Vincenzo PALMA | Curriculum

Short CV OF VINCENZO PALMA

Current Position

Since June 2020, Full Professor in Chemical Engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Salerno (Italy).

Bibliometric Indicators (data source: Scopus @ October 2022)

Publications: 265 with 4246 citations

h-index: 35 (SciVerse SCOPUS® @ October 2022)

PE fields: PE8_2; PE8_4; PE8_6; PE8_10; PE5_18

Education

1991, Laurea in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Naples “Federico II“, Italy.

Qualifications

1991, Qualified as Chemist, “Ordine dei Chimici della Campania” Napoli – Italy

Previous Positions

1992-1994, two-year C.N.R. grant, tutor prof. Gennaro Russo, at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Naples “Federico II“, Italy.

1995-2005, Researcher in Industrial Chemistry at the Dept. of Chemical and Food Engineering of the University of Salerno.

2005-2020 Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the Dept. of Industrial Engineering - University of Salerno.

Scientific Research Activities

Heterogeneous catalysis applied to the abatement of environmental pollutants

Fossil fuels combustion processes

Coal and coal-biomass combustion

Application of microwaves to heterogeneous catalysis

MW-assisted regeneration of catalytic and not DPF

Catalytic Autothermal Reforming of hydrocarbons for the production of hydrogen

Low temperature steam reforming of ethanol

Non thermal Plasma in Heterogeneous catalysis

Scientific Publications

According to SciVerse SCOPUS®, prof. Vincenzo Palma is author, in the month of March 2022, of 257 publications with ISBN / ISSN and DOI number, with a number of citations equal to 3804 and an h-index equal to 34.

Teaching Activities

Since 1999 he is teacher of “Industrial Chemistry” and “Nanostructured catalysts for energy and environment” for the students of Chemical Engineering at the University of Salerno.

Since 2015 he is also teacher of the course “Sustainable processes of industrial chemistry” for the students of Chemical Engineering at the University of Salerno.

Organizing duties

1999-2002 has been member of the Research Council of the University of Salerno.

Since 1999 is member of PhD College in Industrial Engineering at University of Salerno

Since 2018 is member of Didactic Commission for the Didactic Council of Chemical Engineering at University of Salerno

Since October 2022 is the Departmental Coordinator for the Chemical Engineering Section.

Meetings organization committee:

• 5th National Congress of Zeolites Science and Technology and 12th National Congress of Catalysis, Ravello Italy,1-5 October 2000.
• 3rd European Workshop on Environmental Catalysis, Maiori, Italy, 2-5 Maggio 2001

Research Projects

- European H2020 Project “MACBETH “ Research and Innovation Programme - EU contribution of € 586.000,00. Grant Agreement No 869896

In this project UNISA is involved in the development of innovative catalysts for the process intensification
of the propane dehydrogenation reaction realized by integrating a dense membrane for the H2 removal.

- European H2020-MSCA-RISE Project "PROMECA" "PROcess intensification through the development of

innovative MEmbranes and CAtalysts" - EU contribution of € 135.000,00. Grant agreement no: 734561

In this project UNISA is EUROPEAN COORDINATOR and involved in the design, preparation and characterization of innovative structured catalysts with high thermal conductivity for MSR and WGS reactions.

- European FP7 Project "CoMETHy" "Compact Multifuel To-Energy Hydrogen converter" – EU contribution of € 185.900,00 Grant agreement no: 279075. In this project UNISA was charged for the development of the structured catalysts for LT-ESR. SiC open foam carriers was coated with bimetallic catalysts supported on rare earth metal-based oxides (Ce, CeZr and CeZrLa), and the first European catalytic membrane integrated reactor for methane, biogas or bioethanol reforming was realized and successfully tested.

- European FP7 Project "FluidCell - Advanced m-CHP fuel CELL system based on a novel bio-ethanol Fluidized bed membrane reformer" – total EU contribution of € 255.380,00 Grant agreement no: 62119. In this project UNISA studied and prepared the final fluidizable catalyst for the low temperature bio-ethanol reforming process; in particular, compared to literature, the catalysts showed one of the highest H2 selectivity, and the lowest coking tendency.

- European FP7 Project "CARENA" "Catalytic Reactors membranes based on New Materials for C1-C4 valorization" – total EU contribution of € 249.100,00 Grant agreement no: 263007. In this project UNISA investigated the heat transfer properties and the role of structured catalysts on MSR, ATR and PDH reactions in membrane assisted reactors.

- Italian Project PON 01_02545 "Development of systems for the distributed production of hydrogen and syngas based on auto thermal catalytic multifuel reforming" – total contribution of € 1.250.000,00.

