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Environment, Reaction and Separation Engineering

CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM ENGENHARIA DOS PROCESSOS

QUÍMICOS E DOS PRODUTOS DA FLORESTA (CIEPQPF) Department of Chemical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences and Technology

University of Coimbra POLO II - R. Sílvio Lima, Pólo II, 3030-790 Coimbra - PORTUGAL

Telephone: +351-239798700; Fax: +351-239798703

www.eq.uc.pt

OUTLINE

• Objectives

• Team

• Research Domains

• Laboratorial Installations

• Research Projects

• Publications

• Cooperation

• Research Future Scopes

OBJECTIVES

The research activities of GERSE focus on the development of

experimental and modeling studies in two main areas: Chemical

Reaction Engineering and Separation Processes. Most of the studies

are directed to the pollution prevention and control in the ambit of

Environment Engineering.

The main objective of the research devoted to environmental protection

is to develop alternative strategies to conventional treatments of liquid

and gas effluents, as well as the valorization of solid residues for

environmental sustainability.

Chemical

Reaction

Separation

Processes Environment

Engineering

Processes Development

Laboratory

Scale

Full-Scale

Application

Operating Conditions Optimization

- Integration of conventional and advanced processes in order to obtain

the best efficiency/cost ratio to fulfill environmental legislation.

- Recovery of valuable metals and products

- Valorization/recycling of solid wastes

GERSE ADVENTECH

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Treatment and utilization

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Modelling and simulation

Process development

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Methodologies

Focus area, applied methodologies and main fields application

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Team

Scientific staff

Rosa M. Quinta-Ferreira (coordinator)

Licínio M. Gando-Ferreira

Margarida M. J. Quina

Maria João Anunciação Moreira

Luís Miguel Castro

Ana Cristina Almeida Costa

Msc students

Ana Carolina

Ana Sofia Simões

Carina Ramos

Elsa Neto

Lucy Henriques

Marta Nunes

Post-doc investigators

Rodrigo J.G. Lopes

Rui C. Martins

PhD students

Ana Sofia Fajardo

André F. Rossi

Daniela V.R. Lopes

Isabel Castelo-Branco

Micaela Soares

Nuno Amaral-Silva

Sandra Maria Loureiro Fernandes

Sérgio Castro-Silva

Fixed-Bed Reactors FBR

Structured Reactors

Reverse Flow Reactors

Membrane Reactors

Novel Reactors

Circulating Fluidized Bed

Reactors

REACTION ENGINEERING

Wrong Way Behaviour

Multiplicity

Behaviour

Critical Conditions

Temperature

Runaway Thermal

Unstabilities

Multifunctional Reactors

Auto-Cyclic Reactor, ACR

Multiphase Reactors

Slurry Reactors

Gas-Liquid-Solid, G-L-S

Trickle-Bed Reactors, TBR

Buble Column Reactors

ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING

Wet Oxidation

Fenton Process Ozonation

Advanced Oxidation

Processes

Process Integration Photo and Electro

Assisted Processes

Catalyst Screening

Catalyst

Characterization

Catalyst

Preparation /

Analysis of natural materials

Environmental

Catalysis

Heterogeneous Catalysis

Catalyst Preparation and

Characterization

Catalyst Screening

Sorption Processes

Ion-Exchange

Parametric pumping

Cyclic Adsorption – DT

Cyclic Ion-exchange - DpH

Adsorption

Adsorbent screening

Heat and mass

transfer-Kinetics

Hydrodynamics conditions

Equilibria Design and

Optimization

SEPARATION ENGINEERING

Membrane Processes

Ultrafiltration

Nanofiltration

Reverse Osmosis

Membrane selection

DESIGN

Transport parameters

evaluation

Membrane

characterization Mathematical

Modeling

Integration of processes

Ion-Exchange /Adsorpion

Nanofiltration

Membrane biological

reactors - MBR’s

ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING

Landfill leachate

treatment

Valorization of agro-

industrial by-products

Recovery of valuable metals and products

Water reuse

Liquid effluent

treatments Bioaugmentation

ENVIRONMENT ENGINEERING

Characterization

Valorization/

Recycling Treatment

Solid

Wastes

Environmental impact assessment

LCA

Solid Waste Management

Physical/ chemical

Characterization

Chemical speciation modelling

Leaching behavior

Treatment

Stabilization

Solidification/Stabilization (S/S)

Composting

Regulatory compliance

Valorization Ceramic materials

Soil conditioner

Soil Remediation

PCB contamination

Site assessment

Electrokinetic

(nZVI)

in-situ/

ex-situ

remediation

Soil

Remediation

Kinetic modelling

WASTE MANAGEMENT AND SOIL REMEDIATION

Two

Dimension

One

Dimension

Transient Steady

State

Intraparticle

Convection

Pseudo

Homogeneous

Heterogeneous

Fixed-Bed

Models

Method

of Lines

MOL

Orthogonal

Collocation

Finite

Differences

Method

Charactheristics

AEs

ODEs

PDEs

Numerical

Methods

GEAR

LSODI

FORSIM

DDASAC

PDASAC

PDECOL

Software

Codes

FLUENT

Turbulence models

k-ε models

Navier-Stokes Equations

Volume of Fluid

Euler-Euler

CFD

SIMULATION STUDIES

Phenolic

Compounds

Polyvinyl

Alcohool

Acrylic

Acid

Ethylene

glicol

Textile

Dyes

Formal

dehyde

Simulated

Effluents

EXPERIMENTAL TESTS

Advanced Oxidation Processes

AOPs

Agro-Food

Industry

Formaldehyde

Industry

Wineries

Destiliries

Textile

Industry

Olive

Mill

landfill

leachate

Vegetable

Processing

Elderberry

juice

Rice

Industry

Detergents

Pharmaceutical

Industry

Cork

EXPERIMENTAL TESTS

Advanced Oxidation Processes

AOPs Real

Wastewaters

Rosários 4 Mureda

Alimentacion

Adegas Cooperativas

Cantanhede ,

Azureira

Terralis

Bresfor

Mureda

Alimentacion

Soprecor;

