Academic staff

Dr Luis Roman Ramirez
romanral@lsbu.ac.uk
Chemical and Energy Engineering
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-7382 (unauthenticated)
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I joined LSBU in 2021, where I am a lecturer in the Division of Chemical and Energy Engineering in the School of Engineering. I hold a BEng and a MSc in Chemical Engineering and obtained my PhD from the University of Birmingham. Before joining LSBU, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Universities of Warwick and Birmingham. I also worked in R&D in the chemical industry, in the UK and abroad, for several years.
Having worked in both, industry and academia, it provided me with a wide range of subject areas of interest. Driven by the need of solving some of the most pressing challenges we are facing as a society, such as plastic waste pollution and global warming, my main research interests are on green and sustainable chemistry and engineering, chemical recycling, renewable energy, lithium-ion batteries and applied thermodynamics.
Courses taught
Chemical and Energy Engineering - BEng (Hons)
Advanced Chemical Engineering - MSc
Chemical and Energy Engineering - MEng (Hons)
Chemical Engineering - BEng (Hons)
Chemical Engineering - BTEC HND
Chemical Engineering - MEng (Hons)
Chemical Process and Energy Engineering - PhD
Postgraduate Research Supervision
Current
Ms Nourhan Sherif Samir Hafez Mohamed | Modelling of depolymerisation reactions of biopolymers in supercritical fluids | PhD |
Proposal | Project | Role | Funder | Status | Status last updated |
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Chemical recycling of bioplastics by organocatalysis in supercritical media | Chemical recycling of biopolymers by organocatalysis in supercritical media | Principal Investigator | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | OPEN Submitted | Sep 2023 |
Cross-sectional analysis of lithium ion electrodes using spatial autocorrelation techniques.
Lain, M., Apachitei, G., Roman Ramirez, L., Copley, M. and Marco, James (2022). Cross-sectional analysis of lithium ion electrodes using spatial autocorrelation techniques. Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP. 24 (48), pp. 29999-30009. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cp03094b
Roadmap on Li-ion battery manufacturing research
Grant, P.S., Greenwood, D., Pardikar, K., Smith, R., Entwistle, T., Middlemiss, L.A., Murray, G., Cussen, S.A., Lain, M.J., Capener, M.J., Copley, M., Reynold, C.D., Hare, S.D., Simmons, M.J.H., Kendrick, E., Zankowski, S.P., Wheeler, S., Pengcheng, Z., Slater, P.R., Zhang, Y.S., Morrison, A.R.T., Dawson, W., Li, J., Shearling, P., Brett, D.J.L., Matthews, G., Ge, R., Drummond, R., Tredenick, E., Cheng, C., Duncan, S.R., Boyce, A.M., Faraji-Niri, M., Marco, J., Roman Ramirez, L., Harper, C., Blackmore, P., Shelley, T., Mohsseni, A. and Cumming, D.J. (2022). Roadmap on Li-ion battery manufacturing research. Journal of Physics: Energy. 4 (4). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/ac8e30
Systematic analysis of the impact of slurry coating on manufacture of Li-ion battery electrodes via explainable machine learning
Faraji Niri, M., Reynolds, C., Kendrick, E., Marco, J. and Roman Ramirez, L. (2022). Systematic analysis of the impact of slurry coating on manufacture of Li-ion battery electrodes via explainable machine learning. Energy Storage Materials. 51, pp. 223-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2022.06.036
Design of experiments applied to lithium-ion batteries: A literature review
Roman-Ramirez, L.A. and Marco, J. (2022). Design of experiments applied to lithium-ion batteries: A literature review. Applied Energy. 320, p. 119305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119305
Methanolysis of Poly(lactic Acid) Using Catalyst Mixtures and the Kinetics of Methyl Lactate Production
Lamberti, Fabio M., Roman-Ramirez, L., Dove, A. and Wood, J. (2022). Methanolysis of Poly(lactic Acid) Using Catalyst Mixtures and the Kinetics of Methyl Lactate Production. Polymers. 14 (9), p. e1763. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14091763
Effect of coating operating parameters on electrode physical characteristics and final electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries
Roman Ramirez, L., Apachitei G., Faraji-Niri M., Lain M., Widanage D. and Marco J. (2022). Effect of coating operating parameters on electrode physical characteristics and final electrochemical performance of lithium-ion batteries. International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40095-022-00481-w
Experimental data of cathodes manufactured in a convective dryer at the pilot-plant scale, and charge and discharge capacities of half-coin lithium-ion cells.
Román-Ramírez, L.A., Apachitei, G., Faraji-Niri, M., Lain, M., Widanage, D. and Marco, J. (2021). Experimental data of cathodes manufactured in a convective dryer at the pilot-plant scale, and charge and discharge capacities of half-coin lithium-ion cells. Data in Brief. 40, p. 107720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107720