Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor at IST/Department Chemical Engineering and integrated member of CERENA/IST – Process Optimization for Energy Efficiency and Technology. She has been involved in many projects, mainly with industrial funding. Teaching activities: Mass and heat balances; process synthesis and integration, biofuels, design of chemical processes. Main Research Activities: Process integration: develop the design of mass and heat networks to reduce minimum utility cost and the amount of effluents; Modelling and simulation: several software tools are used to model and simulate industrial process to promote the global efficiency; Biomass resources: Study of different alternatives to enhance the useful use of forest resources; Crystallisation – Tartaric stabilization of wines.
Publications
21st International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering, CHISA 2014 and 17th Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction, PRES 2014 | 2014
Chemical Engineering Transactions | 2014
Computers and Chemical Engineering | 2012
Chemical Engineering Transactions | 2009
American Journal of Enology and Viticulture | 2009