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SUMMARY:Control and Optimization at ABB Corporate Research Switzerland
DTSTART:20121005T101500
DTEND:20121005T110000
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DESCRIPTION:Mehmet Mercangöz\nAt ABB Corporate Research "Control and Opti
 mization" is the name of one of the ten global research programs. Scientis
 ts in five ABB research centers around the globe - including the research 
 center in Switzerland- take part in projects in this program. The R&D proj
 ects involve the use of a wide variety of methods ranging from condition m
 onitoring and fault detection to model predictive control and real time op
 timization and they cover an even wider variety of applications ranging fr
 om control of variable speed electric drives to scheduling of overhead cra
 ne operations. In this talk an overview of the R&D activities in Control a
 nd Optimization at the research center in Switzerland will be presented ba
 sed on recent scientific publications and patent applications. The topics 
 will include advanced control of mineral processing\, oil and gas producti
 on \, and power generation applications\, as well as the application of mo
 del predictive control to fast transient systems. A common backdrop is the
  advances in computational as well as algorithmic capabilities in the fiel
 d of optimization and their impact on driving applications with larger pro
 blem sizes or faster sampling rates.\n\nBio:\nMehmet Mercangöz is current
 ly the group leader for Control and Optimization at ABB Corporate Research
  Switzerland. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Boğaziçi Un
 iversity\, İstanbul\, Turkey\, in 2000 and 2002\, respectively and obtain
 ed 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 m
 odel predictive control.  He has joined ABB Corporate Research Switzerlan
 d right after his graduation in 2007 and since then worked as a scientist 
 and principal scientist at the same research group. His current research a
 t ABB is focussed on the modeling\, control\, and optimization of thermody
 namic systems such as gas compressors\, solar thermal power plants\, or el
 ectro-thermal energy storage units.
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