Gabriel Yarce

Plant Process Engineer @ C1 Green Chemicals AG

About

A committed, determined and ambitious chemical engineer, with the development of processes and raw material conversion in the most sustainable and environmental friendly manner, whose skills have been developed under an international and multidisciplinary R&D and Innovation environment, with cutting-edge topics in sustainable chemistry of high social impact. Founder of Acetales de Colombia (AcetalCol), company to produce several acetals to fulfill de needs of novel green solvents such as Methylal, Ethylal and 1,3 Dioxolane within polymer, cosmetic and pharmaceutical market. Current Areas of Interest: Power-to-X concept, Methanol & Formaldehyde Value Chain (C1-Chemistry), Poly (oxymethylene) Dimethyl Ethers (OME), Production of Acetals, MEK-Peroxide production, Process Design and Innovation, Reaction Kinetics, Modeling and Simulation, Chemical Thermodynamics, Reactive Distillation.

Country

Germany

City

Leuna

Industry

Chemicals

Skill

Chiller Systems, Teamwork, Process Engineering, Design, Modeling, 3D Modeling, Research, Process Design, Matlab, Reaction Engineering, Methanol, Power Systems, AVEVA PDMS, Aspen Plus, Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Office

Experience

Plant Process Engineer

C1 Green Chemicals AG

2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Leuna

Plant Process Engineer

C1 Green Chemicals AG

2025-10 - Present · 1 yr

Leuna

Research And Development Engineer

Sorption Technologies GmbH

2024-7 - 2025-10 · 1 yr 4 mos

Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

- Research & Development of different prototypes for energy-storage and/or chiller based on adsorption technology - Engineering, procurement and construction/Assembly for the above-mentioned prototypes. - Design and performing of Experiments to describe and optimize the adsorption based machines

Research And Development Engineer

OXIDER

2023-7 - 2024-6 · 1 yr

Colombia

- MEKP Process design - Procurement & construction of pilot plant (>450kg yield) for production of Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide (MEKP) - Formulations of MEKP references according to costumer needs

Lecturer

Universidad de Antioquia

2017-2 - 2022-12 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Medellin, Colombia

- Fluid Mechanics - Chemical Thermodynamics - Reaction engineering - Statistics & Experimental design

University Lecturer

Universidad de Antioquia

2017-2 - 2022-12 · 5 yrs 11 mos

Antioquia Area, Colombia

Research And Development Engineer

OXIDER

2021-2 - 2022-9 · 1 yr 8 mos

Itagüí, Antioquia, Colombia

- Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide (MEKP) Reaction Engineerinng - Design of Experiments for MEKP best process conditions - MEKP Process design - Procurement & construction of pilot plant for production of MEKP

Research Assistant

Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE

2016-4 - 2017-2 · 11 mos

Freiburg und Umgebung, Deutschland

Process development for the synthesis of poly(Oxymetylene) Dimethyl Ethers (OME) based on CO2 and H2 Main Tasks: - Chemical and Phase Equilibrium modelling in MatLab, to simulate the OME Synthesis and optimize OME reaction conditions. - Design and construction of several labor scaled plants to synthetize reactants and further OME in Batch and continuous operation. - Setting Analytical strategy: Calibration of Gas-Chromatograph (FID&TCD detector) to analyze OME 1-5 (among others) and formaldehyde determination by means of sulfite titration method.

Master Thesis

Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE

2015-6 - 2016-3 · 10 mos

Freiburg und Umgebung, Deutschland

Sustainable Synthesis of Poly(Oxymethylene) Dimethyl Ethers (OME) based on CO2 and H2 - Phase & Chemical Equilibrium Modelling and Simulation - Experimental Reaction Kinetics & Chemical Equilibrium

Quality Engineer

Premex

2013-4 - 2013-10 · 7 mos

Medellin, Colombia

- Documentary of chemical properties from main process raw material in order to implement ERP-SAP software

Intern Chemical Cleaning for Nuclear Power Plants

Framatome

2011-3 - 2011-7 · 5 mos

Erlangen und Umgebung, Deutschland

- Preparation, implementation and evaluation of laboratory experiments for the optimization of the chemical cleaning process carried out within steam generators used in nuclear power stations - Support the preparation of a chemical cleaning at a nuclear plant - Execute physicochemical analysis

Education

Technische Universität Berlin

Chemical Engineering

2013 - 2016 · 3 yrs

Graduation GPA: 1.8/5.0 (1 best - 5 worst)

Universidad de Antioquia

Chemical Engineering

2006 - 2012 · 6 yrs

Graduation GPA: 4.2/5.0 (0 worst - 5 best)

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Chemical Engineering

2010 - 2011 · 1 yr

- Module: Thermal Process Design Bioseparations: Cell disruption, Sedimentation & Centrifugation, Filtration, Extraction and Chromatography -Module: Bioprocess Chemical and Bioengineering: Enzyme Reactions, Growth Kinetics, Fermentation Process, Bioreactors, Mixing and Aeration