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Departament d'Enginyeria Química
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
43007 Tarragona, CatalunyaTel : (977) 55.96.38
FAX : (977) 55.96.21
correu electrònic : fgiralt@urv.cat
Catedràtic Emèrit d'Enginyeria Química.
CIDEM (Dept. d'Indústria - Generalitat de Catalunya), Tarragona.
Enginyer Químic Diplomat (1970), Institut Químic de Sarrià.Llicenciat en Ciències Químiques (1976), Universitat de Barcelona.
Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) (1973), Universitat de Toronto.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (1976), Universitat de Toronto.
Doctor en Ciències Químiques (1977), Universitat de Barcelona.
Diplomat en Direcció i Gestió d'Empreses (1991), ICT - Barcelona.
Física de fluids
Anàlisi experimental i computacional de la turbulència
Experimentació i computació de fenòmens de transport
Anàlisi de sèries temporals i control de processos mitjançant xarxes neurals
Algorismes cognitius de classificació i de reconeixement de formes
QSARs i QSPR de propietats fisicoquímiques, carcinogènesi i toxicitat de compostos químics i nanopartícules
Anàlisi experimental i computacional dels processos de nanofiltració i d'osmosi inversa
Tecnologia de l'aigua
Evaporació de contaminants de medis aquosos
Ecologia de processos industrials
Avaluació de riscs ambientals
Muntanyisme i bicicleta de muntanya
Fotografia
Ioga Iyengar, Yoga in the Iyengar Tradition
Articles
Conscious worst case definition for risk assessment, part II: A methodological case study for pesticide risk assessment
Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.030.
Dynamics of particle trajectories in a Rayleigh-Bénard problem
Communications in Nonlinear Science & Numerical Simulation, 15, 24-39.
Uncertainty Reduction in Environmental Data with Conflicting Information Membrane Module
Environmental Science & Technology, 43(13), 5001-5006.
Coupled 3-D Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer Analysis of Mineral Scaling-Induced Flux Decline in a Laboratory Plate-and-Frame. Reverse Osmosis Membrane Module
Journal of Membrane Science, 339, 39-48.
Simulating Pressure Coefficients on a Circular Cylinder at Re = 1,000,000 by Cognitive Classifiers
Computers and Structures, 87, 838-846.
Neural Network Approach for Modeling the Performance of Reverse Osmosis Membrane Desalting
Journal of Membrane Science, 326, 408-419.
Using a wall-driven flow to reduce the external mass-transfer resistance of a bio-reaction system
Biochemical Engineering Journal, 39, 554–565.
Bifurcation analysis of steady Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a cubical cavity with conducting sidewalls
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 598, 393-427.
Organic Compounds Passage through RO Membranes
Journal of Membrane Science, 313, 23-43.
Optimization of invertase production in a fed-batch bioreactor using simulation based dynamic programming coupled with a neural classifier
Computers & Chemical Engineering, 31, 1131-1140.
The real communication network behind the formal chart: Community structure in organizations
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 61, 653-657.
Bifurcation analysis of multiple steady flow patterns for Rayleigh–Bénard convection in a cubical cavity at Pr = 130
Physical Review E, 73(4), 046304/1-16.
A Competency-Based Educational Model in a Chemical Engineering School
International Journal of Engineering Education, 22(2), 218-235.
Work in Progress - Evaluation of the Educational Model and its Deployment by Senior Students
Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, F3E, 5-6 (ISBN 0-7803-9077-6)
Work in Progress - Assessment of the Development of Personal and Social Competencies by Students
Proceedings of the 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, F3E, 3-4 (ISBN 0-7803-9077-6)
Prediction of Modes of Toxic Action and toxicity of phenols with feature selection algorithms coupled with fuzzy ARTMAP
Proceedings of the Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry, Vienna, Eds. P. Ettmayer and G. Ecker, Medimont SRL, F620C0176, 27-33 (ISBN 88-7587-163-9)
Using an ensemble of neural based QSARs for the prediction of toxicological properties of chemical contaminants
Trans IChemE Part B. Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 83(B4), 387-392.
