Alírio Rodrigues is a
Portuguese
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chemical engineer. He is emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at
Universidade do Porto
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and Director of the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering.
His research interests are in the fields of
chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...
,
bioengineering and
materials engineering.
He is the author of over 600 articles on
catalysis
Catalysis () is the process of increasing the rate of a chemical reaction by adding a substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed in the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recyc ...
and
reaction engineering, a number of books, and of six patents.
He is among the most cited chemical engineers according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities
He is on the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal.
The press has been interested in his research on perfumed clothing.
Rodrigues equation
The
Rodrigues equation is an extension of the
Van Deemter equation
The van Deemter equation in chromatography, named for Jan van Deemter, relates the variance per unit length of a separation column to the linear mobile phase velocity by considering physical, kinetic, and thermodynamic properties of a separation. ...
used to describe the efficiency of a bed of permeable (large-pore) particles.
The equation is:
where HETP is the
height equivalent theoretical plate
:
and
is the intraparticular
Péclet number
In continuum mechanics, the Péclet number (, after Jean Claude Eugène Péclet) is a class of dimensionless numbers relevant in the study of transport phenomena in a continuum. It is defined to be the ratio of the rate of advection of a physical ...
.
Awards and honours
In 2008 he was awarded with Viviana Silva the Sustainability Award of the
Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
Rodrigues has been awarded the 2019 medal for excellence in I+D+i of the Spanish association of chemists and chemical engineers as "recognition of an extraordinary research career in the area of separation processes and chemical reaction".
Bibliography
*''Perfume Engineering: Design, Performance and Classification'', (2013) Butterworth-Heinemann ;
* ''Simulated Moving Bed Technology'', (2015) Butterworth-Heinemann
References
External links
Alírio Rodrigues' publicationsAlírio Rodrigues' page at the Laboratory of Separation and Reaction Engineering, University of Porto
Living people
Portuguese engineers
Portuguese scientists
Portuguese chemical engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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