A5065161577- Phase Change Materials Research
- Adsorption and Cooling Systems
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- Fuel Cells and Related Materials
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Microbial Inactivation Methods
- Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Climate change and permafrost
- Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Microwave-Assisted Synthesis and Applications
- Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications
- Molten salt chemistry and electrochemical processes
CIRCE - Centro Tecnológico
2013-2023
Universidad de Zaragoza
2011-2021
Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón
2019
Virginia Tech
2017
Laboratory of Research in Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Technologies
2008-2012
The energy considered as waste heat in industrial furnaces owing to inefficiencies represents a substantial opportunity for recovery by means of thermal storage (TES) implementation. Although conventional systems based on sensible are used extensively, these involve technical limitations. Latent phase change materials (PCMs) results promising alternative storing and recovering heat. Within this scope, the proposed PCM-TES allows demonstrating its implementation feasibility energy-intensive...
The environmental performance of industrial anaerobic digestion (AD), pyrolysis, and integrated system (AD sequence with pyrolysis) on food waste treatment were evaluated using life cycle assessment. indicated similar benefits to AD the highest in climate change water depletion addition increased energy generation potential production valuable products (biochar bio-oil). Pyrolysis results illustrated higher impact across water, fossil fuel, mineral depletion, although still providing a...
In Europe, science and innovation are boosting the agri-food sector and, in parallel, helping to decrease greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) European dependency on non-renewable resources. Currently, it is well-known that this contributes consumption of energy material resources, causing significant environmental impacts require a complex comprehensive evaluation order manage them effectively. This becomes even more complicated when new technologies reaching level technological maturity needed...
A latent heat storage system based on Phase Change Materials (PCMs) is proposed to increase the energy and environmental efficiency by recovering storing waste from combustion gases or other surplus sources at in energy-intensive industries (EII), currently unused. The final configuration design specifically adapted plant operational requirements, means of a methodology combining search best conceptual proper selection core PCMs. To that end, suitable PCM carried out using characterisation...
This study evaluated the use of submicrometre-sized particles based on titanium carbide from both technical and environmental points view. The objective was to improve mechanical properties magnesium alloy intended for in automotive component industry. To this end, an Al/TiC master compound containing 60 wt.% TiC produced through a self-propagating, high-temperature synthesis process embedded by stirring method. life cycle assessment methodology then used evaluate impact manufacturing...
Electricity from the combination of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines exhibits potential benefits towards sustainable cities transition. Nevertheless, highly fluctuating intermittent character limits an extended applicability in energy market. Particularly, batteries represent a challenging approach to overcome existing constraints achieve urban development. On basis market roll-out level technological maturity, five commercially available battery technologies are assessed this work,...
Reductions in energy consumption, carbon footprint, equipment size, and cost are key objectives for the forthcoming energy-intensive industries roadmaps. In this sense, solutions such as waste heat recovery, which can be replicated into different sectors (e.g., ceramics, concrete, glass, steel, aluminium, pulp, paper) highly promoted. line, latent thermal storage (TES) contributes an innovative technology solution to improve overall system efficiency by recovering storing industrial heat. To...
An evaluation of the environmental performance clinker production using sewage sludge as alternative fuel has been conducted. To this end, life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology applied to estimate main impacts in four different scenarios considering conventional combustion with petroleum coke, replacement fossil by and variation moisture fuel. The Recipe method, midpoint endpoint approach, used calculate impact category indicators. Results have classified into categories each case, e.g....
A promising route to attain a reliable impact reduction of supply chain materials is based on considering circular economy approaches, such as material recycling strategies. This work aimed evaluate potential benefits scenarios for steel, copper, aluminium and plastic the battery manufacturing stage. Focused this aim, life cycle assessment (LCA) environmental externalities methodologies were applied two study cases: lithium manganese oxide vanadium redox flow (VRFB) batteries, cradle-to-gate...
The environmental implications of soil salinity caused by accumulation de-icing salt and leaching in soils northeastern Spain were examined. For this purpose, the concentrations ions associated with diagnosing managing problem evaluated from several measurements performed over one year along a road. This analysis demonstrated higher concentration soluble Na⁺ 3 m road northernmost part study area February, which made saline-sodic. Data rest period (during spring summer) that moved to areas...