Dr. Agustín Francisco Pérez-Cadenas || Profesor Titular de la Universidad de Granada

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Dr. Agustín F. Pérez-Cadenas
Profesor Titular de Universidad

	Dirección:	Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Ciencias Departamento de Química Inorgánica ES-18071 Granada, España Grupo de Investigación en Materiales de Carbón
	Teléfono:	+34-958243316
	Fax:	+34-958248526
	E-mail:	afperez@ugr.es

Publicaciones Científicas

Comunicaciones en Congresos

Docencia

Patentes

Líneas de investigación de interés

Eliminación catalítica de compuestos orgánicos volátiles (VOC) a bajas temperaturas
Desarrollo de materiales de carbón avanzados
Eliminación de contaminantes orgánicos en aguas mediante procesos de oxidación catalítica
Hidrogenación catalítica selectiva
Reducción electro-catalítica de CO₂ a hidrocarburos

Miembro de Sociedades Profesionales:

Grupo Español del Carbón (GEC), que forma parte de la Asociación de Grupos Europeos del Carbón (European Carbon Association, ECA).
Sociedad Española de Catálisis (SECAT).

Biografía

desde 2010	Profesor Titular de Química Inorgánica de la Universidad de Granada.
2005 - 2010	Investigador Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Química Inorgánica (noviembre '05 - julio '10).
2009 - 2010	Investigador Invitado en la Universidad Tecnológica de Delft (TUDelft), DelftChemTech, Catalysis Engineering, Países Bajos, a través del Programa de Movilidad José Castillejo del M.E.C.: Reducción electro-catalítica de CO2 a hidrocarburos (octubre'09 - febrero'10).
2005	Investigador post-doctoral en la Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Química Inorgánica (septiembre - octubre).
2003 - 2005	Beca post-doctoral del M.E.C.: Catalizadores monolíticos de altas prestaciones. Universidad Tecnológica de Delft (TUDelft), DelftChemTech, Reactor and Catalysis Engineering Group, Países Bajos (julio'03 - agosto'05).
2003	Investigador post-doctoral en la Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Química Inorgánica (enero - julio).
2000	Beca pre-doctoral del M.E.C. de movilidad: Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquimica, CSIC, Madrid. Espectroscopía de fotoemisión de rayos X (abril - julio).
1999 - 2002	Tesis Doctoral y Beca pre-doctoral del M.E.C.: Catalizadores de óxido de wolframio soportados sobre carbones activados. Influencia de la química superficial de soporte sobre las características ácido-básicas del catalizador. Universidad de Granada, Departamento de Química Inorgánica.
1997 - 1999	Tesina de Licenciatura. Universidad de Jaén, Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Orgánica: Química de la coordinación y potenciometría.
1992 - 1997	Licenciatura en Ciencias Químicas, Universidad de Jaén: Química y Tecnología de las Grasas.
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Low temperature catalytic elimination of VOC

Volatile organic compounds (VOC) are major air pollutants, and catalytic combustion is one of the most important technologies for eliminating VOC present at low concentration in effluent streams. From an energetic point of view, and to avoid NOx formation, it is very important for this combustion to take place at low temperatures (below 200 ºC), however, in these conditions, the water molecules produced or present in ambient air, can be retained on the catalytic support with negative effects (inhibition) on the activity of the catalyst.

For this reason, the hydrophobicity of carbon materials has led to recent proposals for their use as support for catalysts in the total VOC combustion. Thus, the known advantages in catalysis of the ceramic monolithic-supports (low pressure drops, short diffusion distances and the lack of attrition by vibrational and thermal shock resistance) and of carbon materials (versatility in surface area, pore texture and surface chemistry) make a good combination for VOC applied catalytic combustion.

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Development of advanced carbon materials

Carbon aerogels, xerogels, nanofibers... carbon composites.

Development of tailored micro-, meso- or macroporous carbon materials, doped-carbon materials, graphitic materials, as well as carbon-based catalysts with very high dispersion and cheaper and shorter synthesis processes. Advanced carbon materials are also obtained as coating of ceramic structures.

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Removing pollutants from water by advanced oxidation processes

The catalytic performance of metal-supported and metal-doped carbon aerogels and xerogeles has been studied in the elimination of different pollutants in aqueous solutions by CWAO and Fenton like processes.

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Catalytic selective hydrogenations

The type of porosity of carbon materials can strongly affect the activity and selectivity in selective hydrogenations if used as catalyst support. Carbon-coated monoliths have shown very good performance in the Pd catalyzed selective hydrogenation of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs).

Porosity and chemical surface characteristics of carbon materials are crucial when they are used as catalyst supports in the selective hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated compounds.

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CO₂ electro-catalytic reduction to hydrocarbons

CO₂ is a well-known greenhouse gas, and its increasing atmospheric concentration is thought to be one of the main causes of global climate change. In particular, CO₂ emission from the use of fossil fuels contributes to the increasing concentration, because it constitutes a continuous net increase in the natural cycle of tropospheric carbon. Renewable energy sources thus receive a lot of attention. However, many renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and tidal electricity do not produce the constant and tunable currents that fossil fuels provide. Storage of surplus electrical energy produced during peak production periods and its release during peak demand periods is thus crucial, especially as peak production and peak demand periods often do not coincide.

An new strategy to address the problem of storing temporary and local surpluses of renewable energy is the electro-catalytic reduction of CO₂ to hydrocarbons. In a one-pot process, water is split to provide the required hydrogen atoms / ions which are reacted with CO₂ to form hydrocarbons that can be used directly in the existing infrastructure for transportation fuels. Next to storing the renewable energy, some CO₂ is removed from the atmosphere. O₂ is formed simultaneously, which can be used to burn the hydrocarbons to release the energy whenever required. We have demonstrated the application of metal-doped carbon gels as promising electrodes and electro-catalysts in the electro-catalytic reduction of CO₂ to hydrocarbons, whose first results have been recently patented.

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