Several members of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria attended the 12th European Congress of Chemical Engineering, celebrated in Florence last September 15-19, 2019.
Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz delivered the plenary conference of the ECCE12 congress entitled “Separation Challenges in the Quest for Sustainability”. In her talk, she presented the upmost forefront developments in advanced separation processes with challenging applications such as for reduction of energy consumption, new energy sources and devices, biomedical applications.
The oral presentations delivered were:
Nazely Diban: Comparison of functional membranes of PCL doped with different graphene-based nanomaterials to modulate neural differentiation
Arantza Basauri: Design of high performance micro-devices for endotoxins removal from biological fluids. protein-lipid a binding step
Cristina González: Novel design of magnetophoretic microdevices for extracorporeal sepsis treatment
Marta Rumayor: Climate change mitigation: A techno-economic assessment of the formic acid production by electrochemical reduction of CO2
Sophie Schröder: Aqueous electrochemical oxidation of TRICLOSAN: the potential formation of PCDD/Fs
The poster contributions were:
Ane Urtiaga: Nanofiltration removal of perfluorohexanpic acid; The role of salts and concentration pH.
Eugenio Bringas: Selective recovery of nickel and copper from spent acids by chelating resins
Guillermo Díaz: Electroreduction of CO2 to formate using carbon-supported Bi nanoparticles in gas diffusion electrodes in a continuous mode.
Lucía Gómez: Long-term assessment of Energy Recovery from Salinity gradients
Daniel Gorri: Nanofiltration removal of perfluorohexanoic acid: the role of salts concentration and pH; and Selective separation of n-butanol from ABE solutions with polymeric inclusion membranes
Fernando Pardo: Towards the recovery of refrigerant gases from end-of-life equipment: study of the separation performance of polymer membranes; and Simulation of a two-stage membrane system for the recovery of hydrogen from a flue gas stream
Marta Romay: Addressing limitations to implement ternary phase diagrams into the systematic prediction of membrane morphology by phase inversion
María Fresnedo San Román: Potential formation of PCDD/FS during the electrochemical oxidation: Influence of the operation variables
Carolina Tristán: Environmental benefits of SGE-RED energy recovery using LCA
