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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
López Hernández, Arianne (Date of defense: 2023-12-20)
(English) Getting to give added value in the different products that are nowadays in the market has not been easy. Since many years ago we have worked on the addition of fragrances in different articles. ...
Mayor Pillado, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
(English) The 20th-century introduction of the Haber-Bosch nitrogen fixation process significantly disrupted the nitrogen cycle in ecosystems, contributing to environmental issues and nutrient loss. The ...
Morena Gatius, Ángela Gala (Date of defense: 2023-03-10)
(English) Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant renewable resource considered a suitable carbon raw material for the synthesis of chemicals and as an alternative to fossil fuels energy supply source. ...
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (10)
502 - The environment and its protection (1)
616 - Pathology. Clinical medicine (1)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (1)
628 - Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering (1)