Engineering conference (open to all), Wednesday, March 14th, 2012, 10:00 – 12:00
Teknova in cooperation with UiA and NFA is arranging Engineering conference 2012 (open to all) and a control workshop (for invited) on March 14th, 2012.
Location: Sørlandet auditorium, Første etasje, Sørlandetkunnskapspark, Gimlemoen 19
Teknova would like to invite you all to be participating in Engineering Conference and Control Workshop.
The participation in the conference and workshop is free of charge. Please forward the meeting invitation to other relevant people who might be interested to participate in the conference and the workshop.
PS: Interested participants kindly send your response to Rambabu Kandepu in order to make arrangements and send 2-3 topics of your interest from the workshop topics below.
Engineering conference, Wednesday, March 14th, 2012, 10:00 – 12:00
Program
· 10:00 – 10:05 – Welcome and Introduction remarks
· 10:05 – 10:30 – Prof. Bjarne Foss, NTNU, “Integrated Operations and the IO center – research and technology development for the offshore oil and gas sector”
· 10:30 – 10:55 – Tor Anders Hauge, Xstrata Nikkelverk, “Process control at Xstrata Nikkelverk”
· 10:55 – 11:10 – Break
· 11:10 – 11:35 – Prof. Bjørn Glemmestad, HiT, “Increased profit with improved process operation”
· 11:35 – 12:00 – Åslaug Grøvlen, Elkem Technology, “Process control challenges at Elkem”
Control workshop, Wednesday, March 14th, 2012, 12:00 – 16:00
Program
· 12:00 – 12:30 Lunch
· 12:30 – 13:00 Workshop introduction and working plan
· 13:00 - 14:30 Discussion within 2-3 groups
· 14:30 – 15:15 Presentations from each group
· 15:15 – 15:45 Discussion and follow up plan
Control workshop topics
1. Control relevant modeling and application of models
· Different types of modeling (first principles, data driven, qualitative); Use of models in process control, soft sensors (state estimation) and process optimization
2. Control loops
· Control loop design (PID, feedback and feed forward, MPC); Control loop parameters’ tuning; Control loop performance
3. Integrated ( and remote) operations
· Remote control operations; Related communications and hardware; Multidiscipline interface
4. Robotics and artificial intelligence
· Application of robotics; Use of artificial intelligence in control and different applications
