University of Melbourne

Title of keynote: Trapdoor Materials for Gas Separation

More about Paul Webley:

Current Research Activities

Paul has worked in development and management of clean energy technologies, especially carbon capture for the past 15 years in industry and academia. His principal research interest is clean energy technologies particularly gas separation, energy storage, and applications of thermodynamics to improve process efficiency. He works in the following fields:

CO 2 capture from flue gas and process streams

Natural gas and coal seam gas purification and CO 2, N 2 removal

O 2/N 2/Ar separation

Synthesis gas separation and hydrogen purification

Biogas purification

Hydrogen and methane storage

In the energy area, his interests include:

Applications of exergy analysis to improve energy generation and process industries including CO 2 capture technologies

Use of irreversible thermodynamics to understand non-linear transport phenomena in energy production

Development of novel catalysts for CO 2 utilization technologies including DME synthesis

Solar thermal energy conversion and thermal energy storage materials 

2012-present: Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - The University of Melbourne 

2008-2011: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

2003-2007: Reader, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

1996- 2003: Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

1992-1996: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Allentown, Pennsylvania, senior process research and development engineer

1990-1992: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor and Director, MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Title of keynote: Combining gas adsorption and in situ XRD to describe unusual gas adsorption features of nanoporous materials

More about Conchi Ania:

Dr. Conchi Ania is Research Scientist of CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research) in Oviedo (Spain) and Research Director of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Orléans (France). She received her PhD degree in Chemistry by Univ. of Oviedo (Spain) in 2003. After 3 years postdoctoral stays in France and USA, in 2007 she incorporated at CSIC (2009-2017 Tenured Scientist, 2018 Research Scientist). In 2017 she also joined CNRS as Research Director.

In 2008 she got the L'Oreal-Unesco Fellowship Award in the Programme "For women in Science" (Spain) and the Excellence Scientific Research Award by Univ. Granada (Spain). In 2016 she got an ERC-Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council, funded with 2M€ to develop research activities towards "Integrating photochemistry in nanoconfined carbon-based porous materials in technological processes".

She has a long-standing interest and a widely recognized experience on research activities related to nanoporous materials with tailored surface chemistry and architectures as structural and functional solids for high-tech applications, covering energy storage and environmental protection. Current research interests focus on the use of carbon materials as catalysts, adsorbents and electrodes, and particularly on photochemistry of carbon materials in various fields (synthesis, catalysis, sensing, electrochemistry).

As for scientific contributions, she has a large experience on coordinating (20) and participating (14) in R&D projects and industrial contracts (10). She has authored 7 book chapters, supervised 6 PhD thesis, published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals with over 3500 citations and an H-index of 34. She is also coinventor of a patent filed for 2 years by SIAD (Italy), on the preparation of porous materials for the separation of gases of strategic impact.

Universidade Federal do Ceará

Title of keynote: New perspectives in carbon based materials characterization

More about Mardônio Lucena:

Prof. Lucena has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Master degree in Materials Science and Engineering with emphasis on ceramic materials by the Federal University of São Carlos, specializing in Production Engineering – strategic planning by UFC/UFSC. He holds PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Campinas in 2006 with an emphasis on molecular simulation. He performed research in molecular simulation within the Snurr group at Northwestern University – USA. He is currently associate professor at the Federal University of Ceará. He was head of Chemical Engineering department -UFC and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering. His studies focus mainly in Molecular Simulation with emphasis on the methods of adsorption prediction based on statistical mechanics (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics). He also has interest in material engineering of ceramics. His research interests include new adsorbents for CO2 capture, characterization of unstructured materials, energy storage by adsorption and separation process in liquid and gas phase.

Missouri University of Science & Technology

Presentation title: Multicomponent Adsorptive Separation of CO2, CO, CH4, N2, and H2 over Core-Shell Zeolite@MOF Composite Adsorbents

More about Fateme Rezaei:

RESEARCH AREAS

Adsorption, Energy Efficient Separation Processes, Process Design, Modeling and Optimization

RESEARCH STATEMENT

Our research focus broadly lies at the interface of chemical, materials science and environmental engineering, where the general goal of our work is to develop advanced materials and processes for clean energy and sustainable chemical processes. In particular, our research relates to fundamental and applied aspects of adsorption, separations, purification and reaction. The research activities include: 1) structured adsorbents in gas separation processes; 2) modeling and simulation of cyclic separation processes such as PSA, TSA, VSA; 3) development of hybrid materials for separation, purification and reaction applications; 4) liquid phase adsorptive separation and purification.

Examples of current projects include: 1) monolithic adsorbents for CO2 capture, 2) adsorptive separation of light hydrocarbons, 3) advanced technologies for sour gas removal (SOx, NOx, H2S), 4) development of in-situ separation-reaction processes.

AWARDS AND HONORS

International Adsorption Society Award for Excellence in the PhD  Dissertation, USA, 2013

Best Poster Award at Fundamentals of Adsorption Conference (FOA11), USA, 2013                  

Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), Australia, 2008  

Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS), Australia, 2008

Special Award in World Exhibition on Innovation, Research and New Technologies, Belgium, 2007

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

F. Rezaei, S. Swernath, J. Kalyanamaran, R. P. Lively, Y. Kawajiri, and M. J. Realff, “Modeling of Rapid Temperature Swing Adsorption Using Hollow Fiber Sorbents”, Chemical Engineering Science 113, 62–76 (2014).

F. Rezaei and C. W. Jones, "Stability of Supported Amine Adsorbents to SO2 and NOx in Post-combustion CO2 Capture Process. 2. Multi-component Adsorption", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 53, 12103–12110 (2014).

F. Rezaei and C. W. Jones, "Stability of Supported Amine Adsorbents to SO2 and NOx in Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Process. 1. Single-component Adsorption", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 52, 12192–12201 (2013).

F. Rezaei, R. P. Lively, Y. Labreche, G. Chen, W.J . Koros, and C. W. Jones “Aminosilica Hollow Fiber Adsorbents for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 5, 3921–3931 (2013).

F. Rezaei and P. Webley, “Optimal Design of Engineered Gas Adsorbents: Pore-scale Level”, Chemical Engineering Science 69, 270–278 (2012).

University of Edinburgh

Presentation title: From Crystal to Column: multiscale strategies in the design of PSA processes for carbon capture

More about Lev Sarkisov:

My group specializes in molecular simulation in application to chemical engineering problems, material science and bimolecular systems. Over the last 50 years, since the first Monte Carlo simulations by Metropolis and co-workers, molecular simulations have been playing an increasingly important role in a range of research areas, from thermodynamic properties of matter to material design and drug discovery. There are several reasons for this. Simulations often provide an efficient alternative to experiments when conditions of interest are difficult or expensive to achieve (such as extreme pressures and temperatures); moreover, we can consider a much larger number of systems and conditions, thus significantly reducing the optimization cycle. Using computer one can imagine unphysical, chimerical systems, properties of which nevertheless may provide an important thermodynamic insight. This "what if?" approach has been particularly useful in proposing new materials and structures for specific applications. Most importantly, molecular simulations provide a unique look at the system on a detailed molecular scale, thus underpinning physical effects responsible for its behaviour.

