University Institute of Chemical Process Engineering
The Department of Environment of the City Council of San Vicente del Raspeig has requested the collaboration of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Alicante (UA) for the measurement of the state of air quality in the city. Collaboration with the UA has already begun with a measurement campaign by installing dosimeters at various points throughout the city.
The work has been carried out by researchers from the universities of Alicante, Jaén, ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and Imperial College London (UK)
The team of experts reported a cost overrun of between 0.12 and 0.19 trillion euros for each year of delay
These are multilayer packaging that are currently sent to landfill or incinerated given the complexity of their recycling.
Fych Technologies has obtained a grant of 70.000 € for the start-up of a pilot plant for packaging delamination.
According to the Statute of the University of Alicante, and having implemented the procedures provided for in this Statute, on 24th May 2021, the designation of professor Ignacio Martín Gullón as Director of the University Institute of Chemical Process Engineering was approved, being effective on 15th May
The Applynano company has achieved more resistant plastics, which allow conducting electricity or dissipating heat.
The University of Alicante has hosted the UA awards ceremony of entrepeneur for final degree projects (TFG), final master's degree projects (TFM) and doctoral theses that can be the basis of an innovative business project. In the TFG modality, “Veelu” has been awarded with 600 euros, a mobile application to plan group trips presented by Esther Navarro, graduated in Multimedia Engineering. The student of the Master in Biotechnology for Health and Sustainability Ángela María Díaz has been awarded, in the TFM modality with 900 euros, for her work focused on genetic diagnosis in assisted reproduction: the KIR / HLA-C system. Finally, the award for doctoral thesis, with a prize of 1,500 euros, was given to "Plastics recycling: new challenges in the age of the Circular Economy" by Oksana Horodytska, PhD in Chemical Engineering.
