Carrillo, Alfonso, Dr.

Education

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain, 2016
Development of efficient Mn-based redox materials for thermochemical heat storage in concentrated solar power plants. Research conducted at IMDEA Energy Institute
• MSc, Renewable Energies, University of León, Spain, 2011
• MSc, Chemical Engineering, University of Salamanca, Spain, 2009

Publications

• A.J. Carrillo, D.P. Serrano, P. Pizarro, J.M. Coronado
  Understanding Redox Kinetics of Iron-Doped Manganese Oxides for High Temperature Thermochemical Energy Storage,
  J. Phys. Chem. C. 120 (2016) 27800–27812
• A.J. Carrillo, D. Sastre, L. Zazo, D.P. Serrano, J.M. Coronado, P. Pizarro
  Hydrogen production by methane decomposition over MnOx/YSZ catalysts,
  Int. J. Hydrogen Energy. 41 (2016) 19382–19389
• A.J. Carrillo, D. Sastre, D.P. Serrano, P. Pizarro, J.M. Coronado
  Revisiting the BaO₂/BaO redox cycle for solar thermochemical energy storage
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18 (2016), 8039-8048
• A.J. Carrillo, D.P. Serrano, P. Pizarro, J.M. Coronado
  Manganese oxide-based thermochemical energy storage: Modulating temperatures of redox cycles by Fe–Cu co-doping
  J. Energy Storage 5 (2015), 169–176
• A.J. Carrillo, D.P. Serrano, P. Pizarro, J.M. Coronado
  Improving the thermochemical energy storage performance of the Mn₂O₃/Mn₃O₄ redox couple by the incorporation of iron
  ChemSusChem. 8 (2015) 1947–1954
• A.J. Carrillo, D.P. Serrano, P. Pizarro, J.M. Coronado
  Thermochemical heat storage based on the Mn₂O₃/Mn₃O₄ redox couple: influence of the initial particle size on the morphological evolution and cyclability
  J. Mater. Chem. A. 2 (2014) 19435–19443
• A.J. Carrillo, J. Moya, A. Bayón, P. Jana, V.A. de la Peña O’Shea, M. Romero, J. Gonzalez-Aguilar, D.P. Serrano, P. Pizarro, J.M. Coronado
  Thermochemical energy storage at high temperature via redox cycles of Mn and Co oxides: Pure oxides versus mixed ones
  Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells. 123 (2014) 47–57

Patents

Book chapters

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

• Iberdrola Foundation Energy and Environment Research Grants 2014-2015
• 1^st prize Poster communication in: 4th Annual Workshop of Young Researchers, IMDEA Energy Institute. Dec 2015
• 1^st prize Poster communication in: 2nd Annual Workshop of Young Researchers, IMDEA Energy Institute. Dec 2013

Research

Alfonso Carrillo’s research focuses on the development of efficient redox materials for solar-to-fuel conversion and the kinetic study of the reactions involved in such process. Namely, reduction and oxidation reactions of perovskites are under investigation for such a purpose. The solar-driven step is the reduction of a perovskite (ABO3) in which lattice oxygen is released at high temperatures, creating oxygen vacancies in the perovskite structure. In the backward step, re-oxidation is performed under CO2 and water presence, process in which the oxygen vacancies of the reduced perovskite are filled again uptaking oxygen from CO2 and water molecules, which in turn results in the formation of CO and H2.
For this application, perovskite materials that enable production of syngas with high efficiencies while presenting long-term chemical stability are sought.