| Group on Environment, Reaction and Separation Engineering | |
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GERSE is a R&D group that focuses
different research areas in the reaction engineering and separation fields, with special emphasis on environmental technologies. |
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Objectives This research group was started in 2000 as part of the Research Centre for Chemical Processes Engineering and Forest Products (CIEPQPF) created in 1994 and is located in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Coimbra. In the nation-wide Evaluation of Research Units held by the Ministry of Science and Technology for the periods 1993/1995, 1996/1998, 1999-2001, 2002-2006 the CIEPQPF received the classification of Very Good. The Centre has beneficed, since 1996, of the Pluriannual Financing Program from FCT. The research activities of GERSE focus on the development of experimental and modeling studies in two main areas: Chemical Reaction Engineering and Separation Processes. Most of the studies are directed to the pollution prevention and control. The main objective of the research devoted to environmental protection is to develop alternative strategies to conventional treatments of liquid and gas effluents, as well as the valorization of solid residues for environmental sustainability. The objective of the GERSE is the development of new methodologies, concepts, ideas and experimental techniques to understand, design, operate and optimise reaction systems and separation in the field of Environmental and Chemical Engineering. The main vocation of the Laboratory is post-graduate and post-doctoral training, although undergraduate students use our facilities for small research projects. The GERSE research activities cover the four major areas: > Reaction Engineering > Separation Engineering > Computational Modelling > Environmental Science and Engineering The Reaction Engineering laboratory area is equipped and designed for mixing and hydrodynamic studies of single-phase and multiphase reactors with special emphasis in modern Computational Fluid Dynamic codes (CFD). In Separation Engineering, the group is concerned with different sorption processes, including ion-exchange, and membrane processes addressing several techniques: ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis towards the final and desired Process Integration. The Environmental Engineering area encompasses several projects for pollutants removal and abatement, namely those that arises in agrochemical and food processing industry. The results are starting to grow leading to 1 post-doctoral work, 4 Ph.D. thesis and 2 M.Sc. thesis within the last 3 years. In this time period, 67 papers in International Journals and 13 book’s chapters were published. |
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