Mostafa Zarandi
PhD Programme: Nanoscience, Materials and Chemical Engineering
Research group: SUSCAPE – SUStainable Computer Aided Process Engineering
Supervisors: Josep Maria Mateo Sanz & Laureano Jiménez Esteller
Bio
Mostafa Zarandi holds a master’s degree from the chemical engineering department at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in process modeling, simulation, and control. His master's thesis was about converting biomass, natural gas and CO2 into liquid fuels by the Fischer-Tropsch process. He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, focusing on refinery and petrochemical processes. As a chemical and process engineer, his primary research concerns the modeling and simulation of chemical systems. He has investigated applications in terms of energy conversion, techno-economic analysis, life-cycle assessment, process optimization, and process control. Besides his academic education, he has some industrial experience in research projects, such as designing decision-making systems for the energy management network of refineries and petrochemical complexes.
Project: Development of systematic tools for modeling and optimization of more sustainable processes with integration of economic, environmental and social aspects
This project will develop decision-making tools based on the combined use of multi-objective optimization, life cycle assessment and stochastic programming for the design and planning of sustainable processes. To achieve the goals of the project, researchers will use multi-objective stochastic programming tools combined with life cycle assessment for multi-criteria problems. Stochastic programming will assist decision-makers in the face of uncertainty. Life cycle assessment tools will be employed to assess process alternatives from an environmental perspective, considering all the stages in the life cycle of the process. Finally, objective reduction techniques based on statistics and optimality criteria will allow for identifying redundant environmental objectives that will be removed from the optimization. Researchers will apply these tools to different case studies that have attracted increasing interest in the recent past. Particularly, researchers will focus on applications found in the energy sector, highlighting the advantages of the proposed methods compared to traditional process design tools.
Outreach activities
- European Researchers' Night 2022: "Optimització".
- European Researchers' Night 2023: "Parc de Fluídica".
