17 results on '"Valeria Casson Moreno"'
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2. Kinetic Study and Model Assessment for n-Butyl Levulinate Production from Alcoholysis of 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural over Amberlite IR-120
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Daniele Di Menno Di Bucchianico, Antonella Cipolla, Jean-Christophe Buvat, Mélanie Mignot, Valeria Casson Moreno, and Sébastien Leveneur
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General Chemical Engineering ,General Chemistry ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering - Published
- 2022
3. Production of butyl levulinate from the solvolysis of high-gravity fructose over heterogeneous catalyst: In-depth kinetic modeling
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Daniele Di Menno Di Bucchianico, Mélanie Mignot, Jean-Christophe Buvat, Valeria Casson Moreno, and Sébastien Leveneur
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General Chemical Engineering ,Environmental Chemistry ,General Chemistry ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering - Published
- 2023
4. Bayesian Statistics to Elucidate the Kinetics of γ-Valerolactone from n -Butyl Levulinate Hydrogenation over Ru/C
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Jose Delgado, Mélanie Mignot, Sarah Capecci, Sébastien Leveneur, Yanjun Wang, Valeria Casson Moreno, Dmitry Yu. Murzin, Henrik Grénman, Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques (LSPC), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Sarah Capecci, Yanjun Wang, Jose Delgado, Valeria Casson Moreno, Mélanie Mignot, Henrik Grénman, Dmitry Yu. Murzin, Sébastien Leveneur, Chimie Organique et Bioorganique : Réactivité et Analyse (COBRA), Institut Normand de Chimie Moléculaire Médicinale et Macromoléculaire (INC3M), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Le Havre Normandie (ULH), Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie Organique Fine (IRCOF), and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Valerolactone ,Bayesian approache ,General Chemical Engineering ,Langmuir-Hinshelwood ,Kinetics ,Posterior probability ,Surface reaction ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Butyl Levulinate ,Chemical kinetics ,[CHIM.GENI]Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering ,Computational chemistry ,Optimum operating condition ,[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering ,Kinetic theory ,Platform molecule ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Reactions on surfaces ,010405 organic chemistry ,Chemistry ,Synthesi ,Reaction kinetic ,[CHIM.CATA]Chemical Sciences/Catalysis ,General Chemistry ,Kinetic model ,Bayesian statistic ,0104 chemical sciences ,Kinetic parameter ,Bayesian statistics ,Bayesian network ,Hydrogenation ,Surface reactions - Abstract
The synthesis of γ-valerolactone (GVL), a platform molecule that can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass, was performed in this work by hydrogenation of an alkyl levulinate over Ru/C. Kinetic models reported in the literature are typically not compared with rival alternatives, even if a discrimination study is needed to find the optimum operating conditions. Different surface reaction kinetic models were thus considered in this work, specifically addressing hydrogenation of butyl levulinate to GVL, where the latter was used as a solvent to minimize potential solvent interference with the reaction, including its evaporation. The Bayesian approach was applied to evaluate the probability of each model. It was found that non-competitive Langmuir-Hinshelwood with no dissociation of the hydrogen model has the highest posterior probability.
