Engineering

CCL - Clean Cement Line

The Clean Cement Line aims to develop and demonstrate a new cement production technology. This project includes four R&D sub-projects that aim to eliminate the dependence on fossil fuels, increase energy efficiency, produce electricity itself, integrate the digitalization process and reduce CO2 emissions. These innovations will promote the production of a low carbon clinker and consequently the creation of a range of cement types with a low ecological footprint.

BETTER PLASTICS – PLASTICS IN A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

BETTER PLASTICS project aims to be the Mobilizing Project of the Plastics Sector in Portugal and leverage the transition of this sector to a circular economy. It comes from an initiative of APIP, Associação Portuguesa da Indústria dos Plásticos, which intends to mobilize the private sector together with National Authorities, Universities and Citizens to the objectives of European Circular Economy.

Gasotransdelivery: Delivery vehicles of therapeutic gasotransmitters NO and H2S based on nanoporous materials

New materials to store and release NO and H2S will be developed to deliver them at target sites in the human body for therapeutic action. By modifying nanoporous phases with appropriate polymer layers, new delivery vehicles will be obtained. The porous structure, chemical nature and external surface of the nanoporous materials will be optimized to assure a good storage capacity, the stability of the molecules inside the pores, a slow release of the gas molecules and excellent biocompatibility.

INPACTUS - Black Liquor

Black liquor is a pulp mill effluent from wood cooking with a solid content of 15-18 wt.%, which is mostly lignin. The present study focuses the electrolysis of black liquor for energy recovery. The process has several economic and environmental advantages, as it simultaneously generates a clean fuel (hydrogen) at the cathode and a precipitated material with economic value (lignin) at the anode surface.
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