Merit honor award (chemical engineering student with the best academic performance during the 5 years of the course), in addition to a merit honor plaque, the award provided a full scholarship to choose a postgraduate course. In this sense, I chose an MBA in environmental management system, due to my interest in the area of waste management and...
The Green Project Awards (GPA) is a national reference initiative of the Portuguese Environment Agency, GCI and Quercus ANCN, which recognizes good project practices that promote sustainable development in Portugal.
This project helped me to go further in my master's research project, through this project I was able to buy materials for the laboratory, which were necessary to advance my research, go to conferences and visit industries that provided me with samples for research.
In Portugal, Sociedade Ponto Verde (SPV) is a private not-for-profit body with crucial mission for sustainable future, through the promotion of the selective colelection take-back and recycling of packaging waste.
The objective of the project is the efficient cultivation of microalgae Chlorella sp. in a bioreactor to obtain biomass rich in protein, without chlorophyll, yellow in color and with a pleasant taste for animal feed. Currently, microalgae biomass still has high production costs, so more research is needed to make it an accessible renewable...
Biodiesel produced by residual feedstock, such as waste cooking oil, is, indeed one of the strategies to reduce production costs, valorize wastes and contribute for a faster decarbonization in transportation sector, plus, it does not compete with food security. However, the high sulfur content in these residual feedstocks is becoming an enormous...
Doctoral scholarship, which pays for housing, food and payment of tuition fees.
