April 2023: A recent commentary paper is now published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Large amounts of biomass residues are generated annually in the intensive farming and agroindustrial regions around the world. These waste materials from the agroindustry can be used not only as fuel values but also for new product manufacturing to work as tailor-made separation agents. We require innovative purification technological approaches for biocarbon which are beyond its most common use as an activated carbon adsorbent. The manufacture of these engineered biocarbon materials will certainly create additional economic development throughout the main agroindustrial regions around the globe.
June 2021: New paper published
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Renewable and electroactive biomass-based carbon materials were developed in tubular shapes. These carbon tubes are adequate and sustainable separation agents to be applied in CO2 capture processes, particularly in agroindustrial settings and intensive agriculture. The biomass-derived tube-shaped materials can be combined with highly selective adsorbents, providing new tailor-made hybrid materials.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c00547
ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2021, 9, 7759−7768
April 2021: Florencia joined the research team
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Welcome Florencia!
Florencia Padilla is a graduate student holding a CONICET scholarship who recently joined the research group.
June 2020: New paper published
The development of an adsorption separation technology for ethane recovery may play an important role in reducing the energy intensity and the associated greenhouse gas emissions of the conventional cryogenic process. Such a task involves many scientific and technological challenges associated with the operation constraints of the current cryogenic process.
This recent contribution together with Arvind Rajendran and Libardo Estupiñan Perez describes a conceptual adsorption process design for ethane recovery in residue gas.
June 2022: Is it possible to desalinate brine or wastewater by using biomass residues?
We demonstrated that tube-shaped renewable carbon-based materials can work as electroactive membrane contactors for freshwater recovery from brine. The tubular geometry, easy scalability, and the advantage of using cost-effective biomass residues make these renewable membrane contactors relevant as separation agents for freshwater recovery from a variety of highly solute concentrated waste streams.
August 2020: Mariano joined the research team
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Mariano Guillen is an advanced undergraduate student of biomedical engineering who got a CIN student scholarship. He will be joining the research group soon to work on adsorbent material evaluation for oxygen production from air.
August 2020: Facundo's graduation
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Facundo obtained his Chemical Engineering degree by defending the thesis titled: "CO2/N2 adsorption separation: Experimental evaluation of adsorbent materials and process design."
April 2020: New paper published
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The progress of the circular economy concept at a global level calls for proper technological developments for material reuse. This is a new contribution of our group providing an example on how renewable biomass-derived materials can be integrated with an emerging separation concept.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213343720303493