Alessandro Di Pretoro was born in 1992 in Pescara (PE), Italy. He earned a MSc degree cum laude in Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in July 2017 with the graduation thesis entitled “Dynamic simulation and plantwide control of an ABE/W separation plant” supervised by Prof.s Giulia Bozzano and Flavio Manenti. In September 2020 he defended his joint (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse and Politecnico di Milano) PhD research work entitled “Optimal Design of Flexible, Operable and Sustainable Processes under Uncertainty: Biorefinery Applications”.
He is now Associate Professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse.
Research Fields :
- Unit operations design under uncertainty;
- Dynamic modelling and simulation;
- Process control;
- Residue Curve Mapping;
- Multi-objective optimization;
- Surrogate Modeling;
- Operational Research.
Congresses:
- CAPE Forum 2020 – Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2020, October 7-9, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- ESCAPE 30 – 30th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2020, August 30 – September 2, Milano, Italy.
- CAPE Forum 2019 – Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2019, November 24-26, Liège, Belgium.
- ECCE 12 – 12th European Congress of Chemical Engineering, 2019, September 15-19, Firenze, Italy.
- ESCAPE 29 – 29th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2019, June 16-19, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- ICheaP 14 – 14th International Conference on Chemical and Process Engineering, 2019, May 26-29, Bologna, Italy.
- CAPE Forum 2018 – Computer Aided Process Engineering, 2018, November 15-17, Bucharest, Romania.
Teaching:
- Assistant Professor in Industrial and Process Engineering at INPT-ENSIACET (2020-present)
- Assistant lecturer of Chemical Plants II at Politecnico di Milano (2018-2020)
- Doctorant Contractuel Chargé d’Enseignement at INPT-ENSIACET (2018-2020)
(Dynamique des systèmes, Dynamique et contrôle, Dynamique et contrôle II, Life Cycle Assessment, Conception Assistée par Ordinateur)
Supervised Thesis:
- Valerio Lorenzo Muci, “Surrogate Model in PSE Context: Optimization of a Heat Exchange Network”, MSc Degree, April 2019.
- Luca Baggio, “Dynamic Modeling of a Bench Plant Distillation Column with DYNSIM® Simulator”, MSc Degree, October 2019.
- Edgar Camilo Galvis Pacheco, “Separation of ABE/W, Conceptual Design and Dynamic Validation”, MSc Degree, October 2019.
- Pauli Johanna Giraldo Morales, “Process Dynamic Simulation and Plant-wide Process Control of a BIoGaS-to-liQUID (BIG SQUID™) Plant”, MSc Degree, December 2019.
- Kristina Bakoc, “Model Predictive Control for Batch Processes Optimization: a Lyophilization Case Study”, MSc Degree, December 2019.
- Francesco D’Iglio, “Flexibility-based Maintenance Scheduling: a Heat Exchanger Fouling Case Study”, MSc Degree, April 2020.
- Flavia Ciranna & Matteo Fedeli, “Optimal Design and Flexibility Assessment of Intesified Solutions for Biorefinery Downstream Processing: the DWC Case Study”, MSc Degree, April 2020.
- Vitor Lacerda Mauricio, “Design, Simulation and Optimization of an Azeotropic Distillation Section for Biorefinery Processes”, MSc Degree, October 2020.
- Jeremy Kleiman, “Dynamic Simulation and Plantwide Process Control of a Biogas to Liquid (BIGSQUIDTM) Plant: Digital Twin Development on Reforming Furnace and Methanol Reactor”, MSc Degree, October 2020.
Contacts:
alessandro.dipretoro@polimi.it
alessandro.dipretoro@ensiacet.fr
+39 02 2399 3287 (office)