Alexandra Elena Plesu Popescu

Professora agregada

Scopus Author ID: 32667477200

Researcher ID: L-1344-2014

Àrea de coneixement : Enginyeria Química

Dr. Alexandra Plesu is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Barcelona. Born in Bucharest (Romania) in 1980, she studied Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (2004) and developed her Master thesis in the Use of Computers in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (2005). The PhD thesis was carried out jointly between the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) and the University of Barcelona (directors: Prof Grigore Bozga - UPB, Prof José Costa López and Prof Joan Llorens - UB), obtaining a PhD degree from both universities in 2012.

She is Guest Editor for a Special Issue (Journal of Cleaner Production) of PRES'21 dedicated to "Sustainable Cleaner Production through Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation". She is active member in the International Scientific Committees such as for: PRES (Conference Process Integration, Modelling and Optimization for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction) since 2013, ESCAPE26 (European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) in 2015 and 2016, SDEWES21 (Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems) since 2020. Member of the Editorial Board of Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy and Chemical Engineering Transactions journals. In addition, she performed more than 150 reviews of articles from major journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, etc.

She has more than 79 international peer-reviewed publications, presented at many international and national conferences, most of them belonging to computer-aided chemical engineering research field. Supervised more than 41 MSc and currently supervises 2 PhD thesis. Participated in 12 research projects, acting as project manager in one of them, and participated in several technology transfer studies to the industry and forensic chemistry issues. The expertise is focusing on Process Integration, process simulation, process synthesis and design, biofuels, energy saving, carbon footprint, developing a methodology of Circular Economy concept based on Exergy Footprint. Since 2016 she got interested in the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation to Chemical Engineering applications. Currently she joined the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the Universitat de Barcelona (IQTCUB), focusing on CFD as a reliable tool for scaling up from basic research to commercial applications and study the main unit operations for chemical industry to meet society needs. Moreover, other CFD-based applications subject of her research are the adsorption of micropollutants onto porous materials, dispersion of pollutants, particulate matter and gases into the atmosphere, among others.

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Grup de Recerca: Computational Materials Science Laboratory (CMSL) / Laboratori de Ciència de Materials Computacional

Informació de contacte
Departament d'Enginyeria Química i Química Analítica
C/ Martí i Franqùes 1, 6a Planta
639939794
a_plesu(a)ub.edu

Formació acadèmica

Ingeniero Químico . Universidad Politehnica de Bucarest . 01/07/2004 . (Diplomatura / Llicenciatura / Grau)

Doctora en Ingenieria Quimica . Universidad Politehnica de Bucarest . 07/2012 . (Doctorat )

Doctora en Ingenieria Quimica . Universidad de Barcelona . 07/2012 . (Doctorat )

Utilizacion de ordenadores en industria quimica y bioquimica . Universidad Politehnica de Bucarest . 01/07/2005 . (Màster Oficial)

Linies de Recerca

Síntesi de TAME (tert-amilmetileter) . Universitat Politehnica de Bucurest / Universitat de Barcelona . (2008)

Integració i Intensificació de processos . (2005)

Mètodes de computació avançada (CFD, DEM, Matlab, Python, Aspen Plus) Simulació i modelització de processos i plantes químiques . (2015)

Participació en Projectes (últims 10 anys)

Estudio computacional multiescala de la conversión catalítica de gases de efecto invernadero y la producción de hidrógeno mediante zeolitas funcionalizadas . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.PID2022-138180OB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación . IP: Pablo Gamallo Belmonte; Ramon Sayós Ortega

Doctorat Industrial 'Captura directa de CO2 del aire'. Empresa: Recam Laser SL . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2022 DI 0024 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . IP: Jordi Bonet Ruiz; Alexandra Elena Plesu Popescu

A paradigm shift for the future's thermal management devices through radical innovation in new materials and additive manufacturing (ThermoDust) . 2022 - 2026 . Ref.101046835 . Unió Europea . IP: Sergi Dosta Parras; Camila Barreneche Guerisoli

Integrated Computational-Experimental material Engineering of Thermal Spray coatings (CoBRAIN) . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.101092211 . Unió Europea . IP: Sergi Dosta Parras; Camila Barreneche Guerisoli

Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTC) . 2023 - 2026 . Ref.CEX2021-001202-M . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación . IP: Eliseo Ruiz Sabin

Computational Materials Science Laboratory (CMSL) / Laboratori de Ciència de Materials Computacional . 2022 - 2025 . Ref.2021 SGR 00079 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . IP: Francesc Illas Riera

