Master Thesis Defenses – 2017

“DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS GAS LEAKAGE BY UNSUPERVISED NEURAL NETWORK IN DISTRIBUTION PIPING”

Author: Luiza Baptista Fernandes

Date: 01/24/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ana Maria Frattini Fileti

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Luz Adriana Alvarez Toro and Prof. Dr. Alberto Luiz Serpa.

“SYNTHESIS VIA IN SITU POLYMERIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTING NANOCOMPOSITES METHYL POLY(METACRYLATE) AS A FUNCTION OF CARBON NANOTUBE AND ULTRASONIC ENERGY CONTENT”

Author: Jessica Marcon Bressanin

Date: 01/26/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Julio Roberto Bartoli

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Inés Pereyra and Profa. Dr. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona.

“GROWTH OF BIOPOLYMER FILMS DEPOSITED BY LAYER-BY-LAYER : ROUGHNESS AND INTERACTION DYNAMICS”

Author: Marcelle Bruna de Mendonça Spera

Date: 02/20/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marisa Masumi Beppu

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Celso Aparecido Bertran and Prof.. Dr. Pedro de Alcântara Pessôa Filho.

”RECONFIGURABLE CONTROL OF PROCESSES SUBJECT TO FAILURES IN ACTUATORS: AN APPROACH BASED ON TWO-LAYER MPC”

Author: Rafael Ribeiro Sencio

Date: 02/20/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Co-advisor: Dr. Thiago Vaz da Costa

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Mauricio Bezerra de Souza Junior and Prof. Dr. Ely Carneiro Paiva.

“CONVERSION OF LIGNINE MODEL COMPOUND BY MIXED OXIDES DERIVED FROM HYDROTALCITE (MG, NI, CU-AL-CO3)”

Author: Henrique Fernandes Figueira Brazil

Date: 02/20/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Paim Valença

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Raphael Soeiro Suppino and Prof. Dr. Sergio Andres Villalba Morales.

“EVALUATION OF PROTOTIC IONIC LIQUIDS FOR BAGASSE PRE-TREATMENT OF SUGAR CANE”

Author: Thaynara Coradini Pin

Date: 02/21/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Co-advisor: Dr. Sarita Candida Rabelo

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. George Jackson de Moraes Rocha and Prof.. Dr. Marcus Bruno Soares Strong.

“EVALUATION OF THE USE OF GUARANA FRUIT SEED RESIDUE AS BIOMASS FOR BIOFUEL GENERATION BY ROASTING AND PYROLYSIS”

Author: Janainna Chaves Pereira

Date: 02/21/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Katia Tannous

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Felix Eliecer Fonseca Felfli and Prof. Dr. Ljubica Tasic.

“BIOCHEMICAL POTENTIAL OF METHANE OF BIODEGRADABLE FRACTION OF SOLID URBAN WASTE FROM CAMPINAS/SP”

Author: Lívia Caldas Alencar Pacheco

Date: 02/22/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Telma Teixeira Franco

Co-advisor: Dr. Bruna de Souza Moraes

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Tania Forster Carneiro and Prof. Dr. Renata Pìacentini Rodriguez.

“EVALUATION OF SOLID-LIQUID ALGINATE EXTRACTION RESIDUE FROM ALGAE FILIPENDULA SARGASSUM FOR BIOADSORPTION OF METALLIC IONS (ZN2+) IN DILUTED AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS”

Author: Saulo Luiz Cardoso

Date: 02/22/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Meuris Gurgel Carlos da Silva

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Marcelino Luiz Gimenes and Profa. Dr. Monica Lopes Aguiar.

“DEVELOPMENT OF CATALYTIC SYSTEMS AND ELECTRODES FOR LITHIUM-AIR BATTERIES”

Author: Leticia Frigerio Cremasco

Date: 02/22/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto and Prof. Dr. Antonio Riul Junior.

“DEVELOPING A PREDICTIVE CONTROL BASED ON AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL IN A CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION PROCESSSECOND GENERATION”

Author: Felipi Luiz de Assunção Bezerra

Date: 02/22/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Examining Board: Dr. Daniel Ibraim Pires Atala and Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano.

