IFTS will attend the 13th World Filtration Congress that will take place in April 20-24, 2020 in San Diego (California, USA), where they will present the work “Liquid-Liquid Porometry, Evapoporometry and Pore Network Simulations of Ultrafiltration Membranes”.

Several members of the PEMFC_SUDOE project attended the 3rd International Congress of Chemical Engineering – 1st Iberoamerican congress of Chemical Engineering - ANQUE – ICCE 3 – CIBIQ, celebrated in Santander last. María José Rivero, Juan Corredor and María Yáñez, on behalf of the University of Cantabria, presented the works: “Comparative Performance of TiO2-rGO Composites on the Photocatalytic Degradation of Halogenated Organic Compounds”; “Composite Nafion membranes with supported reduced graphene oxide rGO/TiO2 photocatalysts”; and “High-purity hydrogen production by PSA technology from ammonia purge”, respectively.
On behalf of the UPorto, Tiago Lagarteira and Adélio Mendes presented the works “Production of hydrogen from MSR using CuPd/ZrO2 catalysts – influence of the catalytic surface on methanol conversion and CO selectivity.” and “Membrane and adsorption based hydrogen purification processes for PEMFC applications”, respectively, while Pierre Carrere, on behalf of INPT presented the work “On the impact of the anode operating conditions on the liquid water distribution in the cathode gas diffusion layer of a PEM fuel cell.” Moreover, from LNEG, Alexandra Esteves presented the work “Deactivation and regeneration of Pt-Titania-reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites as catalysts in the photochemical generation of Hydrogen” and Prof. Carmen Rangel, presented the work “New modified Nafion-biphosphonic acid composite membranes for enhanced proton conductivity and PEMFC performance”, developed by F. C. Teixeira, A. I. De Sá, A. P. S. Teixeira, F.M. Ortiz-Martínez, A. Ortiz, I. Ortiz and C. M. Rangel, and received the award to the Best Poster for this work.
Apria Systems also participated in the congress as a comercial exhibitor, where showed to the audience the two transport prototypes developed by them in the frame of the PEMFC_SUDOE project, the H2 bike and the radiocontrol truck.

María Yáñez, PhD. student of the University of Cantabria, attended the 29th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering – ESCAPE-29, celebrated in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) last June 16-19, 2019, where she presented the work developed in the frame of the PEMFC-SUDOE project, entitled: "The use of optimizacion tools in the hydrogen circular economy".

Bruno Ameduri, from CNRS attended the 102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition – CCCE2019, celebrated in Quebec (Canada) from June 3 to 7, 2019. Specifically, Bruno participated in the technical session “Macromolecular Science and Engineering” in the Symposium in Honor of Robert Prud'homme.

Bruno Amerduri, from CNRS, has recently participated in the symposium “The future of Polymer Chemistry”, celebrated in Korea. During the symposium, celebrated on May 21st, 2019, they presented the work “A Journey from the Synthesis of Functional 2-Trifluoromethacrylate Monomers to their Radical Copolymerizations with Vinylidene Fluoride, and Applications”.

IFTS will attend the 9th International Water Association (IWA) Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition for Water and Wastewater Treatment and Reuse, that is taking place in Toulouse (France) next June 23-27, 2019. In the congress they will present the work “Experimental analysis of Fluid-Fluid Porometry, Evapoporometry and Pore Network Simulations“.

Marc Prat and Pierre Carrere, from INPT (Toulouse, France) attended the 11th Annual Meeting of InterPore, that was held in Valencia (Spain), last May 6-10, 2019, where they presented the work “The various scenarios of liquid water formation in the cathode gas diffusion layer of PEM Fuel Cells", developed in the frame of the project Energetic Sustainability at the SUDOE region: PEMFC_SUDOE Network.

Alfredo Ortiz, coordinator of the project “Energetic Sustainability at the SUDOE Region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network”  attended the Engineering with membranes conference – EWM 2019, that was held in Båstad, Sweden on April 8-10, 2019, where he presented the work entitled “Novel proton conductive membranes based on poly([HSO3-BVIm][TfO]-co-MMA) and poly([HSO3- BVIm][TfO]-co-hPFSVE) for fuel cell applications”.

Alfredo Ortiz, as coordinator of the european project “Energetic sustainability at the SUDOE Region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network” attended the 10th International Conference on Hydrogen Technologies – Hydrogen Days 2019, that was held in Prague, Czech Republic on March 27-29, 2019, where he presented the work “Recovery of industrial waste hydroben by membrane technology”.

Tiago Lagarteira, from the University of Porto and Pierre Carrere, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, attended the 8th International Conference on Fundamentals and Development of Fuel Cells – FDFC 2019, celebrated in Nantes (France) from February 12 to 14, 2019. In the congress, Tiago Lagarteira delivered the conference “Nature of the high stability of Graphene-supported catalysts upong accelerated stress tests for fuel cells: electrochemical and physicochemical evidences”. This work has been developed by researchers of LEPABE (Laboratory for process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal) in collaboration with researchers of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria (Spain), in the frame of the european project Energy sustainability at the SUDOE Region: Red PEMFC-SUDOE. Moreover, Pierre Carrere presented the work “Liquid water formation in cathode gas diffusion layers of PEMFC: the three scenarios”, developed by Pierre Carrere and Marc Prat.

ARIEMA participated in the Innovation Galery organized by Genera 2018 and celebrate in IFEMA, in Madrid last June 13-15, 2018, where they presented the project “Energy Sustainability at the SUDOE Region: PEMFC-SUDOE Network.

