Marta Lara Serrano

@icp.csic.es

Grupo de Energía y Química Sostenibles
Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP-CSIC)



                    

https://researchid.co/martalaraserrano

Researcher with 8 years of experience in 3 projects on lignocellulosic biomass treatment and obtaining high-added value products. Expert in developing and implementing strategies to optimize analytical processes, using techniques for analysis and characterization, to ensure the quality of results. Ability to lead projects and meet established deadlines. Passionate about fostering a collaborative environment driven by excellence, constantly seeking opportunities to improve efficiency and accuracy in results.

EDUCATION

Doctorado en Química Aplicada por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Máster en Ciencia y Tecnología Química por la Universidad de Educación a Distancia
Máster en Ciencias Forenses. Especialidad: Criminalística por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Grado en Química por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Catalysis, Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Process Chemistry and Technology

FUTURE PROJECTS

BIOVINESHOOT (PID2020-112594RB-C33)

The general objective of the BioVineShoot project is to achieve a comprehensive fractionation of vine shoots into their main components, and to carry out their subsequent valorization into bioenergy and bioproducts through chemical and biochemical conversion processes, integrated into a biorefinery strategy. This approach thus aims to contribute to the development of the bioeconomy in rural areas with high availability of this residual biomass resource and to the challenge of generating clean, safe and sustainable energy.


Applications Invited
Fractionation and valorization of vine shoots through a biorefinery strategy.
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Scopus Publications

Scopus Publications

  • Catalytic conversion into 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural by heterogeneous sulfonic acid catalysis in a flowing acetone–water system
    Daniela M. Sboiu, María Dolores Márquez-Medina, Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, and Jose M. Campos-Martin
    Elsevier BV

  • Sustainable vine shoots-to-ethanol valorisation by a sequential acid/organosolv pretreatment
    Diego Cardoza, María del Mar Contreras, Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martín, Inmaculada Romero, and Eulogio Castro
    Elsevier BV

  • Selective Fragmentation of Lignocellulosic Biomass with ZnCl<inf>2</inf>·4H<inf>2</inf>O Using a Dissolution/Precipitation Method
    Marta Lara-Serrano, Daniela M. Sboiu, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, and Jose M. Campos-Martin
    MDPI AG
    Lignocellulosic biomass dissolution in an inorganic salt hydrate (ZnCl2·4H2O) and its subsequent precipitation with water for the separation of its main compounds were investigated. For this purpose, different dissolution times and temperatures were studied, where 24 h and 70 °C were found to be the optimal choice. Three solids were obtained, which were analyzed and identified by XRD, SEM, NMR, and FTIR spectroscopy. Solid I is the undissolved part of the starting material, and it consists of lignin, which does not react with the inorganic salt hydrate and the unreacted cellulose. Solid II is a cellulose-rich solid with a low portion of hemicellulose and lignin, and Solid III is mainly pure lignin as the characterization results showed. Hemicellulose is mainly dissolved and hydrolyzed in the dissolution treatment and the amount present in all solids was very small. The reactivity of Solid I and Solid II in a hydrolysis reaction was tested (0.2 M/L H2SO4, 5 h, and 140 °C), where a significant improvement in the conversion and the yield of sugars was obtained with respect to the untreated samples in both cases. Solid II yields a large amount of total reducing sugars, with a % selectivity of 78–88%, depending on the starting biomass.

  • Characterization of lignin and lignin-derivatives from biomass. Application as expander of Lead-acid battery
    Maryame Tghos Naim, Marta Lara-Serrano, Alberto F. Romero, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martín, Juan Ramón Avilés Moreno, and Pilar Ocón
    Elsevier BV

  • One-Pot Conversion of Glucose into 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural using MOFs and Brønsted-Acid Tandem Catalysts
    Marta Lara‐Serrano, Silvia Morales‐delaRosa, Jose M. Campos‐Martin, Víctor K. Abdelkader‐Fernández, Luís Cunha‐Silva, and Salete S. Balula
    Wiley
    AbstractThe direct conversion reaction of glucose to 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is studied using metal organic framework (MOF) as Lewis‐acid catalysts and a polyoxometalate (POM), silicotungstic acid, as a Brønsted‐type acid with a mixture of 1% glucose solution in γ‐valerolactone (GVL)‐10% H2O at 140 °C. The study is carried out with two routes: one using MOF and POM tandem catalysts added independently and the other through the synthesis of a composite material denoted POM@MOF. The activity tests show that the profiles of the conversion and yield of HMF achieved in both routes are similar, with the reactions with MIL‐53(Al) and MIL‐101(Cr) catalysts producing the highest yield of HMF (40% after 8 h of reaction). Stability tests are performed on the POM@MOF catalysts based on MIL‐53(Al) and MIL‐101(Cr). MIL‐53(Al) and HSiW@MIL‐101(Cr) can be reused, showing a progressive loss in HMF yield due to the leaching of POM.

