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Publications: Author and coauthor of more than 100 publications, mainly presented at international conferences or published in international journals

Projects: Supervised or participated in a number of the international projects (TEMPUS, WUS, EAR) dealing with Energy efficiency, Environmenta protection, Small wind and hydro power plants, etc.

Research and Teaching Experience abroad:

Loughborough University of Technology, UK (1989);

Loughborough University of Technology, UK (1990);

University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece (2000);

Wittenberg University, Springfield, USA (2002).

Other positions and activities:

Deputy Mayor in charge of Energy, City of Kragujevac, Serbia (2008 - )

Vice President of Association of Local Democracy Agencies (2004 - )

Member of Congress of Council of Europe (2005 -)

Rapporteur of Council of Europe on Local and Regional Democracy in Belgium and Germany.

2. Dr. Janos Sebestyen JANOSY jjs@aeki.kfki.hu

MTA KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Simulator Development Department, Budapest Hungary

Topic: The Importance of Simulators in Maintaining Safety and Efficiency of Nuclear Power Generation

Since energy-mix is the future, there was a hope earlier that clean and abundant new form of nuclear energy - that means the fusion-based nuclear power plants - will solve our energy problem forever. Due the enormous amount of difficult and unsolved technical problems it became clear that fusion power is not going to be available soon - not at least for several decades. On the other hand, the growing oil prices turned the bio-energy production economically profitable. However, the fields producing sugar cane and corn for conversion to fuel for our cars are missing from the food production. The population on the earth is growing exponentially, that means intensification of the food production using fertilizers and pesticides - was able to keep pace with this growth so far but probably it is going to slow down nowadays.

The biggest problem of the nuclear industry is that the still-stand lasted too long - there were very few new contracts during the last decades and now we lack experts and production capacity. Unfortunately, this situation cannot be improved just in few years. That is why the life-time prolongation of the existing nuclear power plants became such a hot topic all over the world. In all cases, simulation studies and the use of simulators is essential. In the keynote I would like to give a survey on the present state of energy production and consumption and to summarize the results and practice we used at Paks NPP in Hungary: first in the evaluation of safety studies, then the working-out of new state-of-art operational procedures, later the reconstruction of the Reactor Safety System and other I&C Systems, the replacement of which - thanks to the extensive testing and tuning performed using the full-scope replica simulator - was completed during the regular re-fuelling outage of the NPP units. Finally, we had to introduce full 3D simulation of the coupled models of core thermo-hydraulics and neutron-kinetics in order to be able to simulate new reactor cores with mixed types of fuel elements.

Janos Sebestyen JANOSY

is now the Head of the Simulator Development Department in the Atomic Energy Research Institute of the Central Research Institute for Physics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA KFKI AEKI) since 1994. He was born in March, 1949 in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his MSME in Nuclear Engineering from the Moscow Engineering Power Institute, USSR, in 1973 and his MSEE in Process Control Computers from Budapest Technical University, Hungary in 1976. He was employed by Secretariat of the Ministry of Heavy Industry on Nuclear Power Plant Construction from 1973 to 1975. He is a Senior Researcher since 1974, Senior Adviser since 2002. J.S. Janosy has published over 60 scientific publications in international journals and conferences on Nuclear Power Plant Simulators, Environmental Protection and Radiation Monitoring Systems, stiff differential equation systems, computerized process control systems, Real-time simulation, fossil fuel and renewable energy production. He completed 14 projects on compact simulator, nuclear power plant, control system and 3D reactor model, based in Hungary, Ukraine, Libya, Egypt, Finland and Russia. He has a hobby of Ham Radio (radio amateur), active on short-wave bands with call sign HA5GN.

3. Prof. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan principal@rcet.edu.pk

Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO)

Topic: Importance of Power Quality in 21^st Century

Starting from generation to end consumer, the whole power system including generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electricity is suffering from power quality issues like Harmonics, Flickering, Sags, and Swells etc. Due to lack of knowledge, power industry stake holders are not adept in analyzing these factors influencing power quality by using latest instrumental techniques particularly in the developing world.

Since the last decade the load behavior is entirely changed due to huge induction of electronic load causing various power quality problems. Moreover, the in progress deregulation of electricity is also drawing the attention of researchers to focus on power quality issues for providing the quality based supply to the consumers as promised following the IEEE and IEC standards.

