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
Ana Francisca Dias Moreira
MSc Student
Beatriz Ferreira Esteves
PhD Student
Bruna Rafaela de Matos Ferreira
MSc Student
Isabella Souza
PhD Student
João Peres Ribeiro
Junior ResearcherProjects
Exploratory Research Project: Pedro Carvalho (IF/00758/2015)
CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Solubility of Gases in Ionic liquid or binary mixture of ionic liquid + Ionic liquid (Indo-Portuguese Programme for Cooperation in Science & Tecnology 17-19)
CoordinatorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Publications
The polarity effect upon the methane solubility in ionic liquids: a contribution for the design of ionic liquids for enhanced CO2/CH4 and H2S/CH4 selectivities
Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2011, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 4, 11, 4614-4619.
Separation of sour gases (CO2 and CH4) using protic ionic liquids
Carvalho, PJ; Mattedi, S; Alvarez, VH; Iglesias, M; Coutinho, JAP
2010, ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 239.
Solubility of water in fluorocarbons: Experimental and COSMO-RS prediction results
Freire, MG; Carvalho, PJ; Santos, LMNBF; Gomes, LR; Marrucho, IM; Coutinho, JAP
2010, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS, 42, 2, 213-219.
High carbon dioxide solubilities in trihexyltetradecylphosphonium-based ionic liquids
Carvalho, PJ; Alvarez, VH; Marrucho, IM; Aznar, M; Coutinho, JAP
2010, JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, 52, 3, 258-265.
Non-ideality of Solutions of NH3, SO2, and H2S in Ionic Liquids and the Prediction of Their Solubilities Using the Flory-Huggins Model
Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2010, ENERGY & FUELS, 24, 6662-6666.
Structural and Positional Isomerism Influence in the Physical Properties of Pyridinium NTf2-Based Ionic Liquids: Pure and Water-Saturated Mixtures
Oliveira, FS; Freire, MC; Carvalho, PI; Coutinho, JAP; Lopes, JNC; Rebelo, LPN; Marrucho, IM
2010, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA, 55, 10, 4514-4520.
Surface Tensions of Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide Anion-Based Ionic Liquids
Carvalho, PJ; Neves, CMSS; Coutinho, JAP
2010, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA, 55, 9, 3807-3812.
Effect of Water on the Viscosities and Densities of 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium Dicyanamide and 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium Tricyanomethane at Atmospheric Pressure
Carvalho, PJ; Regueira, T; Santos, LMNBF; Fernandez, J; Coutinho, JAP
2010, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA, 55, 2, 645-652.
On the Nonideality of CO2 Solutions in Ionic Liquids and Other Low Volatile Solvents
Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2010, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 1, 4, 774-780.
High pressure phase behavior of carbon dioxide in 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide ionic liquids
Carvalho, PJ; Alvarez, VH; Machado, JJB; Pauly, J; Daridon, JL; Marrucho, IM; Aznar, M; Coutinho, JAP
2009, JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS, 48, 2, 99-107.
OPTIMIZATION OF ELECTRO-FENTON PROCESS APPLIED TO THE TREATMENT OF BRINES IN A CONTEXT OF INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS
Luana Sarinho, Pedro Carvalho, Diana Patoilo, Ana Santos, João Peres Ribeiro, Maria Isabel Nunes
2022.
TREATMENT OF SALT FROM HIDES CURING STAGE BY ELECTROCOAGULATION
Luana Sarinho, Pedro Carvalho, Diana Patoilo, João Peres Ribeiro, José Baião da Cruz, Maria Isabel Nunes
2022.