Congratulations to Project ExPerlite for winning the Alfredo M. Yao Intellectual Property (AMY IP) Award 2023 under the professional category!
The project team, composed of UP ICE faculty members Karlo Daniel Colegio, Mathew Harvey Peralta, Rosabelle Louise Caram (former), UPDMMME faculty member Jan Lowell Buquiz, and researchers Jomar Christian Camposano, Clarence Guanzon, Paolo Valencia and Jesha Faye Librea, was hailed as the grand winner of the professional category for their innovation called “An Expansion Process for Perlite”.
The utility model is an expansion process focused on temperature and feeding rate which can be used to expand raw perlite sourced from the Philippines, this may be used in the production of lightweight concrete which contributes to more sustainable construction of concrete structures. The process includes the determination of the expansion settings focused on temperature and feeding rate, as well as a tool with modeled distribution of particle sizes of expanded perlite output that can be used in common spreadsheet analysis.
Project ExPerlite was conducted in partnership with Orophil Stonecraft, Inc., and funded by DOST PCIEERD.
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) conferred this year’s grand winners of AMY IP Awards 2023 during the 49th Philippine Business Conference and Exposition (49th PBC&E) last Oct. 26 at the Manila Hotel. The AMY IP Awards is a project of PCCI organized by the Intellectual Property Committee to recognize innovative, environmentally sustainable, and socially relevant inventions by Filipinos.
