Members of Repsol Group, visited the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria and met the Analytical Services of SOSPROCAN Unit team. They were interested in to the analytical services provided by SOSPROCAN in order to look for new collaborations between both institutions.
Ane Urtiaga, María José Rivero and Laura Rancaño attended the 6th European Conference on Environmental Applications of Advanced Oxidation Processes, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, last June 26-30, 2019. Ane presented two works entitled: “Optimization approach to the Integration of electrochemical Oxidation and nanofiltration for treatment of fluorinated micropollutants in water” and “Degradation of poly-and perfluoralkyl substances (PFASs) in aqueous film-forming foam by sequential UV oxidative/reductive treatments”. María José and Laura presented the works “Assessment of metolachlor degradation from landfill leachate by an MBR-Photocatalytic oxidation hybrid process” and “Degradation of poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in aqueous film-forming foam by sequential UV oxidative/reductive treatments”, respectively.
The Project Meeting of the European project “KET4F-GAS: Reduction of the Environmental Impact of Fluorinated Gases in the Sudoe Space through Key Enabling Technologies”, took place in Santander, on Tuesday 18, 2019. During the meeting, the leader of each workpackage presented a summary of the activities developed over the past six months followed by a fruitful discussion regarding the future steps.
The Workshop Mitigation of the Environmental Impact of Fluorinated Gases took place in Santander, on Wednesday 19, 2019, within the framework of the ANQUE-ICCE 2019 congress. This workshop was a core activity for the dissemination of research results of the European project “KET4F-GAS: Reduction of the Environmental Impact of Fluorinated Gases in the Sudoe Space through Key Enabling Technologies”.
In this event, chaired by Dr. Joao M. M. de Araújo and Dr. Ana B. Pereiro from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) and Dr. Gabriel Zarca from Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), 2 keynote lectures and 7 oral presentations regarding the development of new processes for the separation and recovery of refrigerant gases were presented, including those of the invited speakers Prof. Margarida Costa (CNRS, France) and Prof. Lourdes Vega (Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates).
During the celebration of the international congress ANQUE-ICCE 3 – CIBIQ, Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz was awarded with the prize ICCE 2019 “Innovation and Transfer”, in recognition of her career and excellent work in these fields.
Moreover, María Jose Rivero, Lucía Gómez, Cristina González and Marta Romay received the award to the best posters of the congress.
The First International Young Researchers Symposium on Applications of Electrochemical Technology (IYRS-AET) took place in Santander, on Thursday 20, 2019, as one of the activities of the ANQUE-ICCE 2019 congress. The 1st IYRS-AET counted with 27 participants, including one invited keynote speaker, Dr. Sonia Lanzalaco, 20 oral communications and 5 poster presentations. The Symposium was chaired by Ane Urtiaga (University of Cantabria), Ignacio Sirés (University of Barcelona) and Fabiola Martínez (University of Castilla – La Mancha). The Spanish network of Excellence E3TECH, the specialized Group of Electrochemistry of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry and the International Society of Electrochemistry sponsored the scientific activities aimed at the formation of predoctoral and young postdoctoral researchers in the field of Electrochemical technologies. 3 awards to the best oral and poster communications were issued:
Awards:
Amaia Ortiz de Lejarazu, “Preparation of ion exchange membranes by using end-of-life reverse osmosis membranes and application in electrodialysis”
Sergio Díaz Abad “Study of the SO2 depolarized electrolysis with advanced PBI based membranes at high temperature”
Maria Arellano Pardo “Sulfate radical and its application to the removal of organic pollutants”
The awareness seminar on Mitigation of the Environmental Impact of fluorinated gases took place in Santander last June 20, 2019.
The event was aimed to disseminate the strategies for the reduction of emissions of fluorinated gases of high global warming potential which are used as refrigerants and for acclimatization. The awareness seminar was organized by Prof. Ane Urtiaga and Dr. Gabriel Zarca, both of them members of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Cantabria, as one of the activities of the international project KET4F-GAS, co-funded by the Interreg SUDOE program. The open ceremony was chaired by the institutional representatives and the General Director of Environment of the Cantabria regional Government. 7 invited speakers from Spain, France and Portugal, representing the administration (Spanish Office of Climate Change, Cantabria Regional Government), companies involved in the trade of fluorinated gases, environmental ONGs and representatives of the employees, showed the main discussion points in the topic. More than 90 people registered as attendees to this event, free of charge.
Last June 19-21, 2019, the 3rd International Congress of Chemical Engineering and the 1st Iberoamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering took place at the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. In this edition, the congress was organized by ANQUE and its local association AQUIQÁN and counted with the participation of more than 500 professionals in the field of Chemical Engineering. The researchers of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department were involved in all the activities around the congress and also submitted different communications and chaired several sessions.
On June 17-18, 2019 the ICCE Student Conference took place at the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. The event joined more than 100 students of 20 Spanish and foreign Universities around activities and competitions through which they complete their training and develop skills such as leadership and teamwork, very useful for this type of professionals who are called to develop projects of great social impact.
As part of the activitites of the european project “Energetic Sustainability at the SUDOE region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network the workshop “Renewable Hydrogen Energy World” took place on June 20-21, 2019 at the University of Cantabria, during the celebration of the 3rd International Congress of Chemical Engineering ANQUE-ICCE 3.
The event was chaired by Prof. Alfredo Ortiz (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain), Prof. Deborah Jones (Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, CNRS) and Prof. Carmen Rangel (LNEG – Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Portugal), with the support of the Spanish Hydrogen Association AeH2 and the Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia (Portugal). The prestigious invited speakers were:
“The Future of Hydrogen Generation by Electrolysis: Status and Prospects” – Prof. Andreas Friedrich, German Aerospace Center (DLR). Germany
“Materials Chemistry Research for Fuel Cells and Hydrogen” – Prof. Steven Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University. Canada
“Membrane and adsorption based hydrogen purification for PEMFC applications” – Prof. Adelio Mendes, U. Porto. Portugal
“Roadmap to the Energy System 2050 in Germany – Hydrogen as a Key Energy Carrier” – Dr. Martin Robinius, Forschungszentrum Jülich. Germany
“Recent progress in safety of gaseous hydrogen storage” – Dr. Dmitriy Makarov, HySAFER. Ulster University. United Kingdom
“Maximizing renewable energy deployment by means of hydrogen as energy vector” – Dr. Javier Brey, H2B2. President of AeH2 (Spanish Hydrogen Association). Spain
“A Roadmap for Hydrogen in Portugal – Brief overview of the system approach used” – Dr. Paulo Partidário, Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia. Portugal.
“Current situation and perspectives of R & D in Spain. Hydrogen as an energy vector” – Prof. Jesús Arauzo, Presidente del Panel “Energía y Transporte” de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación Española.
Here you can check the program of the event with all the participants
