• Evaluation of acid stage and of hydrogen peroxide on alkaline extraction of eucalyptus kraft pulp 

  Dos Santos, Rafael; Da Silva, Luana Oliveira ; Caraschi, José Cláudio (PEERS Conference 2017: Maximizing Success Through Innovation, 2017) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  The Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) bleaching technology is very well established for kraft pulp bleaching due to its efficiency in bleaching processes, once it presents high brightness, besides low reversion. In this work ...

• Comparative energy properties of torrefied pellets in relation to pine and elephant grass pellets 

  Garcia, Dorival Pinheiro ; Caraschi, José Cláudio ; Ventorim, Gustavo ; Vieira, Fabio Henrique Antunes ; Protásio, Thiago de Paula (BioResources, 2018) [Artigo]

  Torrefaction is a thermal process that improves the energy properties of plant biomass pellets, providing greater biofuel efficiency for gasification technologies, as well as replacing coal in thermoelectric plants. In ...

• Resistance evaluation to corrosion stainless steel used in vehicle exhaust 

  PrateS, Paula Emília de Souza; Prates, Glaucia Aparecida ; Caraschi, José Claudio ; Syed, Wasim Aluísio Prates (Espacios, 2016) [Artigo]

  This study aims to assess the resistance to corrosion of stainless steels used in the manufacture of part of automotive exhaust systems, especially as regards ethanol fuel condensation in the rear silencer of light vehicles. ...

• Residual acid effect on oxygen delignification 

  Dos Santos, Rafael ; Ventorim, Gustavo ; Caraschi, José Cláudio (O Papel, 2016) [Artigo]

  This work has aimed to evaluate the effect of usage of residual acid from the chemical plant of chlorine dioxide production as a #owing part of oxidized white liquor (OWL). Delignification processes were accomplished using ...

• Biological image classification using rough-fuzzy artificial neural network 

  Affonso, Carlos ; Sassi, Renato Jose; Barreiros, Ricardo Marques (Expert Systems with Applications, 2015) [Artigo]

  This paper presents a methodology to biological image classification through a Rough-Fuzzy Artificial Neural Network (RFANN). This approach is used in order to improve the learning process by Rough Sets Theory (RS) focusing ...

• Measurement of in vitro inhibition by lactobacillus spp. Against salmonella Heidelberg 

  Domingos, I.; Vellano, I. H.B. ; Moraes, A. C.I. ; Altarugio, R. ; Filho, R.L. Andreatti ; Okamoto, A. S. (International Journal of Poultry Science, 2018) [Artigo]

  Background and Objective: Salmonella Heidelberg is considered to be a microorganism of great concern in the poultry industry, since it causes losses for farmers and is a great risk to public health. Brazil stands out ...

• Comparative study on combustion and oxy-fuel combustion environments using mixtures of coal with sugarcane bagasse and biomass sorghum bagasse by the thermogravimetric analysis 

  Galina, Natália Ribeiro; Romero Luna, Carlos M.; Arce, Gretta L.A.F.; Ávila, Ivonete (Journal of the Energy Institute, 2018) [Artigo]

  Biomass and coal have different physicochemical properties and thermal behavior. During the co-combustion of coal-biomass mixtures, their thermal behavior varies according to the percentage of each fuel in the mixture. ...

• Predisposing factors for pituitary apoplexy 

  Chang, Claudia V.; Araujo, Ricardo V.; Nunes, Vânia Dos S. ; Cirqueira, Cinthya Dos S. ; Felicio, Andre C. (Pituitary Apoplexy, 2014) [Capítulo de livro]

  Pituitary apoplexy is a rare threatening condition, still often misdiagnosed. In line with this the treating physician should be aware of pituitary apoplexy as a potential diagnoses whenever a patient seeks care with ...

• Water management for Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi seedlings in degradable containers 

  Viégas, Lucas Bertacini ; Simões, Danilo ; de Lima, Kaio Baron ; da Silva, Magali Ribeiro (Floresta e Ambiente, 2018) [Artigo]

  The research consisted of two experiments (64 and 85-day production cycles), applying three irrigation depths (8, 11 and 14 mm) to determine the most appropriate depth, using Ellepot™ degradable containers for the production ...

• Method for the construction of the Lewis-Riesenfeld time-dependent invariants and their eigenvalue equations 

  De Ponte, M. A. ; Cônsoli, P. M.; Moussa, M. H.Y. (Physical Review A, 2018) [Artigo]

  We propose here a method for the construction of the Lewis and Riesenfeld time-dependent invariants. Instead of directly invoking the equation that defines the invariant associated with a time-dependent Hamiltonian, our ...

