Last July 19th, the students enrolled in the European Project Semester 2018-2019, defended their final degree project in Chemical Engineering. The defense took place in the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. Cristina Campos, Lucía Ceballos, Sergio Valentín Gutiérrez, Marcos León and Tamara Sampedro defended their works and the evaluation committe was formed by Eugenio Bringas, Guillermo Díaz and Gabriel Zarca.
The Chemical, Energy and Process Engineering Doctorate program organized the annual Doctorate seminars. The aim of the seminar is to promote the training of PhD students and disseminate their research activities. The seminar, open to the members of the doctorate program and to general public, included the assessment of the doctorate students’ progress by the academic panel of supervisors. The event took place last July 18th, 2019 in the room 3 of the ETSIIT, and in this edition 6 students of different doctorate years presented their works.
The presented works were:
Juan Corredor – New developments in photocatalysis for environmental application
Sophie Schröder – Environmental assessment of advanced oxidation technologies
Cristina González – Design of extracorporeal detoxification stages by advanced simulation techniques
Daniel Hoehn – Food production strategies for the mitigation of climate change: Towards a cirular food economy
Bohdana Markiv – Environmental exposure to particulate matter-bound manganese and other metals: bioaccessibility AND biomonitoring
Rafael Ortiz – Upgrading of industrial waste hydrogen in internal combustion engines
Rafael Ortiz was invited to the “Decarbonising Ireland with Zero-Carbon Technologies” event on 16th July, 2019, organised by the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Galway, for an oral dissemination of the project HYLANTIC results aimed to stakeholders in Ireland and Northern Ireland for discussing the deployment of hydrogen technologies in rural and peripheral regions with speakers from Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Iceland and Norway.
Pedro Díaz Guridi will defend his doctoral thesis “New process for the biotechnological production of lactic acid: Integration of membranes filtration technologies”, developed in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department under the supervision of Raquel Ibáñez and Jose Antonio Otero. The academic event will take place on July 30th, 2019 at 12:00 in the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria.
Alba Romano visited the Center for Integrated Technology and Organic Synthesis (CITOS) of the University of Liège, from July 8 to July 14, 2019. During her stay, she performed experiments related to her PhD thesis within the Corning AFR Qualified Laboratory in the University of Liège, using Corning Advanced-Flow Reactor technology under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Christophe M. Monbaliu.
Dr. Nazely Diban, assistant professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Cantabria, visited the Faculty of Engineering of Yamaguchi University (Ube, Japan) from 8th-12th July under the frame of the Erasmus+ programme for faculty staff mobility.
Dr. Nazely Diban imparted a seminar and workshops on ‘Membrane processes for the adjustment of alcohol content in red wines to undergraduate and master students in Chemical Engineering in that institution and to disseminate the academic and research activities in the field of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Cantabria among the Japanese students. Additional meetings and activities were organized to reinforce the research collaboration between both institutions.
Juan Corredor attended the 14th International Conference on Catalysis in Membrane Reactors, that was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands last July 8-11, 2019, where he presented the work “Photocatalytic Membranes Based on the Use of Graphene Oxide/TiO2 Composite for Hydrogen Production”.
Estefanía Alonso, Josu Goitia, Sara Martinez, Ainara Quijada, Diego Rebe, Raúl Robles and Amaia Sáenz de Burjaca, defended their final projects in the Master in Chemical Engineering (UC-UPV/EHU). The defense took place in the University of Cantabria, on July 5th, 2019, and the academic evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Raquel Ibáñez, from the UC, Dra. Miriam Arabiourrutia and Dr. Rubén López, both from the UPV-EHU.
Alfredo Ortiz, Lucía Gómez and Víctor Manuel Ortiz attended the European Fuel Cell Forum EFCF, celebrated in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 2-5, 2019. Alfredo Ortiz presented the work “Hydrogen recovery from industrial gaseous waste streams using polymeric membranes” and Lucía Gómez and Víctor Manuel Ortiz presented the work “Copolymers of ionic liquids with MMA and hPFSVE as novel proton exchange membranes”
On July 3rd, 2019, the Association of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Cantabria – AQUIQÁN organized an event to acknowledge all the volunteers that collaborated during the celebration of the ANQUE-ICCE 3 –CIBIQ, celebrated in Santander last June 17-21, 2019. The volunteers received a diploma that recognized their participation in the organization of the event and a picture as a memory of the conference.
