Edwing Grajales Gonzalez
Postdoctoral Fellow
| Degrees: | M.A.Sc. (KAUST), Ph.D. (KAUST) |
| Email: | edwingjaviergrajales@cunet.carleton.ca |
Edwing Grajales is a Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and a member of the Energy and Particle Technology Laboratory (EPTL) at Carleton University. He received his BACs from the University of Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia), which recognized him as the best undergraduate student of the Chemical Engineering program at the commencement of 2013. His initial research focused on determining the kinetics of paraformaldehyde depolymerization and polymerization reactions occurring in batch reactor systems implemented in chemical processes of commercial interest.
He joined the Combustion and Pyrolysis Chemistry (CPC) group at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia in 2016 to pursue his graduate studies. For his MASc, he used quantum mechanics, transition state theory, and kinetic modeling to compute rate constants that help to estimate carbonyl emissions that originate from the oxidation of biobutanol and its isomers. As a Ph.D. student, Edwing addressed additional uncertainties in the kinetic models of relevant fuels and intermediates such as n-pentanol, isoprene, and nicotine. The second part of his Ph.D. research focused on reactive molecular dynamics simulations of systems of interest for energy transformations and catalysts. More specifically, he explored the chemistry of syngas oxy-combustion in supercritical carbon dioxide and the dealumination mechanism of an H-ZSM-5 zeolite-based material.
Edwing joined EPTL in 2023 to study the formation of nickel nanoparticles using atomistic simulations and develop kinetic models for the high-temperature oxidation of metal carbonyl compounds, the primary raw materials to produce metal ore with tailored properties.