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Zdravko Kravanja

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Engineering and Technology
Slovenia
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
48
Citations
9922
World Ranking
4525
National Ranking
3

Zdravko Kravanja publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zdravko Kravanja sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 285 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Zdravko Kravanja D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zdravko Kravanja sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Slovenia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Slovenia Leader Award

Overview

Zdravko Kravanja is affiliated with the University of Maribor in Slovenia and specializes in the field of Engineering, with particular focus on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics, prominently including:

  • Process Optimization and Integration
  • Advanced Control Systems Optimization
  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability

Zdravko Kravanja has contributed articles to several publication venues. The most frequent include:

  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • Energy
  • Processes
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Optimization and Engineering

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Zdravko Kravanja include:

  • Sustainable renewable energy supply networks optimization - The gradual transition to a renewable energy system within the European Union by 2050, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Global projections of plastic use, end-of-life fate and potential changes in consumption, reduction, recycling and replacement with bioplastics to 2050, 2024, Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • A waste separation system based on sensor technology and deep learning: A simple approach applied to a case study of plastic packaging waste, 2024, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Conceptual MINLP approach to the development of a CO2 supply chain network - Simultaneous consideration of capture and utilization process flowsheets, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Synthesis of a regenerative energy system - beyond carbon emissions neutrality, 2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

They have also published books including:

  • Process optimization: exercises with instructions, 2020, Fakulteta za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo eBooks
  • Optimiranje procesov: navodila za računalniške vaje, 2020, University of Maribor

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Lidija Čuček
  • Zorka Novak Pintarič
  • Andreja Nemet
  • Elvis Ahmetović
  • Miloš Bogataj

Best Publications

  • A Review of Footprint analysis tools for monitoring impacts on sustainability

    Lidija Čuček;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Forty years of Heat Integration: Pinch Analysis (PA) and Mathematical Programming (MP)

    Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Simultaneous optimization models for heat integration—I. Area and energy targeting and modeling of multi-stream exchangers

    Terrence Fu Yee;Ignacio E. Grossmann;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Simultaneous optimization models for heat integration. III, Process and heat exchanger network optimization

    Terrence Fu Yee;Ignacio E. Grossmann;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Sustainable renewable energy supply networks optimization – The gradual transition to a renewable energy system within the European Union by 2050

    Sanja Potrč;Lidija Čuček;Mariano Martin;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Recent developments in Process Integration

    Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Petar Sabev Varbanov;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Total footprints-based multi-criteria optimisation of regional biomass energy supply chains

    Lidija Čuček;Petar Sabev Varbanov;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Global projections of plastic use, end-of-life fate and potential changes in consumption, reduction, recycling and replacement with bioplastics to 2050

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  • Energy, Water and Process Technologies Integration for the Simultaneous Production of Ethanol and Food from the entire Corn Plant

    Lidija Čuček;Mariano Martín;Ignacio E. Grossmann;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Mixed-integer nonlinear programming techniques for process systems engineering

    Ignacio E. Grossmann;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Multi-period synthesis of optimally integrated biomass and bioenergy supply network

    Lidija Čuček;Mariano Martín;Ignacio E. Grossmann;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Synthesis of regional networks for the supply of energy and bioproducts

    Lidija Čuček;Lidija Čuček;Hon Loong Lam;Hon Loong Lam;Jiří J. Klemeš;Petar S. Varbanov

  • Simultaneous optimization models for heat integration.

    Terrence F. Yee;Ignacio E. Grossmann;Z Kravanja

  • Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming: A Survey of Algorithms and Applications

    Ignacio E. Grossmann;Zdravko Kravanja

  • New developments and capabilities in prosyn—An automated topology and parameter process synthesizer

    Z. Kravanja;I.E. Grossmann

  • Green biomass to biogas – A study on anaerobic digestion of residue grass

    Robert Bedoić;Lidija Čuček;Boris Ćosić;Damjan Krajnc

  • Water and energy integration: A comprehensive literature review of non-isothermal water network synthesis

    Elvis Ahmetović;Elvis Ahmetović;Nidret Ibrić;Zdravko Kravanja;Ignacio E. Grossmann

  • A rigorous disjunctive optimization model for simultaneous flowsheet optimization and heat integration

    Ignacio E. Grossmann;Ignacio E. Grossmann;Héctor Yeomans;Héctor Yeomans;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Prosyn—an MINLP process synthesizer

    Z. Kravanja;I.E. Grossmann

  • Significance of environmental footprints for evaluating sustainability and security of development

    Lidija Čuček;Jiří Jaromír Klemeš;Petar Sabev Varbanov;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Simultaneous synthesis of process water and heat exchanger networks

    Elvis Ahmetović;Elvis Ahmetović;Zdravko Kravanja

  • Prosyn — An automated topology and parameter process synthesizer

    Zdravko Kravanja;Ignacio E. Grossmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiří Jaromír Klemeš
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš Brno University of Technology
Petar Sabev Varbanov
Petar Sabev Varbanov Brno University of Technology
Ignacio E. Grossmann
Ignacio E. Grossmann Carnegie Mellon University
François Maréchal
François Maréchal École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Hon Loong Lam
Hon Loong Lam University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Mariano Martín
Mariano Martín University of Salamanca
Neven Duić
Neven Duić University of Zagreb
Rafiqul Gani
Rafiqul Gani Széchenyi István University
Yongrong Yang
Yongrong Yang Zhejiang University
Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos
Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos Texas A&M University

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