Catalin Florin Petre

DRDC-Valcartier, Québec, .

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Pagina web a instituţiei: https://www.canada.ca/en/defence-research-development.html

Nascut(a) in: 1975

Interese: inginerie chimica, ingineria reactiilor chimice, stiinta materialelor, stiinta polimerilor

Details:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Defense Scientist (2010-), DRDC-Valcartier, Québec, Canada.

R&D Engineer & Project Manager (2008-2010), COREM research center, Québec, Canada.

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2007-2008), Chemical Engineering Department, Laval University & COREM.
Project: Electrochemical evaluation of the passivation and galvanic interactions in the process of gold cyanidation.

Lecturer and Teaching Assistant (2001-2007), Chemical Engineering Department, Laval University.
Courses: Laboratories of Transport Phenomena & Laboratories of Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineer (1998-2000), Danubiana S.A., Bucharest, Romania.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Development, evaluation and characterization of energetic materials;
- Evaluation and characterization of gun barrel coatings;
- Internal ballistics of weapons;
- Materials science;
- Nanotechnology.
- Extractive metallurgy, minerals processing, process water management;
- Applied electrochemistry for leaching/corrosion of metals, metallic sulfides and metallic oxides;
- Kinetics of liquid-solid chemical reactions;
- Methods for catalysts preparing: sol-gel, ionic exchange, impregnation, etc.; preparation of microporous and mesoporous materials;
- Characterization methods for powdered solids: (XRD, BET, SEM, IR, TPR/TPO, XPS, TG-MS, etc.)
- Analytical techniques in chemistry (AAS, CE, CE-MS, GC-MS, HPLC, etc.);
- Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) application for hydrodynamics in multiphase systems;
- Author and co-author of over 30 per-reviewed scientific publications in ISI-classified journals.

ACADEMIC PREPARATION:
Ph.D, Chemical Engineering (2007), Laval University, Québec, Canada.
Thesis: Alkaline oxidation of hydrosulfide and methyl mercaptide by iron/cerium oxide-hydroxide in presence of dissolved oxygen. Possible application for removal of Total Reduced Sulfur (TRS) emissions in the Pulp & Paper industry

M.Sc, Chemical Engineering (2002), Laval University, Québec.
Thesis: Pressure drop through structured packings. Breakdown into the contributing mechanisms by CFD modeling

M.Sc., Inorganic Materials (1999), Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania.

Bcc., Chemical Engineering (1998), Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- Professional Order of Engineers (Québec)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:
- Graduated with “Summa Cum Laude” (Ph.D) Chemical Engineering Department, Laval University, 2007.
- “Professeur étoile” award, Chemical Engineering Department, Laval University, 2005 and 2006.
- “Teaching Assistant of the year” award, Chemical Engineering Department, Laval University, 2002 and 2007.
- Research scholarship (Ph.D) from NSERC, Strategic Grant Program for Environment and Sustainable Development, 2002-2006.
- Graduated with “Magna Cum Laude” (Bcc.), Chemical Eng. Department, Politehnica University, Bucharest.
- High performance scholarship, Politehnica University, Bucharest, 1993-1998.

Publicații selectate:

* C.F. Petre and F. Larachi, Anoxic alkaline oxidation of bisulfide by Fe/Ce oxide-hydroxide: Reaction pathway, AIChE Journal, 53 (8), 2007.

* C.F. Petre and F. Larachi, Removal of Methyl Mercaptide by Iron/Cerium Oxide-Hydroxide in Anoxic and Oxic Alkaline Media, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 46, 2007.

* C.F. Petre and F. Larachi, Cappilary electrophoretic separation of inorganic sulfur: sulfide, polysulfide and sulfur-oxygen species, Journal of Separation Science, 29, 2006.

* C.F. Petre and F. Larachi, Bifunctional Redox Iron/Cerium (Hydr)oxide Process for TRS Removal from Pulp & Paper Emissions, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 44, 2005.

* C.F. Petre, F. Larachi, I. Iliuta, B.P.A. Grandjean, Tailoring the pressure drop of structured packings through CFD simulations, Elsevier, Proceedings to the Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 17 - 20, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A, 2003.

* Petre, C.F., Larachi, F., Iliuta, I., Grandjean, B. P. A., Pressure drop through structured packings: breakdown into the contributing mechanisms by CFD modeling, Elsevier, Chemical Engineering Science, 58 (1), 2003.