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Antonio J. A. Meirelles

Antonio J. A. Meirelles

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
10182
World Ranking
11740
National Ranking
83

Overview

Antonio J. A. Meirelles is affiliated with the State University of Campinas in Brazil and focuses primarily on research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Engineering. Their scholarly output spans 46 publications in each of these main fields, reflecting interdisciplinary expertise.

Their subfields of study include Food Science, Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology. These diverse areas support research that bridges biological processes and engineering principles in food and related systems.

Key topics explored in their body of work include:

  • Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis
  • Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
  • Biodiesel Production and Applications
  • Process Optimization and Integration
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Proteins in Food Systems
  • Ionic liquids properties and applications

Meirelles has published frequently in several scientific venues, highlighting a consistent presence in journals relevant to food science and chemical engineering:

  • Food Research International (8 publications)
  • Fluid Phase Equilibria (6 publications)
  • Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification (3 publications)
  • The Journal of Supercritical Fluids (3 publications)
  • Industrial Crops and Products (3 publications)

Recent papers by Meirelles demonstrate ongoing investigation into the extraction, digestion, and biochemical assessment of lipids and solvents, such as:

  • "Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents as sustainable alternatives for efficient extraction of phenolic compounds from mate leaves", 2022, Food Research International
  • "Soybean oil extraction with ethanol from multiple-batch assays to reproduce a continuous, countercurrent, and multistage equipment", 2021, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification
  • "Phospholipase cocktail: A new degumming technique for crude soybean oil", 2022, LWT
  • "Subacute toxicity assessment of biobased ionic liquids in rats", 2020, Food Research International
  • "Evaluating the in vitro digestion of lipids rich in medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) using dynamic and static protocols", 2022, Food Chemistry

The scientist collaborates regularly with a network of co-authors, with the most frequent being:

  • Guilherme J. Máximo
  • Eduardo Augusto Caldas Batista
  • Klicia Araújo Sampaio
  • Ariel A.C. Toledo Hijo
  • Marcela C. Ferreira

Best Publications

  • Supercritical fluid extraction of grape seed: Process scale-up, extract chemical composition and economic evaluation

    Juliana M. Prado;Irede Dalmolin;Natália D.D. Carareto;Rodrigo C. Basso

  • Applications of Ionic Liquids in the Food and Bioproducts Industries

    Ariel A. C. Toledo Hijo;Guilherme J. Maximo;Mariana C. Costa;Eduardo A. C. Batista

  • Ethanol dehydration by extractive distillation

    Antonio Meirelles;Siegfried Weiss;Herbert Herfurth

  • Densities and Viscosities of Vegetable Oils of Nutritional Value

    Roberta Ceriani;Fernanda R. Paiva;Cintia B. Gonçalves;Eduardo A. C. Batista

  • Viscosities of fatty acids, triglycerides, and their binary mixtures

    Daniella Valeri;Antonio J. A. Meirelles

  • Solid−Liquid Equilibrium of Binary Fatty Acid Mixtures

    Mariana C. Costa;Marlus P. Rolemberg;Laslo A. D. Boros;Maria A. Krähenbühl

  • Liquid−Liquid Equilibrium for Systems of Canola Oil, Oleic Acid, and Short-Chain Alcohols

    Eduardo Batista;Sandra Monnerat;Kênia Kato;Luiz Stragevitch

  • Adsorption of carotenes and phosphorus from palm oil onto acid activated bleaching earth: Equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamics

    Simone Monteiro e Silva;Simone Monteiro e Silva;Klicia Araujo Sampaio;Roberta Ceriani;Roland Verhé

  • Water activity in poly(ethylene glycol) aqueous solutions

    L Ninni;M.S Camargo;A.J.A Meirelles

  • Predicting vapor–liquid equilibria of fatty systems

    Roberta Ceriani;Antonio J.A. Meirelles

  • Macrodynamics of debt regimes, financial instability and growth.

    Gilberto Tadeu Lima;Antonio J. A. Meirelles

  • Characterization of Oil Extracted from Buriti Fruit (Mauritia flexuosa) Grown in the Brazilian Amazon Region

    Simone M. Silva;Klicia A. Sampaio;Thiago Taham;Silvana A. Rocco

  • Alternative sources of oils and fats from Amazonian plants: Fatty acids, methyl tocols, total carotenoids and chemical composition.

    Josilene Lima Serra;Antônio Manoel da Cruz Rodrigues;Rilton Alves de Freitas;Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles

  • Surface tension of fatty acids and triglycerides

    Lucy D. A. Chumpitaz;Lilian F. Coutinho;Antonio J. A. Meirelles

  • Prediction of heat capacities and heats of vaporization of organic liquids by group contribution methods

    Roberta Ceriani;Roberta Ceriani;Rafiqul Gani;Antonio J.A. Meirelles

  • Prediction of cloud points of biodiesel

    J. Lopes;L. Boros;M.A. Krahenbuhl;Antonio Meirelles

  • Liquid-liquid equilibrium data for the system palm oil+ fatty acids+ ethanol+ water at 318.2 K

    Cintia B. Gonçalves;Antonio J.A. Meirelles

  • Effect of type of bleaching earth on the final color of refined palm oil

    Simone Monteiro e Silva;Klicia Araujo Sampaio;Roberta Ceriani;Roland Verhé

  • Study of the Fusel Oil Distillation Process

    Marcela C. Ferreira;Antonio J. A. Meirelles;Eduardo A. C. Batista

  • Group Contribution Model for Predicting Viscosity of Fatty Compounds

    Roberta Ceriani;Cintia B. Gonçalves;Juliana Rabelo;Marcel Caruso

Frequent Co-Authors

João A. P. Coutinho
João A. P. Coutinho University of Aveiro
Mariana B. Oliveira
Mariana B. Oliveira University of Aveiro
Christian V. Stevens
Christian V. Stevens Ghent University
Jürgen Gmehling
Jürgen Gmehling Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Rafiqul Gani
Rafiqul Gani Széchenyi István University
Rosiane Lopes da Cunha
Rosiane Lopes da Cunha State University of Campinas
Ronei J. Poppi
Ronei J. Poppi State University of Campinas
Roland Verhé
Roland Verhé Ghent University
Rubens Maciel Filho
Rubens Maciel Filho State University of Campinas

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