Janhvi Trivedi, CCL PhD candidate, visits Stony Brook University CCL team member, Janhvi Trivedi, spent three months as a visiting student at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. During this period, she worked under the guidance of Professor Alexander Orlov, a renowned expert in the…
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CCL PhD student, Kaitlyn Lawrence, hosted by CCL collaborator, Dr. Marco Baratieri, of Bioenergy & Biofuels Lab, Italy As a visiting student, Kaitlyn Lawrence continued her work on the catalytic use of waste to energy ashes in NOx reduction at the Bioenergy & Biofuels LAB. The lab is part of the Faculty of Science and…
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Free FM interviews CCL Principal Investigator, Dr. Marco J. Castaldi Free FM, an independent radio station in New Zealand, interviewed Castaldi for a radio program that first aired on the station on May 9, 2024. Hosted by Andrew Johnstone, the segment explored a proposed $200 million Waste to Energy facility to be opened in Te…
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CCL members attend NYCS 2024 Spring Symposium The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York (NYCS) held its annual meeting in Newark, New Jersey on the campus of the New Jersey Institute of Technology on March 13th, 2024. Two current members of the Combustion and Catalysis Lab, PI, Marco Castaldi and PhD student, Kaitlyn Lawrence, attended…
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Former CCL Member, Demetra Tsiamis, and CCL Collaborators from Politecnico di Milano Publish in Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy Former CCL member, Demetra Tsiamis, and collaborators from Politecnico di Milano, Fabio Poretti and Dr. Stefano Consonni, published their work with CCL Principal Investigator, Dr. Marco Castaldi in Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy. The article is…
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Congratulations to Previous CCL Visiting Scholar, Rohit Borooah The Combustion and Catalysis Lab congratulates Rohit Borooah on his successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Performance of small-scale CHP gasification systems fed with residual biomass – experiments and modeling.” Rohit’s research focused on investigating the possibility of decentralized cogeneration by gasifying forest residues, an alternative…
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CCL members attend NAM28 The North American Catalysis Society held its 28th biennial meeting in Providence, Rhode Island from June 18th to 23rd, 2023. The Combustion and Catalysis Lab was represented amongst attendees by 3 current group members, who, collectively, presented 1 talk and 2 posters and won a Kokes Award. The abstracts of the…
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CCL PhD student, Lauren Creadore, hosted by the CRECK Modeling Group of Politecnico di Milano As a visiting student, Lauren Creadore continued her work in the area of large-scale, high-speed combustion at the Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). The Italian university, who’s name translates to Polytechnic University of Milan, is home to the CRECK (Chemical Reaction…
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CCL participates in the MatER & Final Sinks 2023 Conference The biennial meetings of Materials and Energy from Refuse (MatER) and the International Conference on Final Sinks took place in tandem in Piacenza, Italy this year from June 5-7 at the Polytechnic University of Milan’s Piacenza campus. 4 current members of the Combustion and Catalysis…
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CCL Principal Investigator Invited to Speak in Politecnico di Milano’s Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Seminar Series Dr. Marco J. Castaldi will give a talk titled “Pyrolysis of Solid Carbon Materials: Coal to Coke; Biomass to Charcoal; MSW to ?” to students and faculty of Politecnico di Milano’s Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department on…
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