Master Thesis Defenses – 2017

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

Author: Luiza Baptista Fernandes

Data: 24/01/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Ana Maria Frattini Fileti

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Luz Adriana Alvarez Toro and Prof.. Dr. Alberto Luiz Serpa.

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

Author: Jessica Marcon Bressanin

Data: 26/01/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Julio Roberto Bartoli

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Inés Pereyra and Profa. Drag. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona.

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

Author: Marcelle Bruna de Mendonça Spera

Data: 20/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Marisa Masumi Beppu

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

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

Author: Rafael Ribeiro Sencio

Data: 20/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

Co-advisor: Dr. Thiago Vaz da Costa

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

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

Author: Henrique Fernandes Figueira Brazil

Data: 20/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Paim Valença

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

“EVALUATION OF PROTICAL IONIC LIQUIDS FOR THE PRE-TREATMENT OF SUGARCANE BAGGAGE”

Author: Thaynara Coradini Pin

Data: 21/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Co-advisor: Drag. Sarita Candida Rabelo

Examination 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 THROUGH ROASTING AND PYROLYSIS”

Author: Janainna Chaves Pereira

Data: 21/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Katia Tannous

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

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

Author: Lívia Caldas Alencar Pacheco

Data: 22/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Telma Teixeira Franco

Co-advisor: Drag. Bruna de Souza Moraes

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Tania Forster Carneiro and Profa. Drag. Renata Pìacentini Rodriguez.

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

Author: Saulo Luiz Cardoso

Data: 22/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Meuris Gurgel Carlos da Silva

Co-advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Marcelino Luiz Gimenes and Professor. Drag. Monica Lopes Aguiar.

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

Author: Leticia Frigerio Cremasco

Data: 22/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek

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

“DEVELOPMENT OF A PREDICTIVE CONTROL BASED ON AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODEL IN A SECOND GENERATION CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION PROCESS”

Author: Felipi Luiz de Assunção Bezerra

Data: 22/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Examination 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

Data: 23/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda

Co-advisor: Cristiane Sanchez Farinas

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Sonia Maria Alves Bueno and Profa. Drag. Gisele Atsuko Medeiros Hirata.

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

Author: Vinícius Souza de Carvalho

Data: 23/02/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Katia Tannous

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

“AGGLOMERATION OF HYDROLIZED COLLAGEN IN FLUIDIZED BED”

Author: Thayná Rua Viegas

Data: 24/02/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldir Pereira Taranto

Co-advisor: prof. Drag. Sandra Cristina dos Santos Rocha

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Louise Emy Kurozawa and Profa. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira.

“MANUFACTURING AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF ALGINATE-BASED NANOCOMPOSITE BIOFILMS CONTAINING ZNO NANOPARTICLES”

Author: Sérgio Henrique de Toledo e Silva

Data: 02/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Angela Maria Moraes

Co-advisor: Drag. Andrea Cristiane Krause Bierhalz

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

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

Author: Ricardo Bianchin Martin

Data: 02/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Lucia Helena Innocentini May

Examination Board: prof. Drag. 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

Data: 13/03/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Christiane de Arruda Rodrigues; Prof. Dr. José Roberto Guimaraes

“AMINO ACID METABOLISM FROM CLOSTRIDIUM HISTOLYTICUM T248 DURING COLLAGENASE PRODUCTION AND SEQUENTIAL BATCH EVALUATION TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY"

Author: Marina Baiochi Riboldi Delalana

Data: 13/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Maria Helena Andrade Santana

Co-advisor: Dr. Sergio Luiz Moreira Neto

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

“PRODUCT AND SUBSTRATE INHIBITION KINETIC OF SUGAR CANE BAGGAGE HYDROLYSIS”

Author: Paula Catalina Hoyos Vasquez

Data: 14/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa

Examination Board: Drag. Sarita Candida Rabelo; Drag. Elenise Bannwart de Moraes Torres

“EFFLUENT TREATMENT IN THE EUCALYPTUS INDUSTRY USING ELECTROFLOTATION”

Author: Vanessa Cristina de Biassio

Data: 16/03/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Flávio Vasconcelos da Silva

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

“HYBRID EXCHANGE MODEL (HSM) FOR AN ACCIDENTAL LEAKAGE IN A CO PIPE2 PRESSURIZED”

Author: Fernando Fernandes Neto

Data: 29/03/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Artur Zaghini Francesconi

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

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

“APPLICATION OF ADAPTED HAZOP TECHNIQUE FOR IDENTIFICATION OF RISKS IN COOPERATIVES OF RECYCLABLE MATERIAL COLLECTORS"

Author: Marcus Vinicius Fattor

Data: 30/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

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

“ADSORPTION OF SODIUM DICHLOPHENAC IN CLAY MATERIAL”

Author: Gabriella Simon Maia

Data: 31/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

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

“BIOADSORPTION OF CADMIUM IN RESIDUE FROM THE EXTRACTION OF ALGINATE FROM MARINE SEAWEED SARGASSUM FILIPENDULA“

Author: Emily Nishikawa

Data: 31/03/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Melissa Gurgel Adeodato Vieira

