Doctoral Thesis Defenses 2020

“HYDROGENOLYSIS OF GLYCEROL PROMOTED BY REPLACED HYDROTALCYTES"

Author: Eder Valdir de Oliveira

Data: 22/01/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Elizabeth Jordan

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Paim Valença; Dr. Eduardo de Britto Perez; Dr. Marcio Henrique dos Santos Andrade; Drag. Cristiane Barbieri Rodella.

“DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR MANAGING WATER AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A CLEAN IN PLACE SYSTEM"

Author: Rodrigo Sislian

Data: 11/02/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos Da Silva

Co-advisor: Dr. Marco Antonio Coghi

Examination Board: Dr. Ademar Gonçalves da Costa Junior; Dr. Angel Pontin Garcia; Dr. Wanderson de Oliveira Assis; Dr. Filipe Alves Coelho.

“MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF BUBBLING FLUIDIZED BED REACTORS AND INCORPORATION IN A COMMERCIAL PROCESS SIMULATOR"

Author: Mauro Junior Aires de Oliveira

Data: 12/02/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Maria Teresa Moreira Rodrigues

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Raphael Soeiro Suppino; Prof. Dr. Roger Josef Zemp; Drag. Andrea Selene Embirassu Xavier; Dr. Adilson Jose de Assis

“STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMIZING SECOND GENERATION ETHANOL PRODUCTION BY NON-CONVENTIONAL YEASTS ASSESSED BY MATHEMATICAL MODELING"

Author: Luiz Eduardo Biazi

Data: 14/02/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho; Drag. Cintia Regina Sargo; Dr. Anderson de Souza Sant’ana; Drag. Bethany Hoss Lunelli.

“DEVELOPMENT OF PARTICLES FROM THE BENDA OF SERICINE AND ALGINATE FOR INCORPORATION AND MODIFIED RELEASE OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY KETOPROFEN AND NAPROXENE"

Author: Emanuelle Dantas De Freitas

Data: 20/02/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Co-advisor: Dr. Paulo Cesar Pires Rosa

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona; Dr. Wanderley Pereira de Oliveira; Drag. Laura de Oliveira Nascimento; Dr. Igor Tadeu Lazzarotto Bresolin.

“MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF CELULASE PRODUCTION AND CONTINUOUS ENZYME PRODUCTION UNDER TRICHODERMA HARZIANUM P49P11 LIMITED CARBON CONDITIONS”

Author: Lucas Gelain

Data: 24/02/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Co-advisors: Dr. Luuk A. M. van der Wielen; Dr. José Geraldo da Cruz Pradella

Examination Board: Dr. Antonio Riul Junior; Dr. Walter Van Gulik; Dr. Patricia osseweijer.

“DEVELOPMENT OF THERMOS-SENSITIVE POLYMERIC HYDROGELS CONTAINING BIOACTIVE AGENTS FOR CARTILAGINOUS TISSUE ENGINEERING"

Author: Cecilia Buzatto Westin

Data: 27/02/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Angela Maria Moraes

Co-advisor: Dr. Daniel John Kelly

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales; Drag. Daniele Ribeiro de Araújo; Dr. Alexandre Leite Rodrigues de Oliveira; Drag. Mariana Agostini de Moraes.

“PHOTODEGRADATION OF DYES IN THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY: RB 19, RB 21 E RY 145, USING HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS IN PHOTOREACTORS: EXPERIMENTAL, MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF SYSTEMS AND OPTIMIZATION"

Author: Jorge do Carmo Rodrigues

Data: 05/03/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Elias Basile Tambourgi

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre; Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Guirardello; Dr. Eduardo de Britto Perez; Drag. Roberta Kalil Sadi.

“DISSOLUTION OF LIGNINE IN PROTIC IONIC LIQUIDS"

Author: Rafael Macedo Dias

Data: 06/03/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Mariana Conceição da Costa

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Roberta Ceriani; Dr. Andre Luis Ferraz; Drag. Veronica Maria de Araujo Calado; Dr. Marcus Bruno Soares Strong.