Doctorat industrial en col.laboració amb empresa: Technip Energies Iberia S.A.U. Projecte: "Modelització de reactors d'hidrotractament i isomerització per a la producció de SAF/HVO” . 2025 - 2028 . Ref.2024DI00125 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . IP: Alexandra Elena Plesu Popescu; Francesc Xavier Gimenez Font

Producción de bio-plásticos a partir de la fracción orgánica de residuos municipales . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.CTM2016-76275-R . Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad . IP: Joan Mata Alvarez; Juan Llorens Llacuna

Captura del CO2 emitido por vehículos basados en motores de combustión, mediante adsorción en sólidos porosos . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.310437 . Recam Laser, SL . IP: Francesc Xavier Gimenez Font; Pablo Gamallo Belmonte

Càtedra UB AmesPore . 2020 - 2023 . AMES Solsona Sintering, S.A. . IP: Juan Llorens Llacuna

Publicacions en revistes (últims 10 anys)

Plesu Popescu, A.E.; González, A.; Llorens, J.; Bonet, J. (2021). Investigating best available technique for CO2 chemical absorption: solvent selection based on empirical surrogate model and exergy loss. Clean Technologies And Environmental Policy, 485 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 1618-954X

Plesu Popescu, A.E.; Pellin, J.L.; Bonet, J.; Llorens, J. (2021). Bioethanol dehydration and mixing by heterogeneous azeotropic distillation. Journal Of Cleaner Production, 320, p. 128810 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 0959-6526

Plesu Popescu, A.E.; Torralba, J.; Bonet, J.; Llorens, J. (2021). Vanillin production from lignin: Rigorous process simulation results for ethyl acetate versus aliphatic-alcohol-specific process designs. Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 4, p. 100133 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clet.2021.100133 . ISSN: 2666-7908

Plesu Popescu, A.; Cheah, Y.K.; Varbanov, P.S.; Klemeš, J.J.; Kabli, M.R.; Shahzad, K. (2021). Exergy Footprint Assessment of Cotton Textile Recycling to Polyethylene. Energies, 15(1), pp. 1 - 22 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 1996-1073

Cabello, R.; Plesu Popescu, A.E.; Bonet-Ruiz, J.; Curcó Cantarell, D.; Llorens, J. (2022). Heat transfer in pipes with twisted tapes: CFD simulations and validation. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 166, pp. 1 - 13 . Repositori Institucional . ISSN: 0098-1354

Fan, Y.V.; Peng, J.; Plesu-Popescu, A.E.; Fengqi, Y. (2022). Sustainable cleaner production through process integration, modelling and optimisation. Journal Of Cleaner Production, 380(Part 1), p. 134849 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134849 . ISSN: 0959-6526

Wang, X.-C.; Wang, J.; Plesu Popescu, A.E.; Ong, B.H.Y. (2023). Sustainable use of energy contributes to carbon neutrality and environmental footprints reduction. Energy, 285 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.129464 . ISSN: 0360-5442

Ferré, C.T.; Cabello, R.; Popescu, A.E.P.; Bonet-Ruiz, J.; Belmonte, P.G.; Camps, J. (2024). Carbon Dioxide to Methanol Valorisation by Process Intensification. Chemical Engineering Transactions (114), pp. 523 - 528 . https://doi.org/10.3303/CET24114088 . ISSN: 1974-9791

Troyano Ferré, C.; Cabello, R.; Muro Marin, L.; Plesu, A.; Bonet, J.; Llorens, J. (2024). LNG Cold Energy Recovery for Hydrogen Production Combining Multiple Technologies in Synergy. Chemical Engineering Transactions , 114, pp. 607 - 612 . https://doi.org/10.3303/CET24114102 . ISSN: 1974-9791

Rubén Cabello; Jingli Han; Alexandra Elena Plesu Popescu; Jordi Bonet-Ruiz; Genis Clavé Batlle; Camila Barreneche; Sergi Dosta (2024). Discrete Element Method Optimization Simulation of Planetary Ball Mills Operating Conditions. Chemical Engineering Transactions , 114, pp. 571 - 576 . https://doi.org/10.3303/CET24114096 . ISSN: 1974-9791

Altres publicacions (últims 10 anys)

Bonet Ruiz, A.E; Luna Surinyach, R; Plesu, V; Bonet, J; Iancu, P; Llorens, J. (2017). Distillation Sequence Efficiency (DSE) for Suitable Liquid-Liquid Extraction Solvents: Acetic Acid Extraction with TOA . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 40 . (pp. 397 - 402) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3965-3 .

