Leonardo Lemos, Dr. Eng.

Experience

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  LEPTEN

  Aug 2013 - Dec 2014

  Undergraduate Researcher

  - Project financed by Petrobras under the name: "Development of a simulation platform for the numerical simulation of a solar power tower plant"- Numerical simulation of solar concentrating towers for electricity generation.

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  Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnologie IPT

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  Research Intern

  - Undergraduate researcher internship at the Optical Assembly Group of the Institute- Manufacturing of mechanical parts for the Groups experiments- Assembly, execution, and supervision of experiments with low-power laser- Assembly and operation of the Commander6 micro-manipulator, developed by the Institute- Writing of protocols for assembly and quality control of Commander6 micro-manipulators

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  LEPTEN

  Aug 2016 - Feb 2021

  - Project financed by Petrobras and the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (ANEEL), under the title: "Improvement and validation of a simulation platform for heliothermic concentrating plants, with technological innovation studies".- Sizing, modelling and simulation of power cycles and thermal storage for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) applications - Studies on existing technological solutions for supercritical CO2 power cycles- Detailed transient simulation of CSP power plants- Monte Carlo analysis of CSP plant performance- Surrogate model of CSP plants using neural networks Show less - Project financed by Petrobras and the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), under the name: “Development of a numerical simulation platform for support to design and assessment of systems of solar thermal energy conversion into process heat"- Supervised and assigned tasks to four undergraduate and two master students. - Modelling and simulation of solar process heat systems for the oil and gas industry- Modelling of diffuse solar radiation from measured data of solar global radiation- Development of a solarimetric database for the Brazilian territory, via the processing of publicly available data from the Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology - INMET Show less

  • Scientific Researcher

    Nov 2019 - Feb 2021

  • Lead Researcher

    Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
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  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

  Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

  Teaching Assistant

  - Assistance with lectures of the Thermodynamics Fundamentals course at the undergraduate level.- Lectures focused on exercises and problem-solving, answering questions from the students

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  LEPTEN

  Apr 2021 - Mar 2022

  Researcher

  - Member of the research team IEA-SHC Task 64 - Subtask C, a project organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA)- Modelling and simulation of solar energy systems for the generation of steam and hot water for industrial processes- Act as a liaison between the Subtask C team and experts from research institutions worldwide, such as SPF, DLR, Fraunhofer, NREL, etc.- Comparison between results from simulations implemented by different international experts, identifying the main sources of differences and uncertainties.- Define guidelines for simulation and yield assessment of solar process heat systems, published by IEA/SHC Show less

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  CPFL Renováveis

  Mar 2022 - now

  - Python modeling (Pandas, NumPy) of Brazilian rules for energy trading and accounting- Propose dashboard mockups and KPIs for monitoring the financial results of the power plant portfolio. Periodic updates to databases of existing PowerBI dashboards- Modeling of power plant revenue, providing financial impact estimates and risk mitigation proposals for decision-making in generation portfolio management - Machine Learning (PyCaret) and Monte Carlo (@Risk) tools for simulation of energy price and generation scenarios- Python scripts (Xlwings, Pandas) for the automation of daily team tasks and for data processing- Calculation of risk metrics (VaR, CVaR) and implementation of Python optimization algorithms (Scikit-Learn, SciPy) for optimal decision-making under energy price uncertainties

  • Generation Planning Analyst

    Nov 2023 - now

  • Junior Generation Planning Analyst

    Mar 2022 - Oct 2023