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Gianluca Li Puma is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, energy, and engineering fields. Their work focuses significantly on the interface of renewable energy and environmental sustainability, with a particular emphasis on water treatment and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

The researcher has published in numerous specialized venues, with frequent contributions to journals such as:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Research

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, Energy, and Engineering, supported by a strong presence in subfields like Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Primary topics addressed in their research are:

  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Gianluca Li Puma are:

  • Engineering and modeling perspectives on photocatalytic reactors for water treatment, 2021, Water Research
  • Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment, 2021, Water
  • Ozonation treatment processes for the remediation of detergent wastewater: A comprehensive review, 2021, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Acetate production from inorganic carbon (HCO3-) in photo-assisted biocathode microbial electrosynthesis systems using WO3/MoO3/g-C3N4 heterojunctions and Serratia marcescens species, 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Synergistic induced charge transfer switch by oxygen vacancy and pyrrolic nitrogen in MnFe2O4/g-C3N4 heterojunctions for efficient transformation of bicarbonate to acetate in photo-assisted MES, 2022, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Liping Huang
  • Rodrigo Peralta Muniz Moreira
  • Xie Quan
  • Weifeng Kong
  • Miguel Ángel Mueses

Best Publications

  • Preparation of titanium dioxide photocatalyst loaded onto activated carbon support using chemical vapor deposition: A review paper

    Gianluca Li Puma;Awang Bono;Duduku Krishnaiah;Joseph G. Collin

  • Impact of water matrix on the removal of micropollutants by advanced oxidation technologies

    Ana R. Lado Ribeiro;Nuno F.F. Moreira;Gianluca Li Puma;Adrián M.T. Silva

  • Treatment of winery wastewater by ozone-based advanced oxidation processes (O3, O3/UV and O3/UV/H2O2) in a pilot-scale bubble column reactor and process economics

    Marco S. Lucas;José A. Peres;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Sonophotocatalysis in advanced oxidation process: A short review

    Collin Glen Joseph Anthony Joseph;Gianluca Li Puma;Awang Bono;Duduku Krishnaiah

  • Carbon nanotubes/titanium dioxide (CNTs/TiO2) nanocomposites prepared by conventional and novel surfactant wrapping sol–gel methods exhibiting enhanced photocatalytic activity

    Bin Gao;George Z. Chen;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Solar Light-Responsive Pt/CdS/TiO2 Photocatalysts for Hydrogen Production and Simultaneous Degradation of Inorganic or Organic Sacrificial Agents in Wastewater

    Vasileia M Daskalaki;Maria Antoniadou;Gianluca Li Puma;Dimitris I Kondarides

  • Treatment of emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) effluents by solar photocatalysis using low TiO2 concentrations

    L. Prieto-Rodriguez;S. Miralles-Cuevas;I. Oller;A. Agüera

  • Carbon nanotube/titanium dioxide (CNT/TiO2) core–shell nanocomposites with tailored shell thickness, CNT content and photocatalytic/photoelectrocatalytic properties

    Ziyan Li;Bin Gao;George Zheng Chen;Robert Mokaya

  • Photocatalytic oxidation of multicomponent mixtures of estrogens (estrone (E1), 17β-estradiol (E2), 17α-ethynylestradiol (EE2) and estriol (E3)) under UVA and UVC radiation: Photon absorption, quantum yields and rate constants independent of photon absorption

    Gianluca Li Puma;Valeria Puddu;Hin Kit Tsang;Alexander Gora

  • TiO2 photocatalyst for indoor air remediation: Influence of crystallinity, crystal phase, and UV radiation intensity on trichloroethylene degradation

    Valeria Puddu;Hyeok Choi;Dionysios D. Dionysiou;Gianluca Li Puma

  • One-step, hydrothermal synthesis of nitrogen, carbon co-doped titanium dioxide (N,CTiO2) photocatalysts. Effect of alcohol degree and chain length as carbon dopant precursors on photocatalytic activity and catalyst deactivation

    D. Dolat;N. Quici;E. Kusiak-Nejman;A.W. Morawski

  • Radiation Absorption and Optimization of Solar Photocatalytic Reactors for Environmental Applications

    Jose Colina-Márquez;Fiderman Machuca-Martínez;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Disinfection of urban wastewater by solar driven and UV lamp - TiO₂ photocatalysis: effect on a multi drug resistant Escherichia coli strain.

    L. Rizzo;A. Della Sala;A. Fiorentino;G. Li Puma

  • Dimensionless analysis of slurry photocatalytic reactors using two-flux and six-flux radiation absorption–scattering models

    Gianluca Li Puma;Alberto Brucato

  • Photo-electro-catalysis enhancement on carbon nanotubes/titanium dioxide (CNTs/TiO2) composite prepared by a novel surfactant wrapping sol–gel method

    Bin Gao;Chuang Peng;George Z. Chen;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Perspectives

    Jenny Schneider;Detlef Bahnemann;Jinhua Ye;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Novel one step hydrothermal synthesis of TiO2/WO3 nanocomposites with enhanced photocatalytic activity

    Valeria Puddu;Robert Mokaya;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Boron doped TiO2 catalysts for photocatalytic ozonation of aqueous mixtures of common pesticides: Diuron, o-phenylphenol, MCPA and terbuthylazine

    D.H. Quiñones;A. Rey;P.M. Álvarez;F.J. Beltrán

  • Photocatalytic oxidation of multicomponent solutions of herbicides: Reaction kinetics analysis with explicit photon absorption effects

    Bea Toepfer;Alexander Gora;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Evaluation of the intrinsic photocatalytic oxidation kinetics of indoor air pollutants.

    Ignasi Salvado-Estivill;David M. Hargreaves;Gianluca Li Puma

  • Modeling of an annular photocatalytic reactor for water purification: oxidation of pesticides.

    Gianluca L I Puma;Jen Nee Khor;Alberto Brucato

  • Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment

    Marco S. Lucas;José A. Peres;Gianluca Li Puma

Frequent Co-Authors

Liping Huang
Liping Huang Dalian University of Technology
Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Dionysios D. Dionysiou University of Cincinnati
Po Lock Yue
Po Lock Yue Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xie Quan
Xie Quan Dalian University of Technology
Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap
Yun Hin Taufiq-Yap Universiti Putra Malaysia
Regina de Fátima Peralta Muniz Moreira
Regina de Fátima Peralta Muniz Moreira Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Roberto Andreozzi
Roberto Andreozzi University of Naples Federico II
Yi Li
Yi Li Hohai University
Raffaele Marotta
Raffaele Marotta University of Naples Federico II
Dawei Wang
Dawei Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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