Sandoval Ravotti, Daniela Andreina (Date of defense: 2019-11-11)
Cemented carbides are composite materials widely used in different industry fields within applications involving wear, due to their outstanding wear resistance. The most commonly used are WC-Co grades, ...
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, ...
Liga, Shanti Maria (Date of defense: 2023-03-22)
(English) The availability of energy is a fundamental ingredient for the development of society. However, the intense consumption of fossil fuels as an energy resource since the second industrial ...
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 ...
Panahi, Seyedeh Leila (Date of defense: 2023-05-08)
(English) New research shows that global demand for alloys with unique properties for various applications increased drastically, and among all them the demand for high entropy and metallic glasses in ...
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 ...
Chen, Yufen (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
(English) Metal clusters and single atoms have been considered as effective cocatalysts for the enhancement of photocatalytic hydrogen production dueto their singular geometric structures, electronic ...
Lapo Calderón, Byron Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2023-07-12)
(English) Rare earths elements (REE) are crucial elements to the future of technology, particularly to the power generation and road transport. One of the most sustainable processes to recover rare ...
Foroughi, Vahid (Date of defense: 2023-09-20)
(English) The historical analysis performed has shown that jet fires have been the origin of a high number of domino effect accidents, both in the process industry and in the transportation of flammable ...
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 ...