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. 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. José A. Odriozola is Chair of Inorganic Chemistry of the University 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.
Prof. Harvey Arellano-Garcia is Director of Research and Professor of Energy and Chemical Engineering at the Department of Process and Plant Technology at BTU-Cottbus, Germany. 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.