51st ISA POWID Symposium

18th ISA POWID/EPRI Controls & Instrumentation Conference

The Pathway to Power Automation for the 2010 Decade

June 8th– 13th, 2008 - Phoenix, Arizona

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The 18th Annual Joint ISA/POWID/EPRI Controls and Instrumentation Conference (also the 51st Annual

ISA POWID Symposium) will take place in June 8th – 13th, 2008 at the Scottsdale Hilton Hotel. We will

review all submissions and publish accepted papers in the Conference Proceedings via CD. The

proceedings will later be available to the general ISA membership through the ISA POWID website. The

submission deadlines are as follows:

 

·          Abstracts-Jan. 15, 2008

·          Draft of technical paper for peer review-Feb. 29, 2008

·          Final version of technical paper-May 5, 2008

·          Final presentations-May 30, 2008

 

Topical areas are listed below and application to some aspect of the power industry is necessary.

 


Power Plant Control System Advances

Power Plant Safety & Training

·           Power Plant control system new & retrofit projects

·       Burner management and safety systems

o         Boiler and balance of plant

·       Hazardous material monitoring and control

o         Turbine & rotating machinery control

·       Electrical Safety

·          Novel control strategies, calibration and tuning aids

·       Other safety regulations and requirements

·          Integration of disparate control systems

·       Plant and subsystem training simulators

o         Wireless networks

·       Simulation Analyses

o         Fieldbus

·       Operator/technician training

·          Optimization systems; continuous and discrete

 

o         Neural Net

Control and Information Systems Security

·          Model Predictive

·       Regulatory requirements - NERC CIP Cyber Security

·          Expert System

·       Standards compliance

·          Advances in sensors, calibration and maintenance

·       Application of security standards - ISA 99 and others

o         Alarm management

·       Vendor adoption/rejection of standards

o         Diagnostic systems

 

 

Other Power Industry Related Issues

Productivity Technologies

·       Automation life cycle

·          Integration of automation systems to

·       Automation for environmentally friendly power

o         Business Systems

o         IGCC

o         Maintenance management systems

o         CO2 sequestering

·          Computer aided design and engineering

o         Accelerating Nuclear deployment

·           I&C design and records management

o         Wind, solar, fuel cells

 

o         Power for electric automobiles

Nuclear Power I&C Resurgence-dedicated track

·       Aging workforce

·          Digital based I&C regulatory activities

 

·          Advances in I&C design

Environmental Controls

·          Human factors & control room design

·       SOx, NOx, particulate and mercury capture optimization

·          Control room simulators and training

·       Emissions instrumentation innovations

·          Condition monitoring & online diagnostics

·       Automaton of emissions control systems

·          Data technology advances

 


 


 

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 Phoenix, AZ).  Submission Guidelines, applications, deadlines, and more details may be found at ISA's Web Site. 

 

Questions – Contact Denny Younie (Denny.Younie@WoodGroup.com) General Chair; Don Labbe

(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