MASilva

Municipal Landfill

Coimbra

Inquiba

Hovione

Phenolic

Compounds

Industrial

water

Chloride/Sulfate

Nitrate

solutions

Chromium

compounds

Heavy

metals

Simulated

Effluents

EXPERIMENTAL TESTS

Chemical and physical

treatments

Pulp Industry Electroplating

Industry

Mahle

Crojaf

Soporcel

Celbi

Real

Effluents

EXPERIMENTAL TESTS

Valorization/

recycling

Chemical

speciation

Composting

Physical/chemical

characterization

Solidification/

stabilization

Leaching

behavior

Phytotoxicity

Inorganic wastes/

Biowastes

Valorsul

CTCV

IPN

CTCV

Maxit Group

Kinetic

models

Ex-situ

remediation

In-situ

remediation

Physical/chemical

characterization

Oxidation/

Reduction

treatment

Soil

remediation

ESAC

SIA

Derovo

AAC

Waste management and Soil

Remediation

LABORATORIAL INSTALATIONS

Wet Oxidation

Fenton

Process

VOCs

Treatment

Nitrates

Treatment

Ozonation Reaction

Engineering

LABORATORIAL INSTALATIONS

Ultrafiltration

Nanofiltration

Ion-Exchange

Parametric

pumping

Separation

Engineering

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LABORATORIAL INSTALATIONS

Characterization

Recycling Treatment Solid

Wastes

LCA

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Trickle-Bed Reactor for Treatment of Liquid Effluents by Catalytic Wet Oxidation,

FCT- POCI/QUE/59895/2004; 2005-2008

Influence of Intraparticle Convection on the Project of Fixed-Bed Reactors,

JNICT-PMCT/CEN/939/9; 1990-1993

Intraparticle Convection on Fixed-bed Reactor

JNICT-PBIC/C/CEN/1185/9; 1992-1995

Ceramic Supports for Industrial Catalyst

FCT-PRAXIS/TPAR/2060; 1997-2000

Gas-Solid Fixed-Bed Reactors with Structured Packing,

FCT-POCTI/QUE/34334/2000; 2000-2003

Reverse Flow Reactors, FCT-Praxis/CEG/2602, 1997-2000

Catalytic Treatment of Liquid Effluents

FCT-PRAXIS/CEG/2603; 1997-2000

Combined membrane and ion-exchange processes for recovery and re-use of metals,

POCTI/EQU/58149/2004, 2005-2008

REMOVALS - Reduction, modification and valorisation of sludges (Project EU),

FP6/018525-Sixth Framework Programme, 2006-2009

LABVIRTUAL -Laboratórios Virtuais de Processos Químicos

POSC 743/4.2/C/REG, 2006-2007

Multifunctional Reactors

Multiphase Reactors

Fixed-Bed Reactors FBR

Heterogeneous Catalysis

Separation Processes

E-Learning Tools

Olive Mill Wastewaters depuration by integrated chemical processes PTDC/EQU-ERQ/113308/2009 Process Integration

Integration of Chemical and Biological Processes QREN

Thesis Chapters in

Books

Papers in

International

Journals

Papers in

Conference

Proceeding

Fixed-Bed Reactor 2 PhD, 1 Msc 2 11 24

AOPs 3 PhD 3 33 42

Separation Processes 1 PhD 3 28 39

Solid Waste 1 PhD 2 14 21

CFD 1 PhD 5 17 19

2 Others

48 38 3 Separation Processes

66 44 9 6 Chemical Reaction

76 47 10 5 Environment

Publications

Heterogeneous

Catalysis 1 Msc 5 29 34

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I.P. de Coimbra

GERSE

COOPERATION

Driftal-GDP

Bresfor

Cosval

Adegas Cooperativas Cantanhede

Azureira

Terralis

Rosários 4

Mureda

Alimentacion

ValorSul

Maxit

Mahle Crojaf SIA

ERSUC

Driftal-GDP

Bresfor

Cosval

Adegas Cooperativas Cantanhede

Azureira

Terralis

Rosários 4

Mureda

Alimentacion

ValorSul

Maxit

Mahle Crojaf SIA

ERSUC

Inquiba

Hovione Soprecor MASilva

ADVENTECH

Cooperation

Univ. Rovira I Virgili

Tarragona, Spain

Univ. Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Eslovénia

École Pol. Montréal

Montréal, Canadá

Univ. Barcelona

Barcelone, Spain

Centro Tecnológico

da Cerâmica e do Vidro

Coimbra

Aachen University

Germany

FEUP - LSRE

Univ. Porto

Instituto Pedro Nunes

Abo Akademi

Finland

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Environment, Reaction and Separation Engineering

SEPARATION

ENGINEERING

ENVIRONMENT

ENGINEERING

REACTION

ENGINEERING

Process Integration

SCALING-UP

Tests

Future Research Scopes

WELLNESS ENGINEERING

. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

. Health Impact Analysis (HIA).

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING

. Indoor and Outdoor air quality

. Speciation Geo-chemistry

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY

. Mineral sequestration of CO2

. Recovery of added value-products

(e.g. heavy metals, aminoacids)