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Effects of the heating source on the regeneration performance of different adsorbents under post-combustion carbon capture cyclic operations. A comparative analysis (2021)
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Yassin, M., Anderson, J., Dimitrakis, G., & Martín, C. (2021). Effects of the heating source on the regeneration performance of different adsorbents under post-combustion carbon capture cyclic operations. A comparative analysis. Separation and Purification Technology, 276, Article 119326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2021.119326

This work presents a comparative study of microwave and conventional (conductive) heating for adsorbent regeneration. A binary gas mixture representative of pre-dried flue gas from coal-fired power plants (15% v/v CO2 in N2) was passed through a rota... Read More about Effects of the heating source on the regeneration performance of different adsorbents under post-combustion carbon capture cyclic operations. A comparative analysis.

A new approach for the vitrification of municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash by microwave irradiation (2020)
Journal Article
Flesoura, G., Dilissen, N., Dimitrakis, G., Vleugels, J., & Pontikes, Y. (2021). A new approach for the vitrification of municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash by microwave irradiation. Journal of Cleaner Production, 284, Article 124787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124787

Encouraging the transition to a circular economy, the valorization of municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) bottom ash (BA) has received considerable attention in many processes. In the present work, flash microwave vitrification was effectively r... Read More about A new approach for the vitrification of municipal solid waste incinerator bottom ash by microwave irradiation.

Microwave assisted sintering of Na-β’’-Al2O3 in single mode cavities: Insights in the use of 2450 MHz frequency and preliminary experiments at 5800 MHz (2020)
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Mortalò, C., Rosa, R., Veronesi, P., Fasolin, S., Zin, V., Deambrosis, S. M., …Leonelli, C. (2020). Microwave assisted sintering of Na-β’’-Al2O3 in single mode cavities: Insights in the use of 2450 MHz frequency and preliminary experiments at 5800 MHz. Ceramics International, 46(18, Part A), 28767-28777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2020.08.039

Microwave assisted sintering of Na-beta’’-Al2O3 in single mode cavities was accurately investigated. The use of single mode cavity allowed monitoring the parameters affecting the sintering process, like the forward power, together with the temperatur... Read More about Microwave assisted sintering of Na-β’’-Al2O3 in single mode cavities: Insights in the use of 2450 MHz frequency and preliminary experiments at 5800 MHz.

Experimental and computational investigation of heat transfer in a microwave-assisted flow system (2019)
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Damilos, S., Radhakrishnan, A. N. P., Dimitrakis, G., Tang, J., & Gavriilidis, A. (2019). Experimental and computational investigation of heat transfer in a microwave-assisted flow system. Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 142, Article 107537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cep.2019.107537

Microwave technology is gaining popularity as a tool for chemical process intensification and an alternative to conventional heating. However, in flow systems non-uniform temperature profiles are commonly encountered and hence methods to characterise... Read More about Experimental and computational investigation of heat transfer in a microwave-assisted flow system.

Predicting the Behaviour of Near-Critical and Supercritical Alcohols at Microwave Frequencies: Validation of Molecular Dynamic Simulations as a Tool that can Substitute for Measurements under Extreme Experimental Conditions (2019)
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Robinson, D., Irvine, D. J., Robinson, J. P., Lester, E. H., Kingman, S. W., & Dimitrakis, G. (2019). Predicting the Behaviour of Near-Critical and Supercritical Alcohols at Microwave Frequencies: Validation of Molecular Dynamic Simulations as a Tool that can Substitute for Measurements under Extreme Experimental Conditions. Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 146, 165-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.supflu.2019.01.018

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamic simulations, predicting the dielectric properties of near-critical and supercritical methanol and ethanol at microwave frequencies have been carried out. The autocorrelation functions of the dielectri... Read More about Predicting the Behaviour of Near-Critical and Supercritical Alcohols at Microwave Frequencies: Validation of Molecular Dynamic Simulations as a Tool that can Substitute for Measurements under Extreme Experimental Conditions.