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- 2021
5. Kinetic model assessment for the synthesis of γ-valerolactone from n-butyl levulinate and levulinic acid hydrogenation over the synergy effect of dual catalysts Ru/C and Amberlite IR-120
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Julien Legros, Giulia Bronzetti, Jose Delgado, Christoph Held, Sébastien Leveneur, Henrik Grénman, Valeria Casson Moreno, Wenel Naudy Vasquez Salcedo, Mélanie Mignot, Delgado J., Vasquez Salcedo W.N., Bronzetti G., Casson Moreno V., Mignot M., Legros J., Held C., Grenman H., Leveneur S., Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques (LSPC), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Chimie Organique et Bioorganique : Réactivité et Analyse (COBRA), Institut Normand de Chimie Moléculaire Médicinale et Macromoléculaire (INC3M), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Le Havre Normandie (ULH), Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie Organique Fine (IRCOF), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Åbo Akademi University [Turku], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund] (TU), and ANR-20-CE92-0002,MUST,Micro-fluidique pour l'étude des relations entre structure et réactivité supporté par la thermodynamique et la cinétique(2020)
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Kinetic modeling ,General Chemical Engineering ,Kinetics ,Lignocellulosic biomass ,Amberlite ,Bayesian statistics ,010402 general chemistry ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Dissociation (chemistry) ,Catalysis ,γ-valerolactone ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,[SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics] ,[CHIM.GENI]Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering ,Adsorption ,Levulinic acid ,[CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry ,Environmental Chemistry ,Organic chemistry ,Alkyl ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,[CHIM.ORGA]Chemical Sciences/Organic chemistry ,010405 organic chemistry ,Cross-validation ,General Chemistry ,[CHIM.CATA]Chemical Sciences/Catalysis ,Bayesian statistic ,0104 chemical sciences ,chemistry - Abstract
The production of platform molecules from the valorization of lignocellulosic biomass is increasing. Among these plateform molecules, γ-valerolactone (GVL) is a promising one and could be used for different industrial applications. This molecule is synthesized from levulinic acid (LA) or alkyl levulinates (AL) through a tandem hydrogenation/cyclization (lactonization) cascade. A lot of investigations have been carried out to develop the best catalyst for the hydrogenation step by using solely LA or AL. However, one should keep in mind that in the AL production via fructose alcoholysis, there is also LA production, and both are present in the product mixture during the further conversion. To the best of our knowledge, no article exists describing the hydrogenation of LA and AL simultaneously in one-pot. Also, the literature reporting the use of solid catalyst for the second cyclization step is rare. To fill this gap, the hydrogenation of levulinic acid and butyl levulinate was studied over Ru/C and Amberlite IR-120. Several kinetic models were evaluated via Bayesian inference and K-fold approach. The kinetic assessment showed that a non-competitive Langmuir-Hinshelwood with no dissociation of hydrogen where LA, BL and H2 are adsorbed on different sites (NCLH1.2) and non-competitive Langmuir-Hinshelwood with dissociation of hydrogen where LA, BL (butyl levulinate) and H2 are adsorbed on different sites (NCLH2.2) are the best model to describe this system. The presence of LA and Amberlite IR-120 allows to increase the kinetics of cyclization steps, and in fine to accelerate the production of GVL.
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- 2022
6. Solvent effect investigation on the acid-catalyzed esterification of levulinic acid by ethanol aided by a Linear Solvation Energy Relationship
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Sindi Baco, Marcel Klinksiek, Rashid Ismail Bedawi Zakaria, Elizabeth Antonia Garcia-Hernandez, Mélanie Mignot, Julien Legros, Christoph Held, Valeria Casson Moreno, and Sébastien Leveneur
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Applied Mathematics ,General Chemical Engineering ,General Chemistry ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering - Published
- 2022
7. Application of the concept of Linear Free Energy Relationships to the hydrogenation of levulinic acid and its corresponding esters
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Valeria Casson-Moreno, Mariasole Cipolletta, Lamiae Vernières-Hassimi, Sébastien Leveneur, Yanjun Wang, Wang Y., Cipolletta M., Vernieres-Hassimi L., Casson-Moreno V., Leveneur S., Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques (LSPC), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), and Normandie Université (NU)
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Linear Free Energy Relationship ,Steric effects ,Kinetic modeling ,General Chemical Engineering ,Kinetics ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,Kinetic energy ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,γ-Valerolactone ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,[CHIM.GENI]Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering ,Computational chemistry ,Mass transfer ,Levulinic acid ,Environmental Chemistry ,Levulinic acid and esters ,Taft equation ,Alkyl ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Chemistry ,Linear Free Energy Relationships ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,0104 chemical sciences ,Polar effect ,Hydrogenation ,Levulinic acid and ester ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
International audience; Biomass valorization to chemicals, biofuels or materials will be more and more important during this century. Production of γ-valerolactone (GVL) from the hydrogenation of levulinic acid is a good illustration of this tendency. GVL can also be produced from alkyl levulinates hydrogenation. Can we find a relationship between the structure and the kinetics of this reaction? Can we predict the kinetics of any alkyl levulinates by knowing the kinetics of another alkyl levulinate? This paper has studied these two questions by developing a kinetic model including the effect of gas-liquid mass transfer. We have demonstrated that the kinetics of hydrogenation of levulinic acid, methyl, ethyl and butyl levulinates to GVL using Ru/C follow the Taft equation, which is derived from Linear Free Energy Relationships. This equation measures the effects of polar and steric on a reaction series. We have demonstrated that polar effect of the reaction series is the most significant effect. This relationship can predict the values of kinetic constants just by knowing their structure.
