PERSONAL INFORMATION

  • Wanderley Pereira de Oliveira
  • Rua Bernardino de Campos 1125, Ap. 72 - Edif. Miramar
  • Higienópolis
  • CEP 14015-130
  • Ribeirão Preto - SP - Brazil
  • Telephone :+55 16 602-4185
  • FAX: +55 16 602-4158

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

       Academic Education

  • DSc (1996) Chemical Engineering - Development of Chemical Process. "Study of Drying of Pastelike Material by Conical Spouted Bed". Universidade Federal de São Carlos; São Carlos, SP.

  • MSc (1992) Chemical Engineering- "Particle Coating by Spouted Bed". Universidade Federal de São Carlos; São Carlos, SP.

  • BSc (1989) Graduation in Chemical Engineering. Universidade Federal de São Carlos; São Carlos.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

  • Prof. Dr. of Industrial Physics I and II. - University of São Paulo (USP) - Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto - SP, Brazil.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Study of Agglomeration Process - Research in this area is focused on developments in agglomeration process, such as particle coating, granulation and microencapsulation of pharmaceuticals.

  • Development and Chemical Evaluation of Bioactive Component of Endemic Brazilian Medicinal Plants - Research in this area is focused on the development of new extraction and drying processes of materials from endemic plants, with a view of presenting the extracts as new powder forms which contains the same physical and chemical properties as the crude extract.

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Oliveira W P, Freire J T and Coury J R (1997). Analysis of particle coating by spouted bed process, international. J Pharmaceutics 158 1-9.

  • Oliveira W P, Freire J T and Massarani G (1998). Analogy between heat and mass transfer on three spouted bed zones during drying of liquid materials. Drying Technol 16 1939-1955.

  • Oliveira W P, Publio M C P and Silva G D (1998). Effect of tablet mass increase and feed of atomizing air on fluid dynamic parameters of a spouted bed coater. In Actas del VII Congresso Latino-Americano de Transferência de Calor y Materia, Salta, Argentina, pp. 276-280, 1998.

  • Oliveira, W P, Freire, J T - Analysis of evaporation rate in the spouted bed zones during drying of liquid materials using a three region model, Drying'96 - Proc. of the 10th Int. Drying Symp. (IDS'96), (STRUMILLO, C. & PAKOWSKI, Z., ed.), Krakow, Poland, v. A, p. 504-512, 1996.

  • Oliveira, W.P., Freire, J.T. - Study of Drying of Pastelike Materials in Spouted Beds: In: Freire, J.T., Silveira, A.M., Special Topics on Particulate Systems, Ed. UFSCar, Chap. 3, pp. 79-118, 1998 (In Portuguesse).

  • Freire, J.T., Oliveira, W.P. - Technological Aspects of Particle Coating Processes: In: Freire, J. T., Sartori, D. J. M. - Special Topics on Drying Ed. UFSCar, Chap. 7, p. 253-293, 1992 (in Portuguese).

INTERESTING LINKS

  • - São Paulo University
  • - Foundation for Research Support of São Paulo State
  •  - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
  •  - Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto
  •  - Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar