Welcome to the website of the Technical Committee 6.1 on Chemical Process Control of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
Chemical processes are central in many sectors, spanning from oil and gas, batteries, petrochemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals, microelectronics, agrochemicals, biotechnology, and to pulp and paper. The scope of TC 6.1 is the development of modeling, analysis, and control techniques tailored to the needs of chemical and biotechnological processes and the application to bench-, pilot-, and production-scale processes. The analysis and modeling techniques span from first-principles approaches, machine learning, and hybride methods, supported by data analytics. Systems synthesis includes the design of plant-wide centralized and decentralized control architectures and operation support systems, the selection and placement of system components (including sensors and actuators), model-based and model-free controller design and tuning, and process and quality monitoring.
TC 6.1 supports research, development, technology transfer, and education in all of these areas.
The TC actively contributes to conferences and symposia of IFAC, IEEE, and EUCA. The main IFAC Symposia of TC 6.1 are
- the IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), and
- the IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems (DYCOPS) – co-organized by TC 6.1 and TC 8.4.
The Technical Committee 6.1 on Chemical Process Control furthermore co-sponsors many IFAC events and co-sponsored events, such as NMPC, NOLCOS, ALCOS, … to name just a few.
Structure and members
The TC has more than 130 members worldwide.
Chairs
Jong Min Lee (Chair), Seoul National University, South Korea, [email protected]
Rolf Findeisen (Vice Chair), TU Darmstadt, Germany, [email protected]
Martha A. Grover, (Vice Chair Education) Georgiatech, USA, [email protected]
Martin Mönnigmann (Vice Chair Publications), Bochum University, Germany, [email protected]
Tom Badgwell (Vice Chair Industry), CSI Automation, USA, [email protected]
Joel Paulson (Vice Chair Social Media), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, [email protected]
