CoPro – Improved energy and resource efficiency by better coordination of production in the process industries ‒ SCI-STI-FM ‐ EPFL

Source: EU H2020

Partner: TU Dortmund, INEOS, Covestro AG, P&G, Lenzing AG, Frinsa, University of Valladolid, EPFL, CRTH, CSIC, LeiKon GmbH, PSE, divis GmbH, Sabisu, ASM Soft, ORSOFT GmbH, inno TSD

Duration: Nov 2016 – May 2020 (42 months)

External website: https://www.spire2030.eu/copro

Abstract:

The goal of CoPro is to develop and to demonstrate methods and tools for process monitoring and optimal dynamic planning, scheduling and control of plants, industrial sites and clusters under dynamic market conditions. The project aims at providing a decision support tool to operators and managers, and to develop technologies for balancing production and consumption in industrial parks for industrial symbiosis to achieve an optimally energy and resource efficient production. CoPro integrates plant-wide scheduling and control with demand-side response for buffering the effects of fluctuating renewable energy production and distribution. It will develop online data analytics and novel forms of information presentation that lead to a symbiosis of operators and computer-based control algorithms. The solutions will be integrated into the IT infrastructure of the plants via a neutral integration platform that connects to different IT systems. CoPro pays special attention to methods for the efficient development of plant models as the basis for advanced control, scheduling, and coordination. All the developed tools and methodologies will be proved and tested on five use cases. Such use cases cover the complete value chain of the process industries, are characteristic of a broad range of sectors and have enough similarities to exploit synergies. The five use cases are the followings:

Petro-chemical production site (INEOS, Covestro AG)
Coupled large-scale production units in an industrial park (Covestro AG and INEOS)
Cellulose fibre production (Lenzing AG)
Production, formulation and packaging of detergents (P&G)
Sterilization and packaging of food (Frinsa)

Contacts: Ivan Kantor ([email protected]), Alessio Santecchia ([email protected])

Publication list:

Field Guide to Northern Tree-related Microhabitats: Descriptions and size limits for their inventory in boreal and hemiboreal forests of Europe and North America

R. Bütler Sauvain; L. Larrieu; L. F. Lunde; M. Maxence; B. Nordén et al.

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland, 2024.

Field Guide to Northern Tree-related Microhabitats: Descriptions and size limits for their inventory in boreal and hemiboreal forests of Europe and North America

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability

Comparison of Three Viral Nucleic Acid Preamplification Pipelines for Sewage Viral Metagenomics

How to Support Students to Develop Skills that Promote Sustainability

How to Support Students Giving Each Other Constructive Feedback, Especially When It Is Difficult to Hear

How teachers can use the 3T PLAY trident framework to design an activity that develops transversal skills

The conceptual foundations of innate immunity: Taking stock 30 years later

Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

No Last One

All That is Solid

Characterization of the gut-bone marrow axis through bile acid signaling

Studies of crystal collimation for heavy ion operation at the LHC

Engineering novel protein interactions with therapeutic potential using deep learning-guided surface design

Querying the Digital Archive of Science: Distant Reading, Semantic Modelling and Representation of Knowledge

Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition

Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials

Plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions for investigation of atomic-scale fluctuations in self-assembled monolayers

Exact Obstacle Avoidance for Robots in Complex and Dynamic Environments Using Local Modulation

S-acylation and lipid exchange at the ER-Golgi membrane contact sites regulate pathogen entry in human cells

Serial Dependence in Human Visual Perception and Decision-Making

Data-Driven Methods for Controller Design in Atomic Force Microscopy

Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films

Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes

Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

Biohybrid Superorganisms—On the Design of a Robotic System for Thermal Interactions With Honeybee Colonies

Dataset to accompany publication “Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films”

Impact of CO2-rich seawater injection on the flow properties of basalts

Architecture of a decentralised decision support system for futuristic beehives

TSLAM: a tag-based object-centered monocular navigation system for augmented manual woodworking.

