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Rafael Kandiyoti is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions focus primarily on engineering, with a significant emphasis on biomedical engineering as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental topics. Additional areas of study include inorganic chemistry and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including thermochemical biomass conversion processes, biofuel production and bioconversion, biodiesel production and applications, global energy and sustainability research, subcritical and supercritical water processes, zeolite catalysis and synthesis, and lignin and wood chemistry.

Recent publications by Rafael Kandiyoti include:

  • Liquid biofuels from food crops in transportation - A balance sheet of outcomes, 2021, Chemical Engineering Science X
  • Oxidative cracking of three to five-member ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in subcritical and supercritical water, 2020, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids
  • Identifying Synergistic Effects between Biomass Components during Pyrolysis and Pointers Concerning Experiment Design, 2021, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kandiyoti include Meredith Rose Barr, Roberto Volpe, Ahmad Rafizan Mohamad Daud, C. Berrueco, and Klaus Hellgardt.

The main venues where Kandiyoti's work appears are Chemical Engineering Science X, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Co-pyrolysis and co-gasification of coal and biomass in bench-scale fixed-bed and fluidised bed reactors

    A.-G Collot;Y Zhuo;D.R Dugwell;R Kandiyoti

  • Combustion reactivity and morphological change in coal chars: Effect of pyrolysis temperature, heating rate and pressure

    H.-Y. Cai;A.J. Güell;I.N. Chatzakis;J.-Y. Lim

  • Characterization of Heavy Hydrocarbons by Chromatographic and Mass Spectrometric Methods: An Overview

    Alan A. Herod;and Keith D. Bartle;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Characterization of Asphaltenes from Hydrotreated Products by SEC, LDMS, MALDI, NMR, and XRD

    F. Trejo;J. Ancheyta;T. J. Morgan;and A. A. Herod

  • Coal pyrolysis yields from fast and slow heating in a wire-mesh apparatus with a gas sweep

    Jon Gibbins-Matham;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Secondary reactions of flash pyrolysis tars measured in a fluidized bed pyrolysis reactor with some novel design features

    Hugh N. Stiles;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • A two-stage fixed-bed reactor for direct hydrotreatment of volatiles from the hydropyrolysis of biomass: effect of catalyst temperature, pressure and catalyst ageing time on product characteristics

    R.V Pindoria;A Megaritis;A.A Herod;R Kandiyoti

  • UV-Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Coal Pyrolysis Tars

    Chun-Zhu Li;Fan Wu;Hai-Yong Cai;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Characterization of tars from variable heating rate pyrolysis of maceral concentrates

    Chun-Zhu Li;Keith D. Bartle;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Determination of 17 trace elements in coal and ash reference materials by ICP-MS applied to milligram sample sizes

    H. Lachas;R. Richaud;A. A. Herod;D. R. Dugwell

  • Variable‐heating‐rate wire‐mesh pyrolysis apparatus

    J. R. Gibbins;R. A. V. King;R. J. Wood;R. Kandiyoti

  • Secondary char formation in the catalytic pyrolysis of biomass

    Claudio A. Zaror;Ian S. Hutchings;D.Leo Pyle;Hugh N. Stiles

  • Solubility limitations in the determination of molecular mass distributions of coal liquefaction and hydrocracking products : 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone as mobile phase in size exclusion chromatography

    Alan A. Herod;Sheng-Fu Zhang;Barry R. Johnson;and Keith D. Bartle

  • Structural characterization of biomass pyrolysis tars/oils from eucalyptus wood waste : effect of H2 pressure and sample configuration

    Ramesh V. Pindoria;Jin-Yee Lim;Janet E. Hawkes;Maria-Jesus Lazaro

  • CO2 and steam-gasification in a high-pressure wire-mesh reactor: the reactivity of Daw Mill coal and combustion reactivity of its chars

    R.C Messenböck;D.R Dugwell;R Kandiyoti

  • Characterization of biomass pyrolysis tars produced in the relative absence of extraparticle secondary reactions

    Ana-Rita Fraga;Alec F. Gaines;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Heteroatom distribution in pyrolysis products as a function of heating rate and pressure

    H.-Y. Cai;A.J. Güell;D.R. Dugwell;R. Kandiyoti

  • Vacuum pyrolysis of maceral concentrates in a wire-mesh reactor

    Chun-Zhu Li;Keith D. Bartle;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Two-Stage Kinetic Model of Primary Coal Liquefaction

    Bin Xu† and;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • The effect of variations in time-temperature history on product distribution from coal pyrolysis

    Jon R. Gibbins;Rafael Kandiyoti

  • Fractionation by planar chromatography of a coal tar pitch for characterisation by size-exclusion chromatography, UV fluorescence and direct-probe mass spectrometry

    Alan A. Herod;Rafael Kandiyoti

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan A. Herod
Alan A. Herod Imperial College London
Marcos Millan
Marcos Millan King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Isabel Suelves
Isabel Suelves Spanish National Research Council
M.J. Lázaro
M.J. Lázaro Spanish National Research Council
Keith D. Bartle
Keith D. Bartle University of Leeds
Chun-Zhu Li
Chun-Zhu Li Curtin University
Paul S. Fennell
Paul S. Fennell Imperial College London
Rosa Menéndez
Rosa Menéndez Spanish National Research Council
Marcos Granda
Marcos Granda Spanish National Research Council
Ricardo Santamaría
Ricardo Santamaría Edwards Lifescience

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