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51st ISA POWID Symposium |
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18th ISA POWID/EPRI Controls &
Instrumentation Conference |
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The
Pathway to Power Automation for the 2010 Decade |
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June
8th– 13th, 2008 - |
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CALL FOR PAPERS |
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The 18th Annual
Joint ISA/POWID/EPRI Controls and Instrumentation Conference (also the 51st Annual |
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ISA POWID
Symposium) will take place in June 8th – 13th, 2008 at the
Scottsdale Hilton Hotel. We will |
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review all submissions and publish accepted papers in the
Conference Proceedings via CD. The |
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proceedings will later be available to the
general ISA membership through the ISA POWID website. The |
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submission
deadlines are as follows: |
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Abstracts-Jan. 15, 2008 |
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Draft of technical paper for peer review-Feb. 29, 2008 |
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Final version of technical paper-May 5, 2008 |
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Final presentations-May 30, 2008 |
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Topical areas
are listed below and application to some aspect of the power industry is
necessary. |
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Power Plant
Control System Advances |
Power Plant
Safety & Training |
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Power Plant control system new & retrofit
projects |
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Burner management and safety systems |
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Boiler and balance of plant |
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Hazardous material monitoring and control |
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Turbine & rotating machinery control |
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Electrical Safety |
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Novel control strategies, calibration and tuning aids |
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Other safety regulations and requirements |
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Integration of disparate control systems |
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Plant and subsystem training simulators |
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Wireless networks |
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Simulation Analyses |
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Fieldbus |
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Operator/technician training |
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Optimization systems; continuous and discrete |
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Neural Net |
Control and Information Systems Security |
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Model Predictive |
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Regulatory requirements - NERC CIP Cyber Security |
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Expert System |
· Standards
compliance |
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Advances in sensors, calibration and maintenance |
· Application of
security standards - ISA 99 and others |
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Alarm management |
· Vendor
adoption/rejection of standards |
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Diagnostic systems |
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Other Power Industry Related Issues |
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Productivity
Technologies |
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Automation life cycle |
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Integration of automation systems to |
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Automation for environmentally friendly power |
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Business Systems |
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IGCC |
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Maintenance management systems |
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CO2 sequestering |
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Computer aided design and engineering |
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Accelerating Nuclear deployment |
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I&C design and records management |
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Wind, solar, fuel cells |
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Power for electric automobiles |
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Nuclear Power
I&C Resurgence-dedicated track |
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Aging workforce |
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Digital based I&C regulatory activities |
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Advances in I&C design |
Environmental Controls |
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Human factors & control room design |
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SOx, NOx,
particulate and mercury capture optimization |
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Control room simulators and training |
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Emissions instrumentation innovations |
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Condition monitoring & online diagnostics |
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Automaton of emissions control systems |
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Data technology advances |
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Abstracts
are to be submitted online at www.isa.org/abstracts
(Don't forget to mark that the paper is for the 51st ISA POWID
Symposium, 8-13 June 2008 in |
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Questions – Contact Denny Younie
(Denny.Younie@WoodGroup.com)
General Chair; Don Labbe |
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(Donald.Labbe@IPS.Invensys.com) and Aaron Hussey (AHussey@EPRI.com), Program Co-Chairs; or Rodney Jones (RJones@ISA.org), ISA Division Support,
919-990-9418 |
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