Victor Alves

Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Engineering @ Carnegie Mellon University.

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Hi there! 👋

I am a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, holding a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at West Virginia University. In addition, I also have an M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering, both at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil.

Throughout my career, I have developed algorithms and methods to efficiently solve problems related to Process Systems Engineering (PSE), giving me experience in:

  • Process modeling
  • Advanced process control
  • Plantwide control
  • Nonlinear constrained optimization
  • Supervised machine learning.

My current goal is to conduct further research on the design, modeling, control and assessment of chemical processes. Lastly, I have experience working with the industry, mainly the oil and gas, petrochemical and energy sectors.

news

Oct 22, 2024 New paper as a co-author available! We employed a system identification technique using Gaussian processes. Available at the 2024 Power ASME proceedings
Oct 5, 2024 New paper released! “On the selection of control structures using process operability analysis” presents a novel way to select control structures of plantwide systems, by taking advantage of process operability principles, namely the Operability Index (OI). It’s available on the Control Engineering Practice Journal
May 6, 2024 I have joined Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoctoral Fellow, under the supervision of Carl Laird and John Kitchin!
Apr 17, 2024 I have successfully defended my PhD thesis under Dr. Fernando V Lima’s supervision, entitled “Strategies for Process Systems Mapping and Control Based on Operability Analysis”. You can download the thesis here.
Feb 6, 2024 Our new paper on the opyrability Python package for advanced process operability analysis is now available in The Journal of Open Source Software!

selected publications

2024

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    Opyrability: A Python package for process operability analysis
    Victor Alves, San Dinh, John R. Kitchin, Vitor Gazzaneo, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Open Source Software, 2024
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    On the selection of control structures using process operability analysis
    Victor Alves, and Fernando V. Lima
    Control Engineering Practice, 2024

2023

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    An inverse mapping approach for process systems engineering using automatic differentiation and the implicit function theorem
    Victor Alves, John R Kitchin, and Fernando V Lima
    AIChE Journal, 2023
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    Techno-economic Analysis and Optimization of Intensified, Large-Scale Hydrogen Production with Membrane Reactors
    Dean M. Sweeney, Victor Alves, Savannah Sakhai, San Dinh, and 1 more author
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023

2022

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    A machine learning-based process operability framework using Gaussian processes
    Victor Alves, Vitor Gazzaneo, and Fernando V Lima
    Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2022

2020

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    Metacontrol: A Python based application for self-optimizing control using metamodels
    Felipe Souza Lima, Victor Manuel Cunha Alves, and Antonio Carlos Brandao Araujo
    Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2020

2018

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    Metamodel-based numerical techniques for self-optimizing control
    Victor MC Alves, Felipe S Lima, Sidinei K Silva, and Antonio CB Araujo
    Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2018