Ville Tuppurainen

MSc (Tech)
Doctoral researcher

Chemical Process Engineering
Faculty of Technology

Ville Tuppurainen is a doctoral researcher at Chemical Process Engineering (CPE) research unit at University of Oulu. He is specializing in process synthesis and conceptual process design methodological development utilizing chemical engineering relevant computational property prediction possibilities in the context of novel solvent-based biorefinery processes. He currently also acts as a teacher in the courses 477209S Chemical Process Simulation and 477223S Advanced Process Design. He is a skilled user of various chemical engineering relavant computational tools such as Aspen Plus, Aspen Process Economic Analyzer, COSMOtherm and Matlab and has experience in computations carried out in the CSC supercomputing environments.

Highlighted research

  • Tuppurainen V., Fleitmann L., Kangas J., Leonhard K., Tanskanen J.,
    Conceptual design of furfural extraction, oxidative upgrading and product recovery: COSMO-RS-based process-level solvent screening,
    Computers & Chemical Engineering,
    Volume 191, 2024, 108835, ISSN 0098-1354,
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2024.108835

Research interests

  • Process simulation
  • Process synthesis and conceptual process design
  • Biorefinery processes
  • Quantum chemistry based thermodynamic property prediction methodologies
  • Separation processes
  • Distillation synthesis
  • Technoeconomic analysis of processes

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Contact information

E-mail

ville.tuppurainen@oulu.fi

Phone number

+358 50 350 1738

Visiting address

PR225

Postal address

PO Box 4300, FI-90014 OULUN YLIOPISTO