Mina Rafiei

Former PhD Student

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I received the BASc degree in Chemical Engineering in 2010, from Sahand University of Technology. I graduated in 2012 from my MASc program in Chemical Engineering (Modeling, Process Simulation and Control) from Sharif University of Technology . During my MASc, I developed research on Modelling of Reactive Crystallization Processes, which concerns with the modeling of precipitation processes aimed at predicting product particle characteristics with special emphasis on particle size distribution. A mixing-precipitation model linked to the population balance, which takes into account the agglomeration mechanism, was used for a single-feed semi-batch precipitation process to describe the mixing effects on the crystal size distribution (CSD) and mean size at the end of the batch. I have joined Dr. Luis’s group in the fall of 2015 to start with my PhD studies; my research will focus on the development of new computationally efficient methods that perform the optimal process and control design of large-scale chemical processes in the presence of external perturbations and uncertainty in the systems parameters.

Thesis: Integration of design and control for large-scale applications: a back-off approach