Luis Herrera Diaz
lecturer
School of Engineering and Information Technology
Charles Darwin University
Australia
Biography
PhD Lecturer - Chemical Engineering Concepts of chemical engineering Process control and simulation Chemical engineering thermodynamics Process analysis.
Research Interest
My general research interests are in the field of molecular simulation, the study of gas-solid interactions and porous solids. Molecular simulation is currently a robust technique that allows the understanding of processes at the molecular scale. I use Monte Carlo simulation methods combined with experimental work to understand the interaction of solids and fluids as well as to develop new methods for the simulation of carbon porous materials. Porous solids and their interaction with fluids is important to chemical engineers because of the large number of industrial applications such as catalysis, adsorption and gas/energy storage. I am interested in: fundamental study of adsorption process in porous solids. characterization of porous materials by using adsorption means and molecular simulation techniques development of novel methods to simulate porous carbon materials development of new Monte Carlo methods to study solid fluid interaction.
Publications
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Herrera, L. C. Fan, D. Do and D. Nicholson (2011). "A revisit to the Gibbs dividing surfaces and helium adsorption." Adsorption 17(6): 955-965.
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Herrera, L. F., C. Fan, V. Nguyen, D. D. Do, T. Horikawa and D. Nicholson (2012). "A self-consistent method to determine accessible volume, area and pore size distribution (APSD) of BPL, Norit and AX-21 activated carbon." Carbon 50(2): 500-509.
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Wang, Y., D. D. Do, L. F. Herrera and D. Nicholson (2013). "On the condensation/evaporation pressures and isosteric heats for argon adsorption in pores of different cross-sections." Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 420: 96-102.
