ABOUT ME
Research Interests
- Pyrolysis and gasification of lignocellulosic biomass and waste, mainly biological residues, i. e. sewage sludge, meat and bone meal or livestock manure.
- Bio-oil characterization and refining.
- High-value added products from bio-oil: isolation and characterization.
- Char adsorbents for hydrogen sulfide and ammonium.
- Ammonia sustainable production.
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Adánez-Rubio, Iñaki; Fonts, Isabel; Blas, P; Viteri, Fausto; Gea, Gloria; Alzueta, María U
Exploratory study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons occurrence and distribution in manure pyrolysis products Journal Article
In: Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, vol. 155, pp. 105078, 2021, ISSN: 01652370.
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author = {Iñaki Adánez-Rubio and Isabel Fonts and P Blas and Fausto Viteri and Gloria Gea and María U Alzueta},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0165237021000644},
doi = {10.1016/j.jaap.2021.105078},
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year = {2021},
date = {2021-05-01},
journal = {Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis},
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Fonts, Isabel; Atienza-Martínez, María; Carstensen, Hans-Heinrich; Benés, Mario; Pires, Anamaria Paiva Pinheiro; Garcia-Perez, Manuel; Bilbao, Rafael
Thermodynamic and Physical Property Estimation of Compounds Derived from the Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Materials Journal Article
In: Energy & Fuels, 2021.
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title = {Thermodynamic and Physical Property Estimation of Compounds Derived from the Fast Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Materials},
author = {Isabel Fonts and María Atienza-Martínez and Hans-Heinrich Carstensen and Mario Benés and Anamaria Paiva Pinheiro Pires and Manuel Garcia-Perez and Rafael Bilbao},
url = {https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c01709},
doi = {10.1021/ACS.ENERGYFUELS.1C01709},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-01-01},
journal = {Energy & Fuels},
publisher = {American Chemical Society},
abstract = {The development of biomass pyrolysis oil refineries is a very promising path for the production of biofuels and bioproducts from lignocellulosic materials. Given that bio-oil is a complex mixture o...},
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2020
Atienza-Martínez, María; Suraini, Nurull Nadia Binti; Ábrego, Javier; Fonts, Isabel; Lázaro, Luisa; Carstensen, Hans-Heinrich; Gea, Gloria
Functionalization of sewage sludge char by partial oxidation with molecular oxygen to enhance its adsorptive properties Journal Article
In: Journal of Cleaner Production, pp. 125201, 2020, ISSN: 09596526.
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title = {Functionalization of sewage sludge char by partial oxidation with molecular oxygen to enhance its adsorptive properties},
author = {María Atienza-Martínez and Nurull Nadia Binti Suraini and Javier Ábrego and Isabel Fonts and Luisa Lázaro and Hans-Heinrich Carstensen and Gloria Gea},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959652620352458},
doi = {10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125201},
issn = {09596526},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-11-01},
journal = {Journal of Cleaner Production},
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Gil-Lalaguna, Noemí; Afailal, Zainab; Aznar, María; Fonts, Isabel
In: Journal of Cleaner Production, pp. 124417, 2020, ISSN: 09596526.
@article{Noemi2020,
title = {Exploring the sustainable production of ammonia by recycling N and H in biological residues: evolution of fuel-N during glutamic acid gasification},
author = {Noemí Gil-Lalaguna and Zainab Afailal and María Aznar and Isabel Fonts},
doi = {10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124417},
issn = {09596526},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-10-01},
journal = {Journal of Cleaner Production},
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publisher = {Elsevier BV},
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2019
Pinheiro-Pires, Anamaria Paiva; Arauzo, Jesús; Fonts, Isabel; Domine, Marcelo E; Fernández-Arroyo, Alberto; Garcia-Perez, Martha Estrella; Montoya, Jorge; Chejne, Farid; Pfromm, Peter; Garcia-Perez, Manuel
Challenges and opportunities for bio-oil refining: A review Journal Article
In: vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 4683–4720, 2019, ISSN: 15205029.
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title = {Challenges and opportunities for bio-oil refining: A review},
author = {Anamaria Paiva Pinheiro-Pires and Jesús Arauzo and Isabel Fonts and Marcelo E Domine and Alberto Fernández-Arroyo and Martha Estrella Garcia-Perez and Jorge Montoya and Farid Chejne and Peter Pfromm and Manuel Garcia-Perez},
doi = {10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00039},
issn = {15205029},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-06-01},
booktitle = {Energy and Fuels},
volume = {33},
number = {6},
pages = {4683--4720},
publisher = {American Chemical Society},
abstract = {Bio-oil derived from fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic materials is among the most complex and inexpensive raw oils that can be produced today. Although commercial or demonstration scale fast pyrolysis units can readily produce this oil, the pyrolysis industry has not grown to significant commercial impact due to the lack of bio-oil market pull. This paper is a review of the challenges and opportunities for bio-oil upgrading and refining. Pyrolysis oil consists of six major fractions (water 15-30 wt %, light oxygenates 8-26 wt %, monophenols 2-7 wt %, water insoluble oligomers derived from lignin 15-25 wt %, and water-soluble molecules 10-30 wt %). The composition of water-soluble oligomers is relatively poorly studied. In the 1880s, bio-oil refining (formally known as wood distillation) targeted the separation and commercialization of C1-C4 light oxygenated compounds to produce methanol, acetic acid, and acetone with the commercialization of the lignin derived water insoluble fraction for preserving wooden sailing vessels against rot. More recently, the company Ensyn extracted and commercialized condensed natural smoke as a food additive. Most research efforts in the last 20 years have focused on the two-step hydrotreatment concept for the production of transportation fuels. In spite of major progress, this concept remains at the demonstration scale. In this review, the opportunities and progress to separate bio-oil fractions and chemicals, mainly acetic acid (HAc), hydroxyacetaldehyde (HHA), acetol, and levoglucosan, and convert them into value added coproducts are thoroughly discussed. In spite of the large number of separation schemes and products tested, very few of them have been tested as part of fully integrated bio-oil refinery concepts. The synthesis and techno-economic and environmental evaluation of novel integrated bio-oil refinery concepts is likely to become a subject of intense research activity in the coming years.},
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