Students of the Chemical Engineering Degree who follow the courses Wastewater Treatment, European Project Semester and Advanced Separation Processes, and the Faculty members Raquel Ibáñez, Eugenio Bringas, Marcos Fallanza and Guillermo Díaz visited the WWTP located at San Román and the Drinking water treatment Plant located in Prezanes, last May 4th, 2018.
The students had the opportunity to observe conventional and advanced technologies for the sanitation of urban and industrial wastewaters.
Prof. Ane Urtiaga, on behalf of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, attended the VIII Annual Meeting of UC, ENSA and CTC, aimed at exploring new collaborative opportunities.
On April 24th,2018 the General Directorate of Innovation, Technological Development and Industrial Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the European Technology Platform for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, organized by the “European Regional Workshop on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells. The event took place in the facilities of., in the meeting room of the Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Tourism and Commerce (Madrid).
The workshop was, aimed at stablishing the existing guidelines for supporting projects related to hydrogen technologies in the regions, and counted on the participationit gathered of different European experts of in the sectortopic. Dr. Alfredo Ortiz participated in the event as coordinator of the european projects “Energy Sustainbility at the SUDOE region: Red PEMFC-SUDOE” and “Atlantic Network for Renewable Generation and Supply of Hydrogen to promote High Energy Efficiency”.
Elena Manteca and Gema Perez participated in the Cultural Week of Atalaya School, located in Santander. They prepared a small presentation about the research activities developed in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, and show the students how to develop simple experiments in order to bring science closer to the society. The students had the opportunity to discover the Science world and they could ask a lot of curiosities. We hope to see them in the near future studying chemical engineering and developing the experiments in our facilities.
Prof. Ane Urtiaga attended the meeting of the Technical Group for the Monitoring of Persistent Organic Pollutants and Stockholm Convention in Spain, that took place last April 18, in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing , Food and Environment (Madrid). During the event, Prof. Urtiaga presented the study on dioxins and furans characterization in samples form the Bailin (Sabiñanigo) landfill site, that was commissioned by the Aragón administration to the SERCROM-UC analytical facility.
The University of Cantabria organized the day “Feria Informativa UC”, which took place on April 20th, 2018 at Paraninfo of the University of Cantabria. The aim of the event is to show the academic offer of the University of Cantabria to future students. Eugenio Bringas, Marcos Fallanza and María Margallo, on behalf of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, explained to the audience the academic career in the field of Chemical Engineering, from the degree to the doctorate program.
Prof. Raquel Ibáñez attended the International Spring School and Water Reclamation and Reuse, celebrated in Izmir (Turkey) last April 19-20, 2018, where she presented the work entitled “Combining Membrane Filtration and Electrochemical Oxidation for the Removal of Pharmaceuticals from a WWTP secondary effluent”.
Dr. Gabriel Zarca was promoted to Associate Professor after the evaluation by the committee formed by Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz, Prof. Raquel Ibañez and Dr. Iñaki Fernandez.
Dr. Alfredo Ortiz, as coordinator of HYLANTIC Project and Dr. Javier Pinedo on behalf of APRIA Systems, attended the seminar “Seminario Financiero para Beneficiarios y Controladores” of the INTERREG ESPACIO ATLÁNTICO: PROYECTOS PRIMERA CONVOCATORIA programme, celebrated in Madrid, last April 10th, 2018. The event was organized by the Ministry of Finance and Public Function through the General Directorate of European Funds.
Jenifer Gómez attended the VI Doctorate Days and Scientific Dissemination of Group 9 of Universities (G-9), that was held at the University of Cantabria last April 11-13, 2018. Jenifer was selected to participate in this event on behalf of the University of Cantabria in the area of Engineering and Architecture, together with 90 PhD. students from all over Spain.
During the event the award ceremony of the Best Poster of the VI Jornadas Doctorales del Grupo 9 de Universidades took place. Jenifer Gómez received the award in the field of Engineering and Architecture, for her poster contribution entitled “Innovative Microdevice for Extracorporeal Sepsis Treatment”.