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Presentation title: Alternative adsorbents from wastes and its application for water decontamination

More about Guilherme Dotto:

Professor no Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (DEQ/UFSM). É bolsista produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq, nível 2, na área de Engenharia Química. Atua como coordenador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia Química (PPGEQ/UFSM) e também como professor permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Química (PPGQ/UFSM). Possui graduação em Engenharia de Alimentos (2008), mestrado (2010) e doutorado (2012) em Engenharia e Ciência de Alimentos pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG-RS). Atua em projetos, ensino e pesquisa nas áreas de fenômenos de transporte, operações unitárias, tratamento de efluentes líquidos, sistemas partículados e processos de separação. Especificamente, tem experiência nas operações de adsorção, biossorção e secagem. Atualmente, trabalha na remoção de poluentes de soluções aquosas utilizando bioadsorventes, nanobiomateriais e materiais poliméricos. Nestas áreas, possui mais de 200 artigos publicados em periódicos indexados, atua como revisor de mais de 100 periódicos internacionais para os quais emitiu mais de 700 pareceres desde 2011. Entre 2016 e 2018 atuou como Editor do periódico Environmental Science and Pollution Research-Springer, onde atualmente é membro do corpo editorial. Atuou como Editor associado do periódico Chemical Engineering Communications-Taylor & Francis nos anos de 2017 e 2018. Foi membro do corpo editorial do periódico Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering-Elsevier, onde atualmente é Editor. Em 2018, foi presidente da comissão organizadora do 12° Encontro Brasileiro sobre Adsorção (EBA 12).

Aix-Marseille Université

Presentation title: Adsorption induced flexibility in MOFs as viewed by calorimetry

More about Philip Llewellyn:

Dr Philip Llewellyn carried out his PhD on the characterisation of nanoporous zeolite materials using gas adsorption in 1992. This was financed by an EU collaborative program between Brunel University (UK) and the CNRS in Marseille (France). In 1993, he was carried out a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mainz University (Germany), dealing with the occlusion of polymers inside mesoporous silica's. He joined the CNRS in 1993 as a Research Assistant and in 1999 received a 'Habilitation to Direct Research'. He was promoted to Research Director in 2009.

He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed papers and 4 patents (Hindex = 57). He received the AFCAT-Setaram, Young Researchers award in 2000 for his work in thermal analysis and calorimetry. In 2005, he received the Scientific Diffusion Prize at the 5th Festival of Science and Technology for his contribution brining Science to the Classroom and General Public.

Dr Philip Llewellyn's research interests lie in the thermodynamic analysis of adsorption at the gas/ solid interface.  Three aspects are considered:

• Understanding adsorption phenomena in well ordered solids

• Using gas adsorption for the characterization of heterogenous solids

• The evaluation of porous materials for their eventual use in applications including the storage and separation of gases.

Various approaches are taken including the development of specific apparatus to follow phenomena under pressure with microcalorimetry, the adsorption of mixtures and a coupled adsorption-Synchtrotron XRD system. These experimental aspects are accompanied by the macroscopic thermodynamic modeling of adsorption for the prediction of mixture behavior.

Much of his current projects lie in the evaluation of nanoporous materials with respect to several topics such as greenhouse gas recovery, hydrogen storage and hydrocarbon separations. Several classes of materials are under investigation in his group including activated carbons, zeolites, mesoporous silicas and metal organic frameworks.

City College of New York

Presentation title: Towards highly efficient gas desulfurization adsorbents: exploring porosity development in biosolid- based materials

More about Teresa Bandosz:

ACADEMIC

D.Sc. • Physical/Analytical Chemistry 

Department of Chemistry, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Post doctoral

Syracuse University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Ph.D. • Chemical Engineering

Technical University of Crakow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Krakow, Poland

B.Sc., M.Sc. • Chemical Engineering

University of Mining and Metallurgy, Department of Coal Processing in Power Engineering Chemistry, Krakow, Poland

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• › Environmental Application of Adsorption
• › Modification of materials
• › New sorbents and catalysts
• › Surface characterization
• › Methane/natural gas/hydrogen storage
• › Adsorption/desorption phenomena
• › Gas separation
• › Deep desulfurization of fuels
• › Catalytic photooxidation
• › Graphite oxide based composite adsorbents
• › Graphene/MOF composites as adsorbents
• › Gas sensors
• › Carbon materials based supercapacitors for energy storage

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• › International Adsorption Society
• › American Carbon Society
• › Polish Carbon Society
• › American Chemical Society

AWARDS & HONORS

1. Fulbright Senior Scholar, Spain (2016-2017)
2. American Carbon Society Graffin Lecturer (2016)
3. Appointed to National Academies Committee On Examination of the Disposal of Activated Carbon from the Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition Systems at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities (May 2008- May 2009)
4. Editor, Journal of Colloids and Interface Science (2014-present)
5. Guest Professor/ Sky Scholar, Dalian University of Technology, China 2006-2009.
6. On the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal (2017-present)
7. On the Editorial Board of Adsorption Science and Technology (2005-present)
8. On the Editorial Board of Applied Surface Science (2014- present)
9. On the Editorial Board of Carbon (2014- present)
10. On the Editorial Board of Adsorption ( 2013-present)

SINTEF - Research Division of Materials and Chemistry

https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?empid=4095

Offenburg University

Presentation title: Investigation of Mixed Gas Sorption in Lab-Scale Experiment and Evaluation

Universidade do Porto

Presentation title: Water harvesting by MOF based TSA processes. 

More about Alexandre Ferreira:

Alexandre Ferreira graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Coimbra in 1997. From 1998 to 2000 he was research assistant at Imperial College, London. In 2000 he moved to University of Amsterdam, where he joined as PhD student, under the supervision of Prof. J. Moulijn and Prof. A. Bliek. In 2007 he was awarded the PhD degree at TU Delft. Previous to his PhD defence, in 2005, he joined the Catalysis Engineering group, under the supervision of Prof. F. Kapteijn, at TUDelft to work under the framework of the European NoE INSIDEPOReS. He was a core leader of the ‘Young Scientist’ group of the network. In 2006, he organized together with Prof. F Kapteijn the special NIOK course Adv. Cat. Eng. In 2008 he was granted post-doc fellowship by FCT at LSRE-FEUP, University of Porto. Upon obtaining a FCT Ciencia 2008 Researcher position in the same group, he became in charge of the daily supervision of many of the LSRE activities in the Cyclic Separation Processes area. In the period of 2009/13, together with Prof. A. Rodrigues, he was coordinating the LSRE scientific activities of the FP7 EU Project MACADEMIA. In 2013, he was awarded a competitive research grant funded by FCT: Air-2-Water producing drinking water from thin air. Since 2009 he supervised a successful PhD, 2 MsC, 3 post-doc fellows, and 3 project researchers. He collaborated with the visiting professor Masaki Okada. Currently, he is supervising 2 post-doc fellows, and 3 PhD students. He participated /is participating as team-member in 2 research projects funded by FCT. He was/is active in several industrial collaborations (Sud-Chemie AG, TOTAL, ExxonMobil, DSM). In total, he has published 40 papers, 9 as first author, with more than 580 citations, h-index of 15.

Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Presentation title: Synthesis of a zeolite for drying natural gas. 

More about Dilson Cardoso:

Bachelor's at Diplom Chemiker from Martin Luther Universität (Germany, 1975) and Doctorate at Natural Sciences (Chemistry) from Martin Luther Universität (1979). Has experience in Chemical Engineering, focusing on Biodiesel, acting on the following subjects: heterogeneous catalysis, zeolites, molecular sieves.
http://lattes.cnpq.br/2462847535959232

Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Norte

Presentation title: Organosolv lignin/Fe3O4 nanoparticles applied as textile dye adsorbent. 

