Engineering Solutions for CO2 Conversion

Dr Tomas R. Reina is a lecturer in Chemical Engineering and the leader of the Catalysis Unit at the University of Surrey. He holds a PhD in Chemistry with a strong background in heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering and materials science. He has broad expertise in the development of advanced catalysts for energy conversion and sustainability. Currently, he is the PI of several projects in the area of CO2 utilisation (sponsored by EPSRC) and green routes for chemicals and fuel production. Dr Reina has co-authored 40+ research papers in high impact factor journals (including for example Chemical Reviews IF:48), 3 book chapters, 4 patents and 60+ conference contributions (including invited talks and keynote presentations). His research in the field of catalysis has been internationally recognized with several awards and distinctions from prestigious institutions including the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS), the Spanish Society of Catalysis (SECAT), and the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

Prof. Jose A. Odriozola is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Sevilla since 1997 and Research Professor of the Materials Science Institute of Sevilla, Spain. He is Fellow of the Spanish Society of Catalysis and of the American Chemical Society, and Head of the Materials Science and Technology Panel of the Spanish National Agency for Evaluation and Prospective, ANEP (2004-2006). Prof. Odriozola has focused his research on the surface chemistry of materials and has developed a new research line focused on the manufacture and study of micromonoliths and microchannel reactors for energetic and environmental catalytic applications including CO2 utilization. He has published 280+ peer-reviewed journals including 11 patents.

Prof. Harvey Arellano-Garcia is Director of Research, Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Founder Director of the Centre for Advanced Process Intensification at the University of Surrey. He holds an honorary Professorship and is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. He has made valuable and relevant contributions to diverse research areas in Energy and Process Systems Engineering. He has pioneered and introduced a novel formulation of optimization problems under uncertainty and proposed methods that enable the efficient solution of the resulting complex numerical problems. The proposed method has a wide range of application, from process synthesis to nonlinear model predictive control. Moreover, his achievements on modelling and optimization-based methods have made a major impact in different fields of Process Engineering, from process design and experimental design to online applications for an improved monitoring and advanced control using miniplant techniques. These research results have also been successfully integrated into several industrial processes. He is recipient of several awards including the Excellence Award of the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE) in Computer Aided Process Engineering. His research expertise includes the application of mathematical methods to optimise process design, control and operation as well as model-based experimental analysis, and miniplant technology in process and energy systems. He has published 280+ Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, books and monographs and 4 patents.

CO2 capture-A brief review of technologies and its integration
Advancing CCSU technologies with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): A look at the future by linking CFD and Process Simulations
Membranes technologies for efficient CO2 capture-conversion
Computational modeling of carbon dioxide catalytic conversion
An overview of the transition to a carbon-neutral steel industry
Potential processes for simultaneous biogas upgrading and carbon dioxide utilization
Biogas sweetening technologies
CO2 conversion to added-value gas phase products: technology overview and catalysts selection
CO2 utilization enabled by microchannel reactors
Analysis of High Pressure Conditions In CO2 Hydrogenation Processes
Sabatier-based direct synthesis of methane and methanol using CO2 from industrial gas mixture
A survey of heterogeneous catalysts for the CO2 reduction to CO via reverse water gas shift
Electrocatalytic conversion of CO2 to syngas
Recent progress on catalysts development for CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals by photo- and electro-reduction
Yolk@Shell Materials for CO2 Conversion: Chemical and Photochemical Applications
Aliphatic Polycarbonates Derived from Epoxides and CO2
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for CO2 cycloaddition reactions
Plasma-assisted conversion of CO2