Ferruccio Trifirò#
| Membership Number: | 5008 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/ferruccio.trifiro/cv |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1976 - 2017 Lecturer of "Industrial Chemistry
- 1979 - 1983 Director of the Institute of Chemical Technologies Special
- 1983 - 1999 Coordinator of the PhDs in Industrial Chemistry
- 1983 - 2008 Member of UNIDO (to achieve a sustainable chemistry in developing countries
- 1995 - 2000 Director of the Department of Industrial Chemistry
- 1996 - 2019 Director La Chimica e l' Industriia "
- 2003 - 2009 Dean of the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry in Bologna
- 2006 - 2008 Member of the Committee for the prevention and forecasting of risks
- 2007 - 2009 Scientific consultant of incinerators in Emilia- Romagna region
- 2013 - now Professor emeritus University of Bologna
Fields of Scholarship
- Synthesis of methanol and higher alcohols
- Propane ammoxidation to acrylonitrile
- Isobutane oxidation to methacrylic acid
- Production of CO and H2 from alkanes
- Photoxidation with oxides
- Beckmann rearrangements of cyclohexanonoxime to caprolactame
- Oxidative dehydrogenavtion of alkanes
- Hydrotalcites s as catalysts of hydrogenation
- Methanol oxidation to fomaldehyde
- N- butane oxidation to maleic anhydride
- Ammoximation, of cyclohexanone
- Biomass gasification to syngas
- Catalysis of Destruction of pollutants
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Honorary degree in chemical engineering from the University of Bratislava in order to mark the 60th anniversary of the birth of the degree course in technology.
- 2001 Prize in Berlin for "Scientific achievements in oxidation catalysis" by the International Committee of oxidation catalysis during the World Congress of LVO catalysis together with Robert Grasselli
- 2012 - 2017 Scientific member of Organization of prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW)
- 2014 - 2017 President of the Academy of Science of Bologna
- He received several prizes from the Italian Chemical Society (PINO, MAROTTA, PATERNO' medals)
