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Email: efrances@unizar.es
Address: Office C3-2-18, c/Maria de Luna 3, Edificio Torres Quevedo, Campus Río Ebro, 50018, Zaragoza (Spain)
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ABOUT ME
Eva Francés holds a Bachelor in Sciences (Chemistry) (1989) and PhD in Science (1993).
She is Professor at the University of Zaragoza since 1992; first, as Assistant Professor (Profesora Asociada), later as Associate Professor of technical school (Titular Escuela Universitaria) (1998) and finally as University Associate Professor (Titular de Universidad) (2008-present), belonging to the area of Chemical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Architecture (EINA) of the University of Zaragoza (UZ).
She has been Professor-Secretary of the University School of Industrial Technical Engineering (1997-2000) and Coordinator of the degree in Chemical Engineering at the UZ (2010-2015). Nowadays, she is a member of the Degree Quality Garantie Comission.
She has developed her research activity in several fields, starting with the kinetic study and modeling of the FCC process, to continue the process of biomass gasification, selective catalytic oxidation, dry reforming of biogas and finally CO2 hydrogenation. She has also conducted timely studies on water purification and potabilization, such as metal adsorption or catalytic hydrogenation of nitrates.
She is a member of the Research Group of Excellence (recognized by the DGA -Gobierno de Aragón- in 2005): “Catalysis and Reactor Engineering (CREG)” and member of the Engineering Research Institute of Aragon (I3A) from 29 June 2012 to the present.
She has participated in 13 Research and Development projects financed in public calls and 4 projects with companies /administrations.
She has directed more than 120 end-of-career projects (Proyectos Fin de Carrera) and 30 end-of-grade projects (Trabajos Fin de Grado), many of them related to her research tasks.
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-195X
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602320593
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},
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Mercader Plou, Víctor Daniel; Ruiz-Alejos, David; de Jong, Wiebren; Durán, Paul; Aragüés Aldea, Pablo; Sanz Monreal, Pablo; Becerril, Miguel Ángel; Francés, Eva; Herguido, Javier; Peña, José Ángel
vol. 12, 2024.
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title = {Influence of Ni-Fe load in a bimetallic catalyst supported on Zeolite 13X for CO2 methanation in a fixed bed reactor},
author = {Mercader Plou, Víctor Daniel and Ruiz-Alejos, David and de Jong, Wiebren and Durán, Paul and Aragüés Aldea, Pablo and Sanz Monreal, Pablo and Becerril, Miguel Ángel and Francés, Eva and Herguido, Javier and Peña, José Ángel},
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Aragüés Aldea, Pablo; Gimeno Izquierdo, Chuan; Durán, Paúl; Mercader, Víctor Daniel; Francés, Eva; Peña, José Ángel; Herguido, Javier
Metanación de biogás en reactor de lecho fijo. Influencia de la configuración de la alimentación Proceedings
vol. 12, 2024.
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title = {Metanación de biogás en reactor de lecho fijo. Influencia de la configuración de la alimentación},
author = {Aragüés Aldea, Pablo and Gimeno Izquierdo, Chuan and Durán, Paúl and Mercader, Víctor Daniel and Francés, Eva and Peña, José Ángel and Herguido, Javier},
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Sanz Monreal, Pablo; Mercader Plou, Víctor; Durán Sánchez, Paúl; Francés Pérez, Eva; Herguido Huerta, Javier; Peña Llorente, José Ángel
Modelado cinético para la metanación de CO2 sobre un catalizador Ni3Fe/Al2O3. Proceedings
vol. 12, 2024.
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title = {Modelado cinético para la metanación de CO2 sobre un catalizador Ni3Fe/Al2O3.},
author = {Sanz Monreal, Pablo and Mercader Plou, Víctor and Durán Sánchez, Paúl and Francés Pérez, Eva and Herguido Huerta, Javier and Peña Llorente, José Ángel},
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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},
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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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