More about Everaldo Santos:

Prof. Everaldo awarded his undergraduate course in Chemical Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (1994), his MSc. (1997) and DSc. (2001) also in Chemical Engineering by State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He was a research visiting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from January to June (2014) working at Prof. Kristala L. J. Prather group. Currenty, he is a Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He has experience in Chemical Engineering, focusing on Biochemical Processes, mainly the following subjects: Expanded Bed Adsorption; Downstream processing, whey, fermentation, enzymes, waste treatment.

Universidad de Málaga

Presentation title: Assessing CO₂ Adsorption on amino-functionalized mesocellular foams synthesized at different aging temperature. 

More about Enrique Rodriguez-Castellón: https://www.uma.es/nmi/web/enrique.php 

Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Presentation title: Malachite Green adsorption onto Mytella falcata shells: preliminary studies. 

More about Lucas Meili:

Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, acting in the course of Petroleum Engineering and as Permanent Professor at the Graduate Programs in Chemical Engineering and doctorate in Materiais. Has degree in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), master's degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of Uberlândia (PPGEQ/UFU) and doctorate degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of São Carlos (PPGEQ / UFSCar). Areas of focus has emphasis on materials synthesis fo separation processes.

Universidade de Brasília

Presentation title: The use of H3PO4 activated carbons as support in catalysts intended for the production of biofuels through the HEFA route. 

More about Marcos Prauchner: 

The professor Marcos Juliano Prauchner is Bachelor in Chemistry by the University of Minas Gerais (1996) and Doctor in Chemistry by the same university (2001). Furthermore, he was in a post-doctoral stage at the Alicant University (Spain), where he worked in the development of activated carbons for natural gas storage. Currently, he is associate professor at the Brasília University (2002-actual), where he is the director of the Chemistry Institute. His actuation fields are: biomass carbochemistry; carbon materials; adsorption; biofuels.

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Presentation title: The influence of surface topology on macromolecular deposition in LBL (layer-by-layer) processes. 

More about Marisa Beppu:

Graduated as Chemical Engineer from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1993), Master's in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1996) and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1999). Has experience in Chemical Engineering, acting on the following subjects: natural polymers, process engineering, adsorption, biomaterials, calcification and phosphates. CNPq productivity fellow.

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Presentation title: Adsorption of pharmaceutical compounds: challenges and perspectives. 

More about Liliana Feris: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5680941524872085

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Presentation title: Ultrapure monoclonal antibodies:  hydrophobic interaction chromatography as polishing step in downstream processing. 

More about  Igor Bresolin: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5750111176589237

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Presentation title: CO2 capture using geopolymers. 

More about Regina Moreira:

Professor Regina de Fatima Peralta Muniz Moreira is a Chemical Engineer from the State University of Maringá. She obtained her doctorate and master's degree in Chemistry, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and held post-doctoral training at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal). She is a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina since 1983 and is a supervisor of the Energy and Environment Laboratory at UFSC. She has been a productivity fellow at CNPq since 2001. She has published more than 100 articles in international journals, 4 book chapters and 6 patents, and more than 200 articles published in proceedings. She concluded the supervision of 40 dissertations and 20 thesis in the graduate program in Chemical Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She coordinated several national and international cooperation projects. Prof Regina has a wide experience in the treatment and reuse of waste, working mainly in the following subjects: treatment of physical and chemical effluents, adsorption, advanced oxidative processes, photocatalysis and environmental catalysis.

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Presentation title: Multicomponent adsorption: reconciling kinetic and equilibrium data. 

More about César Abreu: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4153191049728440

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Presentation title: Computational intelligence applied to adsorption processes. 

More about Nina Paula Salau: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4234840503539989

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Presentation title: Revisiting adsorption process engineering - challenges to connect confinement effects to conceptual design. 

More about Amaro Barreto Jr.: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1005756226202071

Universidade Tiradentes

Presentation title: A diffusional approach to the kinetics of adsorption in biomass. 

More about Odélsia Sánchez de Alsina: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6929602880393685

PETROBRAS

Presentation title: Development of adsorptive processes in natural gas purification. 

More about Jaílton Ferreira: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7617917705412133

Universidade de São Paulo

Presentation title: Development and evaluation of adsorbents for plasmid DNA purification. 

More about Adriano Azzoni: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8017080285788684

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Presentation title: Molecular sieves: tunable porosity materials for adsorption and catalytic processes. 

More about Sibele Pergher: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5249001430287414

Texas A&M University/Catar

Presentation title: Modeling Adsorption in Porous Solids with Equations of State for Confined Fluids. 

More about Marcelo Castier: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3323708991010013

University of Melbourne

Title of keynote: Trapdoor Materials for Gas Separation

More about Paul Webley:

Current Research Activities

Paul has worked in development and management of clean energy technologies, especially carbon capture for the past 15 years in industry and academia. His principal research interest is clean energy technologies particularly gas separation, energy storage, and applications of thermodynamics to improve process efficiency. He works in the following fields:

CO 2 capture from flue gas and process streams

Natural gas and coal seam gas purification and CO 2, N 2 removal

O 2/N 2/Ar separation

Synthesis gas separation and hydrogen purification

Biogas purification

Hydrogen and methane storage

In the energy area, his interests include:

Applications of exergy analysis to improve energy generation and process industries including CO 2 capture technologies

Use of irreversible thermodynamics to understand non-linear transport phenomena in energy production

Development of novel catalysts for CO 2 utilization technologies including DME synthesis

Solar thermal energy conversion and thermal energy storage materials 

2012-present: Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - The University of Melbourne 

2008-2011: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

2003-2007: Reader, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

1996- 2003: Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

1992-1996: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Allentown, Pennsylvania, senior process research and development engineer

1990-1992: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor and Director, MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Title of keynote: Combining gas adsorption and in situ XRD to describe unusual gas adsorption features of nanoporous materials

More about Conchi Ania:

Dr. Conchi Ania is Research Scientist of CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research) in Oviedo (Spain) and Research Director of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Orléans (France). She received her PhD degree in Chemistry by Univ. of Oviedo (Spain) in 2003. After 3 years postdoctoral stays in France and USA, in 2007 she incorporated at CSIC (2009-2017 Tenured Scientist, 2018 Research Scientist). In 2017 she also joined CNRS as Research Director.

In 2008 she got the L'Oreal-Unesco Fellowship Award in the Programme "For women in Science" (Spain) and the Excellence Scientific Research Award by Univ. Granada (Spain). In 2016 she got an ERC-Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council, funded with 2M€ to develop research activities towards "Integrating photochemistry in nanoconfined carbon-based porous materials in technological processes".

She has a long-standing interest and a widely recognized experience on research activities related to nanoporous materials with tailored surface chemistry and architectures as structural and functional solids for high-tech applications, covering energy storage and environmental protection. Current research interests focus on the use of carbon materials as catalysts, adsorbents and electrodes, and particularly on photochemistry of carbon materials in various fields (synthesis, catalysis, sensing, electrochemistry).

