Israel Pala-Rosas
Israel Pala-Rosas is a biochemical engineer. He obtained a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering Science from the School of Chemical Engineering and Extractive Industries, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México. Dr. Pala-Rosas has experience in production and quality in the canned food and beverage industry, as well as in the processing of triglycerides for the production of soap and biodiesel. He has been a professor at different universities and a thesis co-director for undergraduate and master’s students at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México. His interests include the research and development of catalytic and biotechnological processes for the transformation of biomass-derived molecules to compounds of technological and industrial interest. He focuses his work on the synthesis, characterization, and testing of catalysts, as well as the design and analysis of chemical and biochemical reactors. Areas related to the catalytic processes, such as chemical thermodynamics, unit operations, and economics, are also under his scope. Dr. Pala-Rosas has published research articles on the use of zeolites for the synthesis of pyridine bases from acrolein and ammonia, the catalytic dehydration of glycerol to acrolein, heterogeneous catalysts for biodiesel synthesis, and biomaterials. He is the author of a book chapter dealing with the production of acrolein from glycerol and the editor of the book Current Drying Processes.