The 14th Nordic Process Control Workshop

August 23, 2007 Nordic Process Control Workshop panel

CHAIRCHAIRProf. Matti Leisola

Head of the Chemical Technology Dept.Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

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Research and EducationResearch and Education

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In this panel the specialists in the field discuss on cooperation and coordination of the PSE research and education within the Nordic countries.

Panelist

Prof. Sigurd Skogestad, NTNU• PhD in 1987 at Caltech (process control;

Prof. Morari)• Since 1987: Professor in Chemical

Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim• Since 1999: Head of Department• Research interests: feedback control,

plantwide control

Panelist

• Prof. Sten Bay Jørgensen, DTU

1986 Professor of Chemical Engineering1989 founded PDDC (process design, dynamics and conrol)1997 cofounder of CAPEC (Computer Aided Process and Product Center) - 2006 co director of CAPEC - member of CAPEC

Panelist

• Prof. Claes Breitholz, Chalmers

Panelist

• Prof. Markku Hurme (TKK)• Professor of Plant Design

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S. Skogestad: Distillation control

• PROST at NTNU/SINTEF: About 50 people• Process Control: Skogestad (ChE), Preisig (ChE), Foss (EE), Hovd

(EE)• Process design / simulation: Gundersen (ME), Haug-Warberg (ChE),

Hillestad (ChE), • Systems biology: Bar (ChE)

Important application areas• Gassteknisk senter• Natural gas utilization, LNG • CO2 removal• Offshore: Integrated operations, flow assurance, flow stabilization

PSE research at NTNU

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S. Skogestad: Distillation control

Nordic co-operation in PSE Research and Education

1. Opportunities your university/institute could offer for Nordic co-research

• We are happy to receive researchers and PhD students from other Nordic countries for short and long stays

2. Nordic co-operation in Education in the area of PSE

– Presently: Most of our PhD courses take whole semester– Nordic co-operation: Would require concentrated courses (2

weeks)

C A P E C

PSE Research at DTU• CAPEC about 35 persons• IVC-sep thermodynamics & Oil • CHEC Combustion and Harmful Emmissions Control• Polymer center• ICAT catalyst center• Biochemical Engineering center

C A P E CCAPEC

COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS AND PRODUCT ENGINEERING

TOOLS

APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

CONTINUITY/CONSOLIDATION

TECHNOLOGY

TRANSFER

NEW

DIRECTIONS

PROJECTS

TRANSFER

C A P E CNordic co-operation

opportunities• Education: Many of our Ph.D. courses are given over 2-4

weeks

• Research: We are happy to receive (and to send) Ph.D. students for research stays.

• Research direction for collaboration:

Research allocation decisionmaking is politically based Therefore industrial involvement is crucial!

C A P E CIndustrial Issues

• Most alarm and display systems in industry are designed with day to day operations in mind

• Operator staff has been reduced and number of displays to supervise has increased

• Display systems have become more flexible but also more challenging to use in safety critical situations

• Introduction of advanced control methods may make the automation opaque to the operator and increases the risk of human error in safety critical situations

C A P E CChallenges

• Coping with complexity of plant operations

• Improving safety by using automation to mitigate critical plant disturbances

• Making advanced automation systems transparent to the operator

C A P E CScientific Basis

Management of safety critical plant operations

The plant safety design

framework

Human machine interfaces and

decision support

Control Systems Design for Safe

Operations

Industrial Cases

Concepts and tools for functional modelling

Engineering tool prototypes

End user prototypes

C A P E CFM Workbench(Functional Hazop)

C A P E CComplex systems require an integrated design approach

Process design

Control & supervision

Human-Machine

Interaction

RiskManagement

A Chemical Process Ontology is essential

Nordic Cooperation in PSE research and education

Claes Breitholtz, Chalmers

Inter-Nordic PSE Research

The possibilities to perform inter-Nordic PSE research are potentially very good, particularly due to the following facts:

1. The average scientific level of Nordic PSE research is very high.

2. The technological level in the Nordic countries in a number of PSE industrial key areas is very high.

3. The NPC now has some 20 Years of experience, implying that an inter-Nordic PSE network exists (and will hopefully be extended).

4. As EU grows and becomes more complex, Nordiska Rådet appears to be an interesting complement for the rather small Nordic countries.

Inter-Nordic PSE Research Funding

The major problem most often is the one of research funding. In at least Sweden there has been increasing difficulties to get PSE related projects funded during the last 10 – 15 years.

Two approaches to the funding of inter-Nordic cooperation could be:

1. Nordisk Industrifond. A cooperation between industrial companies from more than one country is (in addition to

the academic participation) required.

2. EU 7th Research Programme. Here we have the traditional EU STREP-projects, having the usual pros and cons of EU-projects. There is yet some possibilities in the mobility of researchers, and in particular the so called Marie Curie Action. For example, the Initial Training Networks (ITN), aiming at PhD-students and post- docs from member states and associated countries. If funded, a three (or two) year stay at a host university is made possible.

Inter-Nordic PSE Education

1. Swedish universities, among them Chalmers and KTH, are engaged in the Bologna process, increasing the possibilities to take students from other countries in general.

Two PSE related Masters programs, Systems, Control and Mechatronics and Innovative and Sustainable Chemical Engineering, will start at Chalmers in September 2007.

All Masters-education at Chalmers is given in English.

2. A centre Chemical Process Engineering is established at Chalmers. The members of this centre are companies and

one important task is to provide industrially relevant courses, free of charge for members (but so far given in swedish).

3. There are a large number of graduate schools at Chalmers and KTH. At Chalmers there are for example a graduate school in Signals and Systems. (Graduate courses are in English.)

PSE RESEARCH AT TKK

• Units:

- Chemical Engineering, prof. Aittamaa

- Plant Design, prof. Hurme

- Process Automation, prof. Jämsä-Jounela

- Industrial Chemistry, prof. Krause

- Polymer Technology, prof. Seppälä

- Bioprocess Engineering, prof. Leisola

PSE RESEARCH AT TKK

• Important areas:

- Process automation

- Phenomena based process modelling and simulation

- Separation processes

- Process design and development

- Biofuel processes

CO-OPERATION OPPORTUNITIES / EDUCATION

Bologna system:

• MSc level

• PhD level

• PSE International Master Program at TKK

• Student exchange; Erasmus; Sokrates

CO-OPERATION OPPORTUNITIES / RESEARCH

• Potential co-operation areas: - Biofuel process systems; biorefineries- Information technology in process control & design- Application of optimization methods for examples in pulp and

papermaking- Physical-chemical modelling

• Financing:- Nordforsk- Norden- Academy of Finland etc.- Industries

• Creating Nordic Center of Excellence in PSE ?