Juan AndrésÁlvarez will defense his doctorate thesis “Development and Characterization ofpolyethylene multilayer filmes crosslinked by means of electron beamirradiation”, developed under the supervision of Prof. Ane Urtiaga and Prof.María del Rosario Benavente. The thesis has been supported by the programme ofresearch fellowships for the development of industrial doctorates promoted bythe University of Cantabria. The event will take place at 11:00h on December17th, 2018, in the conference room of the ETSIIT.

Lucía Gómez, Guillermo Díaz and Gema Pérez, on behalf of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) Department participated in the project “La Universidad en tu Barrio”, organized by the University of Cantabria and the Primary School Gerardo Diego of Santander.

On the 3^rd of December, the researchers of the CBE Department, together with Sandra Ceballos, Ana Fernández y Lidia García, students of the Chemical Engineering Degree, supervised an experiment about copper ion exchange as water treatment technology. During the workshop, the primary students had the opportunity to work as a chemical engineer in the laboratory.

Oscar Condoni, Elena García, Xabier Sukunza, Mayra Suarez and Juan Trueba defended their final Project master thesis in the Master in Chemical Engineering (UC- UPV/EHU) last November 30th, 2018. The academic evaluation was performed at in the conference room of the ETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof. Raquel Ibáñez, from the UC, together with Dr. Miriam Arabiourrutia and Dr. Rubén López, both from the UPV-EHU.

Raúl Zarca Lago defended his doctorate thesis “Design and optimization of propylene purification processes using high performance PVDF-HFP/BMImBF4/AgBF4 membranes”, developed in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria with the supervision of Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz and Dr. Alfredo Ortiz. The event took place on November 29th, 2018. The evaluation committee was formed by Juan Ramón González Velasco (University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Ana María Urtiaga (University of Cantabria) and Edwin Zondervan (Bremen University).

Carolina Tristan has recently joined the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department. She will work in the project “Tecnologías Ambientales Sostenibles para el Aprovechamiento Energético de Corrientes Residuales (CTM2017-87850-R) (AEI/FEDER,UE)”, under the supervision of Prof. Raquel Ibáñez.

The Association of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Cantabria (AQUIQÁN) has published the call for the  “Prize AQUIQÁN Tesis Doctoral 2017”. This award is aimed at PhD. that presented their doctorate thesis in 2017. All the information is available on:

https://web.unican.es/departamentos/ingquimica/aquiqan

The graduation ceremony for Master in Chemical Engineering took place in the Paraninfo of the University of Cantabria, on November 24th, 2018. The new Masters received their diplomas awarding the completion of their studies during the academic year 2017/2018.

Our former students were accompanied by Prof. Raquel Ibáñez.

Alfredo Ortiz, coordinator of the European project “Energetic Sustainability at the SUDOE region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network”, attended the workshop “Challenges for the Implementation of Hydrogen as an Energy Vector in Portugal. Towards a RoadMap for Research, Development and Technology Innovation”, celebrated in Lisbon (Portugal). In this event,  where the H2 bike prototype developed by APRIA was promoted. The event workshop took place on November 21st, 2018, and was organized within the framework of H2_PT project, coordinated by LNEG and co-financed by POSEUR.

The initiatitive EIG Concert Japan has selected the project X-MEM: “Outperforming functionality: composite/mixed matrix porous materials in membrane-based processes”, coordinated by Dr. Nazely Diban from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of the University of Cantabria in the frame of the EIG CONCERT-Japan 5th Joint Call for projects in the field of Functional Porous Materials.

The project consortium is completed by the University of Yamaguchi (Japan), the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), and Atilim University, Hacettepe University and Ege University (Turkey). The project will last 3 years starting on April 2019.