n. 21 Octombrie 1947, Bucureşti; Profesor Emerit la Universitatea Babeș- Bolyai (UBB), Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Chimie și Inginerie Chimică. Absolvent al Institutului Politehnic din Bucureşti (1970), specialitatea automatică. Inginer proiectant la IPROSIN Bucuresti (1970-1972); analist de sistem la Centrul de Calcul al Industriei Chimice-MICh (1972-1973); cercetător la Institutul de Energetică Chimică și Biochimică filiala Cluj-Napoca (1973-1982); doctor inginer în inginerie chimică la Institutul de Petrol şi Gaze din Ploieşti (1985); lector universitar, conferențiar, profesor (1982-2015) la UBB. Şef de Catedră de Inginerie Chimică (1996-2007), Cancelar General (1996-2000), Prorector (2001- 2007), Preşedinte al Consiliului Academic (2007-2012) la UBB; Full Professor of Chemical Engineering la Botswana International University of Science and Technology (2015-2023). Expert UNESCO pentru învăţământ superior în programul Oil for Food în Irak (2000-2003). Visiting Associate la California Institute of Technology (1991-1992), Visiting Professor la Eötvös Lorand University, Pannon University (Budapest, Veszprem, Ungaria), Universidad Mayor San Marcos şi Universidad de Ingenieria (Lima), Universidad San Antonio Abad, Cuzco (Peru), Kazakh British Technical University (Almaty, Kazakhstan). A publicat peste 300 de lucrări ştiinţifice şi 15 cărţi în ţară şi străinătate în domeniul atât al automatizării, modelării matematice, optimizării proceselor, cât şi al managementului învăţământului superior. Membru al societăţilor AIChE, DECHEMA, IFAC, SIChR, SRAIT.

Ordinul Naţional ”Pentru Merit” în rang de Comandor și Mare Ofițer (2000 și 2008), premiul ”Nicolae Teclu” al Academiei Române, Secția Chimie (1976), premiul ”Tudor Tănăsescu” al Academiei Române, Secția Știința și Tehnologia Informației (1998);  Premiul şi medalia ”Emilian Bratu” ale Societăţii de Chimie din România.

 

Lista importantelor publicații științifice

 

Monografii

1.   Agachi, Automatizarea proceselor chimice, Ed.Casa Cartii de Stiinta, Cluj, 1994

2.  Imre-Lucaci, Ş.Agachi, Optimizarea proceselor din industria chimică, Editura Tehnică Bucureşti, ISBN 973-31-2113-4, 2002

3.  Ş. Agachi, Z. K. Nagy, M.V. Cristea, A. Imre-Lucaci, Model Based Control, Case Studies in Process Engineering, Editura Wiley-VCH, 298 pag, ISBN 3-527-31545-4, Weinheim, 2006

4.  Paul Serban Agachi, Mircea Vasile Cristea, Basic Process Engineering Control, De Gruyter Gmbh Editing House, Berlin, 2014

5.  Paul Serban Agachi, Mircea Vasile Cristea, Alexandra Csavdari, Botond Szilagyi, Advanced Control in Process Engineering , De Gruyter Gmbh Editing House, Berlin, 2016

6.  Paul Serban Agachi, Mircea Vasile Cristea, Emmanuel Pax Makhura, Basic Process Engineering Control, Second Edition, De Gruyter Gmbh Editing House, Berlin, Boston, 2020

7.  Paul Serban Agachi, Mircea Vasile Cristea, Alexandra Csavdari, Botond Szilagyi, Advanced Control in Process Engineering , Second Edition, De Gruyter Gmbh Editing House, Berlin, Boston, 2023

 

Publicații ISI

1.  Anton A. Kiss, S. P. Agachi – Model Predictive Control of temperature of a PVC emulsion process, Hungarian Journal of Industrial Chemistry, 27, p.117-124, 1999

2.  Botar-Jid Claudiu Cristian, Agachi Paul Serban, Fissore Davide, Comparison of Reverse Flow and Counter-current Reactors in the Case of Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx, Science_Citation_Expended, COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Volume 24, 2008, P.1 – 23

3.  Raluca Roman, Zoltan K. Nagy, Mircea V. Cristea, Serban P. Agachi, Dynamic modelling and nonlinear model predictive control of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, Volume 33, Issue 3, 2009, P. 605-617

4.  Mihet Maria, Cristea Vasile Mircea, Agachi Paul Serban, FCCU simulation based on first principle and artificial neural network models, Science_Citation_Expended, ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, Vol4, nr.6, 2009, P.878 – 885

5.  Nagy Zoltan Kalman, Roman Raluca, Cristea Vasile Mircea, Agachi Paul Serban, Dynamic Modelling and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit, Science_Citation_Expended, COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 33, 2009, P.605 – 617

6.  Morar Mihaela Hilda, Agachi Paul Serban, Review: Important contributions in development and improvement of the heat integration techniques, Science_Citation_Expended, COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 34, 8, 2010, P.1171 – 1179

