Alfredo Ortiz attended the Engineering with membranes conference – EWM 2019, that was held in Båstad, Sweden on April 8-10, 2019, where he presented the work entitled “Novel proton conductive membranes based on poly([HSO3-BVIm][TfO]-co-MMA) and poly([HSO3- BVIm][TfO]-co-hPFSVE) for fuel cell applications”.
On April 4th, 2019 the award ceremony of the Local Chemistry Olympiad 2019 took place at the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria, organized by AQUIQÁN in collaboration with the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Mr. Jose María Colina, President of the Evaluation Committee of the Local Chemistry Olympiad 2019, chaired the ceremony. The students Víctor Mencía Alonso (IES Alisal), Alicia Palacio Solórzano (IES Santa Clara) and Paz Marina Martínez Menéndez (IES José María Pereda) received the gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, in recognition of their results in the Local Chemistry Olympiad 2019.
Moreover, the local coordinator of the National Chemistry Olympiad, explained to the winners the guidelines to participate in the National Olympiad, that will take place on May 10-12, 2019 in Santander. The winners of the Local Chemistry Olympiad were invited to welcome the rest of participant who will attend the event from different places in Spain.
All the information about the National Chemistry Olympiad is available on: https://rseq.org/quimica-y-sociedad/olimpiadas/
On April 4th, 2019 Interreg Sudoe Program organized a Roadtrip at the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria, aimed at presenting the Interreg SUDOE Program to students of the Chair Jean Monnet of the UC. This event was organized by the Joint Secretariat of the Interreg SUDOE Program, in the frame of the Cooperation Days¡. The event was attended by several members of the Secretariat of the Interreg SUDOE Program Isabelle Roger, Head of the Joint Secretariat, Andrea Rodríguez, responsible for Communication and Capitalization; Alexandre Le Gall, project manager; Juan Llanes Cavia from the Management Authority, and Ana Carrera Poncela, from the Board of Directors of the Management Company of the Interreg South-West European Space SL.
During the event, Andrea Rodríguez, talk about the International Cooperation: INTERREG SUDOE PROGRAM. After that, a round table took place with the participation of the coordinators of the projects REPARP, SUDOE STOP CO2, THICHRON and PEMFC_SUDOE. Then, Alfredo Ortiz, presented the PEMFC_SUDOE project in detail, including a visit to the labs where the project is performed at UC.
Moreover, during the event the Hydrogen Bike Prototype, developed in the frame of the European Project PEMFC-SUDOE (coordinator: Dr. Alfredo Ortiz), was presented by Dr. Esther Santos, representative of the partner project Apria Systems SL.
On April 3rd, 2019, the Open Doors Day of the University of Cantabria took place. The Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department participated in this event by organizing the welcome and visit of secondary students to the teaching and research labs. Students had the opportunity to meet the researchers and asked them about their doubts and curiosities.
Guillermo Díaz and Andrea Arguillarena, PhD students in the Chemical, Energy and Process Engineering, have been elected as representatives for students in the area of Engineering and Architecture, in the Board of the School of Doctorate of the University of Cantabria. The voting took place on March 28th.
The results of the election are published on the EDUC website
Dr. Gastón Merlet delivered the seminar “Desarrollo de una tecnología de microextracción de octaclorodibenzo-p-dioxina desde muestras de leche bovina comercial utilizando líquidos iónicos como solventes y dióxido de carbono supercrítico como facilitador de la extracción”. Dr. Merlet is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Santiago de Chile, and he is doing a research stay at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department in the UC, in collaboration with Dr. Fresnedo San Román. The seminar took place last February 1st, 2019.
The 2nd meeting of KET4F-Gas project took place last week in the University of Clermont-Ferrand (France). KET4F-Gas is aimed at the R&D of key enabling technologies for the recovery of fluorinated gases, used as refrigerants in freezers and air conditioning systems. The Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of UC was represented by Dr. Gabriel Zarca and Prof. Ane Urtiaga, who are involved in the development of membrane gas separation technologies. The project is supported by the INTERREG-SUDOE Program, that promotes territorial cooperation among regions located in the South West of Europe.
The scientific results were also presented in the congress 19th EuropeanMeeting on Environmental Chemistry, that was held in Royat (France), from 3 to6 of December, with the communication entitled “Membrane technology for theseparation and recovery of fluorinated gases used as refrigerants”.
Alfredo Ortiz and Daniel Gorri attended the 22nd World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC2018), celebrated in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) last June 17-22,2018, where they presented the works “Contribution of upcycling surplus hydrogen to design a sustainable supply chain: The case study of Northern Spain”.
Dr. Lucía Gómez, researcher of GRADISAL Project at the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria, visited the Electrochemistry and Corrosion Resarch Group of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. During her visit, from June 18th to 22nd, 2018, she had the opportunity of being trained in membrane characterization by using electrochemical techniques, under the supervision of Prof. Valentin Perez Herranz.
Our PhD. students have recorded some videos explaining their research works, to participate in the 2 Minutes Thesis Contest organized by the ETSIIyT of the University of Cantabria. You can vote for them here
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