Remolo Ciola, Italian-born Brazilian industrial chemist (Roncegno, Trento Province, Italy 17 June 1923 – São Paulo 28 July 2010)

Specialist in chromatography

Published some 150 technical and scientific papers

ACHIEVEMENTS

Developed new catalyzers  and improved chromatographs

Designed catalytic processes and analytical instrumentation 

Proposed a new method for estimating equilibrium constants for reactions

Developed a new catalyst for propylene oxidation

Developed thermodynamical method for predicting chemical behavior of many substances

La prediction des reactions chimiques à l’aide de la thermodynamique. Ind. Eng. Chem. 49(10):1789-92, 1957

Eine quantitative bestimmungsmethode der flüchtigen aldehyde in gasen und dämpfen. Experientia 13:206, 1957 

A new derivatization technique for sugar analysis (1987)

Uma nova sistemática para análise de gases dissolvidos em óleos isolantes de transformador 

PATENTS (some 22)

With K.H. Dolberhau Brazilian Patent PI 7702 (1978)

Dispositivo automático aplicado como alimentador de animais de pequeno porte PI 0201255-3 (2002)

HONORS 

Biography in Chromatography – A Century of Discovery – 1900-2000, authored by C.W. Gehrke, R L. Wixom and E. Bayer, Elsevier, 2002.

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bestimmung von flüchtigen Aldehyden in Gasen und Dämpfen. Fresenius’ Zeitschrift fur Analytische Chemie. 159-60:360, 1957.

Predicting chemical reactions by thermodynamics. Journal of Appl. Chem. 8:329, 1958.

With H. Djordjevic, G.A. Bourdon & A. Prantera. Kinetics of catalytic hydrolisis of ophthalates. An. Quim. 22:1027, 1971. 

With Celso R. Blatt. Analysis of vetiver essential oil by supercritical fluid extraction and online capillary gas chromatography. Journal of High Resolution Chromatography. 14(11):775-77, 1991. 

With R.B. Marino. Supercritical fluid extraction over view of jojoba wax, Pecan and Brazil nut oil. Ciencia e Tecnologia de Alimentos 14(Suppl):178-85, 1994.