Basic Information

Faculty

• 工学部
• 国際高等教育院

Concurrent Affiliation

• Graduate School of Engineering, 附属工学基盤教育研究センター

Academic Degree

• 修士(化学工学)(セラヤ工業大学)
• 博士（工学）(京都大学)

Research History

• From Apr. 2018, To Present

  Kyoto University, Chemical Engineering Department, Junior Associate Professor
• From Apr. 2013, To Mar. 2018

  The University of Tokushima, Faculty of Engineering Department of Chemical Science and Technology, Assistant Professor

ID,URL

• J-Global ID

  201801005282746050

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/7000023059

Research

Research Interests

• Structural optimization
• Fine bubbles
• Mass transfer enhancement
• Process optimization
• Process Intensification

Research Areas

• Manufacturing technology (mechanical, electrical/electronic, chemical engineering), Chemical reaction and process system engineering, Process System Engineering

Papers

• Temperature control of a Kaibel, Agrawal and Sargent dividing-wall distillation columns

  Cristopher A. Villegas-Uribe; J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; Nancy Medina-Herrera; Ricardo Gómez-González; Salvador Tututi-Avila

  Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Feb. 2021

  
• Development of a bidimensional analysis approach for n–butanol and electricity production in apple pomace biorefineries in a Mexican context

  Carlos Eduardo Molina–Guerrero; Idania Valdez–Vazquez; María J. Macías–Mora; Kathia León–Pérez; José de Jesus Ibarra–Sánchez; J. Rafael Alcántara–Avila

  Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 2021

  
• Hybrid two-step optimization of internally heat-integrated distillation columns

  Josué J. Herrera Velázquez; Fabián M. Zavala Durán; Leonardo A. Chávez Díaz; Julián Cabrera Ruiz; J. Rafael Alcántara Avila

  Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2021

  
• Operability and Proportional Integral Control of Reactive Distillation Configurations

  César Ramírez-Márquez; Gabriel Contreras-Zarazúa; José Antonio Vázquez-Castillo; Fernando López-Caamal; Héctor Hernández-Escoto; Jesus Rafael Alcántara-Ávila; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández

  Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 02 Oct. 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Adsorption mechanism of metal ions on activated carbon

  Ayaka Kuroki; Megumi Hiroto; Yoshitomo Urushihara; Toshihide Horikawa; Ken Ichiro Sotowa; Jesús Rafael Alcántara Avila

  Adsorption, 15 Aug. 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Design and control of diphenyl carbonate reactive distillation process with thermally coupled and heat-integrated stages configuration

  Hao-Yeh Lee; Chien-Ying Chen; Jun-Lin Chen; J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; MasatakaTerasaki; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  Computers & Chemical Engineering, Feb. 2019, Peer-reviewed

  
• Outlook of the Dynamic Behavior of Closed-Loop Control through Open-Loop Analysis for Intensified Separation Processes

  Julián Cabrera-Ruiz; César Ramírez-Márquez; Shinji Hasebe; Salvador Hernández; J. Rafael Alcántara Avila

  Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 12 Dec. 2018, Peer-reviewed

  
• Temperature dependence of water adsorption on highly graphitized carbon black and highly ordered mesoporous carbon

  Toshihide Horikawa; Shiliang (Johnathan) Tan; D. D. Do; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; D. Nicholson

  CARBON, Nov. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Novel Reactive Distillation Processes to produce Diphenyl Carbonate: Multi-Objective Optimization involving Cost and Controllability Criteria

  G. Contreras-Zarazúa; J. A. Vazquez-Castillo; C. Ramírez-Márquez; J. G. Segovia-Hernández; R. Alcantara-Avila

  Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Oct. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Multi-objective optimization involving cost and control properties in reactive distillation processes to produce diphenyl carbonate

  Gabriel Contreras-Zarazua; Jose Antonio Vazquez-Castillo; Cesar Ramirez-Marquez; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Jesus Rafael Alcantara-Avila

  COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Oct. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Comparison of intensified reactive distillation configurations for the synthesis of diphenyl carbonate

  Gabriel Contreras-Zarazua; Jose Antonio Vazquez-Castillo; Cesar Ramirez-Marquez; Gianni A. Pontis; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Jesus Rafael Alcantara-Avila

