Antoniel Carlos Campos Carolina, Jenifer Gómez Pastora, Ana Hernández Pellón and Saúl Laguillo Revuelta, PhD. students of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, attended the Advanced Doctorate Seminar “Curso Avanzado sobre el Futuro Profesional del Doctorando” organized the Doctorate School of the University Cantabria (EDUC), last October 16-27, 2017.
Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz and Prof. Ane Urtiaga, on behalf of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department, attended the meeting between the company Solvay and some leaders of the research groups of the University of Cantabria whose main activity is related to the Company interests, last October 26th, 2017. The event, organized by Foro UC-Empresa and coordinated by Vicerrectorado de Investigación, was aimed at the promotion of the relationship between UC and Solvay.
Inmaculada Ortiz, head of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department was in charge of the presentation of the main research topics in which are involved the 4 research groups of the Department.
Students from the University of Yamaguchi within their supervisor Dr. Izumi Kumakiri are visiting the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University in the frame of a collaboration project between both institutions. During the visit, from October 23rd to November 20th, 2017 they will have the opportunity to jointly work with PhD. students of the Department in different research fields; they will visit and put hands on the facilities and share different experiences in a different culture.
Last October 18th, 2017, Dr. Eugenio Bringas was proposed for recruitment as Permanent Associate Professor by the evaluation committee formed by Prof. Javier León, Prof. Ángel Irabien, Prof. Inmaculada Ortiz, Dr. Raquel Ibáñez and Dr. Aurora Garea.
Ane Urtiaga and Gema Pérez attended the Days “Gestión de las Aguas regeneradas mediante recarga inducida y artificial. Aspectos ambientales, socioeconómicos y legales”, organized by Club del Agua Subterránea, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Fundación Fomento y Gestión del Agua, Grupo Especializado del Agua, IMDEA Agua and Consolider TRAGUA. The event took place at Fundación Gómez Pardo in Madrid last October 18 – 19th, 2017.
During the celebration of this event the third meeting of the Consolider-Tragua net, TRAGUANET took place in Madrid. TRAGUANET is a scientific network financed by MINECO and formed by 23 research groups of different Universities and Research Centres with main research interest oriented to wastewater treatment and reuse.
The aim of the meeting was to present the conclusions of the Project corresponding to the period 2014-2017.
Alfredo Ortiz Sainz de Aja participated in the Ibero-American Congress on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells – IBERCONAPPICE 2017 held in Huesca last October 17-20, 2017, where he presented the work “Supply chain optimization of hydrogen recovery from industrial gaseous waste streams at SUDOE region.”
The team of students of the Degree in Chemical Engineering of Universidad de Cantabria participated in the Chem-E-Car competition that took place on 1st October within the World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Barcelona from 1st to 5th October, 2017.
The success of the Cantabrian expedition was acknowledged with the award to the “Best Inherent Safety in Design of Car”), which reveals the excellent work carried out by the team of students.
18 teams from different countries, like Canada, Iran, Qatar, Poland, United States or Spain, were able to finally take part in the competition. The car “CantabriCar” of UC achieved the best place among the Spanish teams that participated in the event, and the sixth place in the global ranking of the competition. The winner of the contest was the prototype of the team from the Persian Gulf University (Iran), which was able to place the vehicle only 0,6 cm away from the target distance of 21 m, showing the extraordinarily high level of the participants.
The team has been supervised by a groups of professors from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and it has been financially supported by the company Birla Carbon Spain, which made the dream of taking part in this competition a reality.
The 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Barcelona (Spain) took place in Barcelona from October 1 to 5, 2017. A large group of delegates of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department attended the event, where they presented their research. Ángel Irabien was part of the Scientific and Organizing Committee. Ane Urtiaga, María José Rivero, Manuel Alvarez, Clara Casado and Jonathan Albo participated as chairs of scientific sessions.
The congress, the most relevant in the area of Chemical Engineering, brings together every four years the world’s Chemical Engineering elite. 2017 event took place in Europe and it will move to Buenos Aires in 2021 and to Beijing in 2025.
Oral Presentations
Abejón, J. Sánchez-Marcano, M. Belleville, A. Garea, A. Irabien – The influence of the membrane cascade configuration on the performance of a protein hydrolysate fractionation process by ultrafiltration and nanofiltration.
Jonathan Albo, Jose Solla-Gullón, Vicente Montiel, Angel Irabien – Electrocatalytic transformation of CO2 to CH3OH over Cu-based multimetallic gas diffusion electrodes.
Arantza Basauri, Jenifer Gómez Pastora, Marcos Fallanza, Eugenio Bringas, Inmaculada Ortiz – Computational and experimental techniques to describe a micro-extraction process with selective solvents
Selene Cobo, Antonio Dominguez-Ramos y Angel Irabien – From linear to circular integrated waste management systems: a framework.
Ana Fernández-Barquín, Clara Casado-Coterillo, Ángel Irabien – Mathematical modelling of the CO2/CH4 separation using dense polymer and mixed matrix composite hollow fibre membranes.
Jenifer Gómez-Pastora, Arantza Basauri, Marcos Fallanza, Eugenio Bringas, Inmaculada Ortiz – Computational Analysis of a Two-Phase Continuous-Flow Magnetophoretic Microsystem for Particle Separation from Biological Fluids.
