Bioenergy

Education objectives

The growing demand for energy, with the simultaneous increasing scarcity of certain non-renewable fossil fuels and environmental concerns resulting from burning, have led to a progressively increasing goal setting of energy production from renewable sources by countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol. Thus, the demand for renewable energy sources and the expanding, in number of installed capacity of renewable energy generation plants, have involved very significant investments in the EU and at also at National level.

In this context, energy production from biomass (forestry and dedicated) and waste have been playing an important role at the level of regional, national and European economies, namely the production of solid biofuels from forest biomass or biomass dedicated, liquid fuels from biomass and waste and gaseous biofuels from biomass and waste, as well as the technologies of its heat recovery which has taken, in recent years, a key role in the production of steam and electricity in several European countries.

It is expected that investments in the bioenergy sector will continue to grow in the coming years, whether at European level or at national level. The interdisciplinary nature of the PhD ensures the acquisition of a high-level academic training in the systematic understanding of the scientific area of Energy and Bioenergy:

  • Capacity to identify, analyze and evaluate issues related to energy production from biomass and waste;

  • Ability to devise answers, to program and implement innovative solutions for the use of recoverable energy products, based on the development of focused research;

  • Ability to design, develop and implement appropriate methodologies for forest materials valuation, development of biological cycles, consequences of its activities and the occurrence of risk situations;

  • Ability to propose answers, plan and implement innovative solutions in processes standardization and products certification, production systems and processing of recyclable materials from the energy point of view;

  • Ability to design, develop and implement appropriate methodologies for improving biomass energy recovery technologies;

  • Ability to design, develop and implement methodologies to assess the qualitative aspects of energy production and distribution processes, obtained from biomass and energy-recoverable waste, as part of an environmental and forest policy;

  • Ability to develop, integrate and disseminate the acquired knowledge and new concepts in academic and / or professional context and by promoting technological progress, social or cultural.

Career opportunities

  1. Researchers training and highly qualified professionals in research settings or at the level of technical and industrial applications.

  2. Enabled to design and develop research and development activities, and in identifying business opportunities and development projects.

  3. Qualified for the provision of consultancy services and industries and services market intervention, energy production and management from biomass and waste.

  4. Able to integrate international teams of recognized merit in the public and private sector, at national, European and global levels.

General characterization

DGES code

937

Cicle

PhD (3rd Cycle)

Degree

Doutor

Access to other programs

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Coordinator

Ana Luísa Almaça da Cruz Fernando

Opening date

September

Vacancies

10

Fees

Portuguese students: 2 750 Euros/ year

Foreign students: 2 750 Euros/ year

Schedule

Tutorial

Teaching language

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Degree pre-requisites

Duration: 5 years

Credits: 300 ECTS

Scientific Area Acronym ECTS
Mandatory Optional
Energy and Bioenergy EB  153  6
Renew able Energies or Energy and Bioenergy  EA / EB  0 6
Any other area  QAC  0 15
TOTAL 153 27

Conditions of admittance

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Evaluation rules

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Structure

1.º Semester
Code Name ECTS
9564 Research Methodologies on Energy and Bioenergy 3.0
11610 Thesis Project on Bioenergy I 12.0
1.º Semester - Opção Condicionada 1
Code Name ECTS
Options
7457 Alternative Energy 6.0
12266 Alternative Energy 6.0
9620 Biomass Production for Energy 6.0
1.º Semester - Opção Livre 1
Code Name ECTS
Options
12245 Option Free 1 6.0
12246 Option Free 2 3.0
12247 Option Free 3 6.0
1.º Semester - Opção Livre 2
Code Name ECTS
Options
12245 Option Free 1 6.0
12246 Option Free 2 3.0
12247 Option Free 3 6.0
2.º Semester
Code Name ECTS
11611 Thesis Project on Bioenergy II 15.0
9568 Research Seminary on Energy and Bioenergy 3.0
2.º Semester - Opção Condicionada 2
Code Name ECTS
Options
9621 Energy and Environmental Sustainability 6.0
9622 Process of Energy Production 6.0
2.º Semester - Opção Livre 3
Code Name ECTS
Options
12245 Option Free 1 6.0
12246 Option Free 2 3.0
12247 Option Free 3 6.0
3.º Year
Code Name ECTS
11609 Thesis on Bioenergy 120.0