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Post-Conference Workshop

AUTOMATION OF WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEMS
4 March 2010
Best Western Premier Seri Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

Gustaf Olsson Department of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation (IEA), Lund University, Lund, Sweden Gustaf Olsson is a Professor emeritus in Industrial Automation, Lund University, Lund, since 2006. Prof. Olsson as a Part time professor in Electrical Power Systems at the Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He has devoted his research to control and automation in water, wastewater, power and process industries. Gustaf has guided 23 PhDs and a few hundred MSc students to their exams. The Lund University engineering students have elected him as the “teacher of the year”. He has spent extended periods doing research at universities and companies in the USA, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, and China and has been invited to lecture in 16 countries outside Sweden. He has authored eight books - published in English, Russian, German and Chinese - and more than 130 scientific publications. Since 2005 he is the editor-in-chief of Water Science and Technology and is also member of the IWA Board of Directors.

Gustaf Olsson is a key person to deliver such lectures on automation of water and wastewater systems. He experienced multi-tasking of electrical, environment and bioprocess, which typically make him further advance in discussing any problems and failure occurs in treatment plant. He always challenges a great practitioner and operator to relook the fundamental aspects of managing the instruments. As plants are also becoming increasingly complex with necessitate automation and control, the workshop is urgent for process engineer and researcher to focus on the leading-edge technology. The workshop also offers for beginner to learn more on the design and operation with a latest technological aspect. In addition, the practical justification on technical and economical aspects could be appropriate to the operators. Several full-scale experiences of how instrumentation, control and automation (ICA) has improved economy ease of operation and robustness of plant operation will be also covered in one day seminar.

Topics:

• Basic Control Concepts in Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA)
• What needs to be measured in a wastewater treatment plant
• Plant operating experiences from Malaysia
• Measurement handling and monitoring
• Dynamical systems and mathematical models (Part 1 and II)
• Wastewater Treatment System in Malaysia
• Control of Activated Sludge Plants: What can be manipulated
• Recent Advances in R&D in Malaysia
• Outlook: Recent Developments in Wastewater Treatment Operation and Control