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Politechniki Łódzkiej
Łódź, 22-24 listopada 2023
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Referat plenarny "Intelligent Control System for Low-Carbon Operation of Energy Intensive Equipment Based on End-edge-cloud Collaboration" wygłosi prof. prof. Tianyou Chai, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Chiny.

Process industry in China mainly include raw material industry such as petrochemicals, steel, nonferrous metals, building materials, mining, and energy industry such as electric power. The scale of China's process industry is the largest in the world. It serves as an important basic support industry for China. However, its energy consumption accounts for more than half of China's total energy consumption. Improving energy efficiency is essential for reducing carbon dioxide emission intensity. Therefore, saving industrial electricity has become an important means to realize low-carbon industry. Energy intensive equipment are commonly used in the above-mentioned industries. Due to the comprehensive complexity of energy intensive equipment, it is difficult to use the existing modelling, control and optimization methods to realize its operational optimized control. Therefore, manual operational control methods are adopted in the energy intensive equipment. The manual operational control method is a key reason for the high energy consumption of energy intensive equipment. Realizing the operational optimized control of energy intensive equipment, and achieving energy saving and emission reduction are the keys to its low-carbon operation.

CPS provides new research ideas for realizing low-carbon operational control of energy intensive equipment. Industrial Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a new technical foundation for realizing low-carbon operational control of energy intensive equipment. With the development of mobile internet represented by 5G, edge computing, cloud computing and cloud platform software, the Industrial Internet has been born. Industrial Internet creates conditions for obtaining industrial big data. The end-edge-cloud collaboration technology of Industrial Internet creates conditions for the realization of big data-driven industrial AI algorithms. The synergy of industrial AI and Industrial Internet creates conditions for realization of intelligent control for low-carbon operation of energy intensive equipment.

Based on the analysis of the operational control behavior of operation experts of energy intensive equipment, this talk proposes an intelligent control method for low-carbon operation by combining mechanism analysis with deep learning, control and optimization with prediction. The method makes the energy consumption per ton as small as possible within the target range. It consists of setpoint control, self-optimized tuning and tracking control. An intelligent control system for low-carbon operation is developed by adopting end-edge-cloud collaboration technology of Industrial Internet. The system is successfully applied to the fused magnesium furnace and achieves remarkable results in reducing carbon emissions.


Tianyou Chai received the Ph.D. degree in control theory and engineering in 1985 from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, where he became a Professor in 1988. He is the founder and Director of the Center of Automation, which became a National Engineering and Technology Research Center and a State Key Laboratory. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, IFAC Fellow and IEEE Fellow. He has served as director of Department of Information Science of National Natural Science Foundation of China from 2010 to 2018.

His current research interests include modeling, control, optimization and integrated automation of complex industrial processes.

He has published 322 peer reviewed international journal papers. His paper titled Hybrid intelligent control for optimal operation of shaft furnace roasting process was selected as one of three best papers for the Control Engineering Practice Paper Prize for 2011-2013. He has developed control technologies with applications to various industrial processes. For his contributions, he has won 5 prestigious awards of National Natural Science, National Science and Technology Progress and National Technological Innovation, the 2007 Industry Award for Excellence in Transitional Control Research from IEEE Multiple-conference on Systems and Control, and the 2017 Wook Hyun Kwon Education Award from Asian Control Association.

Strona zaktualizowana: 8.10.2023