As for scientific contributions, she has a large experience on coordinating (20) and participating (14) in R&D projects and industrial contracts (10). She has authored 7 book chapters, supervised 6 PhD thesis, published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals with over 3500 citations and an H-index of 34. She is also coinventor of a patent filed for 2 years by SIAD (Italy), on the preparation of porous materials for the separation of gases of strategic impact.

Universidade Federal do Ceará

Title of keynote: New perspectives in carbon based materials characterization

More about Mardônio Lucena:

Prof. Lucena has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Master degree in Materials Science and Engineering with emphasis on ceramic materials by the Federal University of São Carlos, specializing in Production Engineering – strategic planning by UFC/UFSC. He holds PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Campinas in 2006 with an emphasis on molecular simulation. He performed research in molecular simulation within the Snurr group at Northwestern University – USA. He is currently associate professor at the Federal University of Ceará. He was head of Chemical Engineering department -UFC and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering. His studies focus mainly in Molecular Simulation with emphasis on the methods of adsorption prediction based on statistical mechanics (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics). He also has interest in material engineering of ceramics. His research interests include new adsorbents for CO2 capture, characterization of unstructured materials, energy storage by adsorption and separation process in liquid and gas phase.

Missouri University of Science & Technology

Presentation title: Multicomponent Adsorptive Separation of CO2, CO, CH4, N2, and H2 over Core-Shell Zeolite@MOF Composite Adsorbents

More about Fateme Rezaei:

RESEARCH AREAS

Adsorption, Energy Efficient Separation Processes, Process Design, Modeling and Optimization

RESEARCH STATEMENT

Our research focus broadly lies at the interface of chemical, materials science and environmental engineering, where the general goal of our work is to develop advanced materials and processes for clean energy and sustainable chemical processes. In particular, our research relates to fundamental and applied aspects of adsorption, separations, purification and reaction. The research activities include: 1) structured adsorbents in gas separation processes; 2) modeling and simulation of cyclic separation processes such as PSA, TSA, VSA; 3) development of hybrid materials for separation, purification and reaction applications; 4) liquid phase adsorptive separation and purification.

Examples of current projects include: 1) monolithic adsorbents for CO2 capture, 2) adsorptive separation of light hydrocarbons, 3) advanced technologies for sour gas removal (SOx, NOx, H2S), 4) development of in-situ separation-reaction processes.

AWARDS AND HONORS

International Adsorption Society Award for Excellence in the PhD  Dissertation, USA, 2013

Best Poster Award at Fundamentals of Adsorption Conference (FOA11), USA, 2013                  

Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), Australia, 2008  

Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS), Australia, 2008

Special Award in World Exhibition on Innovation, Research and New Technologies, Belgium, 2007

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

F. Rezaei, S. Swernath, J. Kalyanamaran, R. P. Lively, Y. Kawajiri, and M. J. Realff, “Modeling of Rapid Temperature Swing Adsorption Using Hollow Fiber Sorbents”, Chemical Engineering Science 113, 62–76 (2014).

F. Rezaei and C. W. Jones, "Stability of Supported Amine Adsorbents to SO2 and NOx in Post-combustion CO2 Capture Process. 2. Multi-component Adsorption", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 53, 12103–12110 (2014).

F. Rezaei and C. W. Jones, "Stability of Supported Amine Adsorbents to SO2 and NOx in Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Process. 1. Single-component Adsorption", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 52, 12192–12201 (2013).

F. Rezaei, R. P. Lively, Y. Labreche, G. Chen, W.J . Koros, and C. W. Jones “Aminosilica Hollow Fiber Adsorbents for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 5, 3921–3931 (2013).

F. Rezaei and P. Webley, “Optimal Design of Engineered Gas Adsorbents: Pore-scale Level”, Chemical Engineering Science 69, 270–278 (2012).

University of Edinburgh

Presentation title: From Crystal to Column: multiscale strategies in the design of PSA processes for carbon capture

More about Lev Sarkisov:

My group specializes in molecular simulation in application to chemical engineering problems, material science and bimolecular systems. Over the last 50 years, since the first Monte Carlo simulations by Metropolis and co-workers, molecular simulations have been playing an increasingly important role in a range of research areas, from thermodynamic properties of matter to material design and drug discovery. There are several reasons for this. Simulations often provide an efficient alternative to experiments when conditions of interest are difficult or expensive to achieve (such as extreme pressures and temperatures); moreover, we can consider a much larger number of systems and conditions, thus significantly reducing the optimization cycle. Using computer one can imagine unphysical, chimerical systems, properties of which nevertheless may provide an important thermodynamic insight. This "what if?" approach has been particularly useful in proposing new materials and structures for specific applications. Most importantly, molecular simulations provide a unique look at the system on a detailed molecular scale, thus underpinning physical effects responsible for its behaviour.

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Presentation title: Alternative adsorbents from wastes and its application for water decontamination

More about Guilherme Dotto:

Professor no Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (DEQ/UFSM). É bolsista produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq, nível 2, na área de Engenharia Química. Atua como coordenador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia Química (PPGEQ/UFSM) e também como professor permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Química (PPGQ/UFSM). Possui graduação em Engenharia de Alimentos (2008), mestrado (2010) e doutorado (2012) em Engenharia e Ciência de Alimentos pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG-RS). Atua em projetos, ensino e pesquisa nas áreas de fenômenos de transporte, operações unitárias, tratamento de efluentes líquidos, sistemas partículados e processos de separação. Especificamente, tem experiência nas operações de adsorção, biossorção e secagem. Atualmente, trabalha na remoção de poluentes de soluções aquosas utilizando bioadsorventes, nanobiomateriais e materiais poliméricos. Nestas áreas, possui mais de 200 artigos publicados em periódicos indexados, atua como revisor de mais de 100 periódicos internacionais para os quais emitiu mais de 700 pareceres desde 2011. Entre 2016 e 2018 atuou como Editor do periódico Environmental Science and Pollution Research-Springer, onde atualmente é membro do corpo editorial. Atuou como Editor associado do periódico Chemical Engineering Communications-Taylor & Francis nos anos de 2017 e 2018. Foi membro do corpo editorial do periódico Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering-Elsevier, onde atualmente é Editor. Em 2018, foi presidente da comissão organizadora do 12° Encontro Brasileiro sobre Adsorção (EBA 12).

Aix-Marseille Université

Presentation title: Adsorption induced flexibility in MOFs as viewed by calorimetry

More about Philip Llewellyn:

Dr Philip Llewellyn carried out his PhD on the characterisation of nanoporous zeolite materials using gas adsorption in 1992. This was financed by an EU collaborative program between Brunel University (UK) and the CNRS in Marseille (France). In 1993, he was carried out a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mainz University (Germany), dealing with the occlusion of polymers inside mesoporous silica's. He joined the CNRS in 1993 as a Research Assistant and in 1999 received a 'Habilitation to Direct Research'. He was promoted to Research Director in 2009.

He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed papers and 4 patents (Hindex = 57). He received the AFCAT-Setaram, Young Researchers award in 2000 for his work in thermal analysis and calorimetry. In 2005, he received the Scientific Diffusion Prize at the 5th Festival of Science and Technology for his contribution brining Science to the Classroom and General Public.

Dr Philip Llewellyn's research interests lie in the thermodynamic analysis of adsorption at the gas/ solid interface.  Three aspects are considered:

• Understanding adsorption phenomena in well ordered solids

• Using gas adsorption for the characterization of heterogenous solids

• The evaluation of porous materials for their eventual use in applications including the storage and separation of gases.

