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Control engineer
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“We develop and apply technologies to enhance the safety and efficiency of process plant operations for better profitability.”

Today’s competitive world demands process plants to be more resilient and efficient in the face of increasingly stringent product specifications, safety and environmental requirements. Such circumstances necessitate the use of more advanced technologies including model-based control, on-line fault detection, real-time optimisation, as well as various intelligence techniques. Our researchers are committed to support the development and implementation of the progressive technologies through research and development, consultancy, and manpower training.

PCS group is equipped with two laboratories, well-resourced with computer software and experimental rigs to support our research endeavours. The labs house more than 30 research students working together along with our key researchers in a socially-warm atmosphere

Consultancy

Quantitative Risk Assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment

Hazard and Operability Study for
process plant.

Professional Courses

Process Control and Instrumentation

Tuning of Process Controllers

Advanced Process Control (APC)

Plant Operation and Troubleshooting.

Heat Exchanger Operation, Control and Troubleshooting.

Distillation Operation, Control and Troubleshooting.

Process Safety for Plant Operators.

Hazard and Operability Studies for Plant Operators and Engineers.

Overview of Chemical Process Unit Operations
Main Research Themes

Model-Based Control
Model Predictive Control (MPC), Robust Inferential Estimation and Control, and Fault-Tolerant Control.

Plant-Wide Control and Optimisation
Controllability and Operability Studies, Control System Synthesis and Real-time Optimisation

Engineering Data Management
Web-Based Process Data Exchange, plantwide data management, and Process Integration System.

Statistical Process Control
MSPC in fault detection, System Quality Control, and Multivariate Process Control.

Process Modelling & Simulation
Use of commercial software such as HYSYS.Plant, first principle modelling, and artificial intelligence techniques.

Risk Assessment & Safety Studies
Process safety and loss prevention, risk assessment and hazard identification, HAZOP studies, and QRA.

Fault Detection & Diagnosis
Application of neural networks, expert system, fuzzy logic, and statistical techniques.

Process Instrumentation
Biosensors, and development of new sensors and measurement techniques.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Arshad Ahmad
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Tel.: 07-5535502, 5535610
Email: arshad@fkkksa.utm.my, arshad@utm.my

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