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José Maria Pires is a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering at CERENA and CQE, Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, and is currently involved in the GrAPHy project, which was funded by Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). GrAPHy aims to investigate sustainable ways of producing ammonia. He earned his M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering with a graduate specialization in Process Systems Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and developed his M.Sc. thesis, entitled “Feasibility of carbon capture in a mini-mill plant”, at Politecnico di Milano under the supervision of Prof. Laura A. Pellegrini and Prof. Henrique A. Matos. Before receiving his master’s degree, he spent six months working at Sines Refinery (Galp) following a feasibility study on the implementation of a pilot-scale moving bed biofilm reactor in the liquid effluent treatment circuit. His current research interests revolve around mathematical modeling of chemical process systems, as well as process optimization and control.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Maria Azevedo Rego Morais Pires

Citation names

  • Pires, José M.
  • Pires, José M. M.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
8418-BB6D-8E76
ORCID iD
0009-0008-4598-1574

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Chemical Engineering - Chemical Process Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/10 - 2027/09
Ongoing
 Chemical Engineering (Doutoramento)
Major in Process Systems Engineering
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Development of a Digital Twin for Advanced Process Control of a Green Haber-Bosch Process from Green Hydrogen" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2025/05 - 2025/05
Ongoing
 Process Analytics 2025 (Outros)
Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering, United Kingdom

Imperial College London Faculty of Engineering, United Kingdom
2022/04 - 2022/08
Concluded
 Visiting M.Sc. Student (Thesis Research) (Outros)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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2020/09 - 2022/09 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/10 - Current Invited Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2022/09 - 2023/02 Process Engineer EQS Global, Portugal
Galp Energia SGPS SA, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/10/01 - Current GrAPHy - Green Ammonia Production from Intermittent Sources of Hydrogen
BL222/2023-IST-ID
PhD Student Fellow
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal
European Union
Ongoing
2022/09/01 - 2022/09/30 VCCQE - VeraoComCiencia - IST-ID
BL136/2021-IST-ID
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal

Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/10/01 - 2025/12/31 GrAPHy - Green Ammonia Production from Intermittent Sources of Hydrogen
C644927397-00000038
1801P.01297
Researcher
Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal

Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
European Union
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Pires, José M.; Narciso, D.; Pinheiro, Carla I.C.. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, Carla I.C.. "Strategies for a More Resilient Green Haber-Bosch Process". Paper presented in ESCAPE 35 - European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, Gent, 2025.
    Accepted
Conference poster
  1. Pires, José M.; Narciso, D.; Pinheiro, Carla I.. "Strategies for a More Resilient Green Haber-Bosch Process". Paper presented in ESCAPE 35 - European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2025.
  2. Jesus, Bárbara; Pires, José M.; Marrucho, Isabel. Corresponding author: Marrucho, Isabel. "Exploring Eutectic Solvents based on Raspberry Ketone". Paper presented in 5th EuChemS Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Jesus, Bárbara; Pires, José M.; Marques, Hugo; Marrucho, Isabel. Corresponding author: Marrucho, Isabel. "Exploring hydrophobic eutectic solvents based on raspberry ketone". Fluid Phase Equilibria 590 (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2024.114287.
    Published • 10.1016/j.fluid.2024.114287
  2. Narciso, D.; Pires, José M.; Fortunato, João; Teixeira, Paula; Castro, Pedro M.; Pinheiro, Carla I.C.; Matos, Henrique A.. Corresponding author: Narciso, D.. "Design and operation of Power-to-Ammonia systems: A review". Energy Conversion and Management (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2025.119494.
    Published • 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.119494
  3. Pires, José M.; Pellegrini, Laura A.; Moioli, Stefania. Corresponding author: Moioli, Stefania. "First Techno-economic Assessment of a Monoethanolamine-based CO2 capture plant applied downstream the Electric Arc Furnace for Steel Production". Chemical Engineering Research and Design (2025):
    Accepted
  4. Soares, Bruna F.; Pires, José M. M.; Marrucho, Isabel; Shaplov, Alexander; Nosov, Daniil; Tyutyunov, Andrey; Lozinskaya, Elena; Antonov, Dmitrii. Corresponding author: Marrucho, Isabel. "Tunning CO2 Separation Performance of Ionic Liquids through Asymmetric Anions". Molecules 27 (2022): 413. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27020413.
    Open access • Published • 10.3390/molecules27020413
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Feasibility of CO2 capture in a mini-mill plant: a case study from the iron and steel industry". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2023. https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/K_foS6Hxve4eWqgZFrz8IiEcVwrYWV5WosyQ.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/09/01 - 2025/06/30 Member of the Local Host Committee for the 22nd International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (2025/06/23 - 2025/06/27)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09 - Current Process Synthesis and Integration Chemical Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/02 Process Control Chemical Engineering (Mestrado) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal