Alberto Pettinau

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

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Alberto Pettinau is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Pettinau has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 33 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alberto Pettinau's work include Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (25 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (18 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (14 papers). Alberto Pettinau is often cited by papers focused on Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (25 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (18 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (14 papers). Alberto Pettinau collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Pakistan. Alberto Pettinau's co-authors include Francesca Ferrara, Vittorio Tola, Mauro Mureddu, Alessandro Orsini, Andrea Porcu, Giorgio Cau, Enrico Maggio, María Grazia De Angelis, Aimaro Sanna and Filomena Ardolino and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioresource Technology and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Pettinau

55 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Renewable methanol production from green hydrogen and captured CO2: A techno-economic assessment

2022 195 citations Francesca Ferrara, Alberto Pettinau et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Pettinau Italy	24	1.1k	873	498	433	237	59	2.0k
Francesca Ferrara Italy	21	756 0.7×	478 0.5×	431 0.9×	329 0.8×	358 1.5×	38	1.7k
Huairong Zhou China	24	544 0.5×	692 0.8×	228 0.5×	478 1.1×	245 1.0×	68	1.5k
Qun Yi China	29	1.1k 1.0×	919 1.1×	625 1.3×	693 1.6×	517 2.2×	101	2.4k
K.D. Panopoulos Greece	30	1.3k 1.3×	953 1.1×	815 1.6×	737 1.7×	388 1.6×	80	2.7k
Dawid P. Hanak United Kingdom	31	1.5k 1.4×	2.1k 2.4×	452 0.9×	454 1.0×	296 1.2×	71	2.9k
Marcello De Falco Italy	27	473 0.4×	747 0.9×	720 1.4×	1.1k 2.5×	504 2.1×	73	2.0k
Dia Milani Australia	25	519 0.5×	1.3k 1.4×	278 0.6×	402 0.9×	714 3.0×	53	2.2k
Stavros Michailos United Kingdom	20	503 0.5×	659 0.8×	172 0.3×	312 0.7×	218 0.9×	46	1.5k
Guiyan Zang United States	20	505 0.5×	455 0.5×	218 0.4×	269 0.6×	171 0.7×	46	1.3k
See Hoon Lee South Korea	32	2.1k 1.9×	1.2k 1.4×	656 1.3×	466 1.1×	327 1.4×	125	3.1k

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Mureddu, Mauro, Francesca Ferrara, Alberto Pettinau, et al.. (2025). Cu facet-dependent activity of Cu/ZnOx catalyst during methanol synthesis from industrially relevant CO-CO2 gas mixtures. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 371. 125213–125213. 4 indexed citations

Pettinau, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Techno-economic assessment of renewable hydrogen production for mobility: A case study. Energy Conversion and Management. 311. 118513–118513. 18 indexed citations

Parrillo, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Plastic waste gasification using oxygen-enriched air and steam: Experimental and model results from a large pilot-scale reactor. Waste Management. 183. 53–62. 14 indexed citations

Farooq, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Towards net-zero: CO2 capture and biogas purification through electric potential swing desorption to achieve SDGs 7 and 13. Frontiers in Energy Research. 11.

Mureddu, Mauro, Luciano Atzori, Sarah Lai, et al.. (2023). Unravelling the role of metal-metal oxide interfaces of Cu/ZnO/ZrO2/Al2O3 catalyst for methanol synthesis from CO2: Insights from experiments and DFT-based microkinetic modeling. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 332. 122743–122743. 32 indexed citations

Parrillo, Francesco, et al.. (2023). Co-gasification of plastics waste and biomass in a pilot scale fluidized bed reactor. Energy. 273. 127220–127220. 41 indexed citations

Mureddu, Mauro, et al.. (2022). A comprehensive pathway on the determination of the kinetic triplet and the reaction mechanism of brewer's spent grain and beech wood chips pyrolysis. Renewable Energy. 190. 548–559. 13 indexed citations

Mureddu, Mauro, et al.. (2022). Process Design and Techno-Economic Assessment of biogenic CO₂ Hydrogenation-to-Methanol with innovative catalyst. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2385(1). 12038–12038. 7 indexed citations

Mureddu, Mauro, Sarah Lai, Luciano Atzori, et al.. (2021). Ex-LDH-Based Catalysts for CO2 Conversion to Methanol and Dimethyl Ether. Catalysts. 11(5). 615–615. 20 indexed citations

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Farhan, Muhammad, Muhammad Amjad, Fahid Riaz, et al.. (2021). Biomass waste utilization for adsorbent preparation in CO2 capture and sustainable environment applications. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments. 46. 101288–101288. 43 indexed citations

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Farooq, Muhammad, Muhammad Naqvi, Saad Nawaz, et al.. (2020). Thermodynamic Performance Analysis of Hydrofluoroolefins (HFO) Refrigerants in Commercial Air-Conditioning Systems for Sustainable Environment. Processes. 8(2). 187–187. 10 indexed citations

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Sattar, Abdul, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Amjad, et al.. (2020). Performance Evaluation of a Direct Absorption Collector for Solar Thermal Energy Conversion. Energies. 13(18). 4956–4956. 30 indexed citations

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Fais, Silvana, et al.. (2019). A Contribution to the Geological Characterization of a Potential Caprock-Reservoir System in the Sulcis Coal Basin (South-Western Sardinia). Energies. 12(23). 4524–4524. 7 indexed citations

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Bigi, Sabina, et al.. (2019). The Sulcis Fault Lab for Experimental Studies on CO2 Migration Through a Fault. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Bassani, Andrea, et al.. (2017). Devolatilization of organo-sulfur compounds in coal gasification. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Corbetta, Michele, Andrea Bassani, Flavio Manenti, et al.. (2015). Multi-scale Kinetic Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Syngas Production from Coal Gasification in Updraft Gasifiers. Energy & Fuels. 29(6). 3972–3984. 22 indexed citations

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Palmas, Simonetta, Michele Mascia, Annalisa Vacca, et al.. (2015). On the behavior of modified TiO2 nanotubes for a photoanode-driven photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 2(2015). 128–131. 1 indexed citations

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Pettinau, Alberto, et al.. (2014). The Sotacarbo gasification pilot platform: Plant overview, recent experimental results and potential future integrations. Applied Thermal Engineering. 74. 2–9. 16 indexed citations

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Ferrara, Francesca, et al.. (2014). Pyrolysis of coal, biomass and their blends: Performance assessment by thermogravimetric analysis. Bioresource Technology. 171. 433–441. 104 indexed citations

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Pettinau, Alberto, et al.. (2005). Coal gasification pilot plant for hydrogen production. Part A: coal gasification and syngas desulphurization. 5 indexed citations

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