Rafael González Olmos, PhD
Head of GESPA Group - Associate Professor
+34932672000
RESEARCH LINES
- CO2 capture and transformation
- Water reuse
- Circular economy
- Simulation and optimisation of processes
- Life cycle analysis
COORDINATOR:
School of Engineering
Engineering and Simulation of Environmental Processes Group
Its activity focuses on environmental engineering and molecular and process simulation to respond to current societal challenges: climate change, water scarcity, and population growth.
MANAGER:
Laboratory of Circular Economy and Sustainability
Laboratory dedicated to promoting process integration (reaction-separation) and research into new technologies for the recovery and recycling of gaseous and aqueous effluents, as well as solid waste. The laboratory also has a unit to analyze the sustainability of processes both in the chemical industry and in the water treatment industry through process simulators and life cycle assessment software. It has a consolidated experience in the field of recovery and reuse of greenhouse gases (CO₂, fluorinated gases), water regeneration (through adsorption processes, advanced oxidation processes and membranes) and valorization of solid waste (bioplastics, determination of persistent pollutants).
LATEST PROJECTS
RFC + PU (Integrated RadioFrequency heated CO2 Capture and Plasma Utilisation)
Radiofrequency heating prototype to accelerate Carbon Capture
Funding Agency:
Research Group Link:
Engineering and Simulation of Environmental Processes Group (GESPA)
OPTICCU (Optimization of a carbon capture and use technology in the food industry)
Vacuum pressure swing adsorption for capture and use of CO2 in the food industry
Funding Agency:
Research Group Link:
Engineering and Simulation of Environmental Processes Group (GESPA)
NEW-F-Tech (Novel and Engineered Working Fluids for the refrigeration and energy industry: TECHnical solutions with low global warming potential)
Decarbonization and improvement of the energy efficiency of the refrigeration and energy industries
Funding Agency:
Research Group Link:
Engineering and Simulation of Environmental Processes Group (GESPA)
LINKED NEWS
Research
CO2 Capture and Reuse Technologies
13/06/2023
IQS and GasN2 are working together to optimize their own technology to capture and reuse CO2 through adsorption in industrial uses, a circular economy solution with great environmental significance.
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Doctoral thesis
Electric Vehicle Challenges: Critical Raw Materials
07/06/2023
Dr Jordi Mas Peiró recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, in which he studied the main battery technologies used in the electrification of the automotive sector and the critical raw materials necessary to produce them.
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Doctoral thesis
New methodologies and strategies for fluorinated gas recovery
31/03/2023
Dr Daniel Jovell recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, focused on the design and optimization of fluorinated gas recycling and recovery systems through multi-scale simulation and combining various advanced thermodynamic instruments.
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Research
Advancing towards the Elimination of Fluorinated Gases
16/12/2021
The GESPA group at IQS and the URV are working together on the STOP-F-GAS project, where they are studying, within the framework of the circular economy, the development of new technologies for absorbing fluorinated gases for their reuse and obtaining new, more sustainable refrigerant products.
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Research
UV-LED Lamps for Sustainability in Water Treatment (REGiREU)
03/05/2021
Researchers from IQS have been part of the REGiREU project, in which the objective is to replace the current management of the water cycle with a model in accordance with the principles of Circular Economy, leading the study to replace mercury lamps with UV- LEDs.
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