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François Maréchal
Ph D. in engineering Chemical process engineer
Researcher and lecturer in the field of computer aided process and energy systems engineering.
Lecturer in the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and environmental sciences engineering in EPFL.
I'm responsible for the Minor in Energy of EPFL and I'm involved in 3 projects of the Competence Center in Energy and Mobility (2nd generation biofuel, Wood SOFC, and gas turbine development with CO2 mitigation) in which i'm contributing to the energy conversion system design and optimisation.
Short summary of my scientific carrer
After a graduation in chemical engineering from the University of Liège, I have obtained a Ph. D. from the University of Liège in the LASSC laboratory of Prof. Kalitventzeff (former president of the European working party on computer aided process engineering). This laboratory was one of the pioneering laboratory in the field of Computer Aided Process Engineering.
In the group of Professor Kalitventzeff, I have worked on the development and the applications of data reconciliation, process modelling and optimisation techniques in the chemical process industry, my experience ranges from nuclear power stations to chemical plants. In the LASSC, I have been responsible from the developments in the field of rational use of energy in the industry. My first research topic has been the methodological development of process integration techniques, combining the use of pinch based methods and of mathematical programming: e.g. for the design of multiperiod heat exchanger networks or Mixed integer non linear programming techniques for the optimal management of utility systems. Fronted with applications in the industry, my work then mainly concentrated on the optimal integration of utility systems considering not only the energy requirements but the cost of the energy requirements and the energy conversion systems. I developed methods for analysing and integrating the utility system, the steam networks, combustion (including waste fuel), gas turbines or other advanced energy conversion systems (cogeneration, refrigeration and heat). The techniques applied uses operation research tools like mixed integer linear programming and exergy analysis. In order to evaluate the results of the utility integration, a new graphical method for representing the integration of the utility systems has been developed. By the use of MILP techniques, the method developed for the utility integration has been extended to handled site scale problems, to incorporate environmental constraints and reduce the water usage. This method (the Effect Modelling and Optimisation method) has been successfully applied to the chemical plants industry, the pulp and paper industry and the power plant. Instead of focusing on academic problems, I mainly developed my research based on industrial applications that lead to valuable and applicable patented results. Recently the methods developed have been extended to realise the thermoeconomic optimisation of integrated systems like fuel cells. My present R&D work concerns the application of multi-objective optimisation strategies in the design of processes and integrated energy conversion systems.
Since 2001, Im working in the Industrial Energy Systems Laboratory (LENI) of Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where Im leading the R&D activities in the field of Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Industrial Energy Systems with a major focus on sustainable energy conversion system development using thermo-economic optimisation methodologies. A part from the application and the development of process integration techniques, that remains my major field of expertise, the applications concern :
Rational use of water and energy in Industrial processes and industrial production sites : projects with NESTLE, EDF, VEOLIA and Borregaard (pulp and paper).Energy conversion and process design : biofuels from waste biomass (with GASNAT, EGO and PSI), water dessalination and waste water treatment plant (VEOLIA), power plant design (ALSTOM), Energy conversion from geothermal sources (BFE). Integrated energy systems in urban areas : together with SCANE and SIG (GE) and IEA annexe 42 for micro-cogeneration systems.
I as well contributed to the definition of the 2000 Watt society and to studies concerning the emergence of green technologies on the market in the frame of the Alliance for Global Sustainability.
Fernando Porté Agel
FERNANDO PORTÉ AGEL Professor Director, Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory (WIRE) School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) e-mail: fernando.porte-agel@epfl.ch RESEARCH INTERESTS Environmental fluid mechanics. Computational fluid dynamics. Atmospheric boundary layers. Turbulence. Large-eddy simulation. Wind energy. Wind engineering. Renewable energy. EDUCATION Ph.D. 1999 Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Engineering M.Sc. 1995 Hydrologic Engineering, IHE - Delft, The Netherlands B.S. 1992 Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2010-present: Full Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 2005-2009: Associate Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 2000-2005: Assistant Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS McKnight Presidential Fellow (2006-2009), University of Minnesota, USA McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2003-2005), University of Minnesota, USA NASA Young Investigator Award (2001-2004), USA NSF CAREER Award (2001-2006), (Division of Earth Sciences Hydrological Sciences), USA Outstanding Student Paper Award: Hydrology Section, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, 1998. Research Award (1995-1997): La Caixa fellowship program; Barcelona, Spain. Research Award (1993-1995): Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs fellowship. Research Award (1990-1993): Spanish Civil Engineering Association.
Marc Vielle
Marc Vielle has obtained a PhD degree in economics from the University Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris). He worked as an economic researcher at the Laboratoire ERASME of Ecole Centrale de Paris and Université de Paris I (1987-1992), where he developed and managed the macroeconomic model HERMES-France. In 1991 he joined the Commissariat à lEnergie Atomique (CEA) as senior economist where he participated to the development of two models (GEM-E3 and PRIMES) funded by the European Commission. In 1996 he joined the Institut dEconomie Industrielle of Toulouse directed by Jean-Jacques Laffont. In 2003 he joined the Laboratoire dEconomie des Ressources Naturelles directed by Michel Moreaux. Since 2007, Marc works at EPFL.
He is member of the GEMINI-E3 team and participates to the development of the world general equilibrium model GEMINI-E3. Marc has a strong experience in economic modeling (especially CGE modeling), quantitative analysis, energy and climate change policies. He has contributed to several research projects funded by national governments, European Commission and private companies.
