António Ribeiro graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1995. He is a teacher at the School of Technology and Management (ESTiG) of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) since 1997. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of the Chemical and Biological Department of IPB. In 1999 he started his post-graduate studies at FEUP, where in 2001 he obtained his degree of Environmental Engineering M.Sc. in the area of Priority Organic Pollutants in Landfill Leachates. In 2010 he obtained his Biological and Chemical Engineering Ph.D. in the area of Influence of the Solvent Composition on the Performance of Simulated Moving Bed Chiral Separations. Since January 2011, he is an Integrated Member of the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Processes (LSRE).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Modeling, design and optimization of Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) processes
Development and Optimization of SMB related techniques
Design of continuous separation techniques for multicomponent separations
Separation/Extraction of pharmaceutical and natural high added value products

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

A. Rodrigues, C. Pereira, M. Minceva, L.S. Pais, A.M. Ribeiro, A. Ribeiro, M. Silva, N. Graça, J.C. Santos. Simulated Moving Bed Technology: Principles, Design and Process Applications. Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, 2015 A.E. Ribeiro, A.E. Rodrigues, L.S. Pais. Separation of nadolol stereoisomers by chiral liquid chromatography at analytical and preparative scales. Chirality, 25, 197-205, 2013 A.E. Ribeiro, P.S. Gomes, L.S. Pais, A.E. Rodrigues. Chiral separation of ketoprofen enantiomers by preparative and simulated moving bed chromatography. Separation Science and Technology, 46, 1726-1739, 2011 A.E. Ribeiro, P.S. Gomes, L.S. Pais, A.E. Rodrigues. Chiral separation of flurbiprofen enantiomers by preparative and simulated moving bed chromatography. Chirality, 23, 602-611, 2011 A.E. Ribeiro, N.S. Graça, L.S. Pais, A.E. Rodrigues. Optimization of the mobile phase composition for preparative chiral separation of flurbiprofen enantiomers. Separation and Purification Technology, 68, 9-23, 2009 A.E. Ribeiro, N.S. Graça, L.S. Pais, A.E. Rodrigues. Preparative separation of ketoprofen enantiomers: Choice of mobile phase composition and measurement of competitive adsorption isotherms. Separation and Purification Technology, 61, 375-383, 2008

SELECTED PROJECTS

Multicomponent Chiral Separations by Simulated Moving Bed Based-Processes. Reference: PTDC/EQU-EQU/119025/2010. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I&DT - Projectos de I&DT em Todos os Domínios Científicos. Starting Date: 2012/03/01. Duration: 36 months. Role: Researcher AdTechP2 - Advanced Separation Technologies for the Protein Purification. Reference: PTDC/EQU-EQU/113310/2009. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I&DT - Projectos de I&DT em Todos os Domínios Científicos. Starting Date: 2011/03/01. Duration: 39 months. Role: Researcher
António Ribeiro
aribeiro@ipb.pt