NEWS

Isabella Corrêa PhD thesis defense

December 19, 2024

LSRE-LCM congratulates Isabella Corrêa for her PhD thesis defense on December 9, 2024. Isabella finished the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled ''Innovative strategies for the production of solketal based on the simulated moving bed reactor technology " supervised by Professor Alírio Rodrigues and Doctor Rui Faria (Bondalti)

The staff and team of LSRE-LCM wish Isabella success in the new professional stage that will now begin!

12th Grade Students and Researchers Win First Prize at Eureka! Competition

December 9, 2024

12th D students Isabel Soares Oliveira, Maria Cardoso Toga, Nuno Teixeira Aroso and Vasco Teixeira Cardoso won first prize in the Eureka! competition with their project, titled CLEA. Their project was made in collaboration with the LSRE-LCM researchers Yaidelin Manrique, Isabel Martins and Cláudia Gomes da Silva.

The competition, part of the UBI Science and Innovation Meeting 2024 as part of Science and Technology Week, took place on 23 November 2024 and challenged young minds to think in innovative and sustainable ways.

Congratulations to the students, teachers, and researchers who took part!

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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

Liandra Gracher Teixeira
Anthocyanin-loaded double emulsions for food applications: Color stabilization and emulgels for customized 3D-printing

Giovana Colucci
Lignin-based Pickering Stabilizers for Innovative Cosmetic Applications

Paula Verônica Remor
Cork-Based Permeable Reactive Barrier Coupled with Electrokinetics for the Remediation of Soils Contaminated with Organic Pollutants

Pedro Velho Ferreira
Integrated Experimental, Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Greener Solvents: Extraction of Antioxidants