Elijah has been accepted for graduate school at UT Austin’s Chemical Engineering Program.
Elijah Garcia worked on formaldehyde steam reforming for hydrogen production. He also worked on the UTSA-SwRI Connect Project on CO2 conversion to liquid fuels.
UTSA Office of Undergraduate Research Spring 2021 Virtual Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry Showcase – April 21, 2021 (click here to view poster)
Award:
Outstanding undergraduate researcher in chemical engineering at UTSA, May 2022.
Refereed Publications:
Seuser, G.; Staffel, R.; Hocaoglu, Y.; Upton, G.F.; Garcia, E.S.; Cronauer, D.C.; Kropf, A.J.; Martinelli, M.; Jacobs, G., “CO2 hydrogenation: Na doping promotes CO and hydrocarbon formation over Ru/m-ZrO2 at elevated pressures in gas phase media,” Nanomaterials 13 (2023) 1155. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13071155
Seuser, G., Martinelli, M., Garcia, E.S., Upton, G.F., Ayala, M., Villarreal, J., Rajabi, Z., Cronauer, D.C., Kropf, A.J., Jacobs, G., “Reverse water-gas shift: Na doping of m-ZrO2 supported Pt for selectivity control,” Appl. Catal. A: General, 650 (2023) 119000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2022.119000
Lawson, S., Baamran, K., Newport, K., Garcia, E., Jacobs, G., Rezaei, F., Rownaghi, A.A., “Adsorption-enhanced bifunctional catalysts for in situ CO2 capture and utilization in propylene production: a proof-of-concept study,” ACS Catal. 12 (2022) 14264−14279. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.2c04455
Martinelli, M., Garcia, E.S., Rajabi, Z., Watson, C.D., Kropf, A.J., Cronauer, D.C., Jacobs, G., “Na promotion of Pt/m-ZrO2 catalysts for the steam reforming of formaldehyde,” Catalysts (MDPI) 12 (2022) 1294 (21 pages). https://doi.org/10.3390/catal12111294
Presentations:
Hocaoglu, Y., Staffel, R., Upton, G., Garcia, E.S., Cronauer, D.C., Kropf, A.J., Martinelli, M., Seuser, G., Jacobs, G., “Na-doping promotes CO and hydrocarbon formation over Ru/m-ZrO2 during CO2 hydrogenation at 20 bar,” AICHE Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, November 13 – 18, 2022.