Student's final projects

This is a list of the final projects supervised by me in the last years. These projects are needed in order to finish the career. Final projects are equivalent to Master Thesis Projects. Where BSc appears means Bachelor's degree project, if nothing is indicating means Master's degree.

 

Award Winning Projects

  1. Adaptive MPC for the tempering section in thermal power plant. Eduardo Sánchez.  2018 ISA (International Society of Automation) Spain Student's contest award winning
  2. Control Structures for FEHE/Reactors systems. Álvaro Raimundez. 2016 ISA (International Society of Automation) Spain Student's contest award winning
  3. Multivariable Predictive Control of extractive  divided wall columns. Ping Zhou Li Chi. 2015 ISA (International Society of Automation) Spain Student's contest award winning
  4. Application of the STAMP methodology for process safety and its integration with a functional modelling methodology. Miguel Cano. Health and Safety Regional Institute Best Project Award 2014
  5. Basic Engineering and 3D model of a Hydrocarbon Storage Facility. Andrea Rodríguez Casanova. Best Project of the Industrial Engineering School 2014.

  

Ongoing projects

  1. Techno-economic analysis of lactic acid production via natural gas valorization. Daniel Flores (BSc.)
  2. Energetic study and modeling of a co2 capture process by quasi-isothermal compression. Darya Ahmadi (MSc.)
  3. A novel “feed-backward” control structure for on demand control of distillation column sequences. Miguel García (BSc.)
  4. Solar power plant integrated with a biomass-based hydrogen production system. Carlos Lozano (BSc.)
  5. Simulation and certification of renewable power plants. Silvia Díaz Arribas (BSc.)
  6. Risk analysis and Safety in the Hydrogen production by natural gas reforming using simulation and systemic models. Paula Martínez
  7. Jet Fuel Production from Waste Cooking Oil. Marta Rísquez (MSc.)
  8. Design of a photovoltaic installation in a gas station. Noelia García (MSc.)
  9. Plantwide control of a coupled reformer/ammonia process. Carlota Lobato (MSc.)

 

