Sus principales áreas de investigación son:

• Procesos de termoconversión de biomasa.
• Intercambiabilidad de mezclas de gases combustibles.
• Valorización energética de residuos.

Proyectos

1. Diseño y construcción de un dispositivo para la combustión eficiente de pellets en calefactores de leña. Innovación Interno-UBB. 2022-2023. Investigador Responsable.
2. Valorization of agro-industrial residues using thermochemical processing for energy generation. 2018/08419-4 CONICYT. 2019-2021. Investigador Responsable.
3. Energetic valorization of waste tires. 408055/2016-2 CNPq (Brasil). 2017-2020. Investigador asociado.
4. Optimización de los procesos de extracción de biomasa sólida para uso energético. P718RT0024 CYTED. 2019-2022. Investigador asociado.

Publicaciones

1. D. Contreras Bilbao, E. Blanco Machin, D. Travieso Pedroso, A. Blanco Machín, Theoretical assessment of energy recovery from Beekeeping waste (Slumgum), Sustain. Energy Technol. Assessments. 49 (2022) 101700. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SETA.2021.101700.
2. B.A.R. Robaina, Y.G. Reyes, L.A. Trujillo, F.M. Montesino, D.T. Pedroso, E.B. Machin, A.B. Machín, R. Pascual, J.A. Pérez, A.G. Callejo, J.L.S. Cebrian, Assessment of fluidized bed gasification of grapefruit solid waste, Bioresour. Technol. Reports. 15 (2021) 100782. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BITEB.2021.100782.
3. D.T. Pedroso, E.B. Machin, G. Cabrera-Barjas, O. Farias, A.P. Loyola, C.P. Quilodrán, A.B. Machín, N.P. Pérez, J.A. de Carvalho Junior, A Study of Bioenergy Production from Chilean Tessaria absinthioides, BioEnergy Res. (2021) 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-021-10256-6.
4. D.T. Pedroso, E.B. Machin, G. Cabrera-Barjas, M. Flores, H.G. Urra, F.S. de Carvalho, M.I.S. dos Santos, A.B. Machín, E.V. Canettieri, N.P. Pérez, P. Teixeira Lacava, L. Ribeiro dos Santos, J. Andrade de Carvalho Júnior, Sugarcane Bagasse Torrefaction for Fluidized Bed Gasification, Appl. Sci. 11 (2021) 6105. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11136105.
5. E.B. Machin, D.T. Pedroso, A.B. Machín, D.G. Acosta, M.I. Silva dos Santos, F. Solferini de Carvalho, N.P. Pérez, R. Pascual, J.A. de Carvalho Júnior, Biomass integrated gasification-gas turbine combined cycle (BIG/GTCC) implementation in the Brazilian sugarcane industry: Economic and environmental appraisal, Renew. Energy. 172 (2021) 529–540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.03.074.
6. N.P. Pérez, D.T. Pedroso, E.B. Machin, J.S. Antunes, C.E. Tuna, J.L. Silveira, Geometrical characteristics of sugarcane bagasse for being used as fuel in fluidized bed technologies, Renew. Energy. 143 (2019) 1210–1224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.082.
7. N.P. Pérez, D.T. Pedroso, E.B. Machin, J.S. Antunes, R.A. Verdú Ramos, J.L. Silveira, Prediction of the minimum fluidization velocity of particles of sugarcane bagasse, Biomass and Bioenergy. 109 (2018) 249–256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.12.004.
8. E.B. Machin, D.T. Pedroso, J.A. de Carvalho, Technical assessment of discarded tires gasification as alternative technology for electricity generation, Waste Manag. (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2017.07.004.
9. D.T. Pedroso, E.B. Machin, N. Proenza Pérez, L.B. Braga, J.L. Silveira, Technical assessment of the Biomass Integrated Gasification/Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (BIG/GTCC) incorporation in the sugarcane industry, Renew. Energy. 114 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.07.038.
10. E.B. Machin, D.T. Pedroso, J.A. de Carvalho, Energetic valorization of waste tires, Renew. Sustain. Energy Rev. 68 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.110.