Publications by Susana Garcia Lopez

Biomass to energy: a machine learning model for optimum gasification pathways

Berend Smit, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Susana Garcia Lopez

Biomass is a highly versatile renewable resource for decarbonizing energy systems. Gasification is a promising conversion technology that can transform biomass into multiple energy carriers to produce heat, electricity, biofuels, or chemicals. At present, ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

A Robust Framework for Generating Adsorption Isotherms to Screen Materials for Carbon Capture

Berend Smit, Elias Moubarak, Susana Garcia Lopez, Seyedmohamad Moosavi

To rank the performanceof materials for a given carbon captureprocess, we rely on pure component isotherms from which we predictthe mixture isotherms. For screening a large number of materials,we also increasingly rely on isotherms predicted from molecular ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

How to Decarbonize Our Energy Systems: Process-Informed Design of New Materials for Carbon Capture

Berend Smit, Susana Garcia Lopez

Decarbonisation from a variety of industrial and power emission sectors highlights a marked need for capture technologies that can be optimized for different CO2 sources and integrated into an equally diverse range of applications of captured CO2 as a feed ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit, Susana Garcia Lopez, Fergus Robert Lloyd Mcilwaine

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Characterization of Chemisorbed Species and Active Adsorption Sites in Mg-Al Mixed Metal Oxides for High-Temperature CO2 Capture

Berend Smit, Kevin Maik Jablonka, Susana Garcia Lopez, Christopher Patrick Ireland

Mg-Al mixed metal oxides (MMOs), derived from the decomposition of layered double hydroxides (LDHs), have been purposed as adsorbents for CO2 capture of industrial plant emissions. To aid in the design and optimization of these materials for CO2 capture at ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

A data-science approach to predict the heat capacity of nanoporous materials

Berend Smit, Elias Moubarak, Susana Garcia Lopez, Balázs Álmos Novotny, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Daniele Ongari, Mehrdad Asgari, Andres Adolfo Ortega Guerrero, Özge Kadioglu

The heat capacity of a material is a fundamental property of great practical importance. For example, in a carbon capture process, the heat required to regenerate a solid sorbent is directly related to the heat capacity of the material. However, for most m ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Data-driven design of metal-organic frameworks for wet flue gas CO2 capture

Berend Smit, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Susana Garcia Lopez, Kyriakos Stylianou, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Peter George Boyd, Andrzej Gladysiak, Christopher Patrick Ireland, Arunraj Chidambaram, Enrique Garcia Diez

Limiting the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is one of the largest challenges of our generation(1). Because carbon capture and storage is one of the few viable technologies that can mitigate current CO2 emissions(2), much effort is focused on developing ...

2019