Stability analysis of the flow in a cubical cavity heated from below
Physics of Fluids, 16(10), 3639-3655.
Fuzzy ARTMAP based QSAR for TD50 of Aromatic Compounds, Proceedings of the V Girona Seminar on Molecular Similarity, Sen, K; Ed.; Nova Science Publishers, Inc; New York, 2004.
Prediction of activity coefficients of diverse aromatic compounds in water at infinite dilution
with an integrated SOM-fuzzy ARTMAP neural system
AIChE Journal, 50(6), 1315-1343.
Simulating pressure and velocity time series with artificial neural networks: Some advantages & pitfalls
Mecánica Computacional , M. B. Rosales, V. H. Cortínez y D. V. Bambill (Editores), Vol. XXII, 2560- 2574 (2003) (ISSN-1666-6070 ).
Dynamical properties of model communication networks
Physical Review E, 68, 065103 (R).
Linear stability analysis and numerical calculations of the lid-driven flow in a toroidally shaped cavity
Physics of Fluids, 15(1), 134-146.
A fuzzy ARTMAP based Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPRs) for the Henry's Law Constant of Organic Compounds
Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 43, 85-112.
Note on the shear-driven flow in a toroid of square cross-section
Journal of Fluids Engineering, 125, 130-137.
Orthogonal grids around convex bodies using foliations
Internationa Journal of Numeriacl Methods in Engineering, 56(5), 637-649.
Advanced CFD Modeling of Mineral Scaling of RO Membranes
AIChE International Annual Meeting, Nashville (TN), November.
From Molecular Structure to Organics Passage in RO/NF Processes
8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8), Montreal, Quebec, August.
Mixing in Flows Induced by Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8), Montreal, Quebec, August.
Concentration Polarization and Scale Formation in a Laboratory RO Cell
8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE8), Montreal, Quebec, August.
Mixing by Thermal Convection in a Biochemical Reactor
International Conference on Finite Differences - Finite Elements - Finite Volumes - Boundary Elements, Tbilisi, Georgi, June.
Experimental Investigation of the Wake behind a Discontinuous Cylinder
The Sixth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Seoul, Korea, June.
Numerical Modeling of Scale Formation in RO Membrane Desalination. Membranes for Water Treatment
AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.
Self-Organizing Classification of Ecotoxicological and Molecular Information as a Proxy for Identifying Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic Substances
AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.
Data Driven Neural Network Based Models of RO Desalination Plant Operation and RO Membrane Performance. Data Analysis: Design, Algorithms & Applications
AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.
Characterization of the mixing properties of natural convection flows in a cubical cavity heated from below
AIChE International Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November.
Artificial Neural Networks Analysis of RO Process Performance: RO Plant Performance and Organic Compound Passage
ICOM 2008 International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes, Honolulu, Hawaii, July.
Estudio de la dinámica de los flujos de partículas en un problema de convección natural en el interior de un cubo
NoLineal 2008, Barcelona, June 2008.
Spatial and seasonal prediction of outdoor volatile organic compound (VOC) - Identifying optimal model and data set
SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May.
Outdoor exposure modeling with CAR and self organizing maps
SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May.
Clustering the chemical space to estimate environmental multimedia partitioning of pollutants with Kernel methods and molecular descriptors
SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May.
Comprehensive numerical modeling of concentration polarization and RO module performance for brackish water desalination
American Water Works Association’s, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Los Angeles, April.
Artificial Neural Networks analysis of RO process performance: organic compound passage and RO plant performance
American Water Works Association’s, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Los Angeles, April.
Bifurcations and flow transitions of steady natural convective flow patterns in a cubical cavity with perfectly conducting lateral walls
Chaos, Complexity and Transport: Theory and Applications (CCT'07), Marseille (France), June.
Structure biodegradation relationships for organic pollutants in water and soil
SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.
Self-Organizing Maps and Gaussian Mixture Models for Environmental Risk Assessment and Mapping
SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.
