Vacca, Pascale (Date of defense: 2023-07-20)
(English) Wildfires that reach the border between the wildland and urban areas, defined as the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), have rapidly expanded in frequency and severity over the past few decades, ...
Yu, Xiangwei (Date of defense: 2021-07-07)
This Thesis work addresses the challenge of designing hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) dosage Strategies for improving Fenton and photo-Fenton applications. The determination of the H2O2 dosage scheme that ...
Cifuentes López, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-01-19)
(English) This thesis focuses on the study of the catalytic production of hydrogen from methanol and water. Catalytic production is carried out in a catalytic membrane reactor which manages to produce ...
Fazlikeshteli, Shiva (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
(English) Syngas (a mixture of H2 and CO) is a versatile feedstock that can be used to produce a wide range of chemicals and fuels. For that reason, there is a great interest to optimize and explore new ...
Sáez Comet, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
(English) Surfaces with special functionalities owed to their surface topographies or textures are present all around us in nature. Millions of living organisms around us profit from those special ...
Mayor Pillado, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The 20th-century introduction of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process significantly disrupted the nitrogen cycle in ecosystems, contributing to environmental issues and nutrient loss. The ...
Braga, Andrea (Date of defense: 2024-01-25)
(English) Heterogeneous catalysis is one of the most important chemical technologies available today to produce most chemicals at the basis of industrial production. The transition to a greener energy ...
Morena Gatius, Ángela Gala (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)
(English) Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant renewable resource considered a suitable carbon raw material for the synthesis of chemicals and as an alternative to fossil fuels energy supply source. ...
Torres Rivero Andrade, Karina Victoria Alejandra (Date of defense: 2023-07-12)
(English) Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a wastewater originated from complex oxidation processes that has become one of the most challenges facing the global mining industry due to its acidity, high content ...
Sans Milà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)
(English) Permanently polarized hydroxyapatite (p-HAp) has been recently proposed as a novel green catalyst. p-HAp is obtained by applying an electrical and thermal stimulation polarization process ...
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (134)
54 - Chemistry. Crystallography. Mineralogy (47)
577 - Material bases of life. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Biophysics (17)
504 - Threats to the environment (15)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (12)