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
The members of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Dr. Gabriel Zarca and Dr. Nazely Diban, visited the Faculty of Engineering of Yamaguchi University (Ube, Japan) from 25th-29th March, in the frame of the Erasmus+ programme between both institutions.
Gabriel Zarca and Nazely Diban were invited speakers at the 5th International Symposium on Green and Smart Technologies for a Sustainable Society from 25th-27th March aimed at Master and PhD students. Other speakers belonged to the areas of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Information and Communications Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Norwergian University of Science and Technology, Universitat Jaume I, Universidad de Zaragoza, National Institute of Technology (Fukushima College) and Yamaguchi University.
Our colleagues also visited the laboratory facilities of the Green Chemical Processes group and had a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Vice-President and responsible of International Affairs of Yamaguchi University, to present the research activities of our Department and the Chemical Engineering Graduate and Master programmes in the UC.
The final meeting of the project on “Valorization of the tail-gas of carbon black manufacturing” was held last April 1, 2019 in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Cantabria. The delegation of participants from Birla Carbon company was leaded by Ranjan Ghosal, Senior Vice-President, Global Research and Innovation, and Jacinto Zarca, General Director of Birla Carbon Spain. The Agenda of the day was full of activities, and included a meeting of the Birla Carbon delegation with the Rector of the University of Cantabria, Professor Angel Pazos. The fruitful discussion on the obtained results served also to define the targets for continuing the collaboration in transfer of knowledge. We would like to thank the Head of the Department, Prof. Angel Irabien, and to the leaders of the research groups, Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz and Prof. Raquel Ibañez, their fruitful participation in the meeting. The day finished with a visit to the research facilities of the department.
On March 28th, 2019, Dr. Luis Blanco, coming from the LAQV/REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, delivered the talk “Functional Materials based on Task-Specific Ionic Systems”, at the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. The event was organized by the Master in Chemical Engineering and the Doctorate Program in Chemical Engineering, Energy and Processes.
On March 28th, 2019 the results of the Local Chemistry Olympiad, that took place last March 22nd, were published. In this 2019 edition the winners are:
Gold Medal: Víctor Mencía Alonso – IES Alisal (Santander)
Silver Medal: Alicia Palacio Solórzano – IES Santa Clara (Santander)
Bronze Medal: Paz Marina Martínez Menéndez – IES Jose María Pereda (Santander).
Moreover, Ángel Santiago Setién and Miguel Díez Quevedo (Colegio Calasanz Escolapios, Santander) and Pablo Amallo Fernández (IES Ataulfo Argenta, Castro Urdiales) received a mention for their outstanding results in the Olympiad.
Ane Urtiaga and Andrea Arguillarena participated in the contest “Science with Art ” (Ciencia con Arte) organized by the scientific culture unit of the UC. The project is aimed to bring the research projects that are developed in the University of Cantabria closer to secondary school students, and promote the scientific talent.
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In the project, students of the IES Ocho de Marzo, located in Castro Urdiales (Cantabria), prepared a video, with the tutorization of their school teacher Karina Hueso, and the mentoring of Andrea Arguillarena and Ane Urtiaga in the UC, about the objectives of the european project “Life2Acid”.
Here you can watch the result!
Alfredo Ortiz attended the 10th International Conference on Hydrogen Technologies – Hydrogen Days 2019, that was held in Prague, Czech Republic on March 27-29, 2019, where he presented the work “Recovery of industrial waste hydrogen by membrane technology”.
The technical staff of the SOSPROCAN Unit of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department was trained in the ISO 9001:2015 Standard, with the aim of adapting their quality management system to the ISO9001 requirements. The training was delivered by the company Confirma, on March 22-25, 2019.
Dr. Luis Branco, from the LAQV/REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa will deliver the talk “Functional Materials based on Task-Specific Ionic Systems”, next March 28, 2019, at 15:30 h, at the Sala de Grados of the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. The event is organized by the Master in Chemical Engineering and the Doctorate Program in Chemical Engineering, Energy and Processes.