The recent research achievements of RCET, PK under my supervision includes practical results of Personal Computers (PC), Compact Fluorescent Lamp/ Energy Savers (CFL) and Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) etc will also be discussed during this talk.

Prof. Rana Abdul Jabbar Khan

Graduated from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 1991. He Completed ME from University of Wollongong, Australia in 1995 and PhD from RMIT University Melbourne, Australia in 2003. He has been serving as SDO and XEN in Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA), largest organization of Asia, responsible for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity country wide. Currently he is on deputation and serving Rachna College of Engineering and Technology (RCET) as Principal since 2005. He is principal author of an open access Book Chapter, titled “Harmonics Modelling and Simulation” in Advanced Technologies and “Analyses and Monitoring of Power Grid”, IGI Global. He is a senior member of IEEE, IEAust, IEE and PEC. He has published several papers in IEEE journals. Honoring his valuable research contribution he has been nominated for Presidential Award 2009 by Government of Pakistan. His research interest includes Power Quality, Power System Simulation, Renewable Technologies and Deregulation of Electricity etc.

4. Prof. Sergej Čelikovský celikovs@utia.cas.cz

Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Topic: Transformations of nonlinear dynamical systems. Applications in robotics, chaos synthesis and synchronization

Transformations and decompositions of controlled dynamical systems has been intensively studied as an important part of control theory and its applications. Typically, it results into the decomposition of the original complex interconnected nonlinear model into a number of less complex subsystems with either simple or no connections between them. Obviously, this technique significantly facilitates any further analysis and control design and therefore deserves a lot of attention. This problem has been investigated for the controlled dynamical systems relatively recently, approximately starting 1970's and it possibly originated in robotics, known as the so-called computed torque principle, which is a specific case of the exact feedback linearization technique. Unlike the uncontrolled dynamical systems theory being developed since much earlier the controlled case is complicated by the presence of an additional control input variable as well as by the controlled and/or measured output. The brief survey of this problem will be given here, including a list of problem variations and its history. Moreover, this method will be demonstrated by the two emerging research and application area: 1) the synthesis and synchronization of chaotic systems with possible application to secure encryption; 2) the design of the underactuated walking for the simplest underactuated walking robots models.

Regarding the first area, the so-called generalized Lorenz system (GLS) will be introduced and classified showing rich possibilities of chaotic synthesis for this class of systems, which includes the well-known classical Lorenz system as its subclass. Classification is based on the transformation to the so-called GLS canonical form thereby further facilitating its analysis. The technique for the synchronization is based on the nonlinear transformation and output injection leading to yet another canonical form, the so-called observer canonical form of GLS giving the synchronization of two copies of GLS. Brief discussion of possible applications in encryption will be presented as well.

Underactuated mechanical systems are those having more degrees of freedom than actuators what complicates their control design. Nevertheless, the underactuated walking can be viewed as a more natural than the fully actuated one, as during the underactuated walking the angle between the pivot point and the pivot leg can not be directly affected by some controlled torque. For the mechanical systems, i.e. for the robotic models as well, there is a natural physical interpretation of exact linearizing transformations which makes their constructions more easy and natural. This is even more applicable for the underactuated walking where the so-called kinetic symmetry combined with a specific type of the underactuated variable enables to linearize exactly even larger part of the system than it is usual for other underatuated systems. This theoretical approach enables practical design of the walking-like trajectory, as well as its exponentially stable tracking feedback.

Prof. Sergej Čelikovský

Expertise: Nonlinear systems, chaos control and synchronization, nonlinear stability and stabilization, nonlinear observers, modelling, analysis and control of underactuated systems with applications to walking robots.

Degrees: MSc. from Faculty of Numerical Mathematics and Cybernetics of the Moscow State University, Department of Optimal Control 1984; RNDr. degree (Rerum Naturalium Doctoris) from the Mathematical and Physical Faculty of Charles University in Prague 1985; Ph.D degree from the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences 1989.

Visiting positions: Research associate at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Twente, Enschede, NL, 1994, and at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996; Visiting professor at CINVESTAV-IPN, Unidad Guadalajara, Mexico, 1998-2000.

