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In his PhD thesis defended at the UPV/EHU-University of the
Basque Country, Aingeru Remiro has developed a process to obtain hydrogen from
bio-oil
The PhD thesis "Producción de hidrógeno mediante
reformado con vapor de bio-oil. Integración en el proceso de las etapas
térmica, catalítica y de captura de co2" of Aingeru Remiro-Eguskiza, a
chemical engineer of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), deals with
the quest for a process to produce hydrogen from bio-oil that has a lower
impact on the environment than the process using current routes.
The gradual increase in the price of crude oil and the
negative environmental consequences that its use entails are putting us on the
threshold of a change of energy model that will need to be tackled over the
coming decades. Faced with the obvious necessity of finding an energy
alternative that will replace fossil fuels in the near future at least partially
and in a gradual way, hydrogen is emerging as one of the alternatives.