Pedro J. Carvalho

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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.

Present Research Group

Member of the group PATh - Process and Product Applied Thermodynamics ( http://path.web.ua.pt/ ). PATh is part of group 4 (biorefineries, biobased materials and recycling) of CICECO.

About me

Ongoing Supervisions

Beatriz Ferreira Esteves

Collaborator

David Sadler Melo Nzau

PhD Student

Emanuel de Almeida Crespo

Collaborator

Isabella Souza

PhD Student

Ricardo Teles Pais

PhD Student

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Publications

High-pressure solubility of CO2 in glymes

Amaral, M; Crespo, EA; Dariva, C; Vega, LF; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2018, FUEL, 219, 120-125.

Measurement and Modeling of Isobaric Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium of Water plus Glycols

Chouireb, N; Crespo, EA; Pereira, LMC; Tafat-Igoudjilene, O; Vega, LF; Coutinho, JAP; Carvalho, PJ
2018, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA, 63, 7, 2394-2401.

Toluene/n-Heptane Separation by Extractive Distillation with Tricyanomethanide-Based Ionic Liquids: Experimental and CPA EoS Modeling

Navarro, P; Ayuso, M; Palma, AM; Larriba, M; Delgado-Mellado, N; Garcia, J; Rodriguez, F; Coutinho, JAP; Carvalho, PJ
2018, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, 57, 42, 14242-14253.

Evaluation of the solvent structural effect upon the vapor - liquid equilibrium of [C(4)C(1)im][Cl] + alcohols

Chouireb, N; Khan, I; Crespo, EA; Oliveira, MB; Llovell, F; Vega, LF; Tafat-Igoudjilene, O; Kaci, AA; Santos, LMNBF; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2017, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 440, 36-44.

New measurements and modeling of high pressure thermodynamic properties of glycols

Crespo, EA; Costa, JML; Hanafiah, ZBMA; Kurnia, KA; Oliveira, MB; Llovell, F; Vega, LE; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2017, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 436, 113-123.
ISBN: 1879-0224

New Experimental Data and Modeling of Glymes: Toward the Development of a Predictive Model for Polyethers

Navarro, P; Crespo, EA; Costa, JML; Llovell, F; Garcia, J; Rodriguez, F; Carvalho, PJ; Vega, LF; Coutinho, JAP
2017, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, 56, 27, 7830-7844.

Selecting Critical Properties of Terpenes and Terpenoids through Group-Contribution Methods and Equations of State

Martins, MAR; Carvalho, PJ; Palma, AM; Domanska, U; Coutinho, JAP; Pinho, SP
2017, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, 56, 35, 9895-9905.

Soft-SAFT Equation of State as a Valuable Tool for the Design of new CO2 Capture Technologies

Emanuel A. Crespo, M—nique Amaral, Claudio Dariva, Pedro J. Carvalho, Jo‹o A. P. Coutinho, Flix Llovell, Luis M. C. Pereira and Lourdes F. Vega
2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Densities, viscosities and derived thermophysical properties of water-saturated imidazolium-based ionic liquids

Martins, MAR; Neves, CMSS; Kurnia, KA; Carvalho, PJ; Rocha, MAA; Santos, LMNBF; Pinho, SP; Freire, MG
2016, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 407, 188-196.

Dispelling some myths about the CO2 solubility in ionic liquids

Carvalho, PJ; Kurnia, KA; Coutinho, JAP
2016, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 18, 22, 14757-14771.

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.

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