Giuseppe Mascolo, Primo Ricercatore

• Degradation of organic pollutants in water and wastewater by advanced oxidation processes;
• Mechanisms of by-products formation during organic pollutants degradation;
• Determination of organic pollutants in wastewater, sludge and soils;
• Understanding formation of products of incomplete combustion (PICs) during incineration;
• Thermal decomposition of hazardous materials during incineration;

• G. Laera, D. Cassano, A. Lopez, A. Pinto, A. Pollice, G. Ricco, G. Mascolo. Organics degradation and by-products minimization in pharmaceutical wastewater treatment by a membrane bioreactor integrated with ozonation or UV/H2O2 process. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2012, 46, 1010-1018.
• A. Pollice, G. Mascolo, G. Laera, D. Cassano, S. Diomede, A. Pinto, A. Lopez. Antibacterial removal and minimization of degradation products by an integrated MBR-ozonation system. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2012, 203-204, 46-52.
• F. Petronella, E. Fanizza, G. Mascolo, V. Locaputo, L. Bertinetti, G. Martra, S. Coluccia, A. Agostiano, M. L. Curri, R. Comparelli. Photocatalytic Activity of Nanocomposite Catalyst Films Based on Nanocrystalline Metal/Semiconductors. J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 12033–12040.
• Amorisco A., Locaputo V., Mascolo G.. Characterization of carbonyl by-products during Uniblu-A ozonation by liquid chromatography/hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight/mass spectrometry. Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry, 2011, 25, 1801–1811.
• G. Mascolo, V. Locaputo, G. Mininni. New perspective on the determination of flame retardants in sewage sludge by using ultra high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with different ion sources. J. Chromatogr. A, 2010, 1217, 27, 4601-4611.
• G. Mascolo, V. Locaputo, G. Mininni. New perspective on the determination of flame retardants in sewage sludge by using ultra high pressure liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with different ion sources. J. Chromatogr. A, 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.05.003.
• G. Mascolo, G. Laera, A. Pollice, D. Cassano, C. Salerno, A. Lopez. Effective organics degradation from pharmaceutical wastewater by an integrated process including membrane bioreactor and ozonation. Chemosphere, 2010, 78, 1100-1109.
• L. Balest, A. Lopez, G. Mascolo, C. Di Iaconi. Removal of endocrine disrupter compounds from municipal wastewater using an aerobic granular biomass reactor. Biochem. Eng. J. , 2008, 41, 288-294.

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