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

“OBTAINING A CORRELATION FOR THE NUSSELT NUMBER WITH THE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) FOR A MIXING TANK WITH HELICAL SERPENTINES SHAKEN BY TWO RUSHTON TYPE IMPELLERS”

Author: Maira Purity Marques da Silva

Data: 16/05/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Roberto Nunhez

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Jaimes Prada

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

“CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE ASPHALT-SOIL BINARY IN THE PRINTING PROCESS”

Author: Ester Calf Dalessi

Data: 25/05/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wagner dos Santos Oliveira

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Liliane Maria Ferrareso Lona; Prof. Dr. Afonso Rodrigues de Aquino

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

Author: Thais Bredariol Grilo Leme

Data: 25/05/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Wagner dos Santos Oliveira

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

“GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR CHEMICAL BALANCE AND ADSORPTION CALCULATIONS IN FISCHER TROPSCH SYNTHESIS”

Author: Kelvin André Pacheco

Data: 28/06/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Reginaldo Guirardello

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Mariana Conceição da Costa; Drag. Rita Maria de Brito Alves

“TERM MODELING SOURCE OF ACCIDENTAL PRESSURIZED CARBON DIOXIDE LEAKAGE”

Author: Joyce Tavares Lopes

Data: 29/06/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Artur Zaghini Francesconi

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

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

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

Author: Bárbara Etruri Ciocca

Data: 04/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Milena Savioli Lopes; prof. Drag. Brazil Camargo Cardoso

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

Author: Barbara Maria Borges Ribeiro

Data: 10/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Waldir Antonio Bizzo; Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Luz Lisbôa

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

Author: Daniel de Castro Assumpção

Data: 12/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Adriano Pinto Mariano

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

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

Author: Raul Favaro Nascimento

Data: 26/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Osvaldir Pereira Taranto

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho and Professor. Drag. Louise Emy Kurozawa

“ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION OF REFRIGERATION CYCLES WITH STEAM INJECTION AND FLASH TANK USING REFRIGERANT MIXTURES”

Author: Stella Maia Rocha de Carvalho

Data: 28/07/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. José Vicente Hallak Dangelo

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

“STUDY OF THE PRECIPITATION MECHANISM OF POLYRIBOSYL-RIBITOL-PHOSPHATE IN THE PRESENCE OF ORGANIC SALTS AND SOLVENTS"

Author: Rodrigo Gabriel Simas

Data: 04/08/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Everson Alves Miranda

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Mickie Takagi

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

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

Author: Lucas Rissato Dognani de Oliveira

Data: 15/08/2017

guide: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Baltus Cornelius Bonse e Dra. Maria Ingrid Rocha Barbosa Schiavon

“ORANGE OIL DETERPENATION USING IONIC LIQUIDS“

Author: Paulo de Castro Fernandes

Data: 25/08/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Patricia Fazzio Martins Martinez

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

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Roberto Nasser Junior and Professor. Drag. Maria Regina Wolf Maciel

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

Author: Luis Antonio Marchiori

Data: 28/08/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

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

“DEVELOPMENT OF MUCOADHESIVE MEMBRANES COMPOSED OF DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS OF CHITOSAN AND ALGINATE FOR THE CONTROLLED RELEASE OF THE ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUG IMIQUIMODE"

Author: Lucas Garcia Camargo

Data: 31/08/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Angela Maria Moraes

Examination Board: Prof. Dr. Theo Guenter Kieckbusch e Dra. Ana Paula Rodrigues

"OBTAINING CORRELATION OF THE NUSSELT NUMBER FOR A JACKET MIXING TANK USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUIDDYNAMICS"

Author: Silvia Marina Araujo Daza

Data: 05/09/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Guilherme José de Castilho

Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. Ronald Jaimes Prada

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

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

Author: Rodrigo Poltronieri de Sousa

Data: 26/10/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Edson Tomaz

Examination 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-SHELL"

Author: Fernando Benedito Gonçalves Pereira

Data: 30/10/2017

Advised: prof. Drag. Ana Rita Morales

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

“CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL RUBBER COMPOSITES ADDITED WITH SiO2 AND Al2O3.3H2O"

Author: Vanessa Corrêa Arantes

Data: 10/11/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gustavo Doubek

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

“SCALE EXPANSION OF THE LIGNOCELLULOLYTIC ENZYME PRODUCTION PROCESS BY FILAMENTAL FUNGUS IN SUBMERGED FERMENTATION"

Author: Daniel Kolling

Data: 16/11/2017

Advisor: prof. Drag. Aline Carvalho da Costa

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

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

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

Author: Sara Cristina Silva

Data: 21/11/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

Examination Board: prof. Drag. Maria Regina Wolf Maciel; Drag. Elizabeth Fatima de Souza

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

Author: Victor de Lima Bellia

Data: 01/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ambrósio Florêncio de Almeida Neto

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

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

Author: Daniel de Souza Simões

Data: 12/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Jose Roberto Nunhez

Examination 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

Data: 12/12/2017

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rubens Maciel Filho

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