BENEDETTA DE CAPRARIIS

Il corso di PROGETTAZIONE DEGLI IMPIANTI I (parte de Caprariis) aa 2023-2024 inizierà il giorno 4 marzo.

Present position:
-Nov 2020-present: Assistant Professor at Chemical Engineering Department of Sapienza University (RTD-B)

Working experience
-Nov2015-Nov 2020: Assistant Professor at Chemical Engineering Department of Sapienza University (RTD-A).
-June 2015-Oct 2015 Research fellow at the Chemical Engineering Department of Sapienza University.
-Jan 2013-May 2015 Post-Doc at the Chemical Engineering Department of Sapienza University.
-Nov 2009-Oct 2012 Ph.D. fellowship at the Chemical Engineering Department of Sapienza University.

Education:
-Feb 2013 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome
-Jul 2009 Master degree in Chemical Engineering
-Dec 2006 Undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering

Present research activity
-Study of the use of bio-char as sorbent for the organic pollutant.
-Study of the variables (Temperature, pressure, feed composition) and catalysts influencing the hydrothermal liquefaction process for the production of high quality bio-oil from biomass.
-Development of new catalysts for the dry reforming of methane and ethanol.
-Design of gasification plants to produce clean syngas. Development of catalysts for tar reforming with high resistance to coke deposition.
-Modelisation of biomass HTL and pyrolysis kinetics.

Selected pubblication:
-de Caprariis, B.; De Filippis, P.; Petrullo, A.; Scarsella, M. ”Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass: Influence of temperature and biomass composition on the bio-oil production” Fuel 2017, vol.208, pp.618.
-de Caprariis, B.; De Filippis, P.; Hernandez, A.D.; Petrucci, E.; Petrullo, A.; Scarsella, M.; Turchi, M. ”Pyrolysis wastewater treatment by adsorption on biochars produced by poplar biomass” Journal of Environmental Management2017, vol.197, pp.231.
-de Caprariis, B.; De Filippis, P.; Palma, V.; Petrullo, A.; Ricca, A.; Ruocco, C.; Scarsella, M. ”Rh, Ru and Pt ternary perovskites type oxides BaZr(1-x)MexO3 for methane dry reforming” Applied Catalysis A: General 2016, vol.517, pp.47.
- Belotti, G.; de Caprariis, B.; De Filippis, P.; Scarsella, M.; Verdone, N. ”Effect of Chlorella vulgaris of growing conditions on bio-oil production via fast pyrolysis” Biomass and Bioenergy 2014, vol. 61, pp. 187.
- de Caprariis, B.; De Filippis, P.; Herce, C.; Verdone, N. ”Double-Gaussian Distributed Activation Energy Model for Coal Devolatilization” Energy-Fuels 2012, vol 26 (10), pp. 6153.
- de Caprariis, B.; Di Rita, M.; Stoller, M.; Verdone, N.; Chianese, A. ”Reactionprecipitation by a spinning disc reactor: Influence of hydrodynamics on nanoparticles production” Chemical Engineering Science 2012, vol. 76 , pp. 73.