Department of Chemical Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
- Heterogeneous catalysis: synthesis, characterization and activity
- Catalysts for reactions in liquid and gas phase
- Synthesis of catalysts by sol-gel, impregnation, micronization, spray-drying, ultrasound
- Process Intensification
- Ultrasound to accelerate chemical and physical processes
- Acoustic cavitation by ultrasound
- Reactivity under ultrasound
- Sonocatalysis
- Biomass conversion into fuels and chemicals
- Reaction mechanisms for the transformation of biomass
- Photocatalysis and advanced oxidation processes
- Hydrodynamic cavitation
- Microwaves
- 1801 Reaction fundamentals and reactor design
- 1805 Transport processes
- 2018 Synthesis
- 2303 Other sources of energy (solar, wind, etc.)
- 3405 Catalysis, kinetics
- 3605 Inorganic photochemistry
- 3607 Catalysis
- 3707 Kinetics, reactive intermediaries and mechanisms of reactions
Publications
Biography
Daria Boffito is currently Professor in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal. She holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry and a M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry and Management from the University of Milan.
Between 2013 and 2016 she has been a post-doctoral fellow at Polytechnique Montreal, supported by the FRQNT PBEEE and the NSERC Banting Scholarships.
She has held the Canada Research Chair in Intensified Mechano-Chemical Processes for Sustainable Biomass Conversion (2106-2021) and she is now Chairholder in Engineering Process Intesification and Catalysis (EPIC).
Her research interests cover biomass to chemical and fuels, process intensification, photocatalysis, power/gas to liquids and metal extraction from ores or end of life streams.
She collaborates with several Canadian and foreign companies.
Supervision at Polytechnique
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Ph.D. Thesis (3)
- Laajimi, H. (2022). Experimental and Numerical Investigation of an Ultrasound-Assisted Biodiesel Transesterification with Polyalcohols [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Zorainy, M. Y. M. (2022). MIL Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Post-Synthetic Modifications, and Applications [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Ma, Z. (2019). Partial Oxidation of Methane to Syngas Over Noble Metal Catalysts Supported by Fecralloy Fibre [Ph.D. thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
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Master's Thesis (5)
- Boumghar, H. (2023). Development of Bioactive Cannabis Extracts Through Optimization of Green Supercritical Fluid Process [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Rutherford Ravazzano, B. (2022). Ni Nanoparticles on Oxide Supports Catalyze the Reverse Water-Gas Shift Reaction Through Metal-Support Interaction [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Usen, N. (2021). Sonochemical Synthesis of Porous Gold Nano- and Micro-Particles in a Rosette Cell [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Khani, Z. (2019). Ultrasonic Tuning of Semiconductors' Band Gap [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Louyot, P. (2017). Synthèse de catalyseur de Fischer-Tropsch assistée par ultrasons [Master's thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal].
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