Various approaches are taken including the development of specific apparatus to follow phenomena under pressure with microcalorimetry, the adsorption of mixtures and a coupled adsorption-Synchtrotron XRD system. These experimental aspects are accompanied by the macroscopic thermodynamic modeling of adsorption for the prediction of mixture behavior.

Much of his current projects lie in the evaluation of nanoporous materials with respect to several topics such as greenhouse gas recovery, hydrogen storage and hydrocarbon separations. Several classes of materials are under investigation in his group including activated carbons, zeolites, mesoporous silicas and metal organic frameworks.

City College of New York

Presentation title: Towards highly efficient gas desulfurization adsorbents: exploring porosity development in biosolid- based materials

More about Teresa Bandosz:

ACADEMIC

D.Sc. • Physical/Analytical Chemistry 

Department of Chemistry, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Post doctoral

Syracuse University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Ph.D. • Chemical Engineering

Technical University of Crakow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Krakow, Poland

B.Sc., M.Sc. • Chemical Engineering

University of Mining and Metallurgy, Department of Coal Processing in Power Engineering Chemistry, Krakow, Poland

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• › Environmental Application of Adsorption
• › Modification of materials
• › New sorbents and catalysts
• › Surface characterization
• › Methane/natural gas/hydrogen storage
• › Adsorption/desorption phenomena
• › Gas separation
• › Deep desulfurization of fuels
• › Catalytic photooxidation
• › Graphite oxide based composite adsorbents
• › Graphene/MOF composites as adsorbents
• › Gas sensors
• › Carbon materials based supercapacitors for energy storage

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• › International Adsorption Society
• › American Carbon Society
• › Polish Carbon Society
• › American Chemical Society

AWARDS & HONORS

1. Fulbright Senior Scholar, Spain (2016-2017)
2. American Carbon Society Graffin Lecturer (2016)
3. Appointed to National Academies Committee On Examination of the Disposal of Activated Carbon from the Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition Systems at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities (May 2008- May 2009)
4. Editor, Journal of Colloids and Interface Science (2014-present)
5. Guest Professor/ Sky Scholar, Dalian University of Technology, China 2006-2009.
6. On the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal (2017-present)
7. On the Editorial Board of Adsorption Science and Technology (2005-present)
8. On the Editorial Board of Applied Surface Science (2014- present)
9. On the Editorial Board of Carbon (2014- present)
10. On the Editorial Board of Adsorption ( 2013-present)

SINTEF - Research Division of Materials and Chemistry

https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?empid=4095

Offenburg University

Presentation title: Investigation of Mixed Gas Sorption in Lab-Scale Experiment and Evaluation

Universidade do Porto

Presentation title: Water harvesting by MOF based TSA processes. 

More about Alexandre Ferreira:

Alexandre Ferreira graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Coimbra in 1997. From 1998 to 2000 he was research assistant at Imperial College, London. In 2000 he moved to University of Amsterdam, where he joined as PhD student, under the supervision of Prof. J. Moulijn and Prof. A. Bliek. In 2007 he was awarded the PhD degree at TU Delft. Previous to his PhD defence, in 2005, he joined the Catalysis Engineering group, under the supervision of Prof. F. Kapteijn, at TUDelft to work under the framework of the European NoE INSIDEPOReS. He was a core leader of the ‘Young Scientist’ group of the network. In 2006, he organized together with Prof. F Kapteijn the special NIOK course Adv. Cat. Eng. In 2008 he was granted post-doc fellowship by FCT at LSRE-FEUP, University of Porto. Upon obtaining a FCT Ciencia 2008 Researcher position in the same group, he became in charge of the daily supervision of many of the LSRE activities in the Cyclic Separation Processes area. In the period of 2009/13, together with Prof. A. Rodrigues, he was coordinating the LSRE scientific activities of the FP7 EU Project MACADEMIA. In 2013, he was awarded a competitive research grant funded by FCT: Air-2-Water producing drinking water from thin air. Since 2009 he supervised a successful PhD, 2 MsC, 3 post-doc fellows, and 3 project researchers. He collaborated with the visiting professor Masaki Okada. Currently, he is supervising 2 post-doc fellows, and 3 PhD students. He participated /is participating as team-member in 2 research projects funded by FCT. He was/is active in several industrial collaborations (Sud-Chemie AG, TOTAL, ExxonMobil, DSM). In total, he has published 40 papers, 9 as first author, with more than 580 citations, h-index of 15.

Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Presentation title: Synthesis of a zeolite for drying natural gas. 

More about Dilson Cardoso:

Bachelor's at Diplom Chemiker from Martin Luther Universität (Germany, 1975) and Doctorate at Natural Sciences (Chemistry) from Martin Luther Universität (1979). Has experience in Chemical Engineering, focusing on Biodiesel, acting on the following subjects: heterogeneous catalysis, zeolites, molecular sieves.
http://lattes.cnpq.br/2462847535959232

Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Norte

Presentation title: Organosolv lignin/Fe3O4 nanoparticles applied as textile dye adsorbent. 

More about Everaldo Santos:

Prof. Everaldo awarded his undergraduate course in Chemical Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (1994), his MSc. (1997) and DSc. (2001) also in Chemical Engineering by State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He was a research visiting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from January to June (2014) working at Prof. Kristala L. J. Prather group. Currenty, he is a Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He has experience in Chemical Engineering, focusing on Biochemical Processes, mainly the following subjects: Expanded Bed Adsorption; Downstream processing, whey, fermentation, enzymes, waste treatment.

Universidad de Málaga

Presentation title: Assessing CO₂ Adsorption on amino-functionalized mesocellular foams synthesized at different aging temperature. 

More about Enrique Rodriguez-Castellón: https://www.uma.es/nmi/web/enrique.php 

Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Presentation title: Malachite Green adsorption onto Mytella falcata shells: preliminary studies. 

More about Lucas Meili:

Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, acting in the course of Petroleum Engineering and as Permanent Professor at the Graduate Programs in Chemical Engineering and doctorate in Materiais. Has degree in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), master's degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of Uberlândia (PPGEQ/UFU) and doctorate degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of São Carlos (PPGEQ / UFSCar). Areas of focus has emphasis on materials synthesis fo separation processes.

Universidade de Brasília

Presentation title: The use of H3PO4 activated carbons as support in catalysts intended for the production of biofuels through the HEFA route. 

More about Marcos Prauchner: 

The professor Marcos Juliano Prauchner is Bachelor in Chemistry by the University of Minas Gerais (1996) and Doctor in Chemistry by the same university (2001). Furthermore, he was in a post-doctoral stage at the Alicant University (Spain), where he worked in the development of activated carbons for natural gas storage. Currently, he is associate professor at the Brasília University (2002-actual), where he is the director of the Chemistry Institute. His actuation fields are: biomass carbochemistry; carbon materials; adsorption; biofuels.

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Presentation title: The influence of surface topology on macromolecular deposition in LBL (layer-by-layer) processes. 

More about Marisa Beppu:

Graduated as Chemical Engineer from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1993), Master's in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1996) and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1999). Has experience in Chemical Engineering, acting on the following subjects: natural polymers, process engineering, adsorption, biomaterials, calcification and phosphates. CNPq productivity fellow.

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Presentation title: Adsorption of pharmaceutical compounds: challenges and perspectives. 

