{"id":488,"date":"2022-03-09T11:16:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/?p=488"},"modified":"2022-03-09T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T13:00:34","slug":"dr-alberto-pattinau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/dr-alberto-pattinau\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alberto Pattinau"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.5 - 03-02-2022 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2021-01-07-Pic-289x300.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2021-01-07-Pic-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2021-01-07-Pic.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b>Title: Renewable fuels production to decarbonize \u201chard to abate\u201d sectors<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decarbonization of the so-called \u201chard to abate\u201d sectors is one of the key challenges to reach carbon <br \/>neutrality and to contain global warming. Renewable and nuclear sources can provide a significant contribution <br \/>for decarbonizing several sectors, including power generation and a number of industrial and residential <br \/>applications that can be easily electrified. But there are several sectors where the electrification is unfeasible and <br \/>where carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies are not sustainable from the <br \/>economic point of view. These so-called \u201chard to abate\u201d sectors include industry and heavy transport (especially <br \/>heavy-duty trucks, aviation and shipping), currently deeply rooted on fossil or fossil-derived fuels like natural gas, <br \/>gasoline, diesel, naphtha, kerosene, etc. In this context, a key role for the decarbonization of these sectors can be <br \/>played by green fuels, directly produced from renewable energy sources.<br \/>This presentation aims to describe the most recent research and development activities achieved by Sotacarbo in <br \/>the field of green fuels production by means of two main approaches: hydrogen production from biomass and <br \/>waste gasification and e-fuels synthesis from the overproduction of electricity from non-programmable renewable <br \/>sources (i.e. wind and sun) and captured CO2. Particular emphasis is given to the main research strategies, as <br \/>well as the experimental facilities currently available.<br \/>Gasification thermochemically converts low rank primary fuels in a fuel gas (syngas) that can be used for power <br \/>generation, but also for the synthesis of other products, including hydrogen. The use of waste biomass (residues <br \/>from forest management, agriculture, or food industry) or non-recyclable plastic waste can allow the production of <br \/>renewable hydrogen and low-cost electricity, with the additional opportunity given by the possibility to integrate the <br \/>process with CO2 capture and sequestration units, thus allowing a negative carbon balance. In this field, <br \/>Sotacarbo is developing different gasification technologies (i.e. fixed-bed updraft, fixed-bed downdraft, and <br \/>bubbling fluidized-bed) and their possible integration with advanced gas cleaning technologies for syngas <br \/>purification and hydrogen production. Several gasification tests have been performed at bench-, pilot-, and <br \/>demonstration-scale in different facilities.<br \/>In parallel, e-fuels represent a very promising decarbonization strategy. Firstly, they can be used as a renewable <br \/>alternative of the conventional fossil-derived fuels. They also allow to chemically store the overproduction of <br \/>electricity from non-programmable renewable sources, with the additional advantages of balancing the electric <br \/>grid and promoting a further diffusion of renewable plants. Finally, e-fuels (especially methanol) are characterized <br \/>by a growing market since they can be also used as precursors to produce countless chemical products. In this <br \/>context, Sotacarbo is working on the development of processes and catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to e-fuels, <br \/>especially methane, methanol, and dimethyl ether (DME). The research is focused on the development of <br \/>advanced catalysts that \u2013 using innovative preparation methods and specific nanomaterials \u2013 can allow very high <br \/>performance. Two different facilities are available at the Sotacarbo Research Centre: a very flexible bench-scale <br \/>unit, used to characterize catalysts, and a new pilot-scale plant, currently under commissioning, to test and <br \/>develop the integrated power-to-fuels process in different operating conditions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alberto Pettinau is graduated in Mechanical Engineering and gained his Ph.D. at the University of Cagliari (Italy). He is employed in Sotacarbo S.p.A. (an Italian public research institute on low carbon technologies) since 2004, with the current role of Head of Research and Development.<\/p>\n<p>His main fields of research are focused on low carbon power generation technologies, with particular reference to gasification technologies (with a wide experience on pilot- and bench-scale experimental tests), green fuels production (from biomass and renewable hydrogen), fuel characterization, carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage and techno-economic analyses and feasibility studies of low carbon power generation plants.<\/p>\n<p>He managed several national and international research projects and technically coordinates international cooperation agreements with institutions from Australia, India, Pakistan, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Pettinau is the Italian representative in the European SET Plan Implementation Working Group on CCUS (appointed by the Italian Government) and member of the Italian national Energy Board. He is the Italian proxy in the Research Infrastructure Consortium Committee of ECCSEL-ERIC (the European Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Laboratory Infrastructure \u2013 European Research Infrastructure Consortium), Sotacarbo\u2019s reference in the CO<sub>2<\/sub> Value Europe association and in the Italian Energy Cluster, member of the Advisory Committee of the Degree Course on Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cagliari (Italy), and President of the CO<sub>2<\/sub> Club Italy. He is also the Director of the Annual International Sotacarbo Summer School on low carbon technologies and member of the Advisory Committee and International Vice Chair of the International Pittsburgh Coal Conference.<\/p>\n<p>He is author of several publications in international journals, books and conference proceedings (h-index 18) and a patent application on an \u201c<em>Efficient catalyst for the conversion of CO<sub>2<\/sub> to methanol<\/em>\u201d (WO2019\/185223A1).<\/p>\n<p>He collaborates as reviewer for many international journals (Applied Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energies, Energy, Fuel, Fuel Processing Technology, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, the Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Processes and many more) and worked as Guest Editor for two special issues of the international journal Fuel (Elsevier).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Renewable fuels production to decarbonize \u201chard to abate\u201d sectors Abstract:\u00a0 The decarbonization of the so-called \u201chard to abate\u201d sectors is one of the key challenges to reach carbon neutrality and to contain global warming. Renewable and nuclear sources can provide a significant contribution for decarbonizing several sectors, including power generation and a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invited_speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icece.kics.edu.pk\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}