INVESTIGADORES
SAUGO Melisa
artículos
Título:
Scrambled Eggs or How Eggshells Become Phosphates
Autor/es:
POTES VECINI, DIANA; JOFRÉ, SHIRLEY C.; PEREYRA RÍOS, FLORENCIA B.; SARTUQUI, JAVIER; MESSINA, PAULA; GONZÁLEZ, M. BELÉN; SAUGO, MELISA; MEIER, LORENA; DÍAZ, MÓNICA F.; CIOLINO, ANDRÉS E.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
Editorial:
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Referencias:
Lugar: Washington; Año: 2019 vol. 96 p. 1443 - 1448
ISSN:
0021-9584
Resumen:
As part of the training activities planned for the ChemicalEngineering degree, in 2016, a group of students from the Chemical EngineeringLaboratory course was challenged to face a plausible reuse of discarded eggshells.A straightforward methodology to synthesize phosphates such as calciumpyrophosphate or fluoroapatite among others was developed using commercialphosphoric acid and discarded eggshells as starting materials. Throughout thedevelopment of this activity, topics such as recycling and reuse of discardedmaterials, guided-inquiry instruction, self-learning, and soft-skills developmentwere successfully covered. The strategy proposed in this work encouragesstudents to make connections between science and life and provides an excellentlinkage between chemical research and recycling without neglecting those basicsrequired by the official curriculum.