Académicos

Romel Jimenez Concepción

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PostDoctorado (2010-2011). University of California, Berkeley, EE.UU.

Doctorado en en Ciencias de la Ingeniería m/ Ingeniería Química, 2005. Universidad de Concepción, Chile.

Maestría en Análisis de Procesos de la Industria Química, 1997. Universidad Central de las Villas, UCLV, Cuba

Ingeniero Civil Químico. Universidad Central de las Villas, UCLV, Cuba.

Líneas de Investigación:

  • Cinética de las Reacciones Químicas.
  • Catálisis Heterogénea.
  • Caracterización Estructural y Funcional de materiales. 

Proyectos Vigentes

  1. Combustible de aviación a partir de hidrocarburos sintéticos derivados de plásticos residuales. Proyecto Fondef IDeA I+D ID23I10321 (2023-2025). Director Alterno.
  2. Synthesis of ethylene and propylene from CO2 hydrogenation on bifunctional catalysts. Proyecto Fondecyt Regular Nº1231469 (2023-2026). Investigador Principal.
  3. Intrinsic kinetics and surface site requirements for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on Ce- and La-promoted catalysts. Fondecyt Regular Nº 1221281 (2022-2025). Coinvestigador.
  4. CO2 Hydrogenation to Light Olefins via Methanol Reaction on Bifunctional Catalysts. Proyecto VRID Nº2021000183INV (2021-2023). Investigador Principal.

 