7.  Ostace George – Simion, Agachi Paul Serban, Cristea Vasile Mircea, Cost Reduction of the Wastewater Treatment Plant operation by MPC based on modified ASM1 with two-step nitrification/denitrification model, Science_Citation_Expanded, COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 35, 2011, P.2469 – 2479

8. Ostace George – Simion, Agachi Paul Serban, Cristea Vasile Mircea, Extension of activated sludge model no 1 with two-step nitrification and denitrification processes for operation improvement, Science_Citation_Expended, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 10, 2011, P.1529 – 1544

9.  Mihaela Iancu, Mircea Vasile Cristea, Paul Serban Agachi: Retrofit design of heat exchanger network of a fluid catalytic cracking plant and control based on MPC. (2013) COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 49: pp. 205-216

10. Procopet Bogdan, Cristea Vasile-Mircea, Robic Marie Angele, Grigorescu M. D., Agachi Paul-Serban, Metivier Sophie, Peron Jean Marie, Selves Janick, Stefanescu Horia, Berzigotti Annalisa, Vinel Jean Pierre, Bureau Christophe, Serum tests, liver stiffness and artificial neural networks for diagnosing cirrhosis and portal hypertension, Science_Citation_Expanded, DIGESTIVE AND LIVER DISEASE, 27(5), 2015, P.411 – 416

11. SZILAGYI Botond, Agachi Paul-Serban, Bela Lakatos, Numerical analysis of crystallization of high aspect ratio crystals with breakage , Science_Citation_Expanded, POWDER TECHNOLOGY, 283 , 2015, P.152 – 162

12. Mihaela Iancu, Mircea Vasile Cristea, Paul Serban Agachi: Retrofit design of heat exchanger network of a fluid catalytic cracking plant and control based on MPC. (2013) COMPUTERS & CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, 49: pp. 205-216

13. Procopet Bogdan, Cristea Vasile-Mircea, Robic Marie Angele, Grigorescu M. D., Agachi Paul-Serban, Metivier Sophie, Peron Jean Marie, Selves Janick, Stefanescu Horia, Berzigotti Annalisa, Vinel Jean Pierre, Bureau Christophe, Serum tests, liver stiffness and artificial neural networks for diagnosing cirrhosis and portal hypertension, Science_Citation_Expanded, DIGESTIVE AND LIVER DISEASE, 27(5), 2015, P.411 – 416

14. Szilagyi Botond, Agachi Paul-Serban, Bela Lakatos, Numerical analysis of crystallization of high aspect ratio crystals with breakage , POWDER TECHNOLOGY, 283 , 2015, P.152 – 162

15. Á Borsos, B Szilágyi, PS Agachi, ZK Nagy, Real-Time Image Processing Based Online Feedback Control System for Cooling Batch Crystallization, ORGANIC PROCESS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 21 (4), 511-519, 2017

16. Babusi Balopi, P. Agachi, G. Danha, Methanol Synthesis Chemistry and Process Engineering Aspects- A Review with Consequence to Botswana Chemical Industries, Procedia Manufacturing, 35 (2019), pp. 367-376

17. Ntebogang Thibanyane, Paul Agachi, Gwiranai Danha, Effects of biomass/coal copyrolysis parameters on the product yield: a review, Procedia Manufacturing, 35, (2019), pp. 477-487

18. Mmoloki Makoba, Daniel Erich Botha, Mpho Thabang Rapoo, László Zsolt Szabó, Thapelo Shomana, Paul Șerban Agachi, Edison Muzenda, A Review on Botswana Coal Potential from a Pyrolysis and Gasification Perspective, Periodica Polytechnica Chemical Engineering, 2020, Issue 3, https://pp.bme.hu/ch/article/view/12909; https://doi.org/10.3311/PPch.12909

Realizări tehnice

1.   Studiu de fezabilitate de introducere a calculatorului de proces la TEROM Iași (primul în industria chimică din România); 1972

2.  Proiecte de automatizare la instalatiile: epsilon-caprolactama Savinesti (cu punere în funcțiune); monomeri acrilici Râșnov (cu punere în funcțiune); distilare uleiuri volatile Orăștie (cu punere în funcțiune); instalatie de fabricare a hidrazinei Victoria (1971-1980). Realizator IECB, filiala Cluj-Napoca.

3.  Modelul matematic al celulei de electroliză cu catod de mercur a NaCl și introducerea calculatorului de proces ECAROM 83, la CC Râmnicu Vâlcea (1983). Realizator Univeristatea Babeș-Bolyai, Catedra de Chimie Fizică. Economii realizate: 2,5% din consumul de energie electrică.

4.  Simulator pentru procesul de Cracare Catalitică. Realizator: California Insitute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering; Beneficiar Chevron Oil Company 1992/1993, având ca rezultat dezvoltarea unui simulator de proces utilizat de Chevron Research & Development. Eficiență: s-au economisit estimativ 40 milioane USD

5.  Instalație de piroliză a deșeurilor organice, deșeuri de plastic pentru producerea de combustibili. Realizator: Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana, 2016-2023