Energy Systems Engineering

Polygeneration Systems Engineering
 
Integrated oil & gas optimisation
 
Technologies for Hydrogen production and storage
 
Wind farm modelling, control and optimization
 
Thermo-economic design of energy conversion systems using multi- objective optimisation
 
Thermo-economic design of urban energy systems
 
Optimization of structure and operating parameters of a sequence of distillation columns for thermal separation of hydrocarbon mixtures
 
Energy Efficiency and Carbon Footprint Reduction
 
Energy Systems Solutions in the Pulp and Paper Industry
 
CO2 capture from natural gas
 
Hydrogen infrastructure design and optimisation
 
Chance-constrained optimization of investment planning problems in the electric power industry

Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and Director of its Centre for Process Systems Engineering (PSE). He graduated in Chemical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and was awarded a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has authored/ co-authored over 200 publications, holds editorial positions on several editorial boards and has been involved in over 50 major research projects and contracts. Prof. Pistikopoulos is co-founder and Director of two successful spin-off companies stemming from his research at Imperial, Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) Limited and Parametric Optimization Solutions (PAROS) Limited and consults widely to numerous process industry companies.

Michael C. Georgiadis is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Informatics and Telecommunications at University of Western Macedonia, Greece and honorary research fellow in the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. He was manager of academic business development for Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. He obtained his Chemical Engineering Diploma from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and an MSc and PhD From Imperial College London. Dr. Georgiadis has authored over 55 papers and two books. He has a long experience in the management and participation of more than 20 collaborative research contracts and projects and consults to Process Systems Enterprise Ltd and Parametric Optimization Solutions Ltd.

Eustathios Kikinides is the Vice-Director of the Environmental Technology Laboratory within the Department of Engineering and Management of Energy Resources at the University of Western Macedonia. Prof. Kikinides is a graduate Chemical Engineer from the University of Patras and was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Buffalo University, USA. He has more than 100 publications in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. He has been