The work “Formation de l’eau liquide dans les couches de diffusion des piles à combustible de type PEMFC” developed by Piérre Carrere and Marc Prat, in the frame of the PEMFC_SUDOE Project was presented in the SFT Conference, 26eme congrès français de thermique, that took place in May 2018 in Pau, France

UPorto participated in the 13th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference 2018 – Chempor 2018 that was held in Aveiro (Portugal) from October 2nd to 4th, 2019. Rui Ferreira, on behalf of UPorto team, presented the work “Numerical simultanions of the membrane chemical degration in a PEM fuel cell”.

Dr. María José Rivero, researcher of the PEMFC-SUDOE project of the University of Cantabria team, attended the 10th European meeting on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Environmental Applications (SPEA10), that took place in Almería (Spain), from June 4th to 8th, 2018, where she presented 2 contributions:

• P. Ribao, M.A. Esteves, V.R. Fernandes, M.J. Rivero, C.M. Rangel, I. Ortiz. Exploring crude glycerol as feedstock in the development of a realistic hydrogen production process, developed in collaboration with the National Laboratory for Energy and Geology – LNEG.
• J. Martínez, M.J. Rivero, I. Ortiz. TiO2/rGO composites for photocatalytic hydrogen production from metanol.

Dr. María José Rivero, researcher of the PEMFC-SUDOE project of the University of Cantabria team, attended the V National Meeting of Photocatalysis Groups and 2018 Joint UK&Ireland/Spain Semiconductor Photochemistry Meeting, celebrated in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on September 10-12th, 2018. During the events María José presented the work: M.J. Rivero, R. Ibáñez, A. Urtiaga, I. Ortiz. Challenges and developments in water treatments

Dr. Alfredo Ortiz attended the congress Euromembrane 2018, that was held in Valencia (Spain) on July 9-13, 2018, where he presented the last outcomes of PEMFC-SUDOE project “Innovative membranes based on polymerizable ionic liquid and its copolymers for fuel cell applications”.

Apria Systems attended the Euromembrane 2018, celebrated in Valencia from July 9 to 13, 2018 where they contributed to the PEMFC-SUDOE dissemination activities by delivering our brochure and promotional material to the audience.

Bruno Ameduri, from the French National Center for Scientific Resarch (CNRS), attended the Fluoropolymer 2018 that took place in Denver (USA), on June 24-27, 2018. During the conference, a session was devoted to fuel cell membranes. Bruno participated as chairman and he also presented the work “Recent Advances on Controlled Radical Polymerization of Fluoroalkenes and Architectures Therefrom” and “Alkyl and Fluoroalkyl Manganese Pentacarbonyl Complexes as Models of OMRP Dormant Species”.

Alfredo Ortiz and Daniel Gorri attended the 22nd World Hydrogen Energy Conference (WHEC2018), celebrated in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) last June 17-22, 2018, where they presented the works “Contribution of upcycling surplus hydrogen to design a sustainable supply chain: The case study of Northern Spain”.

Two contributions of project partners from have been accepted to participate in the European Conference on Fluid-Particle Separation – FPS 2018, that will be held in Lyon (France) next October, 2018. R. Peinador, I. Haffar and R. Ben Aim, researchers from the Institut de la Filtration et des Techniques Séparatives (IFTS, France) will present their work “Influence of swelling and pressure compaction on polymeric UF membrane by liquid liquid displacement porometry. An experimental study”. Marc Prat, researcher of the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT, France) in collaboration with R. Peinador (IFTS, France) will present their work “Fluid-fluid porometr, pore network simulation”.

René Peinador, from the Institut de la Filtration et des Techniques Séparatives (IFTS, France) within Marc Prat, from the Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse (INPT, France) have prepared a contribution to participate in the congress French Interpore Conference on Pororus Media – JEMP 2018. The congress will take place next October 8-10, 2018 in Nantes (France). The work that they will present in the congress is entitled “Analysis of fluid-fluid porometry from pore network simulations”.

On March 14-16, 2018 the European Hydrogen Energy Conference – EHEC 2018, the Europe's conference of reference in the field of hydrogen energy, was celebrated in Málaga (Spain). The conference consisted of plenary sessions on the most relevant aspects of technology worldwide and topical technical sessions of oral presentations and posters.
Some of the PEMFC-SUDOE partners attended the EHEC where they presented their main project results. Alfredo Ortiz and María Yáñez, members of the University of Cantabria team presented the lectures “Innovative ionic liquids co-polymers as membrane electrolytes for fuel cell applications” and “Surplus hydrogen reuse using decision-making techniques in northern Spain “, respectively. A. Martínez, E. Montero, D. Solera and M.Rodríguez, on behalf of ARIEMA, presented their work “Present and future markets for hydrogen technology in SUDOE region”.

Rober Ben Aim and René Peinador, from IFTS (France), attended the Francofilt 2017 celebrated in Bordeaux (France) from 29 to 31 August 2017, where they presented the work “Utilisation de la porosimétrie bi-liquide pour carcteériser les membranes MF/UF et étudier les phénomènes capillaires et de mouillage des membranes de piles à combustible”.

Rui B. Ferreira, D.S. Falcão, V.B. Oliveira, A.M.F.R. Pinto, researchers of the Universidad do Porto presented their progresses in the PEMFC-SUDOE project in two congresses. The work “A 1D + 3D Numerical Model of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell”, was presented at 11th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference, celebrated in Seville (Spain) in September 2016.
In June 2017, the scientific work “Effects of surfaces wettability on the two-phase flow in the cathode gas channels of a PEM fuel cell”, was presented as a poster contribution at Hyceltec 2017 - VI Symposium on Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries, celebrated in Porto (Portugal).

Ariema contributed to the diffusion of the PEMFC SUDOE project with their participation in the 13º Congreso Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CONAMA 2016), celebrated in November 2016 in Madrid, where they presented the poster “Sostenibilidad Energética en la región SUDOE: Red PEMFC-SUDOE”.