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Process Control Workshop Program

Tuesday, September 27

17:00 Welcome greeting and registration for early arrivals at the Pufendorf Institute (map)

Wednesday, September 28

08:15 Registration at the Pufendorf Institute (map) opens
09:00

Welcoming remarks
Viktor Öwall - Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University
Anders Rantzer - Chairman of the LCCC
Bernt Nilsson - Centre Leader of PICLU

09:30 Travels in process reality
Karl Johan Åström
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Optimal resource allocation in industrial complexes by distributed optimization and dynamic pricing
Sebastian Engell
11:00 OPC united architecture as a platform for automation
Dave Emerson
11:30 Lunch, served at Tegnérs (5 min walk, map)
13:00 Research on economic performance assessment and diagnosis of industrial MPC
Hongye Su
13:30 Control design and verification with physics based models for HVAC/R applications
Junqiang (James) Fan
14:00 Coffee
14:30 A process control perspective to managing production-inventory systems: modeling, forecasting, and control
Daniel Rivera
15:00 Online scheduling: basics, paradoxes and open questions
Christos Maravelias
15:30 Group discussions until 16:30

Thursday, September 29

09:00 A systemic procedure for economic plantwide control
Sigurd Skogestad
09:30 Practical and theoretical aspects of plant wide control for chemical plants
Krister Forsman
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Group Discussions
11:30 Lunch, served at Tegnérs (5 min walk, map)
13:00 The IoT of automation - a totally new way to look at control and automation in the process industries
Don Clark
13:30 The Future Control System Environment, as envisioned by the ExxonMobil Next Generation Control System Pilot Project
Dennis Brandl
14:00 Coffee
14:30 Dark data? The use of sensor data in process monitoring and control
Margret Bauer
15:00 Data-driven modeling of batch processes: two methodological generalizations of DoE
Christos Georgakis
15:30 Group Discussions until 16:30
17:00 Departure to dinner at Häckeberga Castle

Friday, September 30

09:00 Performance improvements in extremum seeking control 
Martin Guay
 
09:30 Recent Development on global self-optimizing control.
Yi Cao
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Model-based Controls and Systems Engineering for Building and Aircraft Systems
Stevo Mijanovic
11:00 Recent advances in paper machine control
Guy Dumont
11:30 Lunch, served at Tegnérs (5 min walk, map)
13:00 Panel summary of group discussions
15:00 Closing coffee