CALL FOR PAPERS
The symposium is focused on the topics of novel research results and applications in control of energy related systems and processes. Energy production and delivery systems have to meet the new challenges coming from increased energy consumption and environmental aspects. The variety of energy sources and distributed power generation increase the need for more efficient control of power plants and power systems. Another issue beside the control of the balance of generation and consumption is the environmental aspect. Emissions control, energy saving technology, and development of new energy production systems will be discussed. Energy is one of the most important topics now and in the future. The scope of the symposium is to present and discuss the latest developments in energy related systems and processes.
The official language of the symposium is English.
The generic topics include but are not limited to
Renewable energy solutions and environmental aspects
o Applications of wind, tidal, solar and wave energy technologies
o Control strategies to meet environmental regulations
o Energy saving technologies
o Energy related environmental aspects in developing countries
Operation, planning and analysis of power systems
o Control of power systems under the challenge caused by uncontrolled power generation
o Distributed Generation
o Control and operation of micro-grids interfacing with large power systems
o Hydro scheduling, unit commitment and hydro-thermal coordination
o Substitution of nuclear power plant based base load generation by clusters of different type of power plants (virtual base load power plants)
o System identification for diagnosis, fault detection and isolation
o Flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) – applications and experiences
o Transmission and generation expansion planning in the deregulated environment
o Dynamic security analysis – preventive and emergency control
o Advanced techniques in power system analysis
o Load forecasting and production planning of power systems
o Asset management of power systems
o Energy efficiency of power systems
o Future power networks, smart grid concepts
o Ultra High Voltage Power Transmission of Super Grids (AC 1000 kV and DC 800kV)
Deregulated power markets
o Effects of carbon trade to energy markets
o Bidding systems and bidding strategies with spot pricing
o Congestion solver and transmission wheeling cost evaluation
o Coordination of power plant operation with power system operation in a restructured and competitive utility environment
o Security, monitoring, analysis, and control in deregulated power systems
o Technical impact of deregulation on power system control
o System frequency control strategies utilizing active and reactive power reserves provided by independent power producers
o Generating company side strategies of power plant operation under deregulated environments
o Demand side management in coordination with the pumped water storage and the cogeneration in the deregulated markets
Instrumentation and control systems, information processing, networking and communication
o Open distributed systems for control centers
o Design issues in computer inter-networking, linking power plants, substations, control centers, and
Networks in the enterprise
o Applications of modern digital communication technologies for operation and control networks
o Use of internet in the analysis, operation and control of wide area networks
Modeling, simulation, control methods and real time operation
o Power plant modeling
o Applications of modelling and simulators for control system design
o Distributed intelligent control and multiagent systems for power plants and power systems
o Control systems with identifier and parameter identification
o Control concepts for start up, low load, and wide-range operation of power plants
o Modelling and control of supercritical boilers
o Control strategies to meet environmental regulations
o Modeling and control of non-conventional energy sources and/or distributed generation
o Advanced instrumentation and control concepts for power plants
o Man-machine interface considerations in control rooms
o Operator training simulators for power plants and power systems
o Voltage and reactive power control
o Nonlinear control of power plants and power systems
o Control aspects of load management and load modeling
o Power plant monitoring, fault diagnosis and fault accommodation
Draft papers max.
6 pages and 1 MB are called in PDF format
complying
with IFAC-POL guidelines.
ZIP compression is
encouraged. All contributions must be in their final form according to IFAC style.
Please refer to http://www.ifac-control.org/events/information-for-ifac-authors .
Papers should be submitted as E-mail attachments to the Secretariat: office@atu.fi.
The material submitted for presentation at an IFAC meeting (Congress, Symposium, Conference, Workshop) must be original, not published or being considered elsewhere. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Preprints of the meeting and will be distributed to the participants. Proceedings of the IFAC Congress, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops will be hosted on-line on the IFAC-PapersOnLine.net website. The presented papers will be further screened for possible publication in the IFAC Journals (Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, Annual Reviews in Control, Journal of Process Control , Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and Mechatronics), or in IFAC affiliated journals. All papers presented will be recorded as an IFAC Publication. Copyright of material presented at an IFAC meeting is held by IFAC. Authors will be required to transfer copyrights electronically and/or in hard copy. The IFAC Journals and, after these, IFAC affiliated journals have priority access to all contributions presented. However, if the author is not contacted by an editor of these journals, within three months after the meeting, he/she is free to submit an expanded version of the presented material for journal publication elsewhere. In this case, the paper must carry a reference to the IFAC meeting where it was originally presented and, if the paper has appeared on the website www.IFAC-PapersOnLine.net , also a reference to this publication.
IFAC PP&PSC 2009 Copyright form in doc format.
The registration fee for the symposium will be 500 EUR and for students 260 EUR. An early registration fee will apply to all delegates who register before 24 April 2009. A late fee will be 600 EUR. The fee for accompanying persons will be announced later.
The registration fee includes admission to all the sessions during three days, symposium prepint in CD form, lunches, coffees, get-together party and symposium dinner. Students are entitled to symposium dinner on extra fee. Short technical excursions focused on power generation and power systems are also included.
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