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2022

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6

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65
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  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
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  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in United Arab Emirates Leader Award

Overview

Lourdes F. Vega is affiliated with Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. Their research spans various engineering fields, with a particular focus on mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, environmental studies, and catalysis.

Their work prominently addresses topics including phase equilibria and thermodynamics, carbon dioxide capture technologies, membrane separation and gas transport, ionic liquids properties and applications, catalytic processes in materials science, advanced photocatalysis techniques, and the thermodynamic properties of mixtures.

Vega has frequently published in several scientific venues, among which are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Significant recent papers include:

  • Activated carbons from biomass-based sources for CO2 capture applications, 2021, Chemosphere
  • Synthesis and characterization of activated carbon from biomass date seeds for carbon dioxide adsorption, 2020, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Current and future perspectives on catalytic-based integrated carbon capture and utilization, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Predicting the density and viscosity of hydrophobic eutectic solvents: towards the development of sustainable solvents, 2020, Green Chemistry
  • Design Aspects of Doped CeO2 for Low-Temperature Catalytic CO Oxidation: Transient Kinetics and DFT Approach, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent collaborators in their work include Daniel Bahamón, Ismail I.I. Alkhatib, Fèlix Llovell, Carlos G. Albà, and Ahmed AlHajaj.

Best Publications

  • THERMODYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF HOMONUCLEAR AND HETERONUCLEAR LENNARD-JONES CHAINS WITH ASSOCIATION SITES FROM SIMULATION AND THEORY

    Felipe J. Blas;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Adsorption of Water on Activated Carbons: A Molecular Simulation Study

    Erich A. Müller;Luis F. Rull;Lourdes F. Vega;Keith E. Gubbins

  • Phase equilibria and critical behavior of square‐well fluids of variable width by Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo simulation

    Lourdes Vega;Enrique de Miguel;Luis F. Rull;George Jackson

  • Applications of fly ash for CO2 capture, utilization, and storage

    Abdallah Dindi;Dang Viet Quang;Lourdes F. Vega;Enas Nashef

  • Prediction of Binary and Ternary Diagrams Using the Statistical Associating Fluid Theory (SAFT) Equation of State

    Felipe J. Blas;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Modeling ionic liquids and the solubility of gases in them: Recent advances and perspectives

    Lourdes F. Vega;Lourdes F. Vega;Oriol Vilaseca;Fèlix Llovell;Jordi S. Andreu

  • Activated carbons from biomass-based sources for CO2 capture applications

    Nada Abuelnoor;Ahmed AlHajaj;Maryam Khaleel;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Transport properties of the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride from equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. The effect of temperature

    Carlos Rey-Castro;Lourdes F Vega

  • Synthesis and characterization of activated carbon from biomass date seeds for carbon dioxide adsorption

    Adetola E. Ogungbenro;Dang V. Quang;Khalid A. Al-Ali;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Vapor−Liquid Equilibria and Critical Behavior of Heavy n-Alkanes Using Transferable Parameters from the Soft-SAFT Equation of State

    Josep C. Pamies;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Systematic evaluation of materials for post-combustion CO2 capture in a Temperature Swing Adsorption process

    Daniel Bahamon;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Capturing the Solubility Behavior of CO2 in Ionic Liquids by a Simple Model

    Jordi S. Andreu‡ and;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Physical synthesis and characterization of activated carbon from date seeds for CO2 capture

    Adetola E. Ogungbenro;Dang V. Quang;Khalid A. Al-Ali;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Current and future perspectives on catalytic-based integrated carbon capture and utilization.

    Muhammad Ashraf Sabri;Samar Al Jitan;Daniel Bahamon;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Modeling the Solubility Behavior of CO2, H2, and Xe in [Cn-mim][Tf2N] Ionic Liquids

    Jordi S. Andreu;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Global Fluid Phase Equilibria and Critical Phenomena of Selected Mixtures Using the Crossover Soft-SAFT Equation

    Fèlix Llovell;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Carbon Dioxide-Perfluoroalkane Mixtures: Experimental Data and SAFT Modeling

    Ana M. A. Dias;Herve Carrier;Jean L. Daridon;Josep C. Pamies

  • Thermodynamic properties of Lennard-Jones chain molecules: renormalization-group corrections to a modified statistical associating fluid theory.

    Fèlix Llovell;Josep C. Pàmies;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Interfacial properties of Lennard-Jones chains by direct simulation and density gradient theory.

    Daniel Duque;Josep C. Pàmies;Lourdes F. Vega

  • Capturing the solubility minima of n-alkanes in water by soft-SAFT.

    Lourdes F. Vega;Fèlix Llovell;Felipe J. Blas

  • Perspectives and guidelines on thermodynamic modelling of deep eutectic solvents

    Ismail I.I. Alkhatib;Daniel Bahamon;Fèlix Llovell;Mohammad R.M. Abu-Zahra

  • Solubility of hydrogen in heavy n‐alkanes: Experiments and saft modeling

    L. J. Florusse;C. J. Peters;J. C. Pàmies;Lourdes F. Vega

Frequent Co-Authors

Fèlix Llovell
Fèlix Llovell Rovira i Virgili University
João A. P. Coutinho
João A. P. Coutinho University of Aveiro
Isabel M. Marrucho
Isabel M. Marrucho Instituto Superior Técnico
Pedro J. Carvalho
Pedro J. Carvalho University of Aveiro
Concepción Domingo
Concepción Domingo Spanish National Research Council
Keith E. Gubbins
Keith E. Gubbins North Carolina State University
Mariana B. Oliveira
Mariana B. Oliveira University of Aveiro
Erich A. Müller
Erich A. Müller Imperial College London
Ana B. Pereiro
Ana B. Pereiro Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Francesc Medina
Francesc Medina Rovira i Virgili University

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