Control Engineer

Philip A. Wisnewski

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EUGENE, OREGON 97401 *.*********@*******.***

EDUCATION

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, DECEMBER 1997

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA

ADVISOR: FRANCIS J. DOYLE III

THESIS: INFERENTIAL CONTROL USING HIGH-ORDER PROCESS MODELS WITH

APPLICATION TO A CONTINUOUS PULP DIGESTER

EMPLOYED FIRST PRINCIPLES MODELING, LINEAR & NONLINEAR MODEL

REDUCTION, ROBUST CONTROL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, EMPIRICAL MODEL

IDENTIFICATION, AND MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL TO A CONTINUOUS REACTION

PROCESS FOR THE PULP & PAPER INDUSTRY.

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, MAY 1995

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, MAY 1992

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 3.8/4.0

EXPERIENCE

INTERNATIONAL PAPER, SPRINGFIELD MILL, SPRINGFIELD, OREGON AUG 08 TO

PRESENT

PROCESS OPTIMIZATION MANAGER - APPLIED MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR

PROGRAMMING TO DETERMINE OPTIMAL RAW MATERIAL ALLOCATION BETWEEN MILLS AS

WELL AS UTILIZATION WITHIN A MILL. DIRECTING THE EFFORT TO EVALUATE

VARIOUS DCS PLATFORMS WHICH WILL REPLACE THE MILL'S CURRENT AGING DCS

SYSTEMS. FOCUSING ON SYSTEM INTEGRATION & SIMPLICITY, TOTAL COST OF

OWNERSHIP, AND APPLICATION OF BEST PRACTICES FOR OPERATOR ALARM

MANAGEMENT AND HIGH PERFORMANCE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACES.

WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD CONTAINERBOARD MILL, SPRINGFIELD, OREGON

OCT 98 TO AUG 08

PROCESS CONTROL & OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER - DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED

REGULATORY AND ADVANCED CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR MANY PULP & PAPER

PROCESSES. PERFORMED DATA ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY ROOT CAUSES OF PROCESS

UPSETS AND ADDRESSED CONTROL & OPERATING ISSUES WHICH INTERFERED WITH

SAFETY, ENVIRONMENTAL, QUALITY OR PRODUCTION GOALS.

WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON OCT 1997 TO OCT 1998

PROCESS CONTROL RESEARCH ENGINEER - EXAMINED AND DEVELOPED ADVANCED

MODEL-BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR LARGE-SCALE MULTIVARIABLE

PROCESSES.

WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON SUMMER 94 & SUMMER 95

GRADUATE INTERN - EXPLORED VARIOUS APPROACHES TO FUNDAMENTAL MODEL

DEVELOPMENT, MODEL REDUCTION AND MODEL PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION FOR A

CONTINUOUS DIGESTER.

LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO SUMMER 92

INTERN - BUILT AN EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR FOR SUPERCRITICAL WATER

OXIDATION (SCWO) STUDIES. COLLECTED AND ANALYZED DATA FOR THE REDUCTION

OF HYDROCARBONS IN SCWO TO DETERMINE KINETIC REACTION PATHWAYS.

OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE SUMMER 91

INTERN - ASSISTED IN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR DETERMINING INTERACTION

PARAMETERS OF DILUTE CRITICAL SOLUTIONS. DEVELOPED COMPUTER SIMULATION

FOR EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE.

COMPUTER SKILLS

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS: HONEYWELL TPS SYSTEMS, FOXBORO IA SERIES

SYSTEMS, ROCKWELL CONTROLLOGIX

OPERATING SYSTEMS: WINDOWS, UNIX

DYNAMIC SIMULATION: MATLAB/SIMULINK

STEADY STATE SIMULATION: WINGEMS, ASPEN PLUS

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: MATLAB, C, FORTRAN, VISUAL BASIC, MATHEMATICA

ADVANCED SYSTEMS COURSES

DIGITAL CONTROL NONLINEAR PROCESS CONTROL

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS IN CHEMICAL OPTIMIZATION IN CHEMICAL

ENGINEERING ENGINEERING

LINEAR SYSTEM THEORY STATE ESTIMATION & PARAMETER

ROBUST MULTIVARIABLE FEEDBACK CONTROL IDENTIFICATION OF STOCHASTIC

SYSTEMS

Publications & Presentation (* presenter)

P.A. WISNEWSKI*, F.J. DOYLE III AND C.J. PRIMUS, "MEASUREMENT SELECTION

ISSUES FOR THE MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A KAMYR DIGESTER." PRESENTED

AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, AUGUST 1996. PRESENTED AT CONTROL '96,

HALIFAX, CANADA, APRIL, 1996. PUBLISHED IN CANADIAN PULP & PAPER, 98,

T233-236, 1997.

P.A. WISNEWSKI, F.J. DOYLE III, AND F. KAYIHAN, "FUNDAMENTAL CONTINUOUS

PULP DIGESTER MODEL FOR SIMULATION AND CONTROL", AICHE JOURNAL, 43, 3175-

3192, 1997.

P.A. WISNEWSKI AND F.J. DOYLE III*, "MODEL REDUCTION OF LARGE SCALE

SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATION TO A PULP DIGESTER", PROC. IFAC SYMP. DYNAMICS

AND CONTROL OF PROCESS SYSTEMS, JUNE, CORFU, 1998.

P.A. WISNEWSKI*, AND F.J. DOYLE III, "CONTROL STRUCTURE SELECTION AND

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF THE WEYERHAEUSER DIGESTER PROBLEM",

PRESENTED AT 1997 IFAC/ADCHEM, BANFF, CANADA, JUNE 1997. PUBLISHED IN

JOURNAL OF PROCESS CONTROL, 8, 487-495, 1998.

F.J. DOYLE III AND P.A. WISNEWSKI, "NONLINEAR MULTI-RATE MPC WITH LARGE

SCALE FUNDAMENTAL MODELS: APPLICATION TO A CONTINUOUS PULP DIGESTER", IN

NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL, F. ALLG WER AND A. ZHENG, EDITORS,

BIRKHAEUSER, 2000.

P. WISNEWSKI AND F.J. DOYLE III, "MODEL-BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL STUDIES

FOR A CONTINUOUS PULP DIGESTER", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS

TECHNOLOGY, 9.2, 2001.

AWARDS

FIRST PLACE, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM, PURDUE

UNIVERSITY (1996)

MAGOON OUTSTANDING TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD, PURDUE UNIVERSITY (1993)

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION & WASTE MANAGEMENT

SCHOLARSHIP (1991)

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY PETROLEUM FUND SCHOLARSHIP (1991)

DOW CHEMICAL OUTSTANDING JUNIOR AWARD (1990)

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