Dr Sergio Vernuccio

School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering

Visiting academic

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s.vernuccio@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 7519
Room B54, -none-
Profile

I obtained my BA (2008) and MA summa cum laude (2010) both in Chemical Engineering from University of Naples Federico II, Italy. Prior to pursuing my academic career, I worked as a Process Engineer for Technip Italy S.p.A., Rome, (2011-2014) where I involved in design and reconfiguration of refinery process units and petrochemical plants.

I received a PhD in Process Engineering (2017) from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where I worked on the application of structured reactors to three-phase reactive processes with high industrial relevance in prospect of Process Intensification. From 2017 and 2019 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Linda J. Broadbelt at Northwestern University, USA where I studied mechanisms of acid-based oligomerization of olefins on zeolites for the upgrading of shale gas resources.

My research activity spans from catalysis to reaction engineering and aims to understand the link between macroscopic observation and fundamental phenomena in complex reaction systems.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Long Y, Chen Z, Wu L, Liu X, Hou Y, Vernuccio S, Wei W, Wong W & Ni B (2024) . Small Science.
  • Ghosh K, Vernuccio S & Dowling AW (2022) . Frontiers in Chemical Engineering, 4.
  • Koninckx E, Colin JG, Broadbelt LJ & Vernuccio S (2022) . ACS Engineering Au.
  • Vernuccio S, Bickel EE, Gounder R & Broadbelt LJ (2021) . Journal of Catalysis.
  • Ganesh HS, Dean DP, Vernuccio S, Edgar TF, Baldea M, Broadbelt LJ, Stadtherr MA & Allen DT (2020) . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 59(7), 3109-3119.
  • Vernuccio S, Bickel EE, Gounder R & Broadbelt LJ (2019) . ACS Catalysis, 9(10), 8996-9008.
  • Vernuccio S & Broadbelt LJ (2019) . AIChE Journal, 65(8).
  • Vernuccio S, Dempfle D, Goy R, Medlock J & Rudolf von Rohr P (2018) . Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, 126, 74-80.
  • Vernuccio S, Goy R, Meier A, Rudolf von Rohr P & Medlock J (2017) . Chemical Engineering Journal, 316, 121-130.
  • Vernuccio S, Meier A & von Rohr PR (2017) . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56(17), 4929-4937.
  • Reymond H, Vitas S, Vernuccio S & von Rohr PR (2017) . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 56(6), 1439-1449.
  • Vernuccio S, von Rohr PR & Medlock J (2015) . Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 54(46), 11543-11551.
  • Meng H, Chen Z, Zhu J, You B, Ma T, Wei W, Sergio V, Xu J & Ni B () . Advanced Functional Materials.
  • Bugryniec P, Vernuccio S & Brown S () Towards a micro-kinetic model of Li-Ion battery thermal runaway - reaction network analysis of dimethyl carbonate thermal decomposition. Journal of Power Sources.
  • Vernuccio S, Goy R, von Rohr PR, Medlock J & Bonrath W () . Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 1(5), 567-567.
  • Vernuccio S, Goy R, Rudolf von Rohr P, Medlock J & Bonrath W () . Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 1(4), 445-453.

Book chapters

  • Bugryniec P, Vernuccio S & Brown S (2023) , Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (pp. 1077-1082). Elsevier

Conference proceedings

  • Vernuccio S, Koninckx E, Bickel EE, Tseng HT, Gounder R, Ribeiro F & Broadbelt LJ (2019) Light äikene oligomerization for shale gas upgrading: A microkinetic model. 12th Natural Gas Conversion Symposium 2019 (pp 359-361)
  • Vernuccio S & Rudolf Von Rohr P (2016) Kinetics of the hydrogenation of 2-methyl-3-butyn-2-ol over a structured palladium-based catalyst. 22nd International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2016 and 19th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction, PRES 2016, Vol. 1 (pp 108-109)
  • Vernuccio S & Rudolf Von Rohr P (2016) Three-phase hydrogenation of 2-methyI-3-butyn-2-ol over a Pd/ZnO catalyst: Development of a kinetic model. 22nd International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2016 and 19th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction, PRES 2016, Vol. 1 (pp 61-62)
  • Bugryniec P, Vernuccio S & Brown S () Predicting the evolution of flammable gases during Li-ion battery thermal runaway using micro-kinetic modelling. 33rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Vol. 52 (pp 1075-1080). Athens, Greece, 18 June 2023 - 18 June 2023.
  • Brown S, Yeardley A, Bugryniec P, Vernuccio S, Price N & Jain A () Gaussian-Process based inference of electrolyte decomposition reaction networks in Li-ion battery failure. Computer Aided Chemical Engineering
  • Bugryniec P, Yeardley A, Jain A, Price N, Vernuccio S & Brown S () Gaussian-Process based inference of electrolyte decomposition reaction networks in Li-ion battery failure. Computers and Chemical Engineering
Teaching activities

- CPE140 Principles of Chemical Engineering 2
- CPE401 Research Projects