“LIQUEFACTION OF WHEAT BRAN FOR THE PRODUCTION OF XYLANASES BY SUBMERGED CULTIVATION OF ASPERGILLUS NIGER”

Author: Cristiane Costa Amorim

Date: 02/23/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda

Co-advisor: Cristiane Sanchez Farinas

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Sonia Maria Alves Bueno and Profa. Dr. Gisele Atsuko Medeiros Hirata.

“STUDY OF THE KINETIC OF CANE PYROLYSIS ENERGY OF THE SACCHARUM ROBUSTUM SPECIES LINNAEUS BY THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS”

Author: Vinícius Souza de Carvalho

Date: 02/23/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Katia Tannous

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Guirardello and Prof. Dr. Caio Glauco Sanchez.

“HIDROLIZED COLLAGEN AGGLOMERATION IN FLUIDIZED BED”

Author: Thayná Rua Viegas

Date: 02/24/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldir Pereira Taranto

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Sandra Cristina dos Santos Rocha

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Louise Emy Kurozawa and Profa. Dr. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira.

“CONCEPTION AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF BIOFILMS ALGINATE-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES CONTAINING ZNO NANOPARTICLES”

Author: Sérgio Henrique de Toledo e Silva

Date: 03/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Angela Maria Moraes

Co-advisor: Dr. Andrea Cristiane Krause Bierhalz

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Celso Aparecido Bertran and Prof.. Dr. Theo Guenter Kieckbusch.

“THE EFFECT OF NUCLEANT AGENTS ON THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE BLENDED WITH EPR RUBBER (ETHYLENE-PROPYLENE)”

Author: Ricardo Bianchin Martin

Date: 03/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Lucia Helena Innoctini May

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Morales and Dr. Antônio Rodolfo Júnior.

“INFLUENCE OF PALLADIUM CONTENT ON TIO2 MATRIX FOR DEGRADATION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (COVS)”

Author: Arnaldo Efigênio Castro da Silveira

Date: 03/13/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Christiane de Arruda Rodrigues; Prof. Dr. José Roberto Guimaraes

“CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM T248 AMINO ACID METABOLISM DURING COLLAGENASE PRODUCTION AND SEQUENTIAL BATCH ASSESSMENT TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY”

Author: Marina Baiochi Riboldi Delalana

Date: 03/13/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Maria Helena Andrade Santana

Co-advisor: Dr. Sergio Luiz Moreira Neto

Examining Board: Dr. Marcos Castanheira Alegria; Prof. Dr. Reinaldo Gaspar Bastos.

“INHIBITION KINETIC BY PRODUCT AND SUBSTRATE OF BAGASSE HYDROLYSIS OF SUGAR CANE”

Author: Paula Catalina Hoyos Vasquez

Date: 03/14/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Examining Board: Dr. Sarita Candida Rabelo; Dr. Elenise Bannwart de Moraes Torres

“WASTEWATER TREATMENT IN THE EUCALYPTUS INDUSTRY USING ELECTROFLOTATION”

Author: Vanessa Cristina de Biassio

Date: 03/16/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Viktor Oswaldo Cardenas Concha; Prof. Dr. Wagner dos Santos Oliveira

“HYBRID EXCHANGE MODEL (HSM) FOR AN ACCIDENTAL LEAKAGE INTO A PRESSURIZED CO TUBE2“

Author: Fernando Fernandes Neto

Date: 03/29/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Artur Zaghini Francesconi

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Sávio Souza Venâncio Vianna

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Guirardello; Prof. Dr. Rogerio Gonçalves dos Santos.

“APPLICATION OF ADAPTED HAZOP TECHNIQUE FOR RISK IDENTIFICATION IN COOPERATIVES OF RECYCLABLE MATERIAL COLLECTORS”

Author: Marcus Vinicius Fattor

Date: 03/30/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz and Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Guirardello.

“ADSORPTION OF SODIUM DICHLOPHENAC IN CLAY MATERIAL”

Author: Gabriella Simon Maia

Date: 03/31/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Marcelino Luiz Gimenes; Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

“BIOADSORPTION OF CADMIUM IN RESIDUE FROM THE EXTRACTION OF ALGINATE FROM SEA SEAWEED SARGASUM FILIPENDULA“

Author: Emily Nishikawa

Date: 03/31/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Marcelino Luiz Gimenes; Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto.

