Developed more efficient technology for oil refining
Image obtained from Rive Technology web site
The company Rive Technology has developed new zeolites, called RiveCat, which makes more efficient the oil refining process. The technology developed is a method for modifying the pore size of zeolites.
According to the authors, these new catalysts will reduce the amount of oil converted into coke and will help to reduce the production of called aromatic compounds such as benzene that contribute to pollution.
The application of this method is not restricted to cracking crude, since you can select the size of zeolite’s pore, which can extend its use to the prosecution of other fossil sources or hydrocarbons sources developed in the future.
The company Rive Technology, a spin-off of the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), commercialize this catalysts technology for petroleum refining.
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New INL researcher Marta Prado
Marta Prado is INL´s latest researcher and has just settled in in Braga. She has an advanced degree in Food Science and Technology and studies in Biology Science from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Marta has a PhD from the same university in the program of Nutrition, Bromatology and Food technology.
Between the years 1999 and 2006, our new Spanish colleague has been working as a researcher in the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (Lugo, Spain) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Between 2006 and 2010, she has been working as Scientific Officer in the Institute of Reference Materials and Measurements from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC-IRMM) in Geel, Belgium.
Most of her research experience is related with genomic analysis tools and its application to food analysis, since she had worked on the development and optimization of PCR-based methods for the control of food and animal feeds. In the INL, she will work on the application of magnetic nanobiosensors for the detection of ruminant origin meals in feed.
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