Bonet, J; Parra-Paz, A; Bonet-Ruiz, A.E; Plesu, V; Iancu, P; Llorens, J. (2017). Distillation Sequence Efficiency (DSE) Applied to Trains of Columns with Recycle Streams . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 40 . (pp. 751 - 756) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3965-3 .

Iancu, P; Vila-Bonafoux, S; Iglesias-Fernandez, J.M; Plesu, V; Bonet, J; Bonet-Ruiz, A.E; Llorens, J. (2017). Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation of Fuel Gas and Steam Mixtures to Decrease NOx Emissions of Industrial Burners . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 40 . (pp. 565 - 570) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3965-3 .

Dimian, A.C; Iancu, P; Plesu, V; Bonet-Ruiz, A.E; Bonet-Ruiz, J. (2017). Innovative design and simulation of a castor oil biorefinery . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 40 . (pp. 1111 - 1116) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3965-3 .

Plesu, V.; Cruzado Valverde, H.; Curcó, D.; Bonet Ruiz, A.E.; Bonet, J.; Iancu, P.; Llorens, J. (2017). Software Tool for Computing and Visualization of Enhanced Residue Curve Maps . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (27th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 40 . (pp. 199 - 204) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3965-3 .

Mendez-Alvarez, C.; Plesu, V.; Bonet Ruiz, A.E.; Bonet Ruiz, J.; Iancu, P.; Llorens, J. (2016). Distillation Energy Assessment for Solvent Recovery from Carbon Dioxide Absorption . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 38 . (pp. 1917 - 1922) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3428-3 .

Ortuño-Boter, D.; Plesu, V.; Bonet Ruiz, A.E.; Bonet Ruiz, J.; Iancu, P.; Llorens, J. (2016). Enhanced Distillation Based on Feed Impurities . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 38 . (pp. 1923 - 1928) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3428-3 .

Perederic, O.A.; Plesu, V.; Iancu, P.; Bonet Ruiz, A.E.; Bonet Ruiz, J.; Muchan, B. (2016). TAEE Sustainable Process Design and Simulation . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 38 . (pp. 2199 - 2204) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3428-3 .

Ceausescu, M.M.; Bonet-Ruiz, J.; Plesu, V.; Iancu, P.; Bonet-Ruiz, A.E. (2015). Theoretical Modeling Of (Non) Reactive Residue Curve Maps for TAME Synthesis System Using MATLAB - SIMULIS Thermodynamics Communication Facility's . En Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering) . Volum. 37 . (pp. 659 - 664) . Elsevier B.V. . ISBN: 978-0-4446-3429-0 .

Innovació Docent

Introducció de la impressió 3D en assignatures impartides per la Secció d’Enginyeria Química a la Facultat de Química . 2024 - 2026 . Ref.2023PID-UB/019 . Universitat de Barcelona . IP: Alberto Cruz Alcalde

Introducció de les analítiques d'aprenentatge a l'assignatura 'Enginyeria Química' (semestre primavera) del Grau de Química per a la millora del procés d'ensenyament-aprenentatge . 2021 - 2022 . Ref.2021PID-UB/014 . Universitat de Barcelona . IP: Alexandra Elena Plesu Popescu

Implementació de Learning Analítics a l'assignatura Enginyeria Química del Grau de Química per a la millora del procés d'ensenyament-aprenentatge-avaluació . 2022 - 2023 . Ref.REDICE22-3361 . Institut de Ciències de l'Educació (ICE) - Universitat de Barcelona (UB) . IP: Eliana Ramírez Rangel

Simulació aplicada a l'aprenentatge actiu en assignatures d’Enginyeria Química i Química Analítica . 2023 - 2025 . Ref.2023PEDC-QUI/001 . Universitat de Barcelona . IP: Roger Bringue Tomas

Ramírez Rangel, E.; Plesu Popescu, A.; Bonet Ruiz, J. (2022). Introducción de analíticas de aprendizaje en la asignatura de Ingeniería Química del grado de Química de la Universidad de Barcelona. (Ponència) . VI Congreso de Innovación Docente en Ingeniería Química (VI CIDIQ) . Madrid . ESPANYA

Plesu, A; Ramírez, E.; Bonet, J.; Badia, J.H.; Soto, R.; Iborra, M. (2022). Learning Analytics Introduction in the Chemical Engineering Subject of the Chemistry Undergraduate Degree of the University of Barcelona for the Teaching/Learning/Assessment Process Improvement. (Ponència) . 26th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2022) . Praga . REPÚBLICA TXECA