Rafael Villablanca Ahues

Petroleum Production Systems

• 2017 Project assistant for Crystallization Processes
• 2019 Chemical Engineering degree
• 2019 Master in Science of Chemical Engineering
• Experience in high pressure measurement techniques, theoretical and practical.

• Coordination of Spanish and Latin-American research collaborations
• Teaching assistant on geothermal energy production master course
• Supervision of bachelor and master work
• Fluid phase equilibrium and precipitation, practical measurements and theoretical background.
• Process design and simulation

• Phase behavior, interactions and properties of systems containing hydrogen
• Carbon dioxide sequestration
• Thermodynamic and transport behavior of fluid phases
• Precipitation and crystallization

Conference works

• CCHIQ 2017, Santiago, Chile, “Equilibrio liquido+vapor a alta presión de sistemas binarios [CO2+Hexanal] y [CO2+Etil-2-Metilbutirato]”
• EQUIFASE 2018, Cordoba, Argentina: “New apparatus for liquid-vapour equilibria measurement of interfacial tension for pure components at low temperature and elevated pressures”
• PROSCIBA 2019, Campinas, Brazil: “Transport properties for SC-CO2-Water systems under reservoir conditions “and “Synthesis and solubility measurement of 2,3-dichloro-1,4- naphtoquinone derivatives in supercritical carbon dioxide”.

Published articles

• 2017, Pablo López-Porfiri, Rafael Villablanca-Ahues, Arturo Bejarano, Juan C. de la Fuente, High-pressure (vapor+liquid) equilibria for binary systems containing carbon dioxide and key apple odorants, hexanal and ethyl-2-methylbutyrate, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics [115], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2017.08.008
• 2021, Villablanca-Ahues, R., López-Porfiri, P., Canales, R. I., & de la Fuente, J. C. (2021). High-pressure vapor + liquid equilibria for the binary system CO2 + (E)-2-hexenal. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids,[168], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.supflu.2020.105027