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
Beatriz Ferreira Esteves
PhD Student
Isabella Souza
PhD Student
João Peres Ribeiro
Junior Researcher
Ricardo Teles Pais
PhD StudentProjects
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
Vapor Liquid Equilibria of Binary Mixtures of 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium Triflate (C(4)mimTfO) and Molecular Solvents: n-Alkyl Alcohols and Water
Stuckenholz, M; Crespo, EA; Vega, LF; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP; Schroer, W; Kiefer, J; Rathke, B
2018, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 122, 22, 6017-6032.
Odd-even effect on the formation of aqueous biphasic systems formed by 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquids and salts
Belchior, DCV; Sintra, TE; Carvalho, PJ; Soromenho, MRC; Esperanca, JMSS; Ventura, SPM; Rogers, RD; Coutinho, JAP; Freire, MG
2018, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 148, 19.
Solubility of carbon dioxide in encapsulated ionic liquids
Lemus, J; Da Silva, FFA; Palomar, J; Carvalho, PJ; Coutinho, JAP
2018, SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, 196, 41-46.
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.
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.