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Dimitrios Kyritsis
Research
? Computer Aided Process Planning for Manufacture, Assembly, Disassembly,
? Petri- net modeling with applications in Manufacturing,
? Closed-loop Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) using Product Embedded Information Devices (PEID),
? Engineering Asset Management,
? Ontology-Based Engineering.
Membership and Services in Professional Organizations
? Chair of IFIP-WG5.7 - Advance Production Management Systems, member since 2005
? Member of ASME since 1993
? Vice President/Secretary of ASME International Swiss Chapter, 1995-2006
? Member of the Board of MANUFUTURE-CH
? Founding Member of the new IFAC TC5.1 WG IFAC WG Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology
? Founding member of the Hellenic Maintenance Society since 2007
? Founding member of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) since 2007
Services in EPFL Committees
? Member of the Informatics Committee of DGM: 1999-2001
? Member of the Doctoral Program Committee of the Doctoral Program: Manufacturing Systems and Robotics, since 2002
? Member of the CCE (Conference du Coprs des Enseignants) of EPFL since 2007
Services in other Universities
? Member of the Administration Board of INP GI, the Industrial Engineering School of INP Grenoble, elected as Qualified External Personality, 2008-2013 and 2013-2016
? Invited professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France
? Invited professor at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France
? Invited professor at the Paris-Tech, ENSAM, France
? Guest professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA
Services at the European Commission
? Member of the Advisory Group LEIT-NMBP
Services in International Research activities
? Referee of the international scientific journals CAD, Computers In Industry, Production Planning and Control and others as well as ASME and IEEE conferences, 1994 - today.
? Guest Editor of the special issue on CAPP of the international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software, 25, 1996.
? Member of the Editorial Board of the international scientific journal Advances in Engineering Software, 1996-today.
? Project Technical Advisor of two BRITE/EURAM-CRAFT projects in the field of CAD/CAM, 1995-1997.
? Evaluator of BRITE/EURAM projects (November 1997 evaluation).
? Invited expert at the IMS Workshop, EC, February 2002.
? Evaluator of FP6-NMP-IP projects (April 2003 evaluation).
? Invited expert at MANUFUTURE 2003.
? Evaluator of NEST projects (2005)
? Invited expert at IMS-NoE FP7 Roadmap Workshops on manufacturing organised by the European Commission.
? Invited expert at MANUFUTURE-CH, 2005-today.
? Invited expert at MIT RFID Academic Convocation, 2006.
? Founding member of the International Working Group on PLM, 2007- .
? Reviewer of EPSRC program proposals, UK, 2008.
? Reviewer of the National UK Research Prorgam IMRC, 2008.
? Reviewer of the National Greek Research Program Competitiveness-Enterpeneurship, 2009.
Organisation of Conferences
? Organiser and chairman of two technical sessions on CAPP, in the 1994 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 11- 14 September 1994.
? Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium for Electromachining-ISEM-XI, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 17-21, 1995. Also co-editor of the Conference Proceedings.
? Program co-chairman and member of the Organizing Committee of the First International Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems [IMS-EUROPE 1998], held in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 15-17, 1998. Also co-editor of the Conference Proceedings.
? Member of the National Organizing Committee of the 16th IMACS WORLD CONGRESS 2000 on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 21-25, 2000.
? General Secretary of the International Symposium TMCE 2004, April 13-17, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Advisory Committee of the international conference IMS-Forum 2004, Como, Italy, May 2004.
? Organiser and chairman of two sessions (SIG5), IMS-Forum 2004, Como, Italy, May 2004.
? Organiser and chairman of a session at INCOM 2006, May 2006, Saint-Etienne, France.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2006, July 2006, Brisbane, Australia.
? Member of the Program Committee of the international conference ASI 2006, September 2006, Kassel, Germany.
? Member of the Technical Programme Committee of the international conference APMS 2006 (IFIP-WG5.7), September 2006, Wroclaw, Poland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2007, April 2007, Harrogate, UK.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference EURASIP 2007.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference PLM 2007, July 2007, Milan, Italy.
? Organiser and chairman of the session on Sustainable Manufacturing of the Internationla IMS workshop, November 2007, Zürich, Switzerland.
? General Chair of the 1st IMS MTP Workshop, April 2008, Bern, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference EURASIP 2008.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international conference PLM 2008, July 2008, Seoul, South Korea.
? General Chair of the 2nd IMS MTP Workshop, October 2008, Montreux, Switzerland.
? Member of the International Program Committee of the international congress WCEAM 2008, October 2008, Beijing, China.
? Program Chair & Coordinator of the IMS World Congress: Engineering a Sustainable Future, November 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.
? Congress Chair of the the international congress WCEAM 2009, 28-30 September 2009, Athens, Greece (www.wceam.com).
Rémy Glardon
REMY GLARDON is Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne. He is the founder and director of the Laboratory for Production Management and Processes. He owns a Master in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Materials Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne. After his graduate study at EPFL, he spent several years as a postdoc at UC-Berkeley where he published several research papers on the mechanical behavior and wear of materials. He then moved to industry and occupied several management positions in production, logistics and operations management. Before joining EPFL in Sept. 1995 to found the Laboratory for Production Management & Processes, he was Operations Manager and member of the board of an international high tech. company. His main research interests are currently related to the design, configuration and strategic, tactical & operational management of value adding networks. His research activities concern more specifically, the integration of human aspects in the modeling & simulation of these complex systems. Rémy Glardon has initiated and completed several research and consulting projects with private companies in these areas, aiming at improving the cost/performance ratio in operations management. He is also co-founder of two start-up consulting enterprises in the field of supply chain and operations management.