Publicaciones

  1. Gustavo Cabrera-Barjas, Romel Jimenez, Romina Romero, Oscar Valdes, Aleksandra Nesic, Ruber Hernaández-Garcia, Andrónico Neira, Serguei Alejandro-Martín, Alexander F. de la Torre, Value-added long-chain aliphatic compounds obtained through pyrolysis of phosphorylated chitin, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 238 (2023) 124130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.124130 (IF 8.025). 
  2. Maray Ortega, Daviel Gómez, Raydel Manrique, Guillermo Reyes, Julieth Tatiana García-Sánchez, Víctor Gabriel Baldovino Medrano, Romel Jiménez and Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Reductive amination of phenol over Pd-based catalysts: elucidating the role of the support and metal nanoparticle size, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering 8 (2023) 47-63.
    https://doi.org/10.1039/d2re00259k (IF 5.2).
  3. Sebastia?n Godoy, Prashant Deshlahara, Francisco Villagra-Soza, Alejandro Karelovic, Romel Jime?nez, Effects of Site Geometry and Local Composition on Hydrogenation of Surface Carbon to Methane on Ni, Co, and NiCo Catalysts, Catalysts 12 (2022) 1380. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12111380 (IF 3.934).
  4. Francisco Villagra-Soza, Sebastia?n Godoy, Alejandro Karelovic, Romel Jime?nez, Scrutinizing the mechanism of CO2 hydrogenation over Ni, CO and bimetallic NiCo surfaces: Isotopic measurements, operando-FTIR experiments and kinetics modelling, Journal of Catalysis 414 (2022) 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2022.08.018 (IF 8.047).
  5.  Oscar Go?mez?Ca?piro, Kimberley Matschuk, Tim Schulzke, Romel Jime?nez Concepcio?n and Luis E. Arteaga?Pe?rez, Catalysts 12 (2022) 391. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12040391 (IF 3.934).
  6. Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Raydel Manrique, Maray Ortega, Francisca Castillo-Puchi, Juan E. Fraile and Romel Jiménez, Elucidating the Role of Rh/C on the Pathways and Kinetics of Ketone-to-Secondary Amines Reaction, ChemCatChem 14 (2022) e202101270 (1-11). https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202101270 (IF 5.686).
  7. Daviel Go?mez, Claudio Candia, Romel Jime?nez, Alejandro Karelovic, Isotopic transient kinetic analysis of CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on Cu/SiO2 promoted by Ga and Zn, Journal of Catalysis 406 (2022) 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2021.12.030 (IF 8.047).
  8. Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Raydel Manrique, Francisca Castillo-Puchi, Maray Ortega, Camila Bertiola, Andy Pérez, Romel Jiménez, Andy J. Pérez, Experimental protocol for the study of One-pot amination of Cyclohexanone-to-Secondary amines over Carbon-supported Pd, MethodsX 8 (2021) 101406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101406
  9. Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Raydel Manrique, Francisca Castillo-Puchi, Maray Ortega, Camila Bertiola, Andy Pérez, Romel Jiménez, One-pot amination of Cyclohexanone-to-Secondary amines over Carbon-supported Pd: Unraveling the reaction mechanism and kinetics, Chemical Engineering Journal 417 (2021) 129236. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2021.129236, IF 10.652.
  10. Paula Osorio-Vargas, Tamara Menares, Daniela Lick, Monica L. Casella, Romina Romero, Romel Jiménez, Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Tuning the product distribution during the catalytic pyrolysis of waste tires: The effect of the nature of metals and the reaction temperature, Catalysis Today 372 (2020) 164-174, DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2020.10.035, IF 5.825.
  11. Oscar Gómez Cápiro, Karen A. Aravena Riquelme, Romel Jiménez, Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Carbothermic reduction of carbon aerogel-supported Fe during the catalytic decomposition of toluene, Catalysts Today 372 (2020) 82-88, DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2020.10.033, IF 5.825.
  12. Raydel Manrique, Jhonatan Rodríguez-Pereira, Sergio A. Rincón-Ortiz, Juan J. Bravo-Suárez, Víctor G. Baldovino-Medrano, Romel Jiménez and Alejandro Karelovic, The nature of the active sites of Pd–Ga catalysts in the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol, Catalysis Science & Technology 10 (2020) 6644-6658. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CY00956C . IF 5.721.
  13. Paulina Melo Bravo, Romel Jiménez, François Devred, Damien P. Debecker, Claudia Ulloa, Ximena García, Kinetics of CO methanation using a Fe-bearing catalyst from a blast furnace sludge, Fuel 276 (2020) 118045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118045  (IF 5.578).
  14. Ismael Fuentes, Claudia Ulloa, Romel Jiménez, Ximena García, The reduction of Fe-bearing copper slag for its use as a catalyst in carbon oxide hydrogenation to methane. A contribution to sustainable catalysis, Journal of Hazardous Materials 387 (2020) 121693. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121693 (IF 9.038).
  15. José Castillo, Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Alejandro Karelovic, Romel Jiménez, The consequences of surface heterogeneity of cobalt nanoparticles on the kinetics of CO methanation, Catalysis Science & Technology 9(22) (2019) 6415-6427. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cy01753d (IF 5.721).
  16. Raydel Manrique, Romel Jiménez, Jhonatan Rodríguez-Pereira, Víctor Baldovino Medrano, Alejandro Karelovic, Insights into the role of Zn and Ga in the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol over Pd, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44 (2019) 16526-16536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.04.206
  17. Yannay Casas-Ledón, Mauricio Flores, Romel Jiménez, Frederik Ronsse, Jo Dewulf, Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, On the environmental and economic issues associated with the forestry residues-to-heat and electricity route in Chile: Sawdust gasification as a case study, Energy 170 (2019) 763-776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.12.132
  18. Romel Jiménez, Karla Fuentes, María Paz Medina, Sebastián Godoy, Francisco Gracia, Alejandro Karelovic, The kinetic effect of H2O pressure on CO hydrogenation over different Rh cluster sizes, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 44 (2019) 768-777.
  19. Alejandro Karelovic, Gabriel Galdames, Juan C. Medina, Claudia Yévenes, Yanitza Barra, Romel Jiménez, Mechanism and structure sensitivity of methanol synthesis from CO2 over SiO2-supported Cu nanoparticles, Journal of Catalysis 369 (2019) 415-426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2018.11.012
  20. Oscar Gómez-Cápiro, Adrian Hinkle, Aaron M. Delgado, Camila Fernández, Romel Jiménez, Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Carbon Aerogel-Supported Nickel and Iron for Gasification Gas Cleaning. Part I: Ammonia Adsorption, Catalysts 2018, 8(9), 347.
  21. Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Romel Jiménez, Nicolás Grob, Oscar Gómez, Romina Romero, Frederik Ronsse, Catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived vapors on carbon aerogel-supported Ni: Effect of temperature, metal cluster size and catalyst-to-biomass ratio, Fuel Processing Technology 178 (2018) 251-261.
  22. Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez, Aaron M. Delgado, Mauricio Flores, Patricia Olivera, Kimberley Matschuk, Christian Hamel, Tim Schulzke and Romel Jiménez, Catalytic Conversion of Model Tars over Carbon-Supported Ni and Fe, Catalysts 2018, 8(3), 119

 

 

 

 

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