NEWS

LSRE-LCM participation at "Semana Profissão: Engenheiro" FEUP 2019

April 1-3, 2018

LSRE-LCM researchers participated in the FEUP initiative called Occupation Week: Engineer "Semana Profissão: Engenheiro". It is taking place during three days, between April 1st and 3rd, this year edition presented more than 60 activities for students, teachers and psychologists of the high school.

The Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM promoted presentations with demonstrations of the different research areas on its laboratories.

This annual event is the ideal time to students from high school learn more about educational programmes offered by FEUP.

Thanks to Doctors Cláudia Silva, Salomé Soares, Vítor Vilar and all researchers for representing the LSRE-LCM team!

More information at: https://paginas.fe.up.pt/~escolas/

Rui Ribeiro wins Best AOPs PhD Thesis 2018

March 28, 2018

Rui Ribeiro has received the prize of Best PhD thesis 2018 on environmental applications of AOPs for his PhD thesis entitled Synthesis of Hybrid Magnetic Carbon Nanocomposites for Catalytic Wet Peroxide Oxidation, supervised by Prof. Joaquim Faria and co-supervised by Prof. Helder Gomes and Prof. Adrián Silva. His PhD studies were focused on the development of carbon materials, metal oxides, carbon-based magnetic nanostructured composites and bimetallic materials for heterogeneous environmental catalytic applications for water/wastewater treatment.

This prize was awarded by the International PhD School on Advanced Oxidadtion Processes (IPS-AOP) to the candidate with the higher Impact Factor (IF) calculated as the average value of the 3 publications with the higher IF, where the candidate is first author. The average IF of Dr. Rui Ribeiro was 11.7.

Dr. Rui Ribeiro is currently a Researcher at LSRE-LCM working on the development of smart carbon materials to identify and eliminate water micropollutants.

LSRE-LCM would like to congratulate Rui Ribeiro and his supervisors for this prize!

See the official IPS-AOP Prize divulgation:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/International-PhD-School-on-Advanced-Oxidation-Processes

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Carneiro M.A., Silva T.A., Teixeira P.J.S., Boaventura R.A.R., Botelho C.M.S., Pintor A.M.A.. New insights on antimony removal and recovery from water and wastewater using iron-coated cork granulates: Desorption on batch and fixed-bed column systems. Chemical Engineering Science, 296, 120207, 2024
Domingues P.S., Sousa H.P., Oliveira N.S., Ribeiro A.M., Ferreira A.. Determination of the biochemical methane potential of swine hydrolyzate. Renewable Energy, 235, 121287, 2024
Matos J., Santos R.J., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B.. Chaos and mixing in NETmix. AIChE Journal, 70, e18461, 2024
Batool S., Schubert J.S., Ayala P., Saito H., Sampaio M.J., Da Silva E.S., Silva C.G., Faria J.L., Eder D., Cherevan A.. A thiomolybdate cluster for visible-light-driven hydrogen evolution: comparison of homogeneous and heterogeneous approaches. Sustainable Energy and Fuels, 8, 1225 - 1235, 2024
Restivo J., Orge C.A., Soares O.S.G.P., Pereira M.F.R.. A review of current and prospective catalytic routes for the management of PFAs contamination in water. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 12, 112859, 2024

APPROVED PROJECTS

SWMOF - Water capture from atmospheric humidity using ecological MOFs and integration with intelligent water distribution systems. Reference: Water4All/0003/2022. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Water4All - Water4All Partnership (co-funded by Horizon Europe). Starting Date: 2024/04/01. Duration: 36 months.
ReWateR - Recovery of Wastewater Resources in Agriculture. Reference: 82343. Funded by: “La Caixa” Foundation, INCF - Incoming Fellowship 2023. Starting Date: 2024/04/01. Duration: 36 months.
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.
NEWater - Unconventional, natural and low-energy solutions for managing water sources. Reference: Water4All/0002/2022. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Water4All - Water4All Partnership (co-funded by Horizon Europe). Starting Date: 2023/12/01. Duration: 36 months.
RESURGENCE - Industrial Water Circularity: Reuse, resource recovery and energy efficiency for greener digitised EU process. Reference: 101138097. Funded by: European Comission, Horizonte Europa | Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space. Starting Date: 2023/12/01. Duration: 48 months.

THESIS DEFENSES

Ana Sofia Guedes Gorito dos Santos
Removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from water in continuous catalytic systems
Júlia Cristiê Kessler
Supercritical CO2 extraction and continuous production of Moringa oleifera microcapsules: A scalable approach for natural-based cosmetic formulations
Lucas Zafanelli
Green Hydrogen Recovery from Natural Gas Grids by Adsorption Processes
Stephany Cunha de Rezende
Natural-Based Solid Dispersions as Technological Solutions for Innovative Food Applications
Heloísa Helena Scorsato de Almeida
Hydrosols as antimicrobial agents for sustainable applications
Patrícia Sofia Ferreira Ramalho
Selective reduction of nitric oxide (NOx) over carbon-based catalysts