The AIChE Annual Meeting 2019 took place in Orlando, Florida, USA from november 10^th to15^th. Professor Alírio E. Rodrigues was invited to give two talks at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2019.

One talk was entitled “The Role of Adsorption Processes in Lignin Biorefinery to Make Vanillin and Syringaldehyde” in the Area Plenary Session: Adsorption and Ion Exchange - In Honor of Celio Cavalcante. The second talk was entitled “Simulated Moving Bed- Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future” in the Plenary Session Chromatographic Separations and SMB - In Honor of Linda Wang.

AIChe 2019 counted with around 6000 participants from over 57 countries, 788 oral and poster sessions and 4680 total abstracts presented.

The XIX edition of JEQ (Jornadas de Engenharia Química) organized by MIEQ students took place at FEUP on 14-15^th November, under the theme ‘Chemical Engineering towards Sustainability’.

The LSRE-LCM participated in the Networking session that closed the event. A group of researchers was present to exchange with MIEQ students their research experience and to help on clarifying their doubts about the research lines carried out at this research unit.

This last edition of JEQ counted with 300 participants.

More information about JEQ 2019 at:
https://web.fe.up.pt/~jornadeq/sobre.html
https://pt-pt.facebook.com/jornadaseq

Photo credits: LSRE-LCM and JEQ