Process Industrial Centre at Lund University
Researchers: Johan Åkesson, Tore Hägglund, Martin Hast, Charlotta Johnsson, Ola Johnsson, Per-Ola Larsson, Anna Lindholm, Vanessa Romero Segovia, Kristian Soltesz
With support from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), the process industrial centre PIC-LU has been established in collaboration with the department of Chemical Engineering.
The overall goal of PIC-LU is to establish, in cooperation with Swedish process industry, an internationally leading centre for research and professional training in process optimization and control.
In the research program, methodology and tools for modelling, optimization, and control of industrial processes are developed, in order to improve production systems with respect to flexibility, controllability, and availability. The methodology and the tools are developed from specific solutions to process control problems suggested by the industrial partners. The goal is to make the results from PIC-LU industrially relevant, not only for the participating industries, but on a wide scale in process op- eration and automation. The industrial partners are Borealis, K A Rasmussen, Modelon, Novo Nordisk, NovoZymes, Perstorp, and Pfizer.
In the competence development program, the main goal is to increase the competence level of process optimization and control in industry as well as in academy. The goal will be reached in two ways; through an educational program at different levels for staff in process industry, and by directed efforts in MSc and PhD programs at the university.
Links
PICLU web page
Publications
Olof Garpinger, Tore Hägglund, Lars Cederqvist: "Software for PID design: benefits and pitfalls". In IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, Brescia, Italy, March 2012.
Tore Hägglund: "Signal Filtering in PID Control". In IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, Brescia, Italy, March 2012.
Olof Garpinger, Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström: "Criteria and Trade-offs in PID Design". In IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, Brescia, Italy, March 2012.
Anna Lindholm, Charlotta Johnsson, Tore Hägglund, Hampus Carlsson: "Reducing revenue loss due to disturbances in utilities using buffer tanks - A case study at Perstorp". In Conference on Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO2012), Savannah, Georgia, USA, January 2012.
Lars Cederqvist, Olof Garpinger, Tore Hägglund, Anders Robertsson: "Cascade control of the friction stir welding process to seal canisters for spent nuclear fuel". Control Engineering Practice, 20:1, pp. 35–48, January 2012.
Kristian Soltesz: "On Automation of the PID Tuning Procedure". Licentiate Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--3254--SE--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, January 2012.
Anna Lindholm, Charlotta Johnsson, Tore Hägglund, Hampus Carlsson: "Reducing revenue loss due to disturbances in utilities using buffer tanks - A case study at Perstorp". In 17th Nordic Process Control Workshop, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark, January 2012.
Per-Ola Larsson, Johan Åkesson, Niclas Carlsson, Niklas Andersson: "Modeling of the PE3 Plant at Borealis AB". Technical Report ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--7622--SE--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, January 2012.
José Luis Guzmán, Tore Hägglund, Antonio Visioli: "Feedforward compensation for PID control loops". In Ramon Vilanova, Antonio Visioli (Eds.) (Eds.): PID control in the third millenium, Springer, January 2012.
Per-Ola Larsson, Johan Åkesson, Niklas Andersson: "Economic Cost Function Design and Grade Change Optimization for a Gas Phase Polyethylene Reactor". In 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 2011.
Per-Ola Larsson: Optimization of Low-Level Controllers and High-Level Polymer Grade Changes. PhD Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--1088--SE--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, November 2011.
Juan Garrido, Francisco Vázquez, Fernando Morilla, Tore Hägglund: "Practical advantages of inverted decoupling". Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control, 225:7, pp. 977–992, November 2011.
Anna Lindholm: "Utility Disturbance Management in the Process Industry". Licentiate Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--3253--SE--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, October 2011.
Kristian Soltesz, Charlotta Johnsson, Tore Hägglund: "Teaching Control Principles to Industry Practitioners". In SEFI Annual Conference 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2011.
Tore Hägglund: "A shape-analysis approach for diagnosis of stiction in control valves". Control Engineering Practice, 19:8, pp. 782–789, August 2011.
José Luis Guzmán, Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström, Sebastián Dormido, Manuel Berenguel, Yves Piguet: "Feedforward Control Concepts through Interactive Tools". In 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.
Kristian Soltesz, Tore Hägglund: "Extending the Relay Feedback Experiment". In 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.
Per-Ola Larsson, Johan Åkesson, Staffan Haugwitz, Niklas Andersson: "Modeling and Optimization of Grade Changes for Multistage Polyethylene Reactors". In 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.
Anna Lindholm, Hampus Carlsson, Charlotta Johnsson: "A General Method for Handling Disturbances on Utilities in the Process Industry". In 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 2011.
Per-Ola Larsson, Tore Hägglund: "Control Signal Constraints and Filter Order Selection for PI and PID Controllers". In 2011 American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, USA, June 2011.
Carl Laird, Angelica Wong, Johan Åkesson: "Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Dynamic Optimization Problems". In 21st European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering, May 2011.
Anna Lindholm, Hampus Carlsson, Charlotta Johnsson: "Estimation of Revenue Loss due to Disturbances on Utilities in the Process Industry". In 22nd Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society , Reno, Nevada, U.S.A., April 2011.
Joel Andersson, Johan Åkesson, Francesco Casella, Moritz Diehl: "Integration of CasADi and JModelica.org". In 8th International Modelica Conference, March 2011.
Anna Lindholm: "A method for improving plant availability with respect to utilities using buffer tanks". In 31st IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2011.
José Luis Guzmán, Tore Hägglund: "Simple tuning rules for feedforward compensators". Journal of Process Control, 21:1, pp. 92-102, January 2011.
Anna Lindholm, Hampus Carlsson, Charlotta Johnsson: "Availability Estimations for Utilities in the Process Industry". In 16th Nordic Process Control Workshop, Lund, Sweden, August 2010.
Per-Ola Larsson, Johan Åkesson, Staffan Haugwitz, Niklas Andersson: "Modeling and Optimization of Grade Changes for Multistage Polyethylene Reactors". In 16th Nordic Process Control Workshop, Lund, Sweden, August 2010.
Tore Hägglund (Ed.): "16th Nordic Process Control Workshop—Preprints". August 2010.
Tore Hägglund: "Steel Belt Position Control at Sandvik Process Systems". In Proc. Reglermöte, Lund, Sweden, June 2010.
Anna Lindholm, Krister Forsman, Charlotta Johnsson: "Buffer Management Strategies for Improving Plant Availability". In Proc. Reglermöte, Lund, Sweden, June 2010.
Anna Lindholm, Krister Forsman, Charlotta Johnsson: "A General Method for Defining and Structuring Buffer Management Problems". In 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2010.
Kristian Soltesz, Tore Hägglund, Karl Johan Åström: "Transfer Function Parameter Identification by Modified Relay Feedback". In 2010 American Control Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2010.
Anna Lindholm: "Buffer Management Strategies for Improving Plant Availability". Master's Thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--5832--SE--SE, Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden, January 2009.
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