Status
I have been a student on the PhD project INPRO (Integrated production systems for the process industry) since 1. June 1994 and will finish my doctoral degree in 1997. My project is partly financed by Borregaard Industries Ltd in Sarpsborg, and they are my co-operating process company during the PhD study. My advisor is prof. Kristian Lien.
Research area
The research will be in the field operation of process plants. The working title of my thesis is "Optimization of the Co-operation between the pulp and spendt sulfite liquor part of the process at Borregaard ChemCell in Sarpsborg". Borregaard ChemCell is a producer of pulp and ethanol. I am working on an nlp model of the whole plant complex at Borregaard ChemCell. The main objective for the work is to transfer the results from the model to the operating organization. I may use a kind of game to visualize the results and to teach the operators more about how their work influence the operation of the plant complex.
Activities
Last year I finished the rest of the courses; Systems engineering, Matrix methods, Theory of Science, Advanced Process Synthesis and Operation of Process Plants II. I attended the ESCAPE-5 conference in Bled and the ISPE'95 in Snowmass, USA last summer. I also spend 6 weeks at LignoTech USA, inc, in Winconsin when I was in the US. I was co-advisor on the diploma work done by Eivind Willoch and on a student group project.
Publications
Plans for 95
I 'll be visiting Prof. Art Westerberg at Carnegie Mellon University from February to October.