19th WEBINAR

26-11-2020 | 12:00

Tailoring the crystal size distribution of an active pharmaceutical ingredient

Patrícia Cruz

PhD Student at LEPABE/SA

Patrícia Cruz received her master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from FEUP in 2015. Currently, she is a PhD student from the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering at LEPABE, where she has been developing her research on the continuous crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients in oscillatory flow crystallizers, in collaboration with Hovione.

Talk summary

An active pharmaceutical ingredient is currently produced by Hovione in a traditional batch crystallization process. Although well-established, this process lacks flexibility to control the crystal size distribution. In this work, a new process was developed to enable the control of the crystal size distribution according to specific formulation requirements. This new process was transferred from the traditional batch process in a stirred tank crystallizer to a continuous process in a planar oscillatory flow crystallizer.

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18th WEBINAR

19-11-2020 | 12:00

Olive Mill Wastewater Valorization through Steam Reforming Reaction in a Sorption-Enhanced Membrane Reactor

Cláudio da Silva Rocha

PhD Student at LEPABE/ENV

Cláudio Rocha (MSc in Chemical Engineering at FEUP) is a PhD student in the Chemical and Biological Engineering doctoral program at LEPABE, FEUP - under the supervision of Professor Miguel Madeira and Doctor Miguel A. Soria - in the Research Group of Environmental Sciences and Technologies. His research is focused on the valorization of the Olive Oil Mill Wastewater (OMW) through the Steam Reforming Reaction in hybrid multifunctional reactors.

Talk summary

The talk will focus on the exhibition of the main topics of the project, as on the major results obtained in this work. For instance, it will be highlighted the several advantages of the utilization of hybrid multifunctional reactors (sorption-enhanced, membrane and sorption-enhanced membrane reactors) in the OMW steam reforming process. Besides that, it will be also shown the characterization and performance of sorbents/catalysts/membranes that will be applied in these hybrid reactors. Finally, the future work will be briefly discussed.

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17th WEBINAR

12-11-2020 | 12:00

Defining strategies to enhance microalgae production

Mariana Carneiro

PhD Student at LEPABE/BIO

Mariana Carneiro began her academic career with a degree in Environmental Sciences and Technology (2010) in FCUP and an MSc degree in Marine Biology (2012) in ICBAS.

After working as a researcher in CIIMAR (2013), she started a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering in LEPABE’s facilities in FEUP, focusing on the assessment and improvement of microalgal biomass productivity from laboratory to pilot scale.

Talk summary

Industrial production of microalgal biomass is dependent on several biotic and abiotic factors that significantly impact the performance of the photosynthetic apparatus of target strains. In turn, this reflects on biomass productivity and the overall efficiency of the process. Therefore, the determination of the critical limiting factors toward algal growth and the prevention of the bioenergetic shifts of cells from photosynthesis to respiration-only stages is of the utmost importance. To this end, different approaches, including the use of chlorophyll fluorescence and LEDs at lab and pilot scale, were evaluated.

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