Circular Economy on Energy and Natural Resources Industries

Pedro Mora Peris PhD. Mining Engineering, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in the School of Mining and Energy Engineers (ETSIME) and Technical Director of the Spanish Cement Association (OFICEMEN).

He is President of the Spanish CO₂ Technology Platform (PETCO₂), Secretary General of the Spanish Association of Magnesia Manufacturers (MAGES), member of the National Commission on Safety and Health at Work (CNSST), member of the National Mining Safety Commission (CSM).

He has published over 55 articles in professional and scientific magazines, 24 conferences in national and international congresses, co-authoring of 15 edited technical books and main researcher and researcher in 37 research projects supported by national and European public and private institutions.

F. Gabriel Acien Fernandez is a Full Professor at the University of Almería. His main research line deals with the development of microalgae-based processes for CO₂ abatement and wastewater treatment and for the production of agricultural products, animal feeds, and human food. He is also interested in the valorisation of greenhouse co-products and wastes. In this sense, Prof Acién participated in a large number of international and national projects and contracts with companies. He was the coordinator of the H2020 SABANA project, focused on the sustainable production of biofertilisers and aquafeeds from waste using microalgae and is currently the Coordinator of the SABANA Demonstration Plant located in Almería. His research was presented in over 200 national and international conferences and led to the publication of over 250 scientific publications (h-index 56) and 20 book chapters; he was recently included in the Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers, which are those that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year. He is the Editor of three books and the inventor of 10 patents being exploited by large wastewater processors and producers of microalgae and microalgae-based products.

Prof Acién is a highly recognised researcher being Vice-president of the European Algae Biomass Association and a permanent member of the Scientific Committee of the International Society for Applied Phycology (ISAP) and Sociedad Latinoamericana de Biotecnología Ambiental y Algal (SOLABIAA). Prof Acién has been invited to teach courses in several Universities including the University of Malaga, the University of Seville, the International University of Andalusia and other Universities in South America and Europe. He is an active project evaluator for ANEP, H2020, and Horizon Europe and has evaluated proposals for other institutions. He is a member of the Editorial Board of high impact factor journals including Algal Research and the Journal of Applied Phycology. Moreover, he has participated in the COST Actions PARAQUA (Applications for zoosporic parasites in aquatic systems) and EU4ALGAE (European network for algal-bioproducts)

Chapter 1. Circular Economy and GHG Emissions, current situation (J. García-Navarro).- Chapter 2. Energy storage developing circular economy in existing facilities for renewable energy use (J. Pous de la Flor).- Chapter 3. From farm to fuel: microalgae technology to produce novel and sustainable fuel (A. García Álvaro).- Chapter 4. Cement Sector and promising technologies to reduce CO2 footprint through Circular Economy: novel raw materials and products (P. Mora).- Chapter 5. Microalgae used to fix CO2 as valuable biomass (M. J. Rodríguez).- Chapter 6. Analysis of current possibilities of CO2 storage in coal bed methane deposits in the Czech part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB) based on archival data (M. Klempa).- Chapter 7. The Circular Economy in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Solution for the Sustainability of Drilling and Production Processes (N. Gaurina-Me imurec).