Julia Valla

Northeast Utilities Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering Education

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Education

Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 2005

Research Focus

• Modeling and simulation of process systems
• Coal and Biomass to Poly-generation (Liquids, Chemicals, Power)
• CO2 reduction technologies
• Sulfur reduction in transportation fuels
• Refinery processes
• Hierarchical pore structure zeolites

Awards

Precision Combustion, Inc Award: 13X Zeolite as Potential Molecular Sieve for Gas Phase Impurities Removal, 2012

NSF Award: Turning Tars into Energy: Zeolites with Hierarchical Pore Structure for the Catalytic Removal of Tars, 2012

European Program Recovery and Utilization of Carbon Dixoide (RUCADI) Project Award for study: Better Use Of Carbon Dioxide. Topic: CO as raw material for the synthesis of products of the chemical and energy industry, 2000

Publications

Gamliel, D.P., Karakalos, S., Valla, J.A., “Liquid phase hydrodeoxygenation of anisole, 4-ethylphenol and benzofuran using Ni, Ru and Pd supported on USY zeolite”, Applied Catalysis A: General 559, 20-29 (2018), Impact Factor 4.521

Su Y., Wang, Y.,  Owoseni, O., Zhang, Y., Gamliel, D.P.,  Valla, J.V., McPherson, G.L., John, V.T., “A Bottle-around-a-Ship Method To Generate Hollow Thin-Shelled Particles Containing Encapsulated Iron Species with Application to the Environmental Decontamination of Chlorinated Compounds”, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 10, 16, (2018) 13542-13551, Impact Factor 8.097

Lee, K.X., Tsilomelekis, G., Valla, J.A., “Removal of benzothiophene and dibenzothiophene from hydrocarbon fuels using CuCe mesoporous Y zeolites in the presence of aromatics”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 234, (2018)130-142, Impact Factor 11.698

Gamliel, D.P., Bollas, G.M., Valla, J.A. “Two-stage catalytic fast hydropyrolysis of biomass for the production of drop-in biofuel” Fuel 216, 160-170 (2018), Impact Factor 4.601

Gamliel D.P., Baillie B.P., Augustine, E. Hall, J. Bollas, G.M., Valla, J.V. “Nickel impregnated mesoporous USY zeolites for hydrodeoxygenation of anisole” Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, in press, Impact Factor 3.615

Gamliel, D.P., Wilcox, L., Valla, J.A. “The Effect of Catalyst Properties on the Conversion of Biomass via Catalytic Fast Hydropyrolysis” Energy and Fuels. 31 (2017) 679-687, Impact Factor 3.091

Du, S., Gamliel, D.P., Valla, J.A., Bollas, G.M., “The Effect of ZSM-5 catalyst Support in Catalytic Pyrolysis of Biomass and Compounds Abundant in Pyrolysis Bio-oils.” Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 122 (2016) 7-12, Impact Factor 3.471

K. X. Lee, J. A. Valla, “Investigation of metal-exchanged mesoporous Y zeolites for the adsorptive desulfurization of liquid fuels” Appl. Catal. B Environ. 201 (2017)359-369 Impact Factor: 8.328

Gamliel, D.P., Bollas, G.M., Valla, J.A. “Bifunctional Ni-ZSM-5 Catalysts for the Pyrolysis and Hydropyrolysis of Biomass.” Energy Technology, 31 (1) 679-687 Impact Factor: 2.557 (invited paper & inside cover paper of the volume)

Gamliel, D.P., Cho, H.J., Fan, W., Valla, J.A. “On the effectiveness of tailored mesoporous MFI zeolites for biomass catalytic fast pyrolysis.” Applied Catalysis A: General. 522 (2016) 109-119. Impact Factor: 3.942

Du, S., Gamliel, D.P., Giotto, M.V., Valla, J.A., Bollas, G.M., “Coke formation of model compounds relevant to pyrolysis bio-oil over ZSM-5.” Applied Catalysis A: General. 513 (2016) 67-81. Impact Factor: 3.942