Born on May 12, 1966 in México City, México. Studies 1• Chemical Engineering (1984-1989): -Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa (México, D.F.) -Thesis: Partial Oxidation of Propylene in Fluidized-bed Reactors 2• Master of Chemical Enginnering (1989-1992): -Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa (México, D.F.) -Thesis: Partial Oxidation of n-Butane in a Reactor-Regenerator System 3• PhD (Chemical Engineering) (1992-1998): -Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa (México, D.F.) and University College London (London, United Kingdom) -Thesis: Dynamics and Controllability of Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking Systems -Cédula Profesional: 2889155 Industrial Experience Titular Researcher (1998-2004) Programme of Maya Crude Treatment Mexican Institute of Petroleum Academic Experience Professor (2004-to date) Faculty of Chemical Engineering Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Articles
Design Study of the Control of a Reactive Thermally Coupled Distillation Sequence for the Esterification of Fatty Organic Acids (with Salvador Hernández and Juan G. Segovia-Hernández), Chemical Engineering Communications (2011)
This article reports the esterification of lauric acid and methanol studied using a thermally coupled...
Proposition of a Minimum Set of Independent Chemical Reactions to Model Gas-Phase Composition during Gasification of Complex Cokes (with Gladys Jiménez-García and Juan-Carlos Paniagua-Rodríguez), Energy & Fuels (2011)
Petroleum coke, obtained as product from the delayed coking of vacuum residue, could experiment gasification,...
The Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking Unit Building its Future Environment (with Gladys Jiménez-García and Ricardo Aguilar-López), FUEL (2011)
Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) has been considered as one of the largest catalytic process in...
Axial Variation of Mass Transfer Volumetric Coefficients in Bubble Column Bioreactors (with Elizabeth León-Becerril), Chemical Product and Process Modeling (2010)
Bubble column bioreactors used to perform aerobic fermentations consist of a liquid medium containing microorganisms...
Modelling Catalyst Deactivation by External Coke Deposition during Fluid Catalytic Cracking (with Gladys Jiménez-García, Roberto Quintana-Solórzano, and Ricardo Aguilar-López), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2010)
Although the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) is an economic important process, simulation of its kinetics...
Chapters in Books
Modeling and Simulation of Fluidized-bed Catalytic Converters, Modeling and Simulation of Catalytic reactors for Petroleum Refining (2011)
Motivation
The current FCC process has evolve from thermal hydrocarbon cracking in fixed bed reactors...
Analysis of Energy Consumption of Distillation Options to Obtain High Purity Bioethanol (with Salvador Hernández-Castro, Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández, Mariana del Pilar Santamaría-Rivera, Héctor Hernández-Escoto, Claudia Gutiérrez-Antonio, and Abel Briones-Ramírez), Bioethanol: Production, Benefits and Economics (2009)
Among biofuels, bioethanol has increased in importance in many countries because it can be used...
Input-Output Linearizing Control based on Robust Observers: Application to a Class of Reacting Systems (with Ricardo Aguilar-López), Techniques and Methodologies for Modelling and Simulation Systems (2005)
The aim of this paper is the synthesis of a robust control law for regulation...
State Estimation via Nonlinear Observer under Model Unobservable Uncertainties (with Ricardo Aguilar-López and Sergio Martínez), Techniques and Methodologies for Modelling and Simulation Systems (2005)
This paper deals with the classical problem of state estimation, considering partially unknown nonlinear systems...
Steady State and Dynamic Simulation of FCC Reactor Units (with Felipe López-Isunza), Dynamics, Control and Design of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes, DYCORD+95 (1995)
A dynamic model for industrial FCC reactors was developed in order to predict steady state...
Presentations