Politehnica University of Bucharest

Department of Applied Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry

Thermodynamics Research Laboratory

Dr. Viorel Feroiu

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Viorel Constantin Feroiu

Born on November 24, 1954 in Craiova.

Current Position: Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Politehnica University of Bucharest.

Contact: Polizu Str. 1, 78126 Bucharest, Romania.

Fax: +40-1-3369695

e-mail: v_feroiu@chim.upb.ro

Degrees and Positions

1979: Romanian Engineer Diploma in Technical Chemistry, Politehnica University of Bucharest, special subject - Polymer Compounds

1979-1986: Technological Engineer and head department in Rubber Industry

1986-1991: Research and teaching Assistant at the Department of Applied Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Politehnica University of Bucharest.

1991-1992: Research stages at ETOL Institute Oppenau, Germany.

1994: Dr. Ing at Politehnica University of Bucharest

1991-1996: Lecturer at the Department of Applied Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry

1996-2001: Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry

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Research Area

 Fluid Phase Equilibria, Experimental and Modeling

 Equations of State in Fluids

 PVT, Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Calculations

 Educational Software in Applied Physical Chemistry

Selected Publications

1. Feroiu V., Geanã D., "Computation of Vapour - Liquid Equilibrium in N2 + CO2 + CH4 System by a General Cubic Equation of State",

Fluid Phase Equilibria, 55, 263 - 270, (1990).

2. Balaban A. T., Feroiu V., "Correlations between Structure and Critical Data or Vapour Pressures of Alkanes by means of Topological Indices",

Reports in Molecular Theory, 1, 133 - 139, (1990).

3. Geanã D., Feroiu V., "Calculation of Joule - Thomson Inversion Curves from a General Cubic Equation of State", Fluid Phase Equilibria, 77,

121 - 132, (1992).

4. Geanã D., Feroiu V., "Calculations of Vapour - Liquid Equilibria for Semicontinous Mixtures by a General Cubic Equations of States",

Rev. Roum. de Chim., 39, 11, 1375 –1388, (1994).

5. Feroiu V., Geanã D., "Predictions of Vapour - Liquid Equilibria at High Pressures using Activity Coefficients at Infinite Dilution",

Fluid Phase Equilibria, 120, 1-10, (1996).

6. Feroiu V., Geanã D., "Predictions of Vapour - Liquid Equilibria at High Pressures using Mixing Rules based on Excess Gibbs Energy Models",

Rev. Roum. de Chim., 42(9), 863 – 871, (1997).

7. Feroiu V., Bjola B., Geanã D., "Transport Properties Calculation for Pure Fluids and Mixtures based on Densities from Cubic Equations of State",

Rev. Roum. de Chim., 43(5), 461 – 467, (1998).

8. Geanã D., Feroiu V., “Prediction of Vapor – Liquid Equilibria at Low and High Pressures from UNIFAC Activity Coefficients at Infinite Dilution”,

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 37, 1173 – 1180, (1998).

9. Geanã D., Feroiu V., Bjola B., “Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Fluids from Cubic Equation of State”, Proc. Rom. Acad. Series B, 1,

23 – 27, (1999).

10. Feroiu V., Geanã D., “Vapor – Liquid Equilibrium and Thermodynamic Properties of Refrigerants R21 and R152a from Cubic Equations of State”,

Sci. Techn. Envir. Protec., 7(2), 10 – 19, (2000)

11. Geanã D., Feroiu V., “A New Parametrization of the General Cubic Equation of State and PVT Properties for Pure Fluids”

Proc. Rom. Acad. Series B, 2, 101 – 105, (2000).

12. Geanã D., Feroiu V., “Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Fluids using a General Cubic Equation of State”, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 174,

51 – 68, (2000).

Papers Presented at Symposia (selection)

• Geanã D., Feroiu V., "VLE in Ethanol + n.Hexane System: Test of GE Models", Third Workshop on Vapour Liquid Equilibria in

1-Alkanol + n-Alkane Mixtures, Budapest, Sept. 1987.

• Geanã D., Feroiu V., "Prediction of VLE for Continous Mixtures by GEOS", Fourth CODATA Symposium: On Critical Evaluation

of Phase Equilibria in Multicomponent Systems, Gradisca d' Isonzo (Italy), Sept. 1990.

• Geanã D., Feroiu V., "VLE in 1-Alkanol + n-Alkane Mixtures by GEOS: Application to Ethanol + n.Hexane System", Fifth International IUPAC

Workshop: On VLE in 1-Alkanol + n-Alkane Mixtures, Gradisca d' Isonzo (Italy), Sept. 1990.

• Feroiu V., Geanã D., "Cubic Equations of State in Transport Properties Calculations for Pure Fluids and Mixtures", Conferinţa Naţională de

Chimie şi Inginerie Chimică, Vol. 3, 143- 149, Bucureşti, 1995.

• Feroiu V., Geanã D., “Prediction of VLE in Symmetric Polar Systems with G^E – EOS Models”, Conferinţa Naţională de

Chimie şi Inginerie Chimică, Vol. 5, 29 – 34, Bucureşti, 1997.

• Feroiu V., Geanã D., “Infinite Dilution Activity Coefficients at Zero and Infinite Pressure based on HVID – UNIFAC model”,

the 9^th Conference on Physical Chemistry, 87, Galaţi, 1998.

• Geanã D., Feroiu V., “Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Fluids using the GEOS3C Equation of State”, "1^st Workshop on Thermochemical,

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Halogenated Hydrocarbons", Pisa (Italy), 15-18 dec. 1999.

• Feroiu V., Geanã D., “Thermodynamic Properties Predictions with a General Cubic Equation of State”, “18th European Seminar

on Applied Thermodynamics”, Kutna Hora (Czech Republic), 8-11 June, 2000.

Doctoral Dissertation:

Equations of State in Fluid Phase Equilibria Modeling, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 1994.

Books:

• D. Geanã, V. Feroiu, Physical and chemical Properties of Fluids", lit. Univ. "Politehnica", Bucuresti, 1996.
• Geanã D., Feroiu V., Equations of State. Applications of Phase Equilibria, Ed. Tehnica, Bucuresti, 2000.

Teaching

Courses:

 Applied Chemical Thermodynamics

 Statistical Thermodynamics

 Chemical Kinetics

Educational Software in Applied Physical Chemistry