Rafael Dias
Rafael Dias graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP) in July 2019. In February 2020, he started his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering at FEUP with the thesis titled “Gas-phase simulated moving bed for methane upgrade”, supervised by Prof. Ana Mafalda Ribeiro and co-supervised by Prof. Alexandre Ferreira and Prof. Alírio Rodrigues, concluding in July 2025. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher of the “ECO-MOBES - Mobilidade Inteligente & Tecnologias para a Eficiência de Recursos” project at LSRE-LCM, for the development of new separation processes for methane upgrade.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Adsorption Processes
Simulated Moving Bed
Methane Upgrade
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pereira A., Dias R.O.M., Lourenço D., Regufe M.J., Ribeiro A.M., Rodrigues A., Ferreira A.F.P.. Methane and nitrogen separation by Gas-SMB in activated carbon monoliths manufactured via 3D-printing. Chemical Engineering Journal, 512, 162315, 2025
Dias R.O.M., Regufe M.J., Pereira A.A., Ferreira A.F.P., Rodrigues A.E., Ribeiro A.M.. Methane upgrading on pelletised Maxsorb activated carbon by gas-phase simulated moving bed. Adsorption, 31, 7, 2025
Dias R.O.M., Nogueira I.B.R., Ferreira A.F.P., Rodrigues A.E., Ribeiro A.M.. A performance indicator for the screening of adsorbent/desorbent pairs for gas-phase simulated moving bed applications. AIChE Journal, 69, e18074, 2023
Seabra R., Dias R.O.M., Regufe M.J., Ribeiro A.M., Rodrigues A.E., Ferreira A.F.P.. Propane and Propylene Separation with Carbon Dioxide at Mild Temperatures by Gas-Phase Simulated Moving Bed in Binderfree Zeolite 13X. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 62, 12600-12612, 2023
Dias R.O.M., Ferreira A.F.P., Rodrigues A.E., Ribeiro A.M.. Gas-Phase Simulated Moving Bed for Methane/Nitrogen Separation Using a Commercial Activated Carbon. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 61, 12739-12753, 2022
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