Pablo A. García-Salaberri

Pablo García Salaberri

Office: 1.1.D.21    Phone: (+34) 91 624 9407    Email: pagsalab@ing.uc3m.es

Curriculum vitae (English)

Curriculum vitae (Spanish)

Biography

Pablo A. García-Salaberri holds a five-year B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2009) and a two-year M.S. degree in Industrial Mathematics (2012) from University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M, Spain), having graduated with honours in both cases. Pablo continued his studies in the Fluid Mechanics Research Group at UC3M Dept. of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, where he completed his PhD in Mathematical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Marcos Vera (2015). His PhD thesis, awarded among the most outstanding thesis in the programme of Mathematical Engineering, deals with the multiphysics modeling of liquid-feed Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs) and the characterization of diffusive transport properties of Gas Diffusion Layers (GDLs). As part of his doctoral programme, Pablo performed a three-month stay in 2013 at the Porous Materials Engineering & Analysis Lab (PMEAL) in McGill University (Canada), hosted by Dr. Jeff Gostick. After his doctoral studies, Pablo received a postdoctoral fellowship from the joint programme of the German federal government between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to work six months at the DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics (Germany). After that, Pablo came back to the UC3M Dept. of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, where he worked as postdoctoral researcher with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education for a period of six months (2016). In this period, his work focused on the development of comprehensive models of hydrogen Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs). From January, 2017, Pablo is Assistant Professor at the UC3M Dept. of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, where he teaches several undergraduate and graduate courses (Engineering Fluidmechanics and Hydraulic Machines) and continues his research on energy conversion and storage electrochemical devices. In the fall of 2017, he performed a short stay with Dr. Iryna V. Zenyuk at the Sustainable Electrochemical Energy Lab in Tufts University (USA). In 2018, Pablo was awarded a five-month Core Fulbright fellowship to visit the Energy Conversion Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) under the supervision of Dr. Adam Weber. In addition, he received a research project from the Spanish Iberdrola Foundation to investigate on Redox Flow Batteries (RFBs). Current Pablo's research interests are focused on the fundamental understanding of the complex multiphysics, multiphase and multiscale mass, charge and heat transport phenomena and electrochemical kinetics that take place in PEM fuel cells, RFBs and related electrochemical devices. A special focus is devoted to transport in thin porous media, such as carbon-fiber-based GDLs.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

  1. J. Liu, P. A. García-Salaberri, I. V. Zenyuk, Scale-bridging of micro and nano scales in reactive porous media, in preparation.
  2. J. Sánchez-Monreal, P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, 1D+1D model for direct ethanol fuel cells based on detailed ethanol electro-oxidation kinetics, in preparation.
  3. J. Liu, P. A. García-Salaberri, I. V. Zenyuk, The impact of reaction on the effective properties of multiscale catalytic porous media: a case of polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Chem. Eng. J. (2018), under review.
  4. P. A. García-Salaberri, I. V. Zenyuk, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A. Z. Weber, Implications of Inherent Inhomogeneities in Thin Carbon Fiber-Based Gas-Diffusion Layers: A Comparative Modeling Study, Electrochim. Acta (2018), under review.
  5. P. A. García-Salaberri, I. V. Zenyuk, A.D. Shum, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A. Z. Weber, J.T. Gostick, Analysis of representative elementary volume and through-plane regional characteristics of carbon-fiber papers: diffusivity, permeability and electrical/thermal conductivity, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 127 (2018) 687–703.
  6. P. A. García-Salaberri, J.T. Gostick, I.V. Zenyuk, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A.Z. Weber, On the Limitations of Volume-Averaged Descriptions of Gas Diffusion Layers in the Modeling of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, ECS Trans. 80 (2017) 133–143.
  7. J. Sánchez-Monreal, P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, Fundamentals of Electrochemistry with Application to Direct Alcohol Fuel Cell Modeling, in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell, InTech, Rijeka, ISBN: 978-953-51-5774-8.
  8. J. Sánchez-Monreal, P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, A 1D+1D Model of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells Based on an Optimized Kinetic Mechanism for Ethanol Electro-Oxidation Involving Free and Adsorbed Intermediate Species, ECS Trans. 80 (2017) 95–104.
  9. J. Sánchez-Monreal, P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, A genetically optimized kinetic model for ethanol electro-oxidation on Pt-based binary catalysts used in direct ethanol fuel cells, J. Power Sources 363 (2017) 341–355.
  10. P. A. García-Salaberri, D. García-Sánchez, P. Boillat, M. Vera, K. A. Friedrich, Hydration and dehydration cycles in polymer electrolyte fuel cells operated with wet anode and dry cathode feed: A neutron imaging and modeling study, J. Power Sources 359 (2017) 634–655.
  11. P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, On the effect of operating conditions in liquid-feed DMFCs: A multiphysics modeling approach, Energy 113 (2016) 1265–1287.
  12. J. Sánchez-Monreal, P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, Mathematical Modeling of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells Using a Multi-Step Chemical Kinetic Mechanism, ECS Trans. 72 (2016) 1-16.
  13. P. A. García-Salaberri, J. T. Gostick, G. Hwang, A. Z. Weber, M. Vera, Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of local saturation and application to macroscopic continuum models, J. Power Sources 296 (2015) 440–453.
  14. P. A. García-Salaberri, G. Hwang, M. Vera, A. Z. Weber, J. T. Gostick, Effective diffusivity in partially-saturated carbon-fiber gas diffusion layers: Effect of through-plane saturation distribution, Int. J. Heat Mass Transf. 86 (2015) 319–333.
  15. P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, On the effects of assembly compression on the performance of liquid-feed DMFCs under methanol-limiting conditions: A 2D numerical study, J. Power Sources 285 (2015) 543–558.
  16. P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, I. Iglesias, Modeling of the anode of a liquid-feed DMFC: inhomogeneous compression effects and two-phase transport phenomena, J. Power Sources 246 (2014) 239–252.
  17. P. A. García-Salaberri, M. Vera, R. Zaera, Nonlinear orthotropic model of the inhomogeneous assembly compression of PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 36 (2011) 11856–11870.