“OBTAINING A CORRELATION TO THE NUSSELT NUMBER WITH USAGE FROM COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDODYNAMICS (CFD) TO A MIXING TANK WITH HELICAL SERPENTINES SHAKEN BY TWO RUSHTON TYPE IMPELLERS”

Author: Maira Purity Marques da Silva

Date: 05/16/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Roberto Nunhez

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Jaimes Prada

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José Castilho; Prof. Dr. Celso Fernandes Joaquim Junior

“CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF ASPHALT-GROUND TORQUE IN THE PRINTING PROCESS “

Author: Ester Calf Dalessi

Date: 05/25/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wagner dos Santos Oliveira

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona; Prof. Dr. Afonso Rodrigues de Aquino

“MEDIUM AND LONG TERM TECHNOLOGICAL PROSPECTING FOR THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF POWER GENERATION”

Author: Thais Bredariol Grilo Leme

Date: 05/25/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wagner dos Santos Oliveira

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Roger Josef Zemp; Prof. Dr. Afonso Rodrigues de Aquino

“GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR CHEMICAL BALANCE AND ADSORPTION CALCULATIONS IN THE SUMMARY OF FISCHER TROPSCH”

Author: Kelvin André Pacheco

Date: 06/28/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Guirardello

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Mariana Conceição da Costa; Dr. Rita Maria de Brito Alves

“TERM MODELING PRESSURIZED CARBON DIOXIDE ACCIDENTAL LEAKAGE SOURCE “

Author: Joyce Tavares Lopes

Date: 06/29/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Artur Zaghini Francesconi

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Sávio Souza Venâncio Vianna

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho; Prof. Dr. Waldyr Luiz Ribeiro Gallo

“PRODUCTION, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION IN VITRO OF FIBROUS POLY (L-LACTIC ACID) MEMBRANES (PLLA) MANUFACTURED FOR ROTIPATION IN FABRIC ENGINEERING< b>“

Author: Bárbara Etruri Ciocca

Date: 07/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Milena Savioli Lopes; Prof. Drag. Brazil Camargo Cardoso

“CATALYTIC INCINERATOR DEVELOPMENT FOR REDUCTION OF EMISSIONS OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS TO THE ATMOSPHERE”

Author: Barbara Maria Borges Ribeiro

Date: 07/10/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Waldir Antonio Bizzo; Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Luz Lisbon

“FLEXIBILITY OF FERMENTATION TECHNOLOGY VACUUM: PRODUCTION OF N-BUTANOL AND ETHANOL FROM EUCALYPTUS”

Author: Daniel de Castro Assumpção

Date: 12/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho and Dr. Samantha Cristine Santos

“STUDY OF THE AGGLOMERATION PROCESS OF ISOLATED PEA PROTEIN IN PULSED FLUIDIZED BED b>“

Author: Raul Favaro Nascimento

Date: 7/26/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldir Pereira Taranto

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho and Profa. Dr. Louise Emy Kurozawa

“CYCLE ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION REFRIGERATION WITH STEAM INJECTION AND FLASH TANK USING REFRIGERANT MIXTURES“

Author: Stella Maia Rocha de Carvalho

Date: 7/28/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. José Vicente Hallak Dangelo

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Joaquim Eugenio Abel Seabra and Dr. Valdir Apolinário de Freitas

“STUDY OF THE PRECIPITATION MECHANISM OF POLYRIBOSIL-RIBITOL-PHOSPHATE IN THE PRESENCE OF ORGANIC SALTS AND SOLVENTS”

Author: Rodrigo Gabriel Simas

Date: 08/04/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Mickie Takagi

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho and Dr. Samantha Cristine Santos

“STUDY OF THE MODIFICATION OF POLY(LACTIC ACID) WITH REACTIVE ELASTOMER FUNCTIONAL AMINO”

