Control and Optimization at ABB Corporate Research Switzerland
Event details
| Date | 05.10.2012 |
| Hour | 10:15 › 11:00 |
| Speaker | Mehmet Mercangöz |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
At ABB Corporate Research "Control and Optimization" is the name of one of the ten global research programs. Scientists in five ABB research centers around the globe - including the research center in Switzerland- take part in projects in this program. The R&D projects involve the use of a wide variety of methods ranging from condition monitoring and fault detection to model predictive control and real time optimization and they cover an even wider variety of applications ranging from control of variable speed electric drives to scheduling of overhead crane operations. In this talk an overview of the R&D activities in Control and Optimization at the research center in Switzerland will be presented based on recent scientific publications and patent applications. The topics will include advanced control of mineral processing, oil and gas production , and power generation applications, as well as the application of model predictive control to fast transient systems. A common backdrop is the advances in computational as well as algorithmic capabilities in the field of optimization and their impact on driving applications with larger problem sizes or faster sampling rates.
Bio:
Mehmet Mercangöz is currently the group leader for Control and Optimization at ABB Corporate Research Switzerland. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 2000 and 2002, respectively and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 all in Chemical Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis was in the area of distributed model predictive control. He has joined ABB Corporate Research Switzerland right after his graduation in 2007 and since then worked as a scientist and principal scientist at the same research group. His current research at ABB is focussed on the modeling, control, and optimization of thermodynamic systems such as gas compressors, solar thermal power plants, or electro-thermal energy storage units.
Bio:
Mehmet Mercangöz is currently the group leader for Control and Optimization at ABB Corporate Research Switzerland. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey, in 2000 and 2002, respectively and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 all in Chemical Engineering. His Ph.D. thesis was in the area of distributed model predictive control. He has joined ABB Corporate Research Switzerland right after his graduation in 2007 and since then worked as a scientist and principal scientist at the same research group. His current research at ABB is focussed on the modeling, control, and optimization of thermodynamic systems such as gas compressors, solar thermal power plants, or electro-thermal energy storage units.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Colin Jones
Contact
- Colin Jones (colin.jones@epfl.ch)