 Finished projects

  1. 2025. Process Design and Economics for the Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Hydrocarbon Fuels. Jorge Lázaro Magan (BSc.)
  2. 2025. Control of a combustion turbine process. Paula Paris (BSc.)
  3. 2025. Feasibility analysis and design of a chemical plant for pyrolysis conversion of plastic waste into fuels. Marta Villalobos (MSc.)
  4. 2025. Analysis of new safety methodologies applied to the process industry. Sofía Alvarez (MSc.)
  5. 2024. Study and design of a kerosene and gas oil fractionator. Jorge Rodríguez (BSc.)
  6. 2024. A comparative study on implementation strategies of feedforward control in process units. Fabián Andrés (BSc.)
  7. 2024. Design of a municipal solid waste incineration plant and economic feasibility analysis. Carmen Cerezo (BSc.) ***Project 150***
  8. 2024. Factory Acceptance Test procedure for ITER primary vacuum lines isolation function. Cristina Garzas. (MSc.)  
  9. 2024. New safety methodologies, FRAM and STAMP, applied to laboratory practice.Guillermo de Haro (BSc.)
  10. 2024. Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen enhanced methanol to gasoline process using synthesis gas from biomass. Marina Natera (BSc.)
  11. 2023. Design of an antisurge system for a centrifugal compressor using dynamic simulation. Alejandro Sánchez Pacheco.
  12. 2023. Design of the adipic acid process. Adrian Morato Morillas (BSc.)
  13. 2022. Straw conversion via biotechnological intermediates to “green” ethylene – A technical comparison. Miguel Rodríguez Castro.
  14. 2022. Toluene as a Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier. Juan Arroyo
  15. 2022. Techno-economic analysis and design of a succinci acid biorefinery. Ferida Nabila (BSc.)
  16. 2022. Protección contra explosiones según RD 681/2003 . Alex Renedo
  17. 2021. Methanol by CO2 hydrogenation, comparison with methanol from syngas. Pablo López (BSc.)
  18. 2021. Power-to-X (P2X) technologies. Marta Villalobos (BSc.)
  19. 2021. Valorization of MSW via gasification. Angel Hurtado (BSc.)
  20. 2021. Creating Chemical Engineering educational contents using the Youtube platform. Eva Martín (BSc.)
  21. 2021. Deep Learning for deep models. Alvaro Fernández Carrasco
  22. 2020. Design, control and tecno-economic analysis of the diethyl-oxalate production process. Irene Wbanet Belizón.(BSc.)
  23. 2020. Análisis del comportamiento difusional de nuevas mezclas de gases para la sustitución del SF6 . Ane Espinazo
  24. 2020. Balancing of an Organosolv process using Aspen Plus. David Berlinchez
  25. 2020. Model Based Engineering using tool integration. Gabriel Galán Lucarelli.
  26. 2020. Tools Integration in process simulation. Belén Chafloque.(BSc.)
  27. 2020. Inherently Safer Design Index. Overview and methodolgies. Alvaro Lozano.(BSc.)
  28. 2020. Design and economic evaluation of the Organosolv process. Ana Palomar. (BSc.)
  29. 2019. Design, simulation and control of heat integrated distillation columns. A comparative view. Rodrigo Muñoz.
  30. 2019. STAMP-STPA safety analysis of a process plant. Rubén Romero de Ávila.
  31. 2019. Optimal adaptive control of a denitrification process. Gonzalo Cristóbal Manchado.
  32. 2019. Design of control valves from scratch. Methodology and application. Yaiza Gabaldón.
  33. 2019. Advanced control and energy integration of the VCM production process. Miguel Enrique Cruz.
  34. 2019. Optimization of prduction scheduling. Juan Guarch.
  35. 2019. Methods for the utilization of waste heat of acetone-butanol-ethanol distillation. Paula Losa Zapico.
  36. 2019. Design and control of the Styrene process. Silvia Ruiz García-Mascaraque
  37. 2019. Instrumentation of a production plant of Sulfonated Magnetic Graphene Oxide. Beatriz Fernández (BSc.)
  38. 2018. Distillation column pressure selection procedure. Hector Sánchez Díaz (B.Sc.)
  39. 2018. Model Based Systems Engineering: Integration of 3D models and safety analysis of an Ethylbenzene plant. Sandra Novo
  40. 2018. Turndown control structures for distillation columns. Leticia Monsalve
  41. 2018. Simulation and control of SuperHIDIC distillation columns. Ignacio Pablo Fernández Arranz
  42. 2018. Design of a lab instrumentation setup and augmented reality. Pablo Salcedo (B.Sc.)
  43. 2018. Safety Instrumented System design for the Nitroglycerine manufacturing process. Angel Luis García
  44. 2018.Development of a Safety Culture Model for an Oil&Gas company. Guillermo Beltrán
  45. 2018. Techno-economical study of an industrial cooling tower. Raquel Parra
  46. 2018. Improving the conventional reactor/separation/recycle DME process. Eduardo Sánchez Nocete (B.Sc.)
  47. 2018. Design of a separation section of the ethanol-to-butanol process. Andrés Martín-Fuertes (B.Sc.)
  48. 2018. Design and modelling of an anaerobic digester. Alejandra Melle Sánchez (B.Sc.)
  49. 2018. Process safety ontology. Jorge Laguía.
  50. 2018. Economic trade-offs in acrylic acid reactor design. Luis Babiano Piriz (B.Sc.)
  51. 2017. Adaptive MPC for the tempering section in thermal power plant. Eduardo Sánchez. 2018 ISA (International Society of Automation) Spain Student's contest award winning
  52. 2017. Control of an azeotropic DWC. Carlos García Calvo.
  53. 2017. Guided process design using expert systems. Javier Barahona.
