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Scientific interests and competences

  • Wood chemistry, physical-chemical characterization of wood and its components
  • Fast and slow pyrolysis
  • Analytical pyrolysis
  • Liquid and solid products of the thermodegradation process of lignocellulose, as well as their chemical composition and properties
  • Theoretical and practical aspects for obtaining sorbents, porous structure

 

The most important publications

  • Dobele G.; Volperts A.; Plavniece A.; Zhurinsh A.; Upskuviene D.; Balciunaite A.; Niaura G.; Colmenares-Rausseo L.C.; Tamasauskaite-Tamasiunaite L.; Norkus E.
    Thermochemical Activation of Wood with NaOH, KOH and H3PO4 for the Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Nanoporous Carbon for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Molecules, 2024, 29(10), 2238, doi: 10.3390/molecules29102238

  • Dobele G.; Plavniece A.; Volperts A.; Zhurinsh A.; Upskuviene D.; Balciunaite A.; Jasulaitiene V.; Niaura G.; Talaikis M.; Tamasauskaite-Tamasiunaite L.; Norkus E.; Kvello J.; Colmenares-Rausseo L.C.
    Effect of Pretreatment on the Nitrogen Doped Activated Carbon Materials Activity towards Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Materials, 2023, 16(17), 6005, doi: 10.3390/ma16176005

  • Meile K.; Dobele G.; Iljina N.; Zhurinsh A.; Jurkjane V.
    Lignocellulose pyrolysis by-products as an underestimated source of chemicals: separation and characterisation

    Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery, 2023, 13(7), 5709-5720, doi: 10.1007/s13399-021-01540-8

  • Upskuviene D.; Balciunaite A.; Drabavicius A.; Jasulaitiene V.; Niaura G.; Talaikis M.; Plavniece A.; Dobele G.; Volperts A.; Zhurinsh A.; Lin Y.-C.; Chen Y.-W.; Tamasauskaite-Tamasiunaite L.; Norkus E.
    Synthesis of nitrogen-doped carbon catalyst from hydrothermally carbonized wood chips for oxygen reduction

    Catalysis Communications, 2023, 184, 106797, doi: 10.1016/j.catcom.2023.106797

  • Dobele G.; Zhurinsh A.; Volperts A.; Jurkjane V.; Pomilovskis R.; Meile K.
    Study of levoglucosenone obtained in analytical pyrolysis and screw-type reactor, separation and distillation

    Wood Science and Technology, 2020, 54(2), 383-400, doi: 10.1007/s00226-020-01164-7

  • Grinins J.; Andersons B.; Biziks V.; Andersone I.; Dobele G.
    Analytical pyrolysis as an instrument to study the chemical transformations of hydrothermally modified wood

    Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 2013, 103, 36-41, doi: 10.1016/j.jaap.2012.10.016

Gaļina Dobele
Dr. habil. chem., Gaļina Dobele
Leading Researcher
Education
1998 - obtained the Habilitation Doctor in Chemistry (Dr.Habil.chem.) for the work "Thermocatalytic processes of processing lignocellulosic waste products with the acquisition of monomers and activated carbon"