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FROM NATURE TO PRODUCTS, TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY.

Luís Manuel Santos Pais

Coordinator Professor
Group: Sustainable Processes and Products
E-mail: pais@ipb.pt
ORCID: 0000-0002-3000-2862
Scopus Author ID: 6603930478

Career

  • Since 2005: Coordinator Professor at the School of Technology and Management (ESTiG) of Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB), Bragança, Portugal
  • 2000 - 2005: Adjunct Professor at ESTiG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
  • 1992 - 2000: Assistant Professor at ESTiG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

Roles

  • Since 2016: Vice-President of IPB for Academic Affairs and International Relations, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
  • 2004 - 2006: Coordinator of the Chemical Technology Department, ESTiG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
  • 2000 - 2004: President of the Scientific Council of ESTiG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal
  • 1998 - 2002: Coordinator of the Chemical Technology Department, ESTiG, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal

Qualifications

  • 1999 - PhD. PhD in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal
  • 1991 - Bachelor degree Bachelor in Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal

Awards and Honors

  • 1999 - First Award CUF-FCT for the best PhD thesis in Chemical Engineering for the period 1999-2001

Interests

  • Separation and extraction processes
  • Chromatography
  • Simulated Moving Bed technology
  • Pharmaceutical and natural products
  • High added value products

Projects:

BIOSHOES4ALL - Inovação e Capacitação da Fileira do Calçado para a Bieconomia Sustentável
Funding body: PRR
Reference: PRR - 000011
Principal Investigator:Maria Filomena Barreiro
Start: 2021-10-01
End: 2025-12-31
BEONNAT - Innovative value chains from tree & shrub species grown in marginal lands as a source of biomass for bio-based industries
Funding body: HORIZON 2020
Reference: BBI-2019-SO1-R1 - 887917 – BEONNAT
Principal Investigator:Lillian Bouçada de Barros
Start: 2020-07-01
End: 2025-06-30
BIOma - Soluções integradas de BIOeconomia para a Mobilização cadeia Agroalimentar
Funding body: PORTUGAL 2020
Reference: POCI-1-0247-FEDER-046112
Principal Investigator:Lillian Bouçada de Barros
Start: 2020-07-01
End: 2023-06-03
TRANSCoLAB - Laboratorio Colaborativo Transfronterizo para la sostenibilidad y innovación del sector Agroalimentario y Agroindustrial
Funding body: POCTEP 2014-2020
Reference: 0612_TRANS_CO_LAB_2_P
Principal Investigator:Lillian Bouçada de Barros
Start: 2018-01-01
End: 2022-04-05
- Multicomponent Chiral Separations by Simulated Moving Bed Based-Processes
Funding body: PTDC - Projeto de de I&D em todos os domínios científicos
Reference: PTDC/EQU-EQU/119025/2010
Principal Investigator:Luís Pais
Start: 2012-03-01
End: 2015-02-01
AdTechP2 - Advanced Separation Technologies for the Protein Purification
Funding body: PTDC - Projectos de I&DT em Todos os Domínios Científicos
Reference: PTDC/EQU-EQU/113310/2009
Principal Investigator:Luís Pais
Start: 2009-06-01
End: 2014-05-31
- Design of Simulated Moving Bed Related Techniques for the Separation of High Added Value Products
Funding body: PTDC - - Projectos de I&DT em Todos os Domínios Científicos
Reference: POCI/EQU/59738/2004
Principal Investigator:Luís Pais
Start: 2005-06-15
End: 2008-05-15
- Measurement of competitive adsorption isotherms for preparative chromatographic chiral separations
Funding body: POCTI - Programa operacional Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Reference: POCTI/EQU/38811/2001
Principal Investigator:Luís Pais
Start: 2001-10-01
End: 2006-10-31
ENANTIO-CHROM - Purification of Optical Isomers with Continuous Chromatography
Funding body: ECC-BRITE
Reference: BRE2-CT92- 0337
Principal Investigator:Luís Pais
Start: 1992-01-01
End: 1995-12-31

Total results: 32
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Arafah R.S.,Ribeiro A.E.,Rodrigues A.E.,Pais L.S.
Separation of nadolol racemates by high pH reversed-phase fixed-bed and simulated moving bed chromatography
Separation and Purification Technology, 305, , 2023

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Lopes I.M.,Pais L.S.,Fernandes P.O.
International Mobility Flows and COVID-19 Effects: Evidence from Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 320, 703-713, 2023

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Arafah R.S.,Ribeiro A.E.,Rodrigues A.E.,Pais L.S.
Separation of nadolol racemates by high pH reversed-phase preparative chromatography
Separation and Purification Technology, 233, , 2020

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Arafah R.S.,Ribeiro A.E.,Rodrigues A.E.,Pais L.S.
Improving the performance of nadolol stereoisomers' preparative separation using Chiralpak IA by SMB chromatography
Chirality, 31, 62-71, 2019

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Paulo H.,Fernandes P.O.,Pais L.S.
The contribution of the higher education institution for the qualified workforce
Proceedings of the 32nd International Business Information Management Association Conference, IBIMA 2018 - Vision 2020: Sustainable Economic Development and Application of Innovation Management from Regional expansion to Global Growth, 7340-7351, 2018