Currently: Associate member of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong; Chief research fellow and the Head of Department of Control Theory in the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; Associate Professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Senior Member IEEE, member of the IFAC TC on Nonlinear Systems, Secretary of the Czech IFAC NMO.

Associate Editor of: Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete an Impulsive Systems (2004-2006); IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control (2006-2009); from 2004 Member of Editorial Board of Kybernetika; from 2010 Guest Associate Editor of International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

Subarea Chair of the IPC of the: IFAC Nonlinear Control Symposium NOLCOS 2007, Pretoria, South Africa and IFAC Nonlinear Control Symposium NOLCOS 2010, Bologna, Italy.

IPC member of numerous conferences, in particular, IFAC Conference on Chaos Control 2006 in Reims, FR, and 2009, London, GB; 3rd International Conference on Dynamics, Vibration and Control (ICDVC-2010), Hangzhou, China; 5th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Chaos Control and Synchronization, Kunming, China.

Publications: co-author of one book and two book chapters, co-editor of the book, over 40 papers in international journals, over 80 papers in international conference proceeding, over 800 SCI citations (auto-citations excluded).

5. Prof. Klaus-Dieter Kuhnert kuhnert@fb12.uni-siegen.de

FB12 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, Hölderlinstr. 3, D-57068 Siegen/Germany

Topic: Autonomous outdoor robotics for civil and military applications

Abilities: Simulation, Remote control, Person and vehicle tracking, Autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance, Mule

Robot groups: Swarming for air surveillance, Air to ground cooperation

Prof. Klaus-Dieter Kuhnert

Received his Dipl.-Ing. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Aachen (Germany), in 1981, and a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from the UniBw München (Germany) in 1988. After working as leading scientist with MAZDA-Motor Yokohama he is now full professor and head of the Institute of Real-Time Learning-Systems at the University of Siegen (Germany).

He received several international awards: Nakamura Price for best paper of IROS 1989, “Most influential paper of the decade award” from IAPR/WMVA 1998, first price ELROB 2007 for autonomous driving in urban and non-urban terrain, innovation award of ELROB 2010. He has published over 90 refereed papers and chaired numerous conferences and sessions. Since 2009 he is included in “who is who in the world”. Being referee for IEEE journals and program committees he also served for several research foundations. He is European Editor of the „International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications“ (IJISTA). Beside others he is member of the graduate school MOSES, member of the center of sensor-systems NRW and founding member of the IEEE TC robotics learning. His research interests include: autonomous mobile robotics, driver assistance systems, 3D Environment Sensing, 3D modeling and visual object recognition.

6. Prof. Felix Blyakhman felix.bljakhman@usu.ru

Ural State Medical Academy, Russia

Topic: Left Ventricle Structural Inhomogeneity and the Heart Functional Reserve.

The normal left ventricle is a structurally inhomogeneous pump according to features such as its geometry, the intricacy of the muscular fiber architecture, etc. In physical terms, however, it is difficult to imagine that the performance of an inhomogeneous muscular pump could be higher than that of a homogeneous one, such as a sphere. Why has nature created such an inhomogeneous device? In this study, we seek an answer to this question. On the basis of experimental modeling and data from patients with a variety of cardiac conditions, we present evidence that the possible role of structural inhomogeneity in the normal heart is to provide functional reserve for the left ventricle, which is tapped as needed to maintain stability of pump function throughout the course of life.

Prof. Felix Blyakhamn

Received his M.Sc. degree from the Ural State University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) in 1979, Ph.D. from the Kuban Medical Institute (Krasnodar, Russia) in 1986 and Dr. of Science degree from the Institute of Transplantology and Artificial Organs (Moscow, Russia) in 1996. Beginning from 1997 to present he is Professor of Physics Dept. of the Ural State University, from 2007 is Head of Biomedical Physics and Engendering Dept. of the Ural State Medical Academy (Yekaterinburg), from 2000 is Affiliated Prof. of the Bioengineering, University of Washington (Seattle, USA). His major area of research is related to the biological motility, cardiac function in the normal and pathology, diagnostics technology development. He is a member of many International Scientific Societies, an author of more then 80 peer reviewed papers and a holder of several Grants from the Russian Foundations

