Final Project Meeting – PEMFC-SUDOE Project

The Final Project Meeting of the european project “Energetic Sustainability at the SUDOE Region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network”, took place last June 20th, 2019 at the University of Cantabria (Cantabria, Spain). Dr. Alfredo Ortiz, as project coordinator welcomed all the partners and presented them a summary of the last action that have to be developed in order to finish the project. Afther that the leader of each workpackage presented the main results obtained during the whole project and the prototypes developed in the frame of the project were also presented.

Congress: 11th Mediterranean Combustion Symposium

Saúl Laguillo, PhD. student of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department attended the 11th Mediterranean Combustion Symposium, celebrated in Tenerife (Spain), last June 16-20, 2019, where he presented the work “Numerical simulation of a methane flame impinging onto a cooking pot”.

Congress: ESCAPE-29

María Yáñez, PhD. student of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department attended the 29th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering – ESCAPE-29, celebrated in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) last June 16-19, 2019, where she presented the work entitled: «The use of optimizacion tools in the hydrogen circular economy».

Congress: WHTC 2019

María José Rivero, Alfredo Ortiz and Rafael Ortiz attended the World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC) 2019, which took place last June 2-7 in Tokyo (Japan). Maria Jose presented the work “Waste Upgrading with Photocatalytic Hydrogen Recovery. Stability of TiO2-Based Materials”, meanwhile Alfredo Ortiz and Rafael Ortiz presented the work “Valorization of Coke Oven Gas waste stream applied in a Spark Ignition Engine”.

ENSA UC Day

Raquel Ibáñez and Gema Pérez, on behalf of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, attended the IX Annual Meeting of UC and ENSA, aimed at exploring new opportunities for collaboration. The event took place at ENSA facilities, located in Maliaño, last June 11th, 2019.

Science Week CEIP Sardinero

Elena Manteca and Gema Pérez participated in the celebration of the Science Week of the Sardinero Primary School. They organized a science show on chemical engineering. The fundamentals of chromatography analysis were explained, through a simple experiment of to separate the colors of an ink. In a second experiment, students played with the periodic table of the chemical elements, in a way to celebrate the 150 anniversary of the periodic table.

Elena Manteca and Gema Pérez

Congress

Carlos Javier Escudero, who got his PhD degree in Chemical, Energy and Process Engineering in the University of Cantabria, has participated in the XXXIV Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Mexicana de Electroquímica 2019 & 12th Meeting of the Mexican Section of the Electrochemical Society, celebrated in Santiago de Querétaro (Mexico) last June 2-6, 2019. Dr. Escudero presented the communication “Electrochemical oxidation of two phenolic compounds: evaluation of kinetics and energy consumption”, that was developed in collaboration with our colleagues Prof. Inmacualda Ortiz and Dr. María José Rivero.

Conference: Prof. Ignacio E. Grossmann

Prof. Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) – Doctor Honoris Causa in the University of Cantabria, delivered the talk “Evolución y Tendencias en la Educación Universitaria en los Estados Unidos”. The event took place in the  ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria on May 29th, 2019. This event was organized by the Master in Chemical Engineering and the Doctorate Program in Chemical, Energy and Process Engineering.

Conference: Dra. Aleksandra Pacula

Dra. Aleksandra Pacula, researcher at the Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Science, delivered the conference “Porous N-doped carbon materials and their composites”. The conference took place on May 27th, 2019 in the Sala de Grados of the ETSIIT. This activity took place in the frame of the Master in Chemical Engineering and the Doctorate Program in Chemical, Energy and Process Engineering.