Laboratório Associado LSRE - LCM

LSRE-LCM WHISHES A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

LSRE-LCM whishes to all researchers and their families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We would like to thank you all for the dedicated work on behalf of LSRE-LCM in this year of 2017.

See you soon on 2nd January for one more year of success and excellent research work.

Best Holiday Season and a Prosperous 2018!

WATERFISHER ALLOWS TO COLLECT WATER SAMPLES SAFELY

A team of five researchers from LSRE-LCM João Sousa (Granted Researcher), Marta Barbosa (PhD Student), Ana Rita Ribeiro (Post-doctoral Researcher), Adrián Silva (Associate Researcher) and Fernando Pereira (Associate Professor) created the Waterfisher, a surface water sampler.

The Waterfisher allows the collection of water samples from places with difficult access (e.g. lakes, cliffs and canyons) without the need for an aquatic transportation.
At the moment this technology has already a validated prototype in real context of an operational environment. The innovative character of the invention has allowed advancement to a Portuguese patent application.

LSRE-LCM congratulates his researchers team for the succecfully idea market!

See the video to understand how Waterfisher works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VhIpLRJDTaM

Waterfisher permite “pescar” amostras de água de forma mais segura

DMT ENVIRONMENTAL TECHONOLOGY AT THE LSRE-LCM

Benny Bakker and Dennis Lameire from DMT Environmental Technology visited the Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM on the December 18th, 2017. The company and the laboratory started a collaboration on process development for natural and biogas upgrade.

LSRE-LCM congratulates this new collaboration with the DMT Environmental Tecnology and wishes the partnership will be beneficial for both!

DMT Environmental Technology website: https://www.dmt-et.com/

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY WEEK 2017

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:

SCT 2017 As unidades de I&D - CEFT, LA LSRE-LCM e LEPABE, do Departamento de Engenharia Química da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto,- promovem no âmbito da Semana Ciência e Tecnologia 2017 um conjunto de atividades sob a designação “Avanços tecnológicos em áreas emergentes da engenh...

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE 2017 PRIZE FROM FOUNDATION CEPSA CÁTEDRA

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

MARCELO COSTA PHD THESIS DEFENSE

LSRE-LCM congratulates Marcelo Costa for his PhD thesis defense on November 6th, 2017.

Marcelo finished the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled The NETmix® Tecnhnology, Applied to Gas Hydrates Production: A Potential Solution to CCS supervised by Prof. José Carlos Lopes and co-supervised by Prof. Joaquim Faria.

The staff and team of LA LSRE-LCM wish Marcelo a successful and bright life ahead.

SORPTION ENHANCED REACTION PROCESSES BY ALÍRIO RODRIGUES AND RUI FARIA

Professor Alírio Rodrigues and Doctor Rui Faria are authors of the book Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes together with Professor Luís Miguel Madeira (LEPABE, FEUP) and Yi-Jiang Wu (ECUST, China).
Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes (SERP) provides undergraduate and graduate students of chemistry and chemical engineering, researchers and industrial engineers with a clear path towards process development of SERP, whatever the area of application.

Full Book Reference:
A.E. Rodrigues, L.M. Madeira, Y-J. Wu, R. Faria. Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes. World Scientific Publishing, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-78634-357-4
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0103

Sorption Enhanced Reaction Processes --> This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes (SERPs) with detailed modelling and simulation, design and operation of units. SERPs are processes intensified by combining adsorption and reaction, reaction and membranes or reaction/adsorption/membranes in a single…

JOSÉ FIGUEIREDO AS KEYNOTE PLENARY SPEAKER - 19TH INTERNATIONAL SOL-GEL CONFERENCE 2017

Prof. José Luís Figueiredo has been invited as keynote plenary speaker at the 19th International Sol-Gel Conference held on September 3-8, 2017 in Liège, Belgium.
Just after the opening ceremony, on the 4th of September, Prof. José Figueiredo presented the lecture “Carbon gels with tuned properties for catalysis and energy applications”.

The Associate Laboratory LSRE-LCM is internationally recognized for its excellent research work over the years!

Information about the oficial event available at:
http://www.solgel2017liege.com/index.html -carousel
http://www.solgel2017liege.com/Keynote-speaker.html

The 19th International Sol-Gel Conference - Liege - Belgium September 3-8, 2017

ALÍRIO RODRIGUES AMONG THE MOST CITED RESEARCHERS IN THE SHANGHAI ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD UNIVERSITIES

Alírio Rodrigues appears on the Most Cited Researchers list, developed by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities in the field of Chemical Engineering. This ranking is based on the Scopus database, providing a measure of the global research influence of each researcher in terms of paper citations.
Besides Alírio Rodrigues, four other Portuguese researchers cited in this list: Mário Figueiredo, Carlos Guedes Soares and Jorge de Brito (University of Lisbon), Vladislav Kharton (University of Aveiro).

Check the full list in the field of Chemical Engineering at:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/The-Most-Cited-Researchers-Developed-for-ShanghaiRanking-Global-Ranking-of-Academic-Subjects-2016-by-Elsevier.html

COVER PICTURE OF CHEMISTRY - AN ASIAN JOURNAL

Professor José Luís Figueiredo and Doctor Sónia Carabineiro are co-authors of a scientific publication that was featured as the cover of Chemistry - An Asian Journal at July 2017.

More information about the cover picture can be found in:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asia.201700839/abstract
Full Paper reference:
J. Wang, L.M.D.R.S. Martins, A.P.C. Ribeiro, S.A.C. Carabineiro, J.L. Figueiredo, A.J.L. Pombeiro. Supported C-Scorpionate Vanadium(IV) Complexes as Reusable Catalysts for Xylene Oxidation. Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 12:1915-1919, 2017. DOI: 10.1002/asia.201700499

BELISA MARINHO PHD THESIS DEFENSE

LSRE-LCM congratulates Belisa Marinho for her PhD thesis defense approved by the jury.

On September 4, 2017 Belisa finished her Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled "Advanced Oxidation/Reduction Processes for As(III) and Cr(VI) Oxyanions Removal from Water", supervised by Doctor Vítor Vilar and co-supervised by Prof. José Carlos Lopes and Prof. Rui Boaventura.

LUCIANA MAZUR PHD THESIS DEFENSE

On July 28, 2017 Luciana finished her Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering, with the PhD thesis entitled "Brown marine macroalgae as a natural cation exchanger for toxic metal ions separation and recovery from water", supervised by Doctor Vítor Vilar.

LSRE-LCM congratulates Luciana Prazeres Mazur for her PhD thesis defense approved by the jury.