Proposal for an IFAC FOUNDATION Regional Course on Advanced Control

The IFAC Foundation of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004, which among its objectives there is the promotion of development and education in the areas of automatic control systems and industrial automation.

The Foundation encourages Developing Countries to develop regional courses, projects, teaching and industrial applications in automatic control.

This document presents a proposal for Workshop on Advanced Control for Renewable Energy in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt). The Course is conceived as a three days workshop. Considerations about the reality and possibilities on the region suggest a shorter course will facilitate the assistance.

Topics of the course have been selected in accordance to identified areas of interest in the region. The idea is to relate topics on advanced control to potential areas of application in order to highlight and promote the benefits of automation and application of advanced control techniques. The topics chosen are related to applications within interest in the region such as renewable energy and environment.

The lecturers are selected according to their expertise and proven research record on certain advanced control topics as well as its application to the field domain of renewable energy and environment. On the other hand, it is true that the potential applications of advanced control techniques go beyond these fields. In this respect, a session that outlines different fields with proven benefits achieved from the application of advanced techniques is also envisaged. The sessions will therefore concentrate on the following topics:

• Environmental: Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment, control techniques to reduce the environmental impact of industrial process, Detection of Leakage in urban zone.
• Sustainable Energy: Bio-Fuel, Buildings : Process Control to reduce the greenhouse gaz, New techniques on control, Industrial Development
• Solar Energy: Control systems on solar energy (project DESERTEC : Europe- North Africa),
• Wind Energy: Last techniques on advanced control applied to wind energy, last development on technologies.
• Fuel Cell: Control, Diagnosis on fuel Cell, Development of Energy by using Hydrogen, New technologies on Fuel Cell Systems

All sessions will be lectures presenting topics on Diagnosis and Advanced control. Instead, they will be presented with the frame work on renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainable Energies. Therefore, for each thematic field, one session and applications are planned. After each , around table is planned

• The first day will be dedicated to the presentation of IFAC and Research and Education in the Region followed by the Advanced Control on Environment and its application and finally by Advanced Control on sustainable Energy: Building and its application in the region and by exhibitions, student posters, etc..
• The second day will be started by Advanced Control on CSP and PV Solar Energy by their applications in the region and on the afternoon by Wind Energy and their applications and by exhibitions, student posters, etc..
• The last day is dedicated to Advanced Control on Fuel Cell Systems, followed by the industrial benefits of Advanced Control particularly in the previous topics. On the afternoon, a visit to the Center of Development on Renewable Energy in Algiers is planned and a tour to visit the city of Algiers is also planned.
As it has been mentioned above, the course is intended to be a three days course. The proposed schedule and organization of the sections is shown in the following table:

First Day	Second Day	Third day
8:30-9:00 Inauguration Presentation of IFAC 9:00- 9:45 Research and Education for RE and Environment in the region (1)	9:00-9:45 PV Solar Energy : Advanced Control	9:00-9:45 Fuel Cell Advanced Control and Applications
9:45-10:30 Research and Education for RE and Environment in the Region (2)	9:45-10:30 CSP Solar Energy : Advanced Control	9:45-10:30 Industrial Benefits of Advanced Control
10:30-10:45 Break	10:30-10:45 Break	10:30-10:45 Break
11:45: 12:30 Round Table	11:45: 12:45 Solar Applications Project DESERTEC	10:45-12:00 Round Table Closing
Lunch: 12: 30-14:00	12:45: Lunch	12:00-13:30 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Environment: Advanced Control and Applications	14:30-15:45 Advanced Control for Wind Energy Systems	13:30 Visit to the Center of Renewable Energy in Algiers (CDER) And Social Activities
14:45 : 15:30 Sustainable Energy: Smart Buildings	14:45 : 15:30 Wind Energy Applications
Break : 15:30-15:45	Break : 15:30-15:45
15:45-16:30 Round Table	15:45-16:30 Round Table
16:30-18:00 Exhibitions, Demonstrations, Posters	16:30-18:00 Exhibitions, Demonstrations, Posters
Dinner	Dinner

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