M.Sc. Daiane Bortolote Ferreira
M.Sc. Daiane Bortolote Ferreira
Born in 1996, São Paulo, Brazil
March 2014 – December 2018
Bachelor’s Degree in Food Engenireering, Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
March 2019 – March 2021
Master’s Degree in Food Science and Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Master Thesis: Material balance of an industrial plant producing Metarhizium anisopliae spores by solid state cultivation in a packed bed bioreactor.
Since March 2021
PhD student in Food Science and Engineering, São Paulo State University (UNESP)
Scholarship CAPES-PRINT to study at Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
Simulation of drying and extraction of fungal spores in a rotating drum with OpenFoam software.
A increase in the use of biological agents for agricultural pest control, particularly entomopathogenic fungal spores, is constrained by the low industrial production capacity of these agents. Generally, the production processes for these agents are semi-artisanal and require technical improvement.
The current study will enable the optimization of the efficient extraction process developed in Brazil through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, allowing for an increase in the productivity of the Metarhizium anisopliae spore production process.
- Ferreira, D. B.; Mendes, F. B.; Thoméo, J. C. Assessment of the Techno-Economic Feasibility of Semicontinuous Production of Spores. Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 1 (2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c02461.
- Ferreira, D. B.; Santana, R. C.; Barrozo, M. A. de S.; Souza, D. L.; Vieira Neto, J. L.; Santos, K. G. dos. Simulation of packed bed with binary mixtures of particles differing in size using correlations and the Discrete Elements Method. Research, society and development, 10 (2021) p. e553101019012-13. doi: https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i10.19012.