Emeritus Professor Alírio E. Rodrigues was appointed as Fellow of The International Adsorption Society (IAS), by the IAS Board in accordance with the recommendations of a review committee.

Professor Alírio E. Rodrigues, together with Shamsuzzaman Farooq, Randall Q. Snurr and Orhan Talu, were appointed due to "the tremendous and significant contributions during their careers for the field of adsorption and for our international community". 

Besides the public announcement in “Adsorption” journal and receiving of a formal certificate, new fellows of IAS will be honoured at the Conference on the Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA meeting) in Denver, 2022. 

More info at:
https://www.int-ads-soc.org/fellows/

An invention created by Emeritus Professor Alírio Rodrigues and Professor Ana Mafalda Ribeiro from LA LSRE-LCM in partnership with Total Petrochemicals France and Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) is the first patent “made in U.Porto” to reach a patent grant in South Korea.

The created invention focuses on “Pressure swing adsorption” method which involves a solid material as an adsorbent for separation processes in petrochemical industry. This adsorbent created by KRICT has an advantage since has different affinities with different compounds used in the process. In Petrochemical industry, streams usually contain a mixture of nitrogen and monomers such as propylene. Different affinities of nitrogen and propylene with the adsorbent enables the separation of the compounds.

This ecological solution which has lower energy consumption owed by this adsorbent, is an attractive technology for the Petrochemical industry.

The patent of this innovation, which involves 10 researchers from 3 institutions, Associate Laboratory  LSRE-LCM/FEUP, KRICT and TOTAL, was granted in Europe, United States and South Korea.

More info:
https://noticias.up.pt/inovacao-made-in-u-porto-quer-revolucionar-a-industria-petroquimica/