More about Liliana Feris: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5680941524872085

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Presentation title: Ultrapure monoclonal antibodies:  hydrophobic interaction chromatography as polishing step in downstream processing. 

More about  Igor Bresolin: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5750111176589237

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Presentation title: CO2 capture using geopolymers. 

More about Regina Moreira:

Professor Regina de Fatima Peralta Muniz Moreira is a Chemical Engineer from the State University of Maringá. She obtained her doctorate and master's degree in Chemistry, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and held post-doctoral training at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal). She is a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina since 1983 and is a supervisor of the Energy and Environment Laboratory at UFSC. She has been a productivity fellow at CNPq since 2001. She has published more than 100 articles in international journals, 4 book chapters and 6 patents, and more than 200 articles published in proceedings. She concluded the supervision of 40 dissertations and 20 thesis in the graduate program in Chemical Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She coordinated several national and international cooperation projects. Prof Regina has a wide experience in the treatment and reuse of waste, working mainly in the following subjects: treatment of physical and chemical effluents, adsorption, advanced oxidative processes, photocatalysis and environmental catalysis.

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Presentation title: Multicomponent adsorption: reconciling kinetic and equilibrium data. 

More about César Abreu: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4153191049728440

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Presentation title: Computational intelligence applied to adsorption processes. 

More about Nina Paula Salau: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4234840503539989

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Presentation title: Revisiting adsorption process engineering - challenges to connect confinement effects to conceptual design. 

More about Amaro Barreto Jr.: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1005756226202071

Universidade Tiradentes

Presentation title: A diffusional approach to the kinetics of adsorption in biomass. 

More about Odélsia Sánchez de Alsina: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6929602880393685

PETROBRAS

Presentation title: Development of adsorptive processes in natural gas purification. 

More about Jaílton Ferreira: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7617917705412133

Universidade de São Paulo

Presentation title: Development and evaluation of adsorbents for plasmid DNA purification. 

More about Adriano Azzoni: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8017080285788684

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Presentation title: Molecular sieves: tunable porosity materials for adsorption and catalytic processes. 

More about Sibele Pergher: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5249001430287414

Texas A&M University/Catar

Presentation title: Modeling Adsorption in Porous Solids with Equations of State for Confined Fluids. 

More about Marcelo Castier: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3323708991010013

University of Melbourne

Title of keynote: Trapdoor Materials for Gas Separation

More about Paul Webley:

Current Research Activities

Paul has worked in development and management of clean energy technologies, especially carbon capture for the past 15 years in industry and academia. His principal research interest is clean energy technologies particularly gas separation, energy storage, and applications of thermodynamics to improve process efficiency. He works in the following fields:

CO 2 capture from flue gas and process streams

Natural gas and coal seam gas purification and CO 2, N 2 removal

O 2/N 2/Ar separation

Synthesis gas separation and hydrogen purification

Biogas purification

Hydrogen and methane storage

In the energy area, his interests include:

Applications of exergy analysis to improve energy generation and process industries including CO 2 capture technologies

Use of irreversible thermodynamics to understand non-linear transport phenomena in energy production

Development of novel catalysts for CO 2 utilization technologies including DME synthesis

Solar thermal energy conversion and thermal energy storage materials 

2012-present: Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - The University of Melbourne 

2008-2011: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

2003-2007: Reader, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

1996- 2003: Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University

1992-1996: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Allentown, Pennsylvania, senior process research and development engineer

1990-1992: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor and Director, MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Title of keynote: Combining gas adsorption and in situ XRD to describe unusual gas adsorption features of nanoporous materials

More about Conchi Ania:

Dr. Conchi Ania is Research Scientist of CSIC (Spanish Council for Scientific Research) in Oviedo (Spain) and Research Director of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Orléans (France). She received her PhD degree in Chemistry by Univ. of Oviedo (Spain) in 2003. After 3 years postdoctoral stays in France and USA, in 2007 she incorporated at CSIC (2009-2017 Tenured Scientist, 2018 Research Scientist). In 2017 she also joined CNRS as Research Director.

In 2008 she got the L'Oreal-Unesco Fellowship Award in the Programme "For women in Science" (Spain) and the Excellence Scientific Research Award by Univ. Granada (Spain). In 2016 she got an ERC-Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council, funded with 2M€ to develop research activities towards "Integrating photochemistry in nanoconfined carbon-based porous materials in technological processes".

She has a long-standing interest and a widely recognized experience on research activities related to nanoporous materials with tailored surface chemistry and architectures as structural and functional solids for high-tech applications, covering energy storage and environmental protection. Current research interests focus on the use of carbon materials as catalysts, adsorbents and electrodes, and particularly on photochemistry of carbon materials in various fields (synthesis, catalysis, sensing, electrochemistry).

As for scientific contributions, she has a large experience on coordinating (20) and participating (14) in R&D projects and industrial contracts (10). She has authored 7 book chapters, supervised 6 PhD thesis, published over 130 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals with over 3500 citations and an H-index of 34. She is also coinventor of a patent filed for 2 years by SIAD (Italy), on the preparation of porous materials for the separation of gases of strategic impact.

Universidade Federal do Ceará

Title of keynote: New perspectives in carbon based materials characterization

More about Mardônio Lucena:

Prof. Lucena has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Master degree in Materials Science and Engineering with emphasis on ceramic materials by the Federal University of São Carlos, specializing in Production Engineering – strategic planning by UFC/UFSC. He holds PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Campinas in 2006 with an emphasis on molecular simulation. He performed research in molecular simulation within the Snurr group at Northwestern University – USA. He is currently associate professor at the Federal University of Ceará. He was head of Chemical Engineering department -UFC and Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering. His studies focus mainly in Molecular Simulation with emphasis on the methods of adsorption prediction based on statistical mechanics (Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics). He also has interest in material engineering of ceramics. His research interests include new adsorbents for CO2 capture, characterization of unstructured materials, energy storage by adsorption and separation process in liquid and gas phase.

Missouri University of Science & Technology

Presentation title: Multicomponent Adsorptive Separation of CO2, CO, CH4, N2, and H2 over Core-Shell Zeolite@MOF Composite Adsorbents

More about Fateme Rezaei:

RESEARCH AREAS

Adsorption, Energy Efficient Separation Processes, Process Design, Modeling and Optimization

RESEARCH STATEMENT

Our research focus broadly lies at the interface of chemical, materials science and environmental engineering, where the general goal of our work is to develop advanced materials and processes for clean energy and sustainable chemical processes. In particular, our research relates to fundamental and applied aspects of adsorption, separations, purification and reaction. The research activities include: 1) structured adsorbents in gas separation processes; 2) modeling and simulation of cyclic separation processes such as PSA, TSA, VSA; 3) development of hybrid materials for separation, purification and reaction applications; 4) liquid phase adsorptive separation and purification.

Examples of current projects include: 1) monolithic adsorbents for CO2 capture, 2) adsorptive separation of light hydrocarbons, 3) advanced technologies for sour gas removal (SOx, NOx, H2S), 4) development of in-situ separation-reaction processes.

