Hello,
I have a post.doc. position (2 years) available in the area of
"plantwide control".
Originally I had a candidate lined up, but there was a change in plans.
Do you want to apply or do you have any candidates to recommend? Starting
time can be soon.
Best regards,
Sigurd Skogestad
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POST.DOC. POSITION PLANTWIDE CONTROL AT NTNU
Principal objectives and subgoals
Plantwide control deals with structure of the control system for a
complete chemical plant. This is a widely recognized as the most
important issue for chemical process control, yet its theoretical basis
remains quite weak. The principal objective of this project is to
strengthen the theoretical basis for the structural issues related to
plantwide control
. This application is for funding for one or more
post.doc.s for a total period of 3 years.
Project summary
Recently, Skogestad (2004} have also proposed a systematic method for
control structure. The proposed research will focus on further
improvement of this method, including the following issues:
1. Self-optimizing Control
2. Achievable decentralized performance
3. Decentralized integral controllability
4. Computational complexity
5. Complexity of the control system
6. Secondary controlled variables
When completed, the utility of the proposed approach will be demonstrated
through case studies, e.g. the Vinyl Acetate process. At the completion
of this project, a systematic method will emerge that would help the
plant engineers for control structure design of new plants as well as
retrofit of existing plants. It is expected that in addition to improving
control, the analysis will also reveal some directions for design of
energy efficient plants.
Project publication plan
The principal investigator (S. Skogestad) has an excellent
publication record, and all the relevant results from this work will be
published in international journals. Also, the results have industrial
relevance, and close contact will be maintained with Norwegian industry,
including Statoil, Hydro, Gassco and ABB as well as smaller companies
like Cybernetica, Prediktor and Fantoft Prosess. Through our
participation in the new EU-funded Research training network
PROMATCH (Marie Curie) the results will also be disseminated to
researchers and students throughout Europe.
Conditions:
Contract will be for 2 years, Salary (taxable): About NOK 29000 per
month. (3500 Euro per month)
Please send application as soon as possible to: Professor Sigurd
Skogestad
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Sigurd Skogestad, Professor and Head Phone:
+47-7359-4154
Department of Chemical Engineering
Home: +47-7393-6855
Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU) Fax:
7359-4080
N-7491
Trondheim
email: skoge@chemeng.ntnu.no
Norway
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Received on Thu Dec 16 08:11:05 2004