Tarrés Farrés, Joaquim Agustí (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
In the recent years, significant interest on the production, characterization and application of cellulose nanofibers has brought out among scientific and technic authorities. This special attention ...
Rovira Alsina, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is largely emitted in the ignition of fossil fuels for transport, electricity generation or other industrial processes. CO2 is an inorganic compound that exists naturally on Earth, ...
Aldrich Tomàs, Remei (Date of defense: 2009-04-30)
El sector de pasta i paper és considerat un dels set sectors industrials més intensius en consum energètic. La producció i consum d'electricitat i de vapor esdevenen les fonts majoritàries d'emissions ...
Delgado Aguilar, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)
Bio and nano technologies are absent or incipient in papermaking industry and, concretely, in recycling and high-yield pulps sectors. In this sense, the present Thesis uses cellulose nanofibers (CNF), ...
Lay, Makara (Date of defense: 2017-02-03)
Coming from renewable and sustainable raw materials, nanocelluloses are rapidly emerging as one of the most promising future materials. Recently, the use of nanocellulose nanocomposites in flexible ...
Bové Masmiquel, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
To achieve a sand filter design that reduce its pressure loss, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tecnique was used combined with laboratory tests in a scaled filter using different filter media. The ...
Serra Parareda, Ferran (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
Nanocellulose is a sustainable nanomaterial with outstanding physico-mechanical properties, a fact that confers the nanomaterial a huge potential in sectors such as the papermaking, nanocomposites, ...
Sridhara, Pruthvi Kumar Bangalore (Date of defense: 2021-12-02)
As a renewable alternative to petroleum-based materials, wood or plant-based materials offer a greater prospect in the transition towards sustainable replacements. Native to wood, cellulose nanofibers ...
Oliver Ortega, Helena (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
The main goal of this thesis is the production and characterization of composites materials from a bio-based polyamide and natural fibres which could be more sustainable alternative to glass fibre ...
Reixach Corominas, Rafel (Date of defense: 2015-10-28)
Aquesta tesi doctoral i tot el treball experimental s’ha realitzat dintre les línies de treball del grup de recerca, Laboratori d’Enginyeria Paperera i Materials Polímers (LEPAMAP) de l’Escola Politècnica ...