Casas Fernández, Carlos (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
Combustion of diesel fuel in a diesel engine is a complex process where several pollutants are emitted in the engine exhausts. To solve this problem and at the same time accomplish with the increasingly ...
Bringué Tomás, Roger (Date of defense: 2007-06-18)
En este trabajo, se propone di-n-peintil éter (DNP) como un buen producto para la reformulación delos combustibles diesel por sus buenas propiedades, en especial un elevado número de cetano y buen ...
Pemartin, Kelly Lidia (Date of defense: 2013-01-31)
The use of microemulsions as confined reaction media for nanoparticle synthesis presents various advantages compared to other methods. They offer a high control of nanoparticle size and often nanoparticles ...
Paulme, Camille (Date of defense: 2013-02-01)
The presence of volatile fragrant molecules is generally associated with a feeling of pleasantness or cleanness in consumer products. Because of their high volatilities, the perception of fragrances is ...
Romero Olarte, Rossmary Violette (Date of defense: 2015-05-20)
For this study the emerging contaminant ß-blocker Metoprolol (MET) has been selected due that it is a highly prescribed pharmaceutical and it has been detected in waste water treatment plants influents, ...
May Masnou, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-06-13)
Nanomaterials have structured components with at least one dimension of less than 100 nm. Their novel properties stem from their nanoscale dimensions and increased relative surface area, and they have ...
Pérez-Maciá, María Ángeles (Date of defense: 2015-11-27)
Di-n-butyl ether (DNBE) is considered a very attractive oxygenate compound to reformulate diesel fuel. The research work performed along this thesis has clearly proven that sulfonic P(S-DVB) ion exchange ...
Guilera Sala, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-07-19)
Ethyl octyl ether is a bioethanol-derived component that has excellent properties as diesel fuel. This work proved that ethyl octyl ether can be produced successfully in liquid-phase at the temperature ...