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Overview

Fabrizio Scala is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with significant contributions to biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, catalysis, computational mechanics, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

Their recent publications demonstrate an active engagement in topics related to chemical looping, carbon dioxide capture technologies, thermochemical biomass conversion, catalysts for methane reforming, iron and steelmaking processes, industrial gas emission control, and hybrid renewable energy systems.

  • Chemical Looping for Combustion of Solid Biomass: A Review (2021, Energy & Fuels)
  • Carbon capture and utilization via calcium looping, sorption enhanced methanation and green hydrogen: A techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment study (2022, Fuel)
  • Rotation-assisted Abrasive Fluidised Bed Machining of AlSi10Mg parts made through Selective Laser Melting Technology (2020, Procedia Manufacturing)
  • Evaluation of two sorbents for the sorption-enhanced methanation in a dual fluidized bed system (2020, Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery)
  • Recent Advances in Fluidized Bed Hydrodynamics and Transport Phenomena-Progress and Understanding (2021, Processes)

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Antonio Coppola
  • Piero Salatino
  • Fiorella Massa
  • Fabio Montagnaro
  • Chootrakul Siripaiboon

Scala's work appears regularly in several publication venues, reflecting a broad scope of research interests within engineering and energy sectors. These venues include:

  • Fuel
  • Processes
  • Energy
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Powder Technology

Their research covers multiple fields and subfields:

  • Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Catalysis
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Main topics explored in their research include:

  • Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes
  • Catalysts for Methane Reforming
  • Iron and Steelmaking Processes
  • Industrial Gas Emission Control
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

Best Publications

  • Fluidized bed technologies for near-zero emission combustion and gasification

    Fabrizio Scala

  • Mechanism and prediction of bed agglomeration during fluidized bed combustion of a biomass fuel: Effect of the reactor scale

    Riccardo Chirone;Francesco Miccio;Fabrizio Scala

  • An SEM/EDX study of bed agglomerates formed during fluidized bed combustion of three biomass fuels

    Fabrizio Scala;Riccardo Chirone

  • Attrition of sorbents during fluidized bed calcination and sulphation

    Fabrizio Scala;Piero Salatino;Renee Boerefijn;Mojtaba Ghadiri

  • Comminution of limestone during batch fluidized‐bed calcination and sulfation

    Fabrizio Scala;Antonio Cammarota;Riccardo Chirone;Piero Salatino

  • Fluidized bed combustion of alternative solid fuels

    Fabrizio Scala;Riccardo Chirone

  • Combustion and Attrition of Biomass Chars in a Fluidized Bed

    Fabrizio Scala;Riccardo Chirone;Piero Salatino

  • Characterization and Early Detection of Bed Agglomeration during the Fluidized Bed Combustion of Olive Husk

    Fabrizio Scala;Riccardo Chirone

  • Attrition of Limestone by Impact Loading in Fluidized Beds

    Fabrizio Scala;Fabio Montagnaro;Piero Salatino

  • Modelling fluidized bed combustion of high-volatile solid fuels

    Fabrizio Scala;Piero Salatino

  • Particle agglomeration during fluidized bed combustion: Mechanisms, early detection and possible countermeasures

    Fabrizio Scala

  • Fluidized bed combustion of pelletized biomass and waste-derived fuels

    R. Chirone;P. Salatino;F. Scala;R. Solimene

  • Modeling flue gas desulfurization by spray-dry absorption

    Fabrizio Scala;Michele D'Ascenzo;Amedeo Lancia

  • Fluidized bed calcium looping: The effect of SO2 on sorbent attrition and CO2 capture capacity

    Antonio Coppola;Fabio Montagnaro;Piero Salatino;Fabrizio Scala

  • Fluidized bed calcium looping cycles for CO2 capture under oxy-firing calcination conditions: Part 2. Assessment of dolomite vs. limestone

    Antonio Coppola;Fabrizio Scala;Piero Salatino;Fabio Montagnaro

  • Mass transfer around freely moving active particles in the dense phase of a gas fluidized bed of inert particles

    Fabrizio Scala

  • Relevance of structure, fragmentation and reactivity of coal to combustion and oxy-combustion

    Osvalda Senneca;Fabrizio Scala;Riccardo Chirone;Piero Salatino

  • Characterization of a regenerable sorbent for high temperature elemental mercury capture from flue gas

    Fabrizio Scala;Concetta Anacleria;Stefano Cimino

  • Fluidized bed combustion of single coal char particles at high CO2 concentration

    Fabrizio Scala;Riccardo Chirone

  • Fluidized bed combustion of a biomass char (Robinia pseudoacacia)

    Fabrizio Scala;Piero Salatino;Riccardo Chirone

  • The influence of temperature on limestone sulfation and attrition under fluidized bed combustion conditions

    Fabio Montagnaro;Piero Salatino;Fabrizio Scala

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Salatino
Piero Salatino University of Naples Federico II
Fabio Montagnaro
Fabio Montagnaro University of Naples Federico II
Riccardo Chirone
Riccardo Chirone National Research Council (CNR)
Paola Ammendola
Paola Ammendola National Research Council (CNR)
Antonino Squillace
Antonino Squillace University of Naples Federico II
Amedeo Lancia
Amedeo Lancia University of Naples Federico II
Osvalda Senneca
Osvalda Senneca National Research Council (CNR)
Edward J. Anthony
Edward J. Anthony Cranfield University
Panagiotis Grammelis
Panagiotis Grammelis Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Vasilije Manovic
Vasilije Manovic Cranfield University

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