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26th Nordic Process Control Workshop 2026 (NPCW 2026)
Monday, August 17, 2026
Registration. 08:30 – 09:00
Welcome. 09:00 – 09:15
Nordic Process Control Award. 09:15 – 10:15
Coffee. 10:15 – 10:30
PID Control. 10:30 – 12:10
10:30 – 10:50: Sigurd Skogestad (NTNU) - Advanced PID architectures for tracking changing active constraints
10:50 – 11:10: Margret Bauer (HAW-Hamburg) - Toward Standardising PID Controllers in the Process Industry
11:10 – 11:30: Johan Simonsson (Optimation) - PID control of rotary lime kilns using decoupling control
11:30 – 11:50: Niklas Groll (DTU) - A Systematic Plantwide Control Design Procedure for Load-Flexible Green Ammonia Plants using High-Fidelity Dynamic Simulations
11:50 – 12:10: Seyed Soheil Mansouri (SiC Systems) - Agent-oriented System Control
Lunch
MPC Control / Industry. 13:00 – 14:40
13:00 – 13:20: Marcus Krogh Nielsen (GEA Process Engineering) - Scaling a Process Control Product: Solution Architecture and Service Delivery in Industrial MPC
13:20 – 13:40: Staffan Skålén (Borouge) - Real-Time Optimization for Multi-Reactor Polymerization Process
13:40 – 14:00: Frida Norlund (Boliden) - MPC Feed-Forward for contraint handling
14:00 – 14:20: Iiro Harjunkoski (Aalto) - From Siloed Operations to Co-Designed Energy Systems: Scheduling, Control, and Flexibility
14:20 – 14:40: Zhenyu Yang (AAu Esbjerg) - Conventional Control or AI-Based Control: What We Learned from Decade Research on the Advanced Process Control for Industrial Offshore Produced Water Process
Poster Session and Coffee. 14:40 – 15:40
Chengtian Cui (Åbo Akademi University) - Stability Analysis via Poincaré Map for Binary Cyclic Distillation
Katyayani Garimella (University of Duisburg Essen / DTU) - Implementation of an Industrial embedded MPC for a Lab-scale Bioreactor
Søren Villumsen (DTU) - Modeling and Validation of a Pilot-Scale Falling-Film Evaporator
Tobias K.S. Ritschel (DTU) - Optimal control of flexible consumers’ energy demand through dynamic prices
Tobias K.S. Ritschel (DTU) - A bilevel approach to model-based control of supply temperature and velocity in district heating grids
Jonas Darweesh Fraihat (NTNU) - A Parametric Sensitivity Based Arrival Cost State Estimator
Emil Skov Martinsen (DTU) - Demonstration of EMPC of a Solvent-based Carbon Capture Pilot Plant
Arturo Desaix Lopez Rojas (Chalmers) - Non-Convex Model Predictive Control Fast Inference using Context Sensitive Neural Networks
Mathilde Guldbæk Arentsen (DTU) - Simulation of Gastointestinal Adverse Events and Weight Loss under GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment
Pierre Guiloteau (DTU) - FerroFlow: unlocking simulation software for bioprocesses - control strategy for penicillin fermentation case study
Nicolas Dobler (NTNU) - Control of a Dynamic Bioreactor with Automated Back-Off Calculating Nonlinear MPC: An Easy Example for Increased Process Safety
Andre Yamashia (Optimation) - A long-term intervention in primary education to secure equality in the workforce: preliminary results from AutoSTEM
Jingkang Liang (DTU) - Benchmarking Large Language Model Workflows for Efficient HAZOP Study Generation
Archana Kumaraswamy (NTNU) - Non-linear Modelling and PID Control for CO2 Pipeline-Injection Networks
John Bagterp Jørgensen (DTU) - Industrial MPC
John Bagterp Jørgensen (DTU) - Multi-scale simulation and control in industrial biotechnology
Shreyas Parbat (NTNU) - Control Structure Design and Real-Time Optimization for Continuous Bio-Based Aniline Production
Data-based estimation and control. 15:40 – 17:20
15:40 – 16:00: Joachim Weel Rosbo (Weel & Sandvig) - WS-PEMS: Using data reconciliation for predictive emission monitoring systems
16:00 – 16:20: Tobias Louw (Stellenbosch University) - A process optimality graph for prescriptive analytics generated using established machine learning methods
16:20 – 16:40: Tiina Marjatta Komulainen (Oslo Metropolitan University) - Clustering and optimization of nutrient removal in biological waste water treatment
16:40 – 17:00: Jonas Darweesh Fraihat (NTNU) - High-Dimensional State Estimation with Commercial Process Simulators Using a Variant of the Unscented Kalman Filter
17:00 – 17:20: Soroush Rastegarpour (ABB) - Safe Exploration in Nonlinear Processes: A Probabilistic Control Framework
NPC Group Meeting (NPC Board). 17:30 — 18:15
Royal NPCW Dinner (Madklubbben, Kgs. Lyngby). 19:15 – 23:00
19:15 – 23:00: Royal NPCW 2026 dinner at Madklubben in Kgs. Lyngby
Venue: Madklubben Lyngby, Kanalvej 3, 2800 Kongens Lyngby
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Applications. 08:30 – 09:50
08:30 – 08:50: Karim Davari Benam (ABB) - Process Control and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities
08:50 – 09:10: Marius Fredriksen (NTNU) - Control of Multi-Stack PEM Water Electrolyzer Systems: From Optimal Operating Regimes to Control Structure Design
09:10 – 09:30: Osama Sadki (Luleå University of Technology) - Robust Nonlinear Control Design for a Multistage Hydrogen and Intercooling System
09:30 – 09:50: Isac Borgheld (Chalmers) - Estimating the Graphite Electrode Phase Evolution from Electrode Potential Measurements
09:50 – 10:10: Tuse Asras (DTU) - Supervisory Control of Modular Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing for Enhanced Economic Resilience
Coffee. 10:10 – 10:30
Modeling for Control. 10:30 – 12:10
10:30 – 10:50: Beatrice Daniel Issara (NTNU) - Complete Subsea oil-water Separation
10:50 – 11:10: Daniel Åke Johan Jakobsson (Chalmers) - One-shot DFN parameter estimation for time series
11:10 – 11:30: Johanne Lønborg Christensen (DTU) - Hybrid Modeling of Batch and Filtration Processes Using Simulink and Stateflow
11:30 – 11:50: Giacomo Sartori (NTNU) - Disturbance and phase-switch based adaptive tuning for the Kalman Filter in bioprocessing
11:50 – 12:10: Marcus Johan Schytt (DTU) - Systematic Modeling and Simulation of One-Dimensional Packed-Bed Processes
Lunch. 12:10 – 13:10
Model-based control. 13:10 – 15:00
13:10 – 13:30: Mark Haring (SINTEF) - Intuitive perturbation-based optimization applied to a dividing-wall distillation column
13:30 – 13:50: Lipe Lima Carmel (NTNU) - Performance Limits in Feedback Control of Biomass in Continuous Fermentation
13:50 – 14:10: Philip Pably (DTU) - MIMO control for recombinant protein production in a 2-feed microbial cultivation
14:10 – 14:30: Eden Ngowi (NTNU) - Learning-based Health Aware Model Predictive Control: Case Study of Gas-Lift Oil Wells and Haber-Bosch Process
14:30 – 14:50: Tobias K.S. Ritschel (DTU) - Approximation of linear-quadratic regulators for delay differential equations with distributed delays
14:50 – 15:00: Closing remarks
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