Abstract
title:
Rheology of a fluid of energy and environmental interest:
Response to oscillatory shear of dense suspensions
Mario
Minale
University
of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Department
of Engineering
Mario Minale is Professor of Chemical Engineering at
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.
He got the Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at University of
Naples “Federico II”. He was the recipient of 3 undergraduate awards and 2
laurea dissertation prizes.
In 1998 he was the recipient of the young researcher award
for the best presentation at GRICU Conference.
In 2008 he was nominated for the American Chemical Society
award: "Langmuir Lectureship”.
Commitment
for scientific societies: 2021-2023:
President of the European Society of Rheology; 2020- : Vice-president of the
Italian society of Rheology – SIR; 2019-2023: Vice-president of the European
Society of Rheology; 2016- : Member of The International Committee of Rheology
– ICR; 2016 - : Member of The European Society of Rheology Committee ; 2016 - :
Member of the executive board and International delegate of the Italian Society
of Rheology – SIR
He is member of the Society of Rheology (USA), the European
Society of Rheology, the Italian Society of Rheology-SIR, GRICU.
Invited
Lectures: 2009
keynote lecture at the 5th Annual European Rheology Conference AERC 2009,
Cardiff; 2011 invited lecture at the opening ceremony of the Universiteti Metropolitani
Tiranes; 2019 Plenary Lecturer at ic-rmm4 conference, 4th International
Conference on Rheology and Modeling of Materials, Lillafured; 2019 Invited Keynote
Lecturer at: VII Escuela de Verano 2019: Nuevas Tecnologías en Productividad y
Recobro Mejorado de Petróleo y Gas”, Medellin (Colombia); 2021 – Invited
Keynote Lecturer at VIII Escuela de Verano 2021: the role of conventional
resources in Energy Transition”, Virtual, 02-04 June 2021
International Conferences Organization: 2022
Chairman of a Session of AERC 2022 Seville, Spain – 2021 - Chairman a the
Session AERC 2021, Cyberspace – 2018 Chairman of AERC 2018 of the European
Society of Rheology 17-20 April 2018, Sorrento (Naples) – 2016 Member of the
International Advisory Board of the XVII International Congress on Rheology,
Kyoto, Japan – 2012 Member of the
International Advisory Board of the XVI International Congress on Rheology
ICR2012 Lisbon, Portugal – 2007 Member of the organising committee of AERC2007
Naples, Italy.
Mario Minale is author of more than 160 publications on
international Journals, books and on proceedings or books of abstracts of
scientific conferences. Many of these papers are the result of collaboration
with leading international groups and most of his activity has been focused on
the rheology of heterogeneous systems.
Concerning the energy and environmental related topics, in
the recent years Mario Minale studied the non-Brownian suspensions and he was
able to numerically demonstrate the existence of a single steady state in
simple shear flow for suspensions in the semidilute regime. Moreover, he
investigated numerically and experimentally the mechanisms at the basis of the
failure of the Cox-Merz rule even for Newtonian suspensions and finally he
showed that under oscillatory shear the response of Newtonian Suspensions is
also function of the frequency even if the steady state behaviour remains rate
independent. This was not predicted by the accepted theories developed to study
the dynamics of these systems and he proved that a small van der Waals force is
the missing ingredient necessary to explain the experimental observations.
Mario Minale investigated the flow through a porous medium
with a new technique based on rheological measurements and he modelled the
problem leading to a new boundary condition at the interface between a porous
medium and a free fluid, either Newtonian or not. The approach allowed to
define a correct way to use rough geometries in rheometrical measurements.
Crude oils attracted his attention in particular their rheological behaviour
under the action of solvents, additives and nanoparticles.
Finally, he was involved in the innovative study of the
manure anaerobic digestion to maximize the H2 yield. He also investigated the
beneficial effects in terms of NOx emissions when such a biogas is fuelled to a
CAI engine.