Chemical and Environmental Engineering Group

Rosalía Rodríguez is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Her research is focused on the production of sustainable biofuels and bioactive products from oleaginous microorganisms, evaluating the environmental feasibility of these processes. She studied Chemical Engineering in Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2001) and received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2006) working in the development of new catalysts for 1-hexene oligomerization. Later she worked studying the formation of inorganic scales in the crude oil extraction and transportation processes. She completed post-doctoral research visits in the Laboratoire de Materiaux Catalytiques et Catalyse en Chimie Organique CNRS (Montpellier, France, 2006) and the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (Pau, France, 2008).














Biocrude from Nannochloropsis gaditana by hydrothermal liquefaction: An experimental design approach

Sánchez-Bayo, A.; Megía Hervás, I.; Rodríguez, R.; Morales, V.; Bautista, L. F.; Vicente, G.


Mild hydrothermal pretreatment of microalgae for the production of biocrude with a low N and O content

Montero-Hidalgo, M.; Espada, J. J.; Rodríguez, R.; Morales, V.; Bautista, L. F.; Vicente, G.


Environmental and techno-economic evaluation of B-carotene production from Dunaliella salina. A biorefinery approach

Espada, J. J.; Pérez-Antolín, D.; Vicente, G.; Bautista, L. F.; Morales, V.; Rodríguez, R.


Biodiesel production (FAEEs) by heterogeneous Combi-Lipase biocatalysts using wet extracted lipids from microalgae

Sánchez-Bayo, A.; Morales, V.; Rodríguez, R.; Vicente, G.; Bautista, L. F.


Life cycle assessment and techno-economic evaluation of alternatives for the treatment of wastewater in a chrome-plating industry

Rodríguez, R.; Espada, J. J.; Gallardo, M.; Molina, R.; López-Muñoz, M. J.


Prediction of density and refractive index in furfuralþlubricating oil systems

Espada, J. J.; Rodríguez, R.


Heterogeneous-catalysed direct transformation of microalga biomass into Biodiesel-Grade FAMEs

Vicente, G., Carrero, A., Rodríguez, R., del Peso, G. L.


Comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) study of heterogeneous and homogenous Fenton processes for the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater

Rodríguez, R.; Espada, J. J.; Pariente, M. I.; Melero, J. A.; Martínez, J. A.; Molina, R.


Synthesis of fatty acids methyl esters (FAMEs) from Nannochloropsis gaditana microalga using heterogeneous acid catalysts

Carrero, A.; Vicente, G.; Rodríguez, R.; del Peso, G. L.; Santos, C


Liquid-Liquid phase equilibria for Soybean Oil Methanololysis: Experimental, modeling, and data prediction

Casas, A.; Rodríguez, J. F.; del Peso, G. L.; Rodríguez, R.; Vicente, G.; Carrero, A.


Effects in the solubility of CaCO3: Experimental study and model description

Coto, B.; Martos, C.; Peña, J. L.; Rodríguez, R.; Pastor, G.


Hierarchical zeolites as catalysts for biodiesel production from Nannochloropsis microalga oil

Carrero, A.; Vicente, G.; Rodríguez, R.; Linares, M.; del Peso, G. L.


Effect of precipitation procedure and detection technique on particle size distribution of CaCO3

Martos, C,; Coto, B.; Peña, J.L.; Rodríguez, R.; Merino-Garcia D.; Pastor, G.


Direct transformation of fungal biomass from submerged cultures into biodiesel

Vicente, G.; Bautista; L.F.; Gutiérrez, F. J.; Rodríguez, R.; Martínez, V.; Rodríguez-Frómeta, R. A.; Ruiz-Vazquez, R. M.; Torres-Martínez, S.; Garre, V.


Structural characterization of fuels obtained by olefin oligomerization

Rodríguez, R.; Espada Sanjurjo, J. J.; Coto, B


Optimisation of FAME production from waste cooking oil for biodiesel use

Bautista, L. F.; Vicente, G.; Rodríguez, R.; Pacheco, M.


Direct synthesis of mesoporous M-SBA-15 (M= Al, Fe, B, Cr) and application to 1-hexene oligomerization

van Grieken, R; Escola, J.M.; Moreno, J.; Rodríguez, R.


Alginate aerogels as adsorbents of polar molecules from liquid hydrocarbons: Hexanol as probe molecule

Rodriguez Escudero, R.; Robitzer, M.; Di Renzo, F.; Quignard, F.

  • Carbohydrate Polymers, 75, 52-57 (2009)

Biodiesel production from biomass of an oleaginous fungus

Vicente, G.; Bautista, L. F.; Rodríguez, R.; Gutiérrez, J.; Sádaba, I.; Ruiz-Vázquez, R. M.; Torres-Martínez, S.; Garre V.


Nitrogen and sulphur poisoning in alkene oligomerization over mesostructured aluminosilicates (Al-MTS, Al-MCM-41) and nanocrystalline n-HZM-5

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  • Applied Catalysis A: General, 337, 173-183 (2008)

Liquid-phase oligomerization of 1-hexene using Al-MTS catalysts

Escola, J. M.; van Grieken, R.; Moreno, J.; Rodríguez, R.

  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 45, 7409-7414 (2006)

Liquid phase oligomerization of 1-hexene over different mesoporous aluminosilicates (Al-MTS, Al-MCM-41 and Al-SBA-15) and micrometer/nanometer HZSM-5 zeolites

van Grieken, R.; Escola, J. M.; Moreno, J.; Rodríguez, R.

  • Applied Catalysis A: General, 305, 176-188 (2006)

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