Rui C. Silva

Rui César Silva has a background in chemical engineering from the University of Porto and in 2016 his PhD proposal attained magna cum laude approval from the University of Coimbra, under the theme Solid-liquid suspension flow in pipes: modelling and experimental investigation where the first Portuguese electrical tomography system was successfully constructed. He worked at Hovione Farmaciência, a pharmaceutical CDMO, from 2016 until 2021, acting as technical scientific leader on several projects with topics ranging from particle engineering, hollow-fiber separations, process modelling and data science. During his tenure at this company, he was one of fastest members to achieved seniority and lead projects to commercialization, through process performance qualification, in record time. He authored several works presented at scientific conferences and served as a tutor on both Master and PhD thesis on hollow-fiber crystallization and particle size reduction technologies. Presently, he works in Process Development and Scale-up at Amyris Portugal which is focused on sugarcane by-products valorization.
Rui has co-authored 14 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and 16 oral communications in conference proceedings (orcid.org/0000-0001-5766-7859).
Recently, he is serving as an invited Guest Editor on MDPI Special Issue Settling Suspensions Flow Modelling and Simulation Process on the Processes journal.

Publications

Peer Reviewed
[2021] Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Liquid–Solid Slurry Flows in Pipelines: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives
Processes
DOI: 10.3390/pr9091566

[2020] Electrical Tomography: A Review of Configurations, and Application to Fibre Flow Suspensions Characterisation
Applied Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/app10072355

[2016] Characterization of solid–liquid settling suspensions using Electrical Impedance Tomography: A comparison between numerical, experimental and visual information
Chemical Engineering Research and Design
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2016.05.013

[2016] Validating dilute settling suspensions numerical data through MRI, UVP and EIT measurements
Flow Measurement and Instrumentation
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2016.06.003

[2015] Particle Distribution Studies in Highly Concentrated Solid-liquid Flows in Pipe Using the Mixture Model
Procedia Engineering
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.01.224

[2014] Settling Suspensions Flow Modelling: A Review
KONA Powder and Particle Journal
DOI: 10.14356/kona.2015009

[2012] Imaging Particulate Two-Phase Flow in Liquid Suspensions with Electric Impedance Tomography
Particulate Science and Technology: An International Journal
DOI: 10.1080/02726351.2011.575444

[2011] Electrical tomography: A review of configurations and applications to particulate processes
KONA Powder and Particle Journal
DOI: 10.14356/kona.2011010
 
[2009] Pore tuned activated carbons as supports for an enantioselective molecular catalyst
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2008.09.030