Lorenzo Cafiero

Dr. Lorenzo Cafiero

Department for Sustainability, ENEA—Casaccia Research Center
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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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1 August 2016 in Waste Management
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CSChiara Santella
Chiara Santella
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Lorenzo Cafiero
DADoina De Angelis
Doina De Angelis
FMFloriana La Marca
Floriana La Marca
RTRiccardo Tuffi
Riccardo Tuffi
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Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti

1 September 2020 in Fuel
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GVGabriele Verrecchia
Gabriele Verrecchia
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Lorenzo Cafiero
BCBenedetta de Caprariis
Benedetta de Caprariis
Alessandro Dell'EraAlessandro Dell'Era
Alessandro Dell'Era
IPIda Pettiti
Ida Pettiti
MSMarco Scarsella
Marco Scarsella

24 June 2015 in Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
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Lorenzo Cafiero
DFDario Fabbri
Dario Fabbri
ETEmiliano Trinca
Emiliano Trinca
RTRiccardo Tuffi
Riccardo Tuffi
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Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti

7 December 2019 in Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering
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SCSimona Colantonio
Simona Colantonio
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Lorenzo Cafiero
DADoina De Angelis
Doina De Angelis
NINicolò M. Ippolito
Nicolò M. Ippolito
RTRiccardo Tuffi
Riccardo Tuffi
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Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti

12 October 2017 in Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
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MBMarika Benedetti
Marika Benedetti
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Lorenzo Cafiero
DADoina De Angelis
Doina De Angelis
Alessandro Dell'EraAlessandro Dell'Era
Alessandro Dell'Era
MPMauro Pasquali
Mauro Pasquali
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Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti

1 January 2018 in Express Polymer Letters
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RTR. Tuffi
R. Tuffi
SDS. D'ABramo
S. D'ABramo
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Lorenzo Cafiero
ETE. Trinca
E. Trinca
Stefano Vecchio CipriotiStefano Vecchio Ciprioti
Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti
The thermal behavior and pyrolytic kinetic analysis of main waste polymers (polypropylene (PP), polyethylene film (PE), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), polystyrene (PS)) and three synthetic mixtures representing commingled postconsumer plastics wastes (CPCPWs) output from material recovery facilities were studied. Thermogravimetry (TG) pyrolysis experiments revealed that the thermal degradation of single polymers and the synthetic mixture enriched in PP occurred in one single step. The other two mixtures underwent a two-consecutive, partially overlapping degradation steps, whose peaks related to the first-order derivative of TG were deconvoluted into two distinct processes. Further TG experiments carried out on binary mixtures (PS/PP, PET/PP, PET/PEfilm and PP/PEfilm) showed a thermal degradation reliance on composition, structure and temperatures of single polymer components. A kinetic analysis was made for each step using the Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS) method, thus determining almost constant activation energy (Ea) for pyrolysis of PS, PET, PP and PE film in the range 0.25<α<0.85, unlike for pyrolysis of CPCPWs, with particular reference to CPCPW1 and the second step of CPCPW2 and CPCPW3, both ascribable to degradation of PP and PE film. To account for the reliability of these values the integral isoconversional modified method developed by Vyazovkin was also applied