Antonio Gasos
Antonio Gasos
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-MAVT
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Research area
Indirect mineral carbonation of alkaline waste materials for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS):
Our work studies the two-step indirect aqueous mineral carbonation of alkaline wastes. First, calcium is leached out of the materials, while CO2 absorption and precipitation to calcium carbonate (CaCO3) occur in a second step. We focus on the following key aspects of the process: (i) study of alternative reactors configurations for improved process performance, and fully continuous operation; (ii) characterisation of the process performance and solvent degradation over cyclic operation; (iii) modelling of the process steps based on experimental results; (iv) life-cycle assessment and technical analysis of the process.
This work is part of the ACCSESS project, an EU Horizon 2020 project aiming at providing access to cost-efficient, replicable, safe and flexible Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) across industrial sectors.
Membrane technologies for gas separations:
We focus on studying the potential of membrane modules for gas separation, in particular for Carbon Capture, namely: (i) model development and validation with experimental data; (ii) techno-economic analysis and optimisation of the process; (iii) development of an Artificial Neural-Network tool used as a surrogate model for faster simulations.
Student projects:
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Antonio Gasós was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1998. In 2019, he obtained his Bachelor's degree from UCLouvain in Engineering, with a major in Applied Physics and a minor in Chemistry. Then, he continued his studies in Switzerland and graduated with a Master's in Process Engineering from ETH Zürich in 2021. His Master's thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Mazzotti, focused on the reactors' model development and a techno-economic analysis of the indirect mineral carbonation of demolition concrete fines. Antonio started his doctoral studies in October 2021.