Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Hugo de Lasa
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 156515
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photocatalysis; reaction engineering; biomass catalytic gasification
Interests: catalysis and reaction engineering–in the areas of oxidative cracking/dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons; catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons, oil to chemicals; chemical looping; blue hydrogen; ammonia decomposition to hydrogen; biomass/heavy oil gasification; pyrolysis of waste materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Our journal is pleased to publish a Special Issue in honor of Professor Hugo de Lasa. Hugo is a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of Western University (UWO), London, Ontario, Canada. Hugo graduated in 1968 with an Ingeniero Quimico (Chemical Engineer) degree from the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Argentina, and in 1971 with a “Cum Laude” Doctorate degree from the Université de Nancy in France. Dr. de Lasa is the founding Director of UWO's Chemical Reactor Engineering Centre (CREC), which has received significant financial support over the years.
Dr. de Lasa holds 12 U.S. and Canadian patents, including that of the CREC-Riser Simulator for the development of next generation catalysts and environmentally friendly gasolines, that of the CREC-Optiprobes for the design of novel chemical reactors, that of the Pseudoadiabatic Catalytic Reactor for the development of environmentally friendly fuels, and more recently, that of the Photo-CREC Reactor for the elimination of pollutants in air, water, and hydrogen production. In 2003, Professor de Lasa founded RECAT Technologies Inc., which is a UWO-affiliated spin-off company, specializing in the development and commercialization of his inventions. Through CREC and Recat, Hugo de Lasa has been collaborating with a diversity of industries and governmental agencies from about 25 countries.
Hugo is the author of 349 peer-reviewed publications and 6 books. His work has received in excess of 8149 citations with a 47h index. He has successfully supervised more than 47 PhD and 34 MESc degrees. He is the first author of the 2005 leading book Photocatalytic Reaction Engineering, which has received more than 362 citations. Since 1998, Dr. de Lasa has received numerous awards in Canada and abroad. In 2005 and in 2018, Hugo received Honoris Causa Doctorate degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico and the Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia-San Juan Bosco, Argentina.
In honor and recognition of Professor Hugo de Lasa's outstanding career contributions to the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis and catalytic reaction engineering, this Special Issue of Catalysts welcomes the submission of previously unpublished manuscripts from original work or reviews in these areas. We plan to receive submissions from 1 July 2019 to 31 August 2020. Manuscripts will be published online on an ongoing basis after being processed.
Dr. Benito SerranoProf. Dr. Mohammad Mozahar Hossain
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- catalytic processes
- catalysts
- photocatalysts
- fluidized catalysts
- green catalytic technologies
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