Ms. María Teresa Mota Martínez Graduate Research Assistant – PhD candidate
Bu Hasa Building, Room 2213
Sas Al Nakhl Campus
Office: +971 2 60 75099
Email: mmartinez@pi.ac.ae
Education:
Degree in Chemical Engineering in University of Alicante (Spain), 2009
Profile:
I graduated from the University of Alicante in 2009. During my studies, I got an scholarship to study as exchange student during one year at T.U. Delft (The Netherlands) where I worked as a researcher assistant in ternary system phase behavior of ionic liquids with CO2 and organic solute. For my graduation project, I designed a pilot-plant scale reaction and separation system for the hydrogenation of a pharmaceutical compound using an ionic liquid as solvent and supercritical CO2 as extracting fluid.
I did my graduate internship in SABIC Innovative Plastics sited in Cartagena (Spain) improving the heat exchange efficiency of the plant doing a pinch analysis of the process.
I recently joined the PI as fellowship researcher assistant. I am working on the thermodynamics of acid gas separation from gas natural using ionic liquids.
Publications:
Eliane Khune, Lidia R. Alfonsin, Maria Teresa Mota Martinez, Geert-Jan Witkamp and Cor J. Peters. Comment on “Characterization of the Ability of CO2 to act as an antisolvent for ionic liquid/organic mixtures. J. Phys. Chem. B. 2009, 113, 6579-6580
