Miguel J. Bagajewicz

TECHNICAL FACULTY

MANAGEMENT FACULTY

EDUCATION

Ph.D. IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 1987.
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Caltech, 1984.
CHEMICAL ENGINEER: Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, 1977.

PRESENT POSITION

Director. Center for Engineering Optimization. University of Oklahoma.
Professor. Department of Chem. Eng. and Materials Science. University of Oklahoma.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Process Engineering: Energy Integration. Crude Fractionation, Water reuse and allocation planning. Process Plant Data Management: Data Reconciliation and Fault Analysis, Investment Planning and Project Evaluation: With emphasis on Financial risk.

BOOKS

Bagajewicz M. Design and Upgrade of Process Plant Instrumentation. (ISBN:1-56676-998-1), Technomic Publishing Company, PA. http://www.techpub.com, (2000).

SELECTED REFERRED PUBLICATIONS

Pongsakdi A., K. Siemanond, P. Rangsunvigit and M. Bagajewicz. Financial Risk Management in Refinery Operations Planning under Uncertainty. International J. of Production Economics. To appear.
Barbaro A. and M. Bagajewicz. New Rigorous One-Step MILP Formulation for Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis. Computers and Chemical Engineering. Vol 29, 9, pp. 1945-1976 (2006).
Barbaro A., M. Bagajewicz, N. Vipanurat, K. Siemanond. An MILP Model For Heat Exchanger Networks Retrofit. Proceedings of PRES 05. 7th Conference Process Integration, Modeling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction. May 15-18. Giardini Naxos, Italy. (2006).
Aseeri A., P. Gorman and M. Bagajewicz. Financial Risk Management in Offshore Oil Infrastructure Planning and Scheduling. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. Special issue honoring George Gavalas. 43, No 12, pp. 3063-3072 (2004).
Aseeri A. and M. Bagajewicz. New Measures and Procedures to Manage Financial Risk with Applications to the Planning of Gas Commercialization in Asia. Computers and Chemical Engineering. Vol. 28 No 12, pp. 2791-2821 (2004).
Barbaro A. F. and M. Bagajewicz. Managing Financial Risk in Planning under Uncertainty. AIChE Journal. Vol 50, No 5., pp. 963-989 (2004).
Bagajewicz M. and E. Cabrera. Data Reconciliation in Gas Pipeline Systems. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. Vol. 42, No 22, pp. 5596-5606 (2003).
Bagajewicz M. and J. Soto. Rigorous Procedure for the Design of Conventional Atmospheric Crude Fractionation Units. Part III: Trade-Off between Complexity and Energy Savings. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. 42, 6, pp. 1196-1203 (2003).
Bagajewicz M., A. F. Barbaro. On the Use of Heat Pumps in Total Site Heat Integration. Computers and Chemical Engineering. Vol. 27, No 11 , pp. 1707-1719 (2003).
Bagajewicz M. and H. Rodera. Multiple Plant Heat Integration in the Total Site. AIChE J. Vol. 48, No. 10, pp. 2255-2270. (2002).
Ji S. and M. Bagajewicz. Design of Crude Distillation Plants with Vacuum Units. Part I: Targeting. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. 41, 24, pp. 6094-6099 (2002). Rodera H., M. Savelski and M. Bagajewicz (University Of Oklahoma); F. Hess and T. Seidel (Phillips Petroleum). Energy Retrofit with Simultaneous Energy Optimization for a Crude Fractionation Unit. Latin American Applied Research. 31, 5, pp. 483-486 (2001).
Bagajewicz M. and S. Ji. Rigorous Procedure for the Design of Conventional Atmospheric Crude Fractionation Units Part I: Targeting. Ind. and Eng Chem. Research. Vol. 40, No 2, pp. 617-626 (2001).
Bagajewicz M. and J. Soto. Rigorous Procedure for the Design of Conventional Atmospheric Crude Fractionation Units Part II: Heat Exchanger Networks. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. Vol. 40, No 2, pp. 627-634 (2001).

TEACHING

University of Oklahoma: Design I, Capstone Process Design. Graduate Applied Math, Graduate Process Synthesis (1996- )
Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) Program on Process Systems Engineering. Lecturer on Energy Integration (Graduate Class). Iguazu Falls, August 2006.
UPSA (Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra), Santa Cruz Bolivia. Financial Risk Management. (One week Graduate Class). May 2006.
UPSA (Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra), Santa Cruz Bolivia. Oil and Gas Process Enginering (One week Graduate Class). December 2004.
Chulalongkorn University-Thailand. Visiting Lecturer: Process Simulation and Design. (Two weeks Graduate Class). October 2003 and October 2004
UCLA. Visiting Lecturer: Process Economics and Process Design. January-June 1995.
INTEC/Argentina. Chemical Engineering graduate and undergraduate courses. (1988-1989).

Industrial Short Courses

Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok, Thailand. Financial Risk Management in Process Operations (2 days Short course). October 2004. Petroleum Fractionation: Simulation, Optimal Operations, Energy Efficiency and Retrofit (2 days Short course). October 2003.
Colombian Chemical Engineering Association. Bucaramanga, Colombia. Process Design and Planning Under Uncertainty. (2 days Short course). August 2003.
Pemex. Ciudad del Carmen. Mexico. Principles of Data Reconciliation (7 Short course). September 2002. Principles of Data Reconciliation (7 Short course). July 2002.
Conoco. Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA. Heat Integration (3 days Short course).July 2000.
Ecopetrol. Bucaramanga, Colombia. Heat Integration (2 days Short course). Nov, 2000.
Principles of Data Reconciliation (3 days Short course). Nov. 2000.
Ecopetrol. Cartagena, Colombia. Principles of Data Reconciliation (3 days Short course). Sept 1998.

RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

(1992-1995) Software development for Plant Data Reconciliation and Process Simulation. (At SimSci)
(1989-1992) Development of Novel Design Methods of Mass?Exchange Networks for Waste Minimization and Cost Effective/ Energy Efficient Distillation Networks. (At UCLA)
(1987-1989) a) Development of Design Methods for Steam and Power Systems. b) Revision of the Basic Engineering of a H2O2 New Plant. (At INTEC, Argentina)
(1982-1987) High Temperature Gas Desulfurization using metal oxides. (At Caltech)
(1980-1982) Studies of Existing Plant Energy Revamping were done for local Industries in Argentina.
(1976-1980) Basic Engineering and supervision of the Detailed Engineering of a Heavy Water Plant in Argentina. About 14 reports produced. (Intec)

OTHER POSITIONS AND AWARDS

Sam Wison Professorship. University of Oklahoma (2006)
Regents Award for Superior Research Activities. University of Oklahoma (2003)
Presidential Professorship. University of Oklahoma (2001-)
Head of the Start-Up Group. Heavy Water Plant Project. Intec-Argentina (1982)
Head of Process Simulation. Industrial Extension Unit. Intec-Argentina (1981-1982).
Research Fellow. Argentine Atomic Energy Commission. (1978).
Argentine National Research Council and Inter American Development Bank Fellowship. (1982-1987).

PARTICIPATION IN CONGRESSES

More than 140 papers sent to various Congresses (AIChE, PSE, IFAC and ESCAPE, PRESS).
Member of the scientific Committee of various conferences (ESCAPE, PRES, FOCAPO, etc.)

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