Gardon Ramos, Marc (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)
The main subject of this thesis is the fabrication of functional titanium dioxide coatings by means of Atmospheric Plasma Spray (APS) and Cold Gas Spray (CGS). Functional role may be understood as the ...
Giró Paloma, Jessica (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)
The use of renewable heat decreases the consumption of fossil resources, although its usage is intermittent and usually does not match the demand. A proper thermal energy storage system design can ...
Robotti, Marco (Date of defense: 2016-09-29)
The main subject of this PhD Thesis is the manufacturing of titanium dioxide multifunctional coatings by means of two spraying technologies: Cold Gas Spray (CGS) and Atmospheric Plasma Spray (APS). The ...
Serrà i Ramos, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-07-12)
Nowadays, researchers have spent considerable effort on the development of new materials, with new properties and characteristics, and new methods of synthesis, in order to meet the demands of a market ...
Sunyer i Borrell, Alba (Date of defense: 2013-10-01)
Nowadays, arsenic is an important problem in water pollution. Non-ferrous metallurgical industries generate arsenic residues because the ores contain this mineral. The high technology improvement is ...
Cinca i Luis, Núria (Date of defense: 2008-12-03)
Due to the current interest on intermetallic compounds (IMCs), specially for their use at high temperatures being capable to substitute superalloys and, for the lately improvement of their lack of ...
Roa Rovira, Joan Josep (Date of defense: 2010-04-16)
The nanoindentation or indenter testing technique (ITT) is a functional and fast technique that can give us a lot of information about the mechanical properties of different materials at nanometric ...
Villa Vidaller, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-09-27)
This thesis focuses on the use of Cold Gas Spray technology (CGS) to spray different nature powders onto light alloys with the aim of increasing their wear resistance. The growing industrial interest ...