ResearcherID: K-6601-2012

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5506-4421

ResearchGate: Nidia_Lourenco

Lab. 505 – Chemistry Department

Ph: +351 212 948 571, Ext. 10944

Email: nidia.lourenco@fct.unl.pt

LinkedIn: nidialourenco

Education

(2003) PhD in Biotechnology - Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
(1997) MEng (Degree) in Chemical Engineering with Specialization in Biotechnology (5 years) - Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Research interests

• Environmental biotechnology
• Biological wastewater treatment with mixed microbial cultures
• Aerobic granular sludge
• Production of biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates) from industrial wastes
• Spectroscopy (UV-Vis, NIR, Raman) and chemometrics for real-time bioreactor monitoring, supervision and diagnosis

Relevant publications

Patents:

• ND Lourenço, AMT Mata, HM Pinheiro, Determinação do potencial de biodescoloração de corantes azo e da sua adsorção à biomassa, Patente de Invenção Nacional nº PT 106673 B. Issue publication: Boletim da Propriedade Industrial nº 11/2015 (13-01-2015). Priority date: 29-11-2012.

Book chapters:

• ND Lourenço, CF Almeida, JA Lopes, HM Pinheiro, Real time monitoring of a sequencing batch reactor with in-situ NIR spectroscopy, in: Environmental Science and Technology - 2012, Vol. 1, George Sorial and Jihua Hong (Eds.) (ISBN:9780976885351), American Science Press, Houston, 92-98 (2012)
• AMT Mata, ND Lourenço, HM Pinheiro, Start-up of an aerobic granular sludge non tubular reactor, in: Environmental Science and Technology - 2012, Vol. 1, George Sorial and Jihua Hong (Eds.) (ISBN:9780976885351), American Science Press, Houston, 260-264 (2012)
• HM Pinheiro, ND Lourenço, Reactores de Tratamento Aeróbico, in: Reactores Biológicos, J.A. Teixeira and M.M.R. Fonseca (coord.), LIDEL - Edições Técnicas Lda, Chapter 13, pp. 343-372 (2007)

Peer review papers:

• Franca, R. D. G., Pinheiro, H. M., van Loosdrecht, M. C. M., & Lourenço, N. D. (2018). Stability of aerobic granules during long-term bioreactor operation. Biotechnology Advances, 36(1), 228–246. DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.11.005
• Bento, J. B., Franca, R. D. G., Pinheiro, T., Alves, L. C., Pinheiro, H. M., & Lourenço, N. D. (2017). Using nuclear microscopy to characterize the interaction of textile-used silver nanoparticles with a biological wastewater treatment system. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 404, 150–154. DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2017.01.016
• Franca, R. D. G., Ortigueira, J., Pinheiro, H. M., & Lourenço, N. D. (2017). Effect of SBR feeding strategy and feed composition on the stability of aerobic granular sludge in the treatment of a simulated textile wastewater. Water Science and Technology, 76(5), 1188–1195. DOI: 10.2166/wst.2017.300
• Mata, A. M. T., Ligneul, A., Lourenço, N. D., & Pinheiro, H. M. (2017). Advanced oxidation for aromatic amine mineralization after aerobic granular sludge treatment of an azo dye containing wastewater. Desalination and Water Treatment, 91, 21345. DOI: 10.5004/dwt.2017.21345
• Brito, R. S., Pinheiro, H. M., Ferreira, F., Matos, J. S., Pinheiro, A., & Lourenço, N. D. (2016). Calibration Transfer between a Bench Scanning and a Submersible Diode Array Spectrophotometer for in Situ Wastewater Quality Monitoring in Sewer Systems. Applied Spectroscopy, 70(3), 443–454. DOI: 10.1177/0003702815626668
• Lourenço, N. D., Franca, R. D. G., Moreira, M. A., Gil, F. N., Viegas, C. A., & Pinheiro, H. M. (2015). Comparing aerobic granular sludge and flocculent sequencing batch reactor technologies for textile wastewater treatment. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 104, 57–63. DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2015.04.025
• Franca, R. D. G., Vieira, A., Mata, A. M. T., Carvalho, G. S., Pinheiro, H. M., & Lourenço, N. D. (2015). Effect of an azo dye on the performance of an aerobic granular sludge sequencing batch reactor treating a simulated textile wastewater. Water Research, 85, 327–336. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.08.043
• Mata, A. M. T., Pinheiro, H. M., & Lourenço, N. D. (2015). Effect of sequencing batch cycle strategy on the treatment of a simulated textile wastewater with aerobic granular sludge. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 104, 106–114. DOI: 10.1016/j.bej.2015.04.005
• Brito, R. S., Pinheiro, H. M., Ferreira, F., Matos, J. S., & Lourenço, N. D. (2014). In situ UV-Vis spectroscopy to estimate COD and TSS in wastewater drainage systems. Urban Water Journal. Taylor & Francis. DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2013.783087
• Lourenço, N. D., Lopes, J. A., Almeida, C. F., Sarraguça, M. C., & Pinheiro, H. M. (2012). Bioreactor monitoring with spectroscopy and chemometrics: A review. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 404(4), 1211–1237. DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-6073-9
• Lourenço, N. D., Paixão, F., Pinheiro, H. M., & Sousa, A. (2010). Use of spectra in the visible and near-mid-ultraviolet range with principal component analysis and partial least squares processing for monitoring of suspended solids in municipal wastewater treatment plants. Applied Spectroscopy, 64(9), 1061–1067. DOI: 10.1366/000370210792434332
• Lourenço, N. D., Menezes, J. C., Pinheiro, H. M., & Diniz, D. (2008). Development of PLS calibration models from UV-Vis spectra for TOC estimation at the outlet of a fuel park wastewater treatment plant. Environmental Technology, 29(8), 891–898. DOI: 10.1080/09593330802015581
• Lourenço, N. D., Chaves, C. L., Novais, J. M., Menezes, J. C., Pinheiro, H. M., & Diniz, D. (2006). UV spectra analysis for water quality monitoring in a fuel park wastewater treatment plant. Chemosphere, 65(5), 786–791. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.03.041