Publications

2021
Micale, D. et al. (2021), “Coupling Euler–Euler and Microkinetic Modeling for the Simulation of Fluidized Bed Reactors: an Application to the Oxidative Coupling of Methane”  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. in press.
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2020
Bracconi, M. et al. (2020), “Training set design for Machine Learning techniques applied to the approximation of computationally intensive first-principles kinetic models”  Chem. Eng. J. 400 125469.
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Uglietti, R. et al. (2020), “Development and assessment of speed-up algorithms for the reactive CFD-DEM simulation of fluidized bed reactors”  React. Chem. Eng. 5 278-288.
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2018
Rebughini, S. et al. (2018), “A hierarchical approach to chemical reactor engineering: an application to micro packed bed reactors”  React. Chem. Eng. 3 25-33.
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Uglietti, R. et al. (2018), “Coupling CFD–DEM and microkinetic modeling of surface chemistry for the simulation of catalytic fluidized systems”  React. Chem. Eng. 3(4) 527-539.
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2017
Bracconi, M. et al. (2017), “In situ adaptive tabulation for the CFD simulation of heterogeneous reactors based on operator-splitting algorithm” AIChE J. 63 95–104.
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Rebughini, S. et al. (2017) “Cell agglomeration algorithm for coupling microkinetic modeling and steady-state CFD simulations of catalytic reactors” Comput. Chem. Eng. 97 175-182.
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2016
Maffei, T. et al. (2016), “A multiregion operator-splitting CFD approach for coupling microkinetic modeling with internal porous transport in heterogeneous catalytic reactors” Chem. Eng. J. 283 1392-1404.
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Rebughini, S. et al. (2016) “Handling contact points in reactive CFD simulations of heterogeneous catalytic fixed bed reactors” Chem. Eng. Sci. 141 240-249.
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2014
Maffei, T. et al. (2014), “CFD Analysis of the Channel Shape Effect in Monolith Catalysts for the CH4 Partial Oxidation on Rh” Chem. Ing. Tech. 86 1099-1106 (invited)
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Matera, S. et al. (2014) “Predictive-quality surface reaction chemistry in real reactor models: Integrating first-principles kinetic monte carlo simulations into computational fluid dynamics”, ACS Catal. 4 4081–4092.
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2013
Maestri, M. and Cuoci, A. (2013), “Coupling CFD with detailed microkinetic modeling in heterogeneous catalysis” Chem. Eng. Sci. 96 106-117 (This paper was included in the Top25 hottest articles list (most downloaded) of Chemical Engineering Science for the period May-July 2013).
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