Pedro J. Carvalho

Assistant Professor

Scientific information

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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.

Ongoing Supervisions

Projects

Publications

Thermodynamic characterization of deep eutectic solvents at high pressures

Crespo, EA; Costa, JML; Palma, AM; Soares, B; Martin, MC; Segovia, JJ; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2019, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 500.
ISBN: 1879-0224

A methodology to parameterize SAFT-type equations of state for solid precursors of deep eutectic solvents: the example of cholinium chloride

Crespo, EA; Silva, LP; Lloret, JO; Carvalho, PJ; Vega, LF; Llovell, F; Coutinho, JAP
2019, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 21, 27, 15046-15061.
ISBN: 1463-9084

Toward Modeling the Aromatic/Aliphatic Separation by Extractive Distillation with Tricyanomethanide-Based Ionic Liquids Using CPA EoS

Ayuso, M; Navarro, P; Palma, AM; Larriba, M; Delgado-Mellado, N; Garcia, J; Rodriguez, F; Coutinho, JAP; Carvalho, PJ
2019, INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH, 58, 42, 19681-19692.

Surface crystallization of ionic liquid crystals

Martins, MAR; Carvalho, PJ; Alves, D; Dariva, C; Costa, MC; Ferreira, RAS; Andre, PS; Morgado, P; Pinho, SP; Filipe, EJM; Coutinho, JAP
2019, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 21, 32, 17792-17800.
ISBN: 1463-9084

Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium and Extraction Performance of Aqueous Biphasic Systems Composed of Water, Cholinium Carboxylate Ionic Liquids and K2CO3

Almeida, MR; Belchior, DCV; Carvalho, PJ; Freire, MG
2019, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING DATA, 64, 11, 4946-4955.
ISBN: 1520-5134

Influence of temperature and pressure on the density and speed of sound of N-ethyl-2-hydroxyethylammonium propionate ionic liquid

Sarabando, JA; Magano, PJM; Ferreira, AGM; Santos, JB; Carvalho, PJ; Mattedi, S; Fonseca, IMA; Santos, M
2019, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS, 131, 303-313.
ISBN: 1096-3626

Green solvents for CO2 capture

Nematollahi, MH; Carvalho, PJ
2019, CURRENT OPINION IN GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY, 18, 25-30.

A simple approach for the determination and characterization of ternary phase diagrams of aqueous two-phase systems composed of water, polyethylene glycol and sodium carbonate.

Capela, Emanuel V; Santos, Joao H P M; Boal-Palheiros, Isabel; Coutinho, Joao A P; Ventura, Sonia P M; Freire, Mara G
2019, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION, 53, 2, 112-120.
ISBN: 2165-6428

Exploring alternative solvents for gas processing using the soft-SAFT EoS

Crespo, EA; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP; Vega, LF
2018, SEG/AAPG/EAGE/SPE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PETROLEUM CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION 2018, RDP 2018, 156-160.

Influence of temperature and pressure on the density and speed of sound of 2-hydroxyethylammonium propionate ionic liquid

Sarabando, JA; Magano, PJM; Ferreira, AGM; Santos, JB; Carvalho, PJ; Mattedi, S; Fonseca, IMA
2018, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS, 122, 183-193.

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