Fra: Knut Wiig Mathisen, Norsk Hydro F-senter
(dette er en internt Hydro-referat som også kan være av interesse for PROST)
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Short summary from IFAC workshop on On-line Fault Detection and Supervision
in the Chemical Process Industries.
Solaize (Lyon), France, 04-05 June 1998
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The conference featured 46 oral and 30 poster presentations, 100 academic and industrial people
attended. There were only one or two participants from each of the Nordic Countries. From Norway, P.
Fantoni from IFE Halden (a considerable capacity on fuzzy logic and neural networks) also attended.
The session names illustrate the main aspects of this field with Computer Aided Process Engineering. I
will send aroung the proceeedings.
Main companies and universities at the Workshop.
IFP. The organisers. They (i.e. B. Braunschweig) also presented CapeOpen project on building a
general standard for process simulation to enable seamless addition of own and third party software in
flowsheet simulation.
Elf Acquitaine. Sponsors. They (I.e. E. Zaggagino) also gave an interested overview over Elf activities
in this and related CAPE fields. Elf is a main participant in several large standardisation project
including POSC and CapeOpen.
Gensym. Sponsors. Still the vaste majority of the applications presented are implemented and run in
G2.
Honeywell. They (i.e. I. Nimmo) presented the large american research programme Abnormal
Situations Management. Presently spent over 150 MNOK, and they plan to continue using exclusively
own (partner) funding.
Newcastle University. They (i.e. J. Morris and E. Britton and students) presented several interesting
papers in the field of Neural Networks and Principal Component Analysis. They will soon visit the
Research Centre, and this is something I now look very much forward to. Newcastle University is also
the main technolgy provider in the Prognosis project, another EU project that Unilever is coordinating.
University of Delaware. Professpr P. Djurhati was the head of the international programme committee
and was the one initiating this series of triannial workshop. The previous ones were held at the
University of Delaware in 1992 and Newcastle University(?) in 1995. They (Djurhati and coworker
presented two interesting papers on industrial implementation of fault detection.
Further, I liked a paper on fault detection and diagnosis on a sugar beet plant in former East Germany
and a paper on waste water (heavy metal removal) treatment from France.
On the negative side was several academic papers with no real data, especially those with Asian
presenters not fluent in English.
My presentation on PRIDE went reasonably well and several people were interested in more details
about the project and the future commericial product. Rob Kooijmans helped me with a rehearsal (we
removed 4 slides the evening before the presentation) and presented the Unilever application part of the
paper.
The transportation, meals and social meetings were very well organised, and the weather was humid
but warm and very nice for a Norwegian jogger.
Knut W. M.
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