Elijah Garcia

Elijah Garcia
Prior student
Graduated with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering 2022
 

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.