We work at the front line of the new paradigm of Chemical Engineering using all
of its tools. Our scope goes from the synthesis of nanomaterials to their use
in wastewater treatment. Research performed by our group focuses on environmental catalyst, including
development of new materials (meso, micro and nanomaterials) from byproducts,
mineral and natural resources, and their use in the degradation of aqueous and
atmospheric pollutants.
We have strong ties
to Colombian industries and have developed several investigations with them
aiming at adding value to their ‘wastes’ (we prefer to call them ‘byproducts’).
It is a common practice that we give an environmental application to the advanced
materials we produce from those byproducts, but other uses have also been explored.
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[Article] Azo-dye orange II degradation by the heterogeneous Fenton-like process using a zeolite Y-Fe catalyst and kinetic study with a model based on the Fermi's equation Maryin L. Rache, Andrés R. Garcia, Hugo R. Zea, Adrián MT Silva, Luis M Madeira, Jose H. Ramirez
[Article] Hydrodynamic effects associated to methyl ester sulphonation in falling film reactors Luis Diaz, Hugo Zea, Francisco Sanchez
[Article] Novel Anodizing Procedure To Grow TiO2 Nanotubes Successfully Employed In Ethanol Photolysis Francisco Quintero, Pedro Arias, Hugo Zea