  54. 2017. Multivariable Predictive control of an atmospheric crude oil distillation unit. Alvaro de Frutos Sanz (BSc.)
  55. 2017. Design of the VCM production process. Miguel Enrique Cruz Rodríguez (Bsc.)
  56. 2017. Electrochemical characterization of the antimicrobial activity of ferulated compounds. Marta Gara (Bsc.)
  57. 2017. Ionic liquids in the process industry: application to a biorefinery. Rafael Castellano (BSc.) **TFT 100**
  58. 2017. Process design of the production process of phenol hydrogenation to cyclohexanone. Álvaro Ramírez de Arellano (BSc.)
  59. 2017. Systems lifecycle management using Model Based Systems Engineering. Ana Martínez Resa
  60. 2017. Application and comparative of STAMP and HAZOP methodologies for risk assessment of an industrial process. Jorge Alvarez-Estrada.
  61. 2017. Design of the acrylonitrile production process. Rodrigo Muñoz Crespo (BSc.)
  62. 2017. Design of the isobutane alkylation production process. Andrea Grandy (BSc.)
  63. 2017. Accident categorization in fertilizers plants. Lessons to be learned. Manuel Arias-Paz (BSc.)
  64. 2017. Process integration applied to a cumene production process. David Garrido
  65. 2017. Application of FRAM to accident analysis in the process industry. Lidia Montoya Valero (BSc.)
  66. 2017. Design of the cumene production process. Cristina Crespo (BSc.)  
  67. 2016. Techno-economical study of the bio-based adipic acid production process. Álvaro Peña.
  68. 2016. Technical Study of the Shale Oil Retorting Process. Sara Kamel (BSc.)
  69. 2016. Plantwide Control: Review of methodologies and application to a case study. Adrián Manjón
  70. 2016. A taxonomy of chemical process industry accidents. Sergio Ramos
  71. 2016. Safety design for a chemical process: a case study. Mayte Maldonado
  72. 2016. Plantwide control of the acetylene hydrogenation process. Guillermo Juan Martínez (BSc.)
  73. 2016. Design of the Dimethyl Ether Production Process. Laura Martin (BSc.)
  74. 2016. Techno-economical analysis of a Termochemical Biomass to Butanol Process. Javier Sanz Ferreruela.
  75. 2016. Increasing process safety by using Near Misses and Process Safety Indicators. Marta Perezagua
  76. 2016. Comparison of systemic methodologies for risk assessment and accident analysis in the process industry. Valentín Peña
  77. 2016. Hydrodechlorination of 4-chlorophenol using polymer based spherical activated carbon  supported palladium. Ana Lamolda Sánchez.
  78. 2016. Design of a system for separating fibers from the effluent stream in nitro compounds manufacturing processes. Javier Quesada.
  79. 2016. Biodiesel Production from Waste Vegetable Oils. Jorge Álvarez Estrada (BSc.)
  80. 2015. Process Design and economics of the bioethanol production process from Palm Empty Fruit Bunch. Lucía Morote.
  81. 2015. Design of a Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille plug flow reactor to produce amine complex salts. Javier Tortosa.
  82. 2015. Control Structures for FEHE/Reactors systems. Álvaro Raimundez. 2016 ISA (International Society of Automation) Spain Student's contest award winning
  83. 2015. Production of Carbonates from CO2 and Epoxides using Metal Complexes of Arylhydrazone of  β-diketones. Clara Gómez
  84. 2015. Pulverization of a water-vegetable oil emulsion to capture Volatile Organic Compounds from industrial gas emissions. José Ignacio del Río.
  85.  2015. Application of Accimap methodology to accident analysis in the process industry. Ignacio Fernández Arranz (BSc.)
  86. 2015. Application of Model Predictive control to chemical processing units. Eduardo Sánchez. (Bsc.)
  87. 2015. Techno-economical study of the production of butanediol from bio-succinic acid. Patricia Gonzalo (Bsc.)
  88. 2015. Application of HFACS methodology to accident analysis in the process industry. Iciar Reig (BSc.)
  89. 2015. Catalytic upgrading of biocrude oil produced from microalgae hydrothermal liquefaction. Blanca Ríos Gómez.
  90. 2015. Learning by doing: application to the subject Chemical Process Control. Javier Moyá.
  91. 2015. Recovery of Phosphorus from Sewage Sludge: Chemical Engineering Aspects. Irene Trigo
  92. 2015. Basic Engineering of the Natural Gas Liquefaction Process. Irene Román
  93. 2015. Design and control of the monoisopropylamine production process. Sergio Ramos (BSc.)
  94. 2015. Design and control of the vinyl acetate process. David Garrido. (BSc.)
  95. 2014. Design and control of acetic acid esterification processes. Marta Fernández
  96. 2014. Multivariable Predictive Control of extractive  divided wall columns. Ping Zhou Li Chi. 2015 ISA (International Society of Automation) Spain Student's contest award winning
  97. 2014. Optimization of a Thermal Cracker Unit. Luca Sanminiatelli
  98. 2014. Modelling and control of a hybrid IGCC/methanol plant. Miguel Alexander García
  99. 2014. Application of the STAMP methodology for process safety and its integration with a functional modelling methodology. Miguel Cano. Health and Safety Regional Institute Best Project Award 2014
  100. 2014. Design and control of the methoxy-methyl-heptane process. Javier del Moral.
  101. 2014. Design and control of the methyl acetate process. Laura Martín de Argenta
  102. 2014. CO2 Absorption of exhaust gases from thermoelectrical plants. Pablo González.
