The 14th Nordic Process Control Workshop August 23, 2007 Nordic Process Control Workshop panelCHAIR Prof. Matti Leisola Head of the Chemical Technology Dept. Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Nordic Co-Operation in Process System Engineering (PSE) Research and Education

Nordic Co-Operation in Process System Engineering (PSE) Research and Education 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 Engineering 1989 founded PDDC (process design, dynamics and conrol) 1997 cofounder of CAPEC (Computer Aided Process and Product Center) co director of CAPEC - member of CAPEC

Panelist Prof. Claes Breitholz, Chalmers

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

Questions for the panel Opportunities your university/institute could offer for Nordic co-operation in research education Suggestions for the co-operation format in research and education Possible research areas

8 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

9 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) The first question if /Present

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 C CAPEC COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS AND PRODUCT ENGINEERING TOOLS APPLICATIONSTECHNOLOGY CONTINUITY/CONSOLIDATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER NEW DIRECTIONS PROJECTS TRANSFER

C A P E C Nordic 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 C Industrial 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 C Challenges 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 C Scientific Basis

C A P E C FM Workbench ( Functional Hazop)

C A P E C Complex systems require an integrated design approach 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 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 ?