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Zdravko Kravanja

Zdravko Kravanja

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Engineering and Technology
Slovenia
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
48
Citations
9922
World Ranking
4523
National Ranking
3

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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