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T1 3D Printing ceramic materials for energy and environmental applications
A1 Hernández Afonso, Lorena
AB New activities that arose during the Industrial Revolution caused the development of novelproduction sector, changes in the organisation of production, new forms of capital business,development of a global market and the use of new energy sources. However, it also led to the useof fossil fuels that in the long-term brought severe environmental issues due to diverse activitiescarried out during the revolution. Nowadays, it is known that these activities are the cause of thecurrent environmental crisis involving a fast climate change and global warming. Most of theenvironmental problems, i.e. degradation of the ozone layer, acid rain, air and water pollution orwaste reduction, cannot be managed by a single nation. Consequently, a lot of countries haveimplemented many agreements last decades with the purpose of the Zero Emission concept,trying to promote synergistic processes with very low impact on the environment and reducingthe volume of waste and harmful emission without affecting the industrial benefits.Over the last years, a lot of research groups have been focused on the development of newmaterials and new manufacturing techniques in order to achieve this environmental goal. Thisthesis is focused on the introduction of new manufacturing methods using well-known materialssaving energy, time and money while reducing waste. More precisely, this work complements thecurrent state-of-the-art of rapid prototyping of ceramics, covering the key aspect ofmicrostructural control to improve the performance of different devices, such as Solid Oxide FuelCells and catalytic reactors for wastewater cleaning and for solar fuels generation.
YR 2020
FD 2020
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RD 03-may-2024