Fèlix Llovell Ferret (Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the URV).

Fèlix Llovell is a Chemical Engineer from Universitat Rovira i Virgili with a PhD carried out at the Spanish National Research Council (ICMAB-CSIC) in the area of Computational Thermodynamics. He worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London (UK) in the description of interfacial properties of mixtures involved in enhanced oil recovery processes. Later on, he got several fellowships to work at CSIC, MATGAS (a technological center focused on the improvement of sustainable processes), and the Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS-Barcelona), leading the Group of Engineering and Simulation of Environmental Processes (GESPA). He joined the Chemical Engineering Department of URV in late 2020 as a Serra Húnter fellow, becoming Associate Professor in 2021. Dr. Llovell's expertise is on multiscale modeling methodologies for the thermophysical characterization of compounds to improve process sustainability. His latest research has been devoted to the study of alternative solvents (e.g., ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents) for different applications, with particular focus on the field of carbon capture and greenhouse gas separation.
His trajectory has been recognized being selected among the 25 world emerging investigators on Chemical Thermodynamics by the Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, as well as receiving the Young Researcher Award at the 2019 PPEPPD conference, that he co-chaired in 2023, and the Esteban Brignole Award at the 2024 EQUIFASE conference. Dr. Llovell is one of the representants of Spain in the Thermodynamics Working Party of the European Federation of Chemical engineering (EFCE).

Research lines:

• Computational thermodynamics, process simulation, CO2 capture systems, design and optimization of refrigeration systems, characterization of new sustainable solvents (ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents), technoeconomic and environmental analysis

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