Ricardo Santos graduated in Environmental Engineering at Universidade de Aveiro in 1996 and got his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) in 2003. The PhD was made at LSRE and the research topic was: Mixing Mechanisms in Reaction Injection Moulding. After the PhD he was Post-Doc for one year, in an industrial project on the rheology of Self-Compacting Concrete. From 2004 to 2006 he was a lecturer at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, where he taught courses on design of water and wastewater treatment plants. Since 2006 he has been at the LSRE-LCM Associated Laboratory as Research Assistant researching on the field of mixing in chemical and biological reactors. One of his main fields of interest is the mixing in reactive polymerization reactors, a field he works on since 1997 when he first came to LSRE. In 2013 he was one of the founders of a spin-off company, MICE-molds, that is taking to industry the main findings of the research on Reaction Injection Moulding at the LSRE-LCM. Recently, he has been researching on mixing in NETmix reactors, in single-phase and multiphase flow for environmental applications. Since 2017 he is the leader of a research project funded by FCT on this topic (HXmeso).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Mixing in chemical reactors
Opposed jets reactors
Meso and micro reactors – NETmix
Reaction Injection Moulding

PATENTS

J.C.B. Lopes, M.M.G.Q. Dias, M.F.S. Costa, R.J.N. Santos, C.A.M. Teixeira, Network heat exchanger device, method and uses thereof. PCT/IB2018/052463, April 2018. US Patent 11 484 862, October 2019, granted November 2022.
J.C.B. Lopes, R.J.N. Santos, M.M.G.Q. Dias, M.A.S.M. Yousuf, C.A.P. Fonte, Opposed jets mixing chamber for mixing fluids with different mass fluxes. PCT/IB2013/051380, February 2013. Portuguese Patent 106166, February 2012.
R.J.N. Santos, J.C.B. Lopes, M.M.G.Q. Dias, E. Erkoç, Device for pipe flow pulsation. PCT/IB2008/051365, April 2008. Portuguese Patent 103715, April 2006.
J.C.B. Lopes, R.J.N. Santos, A.F.T.M. Teixeira, M.R.P.F.N. Costa, Production Process of Plastic Parts by Reaction Injection Moulding and Related Head Device. PCT/IB2005/000886, April 2005. US Patent 7708918 B2, granted May 2010. EU Patent 1732747, December 2006, granted December 2006. Portuguese Patent 103101, April 2004.
J.C.B. Lopes, A.P. Moreira, P.G. Costa, R.J.N. Santos, Device for application of a liquid substance for film coating and its use in measuring of the applicability characteristics of a coating film. PCT/IB2006/053521, September 2006. EU Patent 1945375, May 2008. Portuguese Patent 103382, November 2005, granted September 2008.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fernandes I.S., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J.. A new reduced geometric model for simulation and design of NETmix reactors: LoopNUB. Chemical Engineering Science, 293, 120061, 2024 Brito M.S.C.A., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J., Fonte C.P.. A general design equation for Confined Impinging Jets mixers. Chemical Engineering Journal, 465, 142892, 2023 Brito M.S.C.A., Matos J., Torres M.V.L., Fonte C.P., Dias M.M., Lopes J.C.B., Santos R.J.. Rheokinematics for product development—Formulation screening in rotational rheometers. AIChE Journal, 68, e17597, 2022 P. Torres, N.D. Goncalves, C.P. Fonte, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes, A. Liné, R.J. Santos. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Statistical Analysis of 2D Confined Impinging Jets Chaotic Flow. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 42, 1709-1716, 2019 J. Matos, M.S.C.A. Brito, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes, R.J. Santos. Lagrangian mixing simulation and quantification of scales. Chemical Engineering Science, 192, 199-210, 2018 M.S.C.A. Brito, L.P. Esteves, C.P. Fonte, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes, R.J. Santos. Mixing of fluids with dissimilar viscosities in Confined Impinging Jets. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 134, 392-404, 2018 N.D. Gonçalves, H.M. Salvador, C.P. Fonte, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes, R.J. Santos. On the 2D nature of flow dynamics in opposed jets mixers. Aiche Journal, 63, 2335-2347, 2017 C.P. Fonte, R.J. Santos, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes. An Elastic Analog Model for Controlling the Impingement Point Position in Confined Impinging Jets. AIChE Journal, 62, 2200-2212, 2016 C.P. Fonte, M.A. Sultan, R.J. Santos, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes. Flow imbalance and Reynolds number impact on mixing in Confined Impinging Jets. Chemical Engineering Journal, 260, 316-330, 2015 K. Krupa, M.I. Nunes, R.J. Santos, J.R. Bourne. Characterization of micromixing in T-jet mixers. Chemical Engineering Science, 111, 48-55, 2014 M.A. Sultan, K. Krupa, C.P. Fonte, M.I. Nunes, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes, R.J. Santos. High-Throughput T-Jets Mixers: An Innovative Scale-Up Concept. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 36, 323-331, 2013 K. Krupa, M.A. Sultan, C.P. Fonte, M.I. Nunes, M.M. Dias, J.C.B. Lopes, R.J. Santos. Characterization of mixing in T-jets mixers. Chemical Engineering Journal, 207–208, 931-937, 2012 R.J. Santos, A.M. Teixeira, J.C.B. Lopes. Study of Mixing and Chemical Reaction in RIM. Chemical Engineering Science, 60, 2381-2398, 2005

SELECTED PROJECTS

HXmeso - Intensificação de processo em meso reatores com elevadas taxas de transferência de calor. Reference: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030445. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, P2020|COMPETE - Projetos em Todos os Domínios Científicos. Starting Date: 2018/07/01. Duration: 36 months. Role: Coordinator Consultoria em Computação de Fluidos Dinâmicos. Reference: FEUP/A4F/2018-72684. Funded by: A4F - Algae for Future, S.A. Starting Date: 2018/04/10. Duration: 4 months. Role: Coordinator FEUP/DIGIDELTA/2017-71478 - Desenvolvimento e análise de formulações químicas de materiais para revestimento de superfícies para impressão direta por jato de tinta. Reference: FEUP/DIGIDELTA/2017-71478. Starting Date: 2017/09/01. Duration: 12 months. Role: Coordinator 2Dmix - 2D Mixing Devices - Fundamental Study and Applications of the Inversion of the Turbulent Energy Cascade. Reference: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016851. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, P2020|COMPETE - Projetos em Todos os Domínios Científicos. Starting Date: 2016/07/01. Duration: 36 months. Role: Coordinator Tjets - Mini and Micro T-jets reactors with high throughput. Reference: PTDC/EQU-EQU/098617/2008. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT Project. Starting Date: 2010/04/30. Duration: 42 months. Role: Coordinator Enhancement of oxygen transport by functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (FMP) in non-Newtonian highly viscous microbial fermentations for biopolymer production: theoretical foundations and technological feasibility. Reference: PTDC/EBB-EBI/103761/2008. Funded by: FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, FCT Project. Starting Date: 2010/01/31. Duration: 42 months. Role: Researcher
Ricardo Santos
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