Author: Lucas Rissato Dognani de Oliveira

Date: 8/15/2017

Advising: Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Morales

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Baltus Cornelius Bonse and Dr. Maria Ingrid Rocha Barbosa Schiavon

“ORANGE OIL DETERPENATION USING IONIC LIQUIDS“

Author: Paulo de Castro Fernandes

Date: 8/25/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Patricia Fazzio Martins Martinez

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Luciana Yumi Akisawa Silva

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Roberto Nasser Junior and Profa. Dr. Maria Regina Wolf Maciel

“STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF CONCENTRATION OF OZONE ON THE CONVERSION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS USING GASEOUS PHASE PHOTOCATALYSIS WITH TIO2 AND UV LIGHT“

Author: Luis Antonio Marchiori

Date: 08/28/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Rafael Soeiro Suppino and Dr. José Ermírio Ferreira de Moraes

“DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOUND MUCOADHESIVE MEMBRANES BY DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS OF CHITOSAN AND ALGINATE FOR THE CONTROLLED RELEASE OF THE ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUG IMIQUIMODE”

Author: Lucas Garcia Camargo

Date: 08/31/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Angela Maria Moraes

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Theo Guenter Kieckbusch and Dr. Ana Paula Rodrigues

”GETTING CORRELATION TO THE NUSSELT NUMBER FOR A MIXING TANK JACKET USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDODYNAMICS”

Author: Silvia Marina Araujo Daza

Date: 09/05/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Jaimes Prada

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Dirceu Noriler; Dr. Celso Fernandes Joaquim Junior

“EVALUATION OF CHANGES IN AIR QUALITY CAUSED BY POLLUTANTS EMISSIONS ATMOSPHERIC OF A METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY LOCATED IN THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF SÃO PAULO”

Author: Rodrigo Poltronieri de Sousa

Date: 10/26/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Ana Cláudia Camargo de Lima Tresmondi and Dr. Simone Andrea Pozza

“STUDY OF THERMAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PLA BENDS WITH ELASTOMER NUCLEUS-HULL”

Author: Fernando Benedito Gonçalves Pereira

Date: 10/30/2017

Advised: Prof. Dr. Ana Rita Morales

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. João Sinézio de Carvalho Campos; Dr. Elisabete Maria Saraiva Sanchez

“CHARACTERIZATION OF RUBBER COMPOSITES NATURAL ADDITIVE WITH SiO2 AND Al2O3.3H2O”

Author: Vanessa Corrêa Arantes

Date: 11/10/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Julio Bartoli; Dr. Manuela Lima Queiroz de Andrade Kaneko Sanchez

“EXTENSION OF THE SCALE OF THE LIGNOCELLULOLYTIC ENZYME PRODUCTION PROCESS BY FUNGUS FILAMENTAL IN SUBMERGED FERMENTATION”

Author: Daniel Kolling

Date: 11/16/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. José Geraldo da Cruz Pradella

Examining Board: Dr. Jaciane Lutz Ienczak; Dr. Charles Dayan Farias de Jesus

“STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS ON THE ELECTRODEPOSITION OF Zn ALLOYS -Ni”

Author: Sara Cristina Silva

Date: 11/21/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Maria Regina Wolf Maciel; Dr. Elizabeth Fatima de Souza

“COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN COPPER AND IRON AS INDUCTOR METALS IN ELECTRODEPOSITION OF TUNGSTEN AND IN THE FORMATION OF METALLIC ALLOYS OF Cu-W AND Fe-W”

Author: Victor de Lima Bellia

Date: 12/01/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Adriano Luiz Tonetti; Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek

“EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE POWER NUMBER OF PROXIMITY AGITATORS FOR LIQUIDS HIGH VISCOSITY”

Author: Daniel de Souza Simões

Date: 12/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Roberto Nunhez

Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Raphael Soeiro Suppino; Dr. Celso Fernandes Joaquim Junior

“FUNCTIONALIZATION OF LEVULINIC ACID VIA WITTIG REACTION TO OBTAIN BIOMONOMERS ”

Author: Juliana Otavia Bahú

Date: 12/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Examining Board: Dr. Tassia Lopes Junqueira; Dr. Viktor Oswaldo Cardenas Concha