Water weakening and the compressive brittle strength of carbonates: Influence of fracture toughness and static friction

Integration of the Pilatus3 detector for soft X-ray diagnostics on TCV

Siloxide tripodal ligands as a scaffold for stabilizing lanthanides in the +4 oxidation state

High-Permittivity Polysiloxanes for Bright, Stretchable Electroluminescent Devices

An extension of the stochastic sewing lemma and applications to fractional stochastic calculus

A bridge between trust and control: computational workflows meet automated battery cycling

Capsizing due to friction-induced twist in the failure of stopper knots

A CTCF-dependent mechanism underlies the Hox timer relation to a segmented body plan

Gradient High-Q Dielectric Metasurfaces for Broadband Sensing and Control of Vibrational Light-Matter Coupling

SOMOphilic alkyne vs radical-polar crossover approaches: The full story of the azido-alkynylation of alkenes

Dielectric elastomer actuator-based valveless pump as Fontan failure assist device: introduction and preliminary study

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought

Probing structural and dynamic properties of MAPbCl3 hybrid perovskite using Mn2+ EPR

Benchmarking machine-readable vectors of chemical reactions on computed activation barriers

Quantum radio astronomy: Data encodings and quantum image processing

Comprehensive Memory Safety Validation: An Alternative Approach to Memory Safety

A Method of Moments Estimator for Interacting Particle Systems and their Mean Field Limit

A setup for hard x-ray time-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at SwissFEL

An aircraft assembly process formalism and verification method based on semantic modeling and MBSE

Stellar Metallicities and Gradients in the Isolated, Quenched Low-mass Galaxy Tucana

Twisted pair transmission line coil – a flexible, self-decoupled and robust element for 7 T MRI

3D Printing of Double Network Granular Elastomers with Locally Varying Mechanical Properties

Dopant-additive synergism enhances perovskite solar modules

Proliferation-driven mechanical compression induces signalling centre formation during mammalian organ development

Spin-Reorientation-Driven Linear Magnetoelectric Effect in Topological Antiferromagnet Cu3TeO6

Is There a Special Role for Ovarian Hormones in the Pathogenesis of Lobular Carcinoma?

Stick-slip-to-stick transition of liquid oscillations in a U-shaped tube

Opportunities and challenges in design and optimization of protein function

Impact of beam-coupling impedance on the Schottky spectrum of bunched beam

Gaussian universality of perceptrons with random labels

Diffusion of brain metabolites highlights altered brain microstructure in type C hepatic encephalopathy: a 9.4 T preliminary study

Teaching about non-deterministic physics: an almost forgotten fundamental contribution of Marie Curie

The angiogenic growth of cities

Learning Weakly Convex Regularizers for Convergent Image-Reconstruction Algorithms

Euclid: Improving the efficiency of weak lensing shear bias calibration

Randomized flexible GMRES with deflated restarting

An interior penalty coupling strategy for isogeometric non-conformal Kirchhoff-Love shell patches

Stress tolerance of lightweight glass-free PV modules for vehicle integration

On the Arithmetic and Geometric Fusion of Beliefs for Distributed Inference

Alpha1-antitrypsin improves survival in murine abdominal sepsis model by decreasing inflammation and sequestration of free heme

Quantitative prediction of crystallization in laser powder bed fusion of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass with high oxygen content

A cut-cell method for the numerical simulation of 3D multiphase flows with strong interfacial effects

Speciation of Lanthanide Metal Ion Dopants in Microcrystalline All-Inorganic Halide Perovskite CsPbCl3

Can Gas Consumption Data Improve the Performance of Electricity Theft Detection?

Design and in vitro Characterization of a Wearable Multisensing System for Hydration Monitoring

Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Low-Power Nuclear Research Reactors

Accretion Disk Size and Updated Time-delay Measurements in the Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J165043.44+425149.3

The molecular scale mechanism of deposition ice nucleation on silver iodide

Multi-Ported GC-eDRAM Bitcell with Dynamic Port Configuration and Refresh Mechanism

On the Sums over Inverse Powers of Zeros of the Hurwitz Zeta Function and Some Related Properties of These Zeros

Realization of Organocerium-Based Fullerene Molecular Materials Showing Mott Insulator-Type Behavior