Short CV
Georgios Panayiotou, completed his BEng (Honours) course in Chemical Engineering, on the 10th of July of 2012, and pursued a postgraduate degree (MSc) in Advanced Process Design for Energy and Integration facilitated at the CPI (Centre of Process Integration), at The University of Manchester, graduated in September 2013.
In his final year of his undergraduate studies (2011-12), he took upon the role of group leader of the Design Appraisal Project with regards to “The Production of Synthetic Crude Oil from Oil Sands”, allowing to further develop his team-working, research and leadership skills . In 2012, during his postgraduate studies, he worked on an open-ended Design Project, which involved the design of a “Total Site Utility System”. As a result, he became proficient in software packages such as AspenHYSYS, AspenPlus, and packages developed by CPI such us SPRINT, STAR and HYDRO Simulation Software Package for the heat and process integration, as well as, hydrogen network integration implementing hydrogen pinch technology of real industrial cases. He is the sole investigator and the author of the MSc Thesis on Hydrogen co-production from integrated biorefineries for utilisation in fuel cells.
He held the position of assistant process engineer at the end-life tires recycling plant of CBp Cyprus situated at the Industrial Area of Ypsonas, Cyprus, in the summer of 2010. In the summer of 2011, he cultivated his research skills at PROPLAN LTD (Industrial Engineering Consultants), where he gained professional experience in research and design regarding plant novel design for reducing the cost and the environmental impact and for increasing the production and profits.
Georgios Panayiotou, since May 2014, is enrolled on the PhD entitled A superstructure approach to enable process integration and novel equipment design of biorefinery processes at the Department of Process Analysis and Plant Design of the School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
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Objective
At the moment, he is developing a complete superstructure framework, utilising Simulated Annealing algorithm, a generic probabilistic metaheuristic global optimization method, on FORTRAN programming language, for the full conceptual design and optimisation of different integrated innovative biorefinery processes. One of the subtopics he is working at, is the examination the impact of different mass transfer correlations on the real design of bio-reactors running different biorefineries examples based on recently developed or under research technologies using the simulated annealing code embedded with appropriate mass transfer correlations for the best approximation of mass transfer between phases with in the bioreactors.
Current Status
Georgios Panayiotou is a Research Assistant, holding, since May 2014, the ESR 1.2 position, working under RENESENG (Renewable Systems Engineering), Marie Curie project, which started on the 1 of November of 2013, and it is founded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project is coordinated by NTUA and aims to train a new breed of engineers with project experience in biorefineries, emphasising on advanced process design, synthesis, model-based screening and analysis and process integration.
Georgios Panayiotou is proficient at synthesising process routes, designing, optimizing and validating them using GAMS, FORTRAN and Aspen Plus. Proficient at developing optimised superstructures of different process routes for innovative biorefinery processes and other chemical, biochemical and biological process, among algae cultivation, using evolutionary optimisation on FORTRAN programming language.
Future 6-months Plan
Future work will automate this framework to enable the fast and easy user input of the reaction equations and kinetics. A link with CAPE-OPEN and Aspen Plus will be developed also for a very accurate and fast feed re-characterization.
Secondments
completed 1 month at Computer Aided Process Engineering Center at DTU (1 Sept -Oct 2016)
Publications - Conferences
• One oral presentation in the 12th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering / 25th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering joint conference, PSE-2015/ ESCAPE-25, 31 May - 4 June 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark: G. P. Panayiotou, A. D. Mountraki, and A. C. Kokossis. "Synthesis and design of multiphase chemical and biochemical reactors."
• Oral presentation in the Annual Progress Event of NTUA PhD Candidates, 2015
• One oral presentation in the 2nd FIBRA Biorefinery Summer School, Beijing, 27 July -1 August 2015.
• One oral presentation took place in the 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, 12-15 June 2016, Portorož, Slovenia: G. P. Panayiotou, A. D. Mountraki, and A. C. Kokossis. “On a systems approach to support novelty in bioreactor design” abstract submitted at the 26th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, 12-15 June 2016, Portorož, Slovenia.
• One oral presentation took place in the PSE Asia 2016, Tokyo, Japan, 24-27 July 2016
• One oral presentation took place in the 22nd International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA 2016 and the 19th Conference on Process Integration, 27 - 31 August 2016
Posters
• One poster presentation in the 10th Panhellenic Chemical Engineering Scientific Conference, PESXM Patras, 4 - 6 June 2015, Athens, Greece: Panayiotou, Georgios P., Aikaterini D. Mountraki, and Antonis C. Kokossis. "Synthesis and design of multiphase chemical and biochemical reactors."
• Poster and oral presentation in the RENESENG 3rd Workshop and Training School, Athens, Greece, 5-10 June 2016
• Poster presentation took place in the Annual Progress Event of NTUA PhD Candidates, 7 June 2016
• Poster presentation to take place 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, November 13-18, 2016, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, US
Annex
Fellow
ESR 1.2 |
Host institution
NTUA - PhD enrolment: Y (NTUA or ETH) |
Duration
36 months |
Start date
M6 |
| Project title : A superstructure approach for process integration and novel equipment design in biorefinery processes. Work packages : WP1, WP2, WP4, WP5, WP6 . Supervisor name: Prof. Antonis Kokossis or someone with the same level of expertise and /or experience |
Objectives:
- To develop modelling compartments with capabilities to instantiate both conventional and novel designs in the reaction and the separation processes of biorenewables.
- To produce and apply optimization technology to search and scope for the selection of compartments, and subsequently process designs that feature high efficiencies and level of integration
- To validate the approach with cases and problems available in the RENESENG consortium
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Tasks and methodology:
Task 1 Development fundamental compartments for unit operations by combining modelling with experimental data, industrial data and engineering fundamentals.
Task 2 Combination of models to formulate superstructure schemes (reducible structures).
Task 3 Produce robust and fast optimization technology .
Task 4 Produce means to interpret and present the solutions of Task 3 into practical and functional units.
Task 5 Develop user friendly tools to communicate design information, enable what-if analysis, and explain the work produced at different stages. |
| Results: Library of conceptual models for unit operations and processing technologies for biorenewables, Superstructure models to select the appropriate processes and technologies that are appropriate in the integrated biorefineries, Software prototype to target the performance of reactor and reactive separation systems |
| Dissemination: Demonstrations in summer schools, 2-3 conference proceedings (e.g. ESCAPE, , EFIB, RRB), Participation in 2-3 international conferences (PSE, AIChE, ESCAPE), 2-3 journal manuscript in (e.g. Ind Eng. Chem Research, C&CE, AIChE J, Biomass & Bioenergy) |
Planned secondment:
- TUD 2 months - Obtain context for biochemical reactor technology
- UoS/IC 2 months - Develop multi-scale models and links with commercial flowsheeting software and gProms
- BPF 1 months - Obtain context for regional case studies
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