  • Erratum: High enhancement of the hydrolysis rate of cellulose after pretreatment with inorganic salt hydrates (Green Chemistry (2020) 22 (3860-3866) DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01066A)
    Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martín, and Jose L. G. Fierro
    Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
    Correction for ‘High enhancement of the hydrolysis rate of cellulose after pretreatment with inorganic salt hydrates’ by Marta Lara-Serrano et al., Green Chem., 2020, 22, 3860–3866, DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01066A.

  • Isomerization of glucose to fructose catalyzed by metal-organic frameworks
    Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martin, Víctor K. Abdelkader-Fernández, Luís Cunha-Silva, and Salete S. Balula
    Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
    High catalytic activity is found to be due to the combination of a chromium catalyst with large pores (MIL-101(Cr)) with aprotic solvents (γ-valerolactone−10% H2O).

  • High enhancement of the hydrolysis rate of cellulose after pretreatment with inorganic salt hydrates
    Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martín, and Jose L. G. Fierro
    Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
    Cellulose treatment dissolution/precipitation in inorganic salt hydrates produces a dramatic morphology change that yields a reactivity improvement respect the untreated for transformations.

  • Fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass by selective precipitation from ionic liquid dissolution
    Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martín, and Jose L. G. Fierro
    MDPI AG
    We propose the treatment of barley straw with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate [EMIMAcO] ionic liquids (ILs) and subsequent precipitation with antisolvent mixtures, thus allowing the separation of the sugar-rich fractions (cellulose and hemicellulose) from the lignin fraction. For this purpose, different concentration ranges of acetone:water antisolvent mixtures were studied. In all cases, a high recovery percentage and a high and effective separation of fractions was achieved for 1:1 acetone:water. The fractionated lignocellulosic compounds were studied by using infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance characterization techniques. This method allows the possibility of reusing IL, confirming the versatility of the established method. The fraction rich in cellulose and hemicellulose was subjected to acid hydrolysis (0.2 mol/L H2SO4) for 5 h at 140 °C, obtaining a yield of total reducing sugars of approximately 80%, much higher than those obtained in non-pretreated samples.

  • Resource recovery potential from lignocellulosic feedstock upon lysis with ionic liquids
    Beatriz Padrino, Marta Lara-Serrano, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, José M. Campos-Martín, José Luis García Fierro, Fernando Martínez, Juan Antonio Melero, and Daniel Puyol
    Frontiers Media SA
    Lignocellulosic residues from energy crops offer a high potential to recover bioproducts and biofuels that can be used as raw matter for agriculture activities within a circular economy framework. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a well-established driver to convert these residues into energy and bioproducts. However, AD of lignocellulosic matter is slow and yields low methane potential, and therefore several pre-treatment methods have been proposed to increase the energy yield of this process. Hereby, we have assessed the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass (barley straw) with the ionic liquid (IL) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate and its effect on the biochemical methane potential (BMP). The BMP of the residue was evaluated at different inoculum to substrate (I/S) ratios and working under meso and thermophilic conditions. Solids destruction upon AD is highly enhanced by the IL-pretreatment. This also resulted in a higher BMP, both in mesophilic as well as thermophilic conditions. At the optimum I/S ratio of 2:1 (dried weight, dw), the BMP of the IL-pre-treated feedstock increased 28 and 80% for 35 days of thermophilic and mesophilic AD, respectively, as compared to the fresh feedstock, achieving values of 364 and 412 LCH4/kgTS. We also explored the effect of this pretreatment on the phosphorus recovery potential from the digestate upon release from the AD process. Thermophilic anaerobic digestion of IL-pre-treated biomass provided the highest P recovery potential from lignocellulosic residues (close to 100% of the theoretical P content of the lignocellulosic feedstock). Therefore, the pretreatment of lignocellulosic feedstock with IL before AD is a promising platform to obtain bioenergy and recover P to be regained for the agriculture sector.

  • Second-Generation Bioethanol Production Combining Simultaneous Fermentation and Saccharification of IL-Pretreated Barley Straw
    Marta Lara-Serrano, Felicia Sáez Angulo, María José Negro, Silvia Morales-delaRosa, Jose M. Campos-Martin, and Jose L. G. Fierro
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
    Ionic liquid dissolution/precipitation pretreatment of barley straw was used to improve the yield to produce ethanol. The pretreatment with ionic liquid greatly improves the enzymatic hydrolysis compared to untreated samples, reducing the hydrolysis time to only 24 h, which is lower than untreated samples and samples treated with other methods. The treatment with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate produced a better hydrolysis yield with a glucose yield close to 100%. We produced ethanol with pretreated samples using simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) and presaccharification, saccharification, and fermentation (PSSF). In both procedures we obtained very high and similar yields because the pretreatment enhances the enzymatic hydrolysis rate, and no presaccharification is needed. We obtained 22.9 g ethanol/100 g pretreated barley straw, representing 97% of the potential ethanol from the cellulose, one of the highest yields reported in the literature.

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