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Education: MSc in Chemical Engineering, Technological Institute of Celaya, México. (2009). BEng in Chemical Engineering, Autonomous University of Yucatán, México. (2005). Before beginning the PhD, I worked in a Mexican refinery and a natural gas processing plant as a Technical Services Engineer. More recently, I worked as lecturer at undergraduate level in the Chemical Engineering Faculty on the Autonomous University of Yucatan. Research project: Gas exploration requires sea bed pipelines at increased depths and distances as demand increases and older fields run down. This has created a growing market for solutions to the associated technological challenges. A principal difficulty is the formation of solid particles from a reaction of water and methane gas, called hydrates, under the extreme temperatures and pressures. The injection of monoethylene glycol (MEG) into pipelines is a proven method for preventing hydrate formation based on decreasing the temperature at which hydrates form. It is desirable to reclaim this MEG at the end of the pipeline. A barrier to MEG reclamation is the accumulation of dissolved salts in the process. This project will conduct a study of the fundamental crystallization and sedimentation processes which occur within a MEG reclamation process. | |
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