“ADAPTATION AND CULTURE STRATEGIES OF RHODOTORULA TORULOIDES AIMING THE PRODUCTION OF MICROBIAL OIL FROM HEMICELLULOSIC HYDROLYSATES”

Author: Helberth Junnior Santos Lopes

Data: 20/03/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano; Dr. William James Nogueira Lima; Drag. Sindelia Freitas Azzoni; Dr. Roberto Da Silva.

“MICROFLUIDICS AS A TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF MICRO AND LIPID NANOCARRIERS FOR NANOMEDICIN APPLICATIONS”

Author: Amanda da Costa e Silva from Noronha Pessoa

Data: 07/04/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre

Examination Board: Dr. Adriano Rodrigues Azzoni; Drag. Rosiane Lopes da Cunha; Dr. Sang Won Han |; Dr. Mario Ricardo Gongora Rubio.

“DESIGN AND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF SUGAR CANE BAGGAGE GASIFICATION FOR APPLICATION IN BIOMASS-TO-LIQUIDS ROUTES"

Author: Ingrid Lopes Motta

Data: 14/04/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Maria Regina Wolf Maciel

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano; Drag. Tania Forster Carneiro; Drag. Bethany Hoss Lunelli; Dr. Clovis Augusto Ribeiro.

“STUDY OF THE BUBBLE-PARTICLE INTERACTION MECHANISMS IN THE SOLID LIQUID SEPARATION PROCESS BY DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION"

Author: Jose Pedro Thompson Junior

Data: 05/06/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Ronierik Pioli Vieira; Dr. Robson da Silva Rocha; Dr. Andre Augusto Gutierrez Fernandes Beati; Dr. Edson Aparecido Abdul Nour.

“REMOVAL OF LOSARTAN POTASSIUM PHARMACEUTICAL CONTAMINANT FROM AQUEOUS SOLUTION BY ADVANCED PROCESSES: ADSORPTION WITH ORGANOPHILIC CLAY AND CATALYTIC OXIDATION WITH POROUS CARBON AND PEROXYMONOSULPHATE"

Author: Julia Resende de Andrade

Data: 17/07/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examination Board: Dr. Adriano Luiz Tonetti; Dr. Marcus Bruno Soares Strong; Dr. João Jorge Ribeiro Damasceno; Dr. Guilherme Luiz Dotto.

“LIQUID-LIQUID BALANCE AND PARTITION OF BOVINE WHEY AND LYSOZYME ALBUMINE IN TWO-PHASE AQUEOUS SYSTEMS INVOLVING PEG AND SALTS”

Author: Amanda Cristina de Oliveira

Data: 28/07/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Roberta Ceriani

Co-advisor: Dr. Elias de Souza Monteiro Filho

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Sonia Maria Alves Bueno; Dr. José Guilherme Lembi Ferreira Alves; Drag. Cintia Bernardo Gonçalves; Dr. Hosiberto Batista de Santana.

“OBTAINING AND CHARACTERIZING NANOSTRUCTURED COATINGS COMPOSED OF HYALURONIC ACID AND CHITOSAN AIMING AT THE CAPTURE OF CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS.”

Author: João Batista Maia Rocha Neto

Data: 03/08/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Co-advisor: Dr. Hernandes Faustino De Carvalho

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre; Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda; Dr. Jorge Vicente Lopes da Silva; Dr. Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior.

“HEMICELLULOSIC HYDROLYSATE: DETOXIFICATION, CHARACTERIZATION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS AND EVALUATION OF THE FERMENTATION PROCESS FOR E2G PRODUCTION"

Author: Viviane Marcos Nascimento Vicente

Data: 03/08/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Co-advisor: Drag. Sarita Candida Rabelo

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa; Dr. Daniel Ibraim Pires Atala; Dr. Rafael Ramos de Andrade; Dr. Adilson Roberto Gonçalves.

“MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS FOR THE INCORPORATION OF SMALL INTERFERING RNA (SIRNA) IN CATIONIC LIPOSOMES AND TUMOR SPHEROID TRANSFECTION IN THE MICROCHIP”

Author: Ismail Es

Data: 12/08/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Lucimara Gaziola de La Torre

Examination Board: Dr. James Albertini Balbino; Dr. Marco Paulo Cardoso Marques; Drag. Camilla Foged; Drag. Rosiane Lopes da Cunha.

“CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF LIGNIN AND LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS DERIVATIVES"

Author: Henrique Fernandes Figueira Brazil

Data: 27/08/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Paim Valença

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Telma Teixeira Franco; Prof. Dr. Raphael Soeiro Suppino; Dr. Marcio Henrique dos Santos Andrade; Dr. João Batista Oliveira dos Santos

“POLY MEMBRANES (ETHYLENE OXIDE) AND ELECTROPHIC THROMBINE FOR REPAIRING TISSUE INJURIES"

Author: Larissa Giorgetti dos Santos

Data: 28/08/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Lucia Helena Innoctini Mei

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Elias Basile Tambourgi; Prof. Dr. Ronierik Pioli Vieira; Dr. Rodrigo Lambert Orefice; Drag. Elizabeth Ferreira Martinez.

“REMOVAL OF NICKEL FROM GALVANOPLASTY DEACTIVATED BATHS THROUGH INDUCED CODEPOSITION FOR THE FORMATION OF CORROSION RESISTANT Ni-W METAL ALLOYS"

Author: Mariana Borges Porto

Data: 31/08/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Ronierik Pioli Vieira; Drag. Onelia Aparecida Bassoli Andreo; Dr. Adriano Luiz Tonetti.

“DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF EMULSIONS THROUGH THE ULTRASONIC SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUE"

Author: Carlos Adriano Moreira da Silva

Data: 15/09/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Ana Maria Frattini Fileti

Examination Board: Drag. Vanessa Cristina Bizotto Guersoni; Dr. Marcelo Moreira Tiago; Drag. Fabiana Perrechil Bonsanto; Dr. Eduardo Tavares Costa.

“UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF ELECTROLYTE AND ELECTRODE IN THE LI-AR BATTERY THROUGH MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION"

Author: Juliane Fiates

Data: 16/09/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Luis Fernando Mercier Franco

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Raphael Soeiro Suppino; Prof. Dr. Hudson Young Zanin; Dr. Eternal Eudes Fileti; Dr. Pedro De Alcantara Pessoa Son

“MODELING OF NON-SPHERIC PARTICLES: MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS AND STATE EQUATIONS BASED ON DISTURBANCE THEORY"

Author: Joyce Tavares Lopes

Data: 19/10/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Luis Fernando Mercier Franco

Examination Board: Dr. Marcelo castier; Dr. Jarrell Richard Elliott Jr.; Dr. Thomas Lafitte; Dr. Achille Giacometti.

“CHEMICAL COMPOSITION STUDY, STRUCTURAL AND THERMAL OF CANE BAGGAGE AND STRAW- SUGAR AND ITS PELLETS CONSIDERING THE FUSIBILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF ITS ASHES"

Author: Kelly Roberta de Palma

Data: 20/10/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Co-advisor: prof. Drag. Maria Aparecida Silva

Examination Board: Dr. Waldir Antonio Bizzo; Dr. Adriano Viana Teaches; Drag. Sarita Candida Rabelo; Dr. Marcelo Modesto da Silva.

“DEVELOPMENT OF FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BUTANOL FROM HEMICELLULOSIC HYDROLYSATE OF CANE BAG: INTEGRATING CELLULAR IMMOBILIZATION AND REPEATED POWERED BATCH"

Author: Suranny Jimenez Chacon

Data: 29/10/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano

Examination Board: Dr. Marco Antonio Zachia Ayub; Dr. Carlos Eduardo Vaz Rossell; Dr. Ariovaldo José da Silva; Dr. Jonas Contiero.

“PROPOSAL AND EVALUATION OF A NEW CHICAN CONFIGURATION IN HULL AND TUBES HEAT EXCHANGER AIMING TO REDUCE PRESSURE OSCILLATIONS: EXPERIMENTAL AND CFD STUDY ”

Author: Celso Murilo dos Santos

Data: 30/10/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Dirceu Noriler

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Leonardo Vasconcelos Fregolente; Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho; Dr. Waldir Pedro Martignoni.