• Effects of Mechanical Stretching on the Properties of Conjugated Polymers: Case Study for MEH-PPV and P3HT Oligomers 

  Roldao, Juan Carlos; Batagin-Neto, Augusto ; Lavarda, Francisco Carlos ; Sato, Fernando (Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 2018) [Artigo]

  Nowadays, the development of new materials for applications in flexible optoelectronic devices is one of the main frontiers of science. However, in order to improve the applicability and durability of such devices, a deeper ...

• Chemical characterization of tall oil 

  Dias, Kelly Bossardi ; Barreiros, Ricardo Marques (Periodico Tche Quimica, 2018) [Artigo]

  Tall Oil is considered one of the cheapest natural oils in the world, since it is an industrially generated by-product, not dependent on climatic and soil weather, but on the production of cellulose and kraft paper. The ...

• Preservatives for rapid growth timber - A review 

  Dias, Kelly Bossardi ; Barreiros, Ricardo Marques (Periodico Tche Quimica, 2018) [Artigo]

  The shortage of species that are resistant to biological deterioration has forced man to use less durable, mainly fast-growing, reforestations, such as some species of Eucalyptus and Pinus. These species have moderate or ...

• Influence of the diameter of nanoparticles in complexes metal-aquatic humic substances 

  Vieira, Daniele Frasson ; Furquim, Nicolas Henrique ; Botero, Wander Gustavo; De Oliveira, Luciana Camargo; Goveia, Danielle (Ecletica Quimica, 2018) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  Nanoparticles are emerging as the object of research in all fields of chemistry, their special properties are matter for concern, because a considerable portion of these materials are eliminated in the environment. A key ...

• Chemical sensors based on N-substituted polyaniline derivatives: reactivity and adsorption studies via electronic structure calculations 

  Mandú, Larissa O. ; Batagin-Neto, Augusto (Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2018) [Artigo]

  Conjugated organic polymers represent an important class of materials for varied technological applications including in active layers of chemical sensors. In this context, polyaniline (PANI) derivatives are promising ...

• Model independent constraints on transition redshift 

  Jesus, J. F. ; Holanda, R. F.L.; Pereira, S. H. (Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018) [Artigo]

  This paper aims to put constraints on the transition redshift zt, which determines the onset of cosmic acceleration, in cosmological-model independent frameworks. In order to perform our analyses, we consider a flat universe ...

• Molecular modeling of low bandgap diblock co-oligomers with π-bridges for applications in photovoltaics 

  Alves, Gabriel G.B. ; Oliveira, Eliezer F.; Batagin-Neto, Augusto ; Lavarda, Francisco C. (Computational Materials Science, 2018) [Artigo]

  Recently, the diblock co-oligomers concept, a new design method to obtain conjugated organic compounds for varied applications in photovoltaics was proposed. These materials combines the interesting properties of extended ...

• Bayesian correction of H(z) data uncertainties 

  Jesus, J. F. ; Gregório, T. M. ; Andrade-Oliveira, F. ; Valentim, R.; Matos, C. A.O. (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018) [Artigo]

  We compile 41 H(z) data from literature and use them to constrain OΛCDM and flat ΛCDM parameters. We show that the available H(z) suffers from uncertainties overestimation and propose a Bayesian method to reduce them. As ...

• Adiabatic quantum games and phase-transition-like behavior between optimal strategies 

  de Ponte, M. A. ; Santos, Alan C. (Quantum Information Processing, 2018) [Artigo]

  In this paper we propose a game of a single qubit whose strategies can be implemented adiabatically. In addition, we show how to implement the strategies of a quantum game through controlled adiabatic evolutions, where we ...

• Microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-12Mo-8Nb alloy hot swaged and treated for orthopedic applications 

  Nunes, Aline Raquel Vieira; Gabriel, Sinara Borborema; Nunes, Carlos Angelo ; Araújo, Leonardo Sales; Baldan, Renato ; Mei, Paulo; Malet, Loïc; Dille, Jean; De Almeidaa, Luiz Henrique (Materials Research, 2017) [Trabalho apresentado em evento]

  Metastable β-type Ti alloys with non-toxic addition elements such as Mo, Zr, Sn, Ta and Nb were developed as an alternative to the widely used Ti-6Al-4V alloy for biomedical applications. These alloys possess enhanced ...

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