Sustainable chemistry is a research and engineering area that encourages the development of products and processes that reduce the use and generation of toxic substances where technological approaches to prevent pollution ...

Poly vinyl chloride (PVC) is the third polymer in volume sales in the world after polyethylene and polypropylene. It’s production is started with the reaction between cloride, which comes from salt and ethane originated ...

In this work, a study was carried out on the main types of process control logic, making comparisons and simulations focusing on temperature control of an alcoholic fermentation process in a bioreactor with a thermal ...

The industrial distillation process is complex and since the adoption of ethanol as a fuel, replacing gasoline, it has become a strategic process for the country. Wines produced from fermentation have a concentration of ...

Within a context of a growing global market of low-calorie products, it is possible to highlight the production of sweeteners – products whose sweetening capacity is similar to sucrose – among which is xylitol, a sugar ...

With the increasing environmental appeal nowadays, the question arises: how to use carbon dioxide in a way that reduces its impact on the environment? One possibility is the capture of CO2 and its transformation into ...

An important step while studying reactions catalyzed by enzymes is analyzing the behavior of bioreactors, considering different kinetics models and the order of magnitude of the parameters. Process simulations are one ...

This report presents the studies and activities carried out by the student during his internship in the Optics Group of the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory. are exposed some necessary concepts about the theory that ...

Methanol is a very important raw material used in the chemical industry, being applied in the production of other chemicals, such as formaldehyde, acetic acid and plastics. In the last decade, the annual methanol production ...

The global market for bioproducts has shown a great increase in recent years, and shows the prospect of an even greater increase in the coming years. In the manufacture of bioproducts, the purification step (or downstream) ...