
- Mechanical workshop
- Chemical laboratory
Reference to relevant research projects:
- PON "SOLTESS – Solar thermochemical storage with solid materials";
- PNR "BIOFEEDSTOCK – Development of integrated technological platforms for the valorization of residual biomass";
- Regional Funding "BIOVALUE – Development of a technological platform for the hybrid generation and cogeneration systems based on the exploitation of renewable energy sources";
- AdP POR "Research and development on H2";
- MATTM "MEGARIS – Micro electric generator from alternative renewable energy innovative Stirling engine";
- PNRR "MANTEIA – Earlyfault detection methodologies, applied to a thermal storage system, based on artificial intelligence techniques".
