Program committee

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Program Committee Fábio Bellot Noronha (Co-chair), Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Martin Schmal (Co-chair), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Carlos Apesteguia – INCAPE (Argentina) Xinhe Bao – Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (China) Fernando Baratelli Jr.- CENPES/Petrobras (Brazil) Carla Eponina Hori – Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (Brazil) Anders Holmen – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) Graham Hutchings – University of Wales (UK) Krijn P. de Jong – Utrecht University (The Netherlands) Lisiane Veiga Mattos – Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia (Brazil) Domenico Sanfilippo – Snamprogetti (Italy) James J. Spivey – Louisiana State University (USA)

Organizing Committee Martin Schmal (Co-chair), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Falabella Sousa-Aguiar (Co-chair), CENPES/Petrobras Lucia Gorestin Appel – Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Maria Auxiliadora Scaramelo Baldanza – NUCAT/COPPE Antonio Marcos Fonseca Bidart – CENPES/Petrobras Henrique Soares Cerqueira – CENPES/Petrobras Pedro Neto Nogueira Diógenes – CTGas Marco Andre Fraga – Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Ana Guedes – IBP Paulo Roberto Barreiros Neves – CENPES/Petrobras Fabio Barboza Passos – Universidade Federal Fluminense Ana Carlota Belizário dos Santos – CENPES/Petrobras Antonio Luiz Fernandes dos Santos – Petrobras Victor Luis Teixeira da Silva – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Valéria Vicentini – Oxiteno