Roberto Giordano is Full Senior Professor of the Chemical Engineering Department of the Federal University of São Carlos, where he works ever since 1980. His PhD in Chemical Engineering was at the Polytechnic School of the São Paulo University (USP), and he was postdoctoral fellow at MIT, working with Biochemical Engineering. His research activities focus on the development, optimization, control and techno-economic-environmental analysis of bioprocesses. He is interested in several industrial biotechnology processes, for production of: biofuels (with emphasis on bioethanol and biodiesel); human and animal vaccines; hydrolysates from residues of dairy and soybean industries; antibiotics via green chemistry and enzymes for industrial application. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Environmental concerns and the risk of energy shortages are driving the transition to an economy based on renewable resources. Such a development, founded on the concept of biorefinery, aims to develop products and processes based on renewable raw materials and bioenergy. In Brazil, the most obvious example of this evolution is the sugarcane mills. Other sectors of the agribusiness have p…
This proposal intends to face technological challenges put forth by a new conception of integrated biorefinery, taking advantage of synergies between the production processes of the two most important biofuels in the Brazilian context: 1st and 2nd generation bioethanol from sugarcane, and biodiesel from vegetable oils and of microbial origin. With this purpose, researchers with large expe…
In the last few years, several R&D institutes, as well as private sector initiatives, have focused on the development of technological solutions aiming to increase the efficiency and sustainability (economic, environmental and social) of the production process of sugar, ethanol and bioelectricity from sugarcane. Moreover, it is clear that understanding and optimizing the 1st Generatio…
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Lignocellulosic biomass has been considered as an alternative source of energy in view of the growing concern with the development of more sustainable production processes. Thus, new technologies are being developed for the use of these agro-industrial residues as a fermentative substrate to produce compounds with high added value. From the pre-treated lignocellulosic biomass, sugars like…
In Nature, lipases catalyze the hydrolysis of ester linkages. However, by the principle of micro-reversibility, the reverse reaction also occurs at the molecular level. Therefore, these enzymes are industrially used as hydrolases in macro-aqueous systems and as synthetases in organic medium (with restricted water content). These two processes can be combined sequentially in interesterific…
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Lignin is a highly complex branched biopolymer of phenolic nature. During lignocellulose pretreatments it was proposed that lignin flows and coalesces to form redeposit structures which act as physical barrier for enzymatic hydrolysis action. Though it was identified that lignin may adsorb enzymes it is not clear if the inactivation mechanism is reversible on lignin surfaces and how is th…
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