Profile (CV) of the research teaching staff

Collado Giménez, Francisco Javier
Department: Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica
Field: Máquinas y Motores Térmicos
Faculty: Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura

UNESCO codes
  • Energía solar
  • Dispersiones
  • Fuentes no convencionales de energía
  • Evaporación
  • Fluidización de sólidos
  • Transferencia de calor

Number of 6-year periods of research productivity evaluation
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/20
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/14
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/08
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/02
  • CNEAI research evaluation. 01/01/01
Academic position: Prof. Titular Univ.
Email: fjk@unizar.es
ORCID number: 0000-0001-5561-5457

Research interests
  • Flujos multifase
  • Energía solar

University degrees
  • Ingeniero Industrial especialidad Ingeniería Eléctrica. Universidad de Zaragoza. 1982

PhDs
  • Doctor Ingeniero Industrial. Universidad de Zaragoza. 1989

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Master in industrial engineering (1982) from Univ. Zaragoza (UNIZAR). His research in solar energy-high temperature started on 1983 as grant holder FPI at Mech. Eng. Dpt.-UNIZAR. PhD (1989) about new models for solar power tower plants. Two articles in Solar Energy and several works shown at international congresses.
From 1990 to 1994, engineer at Thermo-Generation Dpt. of TGI, S.A. (Madrid) where his research on two-phase flow started. Responsible of the TGI solids laboratory namely, pneumatic transport tests in pilot plant (64 m length, 6 m height, 8 bends) of the lignite-limestone mixtures used as fuel in the pressurized fluidized bed combustor (PFBC) Escatron. Start-up of a Jenike cell for the analysis of breaking strain in compacted powder materials. Simulation of fluidized beds with ASPEN. 3D CFD simulation with Phoenics of the sorbent injection for SO2 emissions abatement in the Litoral (Almeria) power station. "Pneumatic Transport of Bulk Materials" course (40 hours) in Wolfson Centre-Thames Polytechnic, London (1991). "CFD Phoenics" course (40 hours) CHAM, London (1992).
From 1994 until the present, teaching Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering in UNIZAR. Associate professor (1998).
From 1994 to 2008, the two-phase flow research is continued: Powder Technology (1997), AIChE Journal (2002). Besides, a new research line in flow boiling is started: Transactions of American Nuclear Society (2000), Fusion Engineering and Design (2001), Fusion Engineering and Design (2002), Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (2003), Energy (2005).
In 2005, Spanish MEC project DPI2005-08654-C04-04, "Thermal bubbles generation: Thermo-fluid dynamics of flow boiling": Journal of Heat Transfer-Transactions of the ASME (2006), Heat and Mass Transfer (2006), AIChE Journal (2007), Applied Physics Letters (2007), Energy Conversion and Management (2008).
Since 2008, the two-phase flow research centred in developing brand new fundamentals.
The solar power tower plants research is continued through a MINECO (2009) project ENE2009-10628, “Modular design of solar power tower heliostat by heliostat”: Solar Energy (2008, 2010), Renewable Energy (2009, 2012) and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2013).
Recently, brand new fundamentals for two-phase flow has been published in Computers and Mathematics with Applications (2014).
In 2015, second project about solar power tower ENE2015 67518-R, “Structured optimisation of solar power tower at commercial scale (100 MWe)”: Solar Energy (2016, 2018, 2019) and Energy (2019). Intellectual Property registered of the CAMPO code (Matlab) at UNIZAR (PII-2018-0024, July/10/2018). A copy of the code, under Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-ND licence, has been delivered to several research groups namely, Univ. Carlos III-Madrid, Univ. Salamanca, Univ. Almeria, IMDEA-Energía, The Cyprus Institute, as well as Spanish companies: Sener and Abengoa.
Very recently, two works about a new one-dimensional hydrodynamics model for circulating fluidized beds (CFB) have been published (Granular Matter 2016, Powder Technology 2018). Both based on the new hyperbolic conservation laws for two-phase flows.
The PI seeks to confirm the general validity of the new two-phase flow conservation laws with exhaustive comparisons with experimental data for two two-phase flow very different from each other i.e., gas-solid and liquid-vapour flows.


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