AWARDS AND HONORS

International Adsorption Society Award for Excellence in the PhD  Dissertation, USA, 2013

Best Poster Award at Fundamentals of Adsorption Conference (FOA11), USA, 2013                  

Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), Australia, 2008  

Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS), Australia, 2008

Special Award in World Exhibition on Innovation, Research and New Technologies, Belgium, 2007

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

F. Rezaei, S. Swernath, J. Kalyanamaran, R. P. Lively, Y. Kawajiri, and M. J. Realff, “Modeling of Rapid Temperature Swing Adsorption Using Hollow Fiber Sorbents”, Chemical Engineering Science 113, 62–76 (2014).

F. Rezaei and C. W. Jones, "Stability of Supported Amine Adsorbents to SO2 and NOx in Post-combustion CO2 Capture Process. 2. Multi-component Adsorption", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 53, 12103–12110 (2014).

F. Rezaei and C. W. Jones, "Stability of Supported Amine Adsorbents to SO2 and NOx in Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Process. 1. Single-component Adsorption", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 52, 12192–12201 (2013).

F. Rezaei, R. P. Lively, Y. Labreche, G. Chen, W.J . Koros, and C. W. Jones “Aminosilica Hollow Fiber Adsorbents for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 5, 3921–3931 (2013).

F. Rezaei and P. Webley, “Optimal Design of Engineered Gas Adsorbents: Pore-scale Level”, Chemical Engineering Science 69, 270–278 (2012).

University of Edinburgh

Presentation title: From Crystal to Column: multiscale strategies in the design of PSA processes for carbon capture

More about Lev Sarkisov:

My group specializes in molecular simulation in application to chemical engineering problems, material science and bimolecular systems. Over the last 50 years, since the first Monte Carlo simulations by Metropolis and co-workers, molecular simulations have been playing an increasingly important role in a range of research areas, from thermodynamic properties of matter to material design and drug discovery. There are several reasons for this. Simulations often provide an efficient alternative to experiments when conditions of interest are difficult or expensive to achieve (such as extreme pressures and temperatures); moreover, we can consider a much larger number of systems and conditions, thus significantly reducing the optimization cycle. Using computer one can imagine unphysical, chimerical systems, properties of which nevertheless may provide an important thermodynamic insight. This "what if?" approach has been particularly useful in proposing new materials and structures for specific applications. Most importantly, molecular simulations provide a unique look at the system on a detailed molecular scale, thus underpinning physical effects responsible for its behaviour.

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Presentation title: Alternative adsorbents from wastes and its application for water decontamination

More about Guilherme Dotto:

Professor no Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (DEQ/UFSM). É bolsista produtividade em pesquisa do CNPq, nível 2, na área de Engenharia Química. Atua como coordenador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia Química (PPGEQ/UFSM) e também como professor permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação em Química (PPGQ/UFSM). Possui graduação em Engenharia de Alimentos (2008), mestrado (2010) e doutorado (2012) em Engenharia e Ciência de Alimentos pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG-RS). Atua em projetos, ensino e pesquisa nas áreas de fenômenos de transporte, operações unitárias, tratamento de efluentes líquidos, sistemas partículados e processos de separação. Especificamente, tem experiência nas operações de adsorção, biossorção e secagem. Atualmente, trabalha na remoção de poluentes de soluções aquosas utilizando bioadsorventes, nanobiomateriais e materiais poliméricos. Nestas áreas, possui mais de 200 artigos publicados em periódicos indexados, atua como revisor de mais de 100 periódicos internacionais para os quais emitiu mais de 700 pareceres desde 2011. Entre 2016 e 2018 atuou como Editor do periódico Environmental Science and Pollution Research-Springer, onde atualmente é membro do corpo editorial. Atuou como Editor associado do periódico Chemical Engineering Communications-Taylor & Francis nos anos de 2017 e 2018. Foi membro do corpo editorial do periódico Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering-Elsevier, onde atualmente é Editor. Em 2018, foi presidente da comissão organizadora do 12° Encontro Brasileiro sobre Adsorção (EBA 12).

Aix-Marseille Université

Presentation title: Adsorption induced flexibility in MOFs as viewed by calorimetry

More about Philip Llewellyn:

Dr Philip Llewellyn carried out his PhD on the characterisation of nanoporous zeolite materials using gas adsorption in 1992. This was financed by an EU collaborative program between Brunel University (UK) and the CNRS in Marseille (France). In 1993, he was carried out a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Mainz University (Germany), dealing with the occlusion of polymers inside mesoporous silica's. He joined the CNRS in 1993 as a Research Assistant and in 1999 received a 'Habilitation to Direct Research'. He was promoted to Research Director in 2009.

He is the author of over 200 peer reviewed papers and 4 patents (Hindex = 57). He received the AFCAT-Setaram, Young Researchers award in 2000 for his work in thermal analysis and calorimetry. In 2005, he received the Scientific Diffusion Prize at the 5th Festival of Science and Technology for his contribution brining Science to the Classroom and General Public.

Dr Philip Llewellyn's research interests lie in the thermodynamic analysis of adsorption at the gas/ solid interface.  Three aspects are considered:

• Understanding adsorption phenomena in well ordered solids

• Using gas adsorption for the characterization of heterogenous solids

• The evaluation of porous materials for their eventual use in applications including the storage and separation of gases.

Various approaches are taken including the development of specific apparatus to follow phenomena under pressure with microcalorimetry, the adsorption of mixtures and a coupled adsorption-Synchtrotron XRD system. These experimental aspects are accompanied by the macroscopic thermodynamic modeling of adsorption for the prediction of mixture behavior.

Much of his current projects lie in the evaluation of nanoporous materials with respect to several topics such as greenhouse gas recovery, hydrogen storage and hydrocarbon separations. Several classes of materials are under investigation in his group including activated carbons, zeolites, mesoporous silicas and metal organic frameworks.

City College of New York

Presentation title: Towards highly efficient gas desulfurization adsorbents: exploring porosity development in biosolid- based materials

More about Teresa Bandosz:

ACADEMIC

D.Sc. • Physical/Analytical Chemistry 

Department of Chemistry, M. Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland

Post doctoral

Syracuse University, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Ph.D. • Chemical Engineering

Technical University of Crakow, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Krakow, Poland

B.Sc., M.Sc. • Chemical Engineering

University of Mining and Metallurgy, Department of Coal Processing in Power Engineering Chemistry, Krakow, Poland

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• › Environmental Application of Adsorption
• › Modification of materials
• › New sorbents and catalysts
• › Surface characterization
• › Methane/natural gas/hydrogen storage
• › Adsorption/desorption phenomena
• › Gas separation
• › Deep desulfurization of fuels
• › Catalytic photooxidation
• › Graphite oxide based composite adsorbents
• › Graphene/MOF composites as adsorbents
• › Gas sensors
• › Carbon materials based supercapacitors for energy storage

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• › International Adsorption Society
• › American Carbon Society
• › Polish Carbon Society
• › American Chemical Society

AWARDS & HONORS

1. Fulbright Senior Scholar, Spain (2016-2017)
2. American Carbon Society Graffin Lecturer (2016)
3. Appointed to National Academies Committee On Examination of the Disposal of Activated Carbon from the Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition Systems at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities (May 2008- May 2009)
4. Editor, Journal of Colloids and Interface Science (2014-present)
5. Guest Professor/ Sky Scholar, Dalian University of Technology, China 2006-2009.
6. On the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal (2017-present)
7. On the Editorial Board of Adsorption Science and Technology (2005-present)
8. On the Editorial Board of Applied Surface Science (2014- present)
9. On the Editorial Board of Carbon (2014- present)
10. On the Editorial Board of Adsorption ( 2013-present)

SINTEF - Research Division of Materials and Chemistry

https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?empid=4095

Offenburg University

Presentation title: Investigation of Mixed Gas Sorption in Lab-Scale Experiment and Evaluation

Universidade do Porto

Presentation title: Water harvesting by MOF based TSA processes. 

