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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 [pdf, slides]
10:50 – 11:10: Margret Bauer (HAW-Hamburg) - Toward Standardising PID Controllers in the Process Industry [pdf, slides]
11:10 – 11:30: Tomas Eriksson (Optimation) - PID control of rotary lime kilns using decoupling control [pdf, slides]
11:30 – 11:50: Niklas Groll (DTU) - A Systematic Plantwide Control Design Procedure for Load-Flexible Green Ammonia Plants using High-Fidelity Dynamic Simulations [pdf]
11:50 – 12:10: Seyed Soheil Mansouri (SiC Systems) - Agent-oriented System Control [pdf]
Lunch
MPC Control / Industry. 13:00 – 14:40
13:00 – 13:20: Mads Stevnsborg (GEA Process Engineering) - Scaling a Process Control Product: Solution Architecture and Service Delivery in Industrial MPC [pdf, slides]
13:20 – 13:40: Staffan Skålén (Borouge) - Real-Time Optimization for Multi-Reactor Polymerization Process [pdf]
13:40 – 14:00: Frida Norlund (Boliden) - MPC Feed-Forward for contraint handling [pdf, slides]
14:00 – 14:20: Iiro Harjunkoski (Aalto) - From Siloed Operations to Co-Designed Energy Systems: Scheduling, Control, and Flexibility [pdf, slides]
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 [pdf]
Poster Session and Coffee. 14:40 – 15:40
Chengtian Cui (Åbo Akademi University) - Stability Analysis via Poincaré Map for Binary Cyclic Distillation [pdf, poster]
Katyayani Garimella (University of Duisburg Essen / DTU) - Implementation of an Industrial embedded MPC for a Lab-scale Bioreactor [pdf, poster]
Søren Villumsen (DTU) - Modeling and Validation of a Pilot-Scale Falling-Film Evaporator [pdf, poster]
Tobias K.S. Ritschel (DTU) - Optimal control of flexible consumers’ energy demand through dynamic prices [pdf, poster]
Tobias K.S. Ritschel (DTU) - A bilevel approach to model-based control of supply temperature and velocity in district heating grids [pdf, poster]
Jonas Darweesh Fraihat (NTNU) - A Parametric Sensitivity Based Arrival Cost State Estimator [pdf, poster]
Emil Skov Martinsen (DTU) - Demonstration of EMPC of a Solvent-based Carbon Capture Pilot Plant [pdf, poster]
Arturo Desaix Lopez Rojas (Chalmers) - Non-Convex Model Predictive Control Fast Inference using Context Sensitive Neural Networks [pdf, poster]
Mathilde Guldbæk Arentsen (DTU) - Simulation of Gastointestinal Adverse Events and Weight Loss under GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Treatment [pdf, poster]
Pierre Guilloteau (DTU) - FerroFlow: unlocking simulation software for bioprocesses - control strategy for penicillin fermentation case study [pdf, poster]
Nicolas Dobler (NTNU) - Control of a Dynamic Bioreactor with Automated Back-Off Calculating Nonlinear MPC: An Easy Example for Increased Process Safety [pdf, poster]
Andre Yamashita (Optimation) - A long-term intervention in primary education to secure equality in the workforce: preliminary results from AutoSTEM [pdf]
Jingkang Liang (DTU) - Benchmarking Large Language Model Workflows for Efficient HAZOP Study Generation [pdf]
Archana Kumaraswamy (NTNU) - Non-linear Modelling and PID Control for CO2 Pipeline-Injection Networks [pdf, poster]
Jan Lorenz Svensen (2-control) - Model-Based Control for the Cement Industry [poster]
Peter Emil Carstensen (DTU) - Multi-scale simulation and control in industrial biotechnology [poster]
Shreyas Parbat (NTNU) - Control Structure Design and Real-Time Optimization for Continuous Bio-Based Aniline Production [pdf, poster]
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 [pdf, slides]
16:00 – 16:20: Tobias Louw (Stellenbosch University) - A process optimality graph for prescriptive analytics generated using established machine learning methods [pdf, slides]
16:20 – 16:40: Tiina Marjatta Komulainen (Oslo Metropolitan University) - Clustering and optimization of nutrient removal in biological waste water treatment [pdf, slides]
16:40 – 17:00: Jonas Darweesh Fraihat (NTNU) - High-Dimensional State Estimation with Commercial Process Simulators Using a Variant of the Unscented Kalman Filter [pdf, slides]
17:00 – 17:20: Soroush Rastegarpour (ABB) - Safe Exploration in Nonlinear Processes: A Probabilistic Control Framework [pdf]
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 and Hans Alvar Engmark (ABB) - Process Control and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities [pdf]
08:50 – 09:10: Marius Fredriksen (NTNU) - Control of Multi-Stack PEM Water Electrolyzer Systems: From Optimal Operating Regimes to Control Structure Design [pdf, slides]
09:10 – 09:30: Osama Sadki (Luleå University of Technology) - Robust Nonlinear Control Design for a Multistage Hydrogen and Intercooling System [pdf, slides]
09:30 – 09:50: Isac Borghed (Chalmers) - Estimating the Graphite Electrode Phase Evolution from Electrode Potential Measurements [pdf, slides]
09:50 – 10:10: Tuse Asrav (DTU) - Supervisory Control of Modular Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing for Enhanced Economic Resilience [pdf, slides]
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 [pdf]
10:50 – 11:10: Daniel Åke Johan Jakobsson (Chalmers) - One-shot DFN parameter estimation for time series [pdf, slides]
11:10 – 11:30: Johanne Lønborg Christensen (DTU) - Hybrid Modeling of Batch and Filtration Processes Using Simulink and Stateflow [pdf, slides]
11:30 – 11:50: Giacomo Sartori (NTNU) - Disturbance and phase-switch based adaptive tuning for the Kalman Filter in bioprocessing [pdf]
11:50 – 12:10: Marcus Johan Schytt (DTU) - Systematic Modeling and Simulation of One-Dimensional Packed-Bed Processes [pdf, slides]
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 [pdf, slides]
13:30 – 13:50: Lipe Lima Carmel (NTNU) - Performance Limits in Feedback Control of Biomass in Continuous Fermentation [pdf]
13:50 – 14:10: Philip Pably (DTU) - MIMO control for recombinant protein production in a 2-feed microbial cultivation [pdf, slides]
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 [pdf, slides]
14:30 – 14:50: Tobias K.S. Ritschel (DTU) - Approximation of linear-quadratic regulators for delay differential equations with distributed delays [pdf, slides]
14:50 – 15:00: Closing remarks
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