Prof. Umberto Arena

PROFESSOR UMBERTO ARENA_ SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
Umberto Arena is full professor of “Solid waste management” and "Industrial Pollution Control
Engineering" at the Second University of Naples. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at the
University "Federico II" of Naples, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in
1987.
He is an Associate Editor of the Waste Management journal of Elsevier.
He is a member of Managing Board of the International Waste Working Group (www.iwwg.eu),
and in the framework of this association he is the leader of the IWWG-Task Group on Thermal
Treatments.
He is a Member of the board of Directors of AMRA-Analysis and Monitoring of Environmental
Risk s.c. a r.l. (www.amracenter.com), where he is the Coordinator of Antropic Risk Area and the
leader of the department of Waste Management and Energy Generation.
He has a long experience in the field of waste management, and waste-to-energy in particular. In
the 1998 he participated as technical expert in national committee for the public tender of the
large-scale waste-to-energy plant (600kt/y) of Naples area, carried out within the context of EU
Directives and Regulations. In the 2011-2014 he was one the members of the technical national
committee for the assessment of large-scale waste-to-energy plants in the Regione Campania. He
is or was the scientific responsible and the team leader in several Italian projects about wasteto-energy plants and waste management planning. In particular: i) for the technical,
environmental and economic assessment of the large-scale WtE plant in Malagrotta, Rome (2009);
ii) for the design and the technical, environmental and economic assessment of a medium-scale
WtE plant for plastic wastes financially supported by Conai-National Consortium for Packaging
(2009-2011); iii) for the industrial waste management planning of Regione Campania (2008); iv) for
the municipal and industrial solid waste management planning of District of Caserta (2009); v) for
the municipal solid waste management planning of Regione Campania (2010-2011); vi) for the
municipal solid waste management planning of Regione Molise (2012); vii) for the design and the
technical, environmental and economic assessment of a WtE plant for SRF-solid recovered fuel in
Isernia (2013); and many more. All these experiences have been largely described by the
numerous papers published on prestigious international scientific journals.
He is a member of some international committees for waste management and waste-to-energy,
such as those of:
− l’International Scientific Committee of the Int. Conf. on Industrial and Hazardous Waste
Management (since 2014);
− l’International Scientific Committee of the Int. Conf. on Fluidized Bed Conversion (since 2012);
− l'International Advisory Board of the Int. Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste
(since 2009);
− l'International Symposium on Urban Mining (since 2012);
− l’International Expert Group on Life Cycle Analysis for Waste Management (since 2000);
− l'International Scientific Committee dell'Engineering Foundation on Fluidization (since 1994);
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− l'International Advisory Board dell'International Conference on Circulating Fluidized Beds
(since 1993).
He gave plenary lectures at international conferences in the field of waste-to-energy, as that
recently given in Hong Kong at the Int. Conference on Solid Waste 2013.
He is a consultant of several companies and research centers. In particular, he worked (or still
works) with FATER, ENEL, ENI (Snamprogetti, Enitecnologie, Agip Carbone, Enichem Anic), CONAINational Consortium for Packaging), ENEA-Environmental Department, Eco-Bat, CIRA (the National
Centre for Aerospatial Research), Sagit-UNILEVER, Ansaldo Energia, Asia.biz., Eco-Engineering,
ChemTex, Regione Campania, Regione Molise, Turin Polytechnic.
He is a referee of several international scientific journals, such as Waste Management, Waste
Management&Research, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Combustion Science and Technology, Fuel,
Fuel Processing Technology, Chemical Engineering Sciences, The Chemical Engineer Journal,
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineers, Polymer Degradation & Stability, Powder Technology,
Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries,
mainly for the areas of waste-to-energy processes and technologies, waste management, life cycle
assessment, waste-to-feedstock processes.
He is author of more than 80 scientific papers published in international scientific journals
(Waste
Management,
Fuel,
Energy,
Waste
Management&Research,
Resource
Conservation&Recycling, AIChE Journal, Chem. Eng. Sci., Chem. Eng. Journal, Ind.&Eng.Chem.Res.,
J. of Industrial Ecology, Polymer Degradation & Stability, Powder Techn., Combustion Sci. and
Techn., Combustion and Flame, Canadian J. of Chem. Engineers, Japanese J. of Chem. Engineering,
Int. J. of Life Cycle Assessment, J. of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries). He wrote chapters
in some multi-authored books: “Gas Mixing” in “Circulating Fluidized Beds" (Chapman & Hall,
1997); "Fluidized Bed Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes" in "Feedstock Recycling and Pyrolysis of Waste
Plastics" (J. Wiley&Sons, 2006); “Fluidized bed gasification” in "Fluidized-bed technologies for
near-zero emission combustion and gasification" (Woodhead Publishing, 2013).