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- 2019
8. Role of solvent in enhancing the production of butyl levulinate from fructose
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Daniele Di Menno Di Bucchianico, Jean-Christophe Buvat, Mélanie Mignot, Valeria Casson Moreno, and Sébastien Leveneur
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Fuel Technology ,General Chemical Engineering ,Organic Chemistry ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology - Published
- 2022
9. Solvent effect on the kinetics of the hydrogenation of n-butyl levulinate to γ-valerolactone
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Sarah Capecci, Sébastien Leveneur, Christoph Held, Valeria Casson Moreno, Yanjun Wang, Capecci S., Wang Y., Casson Moreno V., Held C., Leveneur S., Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU), Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques (LSPC), Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie (INSA Rouen Normandie), and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN)
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Valerolactone ,Kinetic modeling ,General Chemical Engineering ,Kinetics ,γ-valerolactone Solvent effect Kinetic modeling PC-SAFT Solubility Bayesian statistics ,Lignocellulosic biomass ,Solvent effect ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,γ-valerolactone ,Hydrolysis ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,[CHIM.GENI]Chemical Sciences/Chemical engineering ,Organic chemistry ,Solubility ,Alkyl ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,010405 organic chemistry ,Chemistry ,Applied Mathematics ,Butanol ,General Chemistry ,Bayesian statistic ,0104 chemical sciences ,13. Climate action ,PC-SAFT ,Solvent effects - Abstract
International audience; The use of lignocellulosic biomass in the chemical industry can significantly contribute to respect the various international agreements on climate change. One of the most promising platform molecules issued from the lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysis is γ-valerolactone (GVL). GVL can be upgraded to valuable chemicals and produced by the hydrogenation of alkyl levulinates. Although these reactions are widely studied, seldom research focused on the solvent effect. To fill this gap, the effect of three different reaction mixtures with an excess of butyl levulinate (BL), of butanol and GVL was studied on the kinetics of BL hydrogenation to GVL over Ru/C. PC-SAFT (Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory) shows that the solubility of hydrogen is not constant during the reaction progress, and it was taken into account. To allow a fair comparison, kinetic models were developed using Bayesian statistics for each reaction mixture. The best performances were obtained when the reaction mixture has an excess of GVL.
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- 2021
10. Integration of Recursive Operability Analysis, FMECA and FTA for the Quantitative Risk Assessment in biogas plants: Role of procedural errors and components failures
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Sabrina Copelli, Marco Barozzi, Valeria Casson Moreno, Sergio Contini, Massimo Raboni, Vincenzo Torretta, Barozzi M., Contini S., Raboni M., Torretta V., Casson Moreno V., and Copelli S.
