The first CATPRO user comes from Canary Island Tenerife. His name is Héctor and he is a PhD student from University of La Laguna.

Héctor decided for CAPTRO because it offers him the opportunity to use the equipment which is not available at his university. He is studying co processing of middle distillates with waste cooking oil to produce diesel like fuel. His main interest is to investigate relations between feedstock quality and catalyst lifetime. Catalyst deactivation is being studied by long term experiments in fixed bed reactors.