20 years of Science and Innovation
LEPABE is a research unit operating in the fields of Chemical, Environmental and Biological Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto (FEUP). With a large majority of young researchers, LEPABE is focused on generating scientific knowledge through interdisciplinary research, and on establishing successful university–industry collaborations for effective technology transfer. [...]
LEPABE leads ERA-CHAIR e.Biofilm
Posted on August 11th, 2022
LEPABE congratulates Prof. Nuno F. Azevedo and the Biofilm Engineering Lab (BEL) for the approval of a ERA-CHAIR for the Creation of a group of Excellence on Engineered Biofilms (e.Biofilm).
This project will allow the development of new methods to modulate and characterize biofilm communities in industry, in health and in the environment. For instance, in the case of infections these new methods will allow to eliminate more efficiently pathogenic microorganisms from biofilms, whereas in the environmental cases they will ensure that microorganisms that clean wastewaters more efficiently are present in the biofilm.
Granting 2,5 M€ in financial support, this is the first ERA-CHAIR to be led by FEUP and counts with the collaboration of Darla Goeres, from the Center for Biofilm Engineering (Montana State University, USA), considered a world reference in the area of biofilms.
Congratulations!
Know more about this ERA-CHAIR here.
Eva Salgado was awarded “Best poster presentation” at WPAT2022
Posted on July 15th, 2022
LEPABE PhD student Eva Salgado, supervised by Dr. José Carlos Pires, was awarded Best Poster Presentation by a Young Water Professional at the “13th IWA Specialist Conference on Wastewater Ponds and Algal Technologies” that took place in July 3-6th, 2022 and was held in Melbourne, Australia.
The student presented a poster with the title “Microalgal cultures for the bioremediation of urban wastewaters in the presence of siloxanes” that reports the use of microalgal cultures to biologically remove siloxanes from wastewaters in a more sustainable and economically way.
Congratulations!
Final webinar of the PhytoEnergy project
Posted on July 5th, 2022
The final webinar of the PhytoEnergy project occurred on June, 29th, at UCP. The PhytoEnergy project, entitled “Assessment of the ENERGY production potential from PHYTOremediation derived biomass”, was coordinated by UCP, and had a team led by Prof. Nídia Caetano, from LEPABE, as partner institution.
This webinar aimed at presenting the potential of biomass resulting from phytoremediation of metal contaminated soils for energy generation, by means of a novel integrated strategy comprising the utilization of all plant parts for the generation of several energy products.
Know more about this event here.
PhD Thesis by Nuno Garrido on particulated wood agglomerates
July 1st, 2022
LEPABE would like to congratulate Dr. Nuno Garrido for his PhD thesis of the Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering, entitled “Optimização da operação de corte de aglomerados de partículas fabricados com um elevado teor de madeira reciclada” supervised by Prof. Carlos Costa and Luísa Carvalho, defended on July 1st, 2022 FEUP.
PhD Thesis by Nuno Delgado on vanadium redox flow batteries
June 23rd, 2022
LEPABE would like to congratulate Dr. Nuno Delgado for his PhD thesis of the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, entitled “Modelling and design optimization of all-vanadium redox flow batteries” supervised by Prof. Adélio Mendes, defended on June 23rd, 2022 FEUP.
PhD Thesis by Kashif Mushtaq on non-aqueous redox flow and liquid metal batteries
May 26th 2022
LEPABE would like to congratulate Dr. Kashif Mushtaq for his PhD thesis of the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems, entitled “Energy storage: development of non-aqueous redox flow and liquid metal batteries” supervised by Prof. Adélio Mendes, defended on May 26th, 2022 FEUP.
- LEPABE Research Unit evaluated as EXCELLENT
- ALiCE kick-off meeting
- Final seminar of the EMISSHIP project
- LEPABE team awarded in the BIP PROOF Programme
- LEPABE work highlighted by RTP3 program “Tech 3”
- LEPABE work highlighted by 90 seconds of science podcast
- LEPABE member participated in the RTP program “É Ou Não É?”
- Polymers Special Issue on “Properties and Applications of Natural Polymers”
- LEPABE represented at Triggers program
- Laura Cerqueira was awarded CBE Young Investigator
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