More about Alexandre Ferreira:

Alexandre Ferreira graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Coimbra in 1997. From 1998 to 2000 he was research assistant at Imperial College, London. In 2000 he moved to University of Amsterdam, where he joined as PhD student, under the supervision of Prof. J. Moulijn and Prof. A. Bliek. In 2007 he was awarded the PhD degree at TU Delft. Previous to his PhD defence, in 2005, he joined the Catalysis Engineering group, under the supervision of Prof. F. Kapteijn, at TUDelft to work under the framework of the European NoE INSIDEPOReS. He was a core leader of the ‘Young Scientist’ group of the network. In 2006, he organized together with Prof. F Kapteijn the special NIOK course Adv. Cat. Eng. In 2008 he was granted post-doc fellowship by FCT at LSRE-FEUP, University of Porto. Upon obtaining a FCT Ciencia 2008 Researcher position in the same group, he became in charge of the daily supervision of many of the LSRE activities in the Cyclic Separation Processes area. In the period of 2009/13, together with Prof. A. Rodrigues, he was coordinating the LSRE scientific activities of the FP7 EU Project MACADEMIA. In 2013, he was awarded a competitive research grant funded by FCT: Air-2-Water producing drinking water from thin air. Since 2009 he supervised a successful PhD, 2 MsC, 3 post-doc fellows, and 3 project researchers. He collaborated with the visiting professor Masaki Okada. Currently, he is supervising 2 post-doc fellows, and 3 PhD students. He participated /is participating as team-member in 2 research projects funded by FCT. He was/is active in several industrial collaborations (Sud-Chemie AG, TOTAL, ExxonMobil, DSM). In total, he has published 40 papers, 9 as first author, with more than 580 citations, h-index of 15.

Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Presentation title: Synthesis of a zeolite for drying natural gas. 

More about Dilson Cardoso:

Bachelor's at Diplom Chemiker from Martin Luther Universität (Germany, 1975) and Doctorate at Natural Sciences (Chemistry) from Martin Luther Universität (1979). Has experience in Chemical Engineering, focusing on Biodiesel, acting on the following subjects: heterogeneous catalysis, zeolites, molecular sieves.
http://lattes.cnpq.br/2462847535959232

Univ. Fed. do Rio Grande do Norte

Presentation title: Organosolv lignin/Fe3O4 nanoparticles applied as textile dye adsorbent. 

More about Everaldo Santos:

Prof. Everaldo awarded his undergraduate course in Chemical Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (1994), his MSc. (1997) and DSc. (2001) also in Chemical Engineering by State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He was a research visiting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from January to June (2014) working at Prof. Kristala L. J. Prather group. Currenty, he is a Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He has experience in Chemical Engineering, focusing on Biochemical Processes, mainly the following subjects: Expanded Bed Adsorption; Downstream processing, whey, fermentation, enzymes, waste treatment.

Universidad de Málaga

Presentation title: Assessing CO₂ Adsorption on amino-functionalized mesocellular foams synthesized at different aging temperature. 

More about Enrique Rodriguez-Castellón: https://www.uma.es/nmi/web/enrique.php 

Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Presentation title: Malachite Green adsorption onto Mytella falcata shells: preliminary studies. 

More about Lucas Meili:

Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Alagoas, acting in the course of Petroleum Engineering and as Permanent Professor at the Graduate Programs in Chemical Engineering and doctorate in Materiais. Has degree in chemical engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), master's degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of Uberlândia (PPGEQ/UFU) and doctorate degree in chemical engineering from Federal University of São Carlos (PPGEQ / UFSCar). Areas of focus has emphasis on materials synthesis fo separation processes.

Universidade de Brasília

Presentation title: The use of H3PO4 activated carbons as support in catalysts intended for the production of biofuels through the HEFA route. 

More about Marcos Prauchner: 

The professor Marcos Juliano Prauchner is Bachelor in Chemistry by the University of Minas Gerais (1996) and Doctor in Chemistry by the same university (2001). Furthermore, he was in a post-doctoral stage at the Alicant University (Spain), where he worked in the development of activated carbons for natural gas storage. Currently, he is associate professor at the Brasília University (2002-actual), where he is the director of the Chemistry Institute. His actuation fields are: biomass carbochemistry; carbon materials; adsorption; biofuels.

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Presentation title: The influence of surface topology on macromolecular deposition in LBL (layer-by-layer) processes. 

More about Marisa Beppu:

Graduated as Chemical Engineer from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1993), Master's in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1996) and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1999). Has experience in Chemical Engineering, acting on the following subjects: natural polymers, process engineering, adsorption, biomaterials, calcification and phosphates. CNPq productivity fellow.

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Presentation title: Adsorption of pharmaceutical compounds: challenges and perspectives. 

More about Liliana Feris: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5680941524872085

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Presentation title: Ultrapure monoclonal antibodies:  hydrophobic interaction chromatography as polishing step in downstream processing. 

More about  Igor Bresolin: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5750111176589237

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Presentation title: CO2 capture using geopolymers. 

More about Regina Moreira:

Professor Regina de Fatima Peralta Muniz Moreira is a Chemical Engineer from the State University of Maringá. She obtained her doctorate and master's degree in Chemistry, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina and held post-doctoral training at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal). She is a full professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina since 1983 and is a supervisor of the Energy and Environment Laboratory at UFSC. She has been a productivity fellow at CNPq since 2001. She has published more than 100 articles in international journals, 4 book chapters and 6 patents, and more than 200 articles published in proceedings. She concluded the supervision of 40 dissertations and 20 thesis in the graduate program in Chemical Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She coordinated several national and international cooperation projects. Prof Regina has a wide experience in the treatment and reuse of waste, working mainly in the following subjects: treatment of physical and chemical effluents, adsorption, advanced oxidative processes, photocatalysis and environmental catalysis.

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Presentation title: Multicomponent adsorption: reconciling kinetic and equilibrium data. 

More about César Abreu: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4153191049728440

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Presentation title: Computational intelligence applied to adsorption processes. 

More about Nina Paula Salau: http://lattes.cnpq.br/4234840503539989

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Presentation title: Revisiting adsorption process engineering - challenges to connect confinement effects to conceptual design. 

More about Amaro Barreto Jr.: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1005756226202071

Universidade Tiradentes

Presentation title: A diffusional approach to the kinetics of adsorption in biomass. 

More about Odélsia Sánchez de Alsina: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6929602880393685

PETROBRAS

Presentation title: Development of adsorptive processes in natural gas purification. 

More about Jaílton Ferreira: http://lattes.cnpq.br/7617917705412133

Universidade de São Paulo

Presentation title: Development and evaluation of adsorbents for plasmid DNA purification. 

More about Adriano Azzoni: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8017080285788684

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Presentation title: Molecular sieves: tunable porosity materials for adsorption and catalytic processes. 

More about Sibele Pergher: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5249001430287414

Texas A&M University/Catar

Presentation title: Modeling Adsorption in Porous Solids with Equations of State for Confined Fluids. 

More about Marcelo Castier: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3323708991010013