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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF IASI, ROMANIA

Organisation type: Higher Education

Person in charge: Valentin I.Popa, Prof, PhD. Chem.Eng

Address: Bvd.Mangeron, No.71, 70050, Iasi, Romania

Phone: +40 232 278683/2513;2202: Mobile: 0741 130032

Fax: +40 2322 278628, e-mail: vipopa@ch.tuiasi.ro

Web-page: http://www.tuiasi.ro; http://omicron.ch.tuiasi.ro/~vipopa;www.vipopa.ro/

Number of employees: 140

Role in the project:  Partner

Previous EU-projects:

·         European SPONGE No G1RD-CT-1999-00130 (Program Growth)

·         EUROLIGNIN: Coordination network for lignin OE standardization and applications adapted to market requirements G1RT-CT-2002-05088

·         EPPIC: Economic Aspects; Environmental Protection; Industrial  Manufacture; Innovation, Technology Transfer;Safety:G1RT-CT-2001-05021

·         ECOBINDERS: Furan  and lignin based resins as eco-friendly and durable solutions for wood preservation, panel, board and design products  NMP2-CT-2005-011734

·         EPNOE: European Polysaccharides Network of Excellence NMP3-CT-2005-500375

·         Creativity in Higher Education, program financed by EUA

·         Different COST Actions

Relevant publications:

1.      V.I.Popa, Technologies of Lignin Upgrading, Polytechnic Institute Press, 243p, 1983

2.      G.Cazacu and V.I.Popa Lignin-based blends in Handbook of Polymer Composites, vol 4B,Eds.A.K.Kulshreshtha and C.Vasile, Rapra Technology Limited UK, p.565-614, 2003

3.      C.Agache and V.I.Popa Ab intio studies on the molecular conformation of lignin model compounds. .Conformational preferences of the phenolic hydroxyl group in guiacol, Monatsheftenfur Chemie (Chemical Monthly), Printed on line http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00706-005-0404-x, 137 (1),55-68 (2006)

4.      I.Volf, I.Toma,C.Toma, M.G.Popescu and V.I.Popa

Aromatic compounds from wood as regulating agents for grafting processes

Cellulose Chem.Technol. 40 (1-2), 13-18 (2006)

5.      A.Balas, M.Danaila, V.I.Popa and N.Anghel, On the behaviour of natural polyphenolic products as plant growth regulators, Buletinul Institutului Politehnic Iasi, Tom 50 (3-4),121-125 (2005)

6.      C.A.Teaca, N.Anghel and V.I.Popa, On chitosan-chlorolignin interaction, Cellulose Chem.Technol., 39(5-6), 573-590 (2005)

7.      A.Abaecherli and V.I.Popa, Lignin in crop cultivation and bioremediation, Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 4(3), 273-292 (2005)

8.      G.Constantinescu and V.I.Popa, Contributions to the modification of lignocellulosics by epoxidation and esterification, Cellulose Chem.Technol., 39(3-4), 201-210 (2005)

9.      C.Agache and V.I.Popa, Dipole moments of guiacol conformers. Comparison of experimental data with theoretical calculations using ab intio molecular orbital methods, Annals of West University of Timisoara, Series Chemistry, 14(1), 97-103 (2005)

10.  C.Agache and V.I.Popa, Intramolecular hydrogen bonding in guiacol.Quantum chemical investigation of geometrical parameters and bonding energy.Annals of West University of Timisoara, Series Chemistry, 14 (1) 87-96 (2005)

11.  V.I.Popa, I.Volf, N.Anghel and M.Dumitru, Lignin and polyphenols as allelochemicals, Proceedings of The 7^th ILI Forum –Barcelona, April, 27-28, 2005, p.67-70

12.   V.Dulman, M.Ungureanu, G.Nemtoi and V.I.Popa, The electrochemical behaviour of ammonium lignosulfonates solutions degraded with S₂O₈^2-/Ag⁺ and Fenton oxidative system, Cellulose Chem. Technol., 38 (5-6), 353-363, (2004)

13.  C.Ciobanu, M.Ungureanu, L.Ignat, D.Ungureanu and V.I.Popa

Properties of lignin-polyurethane films prepared by casting method, Industrial Crops and Products, 20 (2), 231-241 (2004)

Main area of research

Chemical and biochemical transformation of biomass:

·         Contributions to the settlement of phytomass stocks by studying materials resulted from different steps of industrial processing (wood bark, lignin wastes, lignocellulosics) or from special cultures (species having a high content of hydrocarbons)

·          Complex processing of phytomass with the possibilities to adaptation of it in function of existent resources and the component had in view

·         Obtaining lignin derivatives from lignocellulose resulted from furfural manufacture (nitration, reduction sulfonation, chlorination, alkaline treatment, oxyammonolysis, dye stuffs etc.)

·         Contributions to the alkaline treatment of some kinds of phytomass with the aim to improve enzymes and micro organisms accessibility to the cellulose substrate

·         Possibilities of recovering alkaline extracts and lignin through their introduction as phenolformaldehyde resin substitutes or in the synthesis of phenolformaldehyde, or epoxy- resins;

·         Separation, characterization and utilization of polyphenols from different sources as biological active compounds (plant growth regulators, antioxidants for foods and cosmetics, metabolic regulators for microorganisms, anti fungi and antimicrobial agents, wood protection chelating agents a. s o.)

·         Composites based on cellulose and lignin

·         Lignin and polyphenols in soil  bioremediation