Estimation of Environmental Multimedia Partitioning of Pollutants from Molecular Descriptors using Artificial Neural Networks
SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.
Self-organizing classification of Ecotoxicological and Molecular Information as a Proxy for Human Toxicity
SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May.
RO Membrane Plant Performance Modeling with Neural Networks
NAMS 2007, Orlando, Florida, May.
Neural Network QSAR Analysis of Organic Compounds Rejection and Fouling in RO Membranes
NAMS 2007, Orlando, Florida, May.
Integrated Management Process (IMP) for the treatment and recycling of phytosanitary products containers: Application of Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology
1st International Congress on Green Process Engineering, Toulouse (France), April.
High Efficiency Reverse Osmosis Desalination – Process Integration and Control
International Conference on Water Treatment and Reuse II, Tomar (Portugal), February.
Effect of Prandtl Number on the Dynamics and Stability of Natural Convective Flows inside a Cubical Cavity
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
Hydrolysis Kinetics for 2,3-Dichloropyridine in Supercritical Water
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
Numerical Modeling Mineral Salt Surface Scaling in Reverse Osmosis Modules Using Single Crystal Growth Kinetics
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
Neural Network Approach for Modeling the Performance of RO Membrane Processes
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
A Method for Modeling Chemical Multimedia Partitioning with Neural Networks and Classifiers
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
Optimization of Invertase Production in a Fed Batch Bioreactor by Neuron-Dynamic Programming
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
Quantitative Structure Biodegradation Relationships for Organic Pollutants in Water and Soil
AIChE International Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November.
Self-Organizing groundwater vulnerability maps
5th European Congress on Regional Geoscientific Cartography and Information Systems (Econgeo2006), Barcelona, June.
Cognitive neural networks analysis of organic pollutants persistence in the environment
SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, May.
Self-Organization of geostatistical information for vulnerability analysis
SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, May.
Ensemble methods to enhance the identification of MOA’s with deterministic and probabilistic networks
SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, May.
Modelling chemical multimedia partitioning with neural networks
SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, May.
Analysis of Reverse Osmosis Membrane Processes with Artificial Neural Networks
American Water Works Association (AWWA) 2006 Spring Conference, Burlingame, California, April.
Flow bifurcations in a cubical cavity heated from below at Pr = 130
58th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, November.
Work in Progress: Evaluation of the educationa model and its deployment by senior students
Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, October.
Work in Progress: Assessment of the development of personal and social competetncies by students
Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, October.
Environmental/Chemical education for the schools and the community. An example of an education - industry partnership effort: the APQUA Program
JICEC05 - Jordan International Chemical Engineering Conference V, September.
How first principles can help in the design of new or conventional stirred rectors. Mixing enhancement by secondary structures
JICEC05 - Jordan International Chemical Engineering Conference V, September.
Feature extraction and cognitive neural algorithms for advanced chemical process identification, optimization and diagnostics, Plenary Lecture
JICEC05 - Jordan International Chemical Engineering Conference V, September.
Reverse Osmosis QSAR Model Using Neural Networks
Neural Networks Summer School, Porto, July.
Mixing enhancement by secondary structures in shear or buoyancy driven confined flows
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, July.
Multiple imputation of missing data using self organizing map ensembles
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, July.
Using an ensemble of neural based QSARs for the prediction of toxicological properties of chemical contaminants
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, July.
Optimization of invertase production in a fed-batch bioreactor using dynamic programming coupled with a fuzzy ARTMAP classifier
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, July.
Hydrolysis and oxidation of phytosanitary model molecules in supercritical water
7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, July.
A hybrid SOM/Fuzzy ARTMAP methodology for the prediction of ecotoxicity in Phenols using molecular descriptors and Modes of Toxic Action
Joint Meeting on Medicinal Chemistry, Vienna, June.
Forecasting lift and drag on a circular cylinder at Re=100,000 usingpoint pressure data and a fuzzy ARTMAP neural network
Tenth Americas Conference on Wind Engineering (10ACWE), Baton Rouge (USA), May-June.