7. Prof. Igor Papič Igor.Papic@fe.uni-lj.si

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Trzaska 25, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Topic: Active Distribution Networks – Slovenian Approach

New concepts of active electricity networks represent the (r)evolution in the production and efficient use of electricity. On the one hand, the developed system-oriented solutions will allow high penetration of distributed energy resources and, on the other, consumer-oriented solutions efficient use of energy for end-users. The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan will be presented. Main drivers for changing existing power networks will be discussed. The question arises why changes are necessary and what are the characteristics of today’s (yesterday’s) networks compared to the networks of tomorrow? Further, impact of Distributed Energy Resources on network operation, concept and implementation of active networks from the Slovenian perspective will be presented. An overview of some national projects and the state of play will be given.

Prof. Igor Papič

received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1992, 1995 and 1998, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was with Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution Group in Erlangen, Germany. Currently, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. In 2001 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. His research interests include power quality, power system simulations, active networks, control and modeling of FACTS devices and power conditioners. He is a CIGRE Member, IEEE Senior Member and the Chairman of the Program Council of the national SmartGrids Technology Platform

8. Prof. Habil Jiří Jaromír Klemeš, and Petar Sabev Varbanov klemes@cpi.uni-pannon.hu

Centre for Process Integration and Intensification – CPI2, Research Institute for Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, Egyetem utca Veszprém, Hungary

Topic: Heat Integration and Renewable – Recent Developments and Achievements

This presentation reviews the heat integration methodology and its application in improving the energy efficiency and Minimising the Carbon Footprint of both industrial and non-industrial energy users. It also evaluates how these methodologies can be adapted to include the integration of waste and renewable energy sources. Heat integration (HI) using Pinch Technology is an energy saving methodology that has been extensively used in the processing and power generating industry over the last 30 years. This method examines the potential of improved heat exchange between heat sources and heat sinks via the use of heat exchangers to reduce the amount of external heating and cooling requirements, reducing costs and emissions. A systematic design procedure has been developed to provide the energy reduction design of the system. The HI methodology has proved to have a considerable potential for groups of processes in oil-refining, chemical, petrochemical and other e,g, pulp and paper, food and drink industry processing sites, reducing overall energy demand and emissions across the site, and leading to a more effective and efficient site utility system. It is also able to address the production of cogeneration shaft power, integrate combine and complex cycles including fuel cells. The methodology has been still developing fast and the most recent achievements have been regularly presented. This overview covers the recent developments in total sites including beside the industrial plants also business service, agricultural and residential complexes, A special attention is given to integration of renewable sources of energy dealing with their fluctuating availability (sun, wind and even biomass etc.). The innovative application of graph theory to the synthesis of complex energy systems has been incorporated.

Prof. Habil Jiří Klemeš

Is a Professor at the Research Institute of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém in Hungary. He was from 2007 to 2010 an EC Marie Curie Chair of Excellence Holder and presently he is Head of Laboratory for Process Integration and Intensification CPI2. He is Visiting Professor at Technical University Bucharest and Mendeleev Russian Chemical-Technological University; Honorary DSc and Honorary Professor at Kharkov National Polytechnic University. For twenty years he held a leading research and managerial post as a Senior Project Officer, Honorary Reader and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Process Integration at UMIST and after the merge at The University of Manchester, UK. He was invited as plenary and keynote speaker for 38 conferences, 19 times Chairman and President of the International Scientific Committee, 41 invited to serve in International Scientific Committees. He authored 12 books, 10 chapters, 113 journal papers. His work was cited more than 500 times in Scopus and Thompson Sciences Index. He delivered 146 presentations with conference proceedings, 35 teaching textbooks. He completed 232 reviews during last 2 years. He has comprehensive experience as Guest Editor for 29 Special Issues in Elsevier, Springer, Willey and Taylor & Francis journals. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Engineering Transactions, Subject Editor of Journal of Cleaner Production, and Regional Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering. He is an Editor/Member of the Editorial Board of several journals. They include Cleaner Technologies and Environmental Policy; Heat Transfer Engineering; ENERGY-The international Journal; Revista de Chimie; Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Theoretical Foundation of Chemical Technology. He consulted on energy saving and pollution reduction 32 major clients as Imperial Chemical Industries, UK; Dow Chemical, BASF; Critical Fluid Systems, USA; US Environmental Protection Agency, Linnhoff-March, MOL, SHELL Global Solutions. He was invited by a prestigious von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa. He was invited 18 times as Expert Evaluator for the EC RTD Programmes, TEMPUS, INTAS, European Science Foundation, UK National Projects, The Czech Ministry for Education, Research and Youth, South Moravian Regional Funds and for Internationales Büro des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung im Projektträger and the Greek Ministry of Science.

