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Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular - Universidad de Cantabria

El Departamento de Ingenierías Química y Biomolecular de la Universidad de Cantabria está formado por más de 60 profesores e investigadores. DOCENCIA
Imparte docencia a nivel de grado en 6 titulaciones: Grado en Ingeniería de los Recursos Energéticos, Grado en Ingeniería de los Recursos Mineros, Grado en Ingeniería en Tecnologías Industriales, Grado en Ingeniería Mecánica, Grado en Ingeniería Química y Grado en Ciencias Biomédicas, y a nivel de posgrado en 3 Máster Universitarios: Master en Ingeniería Química, Máster en Ingeniería de Minas y Máster en Ingeniería Industrial y el Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Química, de la Energía y de Procesos. INVESTIGACIÓN
El objetivo es desarrollar investigación para avanzar en la sostenibilidad e innovación de los procesos productivos, energéticos y medioambientales. Dentro del Departamento existen 4 grupos de investigación:
1) Desarrollo de Procesos Químicos y Control de Contaminantes (DEPRO), liderado por el profesor Ángel Irabien.
2) Procesos Avanzados de Separación (PAS), liderado por la profesora Inmaculada Ortiz.
3) Tecnologías Ambientales y Bioprocesos (TAB), liderado por la profesora Ane Urtiaga.
4) Ingeniería de Procesos Sostenibles (IPS), liderado por la profesora Raquel Ibañez.

30/10/2026

Research stay: Sara Crespo Alvarez

PhD student Sara Crespo Alvarez is currently developing a predoctoral research stay at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) at Politecnico di Torino (Italy), from September 21st to December 20th, 2026. During this period, Sara is working on the development of manganese-modified photoanodes for glycerol oxidation coupled with CO₂ reduction, under the supervision of Prof. Simelys Hernández and Dr. Hilmar del Carmen Guzmán Medina.

30/10/2026

Congress: MATSUS Fall 2026

Dr. Guillermo Díaz-Sainz participated in the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS Fall 2026), held in Mallorca, Spain, from 26 to 30 October 2026.

During the conference, he co-organized the symposium E4: Advances and Innovations in (Photo)Electrochemical CO₂ and N₂ Conversion and Water Splitting, together with Prof. Juqin Zeng (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) and Dr. Mingchuan Luo (Peking University, China). In addition to his role as symposium co-organizer, Dr. Díaz-Sainz delivered an oral presentation entitled “Design and Demonstration of an Integrated CO₂ Capture and Electrochemical Conversion Platform for Cement Plant Decarbonization” and presented a scientific poster entitled “Development of Cu-Based MOFs for the Electrochemical Upgrading of Biogas: Direct Conversion of CO₂ to Methane”.

30/10/2026

Congress: CCM 2026

Dr. Guillermo Díaz-Sainz participated in the 6th International Conference on Carbon Chemistry & Materials (CCM 2026), held in Valencia, Spain, from 19 to 21 October 2026, with the support of the CO₂ Value Europe Association.

During the conference, Dr. Díaz-Sainz delivered a keynote presentation entitled “Bridging Lab to Pilot: Continuous CO₂ Electroreduction for Formic Acid and Formate Production” highlighting recent advances in scaling up electrochemical CO₂ conversion technologies from laboratory to pilot scale. In addition, he chaired one of the conference sessions dedicated to CO₂ Capture and Utilization, contributing to scientific discussions on emerging technologies and innovative approaches to carbon capture and valorization.

30/10/2026

Scientific Paper

The scientific work “Opportunities of Nanomaterials in Water Treatment Using Polymeric Membranes with molecular Separation Ability” developed by Clara Casado-Coterillo, in collaboration with researchers from University of Zaragoza, has been recently published as part of ACS Applied Engineering Materials special issue “Next-Generation Engineering of Functional Materials for Water Treatment and Resource Recovery”.

The article is available at the following link:
https://pubs.acs.org/aaemdr/article/doi/10.1021/acsaenm.6c01221/5453361/Opportunities-of-Nanomaterials-in-Water-Treatment

30/10/2026

Scientific Paper

The scientific work “Hybrid modelling for enhancing the prediction of CO2 gas separation in biopolymer-based mixed-matrix membranes” developed by Clara Casado-Coterillo, in collaboration with researchers from Colombia and Denmark, has been recently published in the scientific journal Separation and Purification Technology.

The article is available at the following link:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138358662603858X?via%3Dihub

30/10/2026

Scientific Paper

The scientific work “Hydrogen purification from plastic waste valorization streams using vacuum pressure swing adsorption” developed by Gonzalo Moral, Alberto Roqueñi, Inmaculada Ortiz and Alfredo Ortiz, has been recently published in the scientific journal International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

The article is available at the following link:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319926047154

16/10/2026

ELECTROMET Project Meeting

Dr. Guillermo Díaz Sainz and Dr. Jose Antonio Abarca recently participated in the 3rd General Meeting of the project “Direct CO₂ ELECTROcatalysis for Renewable METhane Production (ELECTROMET)”, held online on October 15, 2026. The project is funded by a European grant under the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership Programme).

The ELECTROMET project is coordinated by CTC - Centro Tecnológico de Cantabria (Spain) and developed in collaboration with University of Porto (Portugal), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), the University of Cantabria (Spain), Hidritec (Spain), Dreven (Greece), and Ecodualba (Spain). The consortium also includes two key stakeholders: Envitec (Germany) and Nortegas (Spain).

Within this project, the University of Cantabria leads one of the work packages. The main objective of ELECTROMET is to develop a sustainable, safe, and cost-effective solution for the production of renewable methane from carbon dioxide (CO₂) through direct electroreduction, enabling its integration as a renewable fuel into the gas market and contributing to the decarbonization of the energy sector.

16/10/2026

Participation in PhD Thesis Committee

Dr. Guillermo Díaz Sainz participated as a member of the evaluation committee for the defense of the Doctoral Thesis entitled “Advanced Porous Materials for Energy Transition: Synthesis and Characterization of Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 and O2” presented by Mitra Bagherikerachi on October 14th, 2026. This thesis was developed in the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) at the Politecnico di Torino University under the supervision of Prof. Candido Pirri, Prof. Juqin Zeng and Dr. Adriano Sacco.

16/10/2026

Congress: MELPRO 2026

Prof. Raquel Ibañez and PhD students Emilia Fouquet and Álvaro Martín participated in the International Conference MELPRO 2026, focused on membrane and electromembrane processes, held in Prague (Czech Republic) from October 4 to 7, 2026.

01/10/2026

Scientific Paper

The scientific work “Performance evaluation of vacuum-assisted CO2 desorption from ionic liquids using hollow-fiber membrane contactors” developed by Lucía Gómez, Ángel Irabien and Guillermo Díaz, developed in collaboration with researchers from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania), has been recently published in the scientific journal Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering.

The article is available at the following link:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213343726042703?via%3Dihub

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