Benilde Simões Mendes

Associated Professor with Agregação

Associate Professor, DCTB - Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologia da Biomassa (ex-GDEH)
Researcher, MEtRICS - Centro de Engenharia Mecânica e Sustentabilidade de Recursos

Former affiliations

Researcher, UBIA - Unidade de Biotecnologia Ambiental
Assistant, DCTB - Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologia da Biomassa (ex-GDEH)

Emailbm@fct.unl.pt

2829-51 Caparica
Portugal

1290 Citations
22 h-Index

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Personal profile

Research interests

Biomass; Bioenergy; Food Quality

Education/Academic qualification

Agregação Environmental Section, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)

Environmental Sciences, Doctorate, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT)

Keywords

Q Science (General)
Biomass
Bioenergy
Water Quality
Food Quality

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Research Output at NOVA 1987 2019

1290 Citations
22 h-Index
76 Conference contribution
50 Article
39 Other contribution
8 Chapter
12 More

1 Citation (Scopus)

Production of high calorific value biochars by low temperature pyrolysis of lipid wastes and lignocellulosic biomass

Durão, L., Gonçalves, M., Nobre, C., Alves, O., Brito, P. & Mendes, B., 1 Jan 2019, Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship. Veiga, G., Machado, J. & Soares, F. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 655-661 7 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 505).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Calorific value

Lipids

Biomass

Pyrolysis

Sawdust

1 Citation (Scopus)

Upgrading of refuse derived fuel through torrefaction and carbonization: Evaluation of RDF char fuel properties

Nobre, C., Vilarinho, C., Alves, O., Mendes, B. & Gonçalves, M., 15 Aug 2019, In : Energy. 181, p. 66-76 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Refuse derived fuels

Carbonization

Heating

Energy efficiency

Calorific value

Gasification of pellets produced from blends of biomass wastes and refuse derived fuel char

Nobre, C., Gonçalves, M., Longo, A., Vilarinho, C. & Mendes, B., 1 Jan 2018, ECOS 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems. UMDGEO - Department of Geography of University of Minho

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Refuse derived fuels

Gasification

Biomass

Ashes

biomass

Production of low-cost adsorbents by torrefaction of biomass wastes from Arundo donax L. and Phoenix canariensis

Correia, R., Nobre, C., Gonçalves, M. & Mendes, B., 2018, ECOS 2018 - Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems. UMDGEO - Department of Geography of University of Minho

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Adsorbents

dye

Biomass

Dyes

biomass

Pyrolysis of lipid wastes under different atmospheres: vacuum, nitrogen and methane

Durão, L., Gonçalves, M. M. B. P., Oliveira, A., Nobre, C., Mendes, B., Kolaitis, T. & Tsoutsos, T., 1 Jan 2018, WASTES - Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities II - Selected papers from the 4th edition of the International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2017. de Lurdes Lopes, M., Vilarinho, C. & Castro, F. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, p. 425-430 6 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

pyrolysis

methane

lipid

atmosphere

oil