9. Prof. Davor Škrlec davor.skrlec@fer.hr

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Power Systems, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Topic: Control and optimization of micro-grids with electric and heat energy resources

Microgrid is defined as a cluster of distributed energy sources (both electrical and heat), storage devices and controllable loads in one or more locations that are connected to the MV distribution network through the point of common coupling. Control of microgrids could be distributed and/or centralized control. Distributed control is realized by coordinated microsource controllers with the main function of independent control of the power flow and load-end voltage profile of the microsource in response to any disturbance and load changes. Overall control of microgrid operation and management is performed by central controller which usually has two main functional modules: Energy Management Module (EMM) and Protection Coordination Module (PCM). Energy Management Module has main optimization task to minimize energy cost, system losses and greenhouse emissions with highest possible efficiency of microsource operation and at the same time supply heat and electrical loads to customer satisfaction. Grid connected mode and island mode of microgrid operation make optimization problem more complex. Hybrid and electrical vehicles are additional microsources and loads that will exist in microgrids in the near future and their behavior is also a challenge for the microgrid optimal operation. The analysis of possible optimization methods and model simulations that can be implemented in the Energy Management Module will be presented in the paper with examples in Matlab and FICO Xpress optimization software.

Prof. Davor Škrlec

Is EEE member. Professor of the University of Zagreb, employed at the Department of Power Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. In 1990 he received his MSc degree and in 1996 his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. Research and professional interests include: planning and operation of electrical power networks, distributed energy resources, power systems economics, and geographic information system applications in the power utilities. He has published more than 50 papers from his area of interest and he is author and co-author of several professional books. He is a principal investigator and project leader of several projects funded by industry and government. Core activities within the research activites are focussed on optimal planning and operation of active distribution networks and microgrids. He is active member of IEEE, CIGRE and CIRED.

10. Prof. Vitezslav Benda benda@fel.cvut.cz

Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Topic: PV basic material, design, improvement and application

Photovoltaic has been recognized as a renewable energy technology that has the potential to contribute significantly to future energy supply. In the field of photovoltaic, material and solar cell and module fabrication technology seem to be the most important, because the progress expectations in photovoltaic applications necessitate a decrease of photovoltaic cell (module) cost on the level of more than 30% of today’s one. The aim is to give information important for understanding basic problems of physics, construction and manufacturing photovoltaic cells and modules. Application of basic principles of photovoltaic cell physics and technology has been demonstrated on fabrication of crystalline silicon cells and modules, thin film cells and modules, and also new prospective technologies. Reliability issues and PV module diagnostics will be discussed, too.

Pro. Vitezslav Benda

Born in Dvur Kralove n.L. (Czech Republic) in 1944. He graduated at MSc level in Solid State Physics at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1967.

From 1967 to 1973 he worked in the R&D department of CKD Semiconductors. Since 1973, he has been at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he was awarded a doctoral degree in Electrotechnology (PhD) in 1976. Since 2001 he has been a Professor in Materials and Technology for Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Department of Elektrotechnology of CTU in Prague. He specialises in electronic materials and devices, especially in the physics, technology and diagnostics of power semiconductor devices and in photovoltaic. He was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize for Technology in 1980 and the Merit Award for inventors in 1989. He is author or co-author of 11 textbooks, 19 Czechoslovak patents and more than 100 papers. Prof. Benda is a Fellow of the IET, and serves as Chairman of the IET Czech Network. He is also a committee member of the Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of Czech Republic. He has served as a member (or as chairman) of the organising or programme committee of several international conferences and as a referee for IEEE and EPE conferences and international journals and as a guest editor of international journals.

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