A new edition of the Science & Technology Week 2017 is taking place at Department of Chemical Engineering - FEUP.

LSRE-LCM researchers together LEPABE and CEFT organized a series of visits to the laboratories under the motto “Technological advances in emerging fields of Chemical, Environmental and Biotechnology   Engineering”.  

The event was attended by MIEQ, MIEA and MIB students and also by some high school students.

More information about this event at: https://web.fe.up.pt/~deqwww/sct2017/

The article "Synergistic effect of bimetallic Au-Pd supported on ceria-zirconia mixed oxide catalysts for selective oxidation of glycero" published on Applied Catalysis B in 2016 won the Scientific Article 2017 Prize from Cátedra Foundation Cepsa.

On 10th of November, there was a ceremony to award this prize in Campus Algeciras de Universidad de Cádiz.

Congratulations to Professor Fernando Pereira, Professor José Orfão and the other authors for the honour of this award.

Article Reference:

C.M. Olmos, L.E. Chinchilla, E.G. Rodrigues, J.J. Delgado, A.B. Hungría, G. Blanco, M.F.R. Pereira, J.J.M. Órfão, J.J. Calvino, X. Chen. Synergistic effect of bimetallic Au-Pd supported on ceria-zirconia mixed oxide catalysts for selective oxidation of glycerol. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 197, 222-235, 2016.
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2016.03.050