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APC 2002
Advanced Process Control Applications for Industry Workshop
     
Downtown Vancouver overlooking Robson Square
April 29, 30 and May 1, 2002
Vancouver, Canada
 

The workshop is a meeting of those interested in applying Advanced Process Control technology to improve performance of the process industries. Practical installation experience and results are presented for discussion.

Plant operations today are faced with ever-increasing pressure to improve efficiency, quality and productivity. Without making fundamental changes to their production processes, improvement can usually be made with the application of advanced control technology. Using modern computer hardware, software and innovative techniques, application engineers are able to collect real time and historical data on their processes. Data analysis, modeling and simulation provide a better understanding of the dynamics of process behavior. Once the process characteristics are accurately identified, the options for applying suitable control methodology are no longer limited to conventional control techniques.

Conference Program Summary
(Go to Technical Program for details)

Certificates for 1.4 IEEE CEU credits will be given to all participants.

APRIL 29, 2002
Tutorial (Full Day Session)

Dr. Ioan Doré Landau: Research Director at C.N.R.S.(National Centre for Scientific Research) and works at the Laboratoire d'Automatique de Grenoble (CNRS/INPG) of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble.

  • Identification in Closed Loop: A Powerful Design Tool (better design models, simpler controllers 
  • From Robust Control to Adaptive Control 
  • Direct controller order reduction by identification in closed loop. Application to an active suspension

 

APRIL 30, 2002
Tutorial (2 Half-Day Sessions)

Dr. Brent Young: Associated Professor at the University of Calgary.

  • The Use of Dynamic Simulation in the Design and Testing of a Model Predictive Control Scheme

Dr. Tariq Samad: Corporate Fellow at Honeywell Laboratories, the central R&D organization for the corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

  • Technologies for Enterprise Optimization
MAY 1, 2002
Presenters (Morning Session)

Dr. Sirish Shah: Professor at the University of Alberta, NSERC-Matrikon-ASRA Senior Industrial Research Chair in Computer Process Control.

  • Data mining for knowledge extraction in data-overloaded process environments

Dr. Guy Dumont: Professor leading Process Control in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia.

  • Concepts, Methods, and Techniques in Adaptive Control

Dr. Doug White: President, APC Services, for the Performance Solutions Division of Emerson Process Management.

  • The "Smart" Plant: Economics and Opportunities 

Dr. Vance VanDoren: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.

  • Techniques for Adaptive Control
Papers (Afternoon Session)
Online Implementation of a Fundamental Model for a Continuous Kamyr Digester

Sharad Bhartiya & Francis J. Doyle III (University of Delaware), Ferhan Kayihan (Ietek, Inc.), Sachi Dash (Honeywell)

Fuzzy Logic in Parameter Estimation of Induction Motor Pradeep Chatterjee (Tata Engineering, M. Priyadarshini, B.M. Karan, P.K. Sinha (EE Dept., B.I.. Mesra, Ranchi, India)
Industrial Experience with the Maintenance of On-Line Multivariable Statistical Applications Ivan Miletic (Dofasco Inc.)
Lime Kiln Model Predictive Control with a Residual Carbonate Soft Sensor Terrance Chmelyk (Norpac Controls)
Two Dimensional Loop Shaping for Cross-Directional Controller Tuning G.E. Stewart, C. Gheorghe, T. Steele (Honeywell Industry Solutions)
Model Predictive Control of Chemical Batch Reactors Bill Gough (Universal Dynamics Technologies)
Process Fault Detection and Signal Reconstruction using Statistical and Advanced Techniques Chris Cox (University of Sunderland, UK)

 

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Click here to read the wrap-up report from APC 2002 workshop
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