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Operability ,Computer science ,Recursive Operability Analysis ,General Chemical Engineering ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,02 engineering and technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Process Safety ,Recursive Operability Analysis Plus ,Risk Assessment ,Biogas Production ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,020401 chemical engineering ,Biogas ,0502 economics and business ,Process safety ,Recursive operability analysis plu ,050207 economics ,0204 chemical engineering ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Risk assessment ,Fault tree analysis ,Recursive operability analysi ,05 social sciences ,Biogas production ,Reliability engineering ,Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Distributed control system ,Failure mode and effects analysis ,Food Science - Abstract
With more than 350 GWh per year and thousands of installations around the world, biogas is an appealing strategy in the field of energy production and industrial waste optimization. In this sense, it is of paramount importance to address the risk associated with such plants, as an increasing trend of accidents have been recorded in the last 20 years. In this work, a representative biogas production plant was considered, and a risk assessment was carried out through the combination of Recursive Operability Analysis and Failure Mode and Effects Criticality Analysis. The methodology is rigorous and allows for both the identification and the quantification of accidental scenarios due to procedural errors and equipment failures, which miss in the literature for the case of biogas. The analysis allows the automatic generation of the Fault Trees for the identified Top Events, which can be numerically solved. Results show that the most critical accidental scenario in the biogas plant here considered is the formation of an explosive air-biogas mixture, which can occur in both anaerobic digester and condensate trap. The calculated probabilities agree with the results available in literature on similar plants. Pumps and Distributed Control System were found to be the most critical components.
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- 2021
11. Modeling and process optimization of a full-scale emulsion polymerization reactor
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Noemi Petrucci, Valeria Casson Moreno, Marco Barozzi, Sabrina Copelli, Sabrina Copelli, Marco Barozzi, Noemi Petrucci, and Valeria Casson Moreno
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Industrial scale optimization ,Thermal runaway ,Scale (ratio) ,Computer science ,General Chemical Engineering ,Full scale ,Emulsion polymerization ,02 engineering and technology ,Runaway reaction ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Best dosing strategy ,Emulsion polymerizations ,Process control ,Runaway reactions ,Chemistry (all) ,Environmental Chemistry ,Chemical Engineering (all) ,Process optimization ,Process engineering ,business.industry ,General Chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,0104 chemical sciences ,Polymerization ,Scientific method ,0210 nano-technology ,business - Abstract
One of the most common but promising processes for the production of paints and coatings is the free radical emulsion polymerization reaction involving different types of monomers. As it is also demonstrated by statistics concerning accidents in chemical industries, polymerizations are one of the most frequent causes of thermal runaway; therefore such syntheses require a very high level of control of all the operating variables, especially at full plant scale where safety problems are of paramount importance. The main aims of this work were the modeling and the industrial scale optimization of a complex polymerization process. Since four different monomers are involved in different proportions in such a process, the pseudo-homopolymer approach together with available literature correlations for the estimation of the main constitutive parameters of the system were used to solve the mathematical model and simulate the dynamics of the synthesis at the full plant scale. The proposed model and all the constitutive parameters estimates were validated through the comparison with both laboratory and full-scale experimental data, demonstrating a good agreement. Finally, the results of the optimization procedure were validated at laboratory scale.
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- 2019
12. Analysis of physical and cyber security-related events in the chemical and process industry
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Genserik Reniers, Valerio Cozzani, Valeria Casson Moreno, Ernesto Salzano, and Valeria Casson Moreno, Genserik Reniers, Ernesto Salzano, Valerio Cozzani
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Environmental Engineering ,Process (engineering) ,020209 energy ,General Chemical Engineering ,Cyber ,Incidents ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,Hazardous waste ,Chemical and process industry ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Environmental Chemistry ,Security management ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Threat ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Attacks ,Arson ,Accidents ,Penetration (warfare) ,Security ,Business ,Process industry ,computer ,Security Cyber Attacks Threat Incidents Accidents Chemical and process industry - Abstract
Security threats are becoming an increasing concern for chemical sites and related infrastructures where relevant quantities of hazardous materials are processed, stored or transported. In the present study, security related events that affected chemical and process sites, and related infrastructures, were investigated. The aim of the study is to frame a clear picture of the threats affecting the chemical and process industry, and to issue lessons learnt from past events. A database of 300 security-related accidents was developed and populated, starting from European and American sources. Threat categories that caused such events were identified and analyzed. The attack modes were investigated. Important differences were found with respect to geographical areas and industrial sectors affected. The use of explosives (both military and improvised explosive devices) is by far the more frequent attack mode, although armed attacks and arson are also frequent events and may result in an in-depth penetration of the attackers. In recent years, cyber-attacks are also posing important threats. Lessons learnt call for the implementation of a specific security management system in the chemical and process industry, aiming at the physical and cyber protection of industrial sites.
