Rodriguez-Chiang, Lourdes (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)
Sustainability of resources such as energy, water and waste have become important drivers in our current economy. For large industries that are water and energy intensive like pulp and paper (P&P) mills, ...
Mulas, Dani (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
The Barcelona metropolitan area (BMA; 3.2 M inhabitants) has an integrated urban water cycle management. Different type of treatment plants are located along the drinking, sewerage and reuse networks ...
Jiménez Divins, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
This Thesis focuses on the study of the catalytic production of hydrogen from a biofuel, namely the bioethanol. It also studies the subsequent purification of pre-cleaned reformate streams. The end use ...
Gómez Millán, Gerardo (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Among the platform chemicals that can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass, furfural (FUR) constitutes a promising intermediate that can be processed into a variety of advanced end products. In ...
Hedayati, Ali (Date of defense: 2016-09-26)
Hydrogen is considered as a clean energy carrier that can be converted to electricity by fuel cell with high efficiency. To be economically feasible and comparable, hydrogen needs to be liquefied, ...
Uddin, Azhar (Date of defense: 2019-07-23)
With the issue of the rise of anthropogenic CO2, global warming and rise of the primary energy demand, strong measures for the energy transition and the diversification with renewables and existing ...