Department of Chemical Engineering
Reaction fundamentals and reactor design Synthesis Other sources of energy (solar, wind, etc.) Catalysis, kinetics Inorganic photochemistry Catalysis Kinetics, reactive intermediaries and mechanisms of reactions Inorganic chemistry Synthetic methodology
Energy, Water and, Resources
Environment, Economy, and Society Innovative Materials
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 (6)
- Boumghar, H. (2023). Development of Bioactive Cannabis Extracts Through Optimization of Green Supercritical Fluid Process [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Samarakone, S. (2023). The Sonochemical Extraction of Monazite Using Sulfuric Acid [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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