B. Sc. in Chemical Enginnering from the Universidade de São Paulo (1983), M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Universidade de São Paulo (1986) and D.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Universidade de São Paulo (1990). Sabbatical leave as Visiting Research at McMaster University, Canada (1992-1993). Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at USP since 1999. Research experience and fields of interest: Chemical Engineering, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Polymer Reaction Engineering, Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, On-line Monitoring and Optimization of Chemical Processes. Since 2008 he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The growth of the airline industry in recent years has stimulated the search for the production of aviation fuel from alternative energy sources. Within this scenario, the 4AirCRAFT project ("Air Carbon Recycling for Aviation Fuel Technology") was proposed, an international collaborative partnership between seven research institutions (5 from Europe, 1 from Japan and 1 from Brazil), with …
The cell sorter flow cytometry equipment proposed in this project allows individual cell-level analysis of microorganism, yeast, fungal and animal or plant cell populations. Because it is a high-performance equipment, in each analysis data are collected from hundreds of thousands of organisms. This characterization of the physiological variability of a population is of fundamental importa…
The FAPESP - BG BRASIL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GAS INNOVATION (FAPESP-BG/CEPID) aims to build up a new world class Centre for Advanced Natural Gas Studies, which will focus on the sustainable uses of natural gas in the coming years. The Centre complements Fapesp's experiences in supporting high-level scientific research and technology development in energy fields. It aims to establish a world…
The Escola Politecnica da USP that is composede of 15 departments and about 50 research groups with active laboratpries needs several expansion and adequateness for the infrastructure of its laboratories. (AU)
The Escola Politecnica da USP that is composede of 15 departments and about 50 research groups with active laboratpries needs several expansion and adequateness for the infrastructure of its laboratories. (AU)
The Escola Politecnica da USP that is composede of 15 departments and about 50 research groups with active laboratpries needs several expansion and adequateness for the infrastructure of its laboratories. (AU)
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The growing demand for oil barrels worldwide and its large-scale use in the fossil fuel sector raises concerns in regard to the greenhouse effect intensification. Due to its direct responsibility for about 12% of the emissions worldwide, the aviation sector has become a key point in the study of actions aimed at mitigating the emission of pollutants on a large scale and that can also prom…
The incessant and majority use of fossil fuels since their discovery has generated undeniable consequences for the environment, especially with the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, at the same time that it has shaped human lifestyle. The aviation sector has grown and impacted social and commercial relationships and stood out in war situations. In view of this context, …
The growth of the airline industry in recent years has stimulated the search for the production of aviation fuel from alternative energy sources. Thus, the 4AirCRAFT project was proposed and approved, an international partnership between seven universities, with the objective of developing an unprecedented technology for the synthesis of aviation fuel from the direct conversion of CO2 in …
Two of the principles of Green Chemistry aim at the use of renewable raw materials and the use of less hazardous substances in industrial processes. In accordance with the current trend toward consolidation of such principles, the soybean oil epoxidation reaction system is promising. Studies show that the product of this reaction, epoxidized soybean oil (OSE), has application as a main co…
Emulsion polymerization is a largely and increasingly used technique in industrial production of paints, resins, among others, due to its versatility and capacity of producing products with different properties. For improving emulsion polymerization processes, it is necessary the development of techniques for in-line monitoring, including the monitoring of particle size of the polymer pro…
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The growth of the transport sector in recent years and the crude oil depletion has stimulated the search for the production of fuel from alternative energy sources. In this sense, gas-to-liquid processes (GTL), and especially the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS), have gained attention worldwide since allow the conversion of greenhouse gases into high quality synthetic fuel. Given this, the…
The epoxidation reaction of vegetable oils typically consists of a liquid biphasic reaction system, subdivided into an aqueous and an organic phase. When the soybean oil is used as feedstock, the main product of the reaction is named epoxidized soybean oil (ESO), which presents application as a plasticizer element for polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The main advantage to use ESO in this applica…
Most of the catalytic reactor design projects use macrokinetic models to describe the reaction process, in which the rate is generally represented in terms of power-law expressions or Langmuir-Hinshelwood models with parameters estimated from experimental macroscopic data. However, such models are limited to specific catalysts and provide little information for catalyst design. As a resul…
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| 59 / 32 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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