Agenda

Hosted by
Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712

March 2 - 3, 2015
Peter O'Donnel Building (POB) - Room 2.402
(Also known as ACES)

Monday, March 2, 2015

8:30 a.m.	Breakfast
9:00	Introduction/Agenda Overview	T. Edgar, UT
9:10	PI Overviews	T. Edgar (UT) M. Baldea (UT) J. Qin (USC) J. Rawlings (UW)
10:15	Break
10:30	Flexible Residential Energy: Making the Case for Home Energy Management	K. Perez (UT)
10:50	Multiloop Control of Post-Combustion Amine Scrubbing	M. Walters (UT)
11:15	Data-driven Modeling of Plasma Etch Batch Process	B. Lu (UT)
11:40-1:00	Lunch: O's Dining Room - POB 2.222
1:00	Process Learning Data Pipeline in Big Data Infrastructure	S. Xu (UT)
1:25	Model-Based Control of Steam-Methane Reformers	A. Kumar (UT)
1:50	Closed Loop Control Using Wireless Field Devices	Terry Blevins, Emerson
2:35	Break
2:45	Integration of Production Scheduling and Model Predictive Control	C. Touretzky (UT)
3:05	Mixed-Integer Model Predictive Control for HVAC Systems in Commercial Buildings	M. Risbeck (UW)
3:25	District Combined Heat and Power and Photovoltaic Power Generation: Data-Driven Modeling and Optimal Operation	A. Ondeck (UT)
3:45	Discussion of the Expansion of TWCCC to Other Universities
4:30	Poster Session
6:00	Adjourn
6:30	Dinner – County Line on the Lake—5204 F.M. 2222

Poster Session

Student	Poster Title
V. Duribe (UT)	Design of Injection Rate Signals for Optimal Parameter Estimation
V. Heng (UT)	Energy Oriented Modeling and Control of Heat Treating Roller Hearth Furnaces
A. Kumar (UT)	Model-Based Control of Steam-Methane Reformers
B. Lu (UT)	Data-driven Modeling (Virtual Metrology) of Plasma Etch Process in Semiconductor Manufacturing
A. Ondeck (UT)	District Combined Heat and Power and Photovoltaic Power Generation: Data-Driven Modeling and Optimal Operation
R. Pattison (UT)	Robust Design Concepts for Autothermal Microchannel Reactors
K. Perez (UT)	Flexible Residential Energy: Making the Case for Home Energy Management
B. Roach (UT)	Modeling and Control of a Divided Wall Distillation Column
C. Touretzky (UT)	Optimal Energy Management for Buildings with Thermal Energy Storage
M. Walters (UT)	Dynamic Modeling, Validation, and Time Scale Decomposition of an Advanced Post-Combustion Amine Scrubbing Process
R. Wang (UT)	Application of Radial Plots for Fault Detection and Trajectory Identification Purposes
S. Wang (UT)	Identification Based Optimization of Dynamical Systems under Uncertainty
S. Xu (UT)	Process Learning Data Pipeline in Big Data Infrastructure
M. Risbeck (UW)	Mixed-Integer Model Predictive Control for Commercial HVAC Systems

 

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

8:15 a.m.	Meeting with PI’s and Sponsors – Continental Breakfast
9:00	Application of Radial Plots for Fault Detection and Trajectory Identification Purposes	R. Wang (UT)
9:25	Robust Design Concepts for Autothermal Microchannel Reactors	R. Pattison (UT)
9:50	Break
10:05	Multiscale Optimization for Chemical Processes	Larry Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University
10:50	Energy-Efficient Manufacturing: Application to the Modeling of Austenitization Furnaces	V. Heng (UT)
11:15	Modeling and Control of a Divided Wall Distillation Column	B. Roach (UT)
11:45	Closing Comments - Adjourn	M. Baldea (UT)