NEWS

Marcelo Costa PhD Thesis Defense

November 6, 2017

LSRE-LCM congratulates Marcelo Costa for his PhD thesis defense on November 6th, 2017.

Marcelo finished the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled The NETmix® Tecnhnology, Applied to Gas Hydrates Production: A Potential Solution to CCS supervised by Prof. José Carlos Lopes and co-supervised by Prof. Joaquim Faria.

The staff and team of LA LSRE-LCM wish Marcelo a successful and bright life ahead.

Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes by Alírio Rodrigues and Rui Faria

October, 2017

Professor Alírio Rodrigues and Doctor Rui Faria are authors of the book Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes together with Professor Luís Miguel Madeira (LEPABE, FEUP) and Yi-Jiang Wu (ECUST, China).

Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes (SERP) provides undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry and chemical engineering, researchers and industrial engineers with a clear path towards process development of SERP, whatever the area of application.

Main Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Gas-phase Adsorptive Reactor for Hydrogen Production Processes
  • Membrane Reactors for Water-Gas Shift
  • Liquid Phase Simulated Moving Bed Reactor
  • Conclusions and Perspectives

Full Book Reference:
A.E. Rodrigues, L.M. Madeira, Y-J. Wu, R. Faria. Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes. World Scientific Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-78634-357-4

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

J.L. Figueiredo. A Relevância da Indústria Química e o seu Contributo para a Sociedade. Princípia Editora, Lda., Cascais, 2022

APPROVED PROJECTS

ERA-ARE - A new ERA for Environmental Risk Assessment: Chirality as a tool towards environmentally safe pharmaceuticals. Reference: ERC - 101039270. Funded by: European Comission, Horizon Europe | ERC | STARTING GRANTS. Starting Date: 2023/12/31. Duration: 60 months.
F-CAT - A catalytic tool for the defluorination of PFAS in drinking water into degradable organics. Reference: 2022.03874.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.
STAR - STereoselective environmental processes in Antibiotics: role for Resistance. Reference: 2022.02842.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.
DRopH2O - Drinking water quality: early warning and removal of microcontaminants by innovative carbon-based materials. Reference: 2022.08738.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.
SuN2Fuel - Photo-assisted production of green ammonia-based fuels. Reference: 2022.04682.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 36 months.
CO2-to-CH4 - Cutting-edge solar-to-heat technology to foster photo-thermocatalytic CO2 methanation towards a climate-neutral economy. Reference: 2022.01176.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.
H2O-3DCapture - Water harvesting – sustainable solution based on a gas-adsorption process using innovative 3D-printed hybrid materials. Reference: 2022.01973.PTDC. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, . Starting Date: 2023/03/01. Duration: 18 months.

THESIS DEFENSES

Vinicius Viena Santana
Cyber-physical oriented chemical process for green and sustainable production
André Tiago Torres Pinto
Optimised 2D Carbon Materials Activated by Artificial Light and Electrical Current for Catalytic Water and Wastewater Treatment
Larissa Oliveira Paulista
Solar-Driven Thermo-Photocatalytic CO2 Valorisation into Value-Added Fuels
Isabel Sousa Fernandes
Multiphase Flow in NETmix: mixing studies and applications
Rute Agostinha Gomes Seabra
Separation of light hydrocarbons by Simulated Moving Bed
Rafael Gomes Morais
Noble-metal free carbon-based materials for energy conversion