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CEB - Centre of Biological Engineering - University of Minho		 Universidade do Minho - Escola de Engenharia
 

 

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José Carlos Gomes da Costa
Preferred Name:
José Carlos Costa
E-Mail Address:
carloscosta@deb.uminho.pt @deb.uminho.pt
Activity:
Post Doc
Project / Theme:
Evaluation of different strategies for optimization of anaerobic digestion processes
Start Date: 11/1/2009
End Date: 10/30/2012
Faculty Supervisor: Madalena Alves
Telephone: Office:605408
Laboratory: 601963
Laboratory: Laboratório de Biotecnologia Ambiental
Office: Gabinete Pós-Docs 3 DI
Birthday: January 1st
Website: http://lba.deb.uminho.pt/people.asp?id=67&t=postdoc
Access after working hours: Yes
Nationality: Portugal
Last Update: 2/21/2011

Selected Publications

1. Costa, J.C.; Barbosa, S.G.; Alves, M.M.; Sousa, D.Z.
  Thermochemical pre- and biological co-treatments to improve hydrolysis and methane production from poultry wastes.
  International IWA-Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Waste and Energy Crops (), -, 2011.
 
2. Costa, J.C.; Gonçalves, M.M.; Marques, i.P.; Alves, M.M.
  Start-up and feeding strategy of an anaerobic sequencing batch reactor for olive mill wastewater treatment.
  Water Research Conference (), -, 2010.
 
3. Gonçalves, M.M.; Costa, J.C.; Marques, I.P.; Alves, M.M.
  Anaerobic Digestion of OMW: Intermittent Feeding Strategy and LCFA Oxidation Profile.
  12th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (), 1-8, 2010.
 
4. Gonçalves, M.M.; Costa, J.C.; Marques, I.P.; Alves, M.M.
  Inoculum acclimation to oleate promotes the conversion of olive mill wastewater to methane.
  Energy 36(4), 2138-2141, 2011.
 
5. Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  A chemometric tool to monitor high-rate anaerobic granular sludge reactors during load and toxic disturbances.
  Biochemical Engineering Journal 53(1), 38-43, 2010.
 
6. Costa, J.C.; Moita, I.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Morphology and physiology of anaerobic granular sludge exposed to an organic solvent.
  Journal of Hazardous Materials 167(1-3), 393-398, 2009.
 
7. Abreu, A.A.; Danko, A.S.; Costa, J.C.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Inoculum type response to different pHs on bio-hydrogen production from L-arabinose a component of hemicellulosic biopolymers.
  International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 34(4), 1744-1751, 2009.
 
8. Costa, J.C.; Moita, I.; Abreu, A.A.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Advanced monitoring of high-rate anaerobic reactors through quantitative image analysis of granular sludge and multivariate statistical analysis.
  Biotechnology and Bioengineering 102(2), 445-456, 2009.
 
9. Costa, J.C.
  Supervision of transient anaerobic granular sludge process through quantitative image analysis and multivariate statistical techniques.
  Doutoramento em Engenharia Química e Biológica (), -, 2008.
 
10. Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  A chemometric tool to monitor high-rate anaerobic granular sludge reactors during load and toxic disturbances.
  CHEMPOR 2008: Proceedings of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference (Eugénio C. Ferreira & Manuel Mota, Eds.) (), 406-411, 2008.
 
11. Abreu, A.A.; Danko, A.S.; Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Effect of pH on fermentative hydrogen production from L-arabinose using mixed cultures.
  Proceedings of the Bioenergy: Challenges and Opportunities - International Conference and Exhibition on Bioenergy (), -, 2008.
 
12. Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  Principal component analysis and quantitative image analysis to predict effects of toxics in anaerobic granular sludge.
  Bioresource Technology 100(3), 1180-1185, 2009.
 
13. Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  Predicting effects of toxic events to anaerobic granular sludge with quantitative image analysis and principal component analysis.
  Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering: SIDISA 08 [CD-ROM] (), 1-8, 2008.
 
14. Costa, J.C.; Moita, I.; Abreu, A.A.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Use of morphological and physiological information to identify changes in anaerobic granular sludge during organic overloads.
  Livro de Actas do Congresso Micro '07 - Biotec '07 - XXIII JPG (), 151-, 2007.
 
15. Costa, J.C.; Moita, I.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Morphology and physiology of anaerobic granular sludge exposed to organic solvents.
  Proceedings of the 11th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (), -, 2007.
 
16. Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  Integration of morphological and physiological data through Principal Component Analysis to identify the effect of organic overloads on anaerobic granular sludge.
  Proceedings of the 11th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion (), -, 2007.
 
17. Costa, J.C.; Abreu, A.A.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Quantitative image analysis as a diagnostic tool for monitoring structural changes of anaerobic granular sludge during detergent shock loads.
  Biotechnology and Bioengineering 98(1), 60-68, 2007.
 
18. Abreu, A.A.; Costa, J.C.; Araya-Kroff, P.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Quantitative image analysis as a diagnostic tool for identifying structural changes during a revival process of anaerobic granular sludge.
  Water Research 41(7), 1473-1480, 2007.
 
19. Costa, J.C.; Abreu, A.A.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Effects of detergent shock loads on anaerobic granular sludge morphology and methanogenic activity.
  Book of abstracts of the International Symposium on Environmental Biotechnology (), 288-, 2006.
 
20. Pires, O.C.; Palma, C.; Costa, J.C.; Moita, I.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  Knowledge-based fuzzy system for diagnosis and control of an integrated biological wastewater treatment process.
  Water Science and Technology 53(4/5), 313-320, 2006.
 
21. Abreu, A.A.; Costa, J.C.; Araya-Kroff, P.; Ferreira, E.C.; Alves, M.M.
  Recovery of acetoclastic activity in anaerobic granular sludge, monitored by methanogenic activity measurements and image analysis.
  Micro’05-Biotec’05: Livro de Actas do Congresso MICROBIOTEC’2005 (), 272-, 2005.
 
22. Pires, O.C.; Palma, C.; Moita, I.; Costa, J.C.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  A fuzzy-logic based expert system for diagnosis and control of an integrated wastewater treatment.
  Proceedings of the 2nd Mercosur Congress on Chemical Engineering – ENPROMER and 4th Mercosur Congress on Process Systems Engineering (), 1-8, 2005.
 
23. Pires, O.C.; Palma, C.; Costa, J.C.; Moita, I.; Alves, M.M.; Ferreira, E.C.
  Knowledge-based fuzzy system for diagnosis and control of an integrated biological wastewater treatment process.
  Proceedings of the the 2nd IWA Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (), 247-255, 2005.