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A new supercritical, subcritical, and pressurized extraction unit is now available at EgiChem group. The new apparatus was supplied by SFE Process SAS (France) and is labeled as 'Multi-solvent Extraction System LAB SFE 1L'.

The equipment allows several working modes, namely:

- Extraction with supercritical CO₂ at pressures up to 1000 bar and temperatures up to 150 ºC, with or without cosolvent, and with controlled flow rates;

- Subcritical water extraction up to 400 bar and 250°C, with controlled flow rates;

- Pressurized organic solvent extraction with controlled pressure, temperature and flow rate.

The EgiChem members Ivo Azenha and Vítor Rodrigues delivered presentations about their PhD topic in a pitch format at the Research Summit 2019, which took place at University of Aveiro (Portugal), from the 3rd to 5th of July of 2019. 

Research Summit 2019 was a forum to foster important discussion on the global theme of Energy and Sustainability, among the University of Aveiro research community and to enable collaborations to advance the state of the art and empower the research efforts at the campus

The oral communications were the following ones:

- I. Azenha, Separation of Triterpenic Acids by Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography, Research Summit 2019, Aveiro, July 2019

- V. Rodrigues, Technology for the valorization of agro-forestry residues, Research Summit 2019, Aveiro, July 2019

EgiChem group participated in the 2019 Edition of Jornadas CICECO, a meeting point for our Science and Society. This was a great opportunity to foster the collaborations between CICECO researchers, present your vision and mission to the University community and give a chance for young researchers to show their ambition and creativity.

The event took place from 11th to 12th of June of 2018, at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro.

The Egichem members Bruno Zêzere, Ivo Azenha, Sebastião Costa, and Simão Cardoso  attended the talk entitled "O que é o Mercado do Carbono?", which took at University of Aveiro (Portugal), on 15th of May of 2019. 

The seminar was delivered by the expert Eng.ª Helena Pereira, and the event was a jointly organized by the Delegação Distrital de Aveiro da Ordem dos Engenheiros and the Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia Química da Universidade de Aveiro.

The Egichem student Elaine Fabre delivered a presentation in the ICECM 2019 (International Conference on Environment, Chemistry and Management), which took place at the Hotel Pennsylvania (New York, USA) from the 22nd to 23th of April of 2019. 

Briefly, this conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Environment, Chemistry and Management. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Environment, Chemistry and Management.

 Elaine Fabre  delivered the following oral presentation at the conference:

E. Fabre, C. Vale, E. Pereira, C. M. Silva, Valorization of banana peels for mercury removal in environmental realist conditions ICECM 2019: International Conference on Environment, Chemistry and Management, New York, 22-23 April, 2019.