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The Advanced Materials Research Group (AMRG) would like to welcome you to attend the following seminar:
Prof Barraza is director of the Carbon Science and Technology Centre at Universidad del Valle, in Cali, Colombia. This presentation will provide an overview of Prof Barraza’s extensive research into energy systems in Colombia. Additionally, the presentation will focus on the successfully completed British Council funded project in collaboration with Prof Ed Lester from the University of Nottingham, which explored energy efficiency in Colombian sugar mill stoker furnaces. Furthermore, an overview of the new Royal Academy of Engineering project with the University of Nottingham exploring bagasse trash upgrading will be provided.
Prof Barraza has over 30-years of research experience in the applications of coal characterization, beneficiation and combustion. Prof Barraza conducted his PhD at the University of Nottingham on coal characterisation. He is currently head of the Science and Technology Coal Group at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. He has been principal investigator or co-investigator on projects totalling more than 500K UKP funded by Colciencias and Cerrejon industry, the main exporter of coal in Colombia. Currently, Prof Barraza current research focus is on a gold recovery project, which is a national collaboration, which aims to produce activated carbon to adsorb gold particles from Cyanide streams from gold mines production. Further research areas include coal reactivity using char morphological analysis in order to improve the combustion process in boilers. This research is a long-term collaboration with Professor Ed Lester from University of Nottingham and the Multimedia and Computer Vision Group. Professor Barraza has published more than 40 journal papers and has been director of 4 PhD students, more than 15 M.Sc. students and about 30 undergraduate students.
Faculty of EngineeringThe University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD
email:AdvMaterials@nottingham.ac.uk