  103. 2014. Accident model (CAST) methodology applied to chemical processes. Javier Quesada (BSc.)
  104. 2014. Design and control of the butyl acetate process. Adrián Manjón (BSc.)
  105. 2014. Reactive distillation columns study. Parameters influence and control configurations. Ying Ying Xuan (BSc. project)
  106. 2014. Design and control of a reactive distillation column for MTBE production. Helena Lubiano Walochik (BSc. project)
  107. 2014. Operator training system. Raúl Cuervo
  108. 2013. Design and control of extractive and azeotropic divided wall columns. Daniel Navarro
  109. 2013. Correction of bias in research through probabilistic sampling. José Miguel de Elías
  110. 2013. Basic Engineering and 3D model of a Hydrocarbon Storage Facility. Andrea Rodríguez Casanova. Best Project of the Industrial Engineering School 2014.
  111. 2013. Chemical Process safety analysis. Roberto Aragón.
  112. 2013. Basic engineering, simulation and cost estimation of an offshore platform plant. Victoria Fernández Gamboa
  113. 2013. Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis integration, application to automated HAZOP. José Miguel Sánchez
  114. 2013. Ethanol production process from Helianthos Tuberosus L. Verónica Delgado
  115. 2013. Reinforcement learning applied to the process industry. Rafael Berrocal Rubio
  116. 2013. Control and design of an industrial process to produce acetone. Jesús Seco
  117. 2012. Waste management in industrial plants. Helena Lacalle
  118. 2012. Plantwide control design methodology. Carlos González Salinas
  119. 2012. Fault characterization in chemical process plants. Martin Alonso Presa
  120. 2012. Modeling, simulation and control of the methanol synthesis loop. Adrián Saiz
  121. 2012. Design and experimentation of a dosing group. Alayn Pérez García
  122. 2012. Advanced control of thermally coupled distillation columns. Enrique Menéndez
  123. 2012. Start up procedure, operation and control of a reforming unit for clean energy generation. Irene Gutierrez.
  124. 2012. Simulative analysis of the oil injection process in a lab scale model of an industrial blast furnace. Marta Castaño.
  125. 2011. Evaluation of applicability of solar absorption cooling plants in industrial processes. Alberto del Pozo Hijano
  126. 2011. Fuel cell energy generation. An ethanol and glycerol comparative study. Carlos Arévalo.
  127. 2011. Chemical reactors behavior study: modeling, control and experimental validation. Teresa Garralón
  128. 2011. Carbon membranes and its application to membrane reactors. Juan Bonilla
  129. 2011. Thermally coupled distillation columns control. Juan Carlos Corcuera.
  130. 2011. Cumene process plant basic engineering design and control. Bernabé del Moral
  131. 2011. Oligonucleotide synthesis on fluorescent nanoparticles using nano-on-micro assembled particle supports. Ruth Hernán
  132. 2010. Chemical process risk analysis automation using functional models. María Eugenia Álvarez
  133. 2010. Hydrocracking and mild hydrocracking rigorous model analysis. Adrián Caraballo Franco.
  134. 2010. Integrated learning through a chemical engineering project. Raquel Sanz Cuenca.
  135. 2010. Design of a virtual environment for e-learning of Industrial Chemical Technology. Rodrigo Valencia Machón.
  136. 2010. Water accounting in the eastern region of South Africa. Esther Corral Cutillas.
  137. 2010. Basic engineering of the wastewater treatment plant at las Águilas (Murcia). Noelia Díaz Navarro
  138. 2009. Functional modeling techniques applied to process plants. José Luis de la Mata (Master Thesis project)
  139. 2009. Basic engineering and design of the wastewater treatment plant at San Fernando de Henares. Vanessa Maggiorani Bracamonte
  140. 2008. Lactic acid process design. Ana Cañas González
  141. 2008. Styrene production: basic engineering and advanced and multivariable control strategies. José Chinea Herranz
  142. 2007. Wastewater treatment plant basic engineering. Alejandro Fernández López
  143. 2006. Hospital waste management. Elisa Massanet Martin
  144. 2006. Design of a wastewater treatment plant using halophytes filtering. María Miguel Garde.
  145. 2006. Chemical process behaviour analysis using functional modeling techniques. José Luis de la Mata
  146. 2006. Design of a methodology to design the control structure of a process plant. María del Carmen Echeverrias
  147. 2005. Basic engineering of the propylene oxide purification unit. Clara Pérez Balboa
  148. 2005. First principles model based control. David Pérez González
  149. 2005. Design and development of an interactive website for process control e-learning. Elena Jiménez
  150. 2003. Distributed simulation using HLA. Alberto Martín Barroso
  151. 2003. Chemical process stability and controllability analysis. Oscar Pérez Troitiño
  152. 2003. Basic engineering design and economic feasibility study of a sulfuric acid production plant. Ana Montero
  153. 2002. Plantwide process control design using expert systems. Arancha Marcos
  154. 2002. Control Structure Analysis in Chemical Plants. Juan Antonio Serrano.
  155. 2002. A chemical engineering virtual class. Sulfuric acid production. Silvia Escobar Luis
  156. 2002. Interactive catalog of chemical process equipment. Laura Tarrafeta Solano