In this project UNISA efforts was to study structured catalysts for Auto-Thermal Reforming and WGS stages. A 10 kW scale thermally self-sustained ATR reactor was realized in the UNISA lab, and a 50 m3/h of pure H2 plant for the innovative H2 production was realized in the SOL plant of Salerno.

- Italian PRIN – IFOAMS - Intensification of Catalytic Processes for Clean Energy, Low-Emission Transport and Sustainable Chemistry using Open-Cell Foams as Novel Advanced Structured Materials – total contribution of € 151.854,00. In this project structured catalysts for WGS reaction was studied evidencing the better thermal management due to the catalyst deposition on Al foams.

Italian PRIN (2020) – PLUG-IN- Process for Low-carbon blUe & green hydrogen Generation via Intensified electrified reforming of Natural gas/biogas (PLUG-IN)– total contribution MUR of € 191.716,00. In this project UNISA will supply its competences in structured catalysts and reactors development by running tests in the MW-assisted mode and contributing to modelling and reactor design activities.

- Italian MITE Project 2022 - " TIPIC Tecnologie innovative per la produzione di H2 clean senza emissioni di CO2"– total contribution of € 866.734,93. In this project UNISA will study the development of MicroWave susceptible catalysts for the intensified Hydrogen production with a contribution of € 260000.

Main Technical Advices

2009-2014 prof. Vincenzo Palma was responsible for various Cooperation Agreements between ENEA and University of Salerno for the experimental research "Preparation of structured catalysts for selective Partial oxidation of H2S in biogas" and "Abatement of Particulate Matters from bio-mass boilers emissions". Total amount € 150.000,00

2010-2016 prof. Vincenzo Palma was scientific director of the Research contract between the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno and Tecnimont KT SpA in Rome, for the "Study of catalytic oxidative decomposition reaction of H2S". Total amount € 620.000,00

2016-2018 prof. Vincenzo Palma was scientific director of the Research contract between the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno and Tecnimont KT SpA in Rome, for the "Study of the hydrolysis reaction of COS". Total amount € 150.000,00

2019-2021 prof. Vincenzo Palma was responsible for a Cooperation Agreement between ENEA and University of Salerno for the experimental research “Biogas thermocatalytic conversion”. Total amount € 100.000,00

Other Industrial contracts

- SMALBO srl: Abatement of particulate emissions from pellets combustion – total € 70.000,00.

- ESIS Srl: innovative recovery systems of Silicon from photovoltaic panels – total € 35.000,00

- RICREA: Tin recovery from waste tinplate coming from RSU by electrochemical processes – total € 140.000,00

- SOL s.p.a.: "Study of catalysts for the partial oxidation reaction of light hydrocarbons for the production of reducing atmospheres" - total contribution € 50.000,00

PATENTS

- COS and CS2 abatement method, 2018, Patent number US20180023012

- Catalyst for a sulphur recovery process with concurrent hydrogen production, method of making thereof and the sulphur recovery process with concurrent hydrogen production using the catalyst, 2017, Patent number US20170106355

- Process for sulphur recovery with concurrent hydrogen production from NH3 containing feed, 2015, Patent number US20150291420

- Autothermic catalytic reactor with flat temperature profile, 2014, Patent number EP2310313

- Autothermic catalytic reactor with flat temperature profile for the production of hydrogen from light hydrocarbons, 2011,

US20110150726

- Photocatalytic fluidized bed reactor with high illumination efficiency for photocatalytic oxidation processes, 2011, Patent number US20110123423

Activities Referee For International Journals:

Applied Catalysis A, General

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Applied Energy:

Applied Thermal Engineering

Biomass and Bioenergy

Catalysis Today

Chemical Engineering Journal

Energy

Fuel Processing Technology

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

Journal of Rare Earths

Solar Energy

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (ACS)

Some International collaborations and topics

prof. Gallucci, Fausto, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands “Development of active and stable catalyst for ethanol reforming in a fluidized bed membrane reactor”

prof. Sheintuch, Moshe, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel “Propane dehydrogenation kinetics on supported Pt catalyst”

prof. Lemonidou, Angeliki A., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, “Time-on-stream stability of new catalysts for low-temperature steam reforming of biogas”

prof. Odriozola, José Antonio, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain “Structured catalysts for the CO2 methanation reaction”

prof. Hardacre, Christopher, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom “Ambient temperature hydrocarbon selective catalytic reduction of NOx using atmospheric pressure nonthermal plasma activation of a Ag/Al2O3 catalyst”

prof. Meunier, Frederic C., Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France “Reconstruction of ceria-supported Pt-Co particles under H2 and CO at 220 °C”