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Ivano Vassura is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has focused research predominantly in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans numerous subfields including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, and Ecology.

Their research addresses several main topics, most notably Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Extraction and Separation Processes, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

The scientist has contributed articles to various publication venues, with repeated contributions to the following journals and series:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
  • Global Environmental Change
  • Foods

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Ivano Vassura include:

  • Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28 (2020), Global Environmental Change
  • Effect of biochar amendment on organic matter and dissolved organic matter composition of agricultural soils from a two-year field experiment (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Secondary reactions in the analysis of microplastics by analytical pyrolysis (2021), Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
  • Targeting topoisomerase II with trypthantrin derivatives: Discovery of 7-((2-(dimethylamino)ethyl)amino)indolo[2,1-b]quinazoline-6,12-dione as an antiproliferative agent and to treat cancer (2020), European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Evaluation of the sustainability of technologies to recover phosphorus from sewage sludge ash based on embodied energy and CO2 footprint (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production

Ivano Vassura has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Fabrizio Passarini, Luca Ciacci, Daniele Fabbri, Alessandro G. Rombolà, and Cristian Torri.

Best Publications

  • Butadiene from biomass, a life cycle perspective to address sustainability in the chemical industry

    D. Cespi;F. Passarini;I. Vassura;F. Cavani

  • End-of-Life Vehicles management: Italian material and energy recovery efficiency.

    Alessandro Santini;Luciano Morselli;Fabrizio Passarini;Ivano Vassura

  • Automotive shredder residue (ASR) characterization for a valuable management.

    Luciano Morselli;Alessandro Santini;Fabrizio Passarini;Ivano Vassura

  • The European PVC cycle: In-use stock and flows

    L. Ciacci;F. Passarini;I. Vassura

  • Indicators of waste management efficiency related to different territorial conditions

    Fabrizio Passarini;Ivano Vassura;Francesco Monti;Luciano Morselli

  • Life cycle inventory improvement in the pharmaceutical sector: assessment of the sustainability combining PMI and LCA tools

    Daniele Cespi;Daniele Cespi;Evan S. Beach;Thomas E. Swarr;Fabrizio Passarini

  • A comparison among different automotive shredder residue treatment processes

    Luca Ciacci;Luciano Morselli;Fabrizio Passarini;Alessandro Santini

  • Environmental impacts of waste incineration in a regional system (Emilia Romagna, Italy) evaluated from a life cycle perspective.

    Luciano Morselli;Claudia De Robertis;Joseph Luzi;Fabrizio Passarini

  • A simplified early stage assessment of process intensification: glycidol as a value-added product from epichlorohydrin industry wastes

    D. Cespi;Raffaele Cucciniello;M. Ricciardi;Carmine Capacchione

  • Glycerol as feedstock in the synthesis of chemicals: a life cycle analysis for acrolein production

    Daniele Cespi;Fabrizio Passarini;G. Mastragostino;Ivano Vassura

  • Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28

    L. Ciacci;T. Fishman;A. Elshkaki;A. Elshkaki;T.E. Graedel

  • Auto shredder residue recycling: Mechanical separation and pyrolysis

    Alessandro Santini;Fabrizio Passarini;Ivano Vassura;David Serrano;David Serrano

  • Gas chromatography/mass spectrometric characterisation of pyrolysis/silylation products of glucose and cellulose

    Daniele Fabbri;Giuseppe Chiavari;Silvia Prati;Ivano Vassura

  • Comparison of chemical and physical indices of thermal stability of biochars from different biomass by analytical pyrolysis and thermogravimetry.

    Roberto Conti;Daniele Fabbri;Ivano Vassura;Laura Ferroni

  • The recycling of MSWI bottom ash in silicate based ceramic

    E. Rambaldi;L. Esposito;F. Andreola;L. Barbieri

  • Analysis of polystyrene in polluted sediments by pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Daniele Fabbri;Claudio Trombini;Ivano Vassura

  • Auto shredder residue LCA: implications of ASR composition evolution

    Fabrizio Passarini;Luca Ciacci;Alessandro Santini;Ivano Vassura

  • Reuse of incinerator bottom and fly ashes to obtain glassy materials

    F. Andreola;L. Barbieri;S. Hreglich;I. Lancellotti

  • Mercury and methylmercury contamination in surficial sediments and clams of a coastal lagoon (Pialassa Baiona, Ravenna, Italy)

    Claudio Trombini;Daniele Fabbri;Marco Lombardo;Ivano Vassura

  • Markers and influence of open biomass burning on atmospheric particulate size and composition during a major bonfire event

    Ivano Vassura;Elisa Venturini;Sara Marchetti;Andrea Piazzalunga

  • Pyrolysis-GC-MS to trace terrigenous organic matter in marine sediments: a comparison between pyrolytic and lipid markers in the Adriatic Sea

    Daniele Fabbri;Francesca Sangiorgi;Ivano Vassura

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Passarini
Fabrizio Passarini University of Bologna
Isabella Lancellotti
Isabella Lancellotti University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Fabrizio Cavani
Fabrizio Cavani University of Bologna
Giuseppe Sangiorgi
Giuseppe Sangiorgi University of Rome Tor Vergata
Javier Dufour
Javier Dufour King Juan Carlos University
Andrea Piazzalunga
Andrea Piazzalunga University of Milan
Christoph Herrmann
Christoph Herrmann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
David Serrano
David Serrano IMDEA Energy Institute
Elza Bontempi
Elza Bontempi University of Brescia
Manuel Morcillo
Manuel Morcillo Spanish National Research Council

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