Biography:
Maria Sosa is a student of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Agroindustry of Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Quito, Ecuador, and she has been working on her thesis to obtain the title of Chemical Engineer. She has a specialization in Polymers at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional and has been working with ceramic materials and oxidation systems in automobile exhaust pipes in order to reduce the emissions of carbon monoxide. She developed her thesis based on the use of Ecuadorian raw materials from low exploited sites for its application in oxidation processes with the use of copper and zirconium oxides.
Title : Study of the use of ceramic membranes coated with Copper and Zirconium oxides in the oxidation of Carbon monoxide