Alberto Abad

21.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
242 papers, 18.6k citations indexed

About

Alberto Abad is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Abad has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 18.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 230 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 173 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 112 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alberto Abad's work include Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes (220 papers), Industrial Gas Emission Control (116 papers) and Thermal and Kinetic Analysis (49 papers). Alberto Abad is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes (220 papers), Industrial Gas Emission Control (116 papers) and Thermal and Kinetic Analysis (49 papers). Alberto Abad collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Sweden and China. Alberto Abad's co-authors include Juan Adánez, Luis F. de Diego, Francisco García‐Labiano, Pilar Gayán, Teresa Mendiara, Iñaki Adánez-Rubio, Tobias Mattisson, Ana Cuadrat, Anders Lyngfelt and Avelino Corma and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Abad

234 papers receiving 18.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Progress in Chemical-Looping Combustion and Reforming technologies

2011 1.9k citations Juan Adánez, Alberto Abad et al. profile →
Selection of Oxygen Carriers for Chemical-Looping Combustion

2004 663 citations Juan Adánez, Luis F. de Diego et al. Energy & Fuels profile →
Mapping of the range of operational conditions for Cu-, Fe-, and Ni-based oxygen carriers in chemical-looping combustion

2006 565 citations Alberto Abad, Juan Adánez et al. profile →
Chemical looping combustion of solid fuels

2017 510 citations Juan Adánez, Alberto Abad et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Abad Spain	72	16.6k	11.4k	8.5k	3.6k	2.8k	242	18.6k
Tobias Mattisson Sweden	67	15.2k 0.9×	10.5k 0.9×	8.1k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	249	16.1k
Tomás García Spain	55	3.7k 0.2×	2.4k 0.2×	4.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	2.7k 1.0×	197	9.4k
Fanxing Li United States	53	4.9k 0.3×	2.5k 0.2×	5.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	4.2k 1.5×	162	7.9k
R. Moliner Spain	49	2.1k 0.1×	1.7k 0.1×	4.2k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 1.0×	191	8.0k
Kongzhai Li China	47	2.9k 0.2×	2.0k 0.2×	5.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	3.9k 1.4×	173	7.2k
Binlin Dou China	49	3.6k 0.2×	3.3k 0.3×	2.3k 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	2.4k 0.9×	197	7.1k
M.T. Izquierdo Spain	45	2.6k 0.2×	2.0k 0.2×	2.2k 0.3×	822 0.2×	557 0.2×	172	5.3k
Liang‐Shih Fan United States	37	3.7k 0.2×	2.4k 0.2×	2.3k 0.3×	794 0.2×	1.6k 0.6×	90	5.2k
João C. Diniz da Costa Australia	53	3.2k 0.2×	4.3k 0.4×	5.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	258	11.1k
Shan Ren China	41	1.1k 0.1×	2.6k 0.2×	3.6k 0.4×	885 0.2×	2.2k 0.8×	215	5.6k

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Mendiara, Teresa, et al.. (2025). Identification of oxygen carriers for chemical recycling of plastic waste using chemical looping technologies. Fuel. 394. 135284–135284. 3 indexed citations

Adánez-Rubio, Iñaki, Alberto Abad, Henrik Leion, Tobias Mattisson, & Juan Adánez. (2025). Interaction of Swine Manure Ash-Oxygen Carrier Particles under Chemical Looping Conditions. Energy & Fuels. 39(5). 2602–2615.

Abad, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Chemical looping combustion and gasification of swine manure with a Cu-Based oxygen carrier. Chemical Engineering Journal. 503. 158503–158503. 2 indexed citations

Abad, Alberto, Iñaki Adánez-Rubio, Teresa Mendiara, et al.. (2024). Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling of Biomass and Coal: Scaling-Up to 50 kW_th Using a Copper-Based Oxygen Carrier. Energy & Fuels. 38(21). 21333–21344. 5 indexed citations

Abad, Alberto, M.T. Izquierdo, Luis F. de Diego, et al.. (2024). Effect of Biomass Torrefaction on the Syngas Quality Produced by Chemical Looping Gasification at 20 kW_th Scale. Energy & Fuels. 38(13). 11779–11792. 6 indexed citations