Jenifer Gómez-Pastora, Cristina González-Fernández , Arantza Basauri, Marcos Fallanza, Eugenio Bringas, Inmaculada Ortiz- Contribution to the design of magnetic blood cleansing microdevices.
Beatriz Gomez-Ruiz, Paula Ribao, Nazely Diban, María José Rivero, Ane Urtiaga, Inmaculada Ortiz – Efficient photocatalytic degradation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by doped TiO2 structures with graphene oxide.
Ana Hernández-Pellón, Ignacio Fernández-Olmo – Source identification of PM10-bound heavy metals from multi-site data near an industrialized area.
Marta Herrero, Antonio Domínguez-Ramos, Raquel Ibáñez, Angel Irabien – Towards a more sustainable management of desalination brines.
Margallo, I. Garcia Herrero, J. Laso, I. Vazquez Rowe, Y. Lorenzo Toja, A. Irabien, R. Aldaco. Evaluating the operational inefficiencies of Waste to Energy (WtE) plants in Spain from a life cycle thinking perspective.
Ivan Merino-Garcia, Jonathan Albo, Jose Solla-Gullón, Vicente Montiel, Angel Irabien – Gas-phase CO2 electroreduction at Cu/ZnO-based electrodes.
María José Rivero, Sara Domínguez, Laura Rancaño, Inmaculada Ortiz – Comparative enery assessment of two UV light advanced oxidation processes.
Marta Rumayor, Michal Pohořelý, Michal Šyc, Karel Svoboda, Jaroslav Švehla – Fate of mercury in municipal solid waste incineration
Ane Urtiaga, Álvaro Soriano, Daniel Gorri – Energy optimization of the electrochemical degradation of perfluorohexanoic acid by its integration with NF/RO.
Raúl Zarca, Alfredo Ortiz, Daniel Gorri, Inmaculada Ortiz – Performance of new composite facilitated transport membranes for olefin/paraffin separation.
Gabriel Zarca, Inmaculada Ortiz, Ane Urtiaga, Fèlix Llovell – Modelling the physical properties of ionic liquid/metal salt mixtures with the soft-SAFT equation of state: application to carbon monoxide reactive separation.
Gabriel Zarca, Inmaculada Ortiz, Ane Urtiaga – Cyano-based ionic liquids as advanced materials for carbon monoxide purification with reactive separation processes.
Posters
Abejón, A. Garea, A. Irabien. Supported ionic liquid membranes for extraction of lignin from aqueous solution.
Arantza Basauri, Jenifer Gómez Pastora, Marcos Fallanza, Eugenio Bringas, Inmaculada Ortiz – Computational analysis of facilitated transport in a microfluidic device.
Juan Corredor, Paula Ribao, Maria J. Rivero, Inmaculada Ortiz – New developments on photocatalytic process intensification.
Pablo Fernández, Claudia Solá, María Fresnedo San Román, Inmaculada Ortiz – Formation of PCDD/Fs during the Fenton oxidation of 2-CP.
Garcia Herrero, J. Laso, M. Margallo, K. Hjaila, A. Bala, C. Gazulla, P. Fullana, I. Vazquez Rowe, A. Irabien, R. Aldaco – Addressing decision-making in the process industry using life cycle approach coupled to Linear Programming: A case study on anchovy canning industry in Cantabria Region (Northern Spain).
Gorri, A. Norkobilov, I. Ortiz – Optimum production of ethyl tert-butyl ether using pervaporation-based hybrid processes through the analysis of process flowsheet.
Laura Rancaño, Sara Domínguez, María José Rivero – Combination of coagulation-flocculation and photocatalysis for the treatment of landfill leachate.
Sánchez-Marcano, R. Abejón, A. Parra, M. Belleville – Enzymatic membrane reactors for antibiotics degradation in wastewaters.
Álvaro Soriano, Daniel Gorri, Ane Urtiaga – Design of a hybrid nanofiltration/electrooxidation process for the removal of perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA).
Aitor Marcos, Cristina González, Marta Romay, Laura Rancaño, José Manuel Vadillo, Maria Angeles Mantecón, Belén García, Andrea Arguillarena, Sergio San Martín, Paula Montes and Paloma Ortiz, students of the master in Chemical Engineering participated in the poster student´s competition of the 10th World Congress celebrated in Barcelona, last October 2017.
Cristina González and Aitor Marcos received the award to distinguish the best student´s poster.
Prof. Ángel Irabien was distinguished with the Award for Excellence in the Organization of the International Conference of Sustainable Science and Engineering, ICOSSE´17, celebrated in collaboration with the British Society IChemE and the American Society AIChE. The conference was part of the 10th World Congress of Chemical Engineering which took place in Barcelona last October 1-5, 2017. Moreover, during the congress, Prof. Irabien was member of the Scientific and Organizing Committee.
Moreover, María José Rivero received the award to distinguish the best oral presentetation in the WCCC (AOPs).
Last September 29th, 2017, researchers of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department participated in the event “European Researchers´ Night” in Plaza Porticada in Santander, organized by the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Cantabria. The activity outreached the expectations and facilitate the general public to become aware of the relevance of R&D in daily life.
Paula Ribao is performing a pre-doctoral research internship at the Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG) in Lisbon (Portugal) under the supervision of Dr. Carmen Rangel, from September to December 2017. During this period, she will work on the photocatalytic hydrogen production from model and real industrial effluents. The main objective will be to evaluate the ability of novel photocatalytic materials to obtain energy from organic wastewaters.
