Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extraction Laboratory
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory São Paulo 18 million people 7.5 million cars 1/4 of the Gross Domestic Product
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory University of São Paulo
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory
Size: 11 Major Campi: São Paulo (4), São Carlos (2), Ribeirão Preto, Piracicaba, Pirassununga, Bauru & Lorena Total land area: 77 km 2. Area constructed: 1.6 km 2. 36 Academic Institutes 6 Specialized Institutes 4 Hospitals and associated services 4 Museums 39 Libraries (6.5 million documents) 35 thousand Microcomputers connected to the USP Network (100 Mbps) 56 thousand e-mail Users Annual budget: R$ 2 billion (ca. 700 million Euros, or US$ 1 Billion) Students Enrolled 46 thousand Undergraduates (202 Majors) 25 thousand Graduate Students (220 Programs) Undergraduate openings per year 8.550 (candidates 150+ thousand)
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory University of São Paulo Escola Politécnica
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory
Presentation Founded in 1893. Incorporated to USP in 1934. Counts on 15 Teaching and Research Departments in 141,500 m 2 premises. Human Resources About 500 faculty members and 500 non-teaching staff.
Undergraduate 17 courses (15 semestral and 2 quadrimestral). Approximately 4,400 students. Graduate 20 Master courses, with about 1,180 students. 18 Doctorate courses, with about 860 students. Approximately 1,250 Special students, not necessarily applying for a degree. Continued Education 250 courses, with over 7,000 students. 12 specialization and 12 MBA-like courses.
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory University of São Paulo Dept. Chemical Engineering Escola Politécnica
Chemical Engineering Department 31 faculty 60 diplomas/year Research Areas Electrochemistry and Corrosion Biochemical Engineering Food Engineering Environmental Process Systems Engineering
Recycling, Waste Treatment and Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory University of São Paulo Dept. Chemical Engineering Escola Politécnica
The mission of LAREX is to be a research center of international excellence in its field.
The focus of LAREX is to develop research in the areas of recycling, metal extraction and solid waste treatment.
Denise Crocce Romano Espinosa Associate Professor CNPq Researcher 1D More than 200 papers published espinosa@usp.br Jorge Alberto Soares Tenório Full Professor CNPq researcher 1A More than 500 paper published jtenorio@usp.br
The research group is composed of over thirty research fellows among professors, technicians, undergraduate students, masters, Ph.Ds and post- doctorate.
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Aluminum recycling Recycling of WEEE Recycling of batteries Recycling of plastics Biotechnology applied to metal recovery from solid wastes Synthesis of carbon nanotubes from combustion of wastes
Recycling of tires Treatment of steelmaking dusts and slags Pyrolysis and combustion of plastics and other organic wastes Treatment of acid mine drainage Biotechnology applied to the treatment of acid mine drainage
Treatment of steelmaking dusts and slags Recovery of Mn dusts to produce Fe-Mn Recovery of Cr from AOD dusts Recycling of Zn and Fe from EAF dusts Use of marble waste as a desulfurizer agent in primary and secondary steel refining Use of Fe-Mn slags to produce silicon fiberglass
Unit operations Hydrometallurgy Leaching Ion exchange resins Solvent extraction Precipitation Electrodialysis Bioleaching Biosorption
Unit operations High temperature processing Sintering Roasting Calcination Reduction Oxidation hot corrosion Vacuum distillation Metal Refining
Equipments Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer ICP-OES Ionic chromatography Scanning electron microscope X-ray diffractometer X-ray fluorescence spectrometer EDX FT-IR Spectrometer UV-VIS Spectrophotometer ATLAS Sodium Reactors Zeta meter analyser Incubation orbital shaker
Equipments Stereoscopic microscope Potenciostat and galvanostat Simultaneous thermal analysis (DTA, DSC and TGA) Thermogravimetric analysis equipament Accelerated Surface Area and Porosimetry analyzer Lazer particle size analyser Mass spectrometer Vacuum and controlled atmosphere furnace 1700C furnace Mufles Knives Mill Hammer Mill
International Cooperation Northeastern University (USA) 2000 - Prof. Yiannis Levendis Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2001 a 2002 Prof. Claude H. P. Lupis Université de Liège 2012 - Prof. Stoyan Gaydardzhiev
International Cooperation Universidad Politecnica de Valencia 2012 - Prof. Valentín Perez Herranz University of Utah 2013 - Prof. Hong Yong Sohn University of British Columbia 2014 - Prof. David Dreisinger
National cooperation CNPq / CT Mineral 2011 a 2014 UFMG Prof. Dr. Marcelo Borges Mansur CAPES - Rede Nanobiotec 2009 a 2014 PUC-RIO Prof. Dr. Mauricio Leonardo Torem UFRGS Profa. Dra. Andrea Moura Bernardes IFES Prof. Dr. José Roberto de Oliveira CAPES - Pró-Engenharias 2008 a 2012 UFRGS Profa. Dra. Andréa Moura Bernardes FEEVALE Prof. Dr. Daniel Bertuol CNPq / CT Mineral 2008 a 2012 UFRGS Prof. Dr. Ivo André Homrich Schneider FEEVALE Prof. Dr. Daniel Bertuol IFES Prof. Dr. José Roberto de Oliveira
CAPES - Procad 2008 a 2012 UFRGS Profa. Dra. Andréa Moura Bernardes FEEVALE Prof. Dr. Daniel Bertuol CAPES - Procad 2001 a 2004 UFRGS Profa. Dra. Andréa Moura Bernardes UFOP Prof. Dr. Fernando Gabriel da Silva Araújo FINEP - Rede de estudos em redução de minérios REMIN/RECOPE 1997 a 2002 Coordenadores: PUC-RIO Prof. Dr. Fernando Cosme Rizzo Assumção (Coord. Geral da Rede de Inovação em Metal-Mecânica) UFOP Prof. Dr. Paulo Santos Assis (coordenador da REMIN) UFRGS Prof. Dr. Antonio Cezar Faria Vilela UFF Prof. Dr. Adilson Rodrigues da Silva UFF Prof. Dr. Alexandre José da Silva UFMG Prof. Dr. Paulo Pinheiro
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