Umberto Arena’s research and professional activity is mainly oriented to several aspects of waste
management, with particular attention to:
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Thermal treatments (combustion, gasification and pyrolysis) of different wastes and
biomass.
Design and operation criteria of fluidized bed combustors and gasifiers.
Technological, economical and environmental aspects of the different recycling and
recovery routes (mechanical recycling, feedstock recycling and energy recovery) of
municipal and industrial wastes.
Application of Life Cycle Assessment, Material Flow Analysis and Substance Flow Analysis
as tools for environmental assessment of waste management planning and for
optimization of different waste treatments.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS_LAST FIVE YEARS
1. Arena U. and F. Di Gregorio. Energy generation by air gasification of two industrial plastic
wastes in a pilot scale fluidized bed reactor. Energy, 68:735-743 (2014),
DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2014.01.084,
2. Arena U. and F. Di Gregorio. A waste management planning based on substance flow analysis.
Resource, Conservation and Recycling, 85:54-66 (2014)
3. Arena U. and F. Di Gregorio. Gasification of a solid recovered fuel in a pilot scale fluidized bed
reactor. Fuel, 117:528-536 (2014)
4. Di Gregorio F., D. Santoro and U. Arena. The effect of ash composition on gasification of
poultry wastes in a fluidized bed reactor. Waste Management & Research, 32/4:323-330
(2014), doi:10.1177/0734242X14525821
5. Arena U “Fluidized bed gasification”chap. 17 in Fluidized-bed technologies for near-zero
emission combustion and gasification, F. Scala (Ed.) Woodhead Publishing, p. 765-812 (2013)
ISBN 978-0-85709-541-1, DOI: 10.1533/9780857098801.3.765
6. Arena U. and F. Di Gregorio. Element Partitioning in Combustion- and Gasification-based
Waste-to-Energy Units. Waste Management, 33:1142-1150 (2013)
7. Arena U. Process and technological aspects of municipal solid waste gasification. A review.
Waste Management, 32:625-639 (2012)
8. Arena U., M. Nelles, J. Werther. Advanced aspects of thermal treatment of solid wastes: From
a flue gas to a fuel gas technology? Waste Management, 32:623-624 (2012)
9. Mastellone M.L., L. Zaccariello, D. Santoro, U. Arena. The O2-Enriched Air Gasification of Coal,
Plastics and Wood in a Fluidized Bed Reactor. Waste Management, 32:733-744 (2012)
10. Arena U. Gasification: An alternative solution for waste treatment with energy recovery.
Waste Management, 31:405-406 (2011)
11. Arena U., F. Di Gregorio, C. Amorese, M.L. Mastellone. A techno-economic comparison of
fluidized bed gasification of two mixed plastic wastes. Waste Management, 31:1494-1504
(2011)
12. Arena U., L. Zaccariello, M.L. Mastellone. Fluidized Bed Gasification of Waste-Derived Fuels.
Waste Management, 30:1212-1219 (2010)
13. Nelles M., U. Arena, B. Bilitewsky. Thermal waste treatment – An essential component of a
sustainable waste treatment system. Waste Management, 30:1159-1160 (2010)
14. Arena U., L. Zaccariello, M.L. Mastellone. Gasification of Natural and Waste Biomass in a Pilot
Scale Fluidized Bed Reactor. Combustion Science & Technology, 182:1-15 (2010)
15. Mastellone M.L., U. Arena, L. Zaccariello. Co-Gasification of Coal, Plastic Waste and Wood in a
Bubbling Fluidized Bed Reactor. Fuel, 89: 2991-3000 (2010)
16. Arena U., F. Di Gregorio, M. Santonastasi. A Techno-Economic Comparison Between Two
Design Configurations for a Small Scale, Biomass-to-Energy Gasification Based System. Chem.
Eng. Journal, 162: 580-590 (2010)
17. Arena U., L. Zaccariello, M.L. Mastellone. Tar Removal During the Fluidized Bed Gasification of
Plastic Waste. Waste Management, 29:783-791 (2009)
18. Mastellone M.L., P.H. Brunner, U. Arena. Scenarios of Waste Management for a Waste
Emergency Area: a Substance Flow Analysis. J. of Industrial Ecology, 13/5:735-757 (2009)
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