“OBTAINING AND PURIFICATION OF α AND ß-AMIRINE FROM UVAYA LEAVES (Eugenia pyriformis Cambess)”

Author: Elissandro Jair Klein

Data: 30/10/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examination Board: Dr. Vladimir Ferreira Cabral; prof. Drag. Roberta Ceriani; prof. Drag. Mariana Conceição da Costa; Drag. Jaqueline Hoscheid.

“DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF N- BUTANOL, ISOPROPANOL AND ETHANOL FROM SUGAR CANE BAGGAGE"

Author: Carla Ferreira dos Santos Vieira

Data: 30/10/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano

Examination Board: Dr. Ariovaldo José da Silva; Dr. Rafael Ramos de Andrade; Drag. Kassandra Sussi Mustafe Oliveira; Dr. Carlos Eduardo Vaz Rossell.

“EFFECT OF ACID TREATMENTS APPLIED TO NIOBIUM-BASED CATALYST ON THE CATALYTIC PERFORMANCE ON THE DEHYDRATION REACTION OF XYLOSE TO FURFURAL"

Author: Letícia Franzo de Lima

Data: 20/11/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Raphael Soeiro Suppino

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Paim Valença; Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek; Dr. João Batista Oliveira dos Santos; Dr. Marco André Fraga.

“HEALING BEHAVIOR STUDY, MORPHOLOGY AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF EPOXY RESIN NANOCOMPOSITES WITH CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTALS OBTAINED FROM MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE"

Author: Nayra Reis do Nascimento

Data: 27/11/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales

Examination Board: Dr. Roger Hoel Bello; Dr. Renato Carajelescov Nonato; Dr. Julio Roberto Bartoli; Dr. Paulo Henrique da Silva Leite Coelho.

“DEVELOPMENT OF CO-W ELECTROCATALYST, AG-CO AND ZN-CO FOR OXYGEN REDUCTION/EVOLUTION REACTIONS IN LI O2 AND ZN-AR BATTERIES"

Author: Josiel Martins Costa

Data: 27/11/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Mariana Conceição da Costa; Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho; Drag. Vanessa de Freitas Cunha Lins; Dr. Marcelino Luiz Gimenes.

“HIGH PERFORMANCE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY NANOMATERIALS FOR ACTIVE PACKAGING AND BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING"

Author: Filipe Vargas Ferreira

Data: 01/12/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Angela Maria Moraes; Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho; Dr. Luiz Antonio Pessan; Dr. Luiz Henrique Capparelli Mattoso

“PHASE BALANCE AND MISCIBILITY OF POLYMERIC BLENDS FORMED BY SILK FIBROIN AND SODIUM ALGINATE ”

Author: Laise Maia Lopes

Data: 14/12/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales; prof. Drag. Mariana Conceição da Costa; Dr. Pedro de Alcântara Pessoa Filho; Drag. Mariana Altenhofen da Silva.

“OPTIMIZING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE THERMO-BIOCHEMICAL ROUTE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SECOND GENERATION ETHANOL"

Author: Elisa Magalhães de Medeiros

Data: 15/12/2020

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano; Dr. John Alexander Posada Duque; Dr. Anton Alexandru Kiss; Dr. Edwin Zondervan; Drag. Patricia osseweijer; Drag. Andrea Ramirez Ramirez.

“DEVELOPMENT, CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF HYALURONIC ACID HYALURONIC ACID HYALURONIC ACID AND RETICULATED WITH ADIPIC DIHYDRAZIDE IN THE PROLIFERATION OF HUMAN ADIPOSE TISSUE MESENCHIMAL CELLS”

Author: Carla Giometti France

Data: 16/12/2020

Advisor: prof. Drag. Maria Helena Andrade Santana

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Marcos Akira D’Ávila; Drag. Angela Cristina Malheiros Luzo; Drag. Amanda Gomes Marcelino Perez; Drag. Patricia Severino.