Departament d'Enginyeria Química

El Departament d’Enginyeria Química treballa en diferents línies de recerca: optimització de processos químics, seguretat en plantes químiques i modelatge d’accidents, reactors, sistemes fluid/partícules tecnologia de l’aigua, tecnologia alimentària, tractament de residus industrials I radioactius, anàlisi de contaminats, medi ambient, enginyeria molecular, tenso-actius, i síntesi i estructura de polímers.


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Recent Submissions

Obtaining micro- and nanotextured functional surfaces on thermoplastics via injection moulding techniques using laser textured metallic inserts and NIL (nano-imprint lithography) -textured polymeric films 

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 functionalities thanks ...

Partial oxidation of methane into syngas at low temperature 

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 routes for its ...

Risk analysis of jet fires thermal effects 

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 fluids by pipelines ...

Lignocellulosic wastes and chitosan composites applied to recover rare earth elements by liquid-solid separation 

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 earths is biosorption. ...

Mechanochemical preparation of TiO2-based photocatalysts for hydrogen production 

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 properties and unique ...

Fire risk analysis framework at the wildland-urban interface 

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, and the number of ...

Simulación y desarrollo de reactores catalíticos de membrana para la tecnología del hidrógeno 

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 and purify hydrogen. ...

Del mur romànic al museu. La tècnica de la pintura mural romànica i del seu traspàs amb morters de caseïna 

Oriols Pladevall, Núria (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)

(English) An important collection of Romanesque wall paintings, detached from their original places at the beginning of the 20th century, is now preserved and exhibited in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. To define ...

Polymer-zirconia based ceramic composites produced by 3D-printing 

Hodásová, L'udmila (Date of defense: 2022-11-09)

(English) Zirconia ceramic is widely used in numerous fields, such as electronics, machinery, and biomedical applications, due to its excellent properties as chemical resistance, thermal stability, electrical resistance, ...

In situ studies of catalytic processes by Near Ambient X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy 

García de Andrés, Xènia (Date of defense: 2022-10-25)

(English) Labels misplacement in the bottles are currently causing problems in wine cellar's labelling lines. According to data provided by Codorníu and Torres cellars, 1 % of the bottles present this issue. Once the wine ...

ECO-DWOR: ECOlogical finishing agents for Durable Water & Oil-Repellent textiles with advanced functionalities 

Lacruz Cruz, Amado (Date of defense: 2022-07-18)

Fluorinated chemicals, commonly known as per- and polyfluoroalkyt substances (PFASs), are widely used to obtain water-, oil- and stain-repellent texUles. The constant development and optimization of fluorochemicals for ...

Application of ultrasound in twin-screw extrusion and microinjection molding: improvements of properties of processed materials and nanocomposites : polymers and biopolymers 

Pérez Llanos, Germán Aníbal (Date of defense: 2022-02-18)

The plastics industry is in constant evolution looking to improve the properties of new materials and performance in different applications. Currently, the environmental impact associated with the use of plastics is one ...

Recovery of polyphenols by extraction and purification technologies from orange and spinach processing residues 

Montenegro Landivar, María Fernanda (Date of defense: 2022-09-21)

The residues resulting from orange and spinach processing, composed mainly by peels and seeds; and leaves, respectively, contain relevant amounts of polyphenols, so they can be used as raw material for recovery natural ...

Biomedical applications of hybrid polymer-based materials 

Enshaei, Hamidreza (Date of defense: 2022-04-24)

Polymers have been widely used in biomedical applications for drug delivery purposes in the last decades. However, ordinary long­ term drug delivery systems are sometimes associated with undesired side effects if the ...

Development of scaffolds by thermally-induced phase separation from biodegradable poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) and poly(butylene succinate) 

Zeinali, Reza (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)

TIPS process followed by freeze-dtying was used to prepare blodegradable and biocompatible matrices from poly(3- hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) containing 5 and 12 wt% of 3-hydroxyvalerate (HV) and poly(butylene ...

Titanium dioxide and nanoshaped ceria for solar hydrogen production 

Serafin, Jaroslaw (Date of defense: 2022-04-21)

This work facuses on the study of these processes on Ti02 and Ce02, respectively. Although the development of photocatalytic research with the use of semiconductor photocatalysts does not last longer than about 40 years, ...

Characteristics of bioactive molecules with antioxidant and biological activities of some medicinal and edible plants 

Ouerfelli, Manel (Date of defense: 2021-11-24)

The present work has focused on the study of two edible plants, with attributable medicinal values, named Anthyllis vulneraria L. (A.vulneraria) and Azadirachta indica L. (A.indica) collected in Tunisia and India, ...

Nanomaterials for controlling bacterial pathogens and resistance occurrence 

Ivanova, Aleksandra Asenova (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

lnfectious diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide while the constantly raising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major concern for the public health. During the infection establishment bacteria! pathogens ...

Estudio de la evaporación de vertidos de disoluciones acuosas de amoníaco 

Corruchaga Guerrero, Agustín (Date of defense: 2021-10-04)

Evaporation from liquid spills is a phenomenon of great importance. This phenomenon has been studied by a number of researchers. However, most of them have focused on the evaporation of pure liquid spills or hydrocarbon ...

Producción de hidrógeno a partir de amoniaco en reactores de paredes catalíticas 

Lucentini, Ilaria (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)

Due to the problems associated with the generation and storage of hydrogen in portable applications, the use of ammonia fer the on-site production of hydrogen through its catalytic decomposition has been proposed. This ...

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