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- 2018
13. Assessment of inherently safer alternatives in biogas production and upgrading
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Daniele Guglielmi, Valerio Cozzani, Giordano Emrys Scarponi, Valeria Casson Moreno, Scarponi, Giordano Emry, Guglielmi, Daniele, Casson Moreno, Valeria, and Cozzani, Valerio
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Engineering ,Environmental Engineering ,Inherent safety ,020209 energy ,General Chemical Engineering ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,Process safety and sustainability ,Resource (project management) ,Biogas ,SAFER ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Production (economics) ,Chemical Engineering (all) ,Robustness (economics) ,Inherently safer technologie ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Waste management ,business.industry ,Biogas production ,Identification (information) ,Ranking ,Risk analysis (engineering) ,Biogas upgrading ,business ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Biogas is becoming an increasingly important resource of energy production from biomass, and a number of alternative technologies are proposed for its production and upgrading. However, in spite of the increasing number of accidents recorded, scarce attention was dedicated to date to the control and mitigation of biogas hazards. In this study, inherent safety of biogas technologies was addressed. A method for the selection of inherently safer alternatives during early design stages was further developed and combined to a Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis, accounting for uncertainty of input parameters and addressing the robustness of the ranking provided. The method was applied to the assessment of several alternative reference process schemes for biogas production and upgrading. The results allowed the identification of critical safety issues and the ranking of inherently safer solutions. © 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 62: 2713–2727, 2016
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- 2016
14. Thermal risk in semi-batch reactors: The epoxidation of soybean oil
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Martino Di Serio, Vincenzo Russo, Ernesto Salzano, Valeria Casson Moreno, Riccardo Tesser, Casson Moreno, Valeria, Russo, Vincenzo, Tesser, Riccardo, DI SERIO, Martino, Salzano, Ernesto, and Di Serio, Martino
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Exothermic reaction ,Environmental Engineering ,food.ingredient ,Thermal runaway ,Early Warning ,Detection System, Epoxidation Reactor, stability Runaway, reaction Soybean, oil Thermal risK ,General Chemical Engineering ,Epoxidation ,02 engineering and technology ,Runaway reaction ,010402 general chemistry ,01 natural sciences ,Soybean oil ,Catalysis ,Early Warning Detection System ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,food ,Reactor stability ,Environmental Chemistry ,Organic chemistry ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Hydrogen peroxide ,Chemical decomposition ,chemistry.chemical_classification ,Performic acid ,Mineral acid ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,0104 chemical sciences ,chemistry ,Thermal risk ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
The interest in the epoxidation of vegetable oils is constantly growing in the chemical industry. The most common process is based on the oxidation of the unsaturated bonds by peroxyacids generated in situ, in the water phase, using concentrated hydrogen peroxide and the corresponding organic acid in presence of a mineral acid as catalyst. The overall epoxidation reaction is highly exothermic, hence operating conditions should be always addressed by safety considerations related to the possibility of runaway reactions. In this paper, best operating conditions and safety considerations have been defined for a complex reaction network for the epoxidation of soybean oil, which includes the decomposition reactions of the performic acid generated during the epoxidation. Furthermore, sensitivity-based reactor stability criteria have been applied and compared, for the design of an adequate Early Warning Detection System for the process.
