Name:
Doina Frumuselu
Country:
Romania
City:
Bucharest
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Technical Division Membership:
Environmental Chemistry Division,Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division
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Career Stage:
Professional
Research and Special Interests:
PROJECTS
- Analysis on the technical condition of overhead electrical lines elements (foundation, pole, conductor). Control and protection methods against concrete corrosion.
- Methods to increase the operational safety of power plants with a view to ensure a new quality of the corrosion protection work.
- Corrosion control and protection technologies for the overhead electrical lines components.
- Technology for the restoration of the Endless Column -; the Monumental Ensemble Heroes" Avenue without dismantling, Targu Jiu, 1998.
- Corrosion inhibitors of the steel reinforcement from the concrete used in chemically aggressive environments owing to the climate and to the pollution.
- Drawing up a calculation model for the remaining lifetime of buildings in the power sector.
- Solutions to increase the life time of power constructions.
- Applying the IR thermography to assess the deterioration degree of ground concrete constructions belonging to the electric networks.
- Assessing the degradation degree of reinforced concrete from the power sector constructions. Practical repair solutions.
- Determining the areas of chemical aggressiveness owed to the climatic and pollutant factors, including the protection measures in the transmission and distribution installations.
- Corrosion protection technologies of electrical contacts.
- Assessment of soil aggressiveness in the Transelectrica"s substations. Solutions to increase the life time of underground metallic and concrete components.
- Influence of the meteorological-climatic conditions over the physical-chemical processes deteriorating the reinforced concrete constructions of the electrical networks.
- Climatic hazards / risks impacting Romania"s electrical networks.
- The efficiency of volatile inhibitors for corrosion protection of copper, steel and aluminium conductors.
- Climatic research on variability of soil frost depth in Romania.
- Designing and implementing the integrated monitoring system for climatic and anthropic environmental factors within electrical substations and overhead lines.
- Checking the remaining bearing of power construction members having operated more than 30 years in aggressive environments.
- Evaluation the technical condition of metallic materials from grounding plates in electrical substations.
- Assessing the technical condition of foundations in electrical substations.
- Evaluating the soil impact over the overhead electrical lines in areas of aggressive environment.
PUBLICATIONS
PAPERS
- Frumuselu, D. (1992), Specific Corrosion Processes in the Electrical Networks. Measures of Corrosion Prevention and Fighting, Proc. of the 3rd National Conference on "Corrosion Prevention and Fighting to the Metallic Structures", June, Suceava.
- Frumuselu, D., Radu, C. (1994), Contributions to Determining the Resistance of Protective Covers to the Chemical Aggressiveness of the Environment, Proc. of the National Energy Conference, June, Neptun.
- Frumuselu, D., Radu, C. (1994), Modes to Select and Apply the Corrosion Protection Systems of Power Constructions Belonging to the Electrical Networks, Proc. of the National Symposium on Electrical Networks, 4th Edition, September, Suceava.
- Frumuselu, D. (1995), Causes of Concrete Corrosion in the Ground Level Constructions Belonging to Electrical Networks. Solutions to Prevent the Degradation, Proc. of the Symposium "Condition Monitoring of Constructions in the Power Field", September, Voineasa.
- Frumuselu, D.
Area of Expertise:
TRAINING:
Dates: 2000 -; 2002
Title of qualification awarded: PhD in Climatology
Thesis Title: The Influence of Climatic Variations and Pollution on the Behaviour of Ground Level Constructions in Electrical Networks
Name and type of organization providing education and training: Romanian Academy, Institute of Geography
Dates: 1978-;1983
Title of qualification awarded: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Technology
Diploma work: New types of glass pellets and modelling of melting glass pellets
Name and type of organization providing education and training: Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania,
Faculty of Chemical Technology,
Specialization: Silicate Technology and Oxide Compounds
CAREER HISTORY:
POSITION ORGANIZATION CITY/COUNTRY YEARS
probational engineer Glass and Porcelain Factory Dorohoi/Romania 1983-1984
chemical engineer Power Plants Enterprise Rovinari/Romania 1984-1987
researcher Energy Research and Modernizing Institute Bucharest/Romania 1987-1995
senior researcher Energy Research and Modernizing Institute Bucharest/Romania 1995-1999
head of Corrosion and Environmental Effects Laboratory Energy Research and Modernizing Institute Bucharest/Romania 1999-2000
head of Engineering Laboratory National Power Grid Company Transelectrica Bucharest/Romania 2000-2007
senior professional engineer National Power Grid Company Transelectrica Bucharest/Romania 2007-at present
PERSONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
- Organizational skills and competences :
-; coordinator of R&D and technological engineering projects (over 40 projects);
-; has established and coordinated two laboratories of applicative research, technological engineering and consultancy in corrosion control and environment effects on the electrical networks (Energy Research and Modernizing Institute and National Power Grid Company Transelectrica);
-; has coordinated multi-disciplinary work teams;
-; the professional activity involves team work and relations with specialists from various fields;
-; has organised technical-scientific events and modered.
- Technical skills and competences:
-; participation in projects of applied research and technological engineering;
-; consultant in issues of corrosion control in the electrical network infrastructure;
-; technology transfer in the field of corrosion control;
-; quality control of the corrosion protection systems and repair of the power construction members by laboratory tests and in situ;
-; quality control of the rehabilitation and upgrading work in the electrical networks infrastructure;
-; member in Transelectrica"s Technical Committee Approval, auction committees, reception committees of the rehabilitation and upgrading work;
-; councillor to the Targu Jiu Townhall on restoration issues of C. Brancusi"s Monumental Ensemble Heroes" Avenue, 1998-;2000;
-; nominated on the list of experts assessing R&D projects of the European Commission -; DG Research, Brussels, 1998-;2000;
-; councillor IRE - National Institute for the Study and Utilisation of Energy Sources, full member of the Union of European Electricity Industry EURELECTRIC;
-; book editor.
- Others skills and competences:
-; contributor to the magazine Brancusi edited by the Foundation Constantin Brancusi of Targu Jiu, 1997-;1998;
-; Expert Consultant in Brancusi Issues of the Weekly Gorj Obiectiv Magazin, Targu Jiu.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
-; implementing the IR thermography into the condition monitoring of defects on the surface of concrete, stone and
Years of Expertise:
26 or more