Specialization Program in Biofuels and Alternative Energies

• Grant number: 25/03311-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2025
• End date: August 31, 2030
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Process Industries
• Principal Investigator: Jose Mansur Assaf
• Grantee: Jose Mansur Assaf
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Adriana Paula Ferreira Palhares ; Alberto Colli Badino Junior ; André Bernardo ; Antonio Carlos Luperni Horta ; Antonio José Gonçalves da Cruz ; Diego Andrade Lemos ; Edson Luiz Silva ; Ernesto Antonio Urquieta Gonzalez ; Felipe Fernando Furlan ; Fernanda Perpétua Casciatori ; Francisco Guilherme Esteves Nogueira ; Gabriela Cantarelli Lopes ; Gustavo Dias Maia ; Janaina Fernandes Gomes ; Joao Batista Oliveira dos Santos ; João Paulo Silva Queiroz ; José Maria Correa Bueno ; Laura Lorena da Silva ; Mônica Lopes Aguiar ; Patrícia Moreira Lima ; Paulo Waldir Tardioli ; Rodrigo Béttega ; Rosineide Gomes da Silva Cruz ; Ruy de Sousa Júnior ; Thais Suzane Milessi Esteves ; Thiago Faggion de Pádua ; Vádila Giovana Guerra Béttega

Abstract

This project aims to provide additional training in the area of biofuels to undergraduate and postgraduate students in Chemical Engineering at UFSCar. This complementary training is supported by the various Research Groups of DEQ-UFSCar, which have developed work related to the production of biofuels (fermentative processes for ethanol production, alcohol chemistry, new processes for producing ethanol from sugarcane bagasse and production of biodiesel via the ethyl route in a heterogeneous process), recovery of natural gas(production of hydrogen and synthesis gas), recovery of CO2 (production of DME, methanol and alcohols with twoor more carbons by hydrogenation of CO and CO2). (AU)