  ENERGY, Sep. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Design and control of diphenyl carbonate reactive distillation processes using arrangements with heat-integrated stages

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Masataka Terasaki; Hao Yeh Lee; Jun Lin Chen; Julian Cabrera-Ruiz; Ken Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  2017 6th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes, AdCONIP 2017, 18 Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Open-loop based controllability criterion applied to stochastic global optimization for intensified distillation sequences

  Julián Cabrera-Ruiz; Miguel A. Santaella; J. Rafael Alcántara-Ávila; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández; Salvador Hernández

  Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Jul. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Design and Control of Reactive Distillation Sequences with Heat-Integrated Stages To Produce Diphenyl Carbonate

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Masataka Terasaki; Hao-Yeh Lee; Jun-Lin Chen; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Intensification for the Silane Production Involving Economic and Safety Objectives

  Juan Martinez-Gomez; Cesar Ramirez-Marquez; J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Jose Maria Ponce-Ortega

  INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Jan. 2017, Peer-reviewed

  
• Design of a Multitask Reactive Distillation with Intermediate Heat Exchangers for the Production of Silane and Chlorosilane Derivates

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Morihiro Tanaka; Cesar Ramirez Marquez; Fernando I. Gomez-Castro; J. Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Oct. 2016, Peer-reviewed

  
• Heat-integrated intensified distillation processes

  J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; Hao-Yeh Lee

  Process Intensification in Chemical Engineering: Design Optimization and Control, 01 Jan. 2016, Peer-reviewed

  
• Entropy production and economic analysis in diabatic distillation columns with heat exchangers in series

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  ENERGY, Dec. 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Scanning curves of water adsorption on graphitized thermal carbon black and ordered mesoporous carbon

  Toshihide Horikawa; Takahiro Muguruma; D. D. Do; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila

  CARBON, Dec. 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Optimization of a reactive distillation process with intermediate condensers for silane production

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Hugo Alberto Sillas-Delgado; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Fernando I. Gomez-Castro; Jorge A. Cervantes-Jauregui

  COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Jul. 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• On the isosteric heat of adsorption of non-polar and polar fluids on highly graphitized carbon black

  Toshihide Horikawa; Yonghong Zeng; D. D. Do; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Jesus Rafael Alcantara Avila

  JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE, Feb. 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Silane Production through Reactive Distillation with Intermediate Condensers

  J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; Hugo Alberto Sillas-Delgado; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernández; Fernando I. Gómez-Castro; Jorge A. Cervantes-Jauregui

  Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Adsorption of Water and Methanol on Highly Graphitized Thermal Carbon Black and Activated Carbon Fibre

  Toshihide Horikawa; Masanori Takenouchi; Duong D. Do; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; David Nicholson

  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, 2015, Peer-reviewed

  
• Optimal design of cryogenic distillation columns with side heat pumps for the propylene/propane separation

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Fernando I. Gomez-Castro; J. Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  CHEMICAL ENGINEERING AND PROCESSING, Aug. 2014, Peer-reviewed

  
• Energy Minimization in Cryogenic Distillation Columns Through Intermediate Side Heat Exchangers

  J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; Fernando I. Gómez-Castro; J. Gabriel Segovia-Hernández; Ken Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 2014, Peer-reviewed

  
• Effect of mixing methods on the precipitation of basic copper acetate

  Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Takahiro Togawa; Yuika Shimizu; Masashi Kurashina Toshihide Horikawa; Jesús Rafael Alcántara Avila

  Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2014, Peer-reviewed

  
• New Synthesis Procedure To Find the Optimal Distillation Sequence with Internal and External Heat Integrations

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Shinji Hasebe; Manabu Kano

  INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, Apr. 2013, Peer-reviewed

  
• Multiobjective Optimization for Synthesizing Compressor-Aided Distillation Sequences with Heat Integration

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Manabu Kano; Shinji Hasebe

  INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, May 2012, Peer-reviewed

  
• Environmental and economic optimization of distillation structures to produce anhydrous ethanol

  J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; Manabu Kano; Shinji Hasebe

  Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 2012, Peer-reviewed

  
• Optimal dynamic controllability in compressor-aided distillation schemes using stochastic algorithms

  Julián Cabrera-Ruiz; J. Gabriel Segovia-Hernández; J. Rafael Alcántara-ávila; Salvador Hernández

  Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 2012, Peer-reviewed

  
• Optimal synthesis of Petyuk and equivalent distillation arrangements

  R. Alcantara-Avila; A. Jiménezgutiérrez

  8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering: Incorporating the 59th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference and the 24th Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering, 2009, Peer-reviewed

  
• Controllability analysis of alternate schemes to complex column arrangements with thermal coupling for the separation of ternary mixtures

  Victoria E. Tamayo-Galvan; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Salvador Hernandez; Julian Cabrera-Ruiz; J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila

  COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Dec. 2008, Peer-reviewed

  
• Controllability analysis of thermodynamically equivalent thermally coupled arrangements for quaternary distillations

  Jesus Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Julisn Cabrera-Ruiz; Juan Gabriel Segovia-Hernandez; Salvador Hernandez; Ben-Guang Rong

  CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN, Jan. 2008, Peer-reviewed

  
• Design and control analysis of thermally coupled configurations for quaternary distillations

  Juan Gabriel Segovia - Hernandez; Jesus Rafael Alcantara -avila; Julian #x ;n Cabrera - Ruiz; Salvador Hernandez; Ben Guang Rong

  Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 2007, Peer-reviewed

  

Misc.

• Water adsorption isotherms on Sterling FT

  Naoki Takashima; Toshihide Horikawa; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila

  4th International Forum on Advanced Technolgies (IFAT 2018), 2018

  
• Water adsorption scanning curves on highly graphitized carbon blacks

  Toshihide Horikawa; Takashima Naoki; D. D. Do; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila

  4th International Forum on Advanced Technolgies (IFAT 2018), 2018

  
• Effect of energy savings and open-loop controllability in heat-Integrated distillation structures

  Yumi Uno; J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa; Hao-Yeh Lee

  4th International Forum on Advanced Technolgies (IFAT 2018), 2018

  
• Flow around a single crystal and the mass transfer rate

  Natsuki Kitagawa; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa; J. Rafael Alcántara-Avila

  The 30th International Symposium on Chemical Engineering, Dec. 2017

  
• Environmental and economic assessment of extractive dividing wall distillation columns

  J. Rafael Alcantara Avila; Shinji Hasebe; Ken-Ichiro Sotowa; Toshihide Horikawa

  10th International Conference on Distillation & Absorption 2014, 2014, Peer-reviewed

  
• Hierarchical Synthesis Procedure of Optimal Distillation Sequences with Internal and External Heat Integrations

  Jesus Rafael Alcantara Avila; Shinji Hasebe

  Abstracts of the 9th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, 2013, Peer-reviewed

  
• Two-Level Approach for Synthesizing Externally and Internally Heat Integrated Distillation Sequences

  J. Rafael Alcantara-Avila; Manabu Kano; Shinji Hasebe

  The 13th Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering Congress, Taipei, Oct. 5-8, 2010, Peer-reviewed

  

Books and Other Publications

• Process Intensification Design Methodologies

  Gómez-Castro, Fernando Israel; Segovia-Hernández, Juan Gabriel, Joint work, Optimization methodologies for intensified distillation processes with flexible heat integration networks

  De Gruyter, Oct. 2019

  
• Heat-Integrated Intensified Distillation Processes

  J. Rafael Alcántara Avila; Hao-Yeh Lee, Joint work, Process Intensification in Chemical Engineering Design Optimization and Control

  Springer, 2016, Not refereed

  

Education

Teaching subject(s)

• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Fundamental Chemical Experiments-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Fundamental Chemical Experiments-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Revisiting Basic Physical Chemistry (quantum theory)-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Revisiting Basic Physical Chemistry (thermodynamics)-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2019, To Mar. 2020

  Special Topics in Chemical Engineering I

  Spring, 工学研究科
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021

  Fundamental Chemical Experiments-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021

  Fundamental Chemical Experiments-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021

  Revisiting Basic Physical Chemistry (quantum theory)-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021

  Revisiting Basic Physical Chemistry (thermodynamics)-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Fundamental Chemical Experiments-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Fundamental Chemical Experiments-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Revisiting Basic Physical Chemistry (quantum theory)-E2

  Fall, 全学共通科目
• From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2022

  Revisiting Basic Physical Chemistry (thermodynamics)-E2

  Spring, 全学共通科目