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Arafah R.S.,Ribeiro A.E.,Rodrigues A.E.,Pais L.S.
Separation of Nadolol Stereoisomers Using Chiralpak IA Chiral Stationary Phase
Chirality, 28, 399-408, 2016

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Graça N.S.,Pais L.S.,Rodrigues A.E.
Separation of Ternary Mixtures by Pseudo-Simulated Moving-Bed Chromatography: Separation Region Analysis
Chemical Engineering and Technology, 38, 2316-2326, 2015

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Rodrigues A.E.,Pereira C.,Minceva M.,Pais L.S.,Ribeiro A.M.,Ribeiro A.,Silva M.,Graça N.,Santos J.C.
Simulated moving bed technology: Principles, design and process applications
Simulated Moving Bed Technology: Principles, Design and Process Applications, 1-283, 2015

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Leblebici P.,Leblebici M.,Ferreira-da-Silva F.,Rodrigues A.,Pais L.
Separation of human immunoglobulin G subclasses on a protein A monolith column
Journal of Chromatography B: Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences, 962, 89-93, 2014

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Graça N.S.,Pais L.S.,Silva V.M.T.M.,Rodrigues A.E.
Thermal effects on the synthesis of 1,1-dibutoxyethane in a fixed-bed adsorptive reactor
Chemical Engineering and Technology, 35, 1989-1997, 2012

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Graça N.S.,Pais L.S.,Silva V.M.T.M.,Rodrigues A.E.
Thermal effects on the synthesis of acetals in a simulated moving bed adsorptive reactor
Chemical Engineering Journal, 207-208, 504-513, 2012

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Graça N.,Pais L.,Silva V.,Rodrigues A.
Analysis of the synthesis of 1,1-dibutoxyethane in a simulated moving-bed adsorptive reactor
Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification, 50, 1214-1225, 2011

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Ribeiro A.,Gomes P.,Pais L.,Rodrigues A.
Chiral separation of flurbiprofen enantiomers by preparative and simulated moving bed chromatography
Chirality, 23, 602-611, 2011

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Ribeiro A.,Gomes P.,Pais L.,Rodrigues A.
Chiral separation of ketoprofen enantiomers by preparative and simulated moving bed chromatography
Separation Science and Technology, 46, 1726-1739, 2011

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Graça N.,Pais L.,Silva V.,Rodrigues A.
Dynamic study of the synthesis of 1,1-dibutoxyethane in a fixed-bed adsorptive reactor
Separation Science and Technology, 46, 631-640, 2011

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Graça N.,Pais L.,Silva V.,Rodrigues A.
Oxygenated biofuels from butanol for diesel blends: Synthesis of the acetal 1,1-dibutoxyethane catalyzed by amberlyst-15 ion-exchange resin
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 49, 6763-6771, 2010

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Ribeiro A.,Graça N.,Pais L.,Rodrigues A.
Optimization of the mobile phase composition for preparative chiral separation of flurbiprofen enantiomers
Separation and Purification Technology, 68, 9-23, 2009

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Ribeiro A.,Graça N.,Pais L.,Rodrigues A.
Preparative separation of ketoprofen enantiomers: Choice of mobile phase composition and measurement of competitive adsorption isotherms
Separation and Purification Technology, 61, 375-383, 2008

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Pais L.S.,Mata V.G.,Rodrigues A.E.
Simulated Moving Bed and Related Techniques
Preparative Enantioselective Chromatography, 176-204, 2007

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Gomes P.S.,Minceva M.,Pais L.S.,Rodrigues A.E.
Advances in Simulated Moving Bed Chromatographic Separations
Chiral Separation Techniques: A Practical Approach, Third Edition, 181-202, 2007

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Rodrigues A.E.,Pais L.S.
Design of SMB Chiral Separations Using the Concept of Separation Volume
Separation Science and Technology, 39, 245-270, 2005

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Minceva M.,Pais L.S.,Rodrigues A.E.
Cyclic steady state of simulated moving bed processes for enantiomers separation
Chemical Engineering and Processing, 42, 93-104, 2003

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Rodrigues A.E.,Mata V.G.,Zabka M.,Pais L.
Chapter 15 Flow and Mass Transfer
Journal of Chromatography Library, 67, 325-350, 2003

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Pais L.S.,Loureiro J.M.,Rodrigues A.E.
Chiral separation by SMB chromatography
Separation and Purification Technology, 20, 67-77, 2000

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Azevedo D.C.S.,Pais L.S.,Rodrigues A.E.
Enantiomers separation by simulated moving bed chromatography: Non-instantaneous equilibrium at the solid-fluid interface
Journal of Chromatography A, 865, 187-200, 1999

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Pais L.S.,Loureiro J.M.,Rodrigues A.E.
Separation of enantiomers of a chiral epoxide by simulated moving bed chromatography
Journal of Chromatography A, 827, 215-233, 1998

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Pais L.,Loureiro J.,Rodrigues A.
Modeling Strategies for Enantiomers Separation by SMB Chromatography
AIChE Journal, 44, 561-569, 1998

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Pais L.,Loureiro J.,Rodrigues A.
Separation of 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol enantiomers by continuous chromatography in simulated moving bed
Chemical Engineering Science, 52, 245-257, 1997

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