UNIFEI promotes seminar about biofuels and their environmental impacts
October 1, 2012 - 08:31
Members of the Red Bialema seminar participants. From left to right: Professor Aroca Arcaya German, Engineer
Luis Gustavo Hernandez, Professor Antonio Valdes Delgado and Professor Electo Silva Lora.
The Unifei (Federal University Federal of Itajubá) realized the international seminar
"Production of Biofuels and their Environmental Impact" in the Excen auditorium
(Centre for Studies in Research and Innovation in Energy Efficiency). The meeting was
organized by The Red Bialema (Network for biofuel production and its impact on food,
energy and environmental) program Ibero-American Science and Technology CYTED
development, in which the Excellence Group in Thermal Power and Distributed Generation
(NEST) of Unifei is reference in Brazil.
The event featured lecturers from several Latin American countries, as Professor
Antonio Valdes Delgado, of the Environment Agency to Cuba, also coordinator of the
network, the professor German Arcaya Aroca, of the Pontificia University of Valparaiso
in Chile, the engineer Luiz Gustavo Hernández, of the refinery CATSA (Tempisque of
Sugar Central) of Costa Rica, Professor José Luiz Silveira of UNESP (São Paulo State
University) of Guaratinguetá and the professors of Unifei, Luiz Augusto Horta
Nogueira and Electo Silva Eduardo Lora.
At the seminar, Professor Aroca Arcaya, taught the course "Second Generation
Bioethanol", which tackled the state of the art production of lignocellulosic ethanol
(ethanol from cellulose bioethanol) in the world, aspects of pre-treatment of biomass,
hydrolysis product recovery, process modeling, and evaluation of economic, financial
and environmental.
Of the 33 people in the event, 28 participated in the course. The initiative allowed
students and professors of Unifei improve their knowledge on the subject of
bioprocesses for the production of bioethanol.