Abad, Alberto, Luis F. de Diego, Francisco García‐Labiano, et al.. (2024). Reviewing the Operational Experience on Chemical Looping Combustion of Biomass at CSIC: iG-CLC vs CLOU. Energy & Fuels. 38(21). 20681–20706. 10 indexed citations

Adánez-Rubio, Iñaki, et al.. (2024). Ash Interaction with Two Cu-Based Magnetic Oxygen Carriers during Biomass Combustion by the Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling Process. Energy & Fuels. 38(20). 19548–19558. 7 indexed citations

Loscertales, Margarita de Las Obras, Alberto Abad, Francisco García‐Labiano, Juan A.C. Ruiz, & Juan Adánez. (2023). Reaction kinetics of a NiO-based oxygen carrier with ethanol to be applied in chemical looping processes. Fuel. 345. 128163–128163. 8 indexed citations

Bartocci, Pietro, Alberto Abad, Aldo Bischi, et al.. (2023). Dimensioning Air Reactor and Fuel Reactor of a Pressurized Chemical Looping Combustor to Be Coupled to a Gas Turbine: Part 1, the Air Reactor. Energies. 16(5). 2102–2102. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Lu, Pietro Bartocci, Alberto Abad, et al.. (2023). Dimensioning Air Reactor and Fuel Reactor of a Pressurized CLC Plant to Be Coupled to a Gas Turbine: Part 2, the Fuel Reactor. Energies. 16(9). 3850–3850. 2 indexed citations

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Bartocci, Pietro, Alberto Abad, Tobias Mattisson, et al.. (2022). Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) developed by coupling a Pressurised Chemical Looping combustor with a turbo expander: How to optimize plant efficiency. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 169. 112851–112851. 12 indexed citations

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Mendiara, Teresa, Arturo Cabello, M.T. Izquierdo, et al.. (2021). Effect of the Presence of Siloxanes in Biogas Chemical Looping Combustion. Energy & Fuels. 35(18). 14984–14994. 10 indexed citations

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Diego, Luis F. de, et al.. (2021). Syngas Production in a 1.5 kW_th Biomass Chemical Looping Gasification Unit Using Fe and Mn Ores as the Oxygen Carrier. Energy & Fuels. 35(21). 17182–17196. 48 indexed citations

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Abad, Alberto, Arturo Cabello, Pilar Gayán, et al.. (2020). Kinetics of CaMn0.775Ti0.125Mg0.1O2.9-δ perovskite prepared at industrial scale and its implication on the performance of chemical looping combustion of methane. Chemical Engineering Journal. 394. 124863–124863. 24 indexed citations

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Abad, Alberto, Pilar Gayán, Luis F. de Diego, Francisco García‐Labiano, & Juan Adánez. (2018). Modelling Chemical-Looping assisted by Oxygen Uncoupling (CLaOU): Assessment of natural gas combustion with calcium manganite as oxygen carrier. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 37(4). 4361–4369. 22 indexed citations

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Adánez, Juan & Alberto Abad. (2018). Chemical-looping combustion: Status and research needs. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 37(4). 4303–4317. 183 indexed citations

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Ohlemüller, Peter, Falah Alobaid, Alberto Abad, et al.. (2018). Development and validation of a 1D process model with autothermal operation of a 1 MW th chemical looping pilot plant. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 73. 29–41. 31 indexed citations

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Mendiara, Teresa, Iñaki Adánez-Rubio, Pilar Gayán, et al.. (2016). Process Comparison for Biomass Combustion: In Situ Gasification‐Chemical Looping Combustion (iG‐CLC) versus Chemical Looping with Oxygen Uncoupling (CLOU). Energy Technology. 4(10). 1130–1136. 50 indexed citations

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Forero, Carmen R., Juan Adánez, Pilar Gayán, et al.. (2010). CO2 CAPTURE BY CHEMICAL LOOPING COMBUSTION. Revista Colombiana de Química. 39(2). 271–285.

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Mattisson, Tobias, J.C. Abánades, Anders Lyngfelt, et al.. (2005). Capture of CO2 in coal combustion. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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