The National Strategic Reference Framework (QREN) and some regional companies granted funding to the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Algarve for the development of a gaseous effluent treatment system, based on the principle of washing, followed by drying of the same effluent, through an innovative technological process.
In this investigation, a study of dynamic flows in the gaseous effluent treatment system has been carried out, based on US Patent Design nº 373,625. It is a technology patented in the United States of America and which is currently being prepared to be exported around the world.
The project, financed by QREN and regional companies Electrolagos and Clearwinds, intends to analyze and optimize the performance of this new innovative technology for the treatment of gaseous effluents from combustion, whether from factories or from other sources. Among other activities, the field of air velocities, the field of air pressures and the dehumidification of the air within the system of effluent treatment channels have been analyzed, either experimentally or numerically.
This scientific activity, coordinated by Eusébio Conceição, a professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, has resulted in the publication of a significant number of articles in journals and interventions in national and international conferences, being oriented towards the development of new scientific equipment, such as hot-wire anemometry systems, displacement velocimetry with support of laser, among other numerical techniques.
This funding allows, simultaneously, the improvement of research in industrial aerodynamics and teaching conditions for students of the Integrated Masters in Environmental Engineering, the Masters in Renewable Energies and Energy Management and the PhD in the field of Energy.
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