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Fernando V. Lima joined the faculty as an Assistant professor of Chemical Engineering
at West Virginia University (WVU) in January 2013. He is now Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering since August, 2019. His research group at WVU focuses
on the development and implementation of process systems engineering methods for
process design and intensification, advanced control and state estimation, modular
energy systems and sustainability. He received his B.S. degree from the University
of São Paulo in 2003 and his Ph.D. from Tufts University in 2007, both in Chemical
Engineering. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he was a research associate at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota. See Dr. Lima's Google Scholar and LinkedIn profiles here.
His research awards
include the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF) Doctoral
New Investigator (DNI) Award in 2016, the Faculty Early Career Development
Program Award from National Science Foundation (NSF-CAREER) in 2017, and the WVU Statler
College of Engineering Excellence in Research Awards (in 2017 and 2021). Dr. Lima is the Area Chair for the Next-Gen Manufacturing Sessions of AIChE 2021
and will be the 2022 Program Coordinator for CAST 10B Area of AIChE. He has served as the AIChE Society Associate Editor for the American Control
Conference (ACC) for five years (2013-2015, 2017-2018). Dr. Lima has been a guest editor
for Special Issues of Processes and Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
journals and is currently a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Process Control and Processes.
Control, Optimization and Design for Energy and Sustainability (CODES) Group
Research Areas
- Process Design and Intensification
- Advanced Control and Optimization
- State Estimation and Industry 4.0
- Emerging Energy Systems and Sustainability
- Modular Systems and Smart Manufacturing
- Membrane Reactor Systems Analysis
Software Development
-
Process Operability App in MATLAB
-
Membrane Reactor (MR) Module in AVEVA Process Simulation
- Computational Modules in MATLAB for Biomimetic Control Algorithms (available upon request)
- Biomimetic Controller Design Toolbox in MATLAB (available upon request)
- Pollution Control Units (PCU) Modules in Excel (available upon request)
- Autocovariance Least-Squares (ALS) Package for Octave and MATLAB
Links
- AVESTAR®: Advanced Virtual Energy Simulation Training And Research
- CERC: US-China Clean Energy Research Center
- WVU Energy Institute
- WVU Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization
- IRIDIUM: Industrial Process Applied Research Group