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Christos T. Maravelias

Christos T. Maravelias

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
60
Citations
13076
World Ranking
2190
National Ranking
692

Overview

Christos T. Maravelias is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has a significant body of research in engineering with a focus on process optimization and integration.

Their main fields of study include engineering, with substantial contributions in the subfields of control and systems engineering, biomedical engineering, industrial and manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, and molecular biology.

Key topics covered in their research encompass process optimization and integration, advanced control systems optimization, scheduling and optimization algorithms, biofuel production and bioconversion, forest biomass utilization and management, catalysis for biomass conversion, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Frequent publication venues where Christos T. Maravelias has contributed include:

  • Computers & Chemical Engineering
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
  • AIChE Journal
  • Green Chemistry
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Christos T. Maravelias include:

  • Reaction Mechanism of Vapor-Phase Formic Acid Decomposition over Platinum Catalysts: DFT, Reaction Kinetics Experiments, and Microkinetic Modeling (2020), published in ACS Catalysis
  • Green urea production for sustainable agriculture (2024), published in Joule
  • Assessing the Viability of Recovery of Hydroxycinnamic Acids from Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Alkaline Pretreatment Waste Streams (2020), published in ChemSusChem
  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation Potential of Chemicals Produced from Biomass (2021), published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Design and analysis of concentrating solar power plants with fixed-bed reactors for thermochemical energy storage (2020), published in Applied Energy

Frequent collaborators include Eric O'Neill, Caleb H. Geissler, Ishan Bajaj, Boeun Kim, and Xinyue Peng.

In addition to articles, Christos T. Maravelias has contributed to book publications, including the title "Chemical Production Scheduling" published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Greening Ammonia toward the Solar Ammonia Refinery

    Lu Wang;Meikun Xia;Hong Wang;Kefeng Huang

  • Scope for industrial applications of production scheduling models and solution methods

    Iiro Harjunkoski;Christos T. Maravelias;Peter Bongers;Pedro M. Castro

  • Integration of production planning and scheduling: Overview, challenges and opportunities

    Christos T. Maravelias;Charles Sung

  • Increasing the revenue from lignocellulosic biomass: Maximizing feedstock utilization

    David Martin Alonso;Sikander H. Hakim;Shengfei Zhou;Shengfei Zhou;Wangyun Won;Wangyun Won

  • Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass

    Jesse Q. Bond;Aniruddha A. Upadhye;Hakan Olcay;Geoffrey A. Tompsett

  • Toward biomass-derived renewable plastics: Production of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid from fructose

    Ali Hussain Motagamwala;Ali Hussain Motagamwala;Wangyun Won;Wangyun Won;Canan Sener;Canan Sener;David Martin Alonso

  • A general framework for the assessment of solar fuel technologies

    Jeffrey A. Herron;Jiyong Kim;Aniruddha A. Upadhye;George W. Huber

  • New general continuous-time state-task network formulation for short-term scheduling of multipurpose batch plants

    Christos T. Maravelias;Ignacio E. Grossmann

  • Methanol production from CO2 using solar-thermal energy: process development and techno-economic analysis

    Jiyong Kim;Carlos A. Henao;Terry A. Johnson;Daniel E. Dedrick

  • Surrogate‐based superstructure optimization framework

    Carlos A. Henao;Christos T. Maravelias

  • Fuel production from CO2 using solar-thermal energy: system level analysis

    Jiyong Kim;Terry A. Johnson;James E. Miller;Ellen B. Stechel

  • General framework and modeling approach classification for chemical production scheduling

    Christos T. Maravelias

  • Solvent system for effective near-term production of hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) with potential for long-term process improvement

    Ali Hussain Motagamwala;Ali Hussain Motagamwala;Kefeng Huang;Kefeng Huang;Christos T. Maravelias;Christos T. Maravelias;James A. Dumesic;James A. Dumesic

  • A hybrid MILP/CP decomposition approach for the continuous time scheduling of multipurpose batch plants

    Christos T. Maravelias;Ignacio E. Grossmann

  • A stochastic programming approach for clinical trial planning in new drug development

    Matthew Colvin;Christos T. Maravelias

  • A strategy for the simultaneous catalytic conversion of hemicellulose and cellulose from lignocellulosic biomass to liquid transportation fuels

    Jeehoon Han;S. Murat Sen;David Martin Alonso;James A. Dumesic

  • Conversion of Furfural to 1,5-Pentanediol: Process Synthesis and Analysis

    Kefeng Huang;Zachary J. Brentzel;Kevin J. Barnett;James A. Dumesic

  • Chemicals from Biomass: Combining Ring-Opening Tautomerization and Hydrogenation Reactions to Produce 1,5-Pentanediol from Furfural

    Zachary J. Brentzel;Kevin J. Barnett;Kefeng Huang;Christos T. Maravelias

  • Catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fuels: Process development and technoeconomic evaluation

    S. Murat Sen;Carlos A. Henao;Drew J. Braden;James A. Dumesic

  • An optimization-based assessment framework for biomass-to-fuel conversion strategies

    Jiyong Kim;S. Murat Sen;Christos T. Maravelias

  • A state-space model for chemical production scheduling

    Kaushik Subramanian;Christos T. Maravelias;James B. Rawlings

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Dumesic
James A. Dumesic University of Wisconsin–Madison
James B. Rawlings
James B. Rawlings University of California, Santa Barbara
George W. Huber
George W. Huber University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ignacio E. Grossmann
Ignacio E. Grossmann Carnegie Mellon University
John Ralph
John Ralph Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Manos Mavrikakis
Manos Mavrikakis University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jennifer L. Reed
Jennifer L. Reed University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shawn M. Kaeppler
Shawn M. Kaeppler University of Wisconsin–Madison
Roberto C. Izaurralde
Roberto C. Izaurralde University of Maryland, College Park
Geoffrey A. Ozin
Geoffrey A. Ozin University of Toronto

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