Valero Pérez, Mario Miguel (Date of defense: 2019-10-30)
Forest fires are natural phenomena essential for ecosystem balance. However, their impact on society is increasing. Emergency managers are facing unprecedented crises producing massive evacuations, ...
Bautista Betancur, Mayka Irina (Date of defense: 2015-09-21)
A polymer containing small amounts of ionic groups either along the polymer backbone chains or as pendant groups is defined as ionomer. As originally proposed by Eisenberg, the interaction between ionic ...
Demey Cedeño, Hary (Date of defense: 2014-11-25)
The growing concern over environmental pollution in recent decades has placed increasing focus on research into the development of sustainable processes associated with the removal of contaminants in ...
Fernández Sampedro, Miguel Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-06-11)
Visual opsins are G protein-coupled receptors that function as light photoreceptors in the vertebrate retina. Rhodopsin is the visual pigment located in the rod photoreceptor cells specialized in scotopic ...
Miralles Schleder, Adriana (Date of defense: 2015-07-08)
With the industrial and technological development of the present-day society, the presence of flammable and toxic substances has increased in a growing number of activities. Dispersion of hazardous gas ...
Reig i Amat, Mònica (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
Nowadays, due to the growing fresh water demand, several processes are used to purify seawater by means of desalination or industrial brackish water by different treatment processes. The main limitation ...
González Juncà, Arnau (Date of defense: 2016-06-21)
In the current energy conjunction, with an expected growth of energy consumption in a context of fossil fuel depletion, more focus is being placed on renewable energy sources (RES) for electricity ...
Valverde Salamanca, Abel (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
This thesis consists of a compendium of five works that illustrate the utilization of selected mathematical methods to solve specific chemical engineering problems. Hence, the thesis is intended to cover ...
Pérez Madrigal, Maria del Mar (Date of defense: 2015-07-03)
This Thesis reports the fabrication and characterization of interfaces based on conducting polymers (CPs), which are designed with at least one dimension in the nanometric scale, for bioapplications ...
Moreno Benito, Marta (Date of defense: 2014-03-06)
Specialty chemicals industry relies on batch manufacturing, since it requires the frequent adaptation of production systems to market fluctuations. To be first in the market, batch industry requires ...
66 - Chemical technology. Chemical and related industries (100)
54 - Chemistry. Crystallography. Mineralogy (28)
504 - Threats to the environment (9)
577 - Material bases of life. Biochemistry. Molecular biology. Biophysics (9)
620 - Materials testing. Commercial materials. Power stations. Economics of energy (9)