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- 2017
15. Modeling of the venting of an untempered system under runaway conditions
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Luc Vechot, Valeria Casson Moreno, Rym Kanes, Jill Wilday, Valeria Casson Moreno, Rym Kane, Jill Wilday, and Luc Véchot
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Work (thermodynamics) ,Thermal runaway ,Chemistry ,General Chemical Engineering ,Emergency relief ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,Mechanics ,Runaway reaction ,Management Science and Operations Research ,organic peroxide decomposition ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,System dynamics ,vent sizing ,Temperature and pressure ,Control and Systems Engineering ,dynamic modeling ,Hybrid system ,Fluid dynamics ,untempered system ,cumene hydroperoxide ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Pressure generation ,Simulation ,Food Science - Abstract
The prediction of the consequences of a runaway reaction in terms of temperature and pressure evolution in a reactor requires the knowledge of the reaction kinetics, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics inside the vessel during venting. Such phenomena and their interaction are complex and yet to be fully understood, especially reactions where the pressure generation is totally or partially due to the production of permanent gases (gassy or hybrid systems). Moreover, these phenomena cannot be easily determined by laboratory scale experiments. In this paper, a dynamic model developed to simulate the behavior of an untempered reacting mixture during venting is presented. The model provides the temperature, pressure and mass inventory profiles before and during venting. A sensitivity study of the model was performed. This modeling work provides some insight regarding the interpretation of the data obtained from untempered system venting experiments. The outcome of this work contribute to improving the design of emergency relief systems for hybrid and gassy systems, where significant progress is still to be made in the experimental and modeling areas.
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- 2015
16. Runaway decomposition of dicumyl peroxide by open cell adiabatic testing at different initial conditions
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M. Sam Mannan, Simon Waldram, Olga J. Reyes Valdes, Valeria Casson Moreno, Luc Vechot, Valdes, Olga Reye, Casson Moreno, Valeria, Waldram, Simon, Véchot, Luc, and Sam Mannan, M
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Environmental Engineering ,General Chemical Engineering ,Kinetics ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,Peroxide ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Dicumyl peroxide ,Experimental sensitivity analysi ,Fluid dynamics ,Environmental Chemistry ,Chemical Engineering (all) ,Sensitivity (control systems) ,Adiabatic process ,Thermal decomposition ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,Simulation ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Back pressure ,Mechanics ,Decomposition ,010406 physical chemistry ,0104 chemical sciences ,Open cell adiabatic calorimetry ,chemistry ,Hazard identification ,Process design - Abstract
Low-thermal inertia experiments in the open cell configuration were carried out to perform a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of the parameters affecting the runaway self-decomposition of dicumyl peroxide (DCP). This study facilitates a better understanding on how concentration, initial back pressure, and fill level influence DCP runaway severity. The outcome of this experimental study was compared to previous adiabatic closed cell experiments, with the aim of clarifying the discrepancies reported in the literature and contributing to essential knowledge about self-decomposing peroxide systems. Results showed that the detected onset temperature, maximum temperature, maximum pressure, and time to maximum rate are affected by the configuration of the equipment and initial back pressure of the experiments, while the adiabatic temperature rise did not seem to be affected. The roles that the kinetics, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics play on these observations is addressed and discussed through the manuscript.
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- 2016
17. Major accident hazard in bioenergy production
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Valerio Cozzani, Valeria Casson Moreno, V. Casson Moreno, and V. Cozzani
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Engineering ,Waste management ,Warning system ,Natural resource economics ,business.industry ,General Chemical Engineering ,Supply chain ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Hazard ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Bioliquids ,Control and Systems Engineering ,Bioenergy ,Major accident hazard ,Bioliquid ,Production (economics) ,Safety culture ,Biomass ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,business ,Food Science ,Renewable resource ,Past Accident Analysi - Abstract
Some recent accidents involving the bioenergy production and feedstock supply chain raised concern on the safety of such technologies. A survey of major accidents related to the production of bioenergy (intended as biomass, bioliquids/biofuels and biogas) was carried out, and a data repository was built, based on past accident reports available in the open literature and in specific databases. Data analysis shows that major accidents are increasing in recent years and their number is growing faster than bioenergy production. The results obtained represent an early warning concerning the major accident hazard of bioenergies, and suggest the importance of risk awareness and safety culture in bioenergy production, in the perspective of a safe and sustainable exploitation of renewable resources.
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- 2015
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