Scientific information
Pedro J. Carvalho is an assistant professor at the Chemistry Department of University of Aveiro, Portugal and researcher at the CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, one of the leading European Laboratories in Materials Science. He graduated in Chemical Engineering at University of Aveiro, ending up developing a special interest on thermodynamic characterization of compounds, process optimization and sub-products valorisation; interests that endure since his PhD in Chemical Engineering, in 2011, to date. Pedro’s interests were further nurtured by establishing important collaborations and research lines that he incorporated on the research group he makes part of – PATh. The Research Team, PATH, operates in the fields of biorefinery, green chemistry, eco-solvents development, and sustainable process design. The team comprises now 7 senior researchers, 5 junior researcher, 1 Post-Doctoral Fellow, 29 PhD students and 8 MSc students, plus a variable number of project grant holders and foreign visitors. The PATH group publishes about 50 articles/year that attract close to 3000 citations.
Pedro coordinates and participates in several national and European research projects and has ongoing collaborations with Saudi Arabia, India, Brazil, UK, Spain and Germany. Pedro research has been focused on the petrochemical and biorefinery, in particular on the study of novel solvents for gas capture – separation and sequestration, from natural gas, post-combustion and syngas streams – the extraction and purification of impurities from petrochemical streams, the extraction of valuable compounds from biomass and wastes. For these applications he has been interested in developing/optimizing innovative technologies, like membrane technology, in conjunction with neoteric solvents, like ionic liquids (IL), deep eutectic solvents (DES) and other novel greener solvents. In all cases he strives at developing a fundamental understanding of their physico-chemical characterization and the mechanisms of action, aiming at designing novel solvents and processes that are more biocompatible, and biodegradable, less toxic, and produced, if possible, from renewable sources.
Ongoing Supervisions
Luana Marisa Araújo Sarinho
Research Fellowship
Ricardo Teles Pais
PhD StudentProjects
Exploratory Research Project: Pedro Carvalho (IF/00758/2015)
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Publications
Thermophysical characterization of N-methyl-2-hydroxyethylammonium carboxilate ionic liquids
Talavera-Prieto, NMC; Ferreira, AGM; Simoes, PN; Carvalho, PJ; Mattedi, S; Coutinho, JAP
2014, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS, 68, 221-234.
Vapor-Liquid Equilibria of Water plus Alkylimidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids: Measurements and Perturbed-Chain Statistical Associating Fluid Theory Modeling
Passos, H; Khan, I; Mutelet, F; Oliveira, MB; Carvalho, PJ; Santos, LMNBF; Held, C; Sadowski, G; Freire, MG; Coutinho, JAP
2014, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, 53, 9, 3737-3748.
Thermophysical properties of sulfonium- and ammonium-based ionic liquids
Bhattacharjee, A; Luis, A; Santos, JH; Lopes-da-Silva, JA; Freire, MG; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2014, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 381, 36-45.
The effect of the cation aromaticity upon the thermophysical properties of piperidinium- and pyridinium-based ionic liquids
Bhattacharjee, A; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2014, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 375, 80-88.
High pressure density and solubility for the CO2+1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethylsulfate system
Carvalho, PJ; Regueira, T; Fernandez, J; Lugo, L; Safarov, J; Hassel, E; Coutinho, JAP
2014, JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, 88, 46-55.
Understanding the impact of the central atom on the ionic liquid behavior: Phosphonium vs ammonium cations
Carvalho, PJ; Ventura, SPM; Batista, MLS; Schroder, B; Goncalves, F; Esperanca, J; Mutelet, F; Coutinho, JAP
2014, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 140, 6.
A new microebulliometer for the measurement of the vapor-liquid equilibrium of ionic liquid systems
Carvalho, PJ; Khan, I; Morais, A; Granjo, JFO; Oliveira, NMC; Santos, LMNBF; Coutinho, JAP
2013, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 354, 156-165.
High pressure separation of greenhouse gases from air with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium methyl-phosphonate
Pereira, LMC; Oliveira, MB; Dias, AMA; Llovell, F; Vega, LF; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2013, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL, 19, 299-309.
Experimental measurements and modeling of CO2 solubility in sunflower, castor and rapeseed oils
Regueira, T; Carvalho, PJ; Oliveira, MB; Lugo, L; Coutinho, JAP; Fernandez, J
2013, JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, 82, 191-199.
Predictive methods for the estimation of thermophysical properties of ionic liquids
Coutinho, JAP; Carvalho, PJ; Oliveira, NMC
2012, RSC ADVANCES, 2, 19, 7322-7346.