Dolores Eliche Quesada

University of Jaen

Prof. Dra. Dolores Eliche Quesada is Associatte Professor of the Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering Area of the University of Jaén (Spain), Chemical Engineer by the University of Granada (Spain) and PhD in Sciences by the University of Malaga (Spain). Her scientific activity has focused on Materials Science and Technology, and in particular on the development of new sustainable materials through the valorization of industrial waste and biomass for the construction sector, through the characterization of raw materials, the determination of the properties of ceramic materials and the innovation of products. She is the author of 41 scientific publications indexed mostly in the first quartile of the ISI and 8 book chapters, as well as, in the contribution of a hundred contributions to national and international scientific conferences.

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Scientific and technological development has led to the formulation of tailor-made materials, which have given rise to materials with new structural and industrial applications. This book aims to analyze the synthesis, characterization, and applications of ceramic materials. This includes an introduction to traditional and advanced ceramics, the use of traditional ceramic materials as ideal candidates for absorbing wastes, and the synthesis and characterization of advanced ceramics as nanoceramics, ytria ceramics, and electronic ceramics.

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Ceramic Materials

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Transition Metal Sulfide Catalysts for Petroleum Upgrading – Hydrodesulfurization Reactions

By A. Infantes-Molina, A. Romero-Pérez, D. Eliche-Quesada, J. Mérida-Robles, A. Jiménez-López and E. Rodríguez- Castellón

Part of the book: Hydrogenation

Introductory Chapter: Ceramic Materials - Synthesis, Characterization, Applications and Recycling

By Dolores Eliche-Quesada,Luis Pérez-Villarejo and Pedro José Sánchez-Soto

Part of the book: Ceramic Materials

Towards the Use of Yellow Clay in Fired Bricks

By Maryam Achik, Boutaina Moumni, Hayat Benmoussa, Abdellah Oulmekki, Abdelhamid Touache, Gil Gonzalez Álvaro, Francisco Guitián Rivera, Antonia Infantes-Molina, Dolores Eliche-Quesada and Olga Kizinievic

This chapter deals with the study of the possibility of using yellow clay - which was only used in pottery so far- in the civil engineering field as building materials, especially in the field of fired bricks. With the aim to improve the technological properties of yellow clay based bricks, two wastes were used as secondary raw materials. The first one is a mineral waste - pyrrhotite ash - this waste was neither characterized nor valued before by any other author. While the second waste is an organic waste - cedar sawdust - which is from the artisanal sector. Clay bricks containing yellow clay and different content of wastes were prepared and tested to evaluate their technological properties: water absorption, bulk density, porosity and mechanical strength… The test results indicate that the addition of wastes to clay bricks improves their technological properties and highlights the possibility of wastes reuse in a safe and sustainable way.

Part of the book: Clay and Clay Minerals

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Ceramic Materials

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