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Email: rgpizarro@unizar.es
Address: Lab 4.1.12 c/Mariano Esquillor SN Edificio I+D+i, I3A, 50018, Zaragoza (Spain)
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ABOUT ME
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (2023) and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering (2024), both from the University of Zaragoza.
I combined my Master’s in Chemical Engineering with a position as a Junior Researcher (N4) on a research project between CREG and CEPSA Research. This project focused on the catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 for methanol production through improvements via Sorption Enhanced Reactor.
I am currently a PhD student in the field of e-fuel production from the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide enhanced by Sorption Enhanced Reactor, within the CREG (Catalysis and Reactor Engineering Group) research group at the University of Zaragoza.
PUBLICATIONS
2024
González Pizarro, Rodrigo; Durán Sánchez, Paúl; Aragüés Aldea, Pablo; Mercader Plou, Victor; Francés, Eva; Peña Llorente, José Ángel; Herguido Huerta, Javier
vol. 12, 2024.
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title = {Enriquecimiento de biogás por metanación de CO2 sobre Ni-MnxOy en reactor de lecho fijo con alimentación distribuida},
author = {González Pizarro, Rodrigo and Durán Sánchez, Paúl and Aragüés Aldea, Pablo and Mercader Plou, Victor and Francés, Eva and Peña Llorente, José Ángel and Herguido Huerta, Javier},
url = {https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/jji3a/article/view/10682},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-07-01},
urldate = {2024-07-01},
journal = {Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores del I3A},
volume = {12},
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Durán, P.; Aragüés-Aldea, P.; González-Pizarro, R.; Mercader, V. D.; Cazaña, F.; Francés, E.; Peña, J. A.; Herguido, J.
Biogas upgrading through CO2 methanation in a polytropic – distributed feed fixed bed reactor Journal Article
En: Catalysis Today, vol. 440, pp. 114849, 2024, ISSN: 0920-5861.
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title = {Biogas upgrading through CO2 methanation in a polytropic - distributed feed fixed bed reactor},
author = {P. Durán and P. Aragüés-Aldea and R. González-Pizarro and V. D. Mercader and F. Cazaña and E. Francés and J. A. Peña and J. Herguido},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920586124003432},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2024.114849},
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journal = {Catalysis Today},
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abstract = {Methanation of the CO2 contained in a biogas stream has been experimentally analyzed in a fixed bed reactor with a Ni-Mn catalyst, evaluating the effect of feeding reactants distributed throughout the bed. The performance of different feeding configurations (conventional cofeeding and others implying a lateral distribution of one of the reactive streams) has been analyzed for different nominal temperatures T (250–400 ºC) and weight-related space velocities WHSV (47.71–6.63 gCO2 gcat-1 h-1), always keeping a H2: CO2 ratio of 4:1, and a CH4:CO2 ratio of 7:3. For identical WHSV, the lateral biogas distribution (Poly-Biogas feeding configuration) always showed the best results in terms of activity (higher conversion at the same temperature) and selectivity (lower selectivity to CO in iso-conversion). These better results agree with what was observed in a previous work in methanation of CO2 (i.e., without methane in the feed). In that work, CO2 was distributed along the catalytic bed by several lateral feeds (Poly-CO2). When T was kept constant and WHSV was varied, the reactor fed with distributed biogas (Poly-Biogas), again confirmed its higher efficiency and better selectivity for biogas upgrading (i.e., higher CH4 content). Furthermore, by adopting a Poly-Biogas (or poly-CO2) feeding configuration, a more homogeneous temperature profile was achieved along the bed avoiding the severity of hot spots appearance. In contrast, the lateral distribution of hydrogen (Poly-H2) always led to similar or worse results than those for the conventional co-feeding configuration.},
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